i am. i am. this is the w. news live from valley nest central europe braces for a major winter storm the extreme weather has already battered person and island causing flooding and transport chaos weather services want people to stay inside if they can or they're coming up vigils are held in thailand as the country mourns those killed in a gun rampage that ended in a crowded shopping center. and the battle to contain the coronavirus school for use in china say the death toll has now called the 800 mark claiming more lives than

the deadly songs outbreak nearly 2 decades ago will speak to an expert. i'm headed home for a glad you could join me a major winter storm is bearing down on germany and other parts of central europe also already battering the british isles in the western part 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 ones the sign not that many appeared keen to take a dip. in the capital brussels the elements hammering buildings

exposed to the storm's fury. in ireland way was forced to cancel the opening ceremony for its year as european city of culture the aptly named wild atlantic way on the west coast also taking 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. there were chaotic scenes at london train stations travelling simply unable to reach their destinations. with some muslim passage to scotland so now i'm waiting for the let's one it's been delayed this country because i think she's going to kill. time i'm trying to tell the console app ports across

europe also canceled hundreds of flights kitten month i have a business appointment tomorrow in berlin and was planning to travel to nice but i guess that's not going to happen. weather experts are warning germany to prepare for winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour as is often he mentioned if it is 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. can be deadly so anybody who does not have to be outside should stay in. europe's westerly coastlines have so far borne the brunt of the storm as well as the travel chaos. schools of sporting events have also been cancelled and it's not yet. well in hand we are joined now by our reporter. con man who is bracing the winds for us not to help hot has this still we 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 spots that sand 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 fences that have fallen or fallen down we've seen the election post us flying across the street and people here 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 so fall well throughout the entire day already train services have more and more been canceled up to the point now where as you've as you've said all long distant trains all long distance trains have been suspended also a lot of planes obviously had to be canceled 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 it 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 of people now taking to their cars to travel throughout the country on the whole how prepared we say authorities are a major german sissies. i would say that taken a lot of precaution we've seen in this new 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 all 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 mato hole that has been there in germany 2nd largest city in the hamburg thanks monster and stay safe well now to thailand where security forces shot dead a soldier who killed at least 26 people in a rampage most of them at a shopping center and he said. the center allow shoppers to escape as they launched a manhunt to find the gunman 40 people were also wounded in the attack which took place in the city of kut move east of the capital bangkok. 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 toma 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. would investigate 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 mourning over the deadliest mass shooting in thailand's history has just begun. roth already is in china say the death toll from the corona virus is now past the 800 mark and that means that the disease has now killed more people and the saw is outbreak back in 2003 now almost all the reported deaths and most of the new infections are in the chinese province of who baked by the current a virus was 1st detected now globe in a there are now some 37 and a half 1000 confirmed cases all the virus in china says there have been fewer new infections in recent days but of course the virus is still continuing its spread

now monday millions of people in china are expected to return to what off the extend it extended at noon a new year break nevertheless china is still far from being back to normal and earlier we spoke to dr set against musk os a molecular biologist from the university in the u.k. and we all asked him if the outbreak has reached its peak the number of people getting infected is remaining fairly consistent yes but it's not accelerating. when hospitals you know we all are going to make our preference or will have until the next few days i was there people were told to work in china calling us and we'll continue moving on the degree of risk is that we have a disease per the number of cases assert quite relatively high and those cases place a substantial burden on health care providers or anyone 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 real concern where it stands the next concern is the i remember that your bicycle so close to the child means there's a there's a lot of people out that even carried newcastle up to people wearing masks you don't need to be very 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 there's not enough of us any protection from get to 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. so if you set against moscow speaking to us earlier from the thaw university of new k. well islands a general election has delivered a shot outcome with the left wing national shin fade delivering a historically stronger form and style vote counting is underway across the country of prime minister because center right party faces

a fight to remain the strongest political force but i failed to capitalize on a booming economy with many votes his voice in their frustration over the years of budget austerity and a housing crisis results indicate a 3 way race to lead the next government with the votes between veronica's party as well as shin fein and you know 4. plus write this down further i'm joined now in the studio by all when i time that's all when why house should say the party of course historically with the links to the irate managed 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 united arland and one of the main reasons. for form so strongly this time is because it's neither married to my 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 party as an ontario scarcely party she's delivered 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 that prime minister ever acted did have some success for example when it comes. craig see representing the interests of his country day why didn't his party seek to capitalize on his party did try to capitalize on braggs and also on the strong economy but wasn't really 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 the 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. gale the party of the over i've heard it has been in power now for 9 years. the party need to pay at the bottom box's. 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 election and 2016 arland has been seeing political trends that we've seen in other european countries where the established traditional parties that have dominated politics in the past

they've been weakening smaller parties have been strengthening and so the vote has been fractured on coalition governments where all the parties need to compromise to come about but here in the past in this election campaign both feet for the gal have ruled out working which in failing to form a coalition they might have to change their minds on we'll have to wait and see what happens reporting on all of it for us all when a tennis coach thanks so much. i'm just reminded of the top stories we're following for you is central europe the braces for a major winter storm the scene where there's already boss of britain and oughtn't to have services when people should stay inside if they can't. i'm vigils have been held inside of this country mourns those killed 5 gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a crowded shopping center. to tell stories in china said the death toll from the

corona virus is now policy 800 lock that means of the disease has now killed no people then the deadliest songs outbreak 2 decades. up next our dog film series the sound of freedom might have a home free thanks your company a c.d.c. cut. it's only been a touch of it coming. from africa the world joining to exception the stories and discussions in the world come to the dubious african program and from funny jimmy news of easy to our website the deputy.