this is the news coming to you live from berlin china sees its deadliest day yet in the cruel enough virus outbreak health officials actually briefed the surgeon deaths and infections to a new reporting method the spike raises fears that the virus poses a greater threat to china and the blood also coming up was it a military necessity or a needless tragedy in germany remember some of the most controversial chapters of the 2nd world war the bombing of dresden by the allies 75 years ago today.

and the bundesliga side has. 4 times with. the full world cup we're not critic as head coach just a few days ago we have more on the nasty football divorced. helen of a warm welcome to you. there's been an alarming synergy in the number of infections and deaths from the corona biased named by scientists a school that 19 health officials are getting increasingly wide and death is why a surge in the number of infections which is shot up 260000 was that's after some 15000 new cases were reported in just a day over 250 deaths were recorded on wednesday alone in the chinese province of

kobe the epicenter of the outbreak japan is also reported its 1st death from the virus. for the very latest let me join chorus fun and much has been a guy who is in beijing lydia's what it is and the reason behind this spike in infections and fatalities in china. it is indeed a new reporting method the local authorities have decided to include patients who show clear symptoms of viral pneumonia but. not tested positively for the virus in 2 of the statistics the reason is that many patients could not been tested be tested so far because there is a lack of laboratories and testing kits and we are also hearing cases where people have tested negative lead. despite clear symptoms that point to

the corona virus infection i have spoken to some of them one woman told me that a mother was suffering from it was suffering severely could not be admitted into a hospital because she tested negatively twice despite her symptoms and only the 3rd test was positive so hopefully this new method of. counting will also lead to more patients having a chance at proper treatment because they can be admitted to. hospitals know it might also mean that the queues for the hospital beds will be longer and people and people will still have to wait for days it seemed at the 1st political and political consequences have taken place as the way this crisis of coronavirus is being handled in china bring us up to date with what's happening. yes 2 major off issues have been replaced today the party secretary of the province of who bay that is the person on top of the governors or the most senior person in

the hierarchy of this province and the party secretary of one as well they have been replaced this is not. a surprise. local authorities have been criticized widely by the chinese public and it's also something that the central government the communist party adopts often when it has a crisis that it cannot have handle it tries to keep the flame blame on the local officials in order not to get the whole system. affected by criticism what we know about the new party secretary is that he is somebody who seems to be close to see jinping he has started his career in georgia and province where he's in pain was at the time the head of the province thora t. and he has a background in the security services in the police which might point to

strict control of the population and possibly a crack in even small city a crackdown on dissent in the city and that is linger thank you very much for that update on how china is handing the corona virus as a demi. we want you health ministers have been meeting in brussels for talks on europe's response to the virus. went to europe's emergency response and to coordinate is there a working around the clock on international efforts to help citizens get back home and stop the virus from spreading. a dramatic journey coming to an end these passengers disembarking from a german air force jet in frankfurt earlier this month were among the 1st to be evacuated from china to europe due to the coronavirus it was a challenging task to organize here at the european commission in brussels christiane yacoub is helping europeans in china 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 we are in close contact with our member states by phone by e-mail and true especially the formation system we are in close contact with the chinese authorities to receive updates from them and to see. the most need to apply to them so that you know to contain the disease the r.c.c. has been coordinating the e.u.'s response to global emergencies since 2001 during the evil that demick in western africa the organization oversaw assistance and relief to the affected countries such as liberia valuable lessons that are proving helpful today operations in brussels have taken up pace since france triggered an e.u. wide emergency response procedure over the corona virus outbreak situation definitely

is worrisome. to some epidemic this is a serious danger this virus is you know spreads with great speed. so measures have to be taken and we are trying to see the taken in a coordinated manner for the e.u. getting its citizens out of china is a 1st important step but with the number of coronavirus cases growing rapidly brussels and member states will have to come up with a broader strategy to prevent the disease from spreading on european soil and he. joins me now from brussels you help ministers have wrapped up a meeting where they discuss the coronavirus did they come up with a broader strategy on how to deal with the situation. well 1st i have to say that the number of facts of people here in europe is still quite low we're talking about 40 people have coronavirus that's also something that health ministers here stress

that there is no immediate need to panic by the of course with the rising number of cases in china you member says they're getting more and more worried there are so there's definitely a need to take action one thing we heard the press conference that just took place here in brussels is that information and communication are actually key my colleague just talked to german health minister. and he told him that the situation might get worse in europe that we're not at the peak yet that this crisis might turn into a pandemic and that europe definitely has to be prepared for that and our parent that is prepared for that that's what she told us and there's one issue that health ministers discussed the law there are there but there are concerns over supply chains actually because a lot of chemical fused in a pharmaceutical products here and that you actually come from china and with productions being blocked there might be shortages in the next coming days or even

weeks and that's something many are concerned because if the wires should break out here it's more the more cases should be be here that this could become an issue and health nurses want you commission to validate the situation and living in it any kind of gun would require coordination from all e.u. member countries did you get the sense they agreed on a common approach. well the thing is that health is actually a national matter so you member states can decide themselves what kind of approaches they want to take and that will there's still their rights to do for example is silly bandz all slides from china into china and that's there this session but the pressure is actually high with more people getting affected in china and all around the world that actually have to align measures to fight that virus and that's something that everyone here agrees on. in brussels

thank you very much. that we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild a cruise ship that spent 2 weeks at sea after 5 countries tended to wait over coronavirus fears has arrived in cambodia the risk to dom docked at sea no bill to allow cambodia nutritions to collect samples from passengers with any signs of the viral infection. british prime minister blair has johnson's 5 multiple ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle and a surprise move finance minister job it has announced his resignation british media says job refused johnson's request to fire his advice as the pm also sacked northern ireland secretary julian smith. the un has released a report that accuses more than 100 israeli businesses of being complicit in violating palestinian rights by operating in the occupied west bank understood and

officials have burst in the report but israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has called it a shameful attempts to blacken his country's name. it was 75 years ago today in the final months of the 2nd world war that british and american aircraft began bombing the german city of dresden in the days that followed warplanes dropped fire bombs that killed thousands of people many of them women and children fleeing the soviet army as advance in the east there's been much debate about whether the bombing was justified on military grounds or whether it was an unnecessary tragedy and a war crime we met with one of the survivors in the now rebuilt city of preston. when aaron's tears comes to the new marked public square and sees the restored. he is reminded of the dresden bombings 75 years ago.

everything was destroyed and this was where most of the people were killed in the fire storm then on the next day that their eastern phone curator collapsed yes the square was reduced to rubble. 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 dresden during the next 2 days 3 more attack waves followed after that the baroque old town lay in ruins. at the time aaron steers 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. 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 it will be. 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 here shanties 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. 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. he sneaked in 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 for our own 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 for one cure here is where aaron's tears was baptized before the war

today he sees it as a symbol of peace. so was dressed in a legitimate target or a war crime to talk about that i have with us our correspondent good british she's in dresden as well as with me in the studio these are the analysts and john berry a welcome to both of you if i missed out with you john now we heard the survivor in our report and his he described what happened in dresden today 75 years ago as a war crime what is your assessment. it's a difficult question to answer simply and because there is controversy about it among historians and legal experts the short answer that i think is the consensus is. by the standards of the time it it was not a war crime there was a carpet bombing. so-called strategic bombing of cities in order to demoralize the populations done by both sides and it was considered at the time the judgment of course if it were to happen today. it would definitely certainly be regarded as

a war crime turning to you know a kid i mean the far right in germany is using these commemorations in dresden in a very targeted and particular way tell us more about their perception and strategy . well rita the far right scene and near nazis here in germany have been instrumental izing these commemorations of the dresden bombing for many many years now as part of their propaganda and that all stems really from immediately after the raid 75 years ago when the nazis who were of course still in power at the time really adjusted those numbers quoting numbers of deaths and casualties manipulated those figures as saying that anywhere between 200000 half a 1000000 people perished in this tragic bombing but of course nowadays we know that there was actually around 25 people 25000 people who perished in these in

these areas in the firestorm that took hold of dresden just behind me on the other side of the elba and of course this year we are expecting to see the far right march again this weekend today we are expecting to be to not really see anything of the far right seen by some saturday here in dresden they're expected to hold a demonstration or tile a mosque as they call it a sense of a march of mourning to remember the victims and so we're still seeing this in from an instrumentalist ation continuing today and we're expected to see people from not only germany's far right scene but people are expected to descend on dresden from across europe as well and join the narrative surrounding the destruction of dresden has been instrumental lies not just now as kate was telling us but right from the start tell us more about that use of goebbels who was the nazi propaganda minister on the day after the 1st wave of bombing. not only exaggerated the numbers

mentioned quite rightly he also suggested that it was women refugees and children who had been killed and that dresden was not militarily significant it was that the aim of the targeting was. against the cultural city of dresden now that's simply a lie of course also there was hatred as always and revenge sorts of revenge in the allies and they were targeting civilians as well quite clearly but dresden had a very significant military position at the time the red army was advancing from russia had already crossed into german territory was surging towards berlin the capital germany had not yet surrendered and dresden was a garrison city with 20000 troops there with armament factories and was also the main rail hub to the east supplying armand's to the to the to the to determine

forces fighting the russians so there were also military reasons for attacking it. get your standing in the heart of dresden what do people there feel about this debate and these conflicting narratives that we are getting. well dresden is today in reach not only want to remember the victims of the air raid 75 years ago but they also want to use the memorial in the commemorations today to take a look at exactly what's happening in the present and how we today how society today can learn from the atrocities of the past and i think that's reflected in the commemorations taking place today if you look at the friends of the program for the service later today it simply says nish forgets and meaning just to not forget and i think that will be shown as well later this evening when around 10000 people a jew to unite around dresden across both sides of the river elbe or behind me to unite and create a human chain and that is supposed to create

a signal of unity against all signs of hate i hate violence and of course german president frank feldstein maya will also be taking part so the commemorations today are not only about remembering the past but also reflecting on what can be learned and applied to the present day good reading reston and john brick i'm just here thank you both very much for your perspectives and we'll be bringing you live coverage of those 75th anniversary commemorations of the bombing of dresden this start at 1500 central european time that's just an hour from now. now millions of people in east africa facing an impending disaster as swarms of locusts are ravaging feats of crops the u.n. is calling for urgent action saying the food security of people in the affected region is risk more rainfall in the weeks ahead bring fresh vegetation to feed new generations of the pests efforts to contain the pest and windy in central kenya.

experts say that's just a short window to prevent the worst of these low costs still on the ground they're feeding and grouping together but it's only a metal from time to fall they're able to fly. it's time for the international community to understand. that we know otherwise we would. break there would be my level of acute food insecurity there would be 1000000 more people that if it were food assistance and it would take years to cawnpore disintegration once a swamp can fly it becomes difficult to control the insects desert locusts can cover distances of up to 200 kilometers a day the insects that constantly multiplying each female locusts can lay about $100.00 x.

after 2 weeks millions of new will help us to much and the cycle goes on and on and on and so just think of a swarm that covers manhattan from the south to the north and this is just a medium sized swarm and it's not really a big swarm for desert locust that swarm in one day. can eat the same amount of food as entire population of kenya. unusual rain falls at this time of the year the breeding conditions are extremely favorable for the locusts and extremely unfair verbal for farm us. so we have really depend on this farming season we have to be even if the one beginning in april is short and not as productive we depend a lot on this one we worry that the locusts will destroy our harvest and we end up going hungry the rest of the year we sing for october when we have the next cropping season after devastating large areas in somalia ethiopia and kenya the

swarms have now reached uganda and us threatening south sudan in time xanthia. in other news this hour indonesia's lonmin rocky volcano has erupted spewing ash thousands of meters into the air residents were told to stay outside a 3 kilometer no go zone merapi zone the world's most active volcanoes its last major eruption 10 years ago killed more than 300 people. at least one person has died just to venture rience about australia's east coast a woman has also been reported missing emergency workers have rescued dozens of people from the floods and many schools have been closed authorities say the rain has helped them put out multiple blazes in the fire ravaged region. in the world of sport and for the head coach here concludes man has been removed from the bundesliga team's board there's after you stunned the club by resigning as

coach after just 10 weeks in the job the x. germany and us coach had said he wanted to stay on the board despite stepping down as coach but had just made investors said the manner of his resignation was unacceptable and meant the club could no longer work with the 55 year old in any capacity. john. now is. sports just to talk to us about this issue do you think head tilt was being unfair in the decision not to keep him on the board was you can clean some on being under listing expect him to stay on the board after he resigned to school which i don't think had to have much of an option to be fair i mean let's go back and discuss what's happened in these 10 weeks he was originally brought to her as a member of the bold then he was appointed coach and then on tuesday out of the blue recently puts out this facebook post saying is resigned have to do anything about it they quickly react an hour later they confirm it but what he said in a facebook post was there was

a lack of unity and cohesion at the club now if you're making that sort of accusation as a coach how can i go back and sit on the board and sit with the guys you've been openly criticizing it just wasn't realistic so yeah it's a big mess i mean last night yes he did the facebook live we've we've heard the fans to try and sort of say sorry and he basically admitted if he'd had a couple more days to think about it and he spoke to a few more people he might not actually have resigned it's almost like he didn't know when absolutely this kind of decision now he was we'll remember him as a great football player and he also has got a sunny boy image of a cheerful look but damaging is this whole saga going to be for his reputation i think it's pretty big i mean i said at the time i don't think he'll ever work as a coach again i'm not sure after what her to have said today he can ever actually work in football again had his board of basically just given a press conference and their main investor lars been holes who brought klinsmann to the club and spent 200000000 euros so far this is the quote he gave it on

acceptable maybe you can do it as a teenager but in the business world among adults such things should not happen you can clean one has lost a lot of credibility that is sad but we have to live with it and that's pretty damning and i think any of a club thinking about contacting him will look at that and think what is going on here it's very very strange in just a 10 week period absolutely and how disappointing for him limit all the potential that there was and maybe as you said a spontaneous decision. thank you very much for your analysis. you're watching the devaney is coming up ahead indeed news asia. q the skies of sri lanka's civil war a look at the government's decision to declare tens of thousands of missing tamils dead. and the impact of more than conflicts on children why i'm gonna stand remains long the world's most dangerous spaces to grow up to. that and more coming

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