this is the w.'s live from berlin german politics shaken over a scandal involving the far right conservative and liberal party is under huge pressure after breaking a decades long to brew against a working with far right parties. just a chance of i'm going to tackle keeps an eye on developments so she visits alan kohler to forge economic ties. and that's the death toll from the corona virus outbreak top 600 medical experts warn that the danger from flu is just a serious. time

for welcome to the program. leaders of chancellor merkel's a conservative c.d.u. party have been holding crisis talks over a political scandal involving the far right a day in an unprecedented move to see the big pay after he supported the election of a new liberal premier in the eastern state of to inject any form of coordination with the far right has long been feudalist politically to boo in germany the development has been condemned by political leaders across the country and states president thomas kemah rich has now said that he will stand down. well c.d.u. party leader. has held a press conference following that crisis meeting and i once again she categorically rejected any form of co-operation between the c.d.u. and the far right after. for the c.d.u. germany and for the c.d.u.

to n.g.o.s the principle still stands that there is no cooperation with the a.f.p. either directly or indirectly for nitze do this cd you would not vote for a candidate of the a.f.p. or the left party in addition this cd you would not vote for any candidate that is dependent on the votes of the a.f.p. . let's get more from dublin chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome belinda many people going to look at this is being an odd story we have a state premier who is a member of the f d p who was elected because of vote from his own party the c.d.u. and the far right if they anywhere else this sort of cross party support would be held as a victory for consensus politics so why is it a problem in germany. because of german history the far right here especially in the state of the regio which is the state where all of this is

taking place does have ties with extreme political movements that are very close to nazis and it is a taboo in this country because of its 20th century history because of the 2nd world war to have any form of co-operation with parties that far to the right of the spectrum extremist parties and it must be said that one logical reason for that is that by coordinating or cooperating in any form in this case it was that these parties as you said voted alongside each other for a member of the liberal feed free democrats to become the state premier any form of coordination whether formal or informal it lends legitimacy to the far right and this is a party that is under observation by the german security services in the state of 3

and shia for its anti migrant intolerant views so it is seen there as a possible threat to democracy and that's the reason for that redline so the cd you party in the region of 2 linda 33 inja it's resisting pressure from the national leadership to fix this mess so what do we look that about your thoughts your party leader on a great come and indeed out of the german chancellor angela merkel. looking very tattered indeed both of them clearly called for new elections in this state and their local party branch led by a very ambitious man named mike moring is refusing to heed those calls basically saying no we don't want new elections there's a clear reason for that they were afraid that the far right would win even more votes in the next election in the last election they won 23 percent the c.d.u.

was very much afraid of losing votes that would then go to the far right nonetheless that's not good enough and particularly when the political leadership in berlin has issued a clear order that essentially a renegade party members in the state aren't following so that's raising big questions not only within the c.u. c.d.u. about crime congress leadership but also within the coalition with the social democrats absolutely feeling that they have been sold out into your thing and where they have thrown their support by a man who was defeated for the state premiership by this other maneuver that took place this story is getting international attention to what is at stake here for germany's reputation abroad well precisely because of that connection between the rise of a new far right party in this country and germany's role in the events of the 2nd world war and the holocaust obviously there's always concern about the far right

here and when hitler came to power in 1933 it was partly because conservatives helped to bring him there so there's a lot of attention to what may look like somewhat obscure parliamentary maneuvers but in fact it was obscure parliamentary maneuvers that put hitler in the position that he became chancellor chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you. well the german chancellor angela merkel has meanwhile arrived in i'm golar force in southern africa for trade talks with president lorenzo it's the 2nd leg of a 3 day tour of the region which began in south africa talks are likely to focus on improving political and economic relations between the 2 countries chancellor merkel is also expected to show her support for iran's who saw fights against corruption and his attempts to boost the economy the w.c. creech went to the capital wanda 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. that we ask locals as the new president changed anything. what does that tell him i went on then 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. get out anything leave 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 runs so 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. your wild boar and so took office 2 years ago his predecessor had been in power for 38 he is the run so earnest 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. that it might be comfortable for us to leave things as they were before they force norrish. be

correct. my who said we have a chance to make a change. of course and this is the right time to do it a woman to. lawrence 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. so has the air of corrupt elites in angola past residents of the capital of london's slums have their doubts they want to see concrete results. well take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world australia's east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall from in 20 years that downpour has helped put out some of the country's devastating bushfires and brought relief for farmers battling a prolonged drought but the rains also caused flooding and the risk of landslides.

thousands of orthodox serbs have gathered in cities across montenegro to protest against a new religious law the new law requires the orthodox church to register all of its assets and change that it believes could lead to the seizure of its property demonstrations have grown since the law was passed at the end of december. rescuers in spain are searching for 2 people after a landslide spilled across the highway in the past region of the missing the thought to be and buried under the rubble a place of deployed sniffer dogs and a mountain rescue unit to help with the search. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak is now more than 600 so far all of the deaths of occurred in mainland china is by the virus this rapid spread many experts are calling for a car there warning that while the outbreak is worrying the global danger from flu is just a serious influenza viruses can cause some symptoms similar to the novel

coronavirus including sudden onset of fever and coughing as anyone who's had it knows it's more than just a cold for some it's deadly the world health organization says that annual epidemics result in about 3 to 5000000 cases of severe illness caused by influenza globally and flu viruses kills somewhere between 290650000 people every single year. those numbers are broad enough but there's another factor we have very sketchy information worldwide on how many people get the flu and don't end up in the hospital that makes it tough to nail down exactly how deadly the illness is a detailed running counter kept by the centers for disease control in the u.s. shows that this year so far flu viruses in the country have killed somewhere around one in 2000 people who caught them children and the elderly are the most likely to

die so even though we've been dealing with flu for centuries there are huge gaps in what we know about it little wonder then that the data on the novel coronavirus is also very unclear and changes from day to day. the chinese government has now said that it's identified well over 30000 corona virus infections in the country and medics have confirmed that as of february 7th over 600 people have died due to the new virus. in theory that means 2 out of every 100 people who get the virus will die of that that's a much higher rate than flu. but that number is attached to a major uncertainty factor if some people catch it but only develop mild symptoms or none at all they won't be counted. so if many more people have actually caught a virus but haven't been tested because their symptoms have been mild estimates of

how lethal it actually is could easily drop once we know more numbers for pandemics are hard to collect which makes mortality rates difficult to deduce so far the entire coronavirus epidemic hasn't killed as many people as on average die from the ordinary flu in a single day but the very fact that it's new and we still know very little about it has authorities around the world worried one thing we do know wash your hands that's one of the best ways to prevent getting any kind of respiratory virus. let's get more on this very good williams from a science desk welcome derek that served it's very solitary report that more people die of flu every year than from me coronas coronavirus epidemic so far so every day every every day so while people sort of running out and buying

a mask every year to protect them against flu well i think that boils down to the fact that we're just kind of used to it flu is sort of business as usual we've been living with it for a very very long time and we can kind of predict when it's going to happen there's a flu season in the northern hemisphere there are also steps that you can take to prevent flu there are vaccines that have been developed that can for example protect some of the people who are or most in danger from flu the elderly or children but they're also medications in place antivirals for example like tamiflu so there are there are prevention methods that are there we don't unfortunately none of those prevention methods work with coronavirus measures said despite the prevention methods more people are dying every day. so should does it make sense and rationally for us to be frightened of this than the new bug when so many people so many of us don't think twice about flu well it boils down to sort of this big

gray number really it's the mortality rate right we heard that it kills 2 in every 100 people that contract and that's really a very uncertain they don't have any time they don't have the resources to test people who might for example have very might have the have the corona virus but have very mild symptoms or even be asymptomatic have no symptoms at all and so this this mortality rate this idea it's killing to an every 100 people i think that most most researchers expect that to go down as we find out more about how many people actually contract it and what kind of an impact it would have in this much probably what's probably a much larger group of people ok i think those figures are important to every 100 and likely to go down so let's just keep. only in proportion so how do the 2 corona virus and flu how do they compare in terms of the ease of transmission. contagion viral epidemiologists they look at they look at what's called the basic reproduction number it's called they are not now and in terms of of the are not for

flu is 1.3 now what that means is out of every person who gets flu during the flu season they'll give it on average to 1.3 other people which is how which is how the flu season continues to be sort of this self generating thing during during the colder months of the year i read we don't really have that number yet for the corona virus but i read a study last week that estimated that it would be around $2.00 now that if that was true that would be quite a worrying number but we don't really have that information yet we don't really have enough data to back that up yet because as we said we don't know how many people actually have gotten it yet so the the the only thing that we really can say for sure is is one researcher that i was reading an article today he said the one thing that we know for sure is that this is a beast that's moving very quickly briefly that. there are any other significant differences between the way that health professionals are treating coronavirus and

flu well and they're still hoping i think the w.h.o. is still hoping very much for what they call containment within china which means that they're going to be able to keep it from setting this this krone virus from having epicenters in other countries as long as they can keep it contained they would have been contained within the country they can hope that at some point they're going to be actually even able to eradicate it like they did with stars however it's looking like it's infectious enough that that might not happen and so it could very well be that within the coming years this ends up being something that is like other coronaviruses sort of endemic in the world out there who don't do science thank you. now to france for having president and i don't macros call for a more coordinated european union defense strategy following the departure of britain from the e.u. in a speech to graduating military officers in paris he set out a different strategy which france is the only post perhaps a nuclear power he offered a strategic dialogue with european partners about the role of french nuclear

deterrent policy and european continental security and the call for a surge in european defense spending. most. 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 unacceptable for europe to return to being a theater of confrontation between external nuclear powers go to marina strauss who's been following a president or speech there in paris welcome marina so what does the president wants european countries to do. actually have president mike rogers tell

you he said that the world us dramatically changed with the last couple of years and we're seeing a crisis of mozzie lateralus them for example of the us withdrawing from the i enough treaty from the our nuclear deal and he says he has actually criticized his european partners a lot a lot you said you have all been witnessing these prices but you haven't done anything you haven't put any money on the table that has to change we have to work more closely together regarding defense and you really urge a serious european partners you member states to do more when it comes to defense so where would that leave nato. it's actually not bad so mr mccraw didn't repeat his nato's brained quotation we remember he said that a couple of months ago in an interview have subsidized that transatlantic toys are still very important that the relationship with nato is still in pardon but he also like on the other hand he said no matter what becomes rely on the us for ever we

can maybe rely on nato forever be also have to strengthen our own. alliance within europe that's very important for him and it was also very clear today that france is ready to take the lead there i mean we have to remember that france is now the only remaining nuclear power in the european union since the great britain decided to lease the e.u. . mccraw wants to spend $37000000000.00 euros on nuclear defense until 2025 and it's also clear that he will view status of going to within the e.u. when it comes to budget talks and he will clearly make that he will come a clear that's francis ready to take a look at their present macro also how the united states in his sights when he talked about europe's need for digital sovereignty yet it's actually not only like that conventional

a new car ones that he once he wants europe to to work more in the us assess your passage to more an additional field he wants europe should become more independent from from china and from america and he really wants europe to do to do their own projects there and yes to become more independent. less dependent on other nations where it is trust in paris thank you. for a new exhibition here in germany called linda mccartney the sixty's were more than a cottage not easy access to the beatles a because she was mars one of the fab 4 but she was already photographing the rock sing along before she married the pole in 1989 now a retrospective off her work as a clinton western japanese ruler region yesterday. for millions of grieving teenage girls she was the american blonde who snatched up the cute 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 to a rolling stones prescott those exclusive photos led to her photographing the beatles. and that was her entry into the pocket scene of the 960 s. the art student from new york quickly came to trust of the hour is up and coming music stars in front of her landscape townsend seems like a shy schoolboy. and there was guitar god jimi hendrix. jim morrison lost in music a little blues icon janis joplin captured in her intensity. 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 to her sure sense for just the right instant also evident in her road work series of street photography the road works and the it was a truly upset basins of the every day and of single moments in every way she walked us to a drove she really captured scenes. with special little ice 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 lot is done with a kind of knowing and that's what makes looking at these photos so much fun. again 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 lives 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. in football head to berlin defend a jordan tour in toronto rica has father criminal complaint claiming he was racially abused by fans during a midweek cup match the german 22 year old nigerian heritage says he was accused of jury tuesday german cup match. which the hosts won $32.00 election time the place the german football federation and shell investigated through to riga filed a complaint in order to make a statement against racism at a bad end up paying his legal costs. an italian town of d.t.

has paid tribute to the late american basketball star a kobe bryant a receiver as he said childhood home in the big night 980 s. that was where he played basketball when he was younger fans filled the sports hall who sexually tahlia talent celebrative ahead of a local championship game both teams were kobe bryant shirts with his jersey number 2 on his legacy out of the sox recent lakers stars jersey was hoisted to the rafters alongside other retired basketball club legends the men off the top also wants to make a street after. this is the w.'s these are our top stories leaves of germany's conservative c.d.u. party have been holding crisis talks over a political scandal involving the far right c.d.u. leader and a great camp kind of back said never again mr park to cooperate even in directly with the far right after a decade after a state premier in eastern germany was elected live the help of c.d.u. and f.t.

votes. but dr who was reprimanded by chinese authours his for spreading rumors about the coronavirus before it was officially recognised as died of the infection china has now reported more than 600 deaths and more than 30000 cases of coronavirus. australia's fire ravaged east coast as well from. its heaviest rainfall for nearly 20 years the downpour has helped to douse some of the country's devastating bushfires the rains also caused the flooding and the risk of landslides. and french president emanuel macro has called for a more coordinated european defense strategy following the departure of britain from the e.u. he advocated a surge in european defense spending france is now i ve use of the nuclear power. this is d.w. news from brother for more followers on twitter at the w.

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