i am the but . this is you know when he was live from berlin china opens its new high speed hospital the facility specially built in just 10 days time will help treat the influx of patients infected with the coronavirus with 1000 beds inside experts say the new hospital is crucial to stopping the spread of this new infection also coming up on the show a return of the bricks of battle britain and the e.u. go head to head on straight talks that use bridget negotiator michelle bang it warns of a possible cliff edge no deal the premise of course justifiers back we won't except

in your rules plus a dangerous escalation turkish troops retaliate against an attack by syrian forces taking out dozens of troops meanwhile thousands of civilians are being forced to flee. i am. the bad and. i think you so much for your company everyone china has opened a hospital bills in just a matter of days to treat people infected with the coronavirus the hospital is in the city of the leavened 1000000 people where the virus originated and then spread around the world ill treat up to a 1000 patients janice's the corner virus has now killed more than 360 people they're infected over 17000. after just 10 days of construction the new hospital is operational it was designed especially for the

epidemic isolation wards make up part of the facility china says. it is like i did in wu han the a.p. center of the current virus outbreak a 2nd hospital with more beds is due to be finished lighted this wake. right now hand is on lockdown fresh supplies of being delivered by the army. thousands of re-inforcement have been brought in to college but the country's in urgent need of surgical masks and medical equipment china is accepting donations from other countries and officials are confident the demand for supplies here will be met don't let. us not we were able to double our production capacity we have the role materials to increase production and supply many companies are worried about overproduction but we have assured them that the government will collect and store any surplus in supplies after the epidemic. when the

yankees you shoot with the virus still spreading demand for mosques is unlikely to fall in the short term but things could change if an effective vaccine is produced there is now a global drive to develop one get on to those if it's bear fruit life at the if the center of this outbreak were mine restricted. well i mean while hong kong is also stepping up measures to prevent the outbreak from spreading he said he correspond charlotte chelsea pill is on the ground there and she felt this report on the closure of more border crossings with china. these additional border closures will be considered a step in the right direction by some but for many others they are still far too little too late several borders with mainland china will still remain open including hong kong busy international apples now speaking today chief executive kerry lam defended his decision saying closing the borders completely is bullshit

and discriminatory but both medical professionals and legislators across the political aisle on topic one medical unit has said today's additional border equations will actually change very little they've said they'll push ahead with their 5 day strike tomorrow until those borders a place they remember all too well the outbreak of 2003 in which almost 300 people lost their lives and they think history piecing it so many now say here need to step up measures to prevent the spread of this virus. reporting from hong kong now with fears of the outbreak getting worse misinformation is spreading like wildfire chinese nationals and people of asian descent are reporting racial scapegoating instances of racism and xeno feel a phobia rather have all been documented and reporter peter investigated this what

is going on here well i think what we're seeing is you know along with the spread of bars that's kind of triggered his own outbreak of what can really only be described as mass hysteria in thailand a place that's seen 1000 cases 0 deaths we've seen online people posting signs outside of restaurants and shops saying they don't want chinese people. in italy 9000 kilometers away the same thing signs outside shops outside restaurants barring people from entering. and there is new across her case one of the most prestigious prestigious music schools in rome the director there barred east asian students from attending class out of fear that somehow they would bring in the coronavirus and really shocking examples that illustrate what's been the reaction to all of this well what we've seen is that people were of asian descent or asians of kind of united they really use social media to speak up

against this type of racism that they've that they're experiencing right now they're using that use the hash tag i'm not a virus and it appears that the counters have become so endemic the many countries have their own versions was here the french one. of the who's. videos spanish one in germany where we've seen 10 cases no deaths it's been kind vehicles and i reached out to asian a nation like people of asian descent in germany to ask to to share their stories. my inbox was flooded within minutes and what i got was really really heartbreaking at times stories about one woman for instance saying she had been waiting for the bus in munich when a small crowd of people started you know crowding her they start started coughing at her. eventually they spat at her another story from a person of south korean descent who had gone to the local market with his parents

to buy some fruit the clerk there had more or less refused to selling things and said that keep a distance kind of yelled at them china corona so. you know obviously you know very very hairy experiences for a lot of these people who say it's not new percent of the races and that they're experiencing but what they're seeing is that this corona virus is really somehow legitimize it it seems a lot of money a lot of people in germany are very disturbing and these are extreme examples obviously what the virus is a very serious matter but put this in perspective for us in terms of how does it compare to the flu yeah i mean what you say it's very serious we have seen around 7400 cases reported cases of the krona buyers worldwide a little over 360 deaths and obviously every single one of them is one too many but if you compare that to the flu the w h o's of the world health organization estimates that that cost is up to

$5000000.00 cases of severe illness every year and that kills asked many a 65000 people so it is important to note that for the absolute majority of people there is a greater risk of catching a really severe case of the flu than the coronavirus right petered out thank you so much for looking into this thank you. when i say now what some of the other stories making news around the world. $76.00 sick children plus their parents have been airlifted out of the war torn to yemeni capital sanaa is the 1st so-called mercy flight organized by the united nations the saudi backed yemeni government has been preventing commercial flights from departing from rebel held since 2016. at least 20 people have been killed in a stampede in tanzania during an evangelical service the crowd rushed towards the pastor who is struck that them to touch holy oil report on the ground while the

minister has now been arrested the government says he was trying to flee abroad. he was already presidential hopefuls are making their final push for votes ahead of monday's iowa caucuses democratic voters in the state will be the 1st to decide to food stand against republican incumbent donald trump in november presidential election 11 candidates are currently competing for the nomination about it. now just days after britain left the european union the next brags that chapter has begun well both sides are squaring off for what looks likely to be robust treat talks representing the e.u. regs that negotiator signal to signal that brussels would rather demand tough terms on issues like fishing rights and a level playing field for businesses british prime minister boris johnson says he was a free trade agreement but not at any cost the ceiling fresco and signed the

naval college in greenwich has probably seldom received as much attention as today before beginning boris johnson appealed to the angels above him who had already guided the british during the 18th century then he laid out his negotiation strategy the choice is in fact you cannot do you all know do we have a deal. and he did indeed turn out as i currently provide to be up and ready. the question. is whether we agree a trading relationship with the e.u. comparable to canada's or more like australia is what this means is that no deal is once again on the table because what johnson did not say was that the e.u. has no trade agreement worked out with us trillion the moment michelle banias take on london's approach was decidedly less rosy. that's why the e.u.

commission will also prepare the situation in which we end with no deal with. this is not what we want but we must get ready for the possibility of facing an abyss at the end of this year for you half a confederacy hung the lead up to the joint talks between london and brussels could hardly have been frosty or. well earlier i spoke to barry good masseur correspond to modern about the u.k.'s position in the post briggs's negotiations the start of this monday well boris johnson wants to be seen as somebody who is fright fighting for the rights of the u.k. for the independence they want to make the most of bricks and they arguing what's the point of bragg's if we don't divert from e.u. rules so he has some very symbolic industries for example fisheries where he just wants to be seen as standing up to brussels and he says that this is not non-negotiable it's very much for bracks of 8 is in the north of england this is

a very sensitive topic even though economically fisheries are not really important for the u.k. but these symbolic industries and these sort of symbolic moves where he says we're just not going to subjugate under any more e.u. rules we want to come to an agreement we want to see eye to eye but we're not going to just do what the e.u. tells us to do. they amass reporting earlier from london next to syria turkey is the president's arrest of tyrants says the turkish military escort neutralize dozens of syrian government troops all that's in retaliation for an attack on turkish forces in syria well the deadly flare up in war torn at libya's heightening tensions between turkey and russia they're the 2 biggest foreign powers in syria's long running conflict but they back opposing sides and the problems. ankara is keen to show it means business. more military vehicles continue to head

towards its lead today after the killing of turkish soldiers in the province the turkish president said his country had been forced to retaliate against syrian troops and he warned moscow not to stand in his way. there was as a result of these airstrikes people 5 of whom are soldiers and 3 civilians were martyred of course we said this cannot go on and the necessary response was given at the moment we are doing what is necessary from the ground and from the air. while the turkish defense ministry says that damascus had shelled their troops despite being aware of them movements moscow claims the turkish units had failed to notify them monday's tit for tat shelling comes as the syrian government and its russian ally up their deadly bombardment of the last rebel held territory in northwestern syria all too often it's displaced civilians who are caught up in the

fighting today 9 people were killed in a reported russian ass strike on their vehicle near the city of aleppo. turkey which already has 3600000 refugees from syria fears and new wave of migrants as a result of the new offensive. song get out of the court into the latest figures unfortunately approximately 1000000 people are marching to our borders. people including children. are coming to our borders with whatever they can retrieve. with pressure at the border growing tensions between ankara and moscow over the rebel enclave seems set to escalate further. here washington news coming up in business africa. is that africa is facing the worst invasion of locusts for decades food for millions is under stress.

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