claim. this is the news live from berlin is the west winning or is it weak or well it depends who you ask at the munich security conference happy to report that the death of the transatlantic alliance is grossly over exaggerated going toward a moment when i look at the world as a screen shaped to match the theme of your conference a series there is indeed a weakening of the west us secretary of state my pompei when french president emmanuel mccollum painting very different pictures of the western alliance plus france announces the 1st death in europe from the throne of virus epidemic

a chinese to rest passes away in a french hospital as the lobel death toll of the outbreak surpassed 1500 people but officials from china over the virus started insist young predict will soon be over . and in the football hairs over land we're back in action this time with a new coach alexander norris stepping up to take the reins against potter born after doogan klinsmann's shocking to parch. thanks for joining me on the 2nd day of the munich security conference world leaders have laid out opposing views on the health of the western alliance now earlier today u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o where jetted claims that his country is backing away from its role as a global leader. day 2 of the munich conference one of the main speakers

u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh he began by contradicting a thesis put forward the day before by german president func father steinmeyer that lee winning that the united states rejects the international community and it quote . here this morning to tell you the facts i'm happy to report that the death of the transatlantic alliance is grossly over exaggerated that may be but the morning's other main speaker was not so sure french president emmanuel mccaw said europe must become more independent of the us soon they don't but if we have no freedom to act then we have no credibility in foreign policy and we can't be a junior partner to the united states of america mccourt i'm prone peo also disagreed over one of the main themes of this year's conference but the west is losing global influence. when i look at the world as it's being shaped and that's the theme of

your conference this year there is indeed a weakening of the west that looks you don't this idea of what's in the system as the core theme for this year's conference and i'm sure to there many of you who would call yourself a realist. but let me give you an idea of what's real the west is winning or both 15 years ago we thought that our values were universal that we were going to dominate the world in the long term that we were dominant in terms of technology military and so on and then a look at the horizon of 10 to 15 years we are going to be increasingly pushed by other agendas another values of the myth of the free west has a far brighter future than illiberal alternatives or winning or doing it together. it was left to nato secretary general young starting back to try and smooth over the continuing transatlantic tensions europe and north america are indispensable partners 2 sides of the same korean so when we stand together we can

compete with confidence protect our interests the friend over values thank you i think every correspondent teri schultz is covering the conference for us from munich she joins us now for more in fact are you doing more than just covering the conference or actually moderating one of the panels this morning the pond pale panel you were moderating that discussion what was your biggest takeaway. karl i think the thing that struck me the most was how different this pompei of speech was from those we've seen in brussels or the comments that president trump makes about the european union you know normally they're all about america 1st america leaving and in this case as you heard secretary pump a.o. said we're a team and we are winning we're doing it together we're winning collectively and this is something i haven't heard from secretary pump aopa for so it was very interesting to to get the sense that he in

a way is trying to talk the europeans back into wanting to be transatlantic partners after the administration has done so much to turn them away. on the other hand many european leaders have a completely different message saying the west is weakening french president emanuel was one of those today he says he wants europe to do more without the united states fact we asked germany's foreign minister heikal moss for his thoughts on the matter. as a bit we would see the invitation to the strategic dialogue now we believe that we 1st need to decide within europe how to meet the increased demands in the future we will have to do more for our security but i think it would be a mistake to put europe against the u.s. . as it were in its security alliance that works nato but it needs reform and we're discussing that now we want to bolster the european side of nato and to do that we 1st need to reach consensus in europe that dialogue that the manuel mccrone has

proposed complaisant if it can roll in this that's why we will take part in that assault on them so terry looks like mosse not ready to give up on the united states yet or even on nato even though there have been these increased tensions with europe. that's right every european leader acknowledges that there is no replacement for nato as the security guarantor for europe even those europeans and there are very few i would have to say who talk about an e.u. army always say that nato will remain the chief source of security for all european countries so it's not surprising to hear that from european leaders what's more interesting is that europeans are finally picking up the message that the u.s. has pushed on them for so long that they need to be more self-sufficient and so president mccrone sees an opening for himself now especially with the departure of britain from the european union and he is definitely trying to position himself as both a disruptor to try to get europeans to to do more to defend themselves and to position

himself at the as the head of that movement so it's going to be very interesting to watch the french leaders moves as he tries to establish himself in this position and message we've been hearing from for some time. thank you so much reporting for us from. u.s. defense secretary marc esper has said that a truce agreement between the u.s. and the taliban looks promising but it's not without risks and he said that it could lead to a reduction of u.s. troops in afghanistan meanwhile afghan president. weighing in from unix says the taliban's acceptance of elections would be the quote critical test washington has been negotiating a week long partial cease fire across afghanistan which it hopes will lead to direct talks between the taliban and the government in kabul. well france has announced the 1st fatality from the coronavirus in europe an 18

year old chinese tourists passed away in a hospital in paris bringing the death toll outside the mainland of china to for the impact of the virus is still strongest within china where around $1500.00 people have now died and authorities there are taking drastic steps to combat the outbreak with a court now threatening to impose the death penalty on people who hide symptoms of the virus. for one man in china quarantine is a marathon a way to cope with the boredom. much of china is on lockdown in beijing all for its use all the people returning from the chinese new year holidays to self quarantine or face punishment china says it works. are great after years have been paying off. as of today new infections are also who. have been falling for 12 days running. but authorities across china are overwhelmed

with the sheer number of patients especially inside who pay province in move on the capital of patients are admitted to a new hospital with thousands of chinese traditional medicine doctors. also in hand doctors trying everything they can to tackle the virus including shaving their heads in case pathogens in their hair spread the virus. and outside china thousands are also in quarantine the united states announcing it will evacuate its citizens from the diamond princess currently docked in japan just one of many ships in asia that are on lockdown the big question now is have infections of the fire a speak no one can tell for sure. seem to be working but the world health organization is still focused on what they're calling the unknowns how the virus spreads and how it responds to different treatments. chief political correspondent elaine the crane is at the munich security conference and there she spoke to mike

ryan he is the executive director of the w.h.o. his health emergencies program she asked him about international cooperation to combat the corona virus outbreak. china has been much in focus here at the munich security conference but actually generally as a rival and a threat is it possible that that view of china could or is impeding humanitarian cooperation no i wouldn't i wouldn't say so i think what we need if we're going to beat this wire is we beat it together and that's what we've been saying just a consistent message we're in this together and the virus is the common enemy and what we want to see in this great to see the international team arriving now in china and it's a multinational team and it contains experts from all over the world including the united states so i think we're moving forward in a very positive way you had some pretty positive things to say about china's own efforts this morning when you spoke can you tell us why you take such

a positive view view because in fact there's been a good deal of criticism as well yeah and in all crisis management ers criticism for mistakes there are all kinds of things we do in a crisis we are we're acting on limited information all the time in a crisis you never have the information you need to make the perfect decision which must act and what we've seen a strong action in the face of a developing crisis we praise that we praise cambodia for having the ship we praise all the countries in africa a week ago only 2 countries in africa have the capacity to diagnose 19 as i speak today almost all of them have that so everyone is acting and we praise all actions that are aimed at containing this disease but we also need to communicate with our populations in an effective way so we don't scare people. we've now seen the 1st fatality from 19 here in europe have we already lost the battle

to contain and to exterminate coronavirus is it now here to stay in. new viruses emerge we don't know the future. behavior of the virus will be. i do know is that the virus has been outside china now for a number of weeks and we still have one he got 500 just over 500 cases in 24 countries and those countries are significantly containing the virus and china's significant could slow slowing it down we may not be able to slow it down entirely and we may have to wait for the development of vaccines to finally. stop the disease but what we can to save a lot of lives will be trying to do is take care of one of the populations and get them to treatments they need to know it's not time for white flags this time for action. thank you very much mike ryan arts sports action now in the bundesliga heritable and capped off his week with a win over last placed potter born earlier head coach you're going to klinsmann

shockingly quit the club over differences with management but that victory she go a long way in cleansing the palettes of fans and supporters after the unsavory news off the field. just a week ago heritage assistant alexander nori couldn't have expected to make his return to head coaching but then yogen klinsmann shocked the club by resigning nor his side looked determined to shake off the negative headlines in their relegation battle with powder born. with just 10 minutes played something i go out to see bar across from t.v. and belgian bomber detrich boy rose above the rest to head home. one nil haert. the visitors looked to have doubled their lead just 8 minutes later but heritage debutant materia schooners goal was chalked up to the start young tech was real to handle the ball in the run up to the play i'm. despite the setback nori squad headed into the half time break with a comfortable one mil levy but sneaking out with the one no win would simply be too

easy for hair to give in this week's events people who know us time deflected dentists' or bennie's title shot into his own net. 11. but klinsmann is quitting also overshadowed positive news at hair to a number of big january signings including cumia who wasn't dissuaded when his 1st goal was ruled off his 67th minute back you'll counted giving the visitors a lead in his 1st ever appearance for berlin. it ended 21 delivering alexander nor his 1st win in 21 games as head coach and his return to the dugout and starting the post klinsmann era on a high. well don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news if you are part of a new store you can also use the app to send us your photos or your videos shows

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