solutions my name is on the top and i work at the age of. the boat. this is news coming to you live from berlin china moves from quarantine to crackdown. bob you are not even scared of death you think i'm a lot of the communist party. because from china indicate that critics who shared an alter ised images of the crew are now biased response to being forcibly

disappeared also coming up. syrian government troops advance into a strategic gravid zone triggering deadly clashes between outposts and the escalating violence kicks off another humanitarian crisis. and trying to reclaim what their family lost under the nazis people of german descent save burdens creating unfair when it comes to their constitutional rights to gain german citizenship. i don't welcome i'm glad that she my good to have you with us. china has reported 97 more deaths from the current virus and more than 2000 new infections almost all the new deaths 941 who by province the epicenter of the outbreak but chinese health officials say these are the last figures since january and they predict the

epidemic could be over by april the international health experts warn it's too early to make that assumption meanwhile a growing number of people in china has have begun to express their anger at the government's handling of the situation authorities have moved to silence criticism senses have scrubbed social media posts and at least 2 outspoken citizens trying to expose the reality of what they're seeing have disappeared raising fears for this safety. these are images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center in han 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 the information which in front of me is the virus and behind me is the legal and administrative power of

china as long as i live in this city you know i will continue to report i only report what i see what i hear. you well i'm not even scared of death you think i'm afraid of the communist party. trainers gone he disappeared last week and has not responded to messages so far authorities would only say he has called under control the sea 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 bags victims of the virus then he received a menacing knock on his door. well if you want to know. what do you intend. to do almost you'll be you know what do you want. you know the gardener will never want you to allow this other night that. you would you go by.

you know you will find you in the. firing 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 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 corona virus so far mourning and i 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. and that includes wanting to know what's happened to people like to intro and find bin and joining me now is correspondent. lisa goddard is a huge just trying to control the spread of the corona virus that as we could not

report this growing anger among people what are you hearing that. yeah these 2 cases that we've just heard fung been unturned shools sure they were among very few people who. covered what was happening as the state media do not dare to report many things that are happening in there and that these 2 have disappeared is of course a sign that the government is trying to control information even tighter than they have before i spoke to which until sure about 2 weeks ago and he told me that he did expect something like this to have more he was aware that it could happen and now he has disappeared he disappeared the same day when he went along that doctor who 1st called that information about the virus

disappeared and of course this has angered people a lot of people do not trust the information they get from the government they do not trust the figures nobody knows whether the figures we are seeing are accurate that is in part because. testing kits are lacking and not everybody can be diagnosed we are getting a lot of reports from one about people who are not yet tested but people also do suspect their government is trying to cover up certain facts as they have before and as they have admitted that they had before and let us all do this state propaganda says anybody who tries to cover up the extent of the outbreak will be punished the opposite seems to be happening. it is not the opposite the opposite was happening before the state said it now we

are seeing more numbers we are seeing more information but what we are not seeing is an independent verification of that information so it is very hard to judge now what we can believe and what we cannot believe there are no independent join or lists who come report from the ground and their experts are also very limited international experts are also very limited in what they can do it is this cold droll of information that the government is exercising that is making people here very wary of what you're hearing right mathias berlin in beijing thank you very much for that update they've been having up to date with some of the stories making news around the world in the united states bernie sanders has won the new hampshire primary by democrat voters selecting a candidate to take on president on a tramp in november election 2nd in the race is for one man. peter who won the

iowa caucuses. which is of in most of the devastation caused by last week's deadly violence in kazakhstan reports the ethnic conflicts clashed with members of the din guns a muslim group at least 10 people were killed the violence broke out in the sudden jumble region many didn't dance fled across the border into neighboring republic of kyrgyzstan fantasy and president abbas has rejected u.s. president done trumps middle east plan saying it destroyed the concept of a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict speaking at the united nations abbas said he was ready to resume peace negotiations under an international umbrella. turkey's president says his country will do whatever necessary to push back the syrian regime and by the end of this month the turkish

media has threatened to attack regime forces quote everywhere from now on if any turkish forces a harmed at observation posts or elsewhere in syria. edwin also made reference to the escalating tensions and and the humanitarian situation there. the regime as well as the russian forces and the iran backed militants acting with it immediately continuously attacking civilians committing massacre and causing bloodshed that we now draw indeed obvious correspondent in turkey in istanbul. as we just heard strong words from are we heading for a full of the escalation in or an already very tense situation. well right now there is no reason to expect the situation on the ground to calm down we just heard present edwin there leshin now to russia and iran the syrian

regime's top backers they have been supporting bashar al assad's deadly offensive on syria's last rebel held bastion of problems also all of about 3000000 people and. while the syrian regime and its backers say they are fighting terrorists in lives they have also bombed hospitals schools civilian infrastructure sending hundreds of thousands of people to flee now mr ed ones there to retaliate if more turkish soldiers were harmed of course have to be seen against the backdrop of the past 10 days because at least 14 turkish soldiers were killed in direct military clashes with syrian regime forces these were the most serious direct confrontations between turkey and nato member and the syrian regime in the past nearly 9 years that the syrian war has been a growing on so right now there is little reason to expect things will ease

down the turkish side is trying to exult diplomatic channels that has been a phone call between president edwin and russia's president putin a turkish allegation is also expected to go to moscow in the coming days but from what we get from public announcement already the kremlin and ancora are accusing each other of breaching certain agreements and this of course is no good news for the situation on the ground exactly what does all of this mean for the humanitarian situation for the people it live and the surrounding areas. well from what we understand the syrian regime pushes on with its offensive on if they are currently trying to seize a key national highway there and for the civilians this just means that they have to fear for their lives 700000 civilians have fled in the past 10 weeks alone according to the united nations this is more than at any other time of

timeframe in the syrian conflict the un have also been warning that it could turn into a graveyard if hostilities continue this of course also in part explains why turkey is so invested here because it neighbors it's lifted the neighboring country and it would have to deal with the humanitarian consequences should it live for. istanbul thank you very much for this update from the. news still to come one woman's fight to regain with the nazi regime to crum her she was ancestors german citizenship why has bullen rejected her claims. and doing the dirty work the superheater doing battle with indonesia's massive trash problem. we trust refugees and asylum seekers trying to make their way into the european union often live in dangerous conditions

in countries just beyond its borders thousands are camping for example in boston has had to clean up just across from the e.u. member state creation many reports of brutal beatings of the hands of border guards rights groups accusing you of not doing enough to stop abuses from taking place right at its doorstep. we're near the border between both near and herzegovina and croatia it's icy cold about minus 8 degrees celsius. want to be outside in these temperatures but many are some have taken shelter in a former army barracks said to be about 2000 of them. this is my home. there's no electricity no running water to stay warm they've let a fire in the middle of the room 13 men live in here all from pakistan they're

waiting for their chance to somehow get across the border to croatia and past a heavily armed front here control officers. many. many. times. many here claim border guards used serious violence threats weapons but still they say the worst part of their situation is hunger and boredom khurana river forms part of the croatian border which means the european union lies just on the other side but it's heavily guarded because if the men actually do manage to make it across with or without papers they're protected by e.u.

and international law. the men document the injuries themselves so too does the center for peace studies and such a grab they say they've recorded some 10000 cases so far under preparing legal action. beating and stripping the most common. taking their possession as well. and some cases also like using dogs. sexual harassment. stamping. around like hot iron and burning to skin. research but they also know they might have to endure many more freezing nights in the barracks facing the boredom the hunger and the threats of violence. during the 12 years of nazi dictatorship in germany

thousands of people fled the country many were stripped of their citizenship on political racial and religious grounds and the country's post-war constitution sought to amend that with a clause promising former german citizens and their descendants shall on application have this citizenship restored in reality do a lot of applicants are rejected in 2018 germany received about 4600 applications for german citizenship some 1400 were approved most almost 2 thirds were rejected many of those whose claims were rejected feel they did not get a fair hearing a british lawyer is not taking up their cause and says the german government is violating the constitution. marcello marx was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her ancestral home in germany. my

grandfather a left germany fled actually in 1937 he was only 21 years old when he left and he fled to brazil 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 that 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 enables germans persecuted by the nazis as well as the descendents 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 coachman 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. he of parliament 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 decree. discretionary. relief act of least but 116 fundamental basic rights people pretty well they can't get back their loved ones who they lost in many cases their property because that park lost but they can't get back. and that's german citizenship. or 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 and 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. skate freely was one of the correspondents who find that report a welcome kate must. be heard new report was rejected tell us more about why she feels this was an unfair decision and what's the state's position on it well marcella basically feels that the reason given is simply full service idea that her grandfather fled to brazil in 1937 voluntarily and gave up his citizenship voluntarily when he later married a brazilian no of course history tells us that that is also simply not true and as a jew like tens of thousands of others in germany marcellas grandfather was persecuted during the nazi regime so he was able to escape

but when it comes to the state's position they are very much looking at the interpretation of the law on a case by case basis but at the same time many applicants feel that they are being made to tick boxes and on that in that case sometimes. they're missing out on having their citizenship are stored now the the state did indeed relax or try to relax the law last year by introducing to decrease and so for example now some applicants can apply through that mother's heritage through that mother's lineage which previously was not possible but even in those cases some people are still excluded there's still a lot of red tape involved and also a waiting times of even a couple of years no muss it is kiss is not an isolated one day many of those and they find that initiative called the 116 initiative what are they hoping to achieve well what they want to see is that this is no longer a battle for them they feel that this is should be a right and so they want to see

a new law something that encompasses everyone that would be affected following those circumstances in which people were stripped of their citizenship between 1000 the 3 and 1945 and want to ensure that that is passed on also to their descendants and they also want to see an apology from the german authorities as well as many of the applicants who have been rejected already and intend to apply again feel that they have been mistreated with a lack of respect and over saved in these rejections a very formal and direct and bureaucratic letter which of course is very much the opposite to the emotion that's involved in this kind of decision to try and regain german citizenship and in your assessment kate how likely is it that fundamentally make changes to the constitution and right with these people see historic or draw well it seems at least during this legislative term that's very unlikely the

conservative party of very much against it but that said when it went when the proposal for the law was voted on just a couple of weeks ago in the bundestag it was very close and it came to what we call here and how most polling and actually all of the m.p.'s had to leave polman and come back in through doors to show where they supported or rejected the proposal and the conservatives have to vote. very quickly go and collect as many of their employees that were empowerment that day to come back in and vote so that they could reject that law but there is a lot of support from the greens and also they are doing to the left party here so we could possibly in future in a different government in a different combination see indeed a change to article 116 so still some hope for people kitty thank you very much for shedding light on this issue. in of the news dutch police say 2 suspected letter bombs exploded early on wednesday one went off in the mailroom of an office building in amsterdam the other at a post sorting company in the southeastern city of quetta on the border with

germany no injuries verge of ported in either blast. bill francis is not endorsed a proposal to allow married men in the amazon to become catholic priests amazon bishops had called for an exception to the celibacy room to make up for an acute lack of priests in remote rain forest regions of conservative catholics are bitterly opposed to the move. to indonesia now and its trash problem the country generates more than 3000000 tonnes a year and half of it ends up in rivers and the sea many cities have little and by way of public services for dealing with the mess piling up on the coast sounds like a job for a superhero. it is 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 my name is rudy her tone oh i'm 36 years old and i am the spider man of parrot parent 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 tone or kate's waist especially plastic most days before he heads to his job he puts on his suit and gets to work cleaning the sewers streets and beaches and he says the comic book character has captured the imagination but. first i picked up litter without wearing this cast and it didn't get people interested in joining in to help pick up trash or to clean the beach. 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 their spider senses. here's a recap the top story that they fall in feeling. china's reporting $97.00 more deaths from the virus and more than 2000 new infections it predicts the epidemic could be over by april but the word had organization is warn the on prediction means a deal with threat. coming up next eco india africa or woman antiproton squads in zimbabwe and i have more international news feel at the top of the aisle but do remember you can always get lots more on our website that's the dougy dot com i'm on the touch you know for me in the news team is by far not.

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