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virus outbreak it tops out at 600 medical experts warned of the danger from flu is just as serious. welcome to the program. the leaders of chancellor merkel's the conservative c.d.u. party have been holding crisis talks over political scandal involving the far right a f t m president did move the c.d.u. a bit after he supported the election of a new liberal premier in the eastern state of to reject any form of coordination with the far right has long been viewed as politically to boo in germany the development has been condemned by political leaders across the country and the state's new premier thomas carriage said that he will stand down but not immediately. seaview party leader on a credit card on ballot has 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 i have to put it in order for the c.d.u. germany and for the c.d.u. to keep the principle still stands that there is no cooperation with the f.t. either directly or indirectly for india to do or keep this cd you would not vote for a candidate of the f.t. or the left party in addition the c.d.u. would not vote for any candidate that is dependent on the votes of the f.t. . let's take a closer look at the story with the dublin chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome belinda so we have a state premier who is a member of the f.t.p. he was elected because of votes from his own party the c.d.u. in the far right a half day everywhere else this sort of cross party support to be held is 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 is 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 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 there he afraid that the party his own party the conservatives would do worse than 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 our us authority in trying to reinforce those principles is looking quite weak at the moment melinda this is all going on as a chance of a arrives in angola she's there in southern africa for trade talks with president joe lauren so it's a 2nd day of a 3 day tour of the region which began in south africa their meetings likely to focus on improving the political and economic relations between germany ancona chancellor merkel is also expected to show her support for lorenzo's our fight against corruption and his attempts to boost the economy so melinda cry how much has the chance of been dealing with this domestic control mostly 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 that 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 is about 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 in any 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 we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world french president emanuel mccraw he's calling for a more coordinated european defense strategy in a wide ranging speech he said he's country's nuclear strategy front should be in a position of leadership and opposed to bret's its european defense system britain's exit from the e.u. leaves from sas the blocks over the nuclear. australia's east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall for nearly 20 years the downpour has helped put out some of the country's devastating bushfires and of course relief for farmers battling a prolonged drought but the rain has also caused flooding and the risk of landslides the death toll from the corona virus outbreaks now more than $600.00

so far nearly all of the deaths have occurred in one month china despite their raw viruses rapid spread many experts are calling for calm that 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 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 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 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 from me taia 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 or the elderly or children but and there are 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 they're overrun 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 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 impasse. that would have been this much problem what's probably a much larger group of people ok i think those figures are important too and they have a 100 and likely to go down so let's just keep 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 the 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 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 if 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 than. 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 how is. yeah on a derek winching data science thank you. but it was old and is up next with that business news africa finding out what chancellor merkel is doing in go up i'll be back at the top of the hour of course in the meantime as always website they don't . have good. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see as the kids find strength. might. work for. you know the books on you to. grappling with subjects.

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