this is the deputy news live from berlin india rolling out the red carpet for the u.s. president prime minister noda extending a warm welcome to donald trump as a to address a huge rally in the state of gujarat some high profile visit an opportunity to deepen relations in spite of a stubborn trade dispute also longer so. the party is definitively over italy shuts down carnival festivities in venice after a 4th person dies of the coronavirus south korea also trying to contain

a sharp rise in new in fact it's. great to have you with us on the show today i'm brian thomas u.s. president donald trump has arrived in india on his 1st official visit there the president and 1st lady milanello landing in ahmedabad the largest city in the indian prime minister's home state of gujarat tens of thousands lining up in a welcome the president's 2 day visit aims to build on last year's meeting between the 2 leaders and to deepen between the u.s. and india which have been strained by a trade just it. all trump and modi have been addressing a rally of some 100000 people at the motera stadium the world's largest cricket ground. everybody loves to. but i will tell you this he's very tough.

or are on today prime minister modi is the tremendously successful leader of this vast indian republic. last year more than 600000000 people went to the polls and gave him a landslide victory like no other in the largest 1 democratic election ever held 1 anywhere on the face of the earth. the u.s. president there speaking just a few moments ago in ahmedabad let's get the very latest live now it did have his son here folic are joining us from the indian capital delhi good day to you sania a lot of praise there for india from the u.s. president and it's democracy you looking at this visit is india pulling out all the stops for the american president i mean they really can't do much more

here for this visit. the fabulous the right brian and the indian government really leaving no stone unturned to really pull off a lavish epic spectacle if you like a grand reception for donald trump in this stadium as you said over 100000 people have gathered to watch president trump and the 1st lady and in his false remarks as you said he has really heaped lavish fulsome praise on prime minister no one the ends of leadership he also kind of talked about various aspects of the indian u.s. relationship he also paid praise that you know the soft power of india but by reforming to with famous bollywood film industry at that and picketing legend he's also said you know america remains a loyal friend to. india and he also made mention of some defense deals that we find during this visit and i think the crowd all lapped it up you know we're

getting live pictures right now for our viewers we have the render modi the prime minister waving to the crowd there the u.s. president it seems as well it seems like a very warm relationship very genuine one between those 2 leaders looking at the images right now these bilateral ties that they're working on it of course of the center of talks today that will be heading into after this rally what is the state of us in the relations as they headed to those talks later today. when you write that this there was certainly a kind of personal chemistry between these 2 leaders thought thing a sign off a deepening friendship between them but but some people here are also saying you know this this this is also very high on optics and spectacle but kind of law and substance and that's because you know originally this visit was meant to kind of feel i'm a god create thing in between india and the u.s. the u.s. is of course one of india's top creating partners but that deal is now off the

table because there are several disagreements the took on. we thought not to manage to iron out critical differences of a range of trade issues which have really been complicated by a set of retaliatory tit for tat tat of which which started last year when when president from for offended india's preferential trade status so that remains a very tricky issue still but beyond trade i think that all the strategic issues geopolitics at play you know india does remain an important strategic partner for the us and in that context india in. india and us defense ties up steadily deepened and we think india is now one of the top bio's off u.s. weapons and what we're likely to see in this visit definitely the series of defense related agreements president trump actually talked today about india you know thinking of defense even buying defense helicopters what about $3000000000.00 the sunny thanks so much for that for now we'll have plenty more live from india for this

a bilateral meeting going on for the next 2 days for now though thanks very much it's the latest on the coronavirus now countries around the world scrambling to cope with the surgeon and cases with authorities introducing a number of measures to try to contain the outbreak south korea has raised its infectious disease alert to the highest level after more than $160.00 new cases reported today china meanwhile confirming $150.00 deaths in a single day pushing the number of fatalities there to about 26 on. the annual meeting of parliament originally scheduled to start on march 5th has been postponed and authorities in italy are reporting a 4th death from the virus authorities have their hands full trying to prevent a widespread outbreak. midnight on the italian austrian border police and the army are deployed to guard a train with a potentially deadly cargo operators stopped the service amid fears that 2 of its

passengers were carrying the corona virus only once tests came back negative where 70 says resumed. italy is battling to control a sudden eruption of the virus more than 10 tons and no under quarantine measures roadblocks are just one way officials at the center of the outbreak are trying to contain the rapid spread of the infections. to sort out. the by inviting people to stay it on in addition to closing places where crowds congregate. trying to ensure containment of this phenomenon. authorities wasted little time there we had to leave in a hurry. cultural hubs closed their doors from the opera house. they told us it was suspended for the next few days to this sense cyril football

stadium for top flight football matches where perspire owned milan fashion week also fell victim on money closed its runway show to the crowds. leaving giorgio staring at empty seats. at the venice carnival was cut short too over the weekend the italian prime minister sought to allay fears and said there were no plans to close the borders. i will start off the movie soon will even go to moment there are no preconditions for requesting them and training the suspension of the schengen treaty and the suspension of the free movement of people. but if you are lip or sort of italy is now the european frontier of this disease whether it remains that we will depend in large part on the success of its response let's get the very latest live on what is a developing situation in italy was run correspondent philip well and philip what's

the situation right now in the north around milan we have 10 towns about $50000.00 people under quarantine in that region. yes a very alarming situation now that really for all italians we've just received an update on the numbers of confirmed cases which imprison about $200.00 now and we kept the news of a 4th death an elderly man in now have better come of age 84 at r.b.s. suffering from up there and health problems as well but he is now tonight and he was also suffering from coronavirus as really a very yet worrying situation for all italians at the moment and of course the concern here is whether that restrictive measures will need to be extended to all the areas and maybe even to major cities are those the next steps what is the

government looking at should the quarantine now in place in the north not be sufficient to contain the spread of this farce. yes i think that's the key question that really if the measures being taken so far that don't appear to be working at it clearly may just have to be stepped up to happen of course if one starts shutting down major industrial cities that the consequences for the italian economy will be very severe and that's so it's a very delicate. moment forward talian authorities at the moment and kidney a lot of debate going on among the politicians but also. getting the advice of scientists as well and that really hoping at keeping fingers crossed and that the measures separate in place so far will prove to be sufficient philip

what are scientists in italy saying about the corona virus how it made its way to italy which person was the 1st carrier do we have any new information in that area. the new as scientists are baffled actually that they haven't been i will to identify the so-called patient 0 an individual who is suspected of being at the beginning of this secondary contagion in italy and it turned out not to be causative to coronavirus tests so we have the authorities are a battle for the moment as to how this. eruption affect cases began and there's also been a certain amount of to ing and fro ing between scientists as to how serious an alarming this. outbreak of corona virus is some saying that in actual

fact it's the panic that is more dangerous than the reality of disease that in many cases it is simply like a bad case of flu when people can stay at home and just get her grip with rest and medicine so. it's not very clear really at what we should be believing about this and italians are a fairly from extent at the moment ok phil thanks very much for that from rome. and we have much more on that run a virus at our you tube channel and our website here in germany the center left social democrats have won sunday's election in the city state of hamburg with 39 percent of the vote now this victory marks a turnaround for the party its support has fallen sharply in other recent state elections hamburg's voters though punished chason ackles christian democrats the conservatives received just 11 percent of the ballots. was

was was. finally a result to celebrate for germany's ailing social democrats after a run of election losses the s.p.d. were the clear winners in homburg on sunday nationalist be the leaders welcome to turn around. and push aside how this gives the s.p.d. a shall we and i think it's the right kind of politics and i think it's the kind of politics that suits the whole this meeting is be depressed. but for chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's the worst state election result in almost 70 years. this is b. to lattakia it's a bitter day for the c.d.u. in germany it's an historically bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg and there's no way to put a gloss on that since only 5. greens doubled their vote i they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c.d.u.

in federal elections next year just yet as additional. we see we really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the c.d.u. a say preoccupied with south city can essentially be ruled out as a party of government like a student i was. a. green supporters chanted nazis when it looked like cumber voters had kicked out the far right alternative for germany but as more results came in the f.t. moved above the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the state parliament. and it has just been reported that the c.d.u. is to hold a special party conference at the end of april or in early may when delegates will elect a new party leader that leader will be in a strong position to take over from. as german chancellor. this is deja vu news live from berlin w. takes a look at life that negative 40 degrees celsius in our documentary northern lights

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