oh. this is deja news live from berlin anger in china over the whistleblower who 1st reported the corona virus outbreak lee when liang has now died of the virus that has triggered a wave of mourning and anger towards the chinese government over its treatment of the doctor who some see as a hero. also coming out germany's chancellor merkel visits and go a lot and oil rich country struggling under corruption and extreme poverty will take a look at what and told us make of the president's promise to create jobs and tackle production. and france's president my car urges european nations to push for

international arms control he says they cannot just be spectators in a potential nuclear arms race. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us the doctor who 1st alerted chinese authorities to the corona virus has died of the disease his death is being widely mourned and has fueled anger at the government's initial cover up of the epidemic the coronavirus has now killed more than 600 people and infected at least 31000 in china. dr levy when liang is dead 5 weeks ago on the 30th of december he noticed a virus similar to sars a kill a chinese virus from 2 decades ago he posted a warning on the we both group for fellow doctors 3 days later the 3rd of january he was reprimanded by officials and forced to sign an apology to hand shut down its

food and wildlife market the origin of the virus on the same day but then officials delayed a citywide lockdown and the virus spread weeks later the city announced the virus and the official lockdown came but according to statistics that was too late the virus is now spreading rapidly in china although it's only caused a few 100 cases worldwide and it's killing people dr lee one of many in life he sparked a national conversation about freedom of speech in china and in death he's become a national hero. you know that if you hit him that i deeply regret his death and feel very sad we need to see if his death can change anything and i hope he did not die in vain and that is the mission for it all hot china says it's now effectively dealing with the spread of the virus. he says she's in pain emphasize that since

the outbreak of the corona virus the chinese government and its people have been making great efforts in fighting the epidemic. but many people feel otherwise for them dr lee's story shows that chinese officials priorities are about control and political self-preservation. earlier we asked correspondent yes spelling out about dr lee when the ends roll in the fight against the crown of the virus the 1st thing is that he exposes the inability of the government to react to this crisis he did the right thing he spoke truth the government did not and also he is somebody many people can identify with he was not an activist he was not somebody who was engaged in a long time fight against the system or anything he was a doctor a regular guy a father whose wife wife is now pregnant with their 2nd child who went to work who

noticed something who did the right thing we spoke out and was punished for it and now the whole country is feeling the consequences of him being punished this is what people feel he is some kind of a martyr to people correspondent yes plenty of reporting from beijing thank you. and we have a reporter cherry shane with us here in studio for more on the story hi terry thanks for being with us and we heard there a little bit about lee when liang's death and you've been looking into the reactions on the social media tell us what you've been seeing so on chinese social media we see a lot of polls of people sharing their condolences of the doctor and they mourning the death with pictures and drawings and they were even sharing poems that the as a national hero but apart from grief we also see anger actually because people are not happy that the doctor was detained for just speaking the truth and they said that they should he shouldn't be accused of spreading false rumors that the chinese

authorities were saying so we see sorrow and anger on chinese social media so anger over the fact that he had been detained how is the government responding to that anger so i sent the social media they were angry and then they this has said that was trending at the says. oh dr lee and apologies so the public they want. to i can say shown off to talk to as a room. and also we also see the discussion has been extended to why that the money for freedom of speech we see these has that we want freedom of speech trending because people were saying that if the doctor would have been able to speak freely the virus would have been content easily but of course these 2 hashtags have now been censored on chinese social media and the post that we saw. they disappeared already what is the government strategy been here has been trying to control the narrative around this outbreak so actually as many critics point to china has been

fairly open on this outbreak compared to previous at them make for example at the chinese government have been updating on the number of this and a number of confirmed cases it has. public appeal for more medicals. plies which is very uncommon for the chinese government because it always want to be this image of a strong and independent nation but also we see at this frequency on the narratives by this they need to and the chinese public for example in social media we see a lot of people sharing stories about how they are worried about food supply or people who cannot get me to into hospital because of the shot of stuff on chinese say media we see the light is about being beauty in just 10 days and so actually just few days ago chinese president xi jinping explicitly said that the chinese government should work more on propaganda and he said that the state should

have more control on media and media should focus more on moving stories and stories of about how frontline medical stuff united and fighting this virus is very very interesting stuff there our reporter to reach in with us thank you terry. well as a krone virus spreads the race is on to find a cure or a vaccine for the disease the world health organization is convening an international research conference next week to identify promising drug and vaccine projects to be fast tracked for development one company in germany is hoping that its research receives e w h o's back. the pressure to produce a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is high and given the worldwide competition time is of the essence in the german city of tubing in the cure of that company has been awarded about 7000000 euros thanks to a vaccine initiative the german government and investors like bill gates the fund is also backing companies in the u.s.

and australia. clinical trials will tell us which technology is most effective we're glad other companies have different approaches to dealing with this virus. we're relying on our technology. here's the difference with current vaccinations it's the we can virus that injected after which the human body develops antibodies to fight it the german researchers one of that scene that bypasses the virus their process aims to get the human body to simulate just a crucial part of the corona virus in order to protect itself against it. from most of so i'm assuming the 1st clinical trials with vaccines for the new coronavirus can be launched this year including in germany. but approving a vaccine could take years so it may come online too late for the current epidemic . let's check in now on some of the stories making headlines around the world australia's east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall in nearly 20 years the

downpours helped douse some of the country's devastating bush fires and brought relief for farmers felling a prolonged drought but the rain is also caused flooding and risk of landslides. rescuers in spain are searching for 2 people after a landslide there spilled across a highway in the basque region the 2 missing are thought to be buried under the rubble police have deployed sniffer dogs and a mountain rescue unit to help with the search. thousands of orthodox serbs have gathered in cities across montenegro to protest against a new religious law demonstrations have picked up steam since the law was passed at the end december the orthodox church believes the law could lead to the seizure of its property something the government denies. germany's chancellor has arrived in angola for trade talks she's meeting and president to our lord and so who came to power 2 and a half years ago on a pledge to create jobs and tackle corruption but lawrence all comes from the same

political party as the previous president whose corrupt role devastated the economy so many in golan's are skeptical about lorenzo's promises to demis under increased went to the capital lawanda to find out what people think of their president so far . no wonder the capital of angola on display in the city center is evidence of the massive oil wealth that has poured into the southern african country in the recent decades. but just a few kilometers away is another angola one of poverty and mass unemployment. we ask locals as the new president changed anything for them. there is a change but it's all happening much too slowly. nothing has changed because of this and. i don't even have drinking water you know. but i am.

the government should at least deal with waste removal of us when it rains here there are floods that sometimes drag away our children our houses are ruined too we have many problems here. but we want the new president. to think about us. things are very bad for us here our country is rich but we don't see any of it. people have a lot of money but we're suffering here. joe wilder and so took office 2 years ago his predecessor had been in power for 38 he is the run so honest attempts at confronting the rampant corruption have surprised many here he's even confronted former party allies. the profile it's precisely because i have seen these high levels of corruption and because i think it must be stopped. that

we are fighting what we've witnessed for decades. it might be comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. the shock of it would not be correct. said we have a chance to make a change. and this is the right time to do it a woman. lauren so is even going after the former president's children especially isabel. she's africa's richest woman and has been accused of illegally diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from state coffers to a company's. many important businesses are still controlled by use of builders santarus and as the leaked documents of the so-called luanda leaks showed she could often cowan's on the help of her father the former president it will probably take years and so the courts can establish the scale of the corruption in the country

and punish the perpetrators. so has the era of corrupt elites in angola past residents of the capital london slums have the doubts they want to see concrete results. here in berlin leaders of chancellor merkel c.d.u. party are holding crisis talks to deal with the fallout from its collaboration with the far right in an unprecedented move the c.d.u. in the eastern state of turin joined forces with the right wing populist a.s.t to elect a new state and here that decision has been condemned by political leaders across germany and the new premier has been forced to announce his intention to resign and let's get the latest on the story now our political correspondent simon young standing by for us hi simon so conservative c.d.u. they've been holding crisis talks as we said where do things stand right now. yes i mean a lot has happened in the last 24 hours the politicians and commentators have been

left reeling really by this surprise turn of events with the far right i d. gaming this job the state premier in an important job and with the help of a f t votes and since then both the c.d.u. christian democrats and americans party and also the free democrats who are the other party at the center of this mini crisis they've rode backlit begun doing so and the search is now on for a solution really how they can change this vote get rid of the taint of support from the far right but they're trying to do it without having fresh elections because both those parties know that they will massively lose support the polls are already suggesting that that's going to happen so it is a crisis talks being held right now c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin and the leader of the christian democrat

party and a great cram carob our would like to have fresh elections but she's given the party in the range a time to find another solution if they can let's have a little listen to what she was saying earlier. gets in it's a t.v. in the. sea and there are currently initiatives being taken that aim to create clarity within the existing parliament couldn't it isn't because he isn't we also agree that if these initiatives fail that it will inevitably result in a new elections in 3 n.g.'s novis. our excitement so we've seen the city you enter into in this eastern state has been resisting pressure from the party's national leadership to centrally fix this mess and mediately so what does that say about the authority of the leader who we just saw there on a could come come by and also the chancellor angela merkel. yeah i mean it's very interesting these are conservative politicians in. a small eastern state who have

pushed back against the national lead that doesn't look good for her and it comes in the context and a great credit current power is looking to be the successor of chancellor merkel chancellor merkel be stepping back next year or at least whenever the election easy for 2021 and a k k a she's known is hoping to be her successor but there have been a few challenges to her oath or perhaps the those regional politicians that they could push back in this way knowing that she's relatively weak as for angle a miracle well she's worried about the future of her coalition government she's in coalition at national level with social democrats they say they've got some really tough questions they want to wast their christian democrat. coalition partners there is going to be a big crisis meeting again to morrow saturday and you know indeed

those s.p.d. members are presenting themselves as the bulwark against the advance of the far right so it's it's really big stakes at the national level as well dan simon put this into context for us because this story has been getting a lot of international attention i mean what really is at stake here for german politics. i think there's a lot of fear there are shades in this story of the 920 s. and thirty's when conservative parties gave their supporting in some cases to the nazis as they rose to power and up till now all the mainstream parties here in germany have had a pretty pretty clear rule readline not to cooperate in any way with the background is that the a.f.p. the far right party is already the largest opposition party in the german parliament and everybody knows that in some european countries the far right movement some parties have even been in government so there's concern about this

development and a determination from a lot of politicians to make sure that the far right does not gain a foothold in democracy our political correspondent simon young for us thank you so much now french president in my my car has told european leaders that they cannot remain spectators in a new nuclear arms race in a wide ranging speech folk of a new geopolitical landscape in which the e.u. must rely less on britain and nuclear power in a post brags that world instead he called for the e.u. to develop closer ties with ukraine and appointed to russia's growing influence my concept that france and germany in alliance with ukraine were now responsible for europe's future and let's listen to some of what michael had to say. what. europeans must now collectively realize that in the absence of a legal framework. we could quickly find ourselves exposed to

a new conventional or nucular arms race and on our own soil. bar we cannot confine ourselves to the role of spectators or does mean it's unacceptable for europe to return to being the theater of confrontation between external nuclear powers. let's get more on that story now our correspondent marina strauss has been following for us in paris hi maria we heard the french president saying that the europeans cannot remain spectators in any new arms race was that a criticism of nato actually mesereau president my craw actually said that trust on the ties remain very important for the european union so the relationship between nato and the european union france of course remains very important but what he said as well is that europe has to take bigger and

a more important role when it comes to defense so we didn't really see a nato is a moment here. that's what mr mcconnell said in an interview or a couple of months ago that was really not the why of this more than one hour long speech but yeah he wants europe to get more active he also said that your should push an international arms control agenda did he explain what he foresees there. well macross said that we have seen a massive change a very. a lot of change in the world in politics in defense when it comes to defense we have seen that in the last couple of years and he also says that there's a crisis of multilateralism that's not the 1st time he says that he has repeatedly said that but in this in this speech here at the economy due to the french military school a very prestigious school he mentioned that a couple of times that there's a crisis and that europeans have to act and he said that there are some. europeans

are seeing a conventional maybe even a nuclear arms race even on their own soil and they're going to stand there and and and expect nato or the united states to act because maybe they want to do that anymore or especially the united states and so he also wants european countries to work more closer together when it comes to defense and he also wants the european union spend more money on defense what about france itself marine i mean how does. france's role in a potential new nuclear arms race also specs on france is actually the only remaining nuclear power in the within the european union it's the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world after russia and the united states it's it's a lot smaller than these 2 nations but it's still the only reaping country that has nuclear power and that's it's hard to see in the something that has started decades ago and that hasn't ended with president micro so he's still things that nuclear

power france as a nuclear power as a deterrent strategy is very important and he sees nuclear power as a main like a core issue in in france military defense strategy arena stress reporting for us there in paris thank you brianna. now to some more news from around the world in iowa the democratic party has declared people to judge the winner of the state's caucuses monday's contest was the 1st to choose the democratic candidate to run against president donald trump in november's election the vote was hit by technical problems and delays the judge narrowly defeated senator bernie sanders. and south korea's unification church has held a mass wedding with around 6000 couples exchanging vows and for nearly 20000 guests the ceremony took place despite concerns of the spread of the coronavirus from

neighboring china organizers distributed hand sanitizer and a face masks but only a few couples actually. now the town of reality italy paid tribute to the late american basketball star kobe bryant was bryant's childhood home in the mid 1980 s. and where he played basketball when he was younger fans filled a sports hall in the central italian town and celebrated bryant ahead of a local championship game both teams were kobe bryant shirts with his jersey numbers to honor his legacy and the los angeles lakers star's jersey was hoisted to the rafters alongside other basketball legends the mayor of the a team wants to name a street after bright as well. now to a new exhibition here in germany called linda mccartney the sixty's and more now linda mccartney had easy access to the beatles because she was married to one of the fab 4 but she was already photographing the roxy long before she married paul in 1969 now

a retrospective of her work has opened in the region and western germany has to do . for millions of grieving teenage girls she was the american blonde who snatched up the q one in the beatles that was in 1969 when linda eastman was already a sought after photographer. her career took off after she happened. to be the only photographer to show up the rolling stones prescott those exclusive photos led to her photographing the beatles. and that was her entry into the pockets and see if the 960 s. the art student from new york could gain the trust of the paris up and coming music stars in front of her lens pete townsend seems like a shy schoolboy. and there was guitar god jimi hendrix and. plenty. of jim morrison lost in music

that let the loose icon janis joplin captured in her intensity of the moment. and of course the fab 4 in candid shots during the recording of the white album snapshots capturing music history. linda mccartney was self-taught but her sure sense for just the right instant response so evident in her series of street photography they wrote works of the lord was a truly observations of the every day and the single moments in every way she walked off still drove she really captured scenes one special little. piece of move dominate the city space on a particular way you can also clearly see that she had a great sense of humor just a lot is done with a kind of knowing and that's what makes looking at these photos so much fun.

after her mother's death in an airplane crash linda mccartney avoided the air travel when possible. so she did a lot of photographing while traveling by car she took her camera with her everywhere and documented private hands as well as the world outside. the. book by the 1970 s. should stop taking photos professionally and only documented her personal life and that's a pity because she was uniquely able to get the musical legends of the 1960 s. to show unexpected sides of themselves in. all right let's get a recap now of our top story to get you the doctor who 1st alerted the world to the corona virus has succumbed to the disease the death of lee when yang has provoked a wave of online warning and anger towards the chinese government over its

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