this is news line from the land of the u.s. confirms its 1st day to coronavirus it comes as authorities around the globe implement containment measures to try to stop the spread of the virus in many areas residents are being asked to stay at home and large public events are being canceled also coming up it's the berlin film festival and that means a lot of bad is 7 silver and one gold. gold rush the film goes to about how microsoft. round kind that she is the golden bag goes to the

iranian film there is no need for a popular and political prize if this is down or not. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program the corona virus has claimed its 1st victim in the united states where a patient in their fifty's died in washington state ecuador and qatar have also confirmed their 1st cases well far he's across the globe are implementing a range of containment measures to try to slow the spread of the virus and made a spike in cases the french government has imposed a temporary ban on indoor public gatherings of more than 5000 people. this hospital in paris is the site if a mini outbreak the corona virus transmitted by a patient who was not initially considered infected. special at 1st there was no

reason to isolate the patient because he didn't come from any of the risk areas when we realized he was infected we identified all the staff who had had contact with him. at least 3 hospital employees are now infected with the virus the french minister of health has called on the public to keep their distance from one another not to shake hands and to refrain from the traditional french kiss on the cheek. and to do that as the number of infections is also increasing in iran officially around $600.00 people there are infected and more than 40 have died but many fear that the number of unreported cases could be much higher understandably iranians are being cautious like at this bizarre. because of our business has dropped to 2 or 3 percent of the usual people are buying from us. south korea is also in a state of emergency and there's been a sharp rise in cases within one day more than 800 new infections were reported the

military is now disinfecting train stations and public places in so-called corona drive ins motorists can be tested using a quick procedure without even getting out of their car they receive the results via s.m.s. within 2 days. let's go now to pay to hotels he's just an vaccine expert at the biennial college of medicine and joins me now from houston texas professor hotez thanks for joining me we've now seen the 1st death from corona virus in the u.s. what measures have been put in place to stop the spread there. well the big worry in the united states is and before we knew the origin of it and that it was in the visual back from china or an infected area but now for the 1st time we've got 4 cases where we don't know the origin and we suspect we're seeing the beginnings of community transmission in the northwestern part of the country northern california

oregon washington state we don't know for sure about this particular death but we think we've been predicting that this virus will gain a foothold in the u.s. and and this is how it it may be starting and other measures being put in place to try and stop that spread. there certainly are there's been a lot of effort to in the areas that are affected to start doing active surveillance that is for instance in northern california where we've had 2 cases where there's been potential contacts to. do expanded testing in those areas so that's going on then isolating in jewels that we suspect may possibly be infected that that's happening but a big priority right now is to see if we can protect our health care workers one of the concerns that we have and i'm sure it's true in europe as well if you start

seeing. widespread infection among health care workers and serious illness then the whole thing starts to break down very quickly so i'm thinking certain spittles and clinics are personal protective measures and also are vising our clinical algorithms because our or our or how we decide who we're going to test because business this is usual was only if they came from the affected area but now that we have transmission there's a lot of complexities to work oh absolutely i mean south korea is another critical point europe has seen a huge increase in cases over the past few days would you say the virus is already out of control. i don't like used the term out of control because it's not that our public health authorities are out of control it's just i think where what where our moving towards is is going from epidemic in multiple areas to eventually we're going to reach the point i think where would be able to call this

a pandemic the world health organization is not using the term. at this point but but that's where we're heading and we're going to have to be really mindful about how to manage this and the my concerns are that it's the case fatality rate is pretty high it's 2 percent and that's about 10 times higher than seasonal flu and 1st we thought well that's only because we're seeing the serious cases not the non-serious cases but the world health organization has come out last week and said you know they think that 2 percent numbers real and it's also highly transmissible . i guess i want to we don't have much time left but i thought sorry to interrupt you there but i just want to i know it's a $1000000.00 question but can we expect a vaccine for this virus. well we're developing a vaccine and there's about 5 or 6 other candidates and we're all moving quickly into clinical testing i think that will happen in the next few weeks but the problem is this despite what the empty vaccine lobby says that we don't adequately

test faxon's for safety the opposite is true no the most thoroughly tested pharmaceuticals we have for safety it's going to take months to show that these vaccines are both safe and effective i doubt very much that will have a vaccine in time for this epidemic unfortunately professor paid a hotel just and vaccine expert from the bio college of medicine joining us from houston thanks very much for the update thanks very much. turning now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world former u.s. vice president joe biden has won a strong victory in the south carolina democratic primary election thanks in part to support from black voters his win comes at a crucial moment just days before several states vote on super tuesday migrants in turkey have rushed to borders with the european union after ankara said it would no longer hold them back but greece in bulgaria have boosted their security at their frontiers leaving thousands trapped in no man's land between the

2 sides. and the u.s. and the taliban have signed a deal and aimed at ending 2 decades of conflict in afghanistan it calls for the u.s. to gradually withdraw its troops while the taliban promised not to allow the country to be used as a base for terror attacks. and for more on that story i'm joined by our washington correspondent col of blanket color thanks for joining me trump wants to meet with representatives of the taliban now what are commentators in the u.s. expecting to come from that all supporters of president trump are very excited about this they are saying that trump is keeping his promises and they're expecting this meeting between trump and the taliban and the deal that they have just made to really lead to peace and to an end of this endless war as if ganesan conflict is known here they're calling it

a story milestone but on the other side you have people who are who are very skeptical of this and who have finished specially baffled by the part of the deal that sees the release of 5000 taliban prisoners they're calling that a high risk and they don't really trust that this really will bring peace or the u.s. promises to withdraw all of its troops from afghanistan as you just mentioned they're calling it a historic milestone so how important is this to president trump with the election looming in november. it's extremely important to the president when he entered office he promised that he would pull all u.s. troops out of afghanistan and so now that the time in which he can do that is running short so several people have said that they view this as kind of a rush job to be it done before the elections and i actually talked to an expert a little while ago and he said the trump administration is probably looking at this

in terms of well let's hope things go smoothly in afghanistan with the will withdrawal and if something goes sideways let's hope it happens after our elections in november paula blind speaking to us from washington d.c. thanks for the update all the prestigious golden and silver bears have been handed out this evening at the ben and i film festival iranian filmmaker mohammad reza love was awarded the top prize the golden bear for his film there is no evil for gold roberta trilled goes to law how many groups are all. the iranian authorities have forbidden russell off to travel to berlin so his daughter who also starred in the film accepted the award. obviously i'm very very overwhelmed and happy but this is war and at the same time i'm very sad

because this is for a filmmaker who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. on the team that this is for him. the film deals with the death penalty of this and how people can hold on to their innocence living under a repressive regime. you know germany's power to bear won best actress for her role in deemed a modern retelling of the ancient myth of the water nymph so that in present day early. thank you so much i'm so. actor went to. the italian film had no way inspired by the true life story of painter antonio a revolutionary figure in modern art who was considered insane during his lifetime . well you did you got it was the but i'm your club would like to dedicate this to

everyone who's been marginalized or misunderstood or cast out. for. the jury prize went to the us film never rarely sometimes always directed by the hitmen about a teenager seeking an abortion without her parents' knowledge. while i was researching this film i spent a tremendous amount of time inside planned parenthood and i want to thank them for their incredible service to our country and protecting the lives and rights of all people with uteruses. helena humphrey and scott roxboro were down at the red carpet as the festival came to an end there was a considerable number of off e-mail directors and strong female protagonists movies now the festival director said that they wanted to promote some lesser known

projects they see and they seemed to stay faithful there were maybe fewer stars though we did still have johnny depp helen mirren how about. on the red carpet the focus this year was less on hollywood glitz than on phenomenal global sort of. house the awards wrapped up the winners admired their paris before heading off to celebrate. well to sport now and in the bundesliga by in munich inflicted a 6 no to faint on hoffenheim but the story of the day was the match being interrupted twice due to an offensive ban and by a fan block for goals in the 1st half to put the match out of reach thomas muller had 2 assists continue to then the bye and fans started insulting hoffenheim hall and the players wanted to walk off the pitch the teams did eventually return to the front for the fun. 13 minutes but refused to play properly

instead having a kickabout between themselves to run down the clock. and while all that was going on dortmund kept up the pressure on 2nd place leipzig with a narrow victory of a fribourg jaden jaden sound show it was the difference between the 2 sides the englishman finished from form hasn't crossed off to 15 minutes it was goal number 4 tame in his incredible blunders legacies and dortmund clung on to their late their level on points with life's issue play on sunday. and as a reminder of the top story we're following for you the united states has reported its 1st coronavirus day in council foreign teams across the globe implement a range of containment measures to stop the spread of coronavirus france has banned indoor gatherings of more than 5000 people and kentucky have confirmed their 1st case. absent most forward after

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