this is news coming to you live from sounding the alarm the german government says the country is facing its own coronavirus epidemic while president trump says the u.s. is well prepared to face any. we're ready to adapt and we're ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads if it spreads also coming up experts warn of another scourge spreading as fast as a credit by risk itself mis information the world health organization is using

social media giants to counter what it calls an. international polar bear day as those majestic creatures face a shrinking arctic conservationists hope the day will encourage more people to think about their carbon footprint and do something to reduce. manchester city come from behind to start real madrid to one and gain the advantage in their last 16 times. follow in terry martin good to have you with us the coronavirus is now spreading faster outside of china than in it here in germany 10 new cases have been confirmed since tuesday evening and the government has set up an emergency. taskforce to deal

with the outbreak 2 patients are being treated at a hospital in the city of dusseldorf authorities warn that the number of cases is likely to rise significantly as they're no longer able to trace the chain of infection. german health minister again says the country is at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic and is urging regional authorities to review their emergency planning if. we are at the beginning of a coronavirus of adamic in germany the cases in north rhine-westphalia. or a further sign of this change of infection are partly and this is a new aspect not traceable there are multiple persons who have had contact with the infected patients. and that's a qualitative difference to the 16 infectious cases we've already had in germany where in each case the chain of infection could be traced back to the break in china. well for more on how germany is coping with the corona virus are joined here

by our political correspondent kate pretty good morning kate so the health minister there we heard him saying that the country is now facing its own coronavirus the demick what's the government doing about it well at the moment we're seeing a very clear headed and level headed approach to this actually of course the german government is in touch with other european governments as well particularly with italy but at the moment germany for example has no specific pandemic plan in place for the. virus but we are still in the situation change very rapidly so we could see plans change measures being increased in the coming days and of course the federal government has local governments to review measures and health plans as well but we're seeing not at the moment we're not really seeing any large scale measures no towns being closed off for example like we've seen in italy but of course the government to make sure that people who are affected. related has been

the case and also people who are being in contact with these affected people. for a couple of weeks. and of course the general the general public as well as to keep. very simple measures of hand washing as well. that is carried out. ok well one place where the virus is spreading in germany is the state of north rhine-westphalia man and his wife have both been hospitalized there in the city of ft. authorities transported the 47 year old man in this wife to a. clinic early tuesday morning the man's condition is critical he tested positive for covert 19 as the new coronaviruses named on wednesday officials confirmed both he and his wife were infected.

and is gravely ill he's suffering badly from pneumonia and is on ventilation. the good news is that his condition did not deteriorate overnight showing signs of improvement if the woman is also ill inflammation of the lungs and the fever but she is by no means in the same serious condition as her husband. the couple's 2 children have so far shown no symptoms of the forest and it being closely monitored . the couple has an active social life as you might be aware as weekend there were carnival celebrations throughout the state of north rhine-westphalia. what's important is that the woman is a kindergarten teacher and of course was working in child care until the beginning of carnival celebrations. children enrolled in daycare centers and schools in the area as well as parents are being told to remain at home for the next 2 weeks the goal is to break the chain of infection. the tradition and this

is why the challenge considering the man was in various places while displaying symptoms during the virus is 10 to 14 day period so he's intentionally came into contact with an almost endless number of people there is a man who was recently treated twice at the university clinic in cologne for an unrelated illness stuff who had contact with them there are now under quarantine. so the crew is continuing to spread the german health ministers warning of an epidemic in this country how worried or people in germany of course people are concerned this is something new we still don't know everything about this virus and of course at the moment that's still currently no vaccine available but some fucking it will seem to have been acting rather responsibly and calmly people quarantining themselves for the required amount of time as we saw the report that some schools have also being closed as well as a precautionary measure during that. period and of course people have been reaching

out to health authorities where necessary and it certainly seems here in berlin at least that people have been taking hand washing take very seriously very lucky to try and find some hand sanitizer at the moment as many of the shelves here at least in the capital empty of alcohol and lots of soap as well all must be said also that germany's health system is pretty well set up to deal with at least the country's health ministers. of course germany has a very strong health system and i think that something as well that's keeping germans as well extremely calm right now and they are of course following the advice of the of the of the health ministry as well and the best thing that people can do is just keep listening to see what the local measurement measures offer from local governments as well ok thanks so much political correspondent kate great fear . well this new form of corona virus emerged in the chinese city of in december

to date the virus has claimed almost 3000 lives globally more than 82000 cases have been reported the vast majority of them in china the infection rate there is now slowing down as the virus spreads faster elsewhere the number of new cases reported outside china over took those inside the country for the 1st time on wednesday here's a look at what's happening with the corona virus in different countries around the world south korea has again reported its biggest one day jump in infections saudi arabia has stopped travel to religious sides due to fears over the virus just months ahead of the animal haunch pilgrimage here in europe italy's outbreak has worsened while denmark and its stony up are the latest countries to confirm cases and australia has kicked off emergency measures to stop the disease spreading there well numerous international flights have been cut back or cancelled here's a closer look at how countries are fighting to ward off a pandemic. of

a coronavirus patients and a finally free to return home after one last scratch the coronavirus is increasing its presence far beyond china's border has and ranges from cruise ships in japan to tehran's public transport. it's also having an effect on countries where the pirates has not yet emerged oland has postponed a major international rugby game with italy as a precaution its leaves the country worst affected by the virus in europe despite these concerns health authorities in europe say there's no reason to panic about the coronavirus their take the fight is and this is very seriously at the same time we should also remember that 4 out of 5. patients have mild symptoms and are over. in the u.s. president donald trump held a special press conference on the coronavirus whilst emphasizing that the risk to

americans was low he said the u.s. was prepared to escalate its response to a potential outbreak. we were ready to adapt and we're ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads if it spreads. meanwhile 11 towns in northern italy where the virus has been diagnosed remain under lockdown military police are staffing roadblocks allowing only authorized personnel access nearly 50000 people have been placed under effective quarantine their. world health organization is calling on social media giants to help stir a new brick of misinformation about the coronavirus health officials are calling it an info demick fake news about coping 19 is making it difficult for people to inform themselves properly about the bars. as the corona virus spreads around the world there's another outbreak going viral. misinformation online

from scammers angling for a quick buck to shadowy actors so when chaos manipulators lie in wait. here a website with wild exaggerations of the number of dead and infected false hype from a notorious american white supremacist and another conspiracy theory in the right wing washington times linking the corona virus to china's bio warfare program a rumor rejected by public health scientists. online peddlers are looking to profit from public panic selling products with unproven claims is influenza that is now circling the go so you're saying that silver solution would be effective well let's say it hasn't been tested on this strain of the corona virus but it's been tested on other strains of the corona virus and has been able to eliminate it within 12

hours another site advises people to ward off the corona virus by drinking chlorine dioxide a form of industrial bleach the u.s. food and drug administration says is dangerous. public health experts warn such false claims can cause the virus to spread further and faster distracting people from proven prevention techniques. the world health organization is fighting back putting pressure on social media giants to place reliable sources about the coronavirus higher in search results. and the w.h.o. has launched its own public information task force. there are several measures you can opt to protect yourself and others from getting the new coronavirus the appropriate use of math their top counter measure to dissent from ation is simply putting the truth out there with soap and water or alcohol based

hand rush well for more now we're joined here in the studio by reporter peter dunne from our social media destiny has been watching how the. virus information war has been working out online peter we just saw in that report how much misinformation is circulating online about the corona virus what's the motivation of people who produce and spread that material well there are a number of different reasons as we saw in that report for instance one is you know just stone cold great people are trying to make a quick buck off of other people's fears but the more dangerous kind that we're seeing is really when this information is used as more of a political weapon so it's an attempt to you know weaponized information too so it is trust in governments destabilize governments potentially. you know at a time when people are really looking to their governments and authorities for

answers right so that can be very detrimental just last week the u.s. intelligence community warned against essentially an army of russian ling troll so thousands of fake accounts that are spreading wild out. like for instance the cia having created the virus in order to hurt the chinese economy we've seen similar attacks directed at china and one that i've also seen a lot of is you know rightly populists who essentially jumped on this outbreak to stoke and tame a great sentiment i spoke to a number of asian people who said that they've experienced attacks. and physically in the wake of the outbreak so a lot of different reasons none of them are good a lot of people are really unsure where they should look for accurate information about the coronavirus online what rough guidelines would you offer of them on how they can get the information that they need right i mean the good thing that

we've seen is as a lot of health ministries have been done a pretty pretty good job at you know actively debunking the misinformation that's out there they've rolled out very clear guidelines as to how to deal with the outbreak so look to those i would say number one. also just use your common sense if it sounds too wild to be true like the example we saw in that report hundreds of thousands of people who died you know look to other major outlets are they reporting similar numbers if not you know it's probably not true now the w h o's recent report is set up a special task force to help inform the public accurately about the current virus how effective do you think that'll be i mean it's a step in the right direction but the much greater problem that's none w.h.o. can't contain is the fact that too many of these social media platforms they still rely predominantly on their users to report the misinformation. and

until that changes you know that death threat that a lot of those kids personally you know a lot of this keeps reading is really you know it still exists and it really risk exacerbating a crisis completely unnecessarily it is thanks so much. from our social media to us . of course you can find for liable information about the spread of the corona virus and i can work around it on our website that's to call for now here's a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today syrian rebels say they have to recapture the strategic town in northwestern didley province this as the syrian army continues to push to retake the last large rebel held region of syrian rights group says government troops are responsible in the u.s. 5 people have been killed in a shooting at

a brewery in milwaukee according to police reports the gunman took his own life and he's been identified as a 51 year old employee of the brewery. tunisia's new government has won a vote of confidence in parliament the backing for prime minister only as far as cabinet and more than 4 months of political wrangling since the election the coalition includes parties from across the political spectrum but they continue to disagree on major policy issues. and officials in indonesia say the death toll from floods that hit the capital jakarta has risen to 5 at least 3 others are missing and nearly 10000 people have been displaced floodwaters submerged entire neighborhoods on tuesday following a heavy downpour. you're watching the news still to come javier bardem and sound a high tech start in sally potter's latest movie premiering at the berlin

international film festival to be meted stars made. its world polar bear day a day aimed at reminding people about global warming images of those animals roaming in ever shrinking habitat to become symbolic of the threats of climate change conservationists hope that world polar bear day will encourage people to do . even small things such as turn down their thermostat or take the train instead of the core to help save those majestic animals. they can smell you from a kilometer away run most humans and crush a seal skull with their jaws no doubt about it polar bears like these are seriously scary they're also the best known victims of climate change the one that is not really thought of the polar bears living in the arctic rely on pocket ice with survival they have seals by waiting for them to come up through holes in the ice.

if the ice melts and increases and saw use that becomes a very real threat from a puddle of. warm for the i spend. satellite images of the arctic show red areas where the ice is fading that makes it more difficult for polar bears to hunt seals their main source of food the bears also depend on snow and ice to build dens where females give birth to their young and where they stay for 3 to 4 months after they're born. as of us a few surprises many people is that although polar bears can get really big and all the largest land based presence on the planet when the born that about the size of a guinea pig. almost naked blind deaf and without the support of the mothers they can't survive. for just a few months later they develop into a really handsome but i have and think it's.

only 26000 polar bears are left in the wild so i had to say they warn that 2 thirds of them might disappear within this century if the earth continues to get warmer if governments don't take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions these magnificent animals could even become extinct. things are hotting up in the champions league on wednesday night manchester city travel to dread jonathan crane from the sports is here to tell us all about it. so manchester city we know they've been banned from next season's tournaments but could they still stick around a bit longer than this one well they said they managed to pull off a $21.00 win in madrid recovering from a goal down to stand aside this one is competition more times than any other 3 were really impressive victory now as you might expect. for bracing for the hour

mark of the 1st go through rise by rails capitalize on the mix up in the man city defense but then back to baghdad the al hazy so nice glancing had it from him and then 5 minutes later they completed a comeback from the brain of that the man of the match really in the penalty spot he was absolutely. all night and then to make matters worse for your ram a loss was in a straight red card death bringing down his use when he was strong goals that's a huge play for them because he will not miss the 2nd leg and not. a city that was you that did it i see it with victory we can see them there so what do you think could. could run their manchester city not really all out of the competition they sent me could i mean they've given themselves a great chance really that taking syria way cole's back see manchester that means even a 10 win for round madrid won't be enough remember waco was effectively counts out of them we really need to give manchester city in the quality of the credit for the

way they set up and approach the game because it was quite brave he dropped 2 of his best attacking players right and says they were grier that allowed him to pack the midfield and that really had the effect of stifling madrid to kevin the boy and then really steps up and of course this all comes against the backdrop of this european baton on manchester city that fans were chanting against the way for the day now go out every said look this is not given us that insensitive i'm not sure we can really believe him because one of the reasons he cited so he's expensive is because the owners once were in the competition now while they started off of the game and he said if any side can turn this one around israel madrid let's listen we will play better we concede to goal that we should not conceding these level but sometimes we do these kind of things when mother. we scored a little enough to do it for no one read them and. we scored the 2nd one so.

yeah they were happy but schools will be the 2nd leg. to be worried no warning but ok this field is not over. still not ok what about wednesday's other match another upset that when i was there still not over there it was a big result for the only short event as one of the only game at the goal of the game came to half an hour because 2 south toward it now his name sounds familiar it's german football fans it's because he's actually signed to heads a 1000000000 already they loved him back to laon so it's not signing by then frustrating night for christiane ever not an insider though i would still bet on them make it through to the course of finals ok jonathan thank you so much jonathan crane from delhi sports. 5 time grand champion grand slam champion maria sharapova is retiring from tennis at the age of 32 the teenage prodigy won her 1st grand slam at wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed

a career slam. all 4 major titles by winning the french open in 2012 the russian who moved to florida as a child was banned for 15 months after failing a doping test in 2016 persistent shoulder injuries meant she played only 2 matches and 2020 and lost but. now the clay court the red carpet the latest from the 70th berlin international film festival in the premiere of the british film the roads not taken it features big name stars including selma and javier bardem director sally potter explores a daughter's love for her ailing father our correspondents were at the screening and sent us this report. selma high act and elle fanning the dollars of the red carpet at the premiere of the roads not taken the cost of sally port his new film was happy to be at the balun allah. is huge schuster's

a great opportunity to show their work also within the 70th ever surreal berlin film festival which is a big thing it's a big deal with the. public in the film daughter molly is constantly troubled her father leo suffers from mental illness and hallucinations. sally put his film makes leo's mental world visible taking the viewer inside sealed off self memories pos by feelings from long gone times come back to life to hold one what he wants to feel kind of illness or perhaps other kinds of mental illness are not always a disability sometimes he. inside what seems something very tragic might be the capacity for a kind of time travel space travel memory travel all all kinds of interesting states of mind i was worried to get into at blaze were i cannot control myself

that's the whole thing and i don't know what's going to happen sally was so generous and brave in alone when us and alone we need to go word i needed to go. through to reset the film also deals with the difficulties families have dealing with a mentally ill loved one like a bell founding plays molly with deep sensitivity showing how her father's state keeps pushing her to her limits my character is also really about making choices. in her life so for me i was kind of always in the middle of something the roads not taken is a moving father daughter title featuring extraordinary portrayals but it's not just a story of loving someone afflicted with severe illness it's just that what we call normal life is just one possibility among many.

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