just to. be dark the bright star tribune returned on. land. cut. above. this is the w. news live from but in the central europe braces for a major winter storm the extreme weather has already planted britain and ireland causing slotting in transport chaos where the services are warning people to stay inside if they can't force their coming up vigils all held in thailand as the country mourns those killed in a gun rampage that ended in a crowded shopping center. on the battle to contain the corona virus authorities in

china say the death toll has now caused the same tongue to claiming more lives than the dead we saw most outbreak nearly 2 decades ago and we'll hear from an expert. on have an alum free glad you could join me a major winter storm is bearing down on germany and other parts of central europe often already battering the british isles on the western parts of the continent now germany's entire long distance rail network is down and weather experts have issued a warning across the region telling people to stay inside if they can. a blustery day at the beach in the belgian port of our stand despite the high winds walkers were out in force no swimming says the sign not that many appeared keen to take

a dip. in ireland go away was forced to cancel the opening ceremony for its year's european city of culture and the aptly named wild atlantic way on the west coast also took a pounding flooding in the north of england caused extensive damage to rural towns and villages as the storm battered britain there's been widespread transport disruption with emergency services warning people to travel only if absolutely necessary. amsterdam and frankfurt airports canceled hundreds of flights where the experts in germany warned the country to prepare for winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour. as is often the mention leaves if any life endangering for people to be outside with these wind speeds trees can fall branches can snap off parts of buildings can fall off the roof tiles can be blown off. that can be deadly

so anybody who does not have to be outside should stay in and of. but the stormy conditions are good news for some in the netherlands they've been staging the dutch headwind cycling championship and that's an event that cannot take place in calm conditions. well in hand we are joined now by our reporter. that can then who is bracing the winds for us now to help hot has this still hit with in germany. well another main thing the main things that are that have happened so far northern germany mainly have got to do with train falling on railway tracks thus blocking train services boats that sent the storm is just hitting the mainland now since we arrived in hamburg actually it has been picking up we've been we've saw construction francis that have fallen our fallen down we've seen the election post us flying across the street and

people have bracing for this to get even worse throughout the night the weather warning here is in place until 4 am in the morning so how badly has it disrupted. fall well throughout the entire day already train services have more and more been cancelled up to the point now where as you've as you've said all long distant trains on long distance trains have been suspended also a lot of planes obviously have to be cancelled because it was just not safe enough for them to takeoff this is all well and good and us this is of course what will travel operators should be doing but also this means that people might people who really have to travel might opt to take the car and hit the roads was certainly not safe on the way here we saw a bus a big bus swerving and it's lane because it was getting a bit of side wins so that's another risk people now taking to their cars to travel throughout the country on the whole how prepared they also are in major cities.

i would say that taken a lot of precaution we've seen in this league game and the one in western germany being canceled we know they are shelters now emergency shelters for homeless people to kind of get away from the storm still like this is going to cause damage and i suppose mike in northern german city like hamburg might be more prepared than cities and western germany or the south but on the whole i think germany and german authorities are taking the precautions to to get through this as safely as possible all right mater hole that have been there in germany 2nd largest city in a hamburg thanks monsour and stay safe. now to thailand west security forces have shot dead a soldier who killed at least 26 people on rampage nicer than a shopping center and now police stormed the shopping center allowing some shoppers to escape as they watched

a manhunt to find the gunman well then 40 people were also wounded in the attack which took place in the city of course at northeast of the capital bangkok. of a vigil for the lives lost hundreds of people gathered sunday night with buddhist monks chants and prayers and bottomless green. earlier at the city morgue this man and his wife lost their son in the rampage. at 13 he was the youngest victim. but you know he was my only son i let him do anything he wanted to i never put pressure on him i just wanted him to be a good person. scenes of terror at the mall these people narrowly escaped after being freed by security forces. thai officials have identified the

killer as sergeant jakrapob told 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. or 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 has admitted that mental health is an issue in the military one that investigators will look into. but for now there are more questions than answers and the morning over the deadliest mass shooting in thailand's history has just begun. when authorities in china say the

death toll from the current a virus has now passed the 800 mark so that means the disease has now killed more people than the saws outbreak in 2003 can see the comparison is that now almost all of the reported deaths and most of the new infections are in the chinese province of who beg by the current of ours was 1st discovered now globally there are some 37 and a half confirmed cases all of the virus in china says there have been fewer new infections in previous days but of course overall you can see that the virus continues to spread now among day millions of people in china are expected to return to work off of the extended new no new year break nevertheless china is still far from being back to normal and earlier we spoke to dr said yes most costco molecular biologist from a foundry university in the u.k. and we all stick to him if the outbreak has now reached its peak. what we are

saying is that the number of people getting infected is remaining thoroughly consistent it's it's not accelerating. one has the us you know we all are going to meet our preference it will happen for the next few days how's the people return to work in china economy asking them continue moving on the agreeable risk is that we haven't seen the number of cases so sir quite relatively high and those cases place a substantial burden on health care providers. anyway 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 argument in a typical supplies to the chinese there's a there's a lot of people out there impaired newcastle have seen people wearing masks you don't need to be wearing must unless you you yourself are experiencing flu symptoms and this is not my opinion this is more than double your insurer hormones people

are going away holding masks this is not what we need to be doing because there's not enough of us any protection from get the virus we need to be making the resources available to china and other countries where under-resourced compared to china so that if the situation gets worse they have the necessary supplies to cope with and. dr stereo there from the summer university let's take a look now at some of those stories making news this hour well thousands of people have marched in support of palestinians in the moral can capitol rabat. as well as in the choosing capital tunis now the demonstrations were organized in response to a new american peace plan the palestinians say favors israel protestors have denounced the u.s. and call for a boycott of american products. a boeing 737 operated by the russian low cost airline use the air has been badly damaged in a hard landing in the city of new since none of the 94 passengers and crew on board were seriously hurt the airline blamed unpredictable winds for the incident.

2 new york police officers have been wounded in separate attacks one officer was shot at a police station in the bronx a suspect is in custody in that incident earlier a gunman father involved offices in a vehicle and that was in the same neighborhood those offices are expected to recover. well on and general election has delivered a shock outcome with the next 20 nationalist should same delivering a historically strong performance style vote counting is underway across the county prime minister rafiq is center right party which faces a fight to remain the strongest political force failed so capitalize on a booming economy with many voters voicing their frustration over the years of budget was staring and a housing crisis now early results indicate a 3 way race to lead the next government with

a vote split between the right because party should fade and thena for it. break this down further i'm joined now in the studio by all would attend that school which olwyn why hans shouldn't say the party of course historically with the links to the irate mannish to come out so strongly in this election of course the ira was a terrorist group that carried a company of violence that even targeted civilians and looking for a united arland and one of the main reasons. perform so strongly this time is because of its need or married donald this is the 1st general election in the republic of ireland in what she's been leader of the republic before the party was led by gerry adams and he had very close ties to the ira but mary mcdonald she's not tainted by those ties and she's been able to reposition the party

and it's a repositioning that's been going on for quite a while but effectively reposition the. she's to david a very clear message of change she's very popular and it seems that the message has resonated very strongly with voters were looking for a left wing party to support it has to be said that prime minister of record did have some success for example when it comes to craig states and representing the interests of his country that why didn't his party seek to capitalize on his party did try to capitalize on bragg's isn't also on the strong economy but wasn't really what voters wanted to hear these weren't the issues that were important to voters we saw yesterday when the exit poll results came. it wasn't on voters' minds told they were really really concerned about issues like housing quality of life issues so a lot of voters they think ok the economy is performing strongly but i don't see

that in my life friends are soaring homelessness the still soaring. in a gale the party of the over occur it has been in power now for 9 years. the party need to pay at the bottom boxes and will this new political constellation what do you think. it's difficult to say what's going to happen now we know for sure that it's going to be very very very hard to form a new government but that was also the case after the last of action and 2016 arlen's has been seeing political trends that we've seen in other european countries where the established traditional parties that have dominated politics and the cost they've been weakening smaller parties have been strengthening and so the vote has been fact sure on coalition governments where all the parties need to compromise to come a bias but here in the pasta now in this election campaign both phina for them feel

gal have ruled out working with sinn fein to form a coalition they might have to change their minds on boss we'll have to wait and see what happens all right reporting on all of it for us all when a tennis coach thank you so much. next take magazine shows shift living in the digital age i'm headed home for a thank you company off the bat with other top of the atlas see that. there are be the business climate change. happiness increase books. this is the book for you. to get smarter for free to go where you go. have fun in.

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