to. the arrow. this is d w news line from berlin hundreds of passengers leave a cruise ship hit by the corona virus in japan was the decision to detain passengers in the 1st place a mistake. also coming up lucky to be alive despite the dangers many people are still trying to reach europe and overcrowded boats we have a special report from a rescue ship that is trying to save. plus clotting our digital future the e.u. on bale's a new strategy for regulating artificial intelligence and its use its including facial recognition to look at the pros and cons.

to and. i'm so much going to it's good to have you with us the death toll from the corona virus has now surpassed 2000 the virus has spread to more than 20 countries around the world on 5 continents now more than 74000 people have now been in fact of the vast majority of them are on the mainland in china now outside of china more than 1000 cases have now been confirmed and the biggest cluster of cases has been aboard the cruise ship the diamond princess it has been in quarantine at the japanese port of yokohama for 2 weeks now hundreds of passengers who have tested negative for the virus are leaving the ship and returning to their home countries. passengers have tested negative for the corona by. iris

a finally allowed to leave the diamond princess questions are now being asked about how the floating quarantine facility became an incubator for disease. an expert on infectious disease control was invited on board to inspect the ship's response to the outbreak with completely cerdic and some clues had a fever they went to the medical center while wearing and 95 mask but he didn't have any protection between his room and medical room he says he was worried about catching the virus while on board the vessel and say stuff it failed to take adequate measures to halt its spread. inside princess diana and ever thought scared i was so scared of getting caught between 19 because there was no way to tell where the virus is no green zone no red zone everywhere

could have virus and everybody was not careful about it when the ship 1st arrived in yokohama 10 passengers tested positive for the virus 2 weeks later more than 500 have now been infected japan has defended its response. with the urgency of the current situation japan has taken full measures to ensure prevention of the spread of infection taking into consideration human rights and humanitarian needs cooperating with the relevant nations and taking appropriate measures. to come and get him some on board have described it as a floating prison one british couple shared their experience via social media. we're doing ok we really are conditioning you're still getting a stale we've turned off the humidifier we're leaving the door open but we've closed that now it's so damn cold outside. shortly after they announced that tested positive to corona virus and would be moved to

a hospital shortly. thousands still remain on the diamond princess for those evacuated the journeys far from over they still face up to 2 weeks quarantine in their home countries. and for more on this story we can speak to simon dan your he is the washington post bureau chief in tokyo hi simon thank you for joining us here on t.w. we saw there that this ship is being called a floating prison a floating petri dish what is behind the health officials a decision here to keep people on board despite the risks well you know japan at the time the decision was was taken japan didn't have many cases of the virus it wants it's to keep the people who had the virus off the japanese mainland and it felt that coren seeing was the right strategy as it turned out they hadn't done it well i think the u.s. u.s. officials are now openly saying that coroutines fails and actually as we look at as

we know more about the way the quarantine was applied we're beginning to find out there actually it really wasn't done in a medically sound way and that the conditions on board the ship were not we're not suitable. to to to keep this many people on board the ship and in particular the japanese doctor who went on board yesterday has released absolutely damning video of the conditions on board the ship which he says are chaotic i am scary and he is not surprised that very many people have fallen sick yes and we have been hearing many reports of utter chaos on board and there are still hundreds of people on the spot what is happening to them. well that they're being released as as you said the people who the foreigners are being taken back to places like the united states and canada being given another 14 days koren see because those

governments don't believe that a quarantine on board a ship works the japanese patients who test negative for the virus are being allowed to leave their being and they're being allowed to board public transport with something new and go home so japan doesn't really want to admit that quarantine failed even when other governments basically have. made that decision the quarantine was not effective and people were still being affected on infected on board the ship it was a difficult decision but japan because they didn't have the city's 3600 people on day one but as time went by it became increasingly clear as the number of people rose to the core i'm seeing wasn't the right strategy and i think many people felt japan was very slow to react to the changing reality it is a little bit a case where i think the politics of the situation took precedence over the science and simon just quickly how is this all of this going down in japan what do people

there make of how the government is that what this well that that doctors video last time i checked it already being seen 750000 times yesterday opinion polls came out showing prime minister our base popularity falling quite significantly by 5 percentage points and more and more people questioning his handling of the crisis so yes there is a real political cost to the government in wanting to avoid bad news ahead of the olympics but now it has got bad news and big questions about its handling and it has to deal with them all right simon daniel the washington post hero chief in tokyo thank you so much for speaking to us national. now a prominent turkish activist has been rearrested just hours after a court ordered his release on tuesday also uncovered a lot and 8 other defendants were acquitted in a landmark trial which centered on their involvement in widespread anti-government protests in 2013 has now been detained on new charges relating to

a coup attempted 2016. right let's go right to istanbul now and jones is covering the story for us there hi story and these charges against they're linked to the $2600.00 failed coup attempt what exactly is he being accused of doing. his lawyers don't appear to know the belief here the moment he appears as a person of interest he's been interrogated under this attention all day in relation to the events of the failed coup in 2016 remains unclear whether he's going to be formally charged we do know is a prosecutors have said that they are going to appeal his acquittal yesterday and they are expected to press for his continued detention. during this is also significant because really tens of thousands of people were rounded up arrested in relation to that 2600 failed coup attempt they lost their jobs what has happened to

all of those people. there facing a very difficult life thousands of of those people that have been convicted in relation to the failed coup and the alleged conspiracy around it are still languishing in jail many facing many many years in jail many of them life sentences while those tens of thousands of people who'd be removed from their jobs they are facing a life of being in turkish society funny to extremely difficult to get the employment anywhere in the country on top of that they are being in cases of them being excluded from social benefits unemployment benefits even cases of receiving health treatment under the country social security system so fact they are becoming pariahs in the country they've had cases of suicide many of them are in deep depression at the point of absolute despair because not only then that is affected in many cases their families and their children to are very very difficult life and at the moment appears to be no end in sight to this predicament they're facing in

there and we understand that there are a number of verdicts expected there in istanbul today why are these cases important the president today said. well i think that they are seeing the internationally i chemo meeting the turkish judiciary. especially after what happened yesterday with the case these people standing trial among them are a leading members of turkey's human rights movements. the former head of amnesty in turkey is on trial facing up to 15 years in jail again accused along with a of the defendants have been involved in a conspiracy in relation to the failed coup also there are 2 foreign nationals including the german national peter they are being tried in absentia they are also accused of being part of this conspiracy the prosecutors claimed curd where these this meeting outside istanbul was laying the groundwork for this failed coup the

defense lawyers and international observers have said that the prosecutors have failed to provide any real evidence to support their claims and in fact prosecutors are speaking today have said that they are calling for the equivocal acquittal of 5 of the defendants say there is insufficient evidence or as the saying that isn't enough international community are pressing for full of all of these and they claim that this trial should never have taken place in the 1st place. thank you very much . let's check in now and some other stories making news around the world turkish president out of one is threatening to launch a military operation operation in serious it leaves the region or to one says an operation is only a matter of time unless syrian forces pull back from turkish military positions russia has warned turkey not to attack syrian forces. in mexico thousands of people have attended the funeral of a 7 year old girl whose brutal murder has sparked outrage across the country the girl is believed to have been abducted as she left school last week amid the public

outcry lawmakers have approved an increase in prison sentences for femicide and the views of minors and the un supported government in libya has suspended its participation in talks in geneva aimed at salvaging a fragile ceasefire denouncement came after forces a rebel commander of the half hour stepped up attacks on the libyan capital tripoli hitting its strategic port rebel groups now controlled most of the country. meanwhile off the coast of libya the ngo ship ocean viking has rescued over 80 migrants they're among thousands of migrants still trying to reach europe by making the dangerous crossing of the mediterranean in small overcrowded boats. storage was on the vessel when the migrants were spotted just over 70 nautical miles off the libyan coast here's this report. from the deck of the rescue ship ocean viking nicholas romaniuk is scanning the sea for a boat with migrants on board. the ocean viking is about 130 kilometers off the

libyan coast that means it's in international waters. we have to look for a possible what a boat with acts of war. if you have a visual border control pilots are in radio contact. the border patrol is searching the area with small aircraft or helicopters they say they think the spotted the migrant boat going to people on board. the migrants boat is now clearly visible. degree of. rescue doing these are ready to be deployed tom he is one of the most experienced stuff when it comes to see rescues even though he tells his colleagues what he

knows about the refugees so far. from the mission begins. at the electric it means the world. to rescue doing is set off for the migrants boat along with the ship it's important not to rush this part of the operation to take time to assess the situation. at the wooden migrant boat is overloaded with 84 passengers all young men. went into that they might stand up and become agitated and to pose for the boat is a big concern. that's why the 1st thing they are getting a life vests. well the way it will take 3 trips back and forth to get all the migrants on board the ocean is likely. most of them are from bangladesh morocco and somalia

with a few from algeria in the gambia 21 or under 18 years ago they came along without parents relatives. and. what are you know. the my grandson also addressed in arabic and other languages every single person will be examined by the doctor. and with the dangerously of a crowded bar with people like you that where there is no common the what was left of the what they can see out of business of incredible rescue not really happy about that that they thought but exhausted some of them found that might difficult to climb on to the but it's symbolic thing but otherwise likely that they might have missed. her so weak but now since the happy to be alive. for more on the story we can speak to michael farkas in tripoli he is head

of mission of doctors without borders responsible for the ocean viking michael thank you for joining us here on d w at the moment it is still unclear whether the ocean viking can dock can you tell us what conditions are like on board at the moment for your team that's working there. well this iteration on board after a rescue is always a bit busy so we try to settle everybody in make sure that their immediate health needs are met and then we provide them with water food except for and then we try to explain them a little bit of the process on the steps that might come next for them. at this moment in time we're actually engaged in another rescue so as we speak the ocean breaking news and news through of rescue in the last 24 hours so what we do during that period is we do try to keep the people that we've already rescued on board call and stable well we bring the next set of survivors on board michael the reality is thousands of people are trying to cross the mediterranean in overcrowded

boats as we see how many people are you on able to reach or you are unable to reach out to. well so that all depends on whose numbers you trust so at this point in time more people are interested and returned to libya and then make the journey successfully that certainly was the experience in 2019 i mean i'm here in tripoli now just in the last 24 hours about 400 people have been intercepted by the libyan coast guard and returned into the detention facilities here in libya so. the numbers are boat a 5050 chance whether or not you make a rescue or a successful journey or whether you were intercepted and brought back or whether unfortunately there was a shipwreck mike i want to ask you about something we saw the european union announced this week which is that it will deploy naval assets to monitor the arms embargo in libya where you are right now because there is fighting between rival forces there but they're not sending those assets to save lives because they don't

want to create a pull factor as they've put it what do you think of that. so there have been a number of recent studies that have looked at this question of whether or not there's a pull factor and recent studies have indicated that there's no correlation at least between the n.g.o.s being in the area and the number of departures and i think that the discussion misses the point the what we should be talking about is the push factor what is driving people to make this decision in the 1st place to choose the best dangerous journey as their best choice of bad options both the conditions in libya and the conditions in their their countries of origin so as long as the conditions in libya and the conditions of the country or country of origin are what they are people are going to choose to make this journey regardless of whether or not there are either unable ships from the states or n.g.o.s boats in the region let's talk about the conditions in libya michael there are around 2000 people migrants in cancer economics believed hundreds of thousands of migrants are living in libya what are the conditions that they're facing there. the conditions

in libya obviously are very difficult for everybody including the libyans themselves the conflict has intensified in the last couple of months and that trend looks like it's set to continue. within libya which is always a country of migration and an end destination for many migrants there are many hundreds of thousands of my clients who are employed here and integrated into the fabric of the local communities but for those who are caught up in the cycle of detention and exploitation and trafficking spree conditions are very very difficult so the conditions in the detention centers are overcrowded and resources to support people there are scarce so food penetration hygiene all these things are quite difficult and then people face a great deal of uncertainty they're concerned about the conflict the conflict is quite proximate to a number of the detention facilities the people are concerned about being caught in the crossfire or being somehow otherwise negatively impacted by the conflict. all

right michael sarka head of mission doctors without borders responsible for the ocean biking vessel thank you so much for joining us here and. now the european union has unveiled its strategy for regulating the use and development of controversial artificial intelligence technology also known as a i in the 27 member states the president of the european commission was enough on the line called for strict oversight of the sectors in this tragedy aims to make the e.u. the world leader in quote trustworthy ai that is fair transparent and democratic it also calls for more debate about whether to use the technology for facial recognition a proponent say would increase security critics argue it is too intrusive. 6 and has been following that debate for us in brussels he joins us hi gary so what exactly does the e.u. want to see here when it comes to artificial intelligence. shaping europe's future

is the title of this white paper that the head of the european commission today presented together with a number of commissioners as a real effort here and i think we should take that literally shaping the future of the e.u. really wants to unlock the potential the huge economic potential that is in artificial intelligence in the digital a market sector but they want to do that at the same time providing security for citizens that they feel that their data is in safe hands so what the e.u. will want to do in the in the months and years to come is provide common guidelines on how europe can make the most of this digital sector ok safety and security in there what is the e.u. so worried about here when it comes to artificial intelligence. other commission has identified 2 sectors a low risk and a high risk sector and in this high risk sector is particularly health but also transport and security and to give you an example from the sector of security there is for instance

a facial recognition technology that at the moment only half of europe's police of the e.u. member states police forces are using the potential how ever is huge because with life surveillance criminals that is at least what police forces say could be tracked a lot more easily so there is big potential here that but then the commission says there's also big risk obviously regarding data protection and so that is an area where they want to be careful another field is basically how daters are stored data are they key to for for future businesses there's a huge potential in data about at the moment there are mainly those states on the internet on the digital markets rest with american companies so there is this loose idea i would say of the european clout where this state could be stored but be stored in a safe environment so there's a number of ideas that are out there like this a number of ideas kerry that are very ambitious we're talking about technological

progress at the same time protecting these rights you're saying so what will the next step. or is it a phenomenon the head of the european commission promised that in the 1st 100 days she would provide legislation regarding digital marketing artificial intelligence now i calculated there was roughly a to let the other 20 days left so that will be tight to truly hit this mark what i heard today is it within the next 18 months rough guidelines can be expected and i think that is closer to the truth the c.e.o. of facebook was recently in town marks like a brick and presented some self regulating proposals what the industry could do and what he was told is that the member states and that the e.u. commission will set the rules on how this industry will be run in the future so there's quite some determination here in brussels to work this out did have you scared matters reporting for us thank you very much.

sports now in the champions league round of 16 got off to a thrilling start spanish club athletic madrid stunned the champions liverpool one nail in the 1st leg and dortmund to seeded paris and her mom dortmund's erlang holland broke the deadlock in the 69th minute and 1000 year old just can't stop scoring the visitors to get back in the game when neymar level for paris 6 minutes later but it's teenage sensation holland saved the day scoring just 2 minutes afterwards to hand out an important 21 victory the 2nd leg is in march. the champions the action continues tonight i was going to say the club are the light 6 travel to london to face last season's finalists tottenham it's a good time for leipsic to play josie merinos team tottenham are missing their 2 1st choice forwards due to injury. and the union out of man light seek have cemented their status as blunders league title contenders the man once called many

marine who has seen his young side shoot at the table that's thanks in part to the goals of team and van or i he scored 25 times this season how tom could do with him given next casualties up front so we prepare tottenham a detail doesn't matter. will play for tottenham perhaps that will be better of. some play but for us it's better if they don't do not play. now goldman's rival manager the actual marine has to do without key players on humane broke his arm at the weekend joining captain harry kane on the sidelines. in some periods i was worried 'd about not having attacking options on the bench. attacking options the pits. with their injuries now goldman will feel top moment there for the taking he has the chance to cut his opposite number down to size.

now scottish singer louis cataldie and london rapper dave are the big winners at the u.k. britain awards last night to calm indeed gone for best new artist and song of the year album of the year went to rapper day it was the 40th year of british pop's biggest awards show. is racist were born was racist which is all prime ministers of room racist should be doing more than once to. all right coming up next on the d.w. news asia contested election results in afghanistan set the country on course for a slash political crisis. pakistan threatens an outspoken government critic over coffee with terrorism charges plus our north korean defector sets his sights on public office his new home can we. close the channels those stories and more coming

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