and paid for the descendants. of the soma. to george the 3rd drug stores for if you were returned on t.w. . this is data blue news live from berlin the battle to contain the corona virus both already is in china say the death toll has now passed the 800 mark meaning the virus has claimed more lives than the sars outbreak 2 decades ago to get the latest from an expert also coming up. police in thailand shoot dead a soldier who killed at least 26 people in a gun rampage that ended in

a crowded shopping mall. and in his latest stucco one of dortmund's new signings is on target against leverkusen we find out who came out on top in 7 gold thriller. oh. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program or thirty's in china say the death toll from the corona virus has now passed the 800 mark that means the disease has now killed more people than the deadly sars outbreak nearly 2 decades ago almost all the reported deaths and most of the new infections are in the chinese province of hugh by where the corona virus was 1st discovered globally there are now some 37500 confirmed cases of the virus china says there have been a few a new infections than in previous days but overall the virus continues to spread.

on monday millions of chinese are expected to return to work after the extended lunar new year break is over nevertheless china is still far from back to normal. less is the extent to which china is trying to get a grip on this outbreak medical officials forcibly remove a family from their home. it is believed they had just retired from wu han and had refused to self quarantine a 3rd man is determined not to go without a struggle. in the end it takes 4 adults to dry kemo. at the world health organization the spread of the disease isn't their only struggle. with not just buckley's a virus we're also battling the trolls and conspired as conspiracy theorists that

push misinformation and undermine the outbreak response with more than $800.00 fatalities the corona virus has killed more people than sars but the real number could be higher whistleblowers have reported doctors not diagnosing cases and disposing of bodies meanwhile rescue flights continue 30 filipinos were flown out of we have grown 0 of this virus and landed back in the philippines on sunday. more than 20 countries are no affected with almost 40000 cases among them a family of 5 living in the french alps were infected after coming into contact with a man who'd been in singapore here my daughter was in the same class as the boy us contract of the corona virus and what we really can dam as parents is that we haven't received any information either from the school or from the city hall and what we should do now. live. to local schools will be shut for the

next week authorities here are finding that like the virus and misinformation concern spread quickly to. the doctor stereo cause is a molecular biologist from northumbria university in newcastle in the u.k. and he joins me now sara hi more people have now died from the corona virus than from the deadly sars outbreak nearly 20 years ago is that of course cause for new worries. no it's not quite simply because the number of cases that we have a corona virus by far outstrips the number of cases overall but we have 4 shots so the relative danger of the virus is much smaller i think what we need their attention is the requirement for people to be x. homework letter formation of the you to virus areas almost exclusively affect in china right now the us $100.00 full of cases around the world that is in it so of

course attention i'm concerned for public health authorities and governments is not up moment something the people who take daily life should be concerned about you just raised the point about a family whose child was in the same school as the one affected the out thought is that ok an example of what information was to become very quickly and efficiently to inform these individuals if there are symptoms of flu the house being a potential worst of exposure to somebody who's being in the your territories as i'm venue to stay home and notify the local health authorities and there's a simple assault so not a cause for mass panic yet but infection rate is still high but china saying there's been a slowdown in the numbers of people contracting the virus now i have we reached the outbreaks peak. you know what we are saying is that the number of people

getting infected is remaining thoroughly consistent it's it's not accelerating. one house to us you know we all are going to hate our presence or will help until the next few days our state people return to work in china economy us and we'll continue moving on the agreeable risk is that we haven't received the number of severe cases so sir quite relatively high and those cases place a substantial burden on health care providers. even in the west that we have those kind of numbers we would be struggling to keep up with the cases so that's the concern where it stands the next concern is the i came over to radical so close to the chinese there's a there's a lot of people out here where he newcastle of sick people where you must you don't need to worry must unless you you yourself are experiencing flu symptoms and this is not my opinion this is what the w.h.o. recommends people are going to wear holding mask this is not what we need to be

doing because it's not an offer us any protection from get x. in the virus we need to be making the resources available to china and other countries who are under resourced compared to china so that if the situation gets worse they have the necessary supplies to cope with it. must cost many thanks for that update and very welcome. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world voters in switzerland will decide in a referendum today whether to criminalize homophobic comments made in public critics say the law would limit free speech so switzerland is one of the few countries in europe that until now has had no specific legal protections for the l.g. 80 community. irish officials have started tallying votes in islands general election exit poll polls point to a tie between the 3 largest parties incumbent prime minister override his party is neck and neck with left wing nationalists shin fein and center right fianna foil

frustration with years of budget austerity and a housing crisis are among the main issues for voters. a major storm is bearing down on northern europe ireland and britain face driving rain and winds of up to 130 kilometers per hour germany is also getting prepared for the storm's arrival expected to be one of the worst in recent years. and now to thailand where security forces have killed a soldier who shot dead at least 26 people most of them at a shopping mall police said earlier stormed the center and now a shop has to escape as they launched a manhunt to find the gunman more than 40 people were also wounded in saturday's attack which took place in khorat northeast of bangkok. running for their lives terrified shoppers freed by security forces after receipts that lasted more than 16 hours. friends and relatives of those trapped inside prayed for

good news but as the death toll climbed some were losing hope. for a long. time looking for my friend who was hiding among 10 other people in the room you want to have been on i think it's the one where the gunmen and officers exchanged fire on a man and the woman died in the room which i'm worried that my friend as the man would rather be on board. people in the neighborhood are traumatized by the ordeal . but i'm shocked. mchugh i never thought something like this could happen. but i live very close to the mall and i heard everything like i was still in shock that the. tire officials have identified the killer as sergeant pepper pan tama the sharpshooter reportedly killed his commander and 2 others at his military base before opening fire at the shopping center the prime minister revealed the killers likely motive while

visiting the wounded in hospital. but there. were investigations have found that the gunman had a passion all disputes over land with his senior officer and the officers mother in law they argued for 3 days nobody expected it to turn violent. the prime minister of former army chief himself admitted that mental health is an issue in the military one they will be looking at in their investigation. but for now people here are mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. foreign issues in bangkok he described how officials there had been responding to the rampage. incidents like this are definitely not common at all here in thailand and the prime minister who gave

a short press briefing earlier today and funded one of the hospitals in karate actually said that this situation is completely unprecedented he said has never happened before here in thailand and hopefully this was the 1st and the last time something like this happens now with the fact that this is very uncommon one might infer that authorities especially the police were also quite taken by surprise that's something like this is happening and now the question lingers to what extent the police was actually. fully you know prepared for something like this and the fact that this whole ordeal went on. for almost 616 hours. might be due to the fact that the police you know had to actually learn about this kind of situation as they went along. database foreign news faking

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just a reminder of that top story we're following for you all sorry he's in china say the death toll from the corona virus has now passed the 100 mark that means the disease has now killed more people than the deadly sars outbreak nearly 2 decades ago. you know watching the news from the n.t. up next world stories mates activists who setting out to use clothes clothing exchanges to help save the climate i'll be back with more at the top of the hour thanks. in the art of clearing that. up for. what's in store. for the future. to make your city. in such a clear picture. is

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