the. this is deja vu news live from berlin the anger in china over the whistleblower who 1st reported the corona virus outbreak lead 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 up german politics shaken to the core over a far right scandal chancellor merkel's conservatives in crisis talks over their collaboration with extremists france's president urges european nations to push for

international arms control he says they cannot just be spectators and a potential nuclear arms race. plus the photography of linda mccartney she was married to a beatle but it's not just the fab 4 she captures in a style just wallowed in the sixty's music scene will visit and do exhibition. hall as. i'm simply 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 his field anger at the government's initial cover up of the epidemic the corona virus 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 who had 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 levy 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. oh there she said to 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. i'm sure from doha china says it's now effectively dealing with the spread of the virus. sympathy she sing ping 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. for more on the story we can speak to correspondent my t.s.p. who is standing by for us in beijing hi mathias to tell us more about this doctor who has died. he was an off time all of just in a hospital in the war on the one central hospital in the end of december he noticed . there was several cases. that he has seen

who how this of you know monia and he alerted fellow doctors in a chat group about it. there were 87 other doctors who posted similar stories all of them with simone by the police and were threatened and silent so you weeks later the outbreak how odd that the government covered it up and said there was no danger and 3 weeks later the outbreak had spread so far that they had to shut down an anti is city and consequently an entire province and people have the feeling that if they had listened to him if he had not been silenced this might have been prevented him and his hundreds of people have now died from the coronavirus saying why is this doctor is death getting so much attention. 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 is now pregnant with their 2nd child who went to work who noticed something who did the right thing was 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 and it is as we said to suspect this outpouring of mourning and also anger and how do chinese people feel about their government's ability to keep them updated on the crucial information that they need to know. obviously the the reactions to this to his death show that people have little faith in how the government has been acting in this crisis is the child the chinese

internet is on fire. every single post on my we chat moments that something similar to a facebook feed where people post personal updates is about him people are angry and they speak about their anger in the internet of course censorship has weighed in but it has not silenced stories about him and tiredly it is now trying to raise the worst anti government. posts hashtags like the government owes him an apology or posts that mention freedom of speech as one of the causes of the spread of this disease are deleted but it's impossible now in this in these out. break off anger to completely silence news about him correspondent yes plenty of reporting from beijing thank you. well as a coronavirus 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 the w.h.o. backing. 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 tipping in the cure 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 weekend 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. she took from last assignment assuming the 1st clinical trials with vaccines for the new corona virus 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 . now to some of the other stories making news around the world australia's east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall and nearly 20 years downpours helped douse some of the country's devastating bushfires and brought relief for farmers after a long drought but the rain has also caused flooding and a risk of landslides. rescuers in spain are searching for 2 people after a landslide spilled across

a high. way in the past week 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 of december the orthodox church believes the law could lead to the seizure of its properties something the government denies. here in berlin leaders of chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. party have been 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.f.d. to elect a new state premier and that decision has been condemned by political leaders across germany and the new premier has been forced to announce his intention to resign while city your party leader and i could come out on power has just given

a short press conference following that crisis meeting she once again categorically rejected any form of cooperation between the c.d.u. and the far right f.t. put it into dutchman's for the c.d.u. germany and for the c.d.u. to people the principle still stands that there is no cooperation with the i have to either directly or indirectly from there to do just this cd you would not vote for a candidate of the a.f.p. or the left party in addition the cd you would not vote for any candidate that is dependent on the votes of the day. is all right let's get more on the story now our political correspondent simon young has been following the latest for us hi simon what else did a city you leader have to say. yeah she called on the social democrats and greens to put up a candidate to become the next state premier in 31 that she said conservatives could vote for also somebody who could unite that state rather than

divide it i think that's a reference to the protests against the man who was elected just 2 days ago with the support of the far right party you know there are huge protests against him crowds outside the parliament down there calling for him to resign immediately she also mentioned again that she would foresee fresh elections if a state premier cannot be agreed on that basis but in fact i know that the christian democrats really don't want fresh elections there because the polls are showing they've taken a massive hit in supporters a result of this whole rather unfortunate business it really has been a black eye simon for the conservatives i mean the regional city there in that state in their india has essentially resisted pressure from the party's national leadership to fix this immediately so what does that actually say about the

authority of both the party leader and if that come come about but also the chancellor. well i think as far as a k.-k. and a great crime karen bauer is concerned it does suggest that her authority is weak she has been struggling to really stamp her authority on the party since she became leader and of course she is the woman hoping to become the candidate for chancellor to replace angle americal when she reaches the end of her term and you know there's a battle going on inside the christian democrat party for who who that will be. very much hoping that she can she can take that but you know this type of thing suggests that she doesn't quite have everybody under control at the moment as far as i go america is concerned she has to worry about the future of her coalition government with social democrats here in berlin the national government the social

democrats are saying they've got lots of questions they want to watch their coalition partners about what all this cooperation and even on only a regional level with the far right and they're going to hold a crisis meeting at the government level tomorrow on saturday salmon why has this controversy been so significant mean what is at stake here for german politics. well i think if you look from the outside if you was already a level of concern about the rise of the far right particularly in the east of germany we have seen the a.f.d. doing very well in some of these eastern states in 3. it's led by a man who courts of sedes may be described as a fascist because of various utterances of his and it all smacks a little bit of a 920 s. and thirty's when conservative parties on occasion helped the nazis on their rise

to power it's created a lot of tension and a lot of concern and a lot of determination by many politicians to send the message the you know there can't be a foothold for the far right in a democracy our political correspondent simon young thank you simon meanwhile german chancellor merkel has arrived in angola in southern africa for trade talks with a president not and so it is the 2nd leg of a 3 day tour of the region which started in south africa talks are likely to focus on improving political and economic relations between germany and angola machall is also expected to show her support for letter insoles fight against corruption and his attempts to boost the country's economy did it was actually increased went to the capital lawanda to find out what people think of their president after 2 and a half years in power. 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 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 yet and we 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 are suffering here. joe wilder and so took office 2 years ago his predecessor had been in power for 38 years lorenzo ernest attempts at confronting the rampant corruption have surprised many here he's even confronted former party allies. 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 they force. the shock of who would that be correct. my. city if 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 little son toshi 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 isabel does santos 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 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 of london's slums have the doubts they want to see concrete results . now to some more news from around the world in i watch 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 but it has narrowly defeated senator bernie sanders. and south korea's unification church has held a mass wedding with around 6000 couples exchanging vows in front of nearly 20000 guests the ceremony took place despite concerns of the spread of the coronavirus from neighboring china organizers distributed hand sanitizer and face masks but only a few couples. french president has told european leaders that they cannot remain spectators in a new nuclear arms race in a wide ranging speech my cost boke of a new geopolitical landscape which the e.u. must rely less on britain which is a nuclear power in a post break world instead he called for the e.u. to develop closer ties with ukraine he pointed to russia's growing influence and

said that france and germany in alliance with ukraine are now responsible for europe's future. and let's listen to some of what mccall 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 nuclear arms race on our own soil. we cannot confine ourselves to the role of spectators. it's only acceptable for europe to return to being a theater of confrontation between external nuclear powers let's get more on that story now our correspondent marina strauss has been following my concept for us in paris we heard the french president saying that europeans cannot remain spectators in any new arms race was that a criticism of nato he actually mesereau president mccraw actually

said that trust on the ties remain very important for the european union so the relationship between nato and the european union and france of course remains very important but what he said as well is that europe has to take a bigger and a more important role when it comes to defense so we didn't really see nato as 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 yes he wants europe to get more active. he also said that europe 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. 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 as you 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 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 closely together when it comes to defense and he also wants the european union spend more money on defense what about france itself marina i mean how does. france's role in a potential new nuclear arms race well suspect said france is actually the only remaining nuclear power in the within the european union its 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 france military defense strategy very mistrusts reporting for us there in paris thank you maria. 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 rock scene long before she married paul in 1989 now

a retrospective of her work has opened in the region in western germany yesterday. for millions of grieving teenage girls she was the american blonde who snatched up the coupon in libya. 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 to the rolling stones prescott those exclusive photos led to her photographing the beatles. and that was her entry into the park is it seen if the 960 s. the art student from new york quickly gained the trust of the area's top incoming music stars in front of her lens pete townsend seems like a shy schoolboy. and there was guitar god jimi hendrix.

jim morrison lost in music live the blues icon janice joplin captured in all her intensity. and of course the fab 4 and candid shots during the recording of the white album snapshots capturing music history. linda mccartney was self-taught to her sure sense for just the right instant so evident in her road work series of street photography the role she works in the it was a truly observations of the every day and i've seen the moments everyone has she walked off a drove she really kept. scenes what special little. people move dominate the city space on a particular way you can also clearly see that she had a great sense of humor just a let us down 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 of going to 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. look by the 1970 s. she'd stopped 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. now the town of italy has paid tribute to the late american basketball star kobe bryant he 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 wore 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 club legends the mayor of riyadh who wants to name a street after pride as well. reminder in our top stories here the doctor who 1st alerted the world to the corona virus has succumbed to the disease the death of lee when liane has provoked a wave of online mourning in anger towards the chinese government over its treatment of the doctor dr some see it as a hero. and german politics have been shaken to the core over a far right scandal in the eastern state of turin jia chancellor angela merkel's conservatives have a crisis talks over their collaboration with extremists. coming up next on news asia a street protest in delhi branded anti-national by india's ruling party becomes

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