this is state of the news live from berlin a time soldier goes on a shooting rampage to place say at least 10 people are dead and several more wounded opted to open fire at a shopping center and dropped the attacker is reported to be still at large to go live to thailand also coming up. germany's latest scramble to contain a political scandal involving the far right the country's ruling conservatives are holding crisis talks with a junior coalition tolerance but in today that's up to the parties regional leaders shop it decades old the food supply teaming up with right wing extremists to elect

a state laid out. and hong kong takes fresh action to stem the spread across the virus as the disease claims more lives the territories play to an ounce as a mandatory foreign taint to anyone to arriving from mainland china and. i'm rebecca rich's welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from thailand where at least 10 people are reported to have been killed in a mass shooting police say a soldier opened fire in the city of koran northeast of bangkok it's thought to be a he took a gun from his military base and opened fire this unfair a fide twitter video shows people on the streets playing to safety as multiple shots rang out police have identified a suspect who allegedly posted on facebook they're all. same's of how making

a popular nearby shopping mall where the shooter is thought to still be holed up. well let's go to thailand with foreign correspondent is standing by for us florian ongoing event but what do we know about the situation well the information that we get is still quite sketchy as you said it's still going on what seems to be confirmed by local media at least is that a 32 year old soldier killed his commanding officer and his wife then raided the battalion amerie apps his military base he stole a humvee whens into this city to a big shopping mall. sired a few shots in the air killed some people apparently outside the mall then went into the mall killed more people in there and again this is unconfirmed but

apparently he took some hostages there are different numbers swirling around some people say it's 10 hostages but i've also seen the number of 16 so he is holed up in this shopping mall we hear that a tactical team of policemen from bangkok out been airlifted to cool rocks which is a city about 250 kilometers northeast of bangkok. so we still have to wait and see how the situation unfolds as we just mentioned the gunman's been posting about this attack on facebook what more can you tell us about that. as far as i know his face book profile has been deactivated about a good hour a goal that was out after a lot of people sort of criticize facebook and said sleaze please shut this profile

down and do not give this man even multiplicity so as far as i know his facebook profile is down. he had been toasting pictures all his front page. for quite some time and apparently he was also using this profile as a kind of 2 ways communication at some point he was actually posing the question should i stop so we don't really know what's his motifs on but it looks like he really wanted to create a lot of attention by his actions in doing and how common are incidences like this in thailand. well thailand has one of the highest numbers of weapons in the world but at the same time those kind of incidents so smash shootings on not very common. we haven't seen anything of that dimension in

many many years there is a surgeon see trouble in the deep south in the 3 southernmost provinces in thailand where the house and the taxable people have been shot but this is quite an isolated area and the motifs there are quite clear it is as i said an insurgent movement but these kind of you know indiscriminate shooting rampages that someone goes on to we haven't seen in thailand in a long time it is not very common. ok have any correspondence floor and mission bangkok thank you. us maybe a says an american man has died of a new coronavirus the us citizen died in a hospital in the chinese city of woo hanway the outbreak began it's the 1st known khurana related death of a non chinese person in china and here in europe the french authorities say 5 pritish tourists have been diagnosed with the virus the group includes

a 9 year old child back in mainland china the death toll continues to climb will the 700 people there have died and over 34004 nil and those they've been in distrust of how beijing has handled the outbreak robots brought in to assist the fight against corona virus it means less patient to patient infection reducing the risk to medical staff chris china many mourn the death of whistle blow a national hero dr levy when liang who 1st spotted the virus that eventually killed him. people in china are also angry criticizing the government for delays cover ups and chaos in neighboring hong kong a new government measure anyone arriving from mainland china must self quarantine and even be made to wear a tracking bracelet overwhelmed medical staff want the border to be close escalating already high tension between hong kong and china. people there and

across asia panicking stocking up on medical and food supplies around the world there's now a shortage of protective equipment factories are struggling to meet the demand. and in monday's high. practices like. in order to sell the. prices. and that's why we asked for. people to really understand what fighting an outbreak like. in japan more than 60 people on board a cruise ship have tested positive for corona virus and have been taken ashore. not getting anything really from the outside except what we see on facebook in the social media and that's not always to be believed so there is some positive news

the world health organization says they've been fewer reported infections in china in the last 48 hour as little comfort to the families of those who died or the 10s of thousands of people now living under quarantine. turning now to some of the other stories making news around the world people in india's capital delhi of voting in local elections it's the 1st poll test since the national government passed qana controversial citizenship law by minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party is hoping to wrestle control of delhi from the opposition the city's chief executive has campaigned for re-election on his record of improving public services. the trumpet ministration has top white house ukraine specialist lieutenant colonel alexander even months than men had provided damaging testimony about president trump during the race an impeachment process media reports a trumps also recalling the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon some talent who also testified against the president were playing. irish

voters are going to the polls today to choose a new government opinion surveys indicate they are likely to dump prime minister lee over ad whose. party has been in office for 9 years the left wing nationalist chine fang led by mary lou mcdonald is expected to perform strongly. what could a political scandal in a small extent german region turn into a full blown crisis for chancellor angela merkel's fred federal coalition government leaders of the 3 coalition parties are meeting in berlin to deal with the fallout from wednesday's events in 30 make his from merkel's c.d.u. party sided with the far right alternative for germany to elect a new state premier of the regional government chattering a german post-war political to boo about cooperating with far right parties the political maneuver has found widespread national outrage and hundreds of protesters gathered outside today's meeting. political

correspondent kate brady joins me now from outside the german chancery where those talks are taking place what are the objective of today's crisis talks in berlin. well the main objective will be to find some clarity and then to find a consensus on how to move forward after this week's debacle the speedy the social democrats are putting an awful lot of pressure on the conservative c.d.u. during these meetings they want some answers to know whether the conservative c.d.u. in thuringia did indeed know about the possible cooperation with the far right f.t. before that controversial appointment in a 3rd ring g.s.a. they'll be a lot of pressure coming from them today while the c.d.u. will desperately be trying to save face chancellor angela merkel has criticised the events in her in jail calling them a grave mistake she's just returned from an official visit to africa is she going

to be able to sort out this crisis well they certainly seem so far that she's taking quite an active role in dealing with this crisis earlier today we heard that she's now fired her commissioner for eastern germany christiane how to after he seemingly rather prematurely celebrated that controversial appointment in the ranger which of course was brought about through the cooperation of the conservative c.d.u. with the far right a.f.d. so it certainly seems that she will be taking a rather active role in dealing with this crisis and. the current leader of the city you tried and failed to get the regional branch of her party to a great a fresh elections in for india what does that say about her ladyship. well it certainly brings into question her leadership and not for the 1st time in recent months since she was appointed as a conservative party leader she's come up against several issues whether it's

through gags that she's made herself or rather problems with party personnel and of course it will have also been another blow to her over the last few days that engler merkel as i mentioned him has taken on a rather active role in dealing with this crisis in recent months since merkel stood down and pass the leadership baton on to a k.-k. and she is known here merkel has been dealing much more in international with international politics and foreign policy so it's very interesting that it specifically this issue that she's decided to really take the bull by the horns and already as i mentioned taken some action so this could certainly spell trouble for a.k.k. especially when it comes to the election which is plan right now for next year the 2021 federal elections here in germany when she will be hoping at least to be running as the conservative candidate to take on the role as chancellor we just

touching on that how will this political crisis affect the government on a national level sorry could you repeat that rebecca how do you think that this crisis will affect the german government on a national level. well he said he seems at the moment that it's quite safe the s.p.d. the social democrats have said indeed that they will be happy to continue working with the c.d.u. at a national level in the so-called grahams coalition but of course if you look at the rest of germany and look at the voters right now it's really interesting to see how this has been accepted over the condemned that local political level we've seen a lot of votes is mobilized going out in the streets even earlier today there were a number of demonstrators condemning that cooperation between the conservatives and the far right and of course at the end of the day it's a brew has been broken here in germany we've seen now cooperation with or rather

between the sensor grounds of germany's political parties with the far right for the 1st time since the 2nd world war and regardless of how this debacle is now sources out that is something that cannot be undone came brainy reporting for us from those causes talks in central berlin thank you. and this reminder of the top story we're following for you at least 10 people have been killed and several more wounded in a mass shooting in thailand the shooter a soldier opened fire on people at a shopping center in the city of caracas. you are watching day w. news live from for lin coming up j w reporter which this week takes us to nepal and the doctor who is helping the blind with a new method for treating cataracts and if you get you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that stayed up with me dot com i'll be back with more news and more news about breaking story coming in at the top of

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