this is deja vu news live from berlin south korea is on high alert following a sharp jump in coronavirus cases italy and iran have also stepped up containment measures as the number of people infected prize is also coming up an opening weekend packed full of premier's at the berlin international film festival including the 1st german movie in the top competition we'll go live to our correspondent on the red carpet.

i'm called aspen thanks for joining us now as the corona virus spreads far beyond china several countries are taking unprecedented steps to contain it in italy the deaths of 3 people from the disease have prompted authorities to put several towns on lockdown and cancel the final days of venice is famed carnival celebrations now other countries are on high alert as well those include iran which has the highest death toll of any country outside of china and south korea which has seen a sharp jump in coronavirus cases in the last few days. scenes like these from china's cities in lockdown are now becoming familiar across the globe following new deaths caused by the novel coronavirus. razor remains the continent hardest hit by the outbreak on sunday south korea raised its disease alert level to the highest possible. there are hundreds of registered cases in the country and the number of

new infections is still surging meanwhile the coded 19 commonly known as the corona virus is becoming increasingly political in iran the supreme leader ayatollah ali how many accused iran's enemies of spreading propaganda about the virus online in order to stifle voting in saturday's parliamentary election. you know how massively they worked using various platforms to lower voter turnout how to know as. you know the last pretext they resorted to was this coronavirus which has scared many. you know how could usually do boni. iranians accuse their leadership of hiding the real scope of the outbreak. we don't know what's true and what's false since the government is constantly lying to us. health experts say

maintaining a healthy immune system is key to fighting off the virus protective masks are now the dominant picture of residents on alert. in italy residents of northern towns prepared for a weeklong koren team nerves began to fray among locals facing new lockdown measures. there's nothing else we can do only is the means at our disposal like masks and stay isolated and we'll see. italian authorities confirmed on sunday that the famed venice carnival as well as sporting events in the coming weeks will be canceled. well earlier we spoke to correspondent seymour gupta and brum told us about the impact these changes are having on and on daily life the well just looking at specifically those 10 saw a towns that have been on this lockdown that's the bridge still if you like it's

affecting some 50000 the so residents and they really are not allowed to leave that area and no one's allowed to anyone freaking this provision out thesis or bristle fine points well i breastfeed sent to prison so the authorities are tapping down hard on its restaurants businesses museums have all been closed and we're looking at specifically the regions of lawn but the as well as spend it to see the highest number of cases up until now it's really is said to have 132 inspections but the largest coming from long but they decide to close for the entire region for a week and that includes university says well the same goes for the beneteau region syria our 1st division football games have been canceled the bills a particular regions and as you mentioned then until the region which sees $25.00

infections and this is where venice is located they've made the decision that as of this evening venue comical activities will be suspended. fema good job reporting there from rome now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders has won the nevada caucus with over 60 percent of precincts reporting there the vermont senator was cruising to victory partly thanks to strong support from nevada's many hispanic voters sanders has now won the most votes in each of the 1st 3 states that have gone to the polls in the democratic nominating contest. a 5.7 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 9 people in eastern turkey along the border region near iran more than a 1000 buildings have collapsed turkey's interior minister says dozens more were injured after becoming trapped in rubble. well sunday

is day 4 of the 70th international film festival and this opening weekend has already been packed full of star power and premier's on day 3 the movies salt of tears and 1st cow made their grand entrance is the competition with the latter already being considered a favorite for the top prize the golden bear the stars of those films turned heads on the red carpet on saturday night now sunday is the premier of the 1st german movie in the top category director christiane film titled indeed and its positions to make a big splash. reporter helen humphrey has the best job in berlin this weekend she's watching the premiers on sunday for us she's standing by on the red carpet helena you saw in dino it's an old twist and all the old tale with a modern twist the berlin twist. absolutely has a bird in twist now this is a very magical film in fact it's rooted in

a myth that being dino on d.n.a. european old mate which is about a water sprite to a spurned by her lover and then seeks revenge but as you mention call it scott that modern day twist in the german director christine petzold said that he wanted to make dina more feminist and not make her a powerless figure so instead she goes on she finds love once again now this is very emblematic of the berlin school of film making beautiful scenes of the brutalist architecture here in the german capital as well as much of the water that surrounds as well as you would expect about a story about a water sprite and despite that make no mistake this is a story rooted in tragedy it's a high stakes tale of life love and death now the only film premiering so they will also get a chance to see. we're just coming out of the screening of the brazilian film totus

tuus mortis all the dead ones and this is such a complex and necessary conversation i think it needs to be had about colonialism and slavery around the world now in this story we meet a brazilian family this what is at the end of the 1800s as slavery has just been abolished in the country and the 50 laws that coffee plantation that's struggling to carry out even every day tasks of themselves without having slaves in there also struggling to interact with people of color in the country and i think it's fair to say that this is a portrait of a country evolving and the fact that it is said at the end of the 1800s it feels very relevant to conversations that are being had today as well now as always at the better than all of plenty going on inside the theaters but also some news happening outside of the theaters what's what's happening on day 4 of the festival . we call you know despite the glitz and glamour of the bad in this film festival

always likes to bill itself as inherently political but there's been some questions over whether that really is the case notably off the comments from the chinese artist and dissident i way way you said that the committee did not show his film his documentary because they were concerned about upset ing sponsors here with strong business ties in china notably audi which is owned by folks fog another says something that the directors have refuted that said many people here say that they won't be boycotting the ballet not it because if. i did helen humphrey on the red carpet for us keeping us up to date thank you very much. voters in homburg have been electing a new state government it's germany's only regional election this year and it's a rare chance for a victory for the center left social democrats arrest p.d. junior partners at the federal level in coalition with the chancellor under the medicals c.d.u.

the social democrats have performed poorly in a series of recent elections the earn out in hamburg was high dissed by stormy weather in the northern port city let's take a look now at the numbers we're getting those and as we speak these are the latest projected results based on a partial count of the vote now these are the results at this stage for homburg and . the social democrats are on top with 37.5 percent the greens taking 25.5 percent that's a big rise for that group ugly americans party be christian democrats or the 11 and a half left party right around 9 percent and the far right alternative for germany or d. coming in there as well now if you could just move the prompter down a bit i could give you the rest of the numbers every other business friendly f.t.p. at 5 percent and other parties completing the picture there as you see. i keep

brady is here to break down those results we were just getting those in the polls closing only a few minutes ago what stands out to you as you're taking a look well let's dissect air especially after 2 rather major events here in germany in the last couple of weeks so what stands out of course the s.p.d. 37.5 percent they've retained their stronghold of course a booking the national trend where the expedia fit ladling at around 14 percent also at the minutes are a good win for them that they've managed to hold on to that stronghold that merkel c.d.u. been hit with a record low at around 11.5 percent down 4 percent 5 years ago are now the cd you haven't done very well in hamburg for a long long time it's very much as stronghold s.p.d. territory exactly but that said of course the debacle in the eastern state of the other week when the c.d.u. that cooperated with the f.t. has certainly not helped them there. to have the greens argue the big winners despite coming in 2nd position they have doubled. the quantity 15 elections more

than doubled their votes and then of course you have the far right a.f.d. who at the moment at least according to these projections looks set to fail to reach that 5 percent threshold which would mean they would be then well hamburg would be the 1st state in germany to kick out of parliament so the a.f.p. would no longer be in all of germany's 16 state parliament so let's stick with the of do you mean they are not as popular of a party in hamburg as they are in in many other states in germany particularly in the in the east the why is that there's a couple of reasons for that really i mean if you compare it to. sorry if you compare voices in hamburg to those in eastern germany or parts of eastern germany they have not been really hit by a lot of the grievances that the voters in the east often use as the reasons behind why they voted for the a.f.d. and they don't feel that they have been as hard hit. it's by the failings what they

see as failings by the conservatives and by the big tent parties in germany and as well as the port city and its always really hard to do itself on its status as an international and open minded city states and so that obviously doesn't fit in with the often xenophobia come far out rhetoric that we hear from the far right. now we heard the turnout was higher a i think in 2015 the last election was an all time low in terms of turnout and homburg what can you tell us why were more people coming to the polls this time around despite the bad weather we are expected in the polls to turn out to hit even 60 percent this year and certainly climate change has played a massive role in this election and it has been dubbed the climate election. as a city state is very climate conscious it has more electric or charging stations for its cars for example than any other city in germany we've seen massive turnouts

there at the fridays for future demonstrations and also climate change could become exist exists then shal crisis for people in hamburg in coming years particularly given rise in sea levels and so this is an issue that is very close to voices hot there and of course the people who of benefited the most from this policy is of course the great. correspondent kate brady 3 months. so. in buenas legal action title hopefuls dortmunder travel to vertebrae mn on saturday and got revenge on the side that knocked them out of the german cup earlier this month in center we're finding dan axel zaga do from the corner and this right here is his 1st goal of the season for now as 14 assists that's the joint to meet her 15 minutes later on hakimi finding nothing hot and smashed on his 9th leaguer goal

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