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this is the deputies life for lead italy reports its 1st coronavirus case south of rome it comes as the country battles to stop europe's biggest outbreak spreading beyond its borders regions that are already on lockdown our correspondent reports from along on the measures being taken and also coming up u.s. president donald trump says progress has been made on what he calls a comprehensive trade deal with india prime minister director of bodhi calls relations between their 2 countries the most important partnership of the 21st
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century plus german prosecutors urged rethink of carnival security measures after a car plows into a parade injuring dozens many of them children and his critics are hailing the guilty verdict for disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein no longer of business as usual in the united states this is the age of the power of the women and you cannot intimidate them any more. but will weinstein's conviction for sex crimes assuring a new era of respect in the entertainment industry. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the world health organization has warned that more must be done to prepare for a potential corona virus pandemic more than 80000 people have now been affected worldwide most of them in china. south korea now has the 2nd highest number of
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cases at close to 1000 president and says the situation there is very grave several countries have imposed travel restrictions in a bid to contain the virus the main hotspots are outside china are japan iran and italy. health officials there say that the number of cases is rising rapidly and in italy that is they've now confirmed a new case in the south of the country prompting concerns about the spread of the virus which was previously concentrated in the northern regions police have sealed off a number of towns as they battle to contain the outbreak italy is to post a summit of health ministers from neighboring countries to discuss a coordinated response. for more we are joined from milan by d.w. correspondent riegert so back to walk us through what the italian authorities are doing right now in order to extend the measures to contain the coronavirus.
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the government tries to restrict the movement of italians especially here in the malls and in specially in lumba which is the center of the industrial production in italy and also the economic center. is a center of tourism and these measurements of measures that lead to the fact that describe behind me is more or less empty it's very it would be very crowded in a normal day you know there are only a few tourists and a few shop is here because all of the rest runs the bars the shops universities offices everything is mall is closed and locked out the government wants to avoid the spread of the virus but it doesn't help obviously because now we have this 1st case in public out of most in sicily and this case comes from a man who was from the north traveling to the solace and now that the cases are no
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longer isolated to the north how concerning is that for people. now the people in the south the reason say we have to restrict travel even more we would not come anybody from the north now and the people in the north say that condi you cannot prevent us from going some places in italy so there's no tensions tensions running high between the north and the solids and there's also discussion of what to do with the borders of italy to the neighboring countries the far right populist legal knowledge which is raining here and those says we have to close the borders to frons to austria into slovenia but so far the italian government says that would have no effect because the the virus is already in italy how is the economy being impacted band. well monday the stock exchange she experienced
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a black monday 6 percent value was just burned 40000000000 euros just going away and we don't know what will happen today that estimates that the italian government economy will slide into recession this year and that will mean less taxes for the state and the more state debt and it's not clear if the state would be able to cope with all the impact and also critical voices that say you are doing too much it's overdone the corona is only an influence don't bring the country to a grinding halt with your measures bantry got correspondent in the line thank you. and as the new corona virus spreads further around the world international scientists have been responding to the crisis from finding a vaccine to calculating the risk of the virus spreading researchers are doing their bit in the race to outpace it. an epidemic that's
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threatening the globe calls for a global response. the new coronavirus 1st emerged in the city of new han but the efforts to combat the virus go far beyond china. researches all over the globe are racing to contain it. better to have chinese scientists publish the genetic code of the virus in early january enabling scientists around the world to start working on it. at home home university pathologists of grain the new coronavirus and human tissue to find out more about its properties one of the basic. things which people want to know about this farce is the firstly what is a place or especially fact or in the human body in which the process replication and the 2nd is what sort of damage is according to the body and then also to see how the body reacts to this virus damage. the ultimate goal in the fight against
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any viruses to find a vaccine multiple teams around the world already searching for the magic bullet that can be used to immunize people one of them is based in belgium at the university of life and. vaccine development takes 1015 years before a new vaccine may come so no the entire scientific community is trying to get foster there to through. help in this emergency. the belgian teams research is partly conducted in a robotic lab that separates researches from hazardous pathogens they hope that within a few weeks there will be able to test the 1st vaccine on mice. between mice and using this in humans is still a long long part because you need to do all kinds of tests safety tests and and animals and then you need to test for safety and human volunteers.
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despite the scientists best efforts a successful vaccine against kovac 19 is not expected to be ready for use on humans until the summer of next year so research is also focusing on how to minimize the risk of the virus spreading. in germany's capital berlin physicist but man and his colleagues have been working on a global risk assessment model analyzing flight data they calculate the risk of the spread of the disease for different countries. it's an advisory capacity not just in germany but beyond our borders the work on modeling the spread of infectious diseases has become really important. so my experience is that in this area of research all the teams around the world are very tightly knit we exchange all our data and information it wasn't like that during the a bullet crisis or the h one n one pandemic this is really new. the fight against the new coronavirus is
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a race against time and while the response to the virus has been one of the quickest in recent history the west wing outbreaks in iran south korea and italy could be an indication of just how close that race will be. the u.s. president donald trump has been talking trade with prime minister and render a modi on his 2nd day of his visit to india the talks were part of a busy day in the indian capital delhi the 2 leaders met business leaders and official representatives and took part in. such occasions talks on trade and dragging and the president had said that he didn't expect much of a result but after the talks he said progress on what he called a comprehensive trade deal has been made. a 2nd listen to what modi and trump have been saying. ever president.
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contribution and. relations to this level has been invaluable large friends. getting our discussions today. we had a. productive exchange on every important aspect of life but there were these were at a point where a relationship is so special with india it has never been as good as it is right now and i think just because the 2 leaders of each country were really we've been we feel very strongly about each other and. we have we have done something that's very unique and we've made some wonderful deals for each of our countries once again we want to thank you and the entire nation of indians were honoring the united states with its outstanding welcome and i'm pleased to say that the u.s. indian partnership is now truly stronger than ever before and you correspondent me should just while has been following the bilateral talks between trump and modi in
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the indian capital delhi the highlight of the u.s. president's 2 day visit to india the bilateral talks between prime minister naji and more of the and us press than donald trump have come to an end in statements to the press prime minister intervenes more of the talk about this time richmond of the phone prehensile strategic partnership between the 2 countries calling it one of the most valuable partnerships off the 21st century he said the leaders discussed issues ranging from defense and energy to technology and connectivity and also agreed to stop negotiations for a comprehensive trade deal with us preston donald trump once again about the if you will $71.00 vulcan he received in them the body yesterday he said that the 2 countries would be cooperate on islamic terror and he also emphasized that any trade deal in the future must be fair and recipe for both countries the 2 leaders will once again if you will 7 praise for each other with the u.s. president going so far as to say that they have very strong feelings for each other
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however this chemistry has not translated into a comprehensive trade deal so far achieved 1000000000 defense deal however was announced and village i mean the highlight of this today a bilateral me. well there in delhi a pretty quick check of some other stories making news around the world floods in the indonesian capital jakarta have charlize to parts of the city and our many residents have been evacuated the latest inundation comes less than 2 months after almost 70 people died in some of the city's worst flooding in mirrors. violent clashes in haiti's capital port au prince have led to the city being put on a lockdown anti-government protesters blocked streets with stones and burning tires after police attacked the army headquarters to demand better working conditions the impoverished caribbean island has been struggling with a prolonged economic and political crisis. a court in china has sentenced
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bookseller min high to 10 years in jail on charges of illegally sending intelligence abroad he's a chinese born citizen of sweden owning a hong kong publishing house that sold titles banned in mainland china his supporters say that he is a victim of political persecution. in germany prosecutors have urged a rethink of carnival security measures after a 29 year old man drove a car into a crowd at a carnival parade it happened in the town of volk mohsen in the western state of has police say that 52 people were injured 18 of them children some of the injured are in a serious condition the driver was also injured he was arrested at the scene and faces several charges including attempted homicide police believe that he acted intentionally but his motive for me it's unclear. to celebrate carnival the rules monday parade however timed into a scene of horror when
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a 29 year old man drove into the crowds causing mayhem his actions apparently deliberate. drove right into the crowd at full speed i had the feeling he kept accelerating people flew up into the air like paper a few seconds of deathly silence and then they all started screaming. i mean my classmate was driven into he has an injured foot and a concussion. dozens were injured some seriously and several children were among those heart police say the suspect is a local man whom they plan to interview a soon as his conditions permit begin for the we're not assuming an attack but we do think it was an intentional act we don't yet know the background the investigation isn't far enough along to say anything about a potential motive has this state appeared moved. 5 days after the terrorist talking of course it's in the back of everyone's mind my god not again
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but my advice is that we remain calm doesn't help anyone if we all start speculating wildly. police canceled all carnival parade state wide following the incident authorities have set up an information hotline an appeal to eyewitnesses to send them photos and videos and not to post them anywhere else. today every reporter emmanuelle the chase is in full mars and she joins us now a menu of trolleys have been giving a statement late this morning what have they been saying. well there come found a number of injured people 52 people have been injured when that man drove into a crowd yesterday including 18 children and 35 of those people injured us 2 currently being treated at the hospital we found out this morning that the
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youngest child being at the hospital currently at the hospital he's on he's 3 years old and unfortunately the children currently in the hospital are around that age so very young children who have been who have been hit by this yesterday that's what's we learned that's what was new this morning otherwise the spokesperson for the ritz is for the police or so say that a 20 year old 29 year old man arrested is still not in a states to talk he's been injured himself is still being treated at the hospital and as soon as he will be in a position to speak you'll be questioned by police as to trying to understand he's much evasion for such an audience and those who are injured do we have any more information on how they are indeed doing in the hospital. we don't have any further information on that we just know that 35 people are still
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in the hospital but to give you an idea they usually. have a rose monday here in gemini's a day where many schools are closed so that children can attend a carnival parade and all around me even if the streets have been cleaned i can see you see these people where you know very festive mode yesterday a lot of children were here industries and. in fact mohsen there were around 700 people and 50 of them including 88 including 18 children have been injured i. heard people telling me this morning that they so choose during being sent in the air by days current and there was silence complete silence and then the cries and the shouts where rising people realizing what had just happened so very much still a state of shock here in the city this morning what i mean you articulate the state of shock but you how is this small town coming to terms with this the day after.
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well you know of the people i so does mourning looked really tense looked to initial day didn't think that would happen in such a quiet place and also didn't think that's going to happen only 5 days after another attack is so direct enough ahead somehow to happen in there also and the shock to a why would anyone driving to a crowd raise so many children this is a very small community around 7 towns and inhabitants so you can imagine. what was supposed to be a festive event transform into an unfolding into a drama yesterday. is the manual the chase info wasn't thank you. the new york jury has handed down what's being called the most
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anticipated verdict of the me 2 era hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault in a trial that centered on testimony by 2 women his lawyer said that he will appeal the verdict which carries a jail term of up to 25 years the time's up foundation formed in the wake of weinstein's accusations or the accusation toward weinstein said that a new era of justice has become. it was his last day of freedom for the moment the 12 jurors found harvey weinstein guilty of 2 of the 5 charges against him the jury found the former hollywood producer guilty of rape and sexual assault. 2 years ago production assistant mimi haley accused weinstein of having forcibly performed oral sex on the women have the right to say no. and there was no regardless of the circumstances. and i told her you know jessica a man accused of going steen a rape here the jury found him guilty of 3rd degree rape and determine that he
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didn't use physical force but did not obtain man's consent. rape is rape whether it's committed by a stranger in a dark alley or by an intimate. you know working relationship migrating up weinstein's defense lawyer resolved to fight back and cited his poor health. care in the medical condition is going to be fighting and dealing with it will be filed but in appeal. thank you everybody. sentencing is set for march 11th weinstein is currently in hospital after reportedly complaining of chest pains following the verdict 0 9. let's get more on the verdict we're joined here in the studio by sophie charlotte rieger founder of the feminist film called the film lioness in english welcome to the program and thank you for joining us what was your 1st reaction when you heard
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this verdict well on a very personal level my 1st reaction was very positive that there is relieved and with a lot of hope that things will change for the better is it as big a victory for the need movement as people have hopes you think well i think i don't think we can tell that right now thanks. but definitely it is a small victory on a longer pass because it's shows us that the victim's voices the survive as voices have been heard and they have been taken seriously and that's a very very important thing just as much as to see legal consequences for a perpetrator you know the importance of this for you know those survivors of assault harassment victims especially in the entertainment industry cannot be overemphasized but in your opinion do you think that this really sets the industry up for real change i hope so i hope that it encourages people to speak up and not only people who are affected by abuse or harassment but also people witnessing
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these things but i think we mustn't forget that identifying these say as such is one of the issues that we're still tech aling so what we have to do now is to educate people on how to recognize what is an act of sexual harassment for example and how it is a play into power structures so this is the way that we need to go still so what would then be your suggestion in terms of how to carry that out well to educate people who make just the people who are in power but also everyone working in the industry basically and how to identify this kind of situations and what you can do to support people who suffer from this do you think that we have more trials ahead now in the years to come in the wake of the harvey weinstein hope so but i think to fully answer those questions we have to wait for the final sentence also and we thank you so much for joining us here on the program to share your perspective so if you surely are eager founder of the feminist film blog called the film lioness
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we appreciate. in other news france's former prime minister from top feel has gone on trial for fraud he's accused of using public funds to pay his wife and children for work that they allegedly never performed the hearing was adjourned until wednesday as lawyers are on strike to protest a manual mccombs pension reforms ffion denies any wrongdoing. former nasa mathematician catherine johnson has died at the age of 101 johnson's calculations helped put the 1st american space and later the 1st man on the moon she was portrayed in a 26000 hit film hidden figures about pioneering black female workers at nasa we have some breaking news coming in for you here on the you former egyptian president hosni mubarak has died at the age of 91 mubarak ruled egypt for 30 years until he was ousted in 2011 following mass protest against his rule he was jailed 4
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years after the uprising was freed in 2017 after being acquitted of most charges. now the sports and the entertainment industry as came together in a bid to a final farewell bit to basketball star and oscar winner kobe bryant on monday his widow vanessa led the eulogies which included contributions by legends of the game such as michael jordan and performances by christina aguilera and. like everything else could be bryant did in life he's fail will was a big time production and this is one of his favorite songs. is what i want to start over but i want us to do it all together and i want you to sing it so loud. we already. knew. we could be. the piece of meat.
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as i look in his arena across the globe a piece or you die. or she wouldn't be here. today koby game are respectless you guys were complaining. so she called was not personable said i'll talk to. i said coburn. there's no our. cobras i know but there's a in me and my mother. i was. i still regard to her. and big show bubba's are just good to rebore here's my post. in the end the tributes for the play i gave whitey tributes to the soul they missed father and daughter him as a celebrity. if. you take care of our cheat sheet.
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and i got 90 b.b. in cocoa we're still the best team we love and miss you booboo and chichi. you both rest in peace and have fun and have been telling me to get one day we love you both and miss you. forever and always mommy. ah. quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you here and italy has ordered its 1st for the virus case outside the northern regions where it's outbreak
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