this is deja vu news live from berlin china sees its deadliest day yet in the corona virus outbreak health officials are attributing a surge in deaths and infections to a new reporting method for the spike in these numbers raises questions about how long it will be before this outbreak peaks also coming up. a new study shows record numbers of children are caught up in armed conflicts around the world we look at the toll the war in syria is taking on children there. and germany

it remembers one of the most controversial chapters of world war 275 years ago today allied bombers began their attack on the city of dresden flattening its buildings and killing thousands of people mainly civilians for some the bombing was a military necessity for others a needless tragedy. brian thomas great to have you with us for the program today there has been a surge in the number of deaths from the corona virus in china officials and who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak say more than 240 people there have died of the virus in a single day now that's the deadliest day so far since this disease emerged authorities also confirming nearly 15000 new in fact. that's

an increase of 10 fold health officials in china previously said the outbreak may have peaked after what beijing said was the decline in the number of cases. ok let's get the latest on this sharp spike in corona virus cases now with correspondent berlinger in beijing but he is can you tell us what's behind this unexpected spike in fatalities and new infections. yeah the authorities have in a very quick moves lowered the criteria for registering patients ask coronavirus patients before they insisted that besides showing symptoms that would point to quite clearly to an infection people would also have to be tested positive really there was these tests there were a bottleneck because there were not enough test kits not enough laboratories to

test their results will take 2 or 3 days until they come back and they would have big. rate of wrong results so i spoke to a woman for example who had whose mother had symptoms and the doctors confirmed that these was symptoms typical for corona virus infection but she could not admit her to the hospital for almost 10 days because twice the results the results of the test showed a negative result and the criteria for admission to hospitals was a positive result so by removing this criteria now people can be admitted if they show symptoms but have no test results yet. and they include of course a huge number of people who would keep waiting for admission to hospitals who are not showing up in the sister to sticks but who have already been sick for days and days ok we have a new picture emerging don't we as

a result of these numbers what does this tell us about the threat the real threat of coronavirus. as these problems were already known and it was clear that. there was a high the number of undiagnosed patients in wa on this does not come as a surprise and a nice serious estimate for before would have included this at least in evaluating how reliable the estimate is now we seem to have more reliable figures but still. and the province of obey is a black box it's only the chinese officials who have data on and who release data there's no independent verification we still do not know that the hospitals with which seem to be still running out at the edge of their capacities whether they

really are able to register all patients are not so at this situation is as before nobody has a real estimate about how long this outbreak of the corona virus will last payment is thanks so much for that from beijing today. or european union health ministers are due to me today in brussels for talks on the blocks response to the corona virus threat europe has already canceled flights to china has evacuated its citizens as well as max sandor went to the emergency response coordination center in brussels which is coordinating evacuation efforts a dramatic journey coming to an end these passengers disembarking the german air 1st jet in frankfurt earlier this month were among the 1st to be evacuated from china to year due to the coronavirus the challenging test with the country of the

parcher having come to a near standstill. here at the european commission in brussels christiane jake up is helping europeans living in china to return home safely on flights such as the one to frankfurt in the operation room of the emergency response center it's his job to oversee all processes and coordinate help and we are in close contact with our member states by phone by email and true especially the information system we are in close contact with the chinese authorities in order to receive updates from them and to see which are the most needed high terms that they need in order to contain this disease. since 2001 the e r c c has been coordinating the e.u.'s response to emergencies across its member states and beyond during the ebola epidemic in western africa the organization coordinated assistance and relief to the affected countries such as liberia important lessons to today's challenge operations in brussels have taken up pace

since france triggered an e.u. wide emergency response procedure because of the corona virus outbreak situation definitely is worrisome this is what is some epidemic this is a serious danger for public health this virus as you know spreads with great speed . so measures have to be taken and we're trying to see that they're taken in a coordinated manner. and getting even citizens out of harm's way is a 1st important step but with a number of corona cases growing rapidly the e.u. and its member states will have to come up with a broader strategy to prevent the deadly virus from spreading throughout europe. now a just released report has thrown new light on the massive number of children and young people living in that war and violence across the world there are some 415000000 children caught up in armed conflict that is one in 6 children on this planet the study by save the children shows the number is highest in africa with

170000000 children they're living in this violence and also shows that 100000 children have been killed or maimed in conflicts around the world over the last 15 years now one of the countries where children have been most affected by conflict is syria violence there is a tense of odd since december as syrian government troops advance on the rebel stronghold of of adlib province now many families are enduring better winter conditions right now to escape the fighting a warning our next report contains distressing images. terrified and in shock 3 children are rescued from what's left of this building which was hit by airstrikes in what's become known as the battle for it lip. for too many syrians including children this is the reality of life in

a never ending war zone. since december almost 700000 people have been forced to flee their homes they're trying to reach the turkish border but that's closed and so this road has effectively become a refugee camp. no wonder some are too frightened to leave. i'd prefer to rethink but i want to wait till the last moment because i can't you know living in the wild in the cold because i might see my kids dying in front of my eyes. it live is the last rebel stronghold in syria it's under attack from president bash our assets forces who have the support of russia turkey meanwhile has sent in reinforcements to try to push back the syrian army escalating tensions between ankara and moscow. and it

civilians who are paying the price for these $3.00 children are lucky to have survived the latest and strikes but unless there is a last thing cease fire no one in if you can feel safe for long. so what can we do to alleviate the suffering to talk about that i'm joined by sure well bus tour from save the children in amman jordan thanks very much for coming in this morning these numbers are shocking one in 6 children on the planet living in war zones were you surprised by the findings. this is the 3rd new that save the children publishes the world i'm still going to for and why every new the findings of stalking they're not really surprising because we know that the number of children we think in conflict i guess has been on the guys from about longer than 2000000 and 199-2402 1000000 in 2008 and as you mentioned so this year that if

woke up again at the 6 gay violations against children in conflict they were killing and maiming abduction to get sexual violence among the other and we looked at how these my lesions affect boys. why they affected them differently for example goods i hope want to sexual violence why boys victims of recruitment that affect the equally you know the broad range of violence and violations that you just mentioned this is disturbing as well on your study you focus on the mideast your study finds that the ongoing war in syria has been going on for 9 years now is placing children there especially risk. yes now in the north of syria children are the new thing and the high intensity conflict zone for the past few days since the offensive saw to so that in our kids and every single day and today they make up one 3rd of all victims so again we are seeing that and think that

that's a conflict which they did not decide to be part of and this is not to mention their living conditions so if they make it so they thank you see if they make it safely to the border with turkey if they are not that means they are living in open fields in tents and it's very cool it's coming in it's snowing in these areas and you know who's on the ground out of that and watching that are happy to see snow for example they are so cold that they have to sleep with all the on their bags at night to keep for what are some realistic expectations a lot of these conflicts have been dragging on for years to to do something want to be done to help the millions of children back to. the globe and here we have seen. being quotes month over the use of landmines all the key things would say and conflict but for us to turn the tide we need the governments take the size of

action now especially by holding folks at the gate and violate those. holding them to account of holding standards and woods and come pick and finally affording all that a cup of support and they need to be able to grow up and be happy adults. save the children thanks very much for your insights this morning thank you. if you're briefed on some of the other stories making the news today the united nations security council has agreed on a plan to end the war in libya aims to bring an end to years of conflict between rival governments they're all in the ouster of moammar gadhafi the plan calls for negotiations international monitors and the separation of forces. italy's senate has voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of former interior minister tells ovine that clears the way for him to stand trial on charges of holding migrants hostage so be nice as he is defending italy's borders when he refused to

allow rescued migrants disembark from a ship where a number of days last summer. well here in germany a political foe of chancellor only machall reportedly plans to run for the leadership of her party the christian democrats friedrich merits was widely expected into the race for the position of party chief in 2018 he narrowly lost the race for the leadership to good comp card and bauer on monday she stunned the country by announcing she was stepping down. well for the macro have rarely seen eye to eye if you became party leader might machall rethink her current plan to remain chancellor until next year we put that question to our chief political correspondent linda crane. 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 free dish mats and they have a long history their rivalry goes way back and 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 lead in 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 and not with somebody else melinda crane there

was 75 years ago today in the final months of world war 2 the british an american aircraft began bombing in the german city of dresden in the days of followed were planes dropped incendiary bombs and killed thousands of people many of them women and children fleeing the soviet armies advance in the east there has been much debate about whether the bombing was a justifiable military attack or an unnecessary tragedy we met one of the survivors in this now rebuilt city. when aaron steers comes to the neuer markt public square and sees the restored. he is reminded of the dresden bombings 75 years ago. here. and everything was destroyed and this was where most of the people were killed in the fire storm then on the next day the taste and falling kisha collapsed

yes the square was reduced to rubble more than. on the evening of february 13th 1945 over the span of just 15 minutes the allied forces dropped bombs containing 900 tons of explosives on dressed and during the next 2 days 3 more attack waves followed after that the baroque old town lay in ruins at the time and tears was 9 years old when the bombs were dropped on dresden he and his parents he had in a bomb shelter in the cellar of their house seen here in the former your hungry organ alley. and. after the 1st attack we left the apartment while everything was burning i can still see it before my eyes the flames creeping over the rooftops of neighboring houses and.

that's what it looked like afterwards that was my parents' apartment was on the top of that's what the ruins looked like you can see the facade was still in good shape but inside the building everything was burned out and that's what the whole wonderful street looked like. ants tears shed his parents were lucky they were able to flee the city as many as 25000 people died during the air raids many of them suffocated during the firestorms. and kook in my eyes this was a war crime many things happened on all sides but this was an act of destruction directed at the civilian population. and steere started working as a camera man in the 1950 s. his nickname was the eye of dresden he documented the reconstruction of the destroyed city and he's been collecting photos and videos of dresden since the 19th century for his film archives. documentary film can be brutally honest if you do

not edit or change the footage and i never did this then for me it is the most impressive historical witness. today the rebuilt cityscape of dresden betrays few signs of the destruction that took place here 75 years ago. the most wonderful thing of all is that the dresden from one care has been restored that is really the biggest miracle and after the destruction i experienced in my childhood and youth i never hoped or expected this to happen i hope it will stay this way forever. the dresden from one cure here is where aaron's tears was baptized before the war today he sees it as a symbol of peace. now it may be less than a centimeter in size but the mosquito is one of the biggest threats to humans

mosquitoes of course can transmit malaria disease and kills more than 400000 people each and every year around the world for a long time pesticides were affected in controlling their numbers but mosquitoes have become resistant to those chemicals scientists are hoping to hit back with a new but controversal alternative. in the book enough fossil village office almost all armaan they were visiting his son's grave since the 2 year old died of malaria a couple of months ago he has been here every single day. losing a child is really painful for me for any parent for that matter. so if we can find a solution against this disease which killed my child we will thank god. they should do everything to eradicate this disease. roughly 8000 kilometers

away at the university of maryland in the us scientists are conducting an experiment that could be a breakthrough in the fight against the disease which kills hundreds of thousands every year. the research team took a naturally occurring fungus that is known to infect mosquitoes then they genetically modified it to produce a toxin similar to a spider venom when the most kito comes in contact with the spores it gets infected and dies prime love it is the lead author on the study. out of the box if they land anywhere on the outside of a studio or recognize that they're on a mosquito and the burrow their way into the mosquito. to test the fungus the researchers build the test side in book enough fossil in an entity area this simulated a village with hearts vegetation water sources and food for the musky toss in the hearts they hang black cloth that was soaked with oil and the fungus spores then

they released hundreds of mosquitoes. so. the musk usuals fly around the room looking for something to feed on and so they feed on an animal after feeding the mosquitoes look for a place to rest they usually land on the walls given they are attracted to the color black they will rest on the tree which is black. that is when they make contact with the fungus spores and the fungus starts to grow inside them and that's what kills them. within $45.00 days that toxins had killed almost all of the insects even the ones resistant to pesticides without the presence of the fungus the population of most ketosis increased over the same period the researchers say the fungus does not harm humans and other insects they hope that one day their approach could also help fight diseases like sea cow or dengue that are also transmitted by mosquitoes. ok can we get the mosquito under

control joining me to talk about that dirk williams from the science tester good morning to you why is the mosquito still such a resilient and lethal best well i mean it's it is important to mention just at the beginning that it's not all mosquitoes there are thousands of species that mosquitoes and really what we're talking about here are a novel as mosquitoes now to answer that question it's basically an awful is female mosquito is a miss you know factory they can lay up to a couple of 100 eggs at a time and those eggs when they develop they develop within 2 weeks and reach shots or maturity and start doing the same thing themselves so any attempts to wipe out a mosquito population has got to address that in a very broad scale and it's got to be extremely extremely effective because if you have a few that are left over the populations can rebound very very very quickly ok scientists are putting a lot of hope into this to suppress it in its uses genetic modification could this wind up though having an adverse effect of genetic modification on our environment

could it get out of control well that's i mean that's the great fear isn't it you know if you if you if you're putting genes that don't belong inside of an organism into that organism for a very specific purpose you can't tell whether or not 1st of all whether it's going to fulfill only that purpose within the environment environments or extremely complex complex and complicated things and and so i think saying at this point. we think that it's going to work this way is not really good enough you have to be very you have to make take advances like this with very much of a grain of salt in this field and you have to proceed very slowly ok so this will be monitored as a moves forward by scientists to see if it is effective yes that it will the question is when when are they going to begin doing this in the wild they've done it inside of these huts as we saw so in this protected environment and it seems to work there and not have any adverse effects but doing it within the environment is a tricky business ok directors ever did see is the answer coming in today.

this is deja vu news and these are our top stories there's been a surge in the number of deaths from a coronavirus in china officials that have a problem say more than 240 people there died of the virus in a single day experts attribute the rise to a new diagnostic method. a report by save the children says more than 400000000 children are caught up in armed conflict like syria's civil war it says 100000 children have been killed or maimed in conflicts around the world in the past 15 years. in germany the conservative politician feverish nath's plans to run for the leadership of our lim ackles christian democratic party in 2018 he narrowly lost on a great trump card and bauer who announced monday she would step down as party leader. italy's senate has cleared the way for the former

interior minister mattel's salvini to be tried on charges of holding migrants hostage salvini says he was defending the country's borders when he refused to allow margins to disembark from the ship for a number of days last summer. this is did have the news from berlin for more you can always go to our twitter feed or visit our website of course t w dot com you can also get on the go download our app from google player from the app store and that will give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use that app to send us photos and videos of what's happening where you are. up next we have our business news with stephen beardsley i'm brian thomas for the entire newsstand thanks for joining us.

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