i am. i am. this is the dowdy news live from violating a german politics a shaken over a scandal involving the far right conservative and liberal parties on the huge pressure after breaking a decades long to brew against working with far right politics. meanwhile chancellor angela merkel keeps an eye on developments unfolding at home as she visits and go there so for jack can all make talks. and growing outrage over the death of a doctor whose 1st sounded the alarm on the coronavirus and was threatened by

police chinese also refused to launch an investigation. to. financing the national nigeria's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry thousands of young people dream of stardom only a lucky few will ever get that elusive victory to the be. on have a home free glad you could join me a scoundrel higher the role of the far right in a german regional election has plunged as chancellor angela merkel's conservative party into crisis now some regional conservatives saw it with the populist alternative for germany to install a liberal premier in the eastern state of thuringia now the move shattered a post-war consensus among mainstream parties to shun extremist politics.

it's rare that a regional head of chancellor merkel's conservative party comes under this kind of scrutiny but mike morgan was surrounded by news teams after the scandal in his home state of the ranger forced the question of how to deal with far right populist onto the national agenda the party chief had a clear answer that it's in order. that it is for the party in the ranger and across germany there will be no direct all in direct cooperation with the f.d.a. in the form of items when there is no voting for a candidate the relies on support from the a.f.p. . but that's just what happened in 3 state parliament this week a candidate from a party with a few seats the free democrats was elected premier and only with support from chancellor merkel's party and the far right this kind of collaboration sets a post-war president the outcry across the country was immediate. chancellor

merkel on a state visit to southern africa weighed in to say the move was an unforgivable mistake she's calling for new elections and syringe. but merkel's been getting pushback so the party chief come kavin bower headed straight to the eastern state herself to deal with the rift between official party principles and syringes christian democrats the crisis talks went on until late into the night. and continued to party headquarters the next morning the party chief acknowledged that her counterparts in from india acted against her will. to do in tubingen another mistake and we made this very clear was that the c.d.u. in the n.g.'s applauded his conduct against key a recommendation although it should have been obvious to everyone that it was an opportunity to be a de supply them and if you go to games. at least the party's top tier members are

in full agreement with their boss no cooperation with the far right period. now tracking this story closely for us as ever is our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda ultimately this was a democratic election of a state premier with cross party support anywhere else this would have been hailed as a victory for consensus politics but you know here why because most other countries don't have germany's history they don't have germany's record in the 20th century of nazis bringing catastrophe onto europe and the world so this is a country that is particularly sensitive about anything that can be perceived to be seen as cooperation or coordination with the far right now in this case the coordination was in direct and yet we heard the c.d.u. party leader saying very clearly that indirect cooperation is still

a taboo now in this particular case in this state the far right party the a.f.p. is a particularly rabid one it is under surveillance by german security services for possibly being a threat to democracy so the taboo is real the red lines are real but they were defied by the local conservatives despite clear orders from berlin. all right i think we have some reaction from the general public actually about what they made of this move let's take a listen to that and then i want to come back to you then and. i think it's good that there was such an outcry this move was just not accepted but it's good things didn't break out into chaos. because after our best to be honest i don't think having fresh elections is the best solution. i think it would be best to have a premier from one of the bigger parties put through

a fence i think it's terrible that has such frightening tendencies so i myself am from through in jan before and i was born there and the situation is terrible or so of course a mixed reaction there from the public and to differing views from politicians now we've already seen the free democrats will back on this but not the c.d.u. so far i mean why is that is the leader of the nikkei to come having a hard time asserting her authority over her own policy. absolutely her authority looks to be in tatters at the moment on wednesday when this election maneuver occurred she and the party general secretary said very clearly we need to have new elections this is unacceptable and a taboo has been broken as we heard and yet her local party leadership continues to defy those those orders essentially the local party leader mike moore and

a very ambitious man clearly concerned that in a new election the c.d.u. could possibly lose more votes maybe even seeing them migrate to the far right and therefore are determined to block new elections at any cost but the consequences are very real for the party leadership here in berlin and with people also in the governing coalition in the junior coalition partner the social democrats questioning whether the c.d.u. leadership is in a position to control members of its own party and you know going into old the wild this story is gone during international attention so how is germany being lead a brute and i say this. well it clearly is making headlines as you say and the fact is that i think people everywhere are very sensitive to the idea of a resurgence of the right wing in germany and by the way when you go back to those

to those sound bites that we heard from people on the street here in berlin those are very much you points of people here in berlin but if you took a random sampling in some eastern cities you might hear something quite different there is a real threat of a resurgent right wing in the eastern part of this country and i think that's something that has been well reported in international media it is a source of concern as you can see from the reaction here in berlin certainly a credible warning indeed chief political correspondent linda craig good to talk to you thank you. well as i mentioned the crisis came to a head while i'm going to michael was out of the country on a 3 day visit to southern africa correspondent is in and go to the 2nd stop on merkel's trip and he told us that the political situation in germany is very much on the chancellor's mind. the developments in germany are following the german

chancellor all the way here to angola we understand from her delegation that she is very much in contact with the leadership of her political party and she is trying to work on a solution as well but she did not want to talk about it she of the journalists tried to ask her questions during a press conference she refused to address the issues in germany and said this will be happening tomorrow instead she tried to divert the attention to the real reasons why she came here she wants to attend to fire the cooperation between our goal and germany especially because the current government of drought tolerance of it has been in power for 2 years now it's been trying to push forward a course of reform going against the trend of massive corruption that the country has seen here go then so it's trying to go after the very people who used to be in his own party and stole money from the country and so was asked in a press conference if you would like to have more international support and freezing assets off people like isabel do sometimes the daughter of the from a former president but he said yes he would appreciate that but he would even

appreciate it more if the international world would help bring these assets back to angola. the w.'s as their reporting from the one day let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world and united states the democratic party has declared people to judge the window of i was corpuses monday's contest was the 1st to choose the democratic candidate to run against president donald trump knew that this election that this judge came made just 0 point one percent ahead offset us about the sound this and so both were awarded the same number of delegates. irish politicians have wrapped up their final day off campaigning ahead of saturday's general election polls predict a tight race between prime minister the of right case scenario gale party and the center right in a foil and for the 1st time now the left wing nationalist party led by mary don't. there's offering policies to tackle audience housing and health care crises.

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 have brought relief almos battling a prolonged drought but the rain has also caused flooding under risk of landslides . swedish climate activists going to turn bird has been taking part in a school strike in lapland joining teenagers from the indigenous sami people she's on a visit to the region to find out more about how climate change is affecting the arctic it comes as un experts on the other side of the world measured requit temperatures in antarctica. south korea's unification church has held a most 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 but only a few couples order. well the death toll from the corona virus outbreak is now more than 600 people and so far nearly all of the deaths have occurred in mainland china now despite the viruses rapid spread many experts according to com they warn 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 count 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. with ortiz in china has its own show investigation into the death of the doctor who 1st sounded the alarm about the corona virus and when yang would tell him medics about the virus and that was then threatened by police and reprimanded for spreading rumors and then tragically he became infected himself and he is winning and is covering that story for us from the chinese capital he was an off time ologist in hospital in water on the one central hospital in the end of december he noticed. there was several cases. that he has seen who had a severe pneumonia and he alerted fellow doctors in

a chat group about it. there were 87 other doctors who posted similar stories all of them were simone by the police and were threatened and silenced 3 weeks later the outbreak howard. 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 entire 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 correspondent has been here there reporting from beijing you're watching the news still ahead. thanks sarah to the. dreaming in stone and in nigeria is a top dollar entertainment industry veteran you are lucky you will get the big tell . where you were in the 1st french president of the new and mccall is calling

on europe to do more to boost its own defense capability back home once european countries to work more closely together and is offering allies the chance to partner with france and its nuclear deterrence program now speaking at the military academy in paris and french media also argued that europe should become less dependent on the united states when it comes to defense. since taking office mccaughan has positioned himself as the driving force for a more coordinated defense strategy within the european union but this keynote speech was delivered to a domestic audience at the paris military academy. opinions need to be clear that they could be confronted with a conventional threat or even a nuclear threat. but they can't just take on a bystander role to speak that the crown says france's national interests have taken on a european dimension especially after the u.k.'s departure from the e.u.

france is now the only nuclear power within the black american believes those capabilities should benefit the e.u. this would cause to develop and yellow just i would like a strategic dialogue with willing european partners about the role of france's nuclear deterrence and our collective security. on nuclear security quality fronts maintains the world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal meaning it's the only e.u. country that doesn't rely on the us sports nuclear deterrent. micron's ruled out placing french nuclear weapons under you or nato command. is offering e.u. partners the opportunity to participate in french nuclear deterrence trails. now since nigerian artists like wizkid berner boy climbed to stardom an international fame a trend has been developing in nigeria young people are turning to the entertainment industry to try their luck to many sounds like easy money as unemployment is high

especially among young people on course one of many such all looks into a multi-billion dollar business. one set of money flashy cars fame if you don't have it in for it at least that's a common theme in the g.o.p. in pop culture. all fred was a student of sociology but with them prospects they are he turned to directing music videos in this country. for graduates jobless parents i found out in no time believe for me to get that create a solution for my so he's not yet a whole sold name so he cannot charge his clients big bucks to sell my product. strips work because you can and i think that's where i'm like you sometimes i run up a lot you know stand just to prove

a point. i know how to do this i can make you happy and. this is what i'm doing every new project is a chance to unearth the next big thing he hopes. today it's. a singer the set up improvised low budget pro goals. i have a lot of things to offer i'm a singer let's not very common here maybe it's when people see you here. and here to make a joke you know is the signature in the industry internationally but here at attainment is a $1000000000.00 business in nigeria and it's growing fast you want more to emerge every day but not everyone has the talent to break into this business whether or not to try to talent into tap.

i need to sing this cover song a dozen of times today for a video designed for you tube all fred is directing for free win win situation for both if the final product becomes a success but will it. i'm about to meet a big name in the nigerian entertainment industry. extras and trippin or. she believes understanding the business is key to success. here she wants to set up a school to groom future stars. this is going to be a very big open space as you noted syrian people who are very multi task. like the biggest problem she says a lot of young people start off with unrealistic expectations. but you don't get a job where is the easiest place you want to do to the retirement industry ok because this is an unskilled kind of labor you know and is very glamorous looks like it's good easy money but it's not out of

a 100 people say for example the commissary industry say monthly maybe just to make it with a school or motel or wants to quit aspiring artists with the tools they need to thrive in showbiz it's a lot because it is business i just want to act as like a model i would want to be a thing i like maybe a wee skewed or something in the senate or so many other koreas you know in a cement industry you could be an agency could be a little wired is you could be a cost to. person. it's early days for alfred and many have done it this way and made it to stardom and that's what keeps others dreaming. south sudanese athletes hoping to make an impact of this summer's tokyo olympics are already in japan training now the city of my dashi has been hosting an athletics training camp for the east african nation for nearly

a year now with hardly any training facilities in their own country one south sudanese athlete abraham magic has made himself at home in japan and magic hope success at 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 japan 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 on the web discovered and the bunnies are not like other people because when we came you know we didn't expect that much love me personally i was given was what i know because sometimes you get when you know go to

a foreign country you know sometimes you may have telling this so i was awarded of what challenges i would have been but when it came me i got to tell you the love the dependence before how it's really more than the normal one. 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 by the message is the importance of peace and that's the biggest mistake job 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. when football has to bellina defend jordan its arena rega has filed a criminal complaint claiming that he was racially abused by fans during a midweek cup match now the german 22 year old of nigerian heritage says that he

was abused here and she stays chairman caught much shellcode which the hosts won $32.00 in extra time now the police the jealous that will federation and shout investigating through a request filed the complaint it seems. make a statement against racism with had to bear in paying his legal costs. italian town of reality has paid tribute to the late american basketball star kobe bryant who died 2 weeks ago reality was his childhood home in the mid 1980 s. away he played basketball when he was younger fans filled a sports who in the central italian town and celebrated him ahead of a local championship game both teams will kobe bryant shirts bearing his jersey numbers to honor his legacy and the los angeles lakers star's jersey was hoisted to the rafters alongside other reality basketball public and the town's mayor says he also wants to name a street after bryant. this is d.w.

news these are all top stories leaders 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 anika date cunt kava bauer said never again must the party cooperate even indirectly with the far right a f d ok me after a state premier in eastern germany was elected with the help of the c.d.u. and a.f.p. votes. and dr who was reprimanded by chinese authorities for spreading rumors about the coronavirus before it was officially recognised has died of the infection now china has now reported more than 600 deaths and over 30000 cases of the coronavirus. australia's fire ravaged east coast has welcomed its heaviest rainfall in nearly 20 years the downpour has helped adele some of the countries to devastating bushfires. but the raid has also caused flooding on the

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