the book . the book. this is you don't really use the line for girl and i was pleased got a problem technology issues delay the results of the democrats who much hyped iowa caucuses with everyone waiting for a winner to democratic presidential hopefuls are off to a rocky start also coming up on edge thousands of health care workers in hong kong who walked off the job demanding the territory's government completely seal its border with china on this after a 2nd person dies from a corona virus outside of the mainland plus several critically ill children and

their parents are airlifted out of yemen is due to war torn capital sanaa the flights offering hope to the country's most desperate citizens a chance at a diplomatic breakthrough to end yemen's civil war and the killing exercise help in the fight against cancer on world cancer day we meet one woman who turned to exercise in the great outdoors as she battled breast cancer. thank you so much for your company everyone well we start with iowa's caucus chaos technical glitches the late the release of results from the state's caucuses that kicked off america's presidential primary race on monday democratic voters attended local meetings across the state to start the process of determining which candidate

will show. challenge president dollar trump in november 21st will say the delay was due to a cooling issue with a new smartphone app for reporting local results the official vote tally is now expected later today. all of the rallies had long been organized but the victory speech is now on ice democratic presidential candidate joe biden was one of the favorites to win in the iowa caucuses his was hinted it had been a difficult night was the of the war in the case is going to be close we're going to walk out here with our share of delegates we don't know exactly what it is yet but we feel good about where we are and look so so it's on a new hampshire was south carolina well beyond the rest of the law because. the issue that is the delay has caused embarrassment for the democrats biden's campaign wrote a letter demanding

a full explanation for the problems. of the parts of the candidates used to delay to declare their successes regardless of when those results already filed so i have a good feeling we're going to be doing that very very well here was a night an improbable became an undeniable reality i was and if the candidates weren't getting ahead of themselves the supporters were his to cluster call so i'm just going to tell you what i do know you was was early a vote is headed to more than 1600 locations across the state to take part in the caucus democratic officials responsible for communicating the results plain to folks with the reporting my. after all the candidates are united in their dislike

of president donald trump but his campaign has lapped up what it called a meltdown they can't even run a caucus and they want to run the government no thank you trump's campaign manager tweeted. it's unclear when the results will be announced for now i want you some committees. i'm so happy to have here with me us analyst nicole run very key is with the german council of foreign relations nicole what a rocky start to have the stakes just got higher for a democratic presidential hopefuls with the poll problems in iowa i think they had a very difficult start now and one can only hope that you know they have the low one now and things will go up but it's a tricky start it's a tricky start now president trump did not lose any time or taking aim at the caucus chaos and i was saying in a tweet that the democrat caucus isn't mitigated disaster nothing

works just like they ran the country remember the $5000000000.00 bomb a care website that should have cost 2 percent of that the only person that can claim a very big victory in iowa last night is trump. in the cold back to you here with me how damaging is what happened in unfolded in iowa for the democrats by the technical aspect as part of the problem of course and it doesn't look good when you know in the start of an election campaign you start with technical issues but i think the turnout which was very you know is another sign and i can only hope for the democrats that this will give them such a boost now to do things better that they see this as a chance why nicko are we also laser focused on the iowa caucuses why is it such a big deal well it isn't really a big deal in terms of real the real meaning because the other states which are much more important for the outcome of the elections and it has the highest

symbolic value and if you have a bumpy start like this it's very easy to make fun of you and to say well you know even capable of carrying out against in an election a prediction. that in the very start of so. action important race so well it seems maybe again bad they might take energy out of hits and will fix a few problems which they are and one of them is technical but the other one is the most ok and exactly i mean this could be a great trial run that's a great silver lining or to put it that way nickel please don't go anywhere we're going to continue our conversation today obviously is a very big day in u.s. politics we are not only waiting for the definitive results from iowa but president trump's impeachment trial is also winding down both sides will make their closing arguments later today and after that the u.s. president is set to deliver the state of the union address to congress. he cozies

up to authoritarianism strong man heber rates and ridicules close u.s. allies and he views himself as the next step chanelle deal maker donald trump came into office believing that the foreign policy of his predecessors was badly wrong and that he alone could fix it there were indeed some serious problems with you after foreign policy when trump took office says christopher preble an expert with the libertarian cato institute but on balance the president's successes are few and far between. i think the president set for himself some very ambitious objectives he allowed his rhetoric to get ahead of his ability to execute and we're seeing it play out over the last 3 years and so when he boasts that he's achieved some great success it's fairly easy to see that that is not the case for

example north korea and the famous bilateral meetings between donald trump and kim jungle the white house claims this was a great breakthrough but north korea through nuclear program continues and the human rights situation in north korea is still dreadful. for iran since the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal there have been tit for tat escalations culminating in trump's order to kill iranian top general costs in soleimani the us maximum pressure come pain on tehran doesn't seem to be working and even though trump promised to end the wars in the middle east the us military presence in the persian gulf now is larger than it was when he took office but in his state of the union address the u.s. president is expected to tell his ability to keep america safe he will probably also praise his achievements as negotiator pointing to the new trade agreement with canada and to mexico they face one u.s.

china trade deal and his middle east peace plan a plan that critics deemed unrealistic and dead on arrival. president trump could be more successful if he worked closer together with friends and partners instead of accusing them of taking advantage of the u.s. says has are called late an expert at the center for strategic and international studies in washington. this is something very very new and every past u.s. president not that we haven't had difficulties with allies but we see allies as a force multiplier of u.s. influence and economic prosperity not as a negative so this is a very new element to president trump's foreign and security policy and certainly europe has felt that most keenly ironically it's the u.s. policy towards europe that has become crucial to his legacy because of his dealings with ukraine impeachment will always be attached to donald trump and the years from

now it will be one of the 1st thing students are taught about the 45th president. and that was always on of the nominal reporting from washington nicole what can we expect from president's state of the union address what do republicans want to have him say well one of the points you making over and over again is the fact that you know america seems to be more safe and they have he you know established relationships to countries which were very tricky like north korea and he will praise some self and of course this kind of. success is from his point of view but it's a specially his foreign policy agenda which looks not so pretty these days because with his new plan for the middle east he didn't create the reach the goal he wanted to reach he wanted to have widespread support for this plan and the very

powerful countries in the arab world completely shut down the plan so 88 at the relationship with many of the european. leaders so we're nation ships which you know have been build for for decades now very fragile and again you need for the complex issues that you see. in the world these days you need strong partner s. and didn't do at all is to read establish good relationships to partners which count at the end oh what are some of the promises that president trump made in his previous a state of the union address that he did deliver on well one of the things he wanted to do of course from the very start is he wanted to end the iran nuclear deal and in this respect he succeeded even if europe still tries to support the deal with the departure of the u.s. or the withdrawal of us from the deal this plan is basically dead so in this respect yes he delivered this or he delivered this. but at the same time you know

it's a said that he wanted to reduce troops in the region in the middle east which he cannot do because it didn't it didn't become more safe than other areas now which are highly under pressure and so this point which is crucial also for for his foreign policy agenda he didn't you kind of came as a big success story it's a macall rembert from the german council of foreign relations as always thank you so much. our i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. according to iran has sentenced a man to death for spying for the cia a core spokesman says the iranian man was paid to send information about the country's nuclear program to the u.s. spy agency in another case 2 charity workers received long jail sentences on similar charges. according to south africa has issued

a warrant for the arrest of former president jacob zuma he fell to appear at a hearing over corruption charges which he denies as lawyers said the former president was overseas for medical treatment and one resigned in 2018 after almost a decade in office. his former autocratic president daniel arap moi has died at the age of 95 while more ruled kenya for 24 years until 2002 becoming the country's longest standing leader he ran the country as a one party state in which corruption human rights abuses became widespread a 2nd death from the coronavirus outside the chinese mainland has been confirmed in hong kong while the 1st was in the philippines and china says 425 people have now died of the disease on the mainland and the number of confirmed infections has surged above 20000 while president xi jinping has declared what he calls

a people's war of prevention on the virus but alarm is spreading in hong kong which was badly affected by the sars virus 18 years ago. ah. the best medicine is closing the border with china that's the demand from thousands of striking hong kong health care workers want from the government. think i hope the government listens to our demands quickly closes over the borders and brings this epidemic under control. it comes as hong kong became the 2nd place outside of the chinese mainland to report a death from the corona virus a 39 year old man who was suffering an underlying illness travel to we han in january hong kong's chief executive criticised the protestors and defended her decision to leave some parts of the border right and. i certainly would not agree with the allegation that we. are not addressing this public health

concern adequately the alarm has long since spread across china including passenger tested positive for the corner virus after disembarking in hong kong days earlier the medical team has boarded the ship and is conducting extensive health checks on all passengers and crew so far and people on board have shown symptoms such as fever passengers say they have been told to wait in their cabins to be tested. and a journalist to julian rial is in yokohama bay and following developments there he told us a little earlier why the japanese government felt it necessary to put down princess in quarantine take a listen you can see yokohama behind me that's about 3 or 4 kilometers distant where i am i mean a residential district over looking the ports but the japanese authorities as i just want to keep this out they have had 20 cases confirmed in japan so far but they're very concerned that if 3700 people got on the boat potentially all of the

might be carrying this disease then they could have a bigger problem will move hands but it looks like we're going to have to go through the entire book from stem to stern very very carefully and check every individual on that and not want to take a couple of days and of course often than we have to wait for the results of these tests to come through to be confirmed and of course the boat then has to be cleaned to say from stem to stern it's going to be alone i'm kind of thinking process and that was julian rial reporting for me for us from yokohama and chip pan well next up the 8 critically ill children and their families have arrived in the jordanian capital amman after being flown out of war torn yemen it was the 1st of what the united nations hopes will be a series of so-called mercy flights the 5 year civil war has left yemen's nane airport cut off to civilians but an agreement between the warring parties means some critically ill patients can now fly out of the country to get much needed

treatment. ordinary children about to embark on an extraordinary journey. these are some of the human sickest youngsters today that being flown out of the war ravaged country for medical treatment. is the 1st time in more than 3 years that aid flights have been allowed to leave the airport in the yemeni capital sana'a and it's a day the children and their families have waited for. he's been suffering from kidney failure for the past 5 years and there isn't any treatment in yemen they don't do transplants in yemen. my son has a birth defect in his spinal cord and thank god now the journey has started the journey that we've been promised for the past year and a half that we've been waiting for. most of the other patients are women and children suffering with cancer and brain tumors they'll get treatment now in egypt and jordan. the flights are the hard one result of 2 years of un brokered peace

talks between yemen's rival parties a tangible confidence building measure between the rebels who control sana airport and the saudi led coalition that controls the airspace above it the u.n. hopes this is just the start. there are literally thousands of patients who need this care this is the 1st flight there will be more of the solution is checked in the morning and check open the airports honestly claim many civilians and their families can travel for everything need to go in order to get the help that they today's starts the process some of. these children are almost too young to remember yemen in peace time. now after 5 years of misery doesn't least a flicker of hope for the country's most vulnerable citizens. some people. the

world health organization says the number of people suffering from cancer is likely to rise sharply in the coming years the warning is included in a report the organization has released for world cancer day the good news is that more research better treatments and programs to prevent cancer could help save lives over the next decade while cancer kills an estimated 9600000 people in 2018 only heart disease causes more deaths while the most frequently diagnosed forms of cancer are lung cancer and breast cancer each responsible for just under 12 percent of all cases they're followed by colon cancers at around 10 percent smoking tobacco tops the list of preventable causes of cancer deaths is followed by an unhealthy diet obesity and lack of exercise are joining us now is dr helen wood solid affirmative in the university's part of

a team that is investigating the use of anti bodies to treat cancer so called immunotherapy a very warm welcome to you dr so good to have you on this day this is a very promising new field immunotherapy can tell us tell us a bit more about this field and what makes it so promising. as a matter of fact it's still exciting how rapidly immunotherapy has become a mainstay of the logical treatment and down my dear is mobilize the body's own immune system against the muslims themselves actually then something that the malignant cells usually do every day but fail cancer and been tell the immune system to do their job and for this the use approach just like mainly antibiotics and several forms of you know their opinion they prove mean but i think there's going to be greatly appreciated. and of course there have been some who live couple successes with him you know. but these are very much tailor made for spoke

treatments they don't work for everybody or all cancers is that right that is correct i mean yes there are different forms of you know therapy and that this research leading to that excitement in the last years has also strategies that mobilize the body's most or strongest immune cells called t. cells and their various throughout the g.'s and they allow treatment and success and patients that we have no chance to treat it as successfully in the years before but still there is ample room for improvement because all patients benefit and now has a limited time only. no doctor of course are in a world cancer day the w.h.o. released a report emphasizing the inequality in terms of who gets to survive especially between those in developed and developing nations who are struck by cancer now

immunotherapy is very high tech how do how do poor people have access to it. there you are mentioning a serious problem that is in my purse in the mood and you personally do not address the muff because all these you know therapeutic strategies that provides access our very expensive treatment costs range up to half a $1000000.00 in some cases and obviously that is not something what people in let's say less the well of a poorer countries will benefit from actually believe me at discussing our i call them rich developed countries that have this is a society is prepared to face the tremendous cost that will arise from these and in my personally a problem is that all these drugs are developed by a pharmaceutical companies which at least empowered are interested to earn money

and then who are you again this calls for a greater contribution of academia to drug development that's something that would be personally and my colleagues here to be on the take. dr how much from tipping of university search thank you so much for joining us on the program on world cancer day. thank you very much. exercise is also good for you once you have cancer well research has shown that sports can help and some doctors even include controlled exercise in their cancer treatment programs or we met a teamster survivor who says regular sports and fresh air how to overcome the disease. the challenger was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 several malignant tumors were found in her breast but the 58 year old didn't panic buy i don't have to fight this disease. i will now 5. test results are promising suggesting she has indeed beaten cancer her best weapon

to survive the extremely training therapy was exercise in the great outdoors i love it to be outdoors because the inspiration all doors is beauty that life life is not indoors life is outdoors and your you're in in your own system is stimulated by being outdoors. while still undergoing treatment pitcher formed an organization called outdoor against cancer in order to share her knowledge with other patients teacher now runs training groups in 5 year appealing countries she encourages cancer sufferers to exercise in the open air weather here in the austrian alps or in a city park after work that. all these women developed cancer a few years ago peter thomas started working with them while they were undergoing treatment. they started to do sports and they never stopped doing sports they are

healthy funny strong that's a really for me it's an amazing thing clive 432 was on this from one who treated keeps me incredible strength i dragged myself here every time off to work because i know others are here too and i follow their example when it feels like i can't go on i think if they can do it so can i. pick up. the. school spirit be astonished if the old school it's alone does not kill cancer cells but it could help in the fight against the disease. are right now the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour at the start of the u.s. presidential campaign technology issues come to light the results of the democrats' iowa caucus and no one yet knows which of the leading presidential hopefuls have won the support of the state's democrats. plus thousands of hong kong

health care workers who walked off the job demanding that the territory's government completely closed the border with china to keep out the corner buyers a man has died in hong kong from the virus only the 2nd fatality alcide mainland china. coming up next is to call for actually 20 or watching the news from berlin on the way a lot of iraq on behalf of the entire you soon thank you so much for spending this part of it exhausting at the top of the hour.

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