this is news coming to you live from sounding the alarm the german government says the country is now facing its own coronavirus epidemic president says the u.s. is well prepared to face it. 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 his post as the corona virus itself misinformation the world health organization is purging social media giants to counter what he calls an. international polar bear that is

flows but just the creatures face a shrinking arctic. conservationists hope the date will encourage more people to think about their carbon footprint and do something. manchester city come from behind to start on real madrid $21.00. in their last 16 top. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the corona virus 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 task force to deal with the 2 patients are being treated at a hospital in the city of. authorities warn that the number of. he says is likely

to rise significantly as they are no longer able to trace the chain of infection. health minister against says the country is at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic and has urged regional authorities to review their emergency planning and some begin. in the case of. verdun baggara further sign of this fix the change of infection are partly and this is a new aspect not a. contact with the infected patients. this is a. bit of difference to the 16 infectious cases we've already heard 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 coronavirus are joined here by our political correspondent kate pretty good. so the. country

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 time demick plan in place for the. virus but we are see the situation changes very rapidly so we could see climate change measures being increased in the coming days and of course federal government has been asking 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 is to make sure that people who are affected isolated and that has been the case so far and also people who have been in contact with these affected people. as well for a couple of weeks during that period and of course the general the general call on

the public as well is to keep following very simple measures of how washing goes well making sure that that is carried out there ready 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. authorities transported the 47 year old man and his 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 is suffering badly from pneumonia and is on ventilation so 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 virus and of being closely monitored . the couple has an active social life and 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 being told to remain at home for the next 2 weeks the goal is to break the chain of infection. 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. the man who was recently treated twice at the university clinic in cologne for an unrelated illness stuff who had contact with them there and now under quarantine. so the crew is continuing to spread the german health ministers warning of an epidemic in this country how worried are people in germany because 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 people seem to have been acting rather responsibly and people quarantining themselves but the required amount of time as we saw there in the reports of some schools have also been closed as well as a precautionary measure during that. period and of course people have also been reaching out to health authorities where necessary and it certainly seems here in berlin things that people have been taking hand-washing take it very seriously and

very looking to try and find some hand sanitizer at the moment as many of the shelves here at least in the capital empty 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 it at least the country's health ministers confident about the course germany has a very strong health system and i think that's 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 for this new form of coronavirus merged in the chinese city hall on interests. to date the virus has claimed almost 3000 lives globally more than 82000 cases have been reported the vast majority of them in china infection rate there is

now slowing down as the virus spreads faster elsewhere south korea has again reported its biggest one day jump in infection sense saudi arabia has stopped travel to religious sites due to fears over the virus just months ahead of the n u a hard pilgrimage here in europe italy's outbreak has worsened while denmark and a stone e.o. or the latest countries to confirm cases and australia has kicked off emergency measures to stop disease spreading there. well numerous international flights of and cutback are cancelled here's a closer look at how countries around the world are fighting to ward off a pandemic. recover coronavirus patients and a finally free to return home after one last. 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 had emerged on and has postponed a major international rugby game with italy as a precaution its leaves the country west affected by the virus in europe despite these concerns health authorities in europe say there's no reason to panic about the coronavirus that the big fight is and if very seriously at the same thing we should also remember that for both off site. patients have mild symptoms and are over. in the us 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 and staffing roadblocks allowing only authorized personnel access nearly 50000 people have been placed under effective quarantine that. well the world health organization is calling on social media giants to help stem the new outbreak of misinformation about the corona virus health officials are calling it an info demick fake news about covert 9000 is making it difficult for people to inform themselves properly about the virus. 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 coronavirus 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 advice is 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 adopt to protect yourself and others from getting the new coronavirus the appropriate use of map their top counter measure to dissent from ation is simply putting the truth out there with soap and water or alcohol based more now we're joined here in the studio by reporter peter. is 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 trolls so thousands of fake accounts that are spreading wild allegations. 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 right wing populist who essentially jumped on this outbreak to stoke anti immigrant 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 they need right i mean the good thing that we've seen is that 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 who would say number one. also

just use your common sense if it sounds too wild to be true like the example we saw in the report hundreds of thousands of people who died you know look to other major outlets are they reporting similar numbers have not you know it's probably not true now the w h o's recent report has set up a special task force to help inform the public accurately about the current virus how effective do you think that will 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 grill lie 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 peter let's dial from our

social media desk. and you can find reliable information about spread of the coronavirus of our website www dot com. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today syrian rebels say they have recaptured a strategic town in north western province that says the syrian army continues to push to retake the last large rebel held regional a syrian human rights group says government troops have seized full control of southern italy and adjoining how off province in the last 3 days. 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 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 and is top cabinet ends 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. officials in indonesia say the death toll from the 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. well this world polar bear day a day aimed at reminding people about global warming images of those creatures roaming an ever shrinking habitat have become symbolic of the threats of climate change conservationists hope 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 pack ice for verse of. the 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 poll of. 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 about 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 they're born they're about the size of a guinea pig. they're almost naked blind and deaf and without the support of their mothers they can't survive. but just a few months later they develop into a really handsome but i have a year's income and they could. be here bill. only 26000 polar bears are left in the wild scientists 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. you're watching news still to come javier bardem. star and sally potter's latest movie premiering is really an international film festival we need it stars and great.

things are hotting up in the champions league on wednesday night manchester city travel to dread jonathan crane from 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 gold star on a side this one is competition more times than any other 3rd pretty impressive victory now as you might expect. bracing for the hour mark the 1st go through rife. capsulize a mix up in the mountains of defense but then back to baghdad the al hazy so nice glancing had it from him and then 5 minutes later they completed their comeback coming to bring in that the man of the match really he scored from the penalty spot he was absolutely sick all night and then to make matters worse. says you ramil

us was in a straight red card death bringing down his youth when he was still in goal so that's a huge play for them because he will not miss the 2nd leg in manchester city there you see that that is i see it with victory we can see them so what do you think could. could run their manchester city rail out of the competition they sent me i mean they've given themselves. a great chance really that taking syria way cole's backs in manchester that means even a one no win for round madrid won't be enough remember waco was the face of accounts 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 his best attacking play as they and says they were agrarian that allowed him to pack the midfield and that really had the effect of stifling the draitser kevin to bring and then really steps up and of course this all comes against the backdrop of this european ban on manchester city that fans were chanting against the way for a shot that 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 said he is expensive is because the owners once were in the competition now while they study cost of the game and he said if any side can tell him this $1.00 around israel madrid let's listen we will claim that it. took all that we should not concede in these level but sometimes we do these kind of things when mother were playing that we scored a little enough to the final or read them and. we scored the 2nd one so. yeah they were happy about the schools will be the 2nd leg. of the start to do you worry no worry but ok the steel is not over still not what about wednesday's other match another upset yet i want to say still not over there it was a big result for the only short events this one will be in the game at the goal of the game came off the half an hour because 2 south scored it now and his name

sounds familiar it's german football fans it's because he's actually signed for hats a 1000000000 already they loved him back to leon so smart signing by then frustrating night for christiane i have another one inside of the i would still bet on them make it through to the course of finals ok jonathan thank you so much jonathan crane from dino the sports book. by a munich striker robert leavened off is facing a month on the sidelines after he suffered a knee injury in tuesday's champions league victory over chelsea of and also he has scored $36.00 goals in the bonus league and champions league this season holy shit ben will be sorely missed by the german champions as they try to win an 8th consecutive domestic title and a 1st champions league crown since 2013. now at the latest from the 70th berlin international film festival and the premiere of the british film the roads not taken it features big name stars including salma hayek

and javier bardem director sally potter explores a daughter's love for her ailing faller 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 permian of the roads not taken the cost of sally put his new film was happy to be at the ballon allah. futures which was a great opportunity to show their work but also when the 70th ever surreal berlin film festival which is a big thing it's a big deal. in the film daughter molly is constantly troubled her father leo suffers from mental illness and hallucinations. sally put his film makes liers mental world visible taking the viewer inside and sealed off self memories pos by feelings from long gone times come back to life. when one wants to feel that kind of illness or perhaps other kinds of mental

illness are not always a disability sometimes hidden inside what seems something very tragic might be the capacity for a kind of time travel space travel memory travel or all kinds of interesting states. of mind i was worried to get into that blaze were i cannot control myself that's the whole thing and i don't know what's going to happen and sally was so generous and brave in a long way nice and i love we need to go where i needed to go. through terms of the film also deals with the difficulties families have of dealing with a mentally ill loved one what exactly fell fanning 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 tale 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. this may be unstoppable on the big screen but it's no match for the police in moscow where a homemade batmobile has been brought to a grinding halt the other registered replica has been impounded after a man was caught driving on a main road and it's been described as being armored and equipped with a night vision camera a laser aiming device and a model gun that imitates the sound of shooting but alas the bow bill does not conform to road safety standards and the driver is likely to have to pay a hefty fine. this is g.w.

news coming up next conflicts with tim sebastian tim will be interviewing the saudi foreign minister and to get all the latest news information around the clock on our web site at www dot com i'm terry mark thanks for being with us.