this is deja vu news live from berlin bernie sanders claims victory in the new hampshire primary presidential hopeful just to the front of the democratic field but does sanders when get this party any closer to a candidate to challenge donald trump also coming up. they risk speaking out some even risk their lives as well now critics of china's response to the coronavirus are facing a crackdown by the state. model you want i'm not even scared of death you think i'm afraid of the communist party. reports from china indicate those who share images

like these are being forcibly disappeared plus. trying to reclaim what their family lost under the nazis people of german descent say berlin is creating unfair hurdles when it comes to their constitutional right to gain german citizenship. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to our program today we begin in the u.s. where presidential hopeful bernie sanders has claimed victory in the state of new hampshire democrats there have been selecting a candidate to take on president trump and november's presidential election centers leads with nearly 27 percent of the vote scoring the 1st clear victory in the nomination fight 2nd is the former mayor pete buttigieg. who won the chaotic iowa

caucuses is followed by amy club of charlotte's both warren and former vice president joe biden. sanders spoke to his supporters in new hampshire a short while ago this is what he had to say. and let me say it's a night that this victory here is the beginning of the end for donald trump. where. we are victories behind those popular vote in iowa we're in the victory you a clear night we're going to nevada we're going to south carolina we're going to win those states well. ok joining us now from washington is dean abuse pablo good day to pablo with a bernie sanders now declaring himself winner in the new hampshire primary are these results bringing some clarity to the democratic race. brian well i think

it's perhaps a little bit too early to have some clarity but it was a fantastic night for vermont senator bernie sanders as we've seen he declared himself the winner earlier in the evening by a slim margin that we can't forget as well that he did win here back in 2016 when he was in the race of course set to become the democratic candidate back then he did of course end up losing at to hillary clinton overall good night as well for people to judge mayor pete he's perhaps a little bit more of a moderate candidate when compared to sanders he performed very well and it was a really great night for another moderate candidate that's minnesota senator amy clopas shar as she finished in 3rd but then if we look at it in another perspective we can say it was a terrible night for elizabeth warren she is of course a progressive like from massachusetts she finished a disappointing 4th and then most of all terrible night for the former vice

president joe biden young listeners about joe biden you know he was expected to be the front runner in the democratic race the democratic national committee certainly building him up to be the the fields down now from 11 to 9 potential candidates what about joe biden can he stay in the race after this. i think it's a little bit too early to say what will happen with biden and that he did cancel all of his it's. in new hampshire and he travels straight to south carolina where you know we're going to be seeing a primary taking place there later in the month that he was speaking to his supporters in that state one thing that he noted which is very important and we can't really forget is that any presidential candidate needs to support of african-americans and latinos and those tend to do quite well in more we'll say ethnically diverse states like. south carolina and nevada and of course these are

the 2 states which are going to be having their. their primaries coming up and they're very different states to iowa and new hampshire. what happens next where does the democratic party the search for a democratic presidential nominee go from here. well i was saying of course this month what we have is the nevada caucuses then we have the south carolina primaries and you know what's going to happen is that some of the candidates particularly like senator amy. you know she perhaps didn't expect to do so well so she's going to need to do now is increase the number of people that she has working for and really the focus is going to be on super tuesday in march when 14 as states we're going to be voting among them to the big ones california and texas so the candidates are going to be really focusing on the coming weeks. thanks so much for that from washington. let's get you briefed down some of the other stories making the news around the world turkish soldiers fought to put out

a blaze in the syrian village of command us in it live province on tuesday after syrian russian jets bombed the area near a turkish observation post syrian troops have been on the offensive for weeks and it lives supported by both russia and iran some 700000 people are fleeing north towards the turkish border. alison even president mahmoud abbas has rejected u.s. president donald trump's mideast plan saying it destroyed the concept of a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict speaking at the un abbas said he was ready to resume peace negotiations but under an international umbrella . for us lawyers who prosecuted a long time advisor to president trump have quit the case the resignations come after the justice department said a plan to reduce the amount of prison time it would seek for roger stone the move came hours after trump tweeted that stone was being treated unfairly. all to

china now that country is reporting 97 more deaths from the crony virus and more than 2000 new infections but it says that the lowest number of new cases has been booked since late january now that's sparking debate about whether the outbreak may have peaked the world health organization though it's officials are saying it's too early to say that and they're warning that the epidemic poses a global threat potentially worse than terrorism als officials say it's likely to take 18 months to create a vaccine meanwhile in japan another $39.00 people testing positive for the virus on that quarantined cruise ship the diamond princess. was china these authorities struggle to stop the spread of the corona virus they are also working to silence the critics of the government's efforts to contain it censors have been busy erasing critical social media sites and they're cracking down on

independent reporting at least 2 outspoken citizen journalists have disappeared their whereabouts are unknown. these images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center in the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak under stress short on supplies overwhelmed with patients the video is from. a lawyer by training who made the risky choice to become a citizen journalist and defy government efforts to control information. in front of me is the virus and behind me is the legal and administrative power of china as long as i live in the city continue to report i only report what i see what i hear . you i'm not even scared of death you think i'm a communist party now chen is gone he disappeared last week and has not responded to messages so far authorities will only say he's under control amnesty

international reports he's been forcibly quarantined he's not the only one to pay the price for defying state authority. the blogger thing been to this video from a hospital and it seems to show body bags victims of the virus. then he received a menacing knock on his door what did you want to know. what do you intend hong who when you. do you will know you'll be you know what do you want. you do you know this isn't either that or what do you like the other night. you would you go $5.00 you don't have a view about. you know the other night you mail trying to do that will you know when it's on. fung had been posting videos daily proof that he was free those upload stops on monday and he's been on reachable by phone fueling speculation of arrest this political culture of control may have

contributed to the outbreak in the 1st place and when laying a doctor and warned of the virus in december authorities accused him and several others of severely disturbing the social order now he's dead one of the more than 1000 people in china to succumb to coronavirus mourning in anger have marked his passing online and off in defiance of the state's threats pressure is mounting on chinese authorities to come clean on what's happening in rouhani and that includes wanting to know what's happened to people like she and fact been ok let's get the latest on the situation in china now is. joining us from beijing. what information are people in china not getting that they so desperately want to hear. well nobody in china knows whether these. numbers that we see are real every information that we get from one hand is that it might even not be deliberate it

might also be deliberate but might also not but a lot of patients have not been diagnosed yet people are queuing up in hospitals in order to be admitted to a hospital you need to show symptoms of the disease and you need to be tested today i spoke to a woman who told me that her mother who had been showing symptoms and was severely ill for 10 days had been tested 2 times negative until she was tested positive so until that moment she was also not in the statistics so there is that the mess on the grown drone that seems to be going on is of course. has an impact on the statistics this is one thing the other thing is that there is of course a deep sitting mistrust of what authorities report what authorities allow to report

everybody in china knows there is censorship and of course this is why these citizen join the lists go with their to get a glimpse of reality ok the state is responding to what you describe this deep seated mistrust and i want to quote a state media here as anyone who tries to cover up the extent of the outbreak will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity is china living up or attempting to live changing its ways in the direction of transparency in regard to the coronavirus. what china has done is that after in the beginning denying that the virus could spread from human to human it admitted that it could spread from human to human and it started after. figures and these figures are rising so to some extent china is admitting that something is happening but whether it's living up to any standards of transparency is something

that's very hard to say without independent investigations and reporting and china has not allowed joiner lists to report freely although more freely than before and it has not allowed or has limited independent assessments by specialists so no it is not of course living up to transparency as we understand it and in the process creating a real thirst for information mathias burling of forests in beijing thanks very much for that. this is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on our show her jewish ancestors fled to brazil to escape the nazis but germany is refusing her claim to german citizenship she and others like her want to change that. and doing the dirty work the superhero battling with indonesia's massive trash problem . but 1st sudan's transitional government and rebel groups in

the darfur region have agreed to hand over former president omar al bashir to the international criminal court he's charges committing crimes against humanity and genocide related to the government's operations against dar for rebels between 20032008 some 300000 people were killed in that conflict. the cooling for the justice they feel is long over due to saddam's capital khartoum some protesters welcomes the announcement that former president omar al bashir will be handed over to the international criminal court i am sick and i want peace we want peace in any possible way in this country if the darfur rebels want to send some to the i.c.c. then it's a good thing he's already a war criminal and that he was but others think question should face justice and sit down. my rights and. not be handed over to the i.c.c. what this means but the sudanese judiciary is weak as long as he is

a citizen he should be tried in sudan under sudanese law. the should it was accused of genocide and war crimes and the conflicts that broke out in the darfur region in 2003 leading to the deaths of 300000 people. the commitment to hand bashir and others to the i.c.c. came at peace talks between sedans transitional government and off the rebels last year we cannot achieve justice unless we heal the wounds using justice itself. and eat we can't shy away from from traveling those who have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes against innocent people in darfur and other places. see that form of mock. bashir has been in jail in khartoum since he was toppled after

mass protests last year but there's no guarantee that bashir will be sent to the i.c.c. if sudan's generals renee on their agreements and if he is handed over it's unlikely to be soon. with took some going the road to peace is set to be a long one. now to a story of survival and the search for reparation during the 12 years of germany's nazi dictatorship thousands of germans were deprived of their citizenship made stateless on political racial or religious grounds and according consequently to a clause clause and tried in the country's post-war constitution former german citizens and their descendants shall upon application have their citizenship restored on reality though a lot of applicants are rejected in $20000.00 for example germany received about 4600 applications were german citizenship some 1400 were approved most about 2

thirds were rejected while many of those rejected feel they didn't get a fair hearing british lawyers taking up their cause and says the german government is violating the constitution. marcella mox was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her ancestral home in germany. my grandfather a left turn many fled actually in 1937 he was only 21 years old when he left and he fled to brazil he this was thanks to his mother's foresight because she kind of knew that something was coming he was already not allowed to stay at university where he was studying at the time so in a way he wasn't anymore a full citizen under the nazi regime tens of thousands of jews were stripped of their rights and german citizenship now marcella is fighting to get it back my

brother and i felt very close to the german culture since a very young age was studied in a water school in brazil with german school and we always had this references from germany and european culture present in our houses article 116 of the german constitution and mabel's germans persecuted by the nazis as well as the descendants to have their citizenship are stored but marcelle is application was rejected on the grounds her grandfather left germany voluntarily and they told me that it was he had left her alone terribly it was appalling to hear something like that it was yes so we were angry but yes we we knew that they are fighting for a right cause a just cause muscle as soon learned that she wasn't alone and joined forces with a lobby group exclusions group article 116 which helps hundreds of people who have

been rejected. in january the group brought the debate to the bundestag felix coachmen and his wife isabelle founded the group in 2018 they want to see a new more general law to prevent exclusions from article 116 this time the motion was narrowly rejected the majority of. the mint believes that 2 decrees passed last august to ease restrictions are enough but some descendants are still excluded or facing bureaucratic hurdles. back in london felix coachmen isn't giving up the decrees or a discretionary. relief effectively but 116 is a fundamental basic right and people pretty can't get where they can't get back their loved ones who they lost they can't get back in many cases their property they can't get back jobs that they've lost but they can't get back one thing and

that's german citizenship my seller has now applied a 2nd time. it's something that i have to do to honor the ones that are not here anymore and i think by germany allowing in acknowledging us as citizens this is only going to contribute to have a more fair just and a more diverse. germany in the future almost 3 years since applying again marcella is still waiting for a reply. to have these political correspondent keith brady co 3rd that report joins me now this morning t.j. we heard a lot from marcella there about why she thinks the decision is wrong what about the state's position we heard about that briefly there on her case and many of the others who've been rejected what is the state's well the state at the moment feels that 2 decrees which were actually implemented and came into action law some of

they feel like that is enough and to a certain degree these 2 new degree decrees have actually resolved many issues for example the the law and the nationality of the mother can now be used as opposed to previously it was just the father and that was obviously seen as a very outdated very sexist interpretation of the law but there are still restrictions or are groups that are still excluded from applying to have their citizenship restored including people who were adopted people descendants who actually now live in germany and even on top of that even through applying through these 2 new decrees many applicants are still facing many many bureaucratic hurdles which of course both of us as foreigners here in germany can understand having encountered german bureaucracy ourselves ok know that there's an issue of this when put together is called one of the 16 initiative to help people like marcello what do they want to achieve who's funding them who's paying for the war so basically

this is the lobby group the article 116 exclusions group which was founded by felix and isabella couch when he saw that. and they article and say it's very much isabella felix's wife who does a lot of the what voluntarily and is in contact with hundreds of people affected around the world now of course. there was a significant increase in the number of brits applying for german citizenship through article 116 it is that actually because of that they're hoping that this will be a chance to maintain and keep the european citizenship but this is a much bigger story as we saw that muscle is actually from brazil. and still lives today but he's hoping to be able to not only restore and get back what was taken away from her grandfather because of the nazis but also to enable her to possibly may figure as well and be able to study and work here in germany ok the last time this came up as we saw in your report there in parliament it was narrowly passed

down and change the constitution is going to come up again what does it look like i think it certainly is going to come up again the lobby group is continuing to fight and they also have a lot of support from the green party and also dealing to the left here in germany but i think at least here in this current term in office while this current grand coalition is in government it seems very unlikely it was very interesting to see how narrowly this law this proposal was rejected actually just a couple of weeks ago and interestingly it came so close that it came to what we call here in germany how much going on and all of the m.p.'s had to leave parliament and come back in through separate doors and it was that tight that the conservatives have to very quickly get their m.p.'s together so that they could reject the lauren at the moment the s.p.d. the social democrats if you listen to them in that debate very much in favor of broadening this law to make sure there are no exclusions but right now it also

comes down to party politics and the s.p.d. while they're still in office want to get through a number of all the policies and so right now they need to stay in the good books with the conservatives unfortunately voted against it too ok thanks once you look into this force. we have some sports now and a new surfing event in portugal which involved mixed mal and female teams for the very 1st time has been marred by a serious accident involving editor alex to tell you it was being towed back to shore on the back of object ski when huge waves flipped that over it was washed onto the beach unconscious rescue workers rushed to the hospital where he's currently in stable condition central coast ports schools known for some of the biggest waves in the world. and football had to believe in are considering who to appoint as permanent coach after going clean this fund stunned germany's business leader by resigning just 10 weeks into the job the

former germany and united states coach blamed a lack of unity and cohesion at the club the players were left shocked they now face an even more complicated relegation battle. it's to indonesia now and it's a growing trash problem the country generates more than $3000000.00 tonnes a year after that and up in rivers and the sea many said all cities have little in the way of public services for dealing with the mass piling up on the coast but a superhero's now on the scene to show how the job is done it just said that with great power comes great responsibility and one man is using it to rid his hometown of an evil that could destroy the planet. his nemesis is garbage. now what they're mad about my name is rudy harto know i'm 36 years old

and i am the spider man of courage my mission is to encourage and to provide an example to the society through the famous character of spider-man to protect the environment because environmental cleanliness creates healthy communities he had. a hard tonal keech waste especially plastic most days before he heads to his jaw he puts on his suit and gets to work cleaning the sewers streets and beaches and he says the comic character has captured the imagination that. first i picked up litter without wearing this customer and it didn't get people interested in joining in to help pick up trash or to clean the beach. or move move or wearing this costume it turns out that the public's response was extraordinary. when we have it's little wonder that the sight of a lycra clad superhero on the beach has caused a stir but in the end though rudy is relying on others to come to the spider senses

. the state of the news life are blown up next as close up our documentary series is looking at why venice is under threat from rising tides we'll be back with more news at the top of the hour i'm brian thomas thanks for being here.

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those who don't make it into the fun metropolis often feel tom green. have fun in pyongyang starts feb 28th on d.w. . touched. by roy it's venice shouldn't really exist with its 124 i'm dense and countless bridges and canals this city in northern italy was built in the middle of a munch. it's proof of human or dangerous mist and our ability to must.