this is d.w. news live from berlin 1st a quarantine on people now it's on information. you want i'm not even scared of death you think i'm afraid of the communist party reports from china indicate that critics who share what's called an authorized images of the coronavirus are being forcibly disappear plus. u.s.

senator bernie sanders claims victory in the new hampshire primary but does is when you get his party any closer to a candidate who can challenge president donald trump. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us today all china is reporting 97 more deaths from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections claiming that these are the lowest figures since january officials in beijing also predict the epidemic could be over by april but the world health organization disagrees it says it is too early to say whether infections have peaked they're warning that the outbreak poses a global threat potentially worse than terrorists. was chinese

authorities struggle to contain the virus they're also working to silence the growing numbers of critics of the government's crisis plans sensors have been are racing. critical social media sites and at least 2 outspoken citizen journalists have disappeared their whereabouts unknown. these are images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center in the epicenter of the coronavirus are break under stress short on supplies overwhelmed with patients the video is from. a lawyer 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 i will continue to report i only report what i see what i hear. you when i'm not even scared of death you think i'm a communist party. is gone he disappeared last week and has not

responded to messages so far authorities would only say he has called under control to see international say he's been forcibly quarantined. and he's not the only one to pay the price for defying state authority the blogger been took this video from a hospital and. it seems to show body bikes victims of the virus then he received a menacing knock on his door. well if you want to know. what do you. do you will know you'll be you know what do you want. what do you allow the other night that. you would you go via. e-mail. flying had been posting videos daily proof that he was free those upload stopped on

monday and he's been on reachable by phone fueling speculation over the rest. of the virus in december 30 is accused him and several others of severely disturbing the social order he's dead one of the more than 1000 people in china to succumb to corona virus so far morning and i'm going to have mark 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. and that includes wanting to know what's happened to people like to intro and find been. the latest on the situation in china. 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 citizens join the lists go with their to get a glimpse of reality ok the state is responding to what you described as 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 above changing its ways in the direction of transparency in regard to the chronic virus. 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 pov. 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 of creating a real thirst for information mathias burling of forests in beijing thanks very much for that. let's get your brief down some of the other stories making the news today dutch police say 2 suspected letter bombs exploded early wednesday one went off in the mail room of an office building in amsterdam the other at a post sorting company in the southeastern city of kanada on the border with germany no injuries were reported in either blast. turkish

soldiers have been doubling as firefighters in the syrian village of command us in problem province that after syrian and russian jets bombed the area near their positions syrian troops have been on the offensive for weeks in the area supported by russia and iran some $700000.00 people are fleeing the fighting there heading north towards the turkish border. house to me and president mahmoud abbas has rejected u.s. president trumps mideast plan saying it destroyed the concept of a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict speaking at the un he said he was ready to resume negotiations under an international bro. and the united states the 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 a november's election left leaning u.s.

senator one with about 26 percent of the vote and says he you know has the momentum but moderates in the democratic party while they insist the contest is far from over. it's the 1st clear win in the democratic party's nomination fight and new hampshire chose fairmont senator bernie sanders. and let me say. that this victory. is the beginning of the end but donald. sanders beat off a strong challenge from p.p. to git he triumphed in the iowa caucus he congratulated sanders and called for unity. so many of you turned out die hard democrats independents unwilling to stay on the side on the sidelines and even some newly former republicans and we can't defeat the most divisive president in modern american history by tearing down anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent of

the time. president trying to twist here to slam the democratic candidates describing sanders as crazy berni and mocking prestigious star name in this primary amy club a trial was a surprise 3rd place with elizabeth warren and forward of the former vice president joe biden in face he is adamant that the race for the nomination has barely started so i think. we just heard from the 1st 2 of the states. all right come from us the opening bell. not the closing bell. and the fight to end dollars from the president is just beginning. the. theories behind those popular vote and all you were in the thick 3 yoko night we're going to know that oh we're going to south carolina we're going to win those states

was the democratic contest is shaping up to be a battle between baronies sanders and pete beach a change you say created by for decades and clashing political ideologies but united in one shared goal to ice president was. ok joining us now from washington state of he is pablo foley a list of dates you pabo with a bernie sanders now declaring himself winner in the new hampshire primary are these results bringing some clarity to the democratic race. brian but i think it's perhaps a little bit too early to have some clarity but it was a fantastic night for. 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 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 compared to sounders he performed very well and it was a really great night for another moderate candidate that's minnesota senator amy clover 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 us it chooses she's 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 of his events 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 that he 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 on their 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 clover shark you know she perhaps didn't expect to do so well so she's going to need to do 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 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. there are some footballers and head of berlin are considering who to appoint as permanent coach after you're going klinsmann stunned germany's business leader by resigning just 10 weeks into the job the former germany and u.s. coach blamed a lack of cohesion at the club the players were left shocked as they face possible relegation. in a new surfing event in portugal has been marred by a serious accident in these conditions surfer alex bottle yo was being towed back

to shore on the back of object and ski when huge waves flipped that he was washed onto the beach unconscious rushed to hospital where he's in stable condition the central coast of portugal has some of the biggest waves in the world. this is deja vu news up next a look at whether he goes for the for cations are actually protecting forests i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks for being here.