to cut through the noise to get to the truth. my name is sarah kelly and i put it into. this is d w news coming to you live from berlin china's ghost city as the government battles against the coronavirus this is usually a bustling commercial street also souvenir shops mock shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. normally busy streets and metro trains are deserted but despite the city lockdowns the buyers

shows no signs of being contained also coming up. passenger plane breaks apart while trying to land in istanbul officials say 3 people are dead and more than 150 injured the planes have been lashed by strong winds and heavy rain. and there's outrage here in germany as a political taboo is broken for the 1st time a mainstream party joins up with the paul right to gain control of the state government the party chancellor is also implicated. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the world health organization has appealed for almost 700000000 dollars to help fight the coronavirus global health emergency it says the money is needed to help countries that do not have system. is

in place to combat the virus meanwhile the death toll is approaching 600 more than 28000 people have been affected china's capital beijing is not at the center of the outbreak but correspondent it is building a found its streets and squares deserted as the government attempts to bring the outbreak under control. a rare sight in the dry winters of beijing the gate to the forbidden city covered in snow a few people have come out to take in the spectacle but getting inside is out of the question just like almost all public facilities beijing's most famous historic site remains closed i think it's good that the government took these measures we support them we depreciate even struck to measure his. business activity has largely come to a halt across much of the capital this is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops not shops tourists who visit

beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. every day human interaction has become suspicious this shop asked its customers to stay outside and communicate their needs from the outside. some pharmacies take the same approach everyone is wearing. because the younger it's a national emergency we stand together for one a standing together should not be taken literally residential complexes keep strangers out in this compound visitors have to register with their id the guards look for the place of birth who are overweight people can't get any even if they live here they'll be quarantined. people from who province where the virus originated are to be isolated in this hotel discrimination against them is now rampant. at the entrance to the subway system a mandatory temperature check. the same site as everywhere in the city lots of

space. trains are running as usual routes the passengers were like. this circle i met some of beijing's most in the world haitian with shopping area as the railway station. beijing has we ported less than $300.00 cases so far but fear here has spread much faster than the virus ever could. the materials barely know who filed that report joins us now from beijing material given that beijing has not been severely affected by the virus why are people taking such extreme precautions. i think one reason is that people are afraid of this virus because it's new and

people don't really know what it means another reason is that authorities tell people to take these measures people are reminded constantly off the danger we we know that only just less than 200 people are registered as infected in this city but given the long incubation period the real number might of course be a little high and then the 3rd reason is that people here in beijing remember very well the outbreak of sauce a very similar disease some. 17 years ago where a similar tactics voiding contact was in the end able to break the cycle of new infections that is are people in china satisfied with how their government is dealing with this crisis. these very strict measures and these discriminatory measures and to separate who bay people from other people for example on not to met with

a lot of resistance. people as we have seen also some in this report as support strict measures but people are very unhappy on how far this disease could progress and how late the government has reacted and there is a lot of discontent about how the government has handled this crisis specially in the beginning. it is thank you very much for talking with us and for your report that gives us such interesting insights into what's going on there report of a tear spelling out there in beijing. now 3 people have died and another $179.00 have been injured after a turkish passenger prate plane crashed into a field at an airport in istanbul the aircraft haul freighted by the low cost pegasus airlines broke apart after what turkey's transport ministry described as a rough landing. split of part a short flight from his mirror to istanbul that ended in disaster.

this video shows the plane attempting to land in heavy rain and strong winds hitting the runway at high speed it continues and then plunges. unfortunately the pegasus airlines plane could not stay on the runway due to poor weather conditions. and it skidded for around 50 to 60 minutes as then it fell down a height of 30 to 40 minutes as. some passengers escaped by climbing out onto the plane's wing others emerged from the gaping fuselage which had split into 3. it was a desperate race to save lives as emergency crews rescued dozens of wounded passengers

. flight operations which had been diverted to another airport overnight have now resumed and investigations continue. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today italian authorities say 2 people were killed when a high speed train derailed several others suffered serious injuries and investigation is underway to determine the cause of the trail and which happened about 50 kilometers south of belong. israeli police say they are investigating a car ramming into roussillon as a terrorist attack 14 pedestrians mostly soldiers were injured when the car sped into them police say the driver fled the scene in the vehicle the incident came as 2 palestinians were killed in clashes with israeli forces. and the u.s. senate has acquitted president all trial of both charges of impeachment senate dominated by the president's fellow republicans voted to clear him on charges of

abuse of power and on obstruction of congress result in a bid to buy the democrats 2 out trump oust trump from office. here in germany a regional election has subtle for what is being called a political earthquake for the 1st time 2 mainstream parties have joined forces with the far right alternative for germany or a.f.d. to elect a state premier thomas chemically a poet. titian from the pro-business freedom or crowds was elected premier of the small state of touring years with help from the f.t. and the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. is chancellor merkel's party until today other parties have refused any cooperation with the anti migrant and the e.u. a.f.p. the head of germany's free democrats is said to be trying to persuade the newly elected state premier to step down and call the elections. said that god was there that outside the from democrats headquarters in berlin about

a 1000 demonstrators gathered to send a message to the new state premier a few 100 kilometers away his election breaks a taboo inside the party leader was congratulatory but at a distance. the support from the far right comes as a surprise because the party is not aligned with our party it was purely a tactical move but the a.f.d. and 3 says the vote was planned that way. this is how the conservative majority prevailed and that's great because if we want to put the left party leadership to posture and we succeeded this is going to be the conservative christian democrats took their time to react some welcomed the result of the vote speaking in strasburg the head of chancellor merkel's party had this message. this will hurt you in 2 other than the way our party members voted in 3 range i was especially against our recommendation of. i want to make that clear once more we have not approved i

consider it to be clearly wrong. it's both mainstream conservative parties are calling for new elections in 3. places in our top it is an unacceptable breach to align votes with those of the far right for the office of state premier minister was in variance with us and the center left sees the vote as a threat to the government there calling for a special. meeting of the coalition committee at the federal level. this was planned in advance for a fixed con game with a clear goal that the free democrats the christian democrats and the far right and if they would form a common alliance to elect a state the perm yeah the green and left parties also expressed their dismay over the election and 3. for the 1st time in germany we have a situation where democratic parties have gained power with the votes of the far right as it is intolerable the conservatives and the free democrats of perfect be

still apologists for the far right they've been used. that's what the demonstrators outside the f.t.p. headquarters in the german capital are saying to the election and 3 is likely to cause further unrest in berlin so in its original members of chancellor merkel c.d.u. have defied their party's national leadership and align themselves with the far right a f d what is chancellor merkel think about that well she's in south africa at the moment for talks with that country's president sarah ruhl oppose it our correspondent is covering the chancellor's visit and join just well from johannesburg any reaction yet from chancellor merkel on her party's defiant move. there is she just arrived here yesterday in the late even then and colleagues away on board of her plane tried to ask that question of course what is their reaction but she said no comment for now but we are expecting her to say something about it

during the day when she will give her 1st press conference with the president of south africa. so why is america visiting south africa right now. well the key reason is economic south africa is the only industrialized country in sub-saharan africa and is a very important trade partner for germany as well 2 thirds of all german investments on this continent i'm going to south africa in fact and the german companies are doing surprisingly well talk to a lot of company representatives they're doing quite good business here and that is despite the fact that the overall economic situation in south africa doesn't look good at all 30 percent unemployment the economy is growing slower then the population crime is going up so there's a lot of bad things happening at the moment and german companies are beating the trend and people say that the visit of the german chancellor is also a signal to the south african leadership. is the president of the a.n.c. the governing party and he is seen as somebody who wants to reform the economy who

tries to be market friendly but he is facing quite some opposition within his own party and the message of the german chancellor is also a sign to support him. adrian krishna talking to me a short while ago from johannesburg. sad news from hollywood the legendary oscar winning actor douglas has died at the age of 103 he made his name and hollywood's golden age of movie making and was one of the biggest box office stars of 950 s. and sixty's his son the actor michael douglas announced the news of his father's passing saying the world he was a legend to me and my brothers he was simply. and just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on t.w. news as efforts to contain the corona virus turned chinese cities into ghost towns

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