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this is deja vu news live from berlin fears are mounting as new coronavirus cases emerge around the world italy is reporting its 1st 2 deaths following a spike in infections there the government is preparing to forcibly isolate towns at the epicenter of the outbreak also coming out of. the race to pick a democratic candidate to take on the u.s. president donald trump reaches the state of nevada voting is underway in caucuses their early results show bernie sanders in the lead. plus the battle for best film
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is underway at the berlin film festival and our reporter and yet his seat is on the front lines. i'll have the latest from the 70th 1000000000 dollar film festival here in the heart of berlin 2 films from here tonight one french one american both trying for that coveted golden bear ward i'll tell you what i thought. i'm exposed welcome to the program fears are mounting as the number of new cases of the coronavirus outside of china rises there are pockets of outbreaks in europe the middle east and asia triggering lock downs on the closure of schools italy's prime minister says his country will forcibly isolate towns affected there are 2 people have died and more than 70 were infected. the streets of could only oh where empty
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on saturday evening people in a dozen towns in northern italy were told to stay indoors after a local woman died presumably from the coronavirus oh genome. we still can't say whether she died of the corona virus or whether she had the corona virus and died from other courses because no autopsy or other tests have been performed yet to see it what's your officials confirmed the number of infected persons in the lumber the region is growing should be of be cool please see that me the most i can say is that the number of people infected in our region has risen to 39. masks sold out said these at a pharmacy in the center of code don't you know earlier on saturday the town's train station was also eerily empty. hospitals in the region have been taking
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strong precautions. health workers set up a 1st aid in front of the hospital for people who are believing they may be infected. as fears grow towns like looks set to remain largely deserted until the virus is brought under control. in the united states the nevada caucuses are underway it's the latest stop for the democratic party as it chooses a challenger to president donald trump in the upcoming election voters are meeting at more than $250.00 locations around the state to pick their preferred candidate early results suggest that. in the lead is the 1st western state to hold a vote and the 3rd. correspondent joins us now for the details why is sanders likely to win nevada and who needs to
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perform well otherwise. centers does have quite a largely it's and about already and one of the main reasons is that people really like his health care policy medicare for all. all the others are quite a distance behind him in the numbers from what we've heard and seen so far and especially former vice president joe biden and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren are under a lot of pressure to do well here in nevada biden has said that she does well he does well with a diverse voters the specifically african-americans and both early states iowa new hampshire didn't how many of those and warren has done very well and wednesday's debates but a lot of early voters had handed in their ballots before that so it's unclear how much that can help her but both of them are trailing behind so they need to really
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catch up if they want to stay viable ok in terms of getting the results in the democratic national committee has said it may take a while to get all of the caucus numbers actually counted maybe more than usual why is that. they do really want to manage expectations this time around this is the 2nd caucus and they've had a really wants to avoid a disaster like the democrats had an iowa where it took days until final results were and even though people were expecting to see them the night of the caucus so and order to not have those they're really trying everything to get results in early but also to tell people to expect it's going to be a while because this time around for the 1st time ever in a caucus they also have to count early voter ballots so it's it might take longer than usual and current news broke on friday as you well know that russia might be interfering in the 2020 alexion to actually help bernie sanders and that he was
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briefed about it what's going on there. sanders that sound friday that he was briefed about this information about a month ago. and well it is it is assumed that rush out wants to wants so discord among democratic voters and is trying to help sanders win his party's nomination of the bernie sanders has also said that he suspects that the russians are planting false information on the internet that could harm his campaign ok so murky as ever with this story involving russia and the american elections across the block or in washington d.c. thank you so much for that vote counting is underway in togo's presidential elections with incumbent. widely expected to secure a 4th term for the small west african nation has been led by massing basin's 2005
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when he took over power from his father under new laws not seen bayh is eligible to serve 2 more 5 year terms which would keep him in power until 2030 many voters want change but the opposition has failed to unite behind a single candidate. family's half century rule over togo may be getting an extension if incumbent wins it will be his 4th term 6 candidates are hoping to put an end to that including. the opposition figure has already tried to unseat in 201-2015 he contested his last defeat making him extra cautious this time around. we're going to try and go around the polling stations to check on the regularity of electoral operations because when we know what goes on and. we need to be extremely
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vigilant. critic share of concern about the votes legitimacy 500 local observers who lost their credit taishan ahead of the election accused of interfering in it not us based election observer group was expelled from the country as well while electronic system meant to secure the results has been canceled the remaining international observers come largely from african states that support the incumbent still many of togo 3600000 voters hope this election will be different. i'm voting for change today is about voting for change to have change in the country. from now on we have jobs in this country. we want to have food security shelter security that's why we're here. and all of us togo please are strongly mobilized to vote for a candidate that can bring us towards this freedom and development.
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change this time. and we have the courage to that. we want. whoever wins the next president will face rising prices for basic. sesa days a week health system a troubled education sector and rising youth unemployment. and it's time for sports now with byron munich and bullets to dortmund winning on friday and saturday afternoon respectively fellow title hopefuls leipzig were under pressure to perform in their fixture away from home against shall go on saturday evening back in september when these teams met for the 1st time this season shaka recorded a 31 victory but saturday's rerun was to follow a very different script. shaka walked all over lights when these teams last met
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back in september but this was not to be a repeat of that 31 rout the royal blues were behind inside the 1st 60 seconds through moss as abbott said he's tying distance effort flying straight in thanks to a nightmare mistake from alexander nuba in the home side's meant. there was less that nubile could do to stop child care conceding a 2nd shortly after the break the royal blue back line learning the hard way that team a venue is not to be given an inch of extra space this thundering finish was his 21st does make it go of the season. because standoffish defending continued and marcel helps them but was the next beneficiary left in the 6 yard box from this corner he grateful to make it 3 in the 80th many and jay leno was left untroubled to saunter into the box and highly misery on david wagner and his play
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is by burying like 6 4th goal of the evening. and still it wasn't over substitute emil forsberg found time to screw all his name on the scoresheet before the final whistle. by the time the referee did finally blow up the ground was half empty and the match long scenes decided like to keep the pressure up on byron de 2nd place just a single point behind the defending champions. the 70th berlin international film festival is underway here in the german capital and some of the favorites for the present as golden bear are already leaving a lasting impression on audiences actor johnny depp stole the headlines and the limelight on. day 2 of the burly guy as his latest film mini monster made its world
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premiere day 3 has even more in store for us one of the highly anticipated films on a saturday night is 1st cow a tale from the 820 s. by american it director kelly reichardt. imagine the wild west only without the wild no stagecoaches attacks no indian tribe exterminated. and yet there is something threatening in the year the whole time. that is the great achievement of the 1st really good film in this year's competition. for american director kelly reichardt this isn't the 1st time she's made such an atypical western she's just not into gunslingers it's really just a story about friendship and a cow. that's rice a cow a rich businessman brings her to oregon then she inspires 2 friends a cook and
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a chinese immigrant to develop a business idea they steal the cow's milk could not use it to bake delicious cookies and sell them at inflated prices yes the 1st cow becomes a cash cow and. there's this new economy coming in and that's. going to. wipe out the resources the natural cigarettes but at the same time they're going to wipe out all the 1st people in the area. the businessman one of those looking to exploit that new economy is amazed that he's cow gives so little milk and eventually suspects foul play with this trade and excellent film is patiently guided into a dramatic turn to rock out has no place for widescreen vistas in his film she shot it in the same aspect ratio as old fashioned t.v. . i think it's a more intimate frame and it works for the economy of the movie that character is
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what's in the movie the the characters i think it's a i actually prefer it for close ups. first cow is a subtle clip the film about the american dream its message is that for that dream to live at least one other must die. odds of interesting movies here at the bruno a film festival and don't forget you can get all the latest interview news on the go and just download our out from google play or from the store i will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the you up to send us photos and videos of what is happening in your part of the world for. and you are of course watching to give you news after a short break sports life with a look at how low rank soccer teams strike fear into the hearts of big clubs i'll
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