this is the w.'s line from berlin german politics shaken over a scandal involving the far right conservative and liberal parties under huge pressure after breaking a decades long to vote against working with far right parties. and american development sashimi visits to forge economic ties also on the program as the death toll from a coronavirus outbreak goes over 600 medical experts warn that the danger from flu is just the serious. france's present macro urges european nations to push for international control they cannot just look as

a potential nuclear arms race on fox. i'm a welcome to the program. they deserve a german chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. party have been holding crisis talks over a political scandal involving the far right after an unprecedented move the c.p.u. at the f.t. supported the election of a new liberal premier in the eastern states of to reject any form of coordination with the far right has long been fuelled just politically to make the developments has been condemned by political leaders across the country states premier thomas kemah rich has now said that he will stand down. well c.d.u. party you know i think that camp karrenbauer held a press conference following that crisis meeting once again she categorically

rejected any form of co-operation between the c.d.u. and the far right have to put it into order 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 f.t. either directly or indirectly funded to do just this cd you would not vote for a candidate of the f.t. or the left party in addition the cd you would not vote for any candidate that is dependent on the votes of the f.t. . let's take a closer look at this story with a devilish chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome blend so we have a state premier who is a member of a f.d.p. who was elected because of votes from his own party the c.d.u. in the far right anywhere else this sort of cross party supporter be held as a victory for consensus politics so why is this a problem in germany. 1st of all because of this country's history because

of the fact that the rise of the nazis in the 20th century brought disaster throughout europe and that is a very strong reason for the fact that there is an absolute red line when it comes to cooperating with the far right secondly this particular party the a.f.d. its local branch in the state of the regio were all of this took place is particularly rabid it has statements and party positions that very much echo some of those of the nazis very anti migrant very discriminatory and it is in fact under watch by the german security services so the fact that mainstream parties like the liberal free democrats or the chancellors conservatives the c.d.u. that they actually voted side by side with the a.f.d. breaks the taboo and it lends an aura of legitimacy to the far right and for all

that reason it has absolutely provoked an outcry in this country so despite all the c.d.u. into ringette is resisting pressure from enough leadership to fix this so what does that tell us about the authority of the party leader and about come on the deed of the german chancellor. certainly under great crime cowan powers authority is looking very tattered indeed and to some degree so the chancellor's krakauer in power apparently talked to the head of the local conservative party before this maneuver took place and strongly warned against it he did not heed that warning then on wednesday after this voting maneuver had taken place she said that it was absolutely out of bounds and that the new election should be held in the state of cheering and he is resisting that essentially saying no we don't want new elections and for a pretty clear reason very afraid that the party his own party the conservatives

would do worse to new elections and that the far right would gain however it's all about tactics and it's not about principles and therefore crime cowman powers authority in trying to reinforce those principles is looking quite weak at the moment linda this is all going on us the chance of a arrives in angola she is there in south africa for trade talks with president joe biden so it's a 2nd day of a 3 day tour of the region which began in south africa meetings likely to focus on improving the political and economic relations between germany and go on chancellor merkel's also expected to show her support for lorenzo's a fight against corruption and his attempts to boost the economy so melinda crying how much has the chance of been dealing with this domestic control busy while she's away. well it clearly is on her mind and she's had some quite strong words to say about it she said that that voting maneuver on wednesday in which her own

conservatives the local branch there in 3 india in which they voted side by side with the far right party the a.f.d. that it was inexcusable that it was a bad day for democracy and for the values and convictions of her party that said the fact is the chancellor is very good at multitasking and she's had plenty of attention to focus on the topics at hand in africa including as you mentioned the africa the angolan government's fight against corruption and its reform course there is currently an investigation going on into the daughter of the former president of angola her name isabelle dos santos she's been accused of laundering millions of dollars that essentially belong to the state and it seems that western firms were quite closely involved in that laundering process so the chancellor said that germany would absolutely be supportive and the effort to provide transparency on what occurred there going forward and in general had very complimentary things

to say about lorenzo's reform course thank you for the chief political correspondent in the crowd let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world australia's east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall for nearly 20 years the downpours helped push out some of the country's devastating bush was a relief for farmers battling a prolonged drought the rains also caused flooding in the risk of landslides. i mean i did say the democratic party has declared that pete budget's the winner of iowa's caucuses on monday's contest was the 1st choose the democratic candidate to run against president a trump a november's election a vote was hit by technical problems until a. narrowly defeated senator bernie sanders. thousands of orthodox serbs have gathered in cities across montenegro to protest against

a new religious nor the new law requires the orthodox church to register all of its assets that it believes could lead to the seizure of property demonstrations have grown since the law was passed only at the end of december. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak is now more than 600 so far nearly all of the deaths of occurred in mainland china this by the virus is rapid spread to many experts a call of a camp there warning 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 cough thing 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 $3.00 to $5000000.00 cases of severe illness caused by influenza globally and flu viruses kill 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 count kept by the centers for disease control in the us 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 and 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 it 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 the virus but haven't been tested because their symptoms have been mild the 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 corona virus 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 derreck that's served it's very solitary that report that more people die of flu every year than from me taia coronas coronavirus epidemic so far so every day every hour 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 the 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 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 or 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 and as you 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 number at this particular moment because in china they're they're dealing with this health crisis right there over run by thousands of people who are pretty severely ill 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 is mortality rate this idea that's killing 2 in 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. that would have been 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 this this all 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

cooler 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 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. the president of france has called 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 emmanuel macross set out a defense strategy in which france is the only post president nuclear power he offered a strategic dialogue with european partners about the role of french nuclear deterrence policy and european continental security he also called for a surge in european defense spending. most europeans must now collectively realize that in the absence of a legal framework they could quickly find themselves exposed to

a new conventional or nuclear arms race on their own soil. they cannot confine themselves to the role of spectators it is unacceptable for europe to return to being the theater of confrontation between external nuclear powers it's going to marina strauss has been following a president or speech there in paris welcome marina so what does the president wanting european countries to do. actually have president to tell you sir that the world has dramatically changed with the last couple of years and we're seeing a crisis of mozzie lateralus and for example 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 who are largely 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 are 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 instant you have such a dire use that transatlantic ties are still very important that the relationship with nato is still important vassie also like on the other hand he said no matter what because rely on the us for ever we can maybe rely on major forever we 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 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 use status a bargaining chip within the e.u. when it comes to budget talks and she will clearly make that we will come a clear that's francis ready to take a look at their present also have 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 or nuclear ones that he warns he wants europe to to work more and the us assess your passage through more and additional fealty once europe should become more independent from from china and from america and she really wants europe to do to do their own projects there and yes to become more independent or less dependent on other nations through the stress paris thank

you. no more of the day's other news a swedish climate activist gretta told burke has been taking part in a school strike in lapland she joined teenagers from the indigenous sami people she's on a visit to the region to find out how climate change is affecting the arctic the visit came as un experts on the other side of the world to record a record temperatures in antarctica. 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 over the spread of the coronavirus from neighboring china organizers distributed hand sanitizer and face masks only a few couples will. not renew exhibition here in germany called linda mccartney the sixty's and more a little mccartney have easy access to the beatles to because she was married to

one of them but she was already photographer photographing the rock scene long before she married paul mccartney 969 now a retrospective of our work has opened in western germany's rua region. yesterday. for millions of grieving teenage girls she was the american blonde who snatched up the coupons in the vehicle that was in 1989 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. was and that was her entry into the pocket is it seen 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 landscape townsend seems like

a shy schoolboy. there was guitar god jimi hendrix. played. jim morrison lost in music they let the blues icon janis joplin captured in all her intensity without mom. 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 their old works of the lord was a truly upset basins of the other day and of seeing the moments in every way she walked off stood 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. after her mother's death in an airplane crash. linda mccartney afforded to air travel one possible. solution did a lot of photographing while traveling by car she took her camera with her everywhere and documented private as well as the world outside. the 1970 s. she's taking photos professionally and only documents of her personal life and that's a beauty because she was uniquely able to get the musical legends of the 1960 s. to show unexpected sides of the sound. for we'll start with a football have to ballin defend jordan tour and i have to ruin a rega has filed

a criminal complaint a claim that he was racially abused by fans during the midweek cup match the german 22 year old who's of nigerian heritage says he was abused during tuesday's german cup much of shelter which the hosts won 3 to half the time the place the german football federation i'm shaka are investigating to run a regular says he filed a complaint in order to make a statement against racism. a paying his legal costs. for south sudanese athletes hoping to make an impact of this summer's tokyo olympics are already in japan a training the city of may basheer has been hosting a lympics athletics training camp for the east african nation for nearly a year now without any training facilities in their own country because of a civil war one south sudanese athlete abraham jock has made himself at home and chapin and he hopes success of the games could help unify his homeland. you'd have

to look very hard to find training facilities like this in south sudan because they just don't exist long distance runner abraham a jock is among a handful of athletes who accepted the invitation to train for the summer games in my pain but initially there were reservations about how he and other sudanese athletes would be treated but after living in training there for months he's grown fond of the japanese. since we came here we have seen a lot of love and we have discovered and the bunnies are not like other people because when we came here we didn't expect that much love me personally i was given was what i know because sometimes you get when you know work well for in country. and sometimes you may have telling it so i was worried of what telling this i would be having but when it came to love the dependence before how it's really more than the no more. of course wants to bring in olympic medal back to south sudan but he

has another goal that he hopes could have a positive impact on his homeland and when i get back the message i will have is the importance of peace and that's the biggest message of the same to my people sell sudan competed in the 2016 olympics but didn't win any medals success this time around would be a win win not only for south sudan but also for japan. and the italian town of reality has paid tribute to the late american basketball star kobe bryant who died 2 weeks ago he was bryant's childhood home in the mid 1980 s. and where he played basketball when he was younger fans filled the sports hall in the central italian town and celebrates her head on the championship game both teams will be bribed to shirts with his jersey numbers to honor his legacy under the times these lakers stars josie was hoisted to the rafters alongside other to

bask. blanchard's the matter of the town also wants to name a street after. so here's a reminder about top stories at best our german politics has been not shaken over a far scotland the eastern states of truth into the chancellor on the knuckles conservatives have been holding crisis talks over their collaboration with extremists. the doctor who 1st told us the world of the coronavirus to succumb to the disease the death of a lethal weapon now and has provoked a wave of online mourning and on the towards the chinese government over its treatment of the doctor who some say they hear. this is d w news coming up next on news asia street protest in delhi brought it on t.v. national in newsroom talked it becomes a central issue in a local election. to meet the kabul snowboarders coasting down for the battlefields in the thick of winter. is indeed only right muzaffar asia and just tough

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