here in germany and in california doctors are now treating people with the corona virus and for the 1st time they say that they have no idea how some of the patients became infected tonight the world health organization says that the fight against the virus has reached a decisive point despite what we don't know the steps we take today will most likely have consequences far beyond tomorrow i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. message continues to be the dr use virus has pandemic. we're facing a crisis an epidemic is on its way. to stay clean you don't have to necessarily grab every handrail unless you have to i mean viewed as the same as the flu. since the outbreak of infections in europe and germany the situation has

worsened considerably. with. the side point. also coming up at the berlin film festival alewife time achievement award goes to a woman known as the queen of british cinema. it's dame helen mirren we did all of the act is triple an author an emmy attendee now she can add a gold that at least that's coming out on the day. or 2 our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with new cases of the coronavirus that have doctors puzzled in california and here in germany the 1st cases have been reported the people who became infected but not by any known means of trans mission now that is an unsettling new mystery as the world

prepares for more corona virus outbreaks germany and california are now reporting as we said the 1st cases of the coronavirus that have no obvious means of transmission today the world health organization said that efforts to stop the virus have never been as important as they are now and this is what we know tonight new infections outside china now outnumber those inside this map it shows the severity of the epidemic around the world the deeper the blue the higher the number of reported cases china which is you know ground 0 of the 1st outbreak is still well out in front with more than 78000 recorded infections it's followed by south korea iran and italy all together 50 countries and territories now have confirmed cases the overall global total is now and more than $82000.00 in a moment will go to the w h o's coronavirus headquarters in geneva and i'll ask about these new cases of

mysterious infections but 1st here is more on the virus that is showing no signs of slowing. the south korean city of daegu has been hit by these virus containment measures are in full swing the streets there are being fumigated and medical stuff and collecting samples from people in self-imposed quarantine. south korea has the most number of diagnosed coronavirus cases outside china and it's desperate to stop those numbers from rising mosques are in short supply with huge lines of places selling them. i only have 5 or 6 masks left at home but i think the current virus outbreak will last till the end of much there's never enough masks and i will certainly need more. across the korean strike japan too is getting serious about stopping the virus in its tracks schools will be closed from next week that means almost 13000000 students will be staying at home. graduation

ceremonies coming up soon so it's quite a hectic time of year but most important thing is preventing infections so there's not much else we can do. in the middle east and the outbreak in iran is intensifying and so i need by saudi arabia is not taking any chances either the kingdom has pilgrims from entering the country and visiting the holy sites in mecca and medina. there's an increased presence of this disease in several countries including those near saudi arabia increases the risks so protecting pilgrims and the 2 holy mosques and god forbid the sacred sites from the arrival of this disease is very important. the decision will affect muslims worldwide millions by the annual pilgrimage to mecca during the holy month of ramadan which begins in 4 wakes. and for more now we want to go to margaret harris of the world health

organization she is working with the w h o's coronavirus team in geneva switzerland good evening to you margaret we've got to these new reports here in germany and in the u.s. state of california the 1st reported cases with no obvious sources of transmission of the virus in other words we don't know how these patients caught the virus what more do you know about that tonight so when you have a report saying that the sun has no idea where it came from quite often you find really deep investigation then this happens quite often weeks later you do find the link so at this stage it's too early to say ok we don't know because there's more to find out so it's not a reason to be alarmed you can say that this is a a new turn in the corona virus saga no i mean obviously we always like to know where that action came from so we can follow the link follow the causes

help contain it but usually we do find sort of longer and deeper conversations generally or sometimes up to investigate some of the people around generally you do find the links let me ask you the jerusalem post is reporting that israeli scientists will have a coronavirus vaccine available in just 90 days in the newspapers citing a government minister in that article can you confirm that tonight. we have heard lots of different reports what we do know is that there are at least 4 very good potential backs in candidates the problem is you need to do extensive testing on human volunteers that tell the people who say yes i willing to have it tested on me to see if it's safe and you need to do that for at least 6 months so even if this promising science and there are some very promising sites around the world that testing needs to be done to make sure it's safe to use on everyone but

more isn't it it's troubling though in worrisome isn't it when you have a government ministry in this case israel telling the public that in the span of 3 months a vaccine is going to be ready for the public because that just can't be possible right well i haven't seen the reports and you know you might remember the ministry may have saved the can that that scene is good the science is good so sometimes the process is not is misunderstood so until i've actually seen. the the data on that i couldn't give you an opinion either way but you know we know that countries are attacking this virus with different approaches in the united states for example the vice president is now heading america's coronavirus program are you concerned about a politician with no medical training being in charge of a program like this. again these are decisions that different countries make but it

is important that is political engagement in every country because it is the leadership that makes a decision to get on it truly ready 40 so the important thing is to understand that this is going to come to your community and make the decisions you need to make about who's going to look after the sick who's going to bring in the extra health care workers there's going to look after the health get workers make sure they've got supplies have you got your largess ready all these things so that the questions that need to be also in the us need to be found today not tomorrow or. the w.h.s. marketeers joining us tonight from geneva switzerland with the latest on the battle against the coronavirus market as always we appreciate your insights thank you thank you well chances are you are watching the day online perhaps on demand or

streaming it on social media social media is the same place where misinformation about the virus is spreading to the world health organization is calling on social media giants to do more to stop what is being called an info demick fake news about 19 is dangerous because it can prevent people from getting the facts that they need to protect themselves. 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 to go 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 math their top counter measure to descend permission is simply putting the truth out there with soap and water or alcohol based and putting the truth of other things out there to talk about that i'm joined here the big table by my colleague alex forrest why do. we just saw a televangelist there jim baker is so important he knows that it's not going to heal people from the coronavirus let me ask you why would anyone want to spread misinformation about this virus well that's an example to make a quick buck a bit of money even a preacher but i think what you know is more worrying in this in this case is the

fact that it's being used as a political weapon so not just misinformation but this information in so many guises spread across the world to worry people create fear and no trust in governments in authorities particularly healthful sororities so for example we had health officials in the u.s. just this week saying there's been a huge number of russian trolls that have suddenly emerged over social media sites and they have been promoting some rather disturbing stories such as for example for the us they were the ones behind the coronavirus because they want to wage economic war on china that it was in fact the sea. the i.a.e.a. because they want they wanted to create a biological weapon or even on the other hand that it was china that created this for the same reason so all these different guises all these different posts out there none of none of them factually correct but still out there over social media

and the internet to think about things that we need facebook refuses to turn into political ads away even if they're full of law is so i'm wondering what are social media companies doing now to control the spread of whines about the yen i think they're very aware that this has become an inside demick that they have to do something so just last week they met with the world health organization actually at facebook's headquarters in silicon valley where they tried to come up with a strategy and there's no doubt that they have now been trying to promote factual content on the front of of their site so for example i was on facebook today and this came up i typed in corona virus at the very top of the post it was asking if i was looking for information and it was linking to the german federal ministry of health and even you know it would be the same and would have a country over him we always see him live in but even if you just scrolling on facebook you might get a message like this suddenly popping up help prevent the spread of corona virus

with some information about what you can do it on twitter it's similar google it's them if you put in the search the 1st thing it often pops up is information from the world health organization and also all these sites particular facebook are using will fact check is at the moment that all looks and sounds good but we have to remind people unfortunately that once something is brought on social media once it's on the internet it's there forever it is and of course these posts and up skipping platforms so you may decide if you have facebook take it down but it appears on twitter on to whatever it is and then the whole process starts again somebody could take. they can then share some private messaging such as well facebook messenger and remember these social media sites rely on people like you all made to flag out the posts that aren't official posts they then decide whether they should be taken down on them and so it goes on and on and on just like the

virus at least for the moment. the report. it was one week ago when a far right extremist with a gun killed 9 people from germany's immigrant community in the telling of honey he also shot dead his mother before killing himself today german lawmakers were briefed on the investigation in a special session of the parliamentary home affairs committee it cheerier minister horse does a whole for calling the killings the latest in a trio of 4 right terrorists in an open letter to germany's chancellor representatives of germany's immigrant communities politicians to do more against right wing extremism and racism they stress the lack of ministers with an immigrant background in the german government they say a fundamental debate about racism needs to take place in german society that in my mind if this could have happened to my brother my family my friends it could have

happened to hundreds thousands or millions of immigrants or racialized individuals the message was very clear there is no safe place anymore in germany what is. the home affairs committee met thursday with national security chiefs to discuss the ha now it's hack this is specter that appears to have acted alone the committee discussed possible stricter gun ownership laws the alleged attacker held illegal permit for his weapons. who did he turn to was there anything unusual the authorities knew but. in cases like this do we not have to make sure that the gun permit is withdrawn if there are reasonable doubts about high stable but person is. there was cross party agreement that german society needs to do more to tackle racism. that you security risk for the population is extremely high and there's

a lot of uncertainty and there are simply people in this country who are afraid and this country this state the federal government needs to react decisively to that germany's immigrant communities are clear about one thing words alone will not be enough. i would really know the big table is patrick symmes for he's a member of the german parliament and he's a member of the committee on internal affairs the committee that had that special meeting today it's good to have you back on the show so what can you share with us from that meeting so after all it's quite clear that this is something that is a racist try him it's not just an ill person of course he is somebody who's doing such a crime must be mentally ill but he is a racist but he planned it he planned where he wanted to shoot people was a background so this is a racist try and our minister of home affairs pointed out the very clear was there a sense of alarm in the meeting i mean you know horsley over the countries in syria

minister so you're saying that this is the latest in a bloody line of extremist crime in what was what you what was the bit like in the media yes of course we are shocked we were shocked when we when we saw this crime and we're still trying to find out that connection to other people diddy a planet the crime alone all maybe he had a connection or access to a network maybe in the internet so we'll look in to the background what kind of gun . he used to use this one gun that's called a cheska whistles this type of gun also in the. killing so we're trying to look at all direction to find out what's behind this investigative they say that the gunman was part of a radicalized far right community online i mean you told me last week that fighting radicalization online is probably one of the hardest things to do right now that's

true it's not like in former times that people meet each other they use the same platforms they go in the same shot groups so we have to get more access to the spaces where they are and then find connections and schemes of those so that we can see a little bit early on when people drift away to to the extreme parts what about the criticism is just as borg that police and security forces in germany that they haven't taken the far right extremism threat seriously was that discussed in today's meeting yes it was discussed and i think we have to get more policemen to to fight against right wing crimes and of course we looked in the islamistic. sector a we looked in the in the left sector we looked in and many other fields but but we also have to look more in the really right extreme extremists pod and we doing that

can you foresee that that this issue or this topic is going to be a major issue in the election next year the national election i think it will be because we have a mood in the country that one party of our parties in the parliament if he is pushing it with words and after words come actions and people are afraid that more and more of these crimes would happen in germany we're trying our best that it won't and we're employed. for example more policemen more in the intelligence sector but in the end we have to fight also against these mood this feeling in the society and. the 1st step and then crimes follow you are a member of the tell or viewers you're a member of the conservative c.d.u. party that's the same party of the german chancellor angela merkel we know your party is now looking for a new chair person and that chairperson could become

a chancellor candidate could become the next chancellor of germany are you willing to endure a candidate now we've had several announce in the last week. any name you would you would like to see through your support behind so we have got 3 good candidates right now and i think it will stay with 3 good candidates so in the end other parties would be happy if they would have just one good candidate like these and we'll see in the next week that these candidates will introduce themselves of course they are well known but to the party members and then at the 25th of april i think we'll see who will lead the c.d.u. in the future has always been this is going to good to see you and to talk with you thank you. well it's been said that her oscar winning performance in the 2007 film the queen proved that helen mirren is indeed acting royalty well now and she's being presented with the berlin film festivals on the very go to their own word for

a lifetime achievement and she is no one film wonder with half a century of powerful portrayals on screen and on stage. most take the story now to the humphrey and scott roxboro they are on the red carpet for us tonight good evening to you too so we've got this honorary bearer for a lifetime achievement for helen mirren what is it about her that makes are so special. yeah. it's sort of helen mirren she's such an iconic figure i mean i can't think of another actress with within range i mean she's the queen of england in the queen and then she makes a fast and furious movie i mean i don't know any other actors who could who could cross those boundaries so easily and so effortlessly i mean you saw in the piece and in the short clips that we heard from her just takes her acting her craft incredibly seriously but just seem to take herself that seriously plus it doesn't hurt that she's absolutely gorgeous i mean you know just just you know by the by i think she's royal and racy that's how i somehow or other when i was you know she

played the queen so memorably in 2006 receiving it off and also get it out before mates apparently queen elizabeth did watch that film as well and despite the fact it wasn't the most flattering depiction of elizabeth the 2nd she said she didn't mind it too much which is perhaps high praise from helen a complete b b 5 i wouldn't mind if you paid me actually and of course she will need a credible c.v. going for that family member very for the royal shakespeare company the youngest member you know to playing the queen which we'll see at the film which is being shown tonight i mean as a scot says she's just got this incredible range and she also holds that coveted 3 awards true. it's he of getting the tony as well for her work on broadway as well as an anything i work in t.v. series and the oscars we just mentioned you know now tonight a golden bear and not the golden bear let's talk about the films in competition you saw the latest one today and i understand that that one was met with silence during

the screening. but has to be said it was a fairly side into fed to begin with anyway i mean it's not a sign of film there's an incredible soundtrack which mostly teaches condition isn't refrigerators but i mean this is of no dialogue no dialogue and it's a film about 2 men who have an encounter one night in bangkok and then drift back into their everyday fairly mundane lives it's a a taiwanese story time when he's film set in thailand and i think it's fair to say that we just reached peak own houses showing us that we don't take that as a criticism at least not for by sides some milling you see the director he create he's created this almost this new genre of cinema slow sin about these been doing for decades now and it goes against all the conventions of hollywood to get through the narrative he gets from the dialogue in this this film long slow shots but really invite you to do to slowly ease yourself into into a film i think it's an amazing achievement and i'd recommend it but it's a long long slow look ok we've got 20 seconds max interview which do you think is

going to win the golden bear of the top award ok american film is going to be never really sometimes always allies and it meant phenomenal movie about abortion i'm going for to the history it's a french movie and i think it's great because it's a comedy for once that's what the better not any that's right a reason to laugh helen humphrey and scott roxboro on the red carpet for us to you both thank you we'll see you tomorrow.

can. enter the conflict zone with tim sebastian 16 months of gone by since a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was killed by agents of his own state's largest news are the algebra the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs why are there still so many unanswered questions about the murder why the massive crackdown on human rights activists inside saudi arabia conflict with the. nest be awesome

t w. n n gemini. at any time i've come to any place using names to the n.f.l. and have had the benefit of kind of songs to sing along to see this to come from super low key flimsy top for attack interactive exercises. everything is on mine. file and interactive benjamin jeffrey with the w. . have fun in pyongyang. the capital city of north korea is reinventing itself. but only a few can enjoy the benefits though the regime allowed. kim jong un as it

introduced any serious reward system to coerce allegiance to the regime. those who don't make it into the fun metropolis are off until tom brady. have fun in pyongyang starts feb 28th w. . this was the operation that it was not authorized we still don't know what happened to the remains that was the question i get how is that possible we don't have a history of good for our cities for 16 months of gone by since the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was killed by agents of his own state is down both but the issue doesn't go away my guest this week here at the munich security conference these are the algebra the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs why are there

still so many unanswered questions about the mud and why the massive crackdown.