this is the governor's life in a car plows into crowds of german festival rattlers injuring dozens police arrest the driver segment act in the western town the folks moslem was intentional children are amongst the injured. i'm forgetting welcome to the program we begin with breaking news police here in germany are investigating a possible are investigating possible attack after

a car drove into a crowd of ravenous celebrating carnival the incident happened in the town of folds mollison and state of has more than 30 people have been injured some of them seriously the driver was arrested at the same police say they believe he acted intentionally. a carnival parade was moving through the streets of folk mas in a monday afternoon when a car drove into a crowd of people who had come to watch the procession police saying many people were hurt at the scene as a result of the crash in the small town in the german state of hassa authorities have shut down the area to allow emergency crews to attend to injured persons original newspaper reported that witnesses said the car went around a barrier blocking off traffic from the parade there are contradictory reports about whether the driver intended to drive into the crowd. police say he was a 29 year old german citizen and has now been arrested carnival parades in the rest

of the state have now been canceled let's bring in correspondent kate brady welcome kate let's let's start with the latest well we have as we have there in the report hearing contradiction reports at the moment of whether or not the drive a did indeed drive into the crowd intentionally and we've heard reports in german media spoken to the police as well who said that they believe that he did indeed carry out brother decided to drive into the crowd intentionally however at the same time the german interior ministry is saying that at the moment. the suspected perpetrator cannot currently be questioned so it seems at least that a lot of the information that police are acting on at the moment is from witnesses and we've heard as well in german media many witnesses reporting that the driver actually drove around a barrier that was in place at the carnival parades and then proceeded to drive

some 30 meters into the crowd so we will be getting more information from all thought over the course of the evening but we also do know at the moment that the driver as i say hands being taken into custody but apparently is not able to be questioned at the moment and we believe on information from the police that that the suspected perpetrator is a 29 year old man and a german citizen and we also know as well that several people have been injured we're hearing reports of some 30 people who have been injured among them some of them seriously injured and also children as well so if people if police are assuming that this was a deliberate people are going to start wondering about motivation. so in the of course the german interior ministry has already said at the moment they they cannot rule out intention but of course it is too early to start talking about motives of

course some indication might be given depending on who later takes over this case at the moment the regional prosecution front for the prosecution a currently in charge of this case but of course if this case does indeed become taken over by federal federal prosecution then surely that is certainly and an indicator and that this is being treated as an attack but at the moment we're still waiting for 100 percent concrete confirmation that this was indeed carried out intentionally so this this town folds miles and i'm sure lost most people outside of germany will never have heard of it but it is in the same it is a town in the same state in which last week's deadly shootings happened hard security been increased as a result. well as i knew the german interior ministry had promised last week that police presence would be increased in germany in light of the far right extremist terror attack not far from full miles in the last wednesday evening but at the same

time there will have been more officers out on the streets today given the amount of people out in about 4 carnival celebrations and as we know as well barriers were in place at the carnival parades as well which we now believe at least from witness reports that the driver drove around that said all forest is were also prepping shirts and preparing for possible retaliation attacks police confirmed that last week again it's not yet confirmed whether this was indeed an attack but that's not something that can be ruled out or thora these have said so far so we'll just have to wait for more confirmation from the interior ministry and also from police to see how this progresses. thank you take a break. bring another breaking news story now and a hollywood producer harvey weinstein has just been found guilty of sexual assault

he is facing 5 sexual misconduct charges by the court in new york acquitted him of the most serious charges of sex predator essential assault and 1st degree rape or his team had denied wrong doing saying the sexual encounters were consensual the verdict follows a weeks of graphic testimony from a string of accused right. now the corona virus outbreak has forced the china's national people's congress to postpone your meetings for the 1st time in decades the number of deaths in china has risen to maybe 2600 south korea has raised its infectious disease alert to its highest level following 160 a new cases i'm iran's confirmed death toll now stands at 12 the highest number of fatalities outside china and that report comes from europe's worst hit country west 7 people have died from the virus. midnight on the italian austrian border

police and the army are deployed to guard to train with a potentially deadly cargo operators stop the service amid fears that 2 of its passengers were carrying the coronavirus only once tests came back negative where service is resumed italy is battling to control a sudden eruption of the virus this entire town was summoned to be tested in makeshift 1st aid centers. nervous wait a commie activity yet i knew yesterday it was my birthday and now i've been told happy birthday after the swab we shall see we wait they told us that if we are positive they'll alert us immediately that us and the neighboring lombardy region more than 10 tons have been quarantined. police set up roadblocks around the area a so-called red zone in an effort to stem the rapid rise of infections.

to sort out the actions of the by inviting people to stay at home in addition to closing places where crowds congregate. trying to ensure containment of this phenomenon. of. milan 2 is winding down from the opera house to the cathedral cultural hubs have closed their doors fashion week true also fell victim armani closed its runway show to the crowd leaving georgia staring at empty seat meanwhile the european union has pledged 230000000 euros to fight the global outbreak we stress that. for the moment. w.h.r. has not advised changing pup imposing restrictions on other travel or trade. there was some rest bite for residents of the taj dubbed italy's wu han authorities open

one supermarket after a weekend in lockdown. though going by the queues it may be sold out pretty fast. well the italian region of lombardi has 10 towns and 50000 people under quarantine one of the towns within this red zone that we just heard in that report there could danya in southeast of milan correspondent ben we get is just outside the town where authorities believe they have found italy's patient 0 the person at the center of the outbreak in the town yeah the city of could own and others a hospital of concern is just just around the corner from here this is one of the last check points before you enter this epicenter of these surprisingly fast outbreak of coronavirus in italy in this hospital that was they believe now the authorities there was patient 0 a 38 year old man admitted to the hospital last thursday and they traced down all his contacts and could trace 150 cases of coronavirus connect that to

this man is wife is now. she's pregnant both of them are in the hospital. we also have a new death case here in this town but the. authorities still don't know how this patient 0 got the of ours he has never been to china he had some context over a friend who has been to china but this friend to say they get tips so nobody knows exactly how this virus arrived here along but the hardest hit region of italy right now. and being it's reporting now the other stories making news around the world and supporters of julian assange gathered outside a court in london where a hearing has begun into wiki leaks founder should be actually teach the u.s. to face spying charges supporters say he is a journalist exposing government misdeeds. spent 7 years holed up in london's

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a reminder of our top stories at this hour police in germany say least 30 people have been injured after a cop plowed into crowds celebrating khan about the incident happened in the town of fog mohsen in the state that has a some of the injures articles on the scene there's a driver has been arrested now police say they believe he acted intentionally. i'm hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty on 2 sex crimes charges of course in the uk acquitted of most serious charges denied wrongdoing describing sexual encounters as a consensual. this is directly news and business africa where that benazir lived in a setting that getting get to news around the clock on our website that's d w dot com on the world news of the top of the hour a good. i'm

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