this is the w. news line from but it german politics are rocks by a scandal involving the far right the premier of the east in a state of 3 steps down a day off to being elected with the help of extremist. forces coming up the fallout from the coronavirus in beijing a busy capital that now looks like a ghost town this is usually a bustling commercial street but so souvenir shops mark shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. and exposing a practice which has caused untold misery 10 millions of women around the world

victims of female genital mutilation tell us their stories. and growing support for julian assange are public figures in germany had their voices to calls for the wiki leaks founder to be released from prison. and have a home free glad you could join me a scandal over the involvement of the far right in a normally obscure regional election has shaken german politics to the call now the extremist alternative for germany party has helped install a liberal crimea in the eastern state of 3 and now has now been forced to stand down off to widespread condemnation effect is seen as having broken a to b. which has kept the far right and also government. state premier for just

24 hours thomas announced his resignation a day after being sworn into office. we will be requesting new elections in order to rid the stain of any support from the office of state premier. mr president so. the pressure had proven to great camera found himself on the front page of almost every german newspaper the election of the free democrat politician with the help of the far right a hefty had set off a political earthquake the shock waves reverberated all the way to south africa where the visiting machall made her position clear. as this was foreseeable it must be said that this is unforgivable and that's why the result must be reversed. chemically had been the head of the smallest party in the state parliament is election was

only made possible with the help of votes from the f.t. and the c.d.u. the latter leads germany's national government. the handshake between the new state premier and the range is a hefty chief b.n. hooker left many disgusted the head of the rangers left party threw a bloke a at kemah vase feet during the inauguration ceremony the party's joined in the chorus of criticism this is the problem it's an unacceptable breach of the to be elected state's premier with a f.t. vote and especially with the vote of mr doswell this was a planned long ago this was prepared because a very clear goal that the f.t.p. c.d.u. and a f.t. enter into a joint alliance and elect a state premier mr president view. within hours of the vote people had gathered all over germany to protest against fascism and to reject a state premier who made it into office with the help of the far right soon they

will get their chance to vote again and joining me now from frankfurt is michelle freedman a lawyer journalist and political analyst welcome to you now we're already seeing but it's cool fallout from this with the free democrats now saying that they want to dissolve the state parliament what would that mean. it means that we had seen and participate on the political earthquake it was the 1st time a premium afterword to a 2 that with the votes of the liberals and the conservative parties but the participation of the right. extremist movement if the entering in were the leader is somebody who we can call of. which are tremendously resi racists that with these votes somebody was elected being a prime minister of one of the countries and today the reaction was very clear we

have a serious damage of political culture in germany this premier is a disaster for the political culture in this country and it is also a disaster taking in consideration that last week the 27th of january we had the commemoration of the liberation of the camps 70 years after and a week later a party like the a 50 which is a high also a party which is known being also a party with the senate a. point of views was deciding who is now a new elected prime minister so today the actual situation changed the prime minister resigned but the damage will be a damage for more than this day we had to talk about we're talking about this day

of the course that one day we've seen the f.t. be completely turned his back on the a.f.p. so why doesn't the governing cd party but this year in itself so many committee. this city who is in a huge discussion in the east and german countries and their opponents in this party who are asking why is it impossible why this is not allowed not officially to be in a coalition with the right extremist parties but to have a certain day the experience of. working together and whatever this means under the level of a coalition and this conflict explodes during the elections yesterday and we have to be very clear on that the leader of the polity. was very very strong very clear and said never ever see the blue ones to work with

the a.f.p. and also to hear the c s u from the via was very clear but there will be discussions after yesterday and these discussions are also very necessary as we see in europe in ungar e. in poland we had this experience to form a government in austria we know that the movements in france of the right extremist parties the so-called in liberal democracy parties that these parties increasingly winning votes and in germany we have for the 1st time the same question in one of the countries and we saw also in germany the situation has to be cleared by all the other democratic parties it was a very bad day yesterday for germans democracy and there was a clear participation from the f.t.p. the liberals and the c.d.u.

. friedman ain frank that thanks a lot thank you. the world health organization is calling for most 700000000 dollars to help fight the coronavirus is that the money is needed to help countries that don't have systems in place to combat the virus meanwhile the death toll is approaching 600 people more than 28000 people have now been infected china's capital beijing is not at the center of the outbreak but correspond mathias building a found its streets and squares deserted as the government attempts to bring the disease 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 this spectacle but getting inside is out of the question just like almost all public facilities beijing's most famous historic site remains closed i get it it's good that the government took these measures we

support them we depreciate even strength to measure is your. business activity has largely come to a halt across much of the capital this is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops snack 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 who were 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. at 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 patient in the shopping area as the railway station. beijing has reported less than $300.00 cases so far but fear here has spread much faster than the virus ever could. are the signals of the other stories making

news around the world israeli police say they're investigating a call ramming into jerusalem as a terrorist attack 40 destin's mostly soldiers were injured when the cost spared incident police say that the driver fled the scene in the vehicle the instant came as 2 palestinians were killed in clashes with israeli forces. 3 people were killed and dozens injured when a plane skidded off the runway it is down bills the 2nd biggest airport the boeing 737 caught fire and split into 3 pieces after landing in bad weather the flight was operated by turkish low cost carrier pegasus. italian authorities say 2 people were killed when a high speed train derailed several others stuff that serious injuries an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the do rail meant which happened about 50 kilometers south of milan. now is a practice that usually causes lifelong physical and psychological damage female

genital mutilation or a g.m. now the united nations has said today for the 6 as an annual day to draw attention to the problem which is more widespread than you might think now if g.m. is carried out in communities around the world but it is particularly prevalent in these regions in africa in the arab world as well as asia the practice consists of partial or total removal of girls external genitalia it is thought that up to $200000000.00 women and girls have undergone some form of f. g.m. egypt ethiopia and indonesia have by far the most cases in each. it 87 percent of women there between the ages of $15.14 i'd offer to be affected the problem is not just limited to these countries here in the european union for example it is thought that about 600000 women and girls will they live with the consequences of female genital mutilation many survivors live in france and we met

a group of women they're fighting to end the practice. fatty mandia and her daughter samantha and joy preparing food for the whole family some cousins leaf with them family and friends often stop by they like to have an open house. going to grow yes. we're preparing yes or an african dish that is eaten in the sub region in mauritania in mali and above all in senegal for more right now cooking is one of the traditions fatima deol holds dear from her country of origin mauritania but there are other so-called traditions which she strongly rejects rubin. made. a book was i was cut. and excisions were also performed on my 3 oldest daughters because. i know that my 2nd daughter had complications when she gave birth. i did it because i was afraid of my

mother's influence you can see her there where she said if you don't have your daughter excised her prayers won't be heard. it was working as a midwife in mauritania in the 1980 s. that turned her against the practice. i've met many women who suffer from fistula as women who suffered from incontinence you could no longer hold back the your in you had to change their clothes all the time they are even some who became completely isolated. when fatty majak came to france as a political refugee in 1990 she started her fight against f g m she founded an association that campaigns for women's rights in communities where the practice is still accepted she's also part of a european network which lobbies members of the european parliament to take a more active stance against f g m. has also joined the fight.

i was lucky not to be affected by f g m i grew up in france and i think the question never came up for me but people around me people i know are affected by it in my community even in my family that's why i feel it's important to fight against it salama turned her cousin how are are about to launch a series a few tube explainers to inform young girls about after she am. well you have 2 simple hello to all and welcome to the you tube channel purple chair my name is howard. f. g. am is illegal in france and the rest of the e.u. still there are 225000 survivors of f. jam in france alone. and salama tara confidante there 5 helps in bringing down those numbers who didn't realize. this is an act of violence done to

a small girl who has done nothing but will maybe follow her until her death that is not good. whatever happens i know that this is a fight i will continue and i won't give up until i see concrete results. here watching the news still to come the man who was the sponsor of course we look back on the life of reviews of hollywood legend kirk douglas is telling the age of 103. now a group of celebrities and politicians in germany have launched an appeal to have wiki leaks founder julian assange released from prison imports that more than $130.00 public figures are urging the u.k. to follow the advice of the un special rapporteur on to release a song on medical grounds for foreign minister sigman got there among them now the founder of wiki leaks which publishes news leaks and classified material is in a high security breach prison awaiting extradition to the united states on charges

of spying he previously evade capture by taking diplomatic refuge. the 1st few months that julian assange spent in the ecuadorian embassy in london it was all defiant and optimistic gestures 7 years later he would emerge as a broken man. when british police tracked the wiki leaks founder out of the diplomatic mission in 2019 he looked confused and was almost unrecognizable. a u.n. expert on torture said a son showed symptoms of psychological torture some fear this torture may still be happening today so how did we get here and why. julian assange to grow fuge in the ecuadorian embassy and 2012 after sweden asked the u.k. to extradite the wiki leaks founder to answer allegations of rape in that country.

sanchez always denied those allegations saying they were pretense to have them eventually extradited to the united states where he is wanted on espionage charges . as we can you expand and afraid so does the freedom of expression and the health of all else of. his supporters share this view they say the swedish rape allegations were fabricated and an excuse to punish sanch for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents and for exposing possible war crimes. one high profile leak was a video obtained from the u.s. military which wiki leaks says shows he was soldiers opening fire on people in baghdad and killing several civilians and 2 journalists. a son just now in a maximum security prison in the u.k.

and continues to fight against his extradition to the united states if he loses his fight and is convicted in the u.s. the wiki leaks founder faces up to 175 years in jail the rape case in sweden has since been dropped. well the respect way that need is met said the u.n. a special report on a torture hand vesa case it at the case such it in a sound and this is what is have to say about the allegations that a song is treatment could be considered torture i didn't 1st siegel live to 98 but then it immediately became clear to me that there's actually 3 aspects that are important your 1st. disclosed and revealing information evidence for systematic torture in the us and its allies and none of these crimes has been prosecuted so clearly that's a violation of the convention against torture and does already eliminated it and secondly i visited him to get it was to medical experts who specialize in examining

torture victims and both of them came to the conclusion that he so typical signs of psychological torture so again this falls within my not at the u.k. government is like to investigate is to provide a dress. now thirdly he is threatened with the extradition to the united states we are low security defendants in the united states if convicted are likely to be held in supermax conditions under the so-called same special measures which worldwide are considered to be in violation of the provisions to treatment now is not met so that the un special rapporteur on torture now 7 police officers in chile have been suspended over a video showing an 18 year old being beaten but he is a soto suffered broken rapes and back injuries complaints about police brutality have risen sharply since nationwide protests over inequality began last autumn and we should warn you that this report contains some images that are disturbing but

the victim's family wanted the pictures to be seen. a police officer pushes materials sotto to the ground another hits him with the baton before 5 more join him with the beatings the 18 year old is left with fractured ribs and injuries to his back but his family knows it could have been so much worse. they acted in a totally cowardly way their criminals to get out of a van 3 events to hit just one person they were merciless to kicks my son received could have killed him. my son was very lucky there was c.c.t.v. recording at that house i think that would be part of our defense against people chilling could not defend itself against. since last october public protests and violence have plagued chile's capital santiago they

began peacefully over a hike in metro fares but as frustrations about why did inequality emerged they soon escalated. and according to many so too has police brutality. just last week a football fan was hit and killed by a police truck. the this together with thousands of other complaints we have received regarding serious human rights violations should not go unpunished there must be truth and justice because these. 7 police officers have been suspended following the attack on mateus soto outside santiago. is look at all the needles those police were removed from their usual operational jobs at this time their managers are following the necessary regulatory legal disciplinary and administrative measures going into us illegally. is recovering

from his injuries his supporters hope the release of this c.c.t.v. footage will prevent other attacks like he is. now screen legend kirk douglas has died at the age of $103.00 he rose from humble beginnings become one of the biggest stars of hollywood's golden age his son to michael's out best announce his death say it was a life well lived the legacy in film that will ensure for generations. in film and in life he was the underdog who refused to take things lying down kirk douglas his most famous role was as a roman gladiator who led a slave revolts in the 1960 movie spartacus i was like champion trying to punch my way to success. you see george it was easy for me to. say i am like. i don't want to be. my life. i want to hear

people call me mr. the son of russian jewish immigrants douglas for hard to reach the top even working as a 1st round rest to pay for acting lessons he appeared in more than 80 films and his cleft chin became his trademark ductless enjoyed playing villains and characters or you and i thank you a touching tribute from his son actor michael douglas died i love you so much and i'm so proud to be your son the last hero of hollywood's golden age has passed away at the age of 103. well i'm going to sleep good news 1st you don't win captain mark her voice will be sidelined for at least 4 weeks after suffering a muscle injury in dortmund german cup defeat against a vet at the same and earlier this week and always has a history of injury issues at dortmund and this season well it's been no different as those 2 year old attacking midfielder looks set to miss 5 games with dortmund

which could hinder that title ambitions in the bundesliga as well as the champions league this season and currently don't win in in the domestic standings. it was a long white off a century to be precise but super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs have celebrated that big a win with an even bigger party crowds all the loyal fans turned out to congratulate the players they paraded through the streets now they eventually ended up at a massive rally where everybody was led in a dance by the team's mascot k.c. waltz for the chiefs won their 1st super bowl title 815 years on sunday by defeating the san francisco 49. just reminded now at the top stories that we're following for you here from yell of germany's east in a state of 3 g. is stepping down

a day off to being controversially elected with the help of the far right all right political policy is still thomas kind of a says that his resignation was inevitable to groups the state of the far right so involvement. and i was asked is to contain the coronavirus chinese susie's into ghost towns the world health organization is appealing the race of $700000000.00 to help fight the disease. you're watching the news from about and coming up the next day's news asia with their ashdown a-g. remember you can always get the latest news around the clock on our web site that is d w dot com thanks for your company i'm headed home free. oh

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