iris 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 bringing off in berlin this is the day. our message continues to be that this virus has pandemic quotation we're facing a crisis an epidemic is on its way sheesh 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. these sites

point. also coming up at the berlin film festival a wife time achievement award goes to a woman known as the queen of british cinema. it's helen mirren we did all of the act is triple an author and emmy attendee now she can add a cult that at least that's coming up on the day. or 2 our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome that 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 of 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 in california 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 is 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. 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 diagnoses 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 coronavirus outbreak will last till the end of much there's never enough math 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. by 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 inside need by saudi arabia is not taking any chances either taking the 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 hold the most and god forbid the sacred sites from the arrival of this disease is very important that the decision will affect muslims wide millions by the annual pilgrimage to mecca during the holy month of ramadan which begins in full 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

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 this 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 it's stages 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 coronavirus saga. no i mean obviously we always like to know where the infection came from so we can follow the link follow the courses 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. that israeli science is. a corona virus vaccine available in just 90 days in the newspaper 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 can that that's the problem because 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 isn't it it's troubling though when 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 that the ministry may have saved the can that that scene is good the science is good so sometimes the process is now is misunderstood so until i've actually seen. the the detail of that i couldn't give you an opinion either way. 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 this political engagement in every country because it is the

leadership that makes a decision to get on a truly ready 14 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 who's going to look up to the healthcare workers make sure they've got the supplies have you got your largess ready all these things so that the questions that need to be honest and the odds need to be found today not tomorrow or overwrites the w.h.o. is margaret harris 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. 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 spread of 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 covert 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 and 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 this 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 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 adopt to protect yourself and others from getting the new coronavirus the appropriate use of map their top counter measure to descend permission is simply putting the truth out there with soap and water or alcohol based hand putting the truth of other things. i'm joined here the. forest why do you know we just saw. televangelist there jim baker selling part guards and he knows that it's not going to heal people from the coronavirus of the millions 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 but living in the future 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 thora cheese 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 cia 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 functionally correct but still out there over social media and the internet to think today about things but we need facebook refuses to turn any 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 laws about the rule of one yeah and i think they're very aware that this has become an info demick and that they have to do something so just last week they met with the world health organization facebook's head coaches 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're obviously 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 his information from the world health organization and also all these sites particularly facebook are using more fact checkers at the moment that all looks and sounds good but we have to remind people unfortunately that once something is put on social media once it's on the internet it's there forever it is and of course these posts end up skipping top form so you may decide to facebook take it down but it appears interest to whatever it is and then the whole process starts again somebody could take a screen grab they can then share some private messaging such as what facebook messenger and remember these social media sites rely on people like you all made to flag out the posts that on 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 i would force why he's always alex thanks for your 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 one l. 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 bloody trio of 4 right terrorism. in an open letter to germany's chancellor representatives of germany's immigrant communities called on 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. 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 ought.

to be home affairs committee met thursday with national security chiefs to discuss the hanau attack this is specter the attacker appears to have acted alone. the committee discussed possible stricter gun ownership laws the alleged attacker held a legal 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 about person is. there was cross party agreement that german society needs to do more to tackle racism. the security risk for the population is extremely high and there is 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 work 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 is doing such a crime must be mentally ill but he is a racist he planned it he planned where he wanted to shoot people with a meter and background so this is a racist try men's our minister of home affairs pointed out the very clear was there a sense of a warm in the meeting i mean you know hoarsely 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 were shocked we were shocked when we when we saw this crime and we're still trying to find out that connection to other people did he planted 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 czeska with all this type of gun also in the. killing so we're trying to look at all direction to find out what's behind this investigators they say that the gunman was part of a radical wide far right community online and 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 where 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. sectoral 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 part and i'll be doing that can you foresee that that this issue or this

topic is going to be a major issue in the election next year of 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 that 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 are 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 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 sit through your support behind so we have got 3 good candidates right now i think it will stay with 3 good candidates so in the end of the 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 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 a very go to their own board for a lifetime achievement and she is no one film wonder it's half a century of powerful portrayals on screen and on stage. most of the story now to

the humphrey and scott. 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 having 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 the 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 her for jobs and takes her acting or her craft incredibly seriously but doesn't seem to take herself that seriously plus it doesn't hurt that she's actually gorgeous i mean you know just just you know by the by i think she's royal and racy that's how i see. you know how 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 now. and i'd be fine i wouldn't mind if you take me actually and of course she will go into incredible c.v. going for a bad behavior they'd never vary from 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. and it's he of getting the tony as well for her work on broadway as well as in anything i work in t.v. series and the oscar as we just mentioned you know now tonight the golden bear and now the golden bear let's talk about the films in competition you saw the latest one the day and i understand that that one was met with silence during the screening. but has to be said it was a fairly silent offense begin with anyway i mean it's not a side of film there's an incredible soundtrack which mostly features 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 every day fairly mundane lives it's a taiwanese story time when he's film set in thailand and i think it's fair to say that we just reached a peak on how she's showing the rest of don't take that as a criticism at least thought for by sides simon ling you see the director he create he's created this this almost this new genre of cinema slow said about these been doing for decades now and it goes against all the conventions of hollywood to get through the narrative to get through dialogue and 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 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 in ethiopia that's right a reason to laugh how about free and got roxboro on the red carpet for us to you both thank you we'll see you tomorrow.

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