this is g w news live from berlin tonight in the battle against the coronavirus china moves from quarantine to cracked if. you want i'm not even scared if. you think i'm afraid of the communist party reports from china a claim that critics who have shared an authorized images of the government's response to the outbreak those people are disappearing also coming up turkey facing off with russia as the syrian army's push to capture the country's last rebel stronghold triggers an international standoff and prompts hundreds of thousands of

civilians to flee plus could this man become the next head of germany's conservative party perhaps the next chancellor predict merrick's throws his hat in the ring after transport on the american chosen successor said she is no longer in the running and at reclaiming what their families lost under the nazis people of german descent say berlin is creating unfair hurdles swinney comes to their wife to regain german citizenship. i burnt off it's good to have you with us china has reported 97 more deaths from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections today. almost all of the new

deaths were in the who by province the epicenter of the outbreak but chinese health officials say these are the lowest figures since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by april the w.h.o. head says that despite so the number of cases stabilizing the outbreak could quote still go in any direction of more now i'm joined by duns hong kong a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations it's good to have you on the program but let me start by asking what do you make of the way china has handled this epidemic so far but are they taking the right steps to control it. all beginning in january 20th the government has not been very kone a measure of this and tackling the outbreak including quarantine this time cd and

the surrounding c.d.'s you know basically you have 100000000 people quarantined in who by and that roche. seemingly and she the. stabilizing the epidemic although to what extent he's actually back in that remains to be seen what do you make of china saying that this rate could be over by april or as soon as april i mean is it possible to even make that kind of prediction at this point. well i think it's too early to say weighing we're going to see the fashion poison go away the crises will be over but maybe public house x. perth's i think that we can to see the infection poisoned and that is that case is starting to trough up in late april. probably and sees other thing

who pay footing tyo china probably we're not going to see they. going to drive and next month so my hunch is that. very likely awaiting to see the virus die you may in may and instead of april so that's a month's difference and that brings us to the international response that we've seen so far has the international response or has it been proper in your opinion has it been enough. well i think if you look at international response you know so far i think is a very uncoordinated. almost like a knee jerk panic response to the break in china and in very likely many of this response these viral they get your national health regulation article 23 which

allows countries to take measure us based on their national volved but it also say these many of us should not be to even basically to see 2 people. as a reasonably valid. that could achieve that appropriate eval of health protection so do you think the u.s. policy for example of not allowing anyone any chinese nationals for example to come into the country or putting people in quarantine you think that has been too drastic i think so all right well that's going to rep and up young hong kong a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. meanwhile

a growing number of people in china have begun to express anger at the government's handling of the situation authorities have moved to silence criticism since hers have scrubbed social media posts and at least 2 outspoken citizens trying to expose the reality of what they are seeing well they have disappeared raising fears for their safety. these are images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center and we 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 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 i'm not even scared of death you think i'm

afraid of the communist party. is gone he disappeared last week and has not responded to messages so far authorities would only say he is called under control on the c international say he's been forcibly quarantined. and he's not the only one to pay the price for defying state authority the finding bin took this video from a hospital in han 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 you intend to. do you will know you'll be you know would you want. you not to think i did a lot easier than the other night. you would you go 5 you tell if you don't have a view about. the. email. if you don't want to.

fine 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. when the dr and we 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 corona virus so far morning 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 and we've gone and that includes wanting to know what's happened to people like to intro and trying been here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world italy's senate has cleared the way for former interior minister. to be tried on charges of holding migrants hostage he says he was defending italy's border when he refused to allow rescued migrants to disembark from the ship for several days last

summer. police in northern ireland had charged the man with murdering the journalist. she was killed last april during a riot londonderry the dissident republican group new. leader said he by accident the 52 year old man charged is one of 4 suspects arrested on tuesday. the mastermind of the 2008 moon by terror attacks has been jailed for 5 years by a court in pakistan how thesis saeed was convicted on 2 charges of financing terrorism he founded the group blamed by india for the move by attacks in which 160 people were killed he has denied any involvement pope francis has ruled against a proposal to allow married men in the amazon to become catholic priests bishops in the region had called for an exception to the churches celibacy rule to alleviate an acute shortage of priests in remote rain forest regions but conservative

catholics and from opposed the move for. the latest advance by syrian government troops into the rebel held it live province has robbed church relations between the key international players in this conflict the past 10 days have seen deadly clashes between turkish soldiers supporting syrian rebels and forces of the syrian regime turkey's president recha thai air to one has hit on it syria and its russian backers promising to attack regime forces everywhere in syria if his troops are attacked meanwhile the country's humanitarian crisis it continues to grow. the roads out of sarmento and it live province in the last 2 months more people have fled the fighting here than at any other time in the syria conflict many are braving the harsh winter conditions simply to get tight.

them out on the kind of it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and cold and most of them are children what are we going to do we've got nothing left we're sleeping under all of trees. it's a terrible saw each. other this road is completely cut off because it's packed full of cars. and people have no idea where they're going. this is what they are leaving behind violence has flared and it's late in recent weeks and strain ties between 2 of the main international players in the region russia and turkey. has sent more troops to the area and has warned it will strike syrian regime forces if its soldiers come under attack to clear their home or anyone targeting turkey should know that they will pay the price for this not only at the sought of the attack but everywhere. hundreds of thousands of people have left in recent weeks but not everyone can get. those still stuck in

a face an anxious wait and a worsening humanitarian crisis. in the united states presidential hopeful bernie sanders has won the democratic primary in the state of new hampshire the u.s. senator who describes himself as a democratic socialist won with about 26 percent of the vote he says that he now has the momentum as the democratic party decides on a candidate to challenge president trump in november's election moderates insists that this contest is far from over. it's the 1st clear win in the democratic party's nomination fight and new hampshire chose very month senator bernie sanders. and let me say. that this victory here is the beginning of the end for donald trump. sanders betov a strong challenge from p.p. t.j.

he triumphed in 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. the president trying to twist here to slam the democratic candidates describing sanders as crazy berni and mocking prestigious surname in this primary amy clover trial was a surprise 3rd place with elizabeth warren and forward and former vice president joe biden in face he is adamant that the race for the nomination has barely started zach you know we just heard from the 1st 2 of the if he stays true i'm

all right come from last year opening bell. not the closing bell. and the fight and dollars from president is just beginning and. 'd victories behind those popular vote in iowa were in the victoria tonight we're going to nevada 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 betty sanders and pete you say created by for decades and clashing political ideologies but united in one shared goal. president was. staying with politics here in germany the conservative politician friedrich merits reportedly plans to run for the leadership a chance there on the americans christian democrats the c.d.u. party and he was widely expected to enter the race for the position of party chief

back in 2018 that merits narrowly lost a race for the leadership 2 on the great crime common bomber on monday she stunned the country by announcing that she is stepping down. are for more let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you melinda friedrich meds and uncle america what we know they have rarely seen things. if he were to become leader of the party might she rethink her current plan to remain chancellor until next year. that could well happen it's not only her plan of course she is at the head of a government whose official term goes until 2021 and she has said she would stay out that term but the fact is that these 2 fried fish mats and america they have a long history their rivalry goes way back in in fact she proved such

a nemesis for him that he wound up leaving politics altogether for many years he is distinctly to the right of chancellor merkel if you remember he was the author of that term leading culture to describe the idea that germany needed to return to a stronger sense of its national identity all of that could make them very easy bedfellows so to speak so many people do speculate that if he were to become the head of the party that she might step down earlier which in fact with them prompt new elections because the social democratic the junior partner in the governing coalition has said it's ready to serve out to the end of this government with angela merkel in place as chancellor but not with somebody else and let's say friedrich meds does become party leader of the christian democrats does that mean that he would follow on the americal and would be a candidate to become the next chancellor. well that is the current intention of

the new great crime karen bauer who is still leading the party as you'll remember all this was prompted by a crisis in a local election in the state the eastern german state of the regina where at the chancellor's conservatives the cd you voted side by side with the right wing a f d party to put in place an outsider as state premier all of that sent shock waves all the way to berlin because it is a taboo to cooperate in any form with the right wing a.f.d. so great crump can crown bar was not able to establish her thought authority over the local party she said we need new elections she explicitly lists at least said to them they should not wote next to the f.t. and they went ahead therefore she stepped down she has a plan and her plan is that to reunite the head of the party with the chancellor candidate but

a number of people say this is not going to work because of the time frame and there are quite a few. wrenches in the works at this point for her plan so i don't think we can counted it and even if 3 dish mats did become chancellor candidate and party leader that is not to say that the c.d.u. would have such a strong showing in the next election that they could in fact then lead the next government that's true assumptions in politics are very dangerous that's for sure chief political correspondent linda curry melinda thank you. they escaped the death camps of the nazis but they did not escape the nazis hateful policies thousands of people fled germany during the 12 years of germany's 3rd reich the punishment for that many were stripped of their citizenship on political racial or religious grounds or to redress those wrongs the country's post-war constitution promises former german citizens you see right here who and their

descendants shall on application have their citizenship restored now despite that very clear language lots of applicants are rejected germany received about 4600 citizenship applications in 2018 of these in his surprise only about 1400 were approved so most that's about 2 thirds were believe it or not rejected many applicants whose claims were rejected they believe that they didn't get a fair hearing when now a british lawyer is taking up their cause and he says the german government is violating the constitution. my sentiment was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her ancestral hometown in gemini. my grandfather a left germany 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 any more a form 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 waldorf 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 that descendants to have their citizenship are stored but marcellas application was rejected on the grounds her grandfather left germany voluntarily and then he told me that it was he

had left her alone terribly it was a coaling 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 of paul. the mint believes that to decrease 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 all discretionary. relief effectively but 116 is a fundamental basic right and people pretty content where they can get back their loved ones who they lost in many cases their property because get back jobs that they've lost but they can't get by one thing and that's german citizenship must sell 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 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 of reply. leaked

documents reportedly show that the cia and german intelligence agency the b. and d. bought an encrypted company in the 1970 s. and used it to spy on clients for decades reports why the washington post and the german public broadcaster c.d.f. revealed that the agency has relied on the swiss based company that sold encryption devices to more than $100.00 clients around the world. so it was like a spa novel here to talk about this story my colleague nicole rees is with me so i guess people are wondering how did the german secret service in the cia how were they able to spy on so many countries well in the most scandalous and ruthless way if i may say so we're talking about operation rubicon here and that might very well become the most important spying mission that has ever happened in history so far and that we know of of course we know. so on the be india and the cia in 1970 board

company in switzerland that was crypto and crypto was offering a technology to encode important information so a very interesting product for countries that want to protect information that is so flowing between military service for example and communication channels and their biggest top secrets or missions so they built this company and then manipulate it to decipher the machines but then being sold to over a 100 countries in the world we're talking about countries in europe africa asia south america so quite a dimension and all these countries all of the technology thinking they bought the safest thing f.-a thinking that switzerland as a neutral country of course also is a safe deal but in the end they can't pay millions for technology that was then accessing that top secret so it's like in a digital trojan horse if you will that that is all it is sort of and you also have

to think about the dimensions because i mean this was the money involved the money that they paid and then the b. and d. and the cia kind of got a really bad deal give it give me some examples of which were the most remarkable. events or or into these that were spied all well as you can imagine lots of things that happens for out the last decades and in germany and the united states at least that the india and the cia were very well informed about their planning for wood and movement. and so one example actually happened here in berlin we're talking about the love bell being in 1986 troy the bell was a plump and west berlin that was very popular among american soldiers who was stationed here and it was bombed 3 people died another $200.00 were injured and the cia at least knew about it probably also knew about the planning the day after of the then president ronald reagan announced that he had precise information about this attack and that libya was behind it and so you might very well ask why you

know did anyone intervene 10 days later the u.s. forces then attacked libya and well they were able to get all this information from operation rubicon because they could read and decipher what was coming out of the libyan embassy and other lead we've got we've got 30 seconds what does this mean for switzerland neutral switzerland neutral switzerland now has to crack a very tough not they and launched an investigation about of this whole operation obviously their credibility is at stake here and they also have to suspend export licenses for a crypt a successor companies so trying to you know stop this is i think there are also. many questions that need to be deciphered here and revealed. yet to come also about that money where has it gone to is a very good for you the story was long words or it's the whole reason is always we appreciate your reporting the cold thank you. are you watching the news of next is

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