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the band. this is deja vu news live from berlin a new migration crisis at the used border with turkey. could slow death from news was there and everybody is funny everywhere describing. migrants attempting to cross into greece faced water cannon and tear gas from the greek border guards thousands of people are on the move after turkey says it will no longer try to stop but. also coming out handing out tickets for home starting students in japan
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prepare for an unplanned break test schools shut down due to the prone to fires we'll go to tokyo to find out how the country is coping with the epidemics. voters in israel have to the polls for a 3rd time in less than a year will they break the deadlock between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main challenger any gods. and in the bundesliga leipsic are held to a draw at home and they missed the chance to put the real pressure on the leaders firing. i'm sunni so much gone it's good to have you with us a new migration crisis is taking shape on the european union's eastern frontier thousands of migrants are trying to find a way from turkey in to greece now that is after the turkish government said it would no longer try to stop migrants who are trying to cross. in to the e.u.
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buggery says pushing back the plowing its military to protect border points and using tear gas to turn the migrants back athens fears a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis and it is suspending asylum applications for a month vowing to return anyone who enters the country illegally now many migrants who have attempted to reach the e.u. are camped out in the turkish border province of a did name some are still hoping to cross into greece others plan to turn back. unable to cross into the e.u. the group of refugees returns exhausted to this parking lot near the greek turkish border crossing a cars are cooler. some haven't eaten all day. they did not expect to be stuck on the turkish side of the border they brought back photos of the front here zone which journalists cannot access one afghan refugee claims the greek police fired tear gas to push them back. their families were there and everybody is panicking everybody is crying creates a lot of in
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a very difficult condition there is no support for the migrants. they've made a camp fire to keep warm many here traveled from afghanistan but they don't have protected status in turkey and are hoping to reach the e.u. as soon as possible even though there is no guarantee of asylum there either. the new clues due to be on the view i want to study i want to live in peace here i'm no better off than i was back home no matter where we go people won't let us be. during the day groups of refugees arrive by bus load to a spot just down the road. it's unclear who arranged their transport this area is supposed to be a restricted zone but no turkish border police are here to enforce it. the migrants are attempting to cross the everest river on the other side lies greece. many of those who make it across are pushed back by the greek military. the
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greek soldiers take everything from you with your valuables even your food their beating people and sending us back to turkey. and the. those who didn't make it will have to sit tight on the border despite the cold temperatures when the sun comes up they'll try again. so what is the european union's response to all of this let's go to our correspondent arena straus is standing by for us in brussels hi marina and this is a real crisis that we're talking about and greece has said very clearly this is not our problem alone to solve this is a european problem to solve so what is the e.u. doing. frontex the european border agency actually says that's received a call from the greek government to launch a very fast intervention their. projects told to w. and also wrote intruder that they will look in sadat and see how they can calgary
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help crease in the shortest time possible also the e.u. higher percentage feels that bode well has called for an emergency meeting of that you foreign ministers here in brussels this is likely to happen this week already maybe even in the coming days and there will be also there also be a meeting of the e.u. interior ministers they're hoping mostly with migration reno what about the fact that greece is now said it is suspending asylum applications for a month which does not conform to european union law so what is the e.u. saying about that the thing is that you couldn't possibly accept that because everyone no matter who or he or she is or who arrives at the european soil has arrived to apply here for us for asylum and this is guaranteed by you asylum law but also by that you u.n. refugee convention this would be a clear breach of the law. what about the question of how united european union member states are on migration i mean are member states willing to take in migrants
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. it is quite likely that many member states many member states will take a hardline approach when it comes to taking migrants we've seen that in the last couple of years and there's no reason to believe that this will now chairs and of course this will leave the burden to e.u. member states with external borders like bow garia like it's only like greece for example the thing is to me that in the 25th 152016 year migration crisis the e.u. has promised to find this common solution for this my question problem this said they will find the distribution mechanism but in 4 years the haven't been able to find a solution and this is mostly due to countries like poland and hungary who are not willing to take in migrants or the e.u. has also promised to speed asylum up the question process but this is also not happening if we're looking at the greek islands for example take the comp morea
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unless boss the situation there many describe it is a living hell and this is happening in on the soil off the european union at the moment. due to these marina strauss reporting for us thank you. now financial markets in asia have mostly studied out today after a week where the corona virus outbreak triggered huge losses around the world the number of new cases reported by china has dropped sharply but the epidemic is still spreading rapidly in other countries the total number of infections around the world now exceeds $89000.00 people more than $3000.00 have died indonesia and several other countries are now reporting their 1st cases officials in italy which is the worst hit country in europe so the number of people infected with the virus jumped by 50 percent to nearly 1700.
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not a tourist in sight the canals of venice without its famous gone. no sound of fans cheering in milan's football stadium either across italy 5 major matches have been postponed due to the corona virus. as new infections climb dramatically in europe's worst hit country the italian government is imposing more drastic measures army checkpoints control quarantine areas in some regions and emergency aid has been promised to the sectors hardest hit by the rapid spread of the virus. in france tourists line up outside the world's most visited museum the louvre on sunday in vain they were not allowed in the building off to the museum staff voted to keep its doors shut due to fears of contamination from the flow of tourists. to look to see the mona lisa that i think but unfortunately it's close
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so i believe that point that the french government has been gatherings of more than 5000 people closing down trade fairs and large sporting events even though a half marathon in paris was officially called off hundreds of runners defied the ban and ran the full course. oh i'm about to side signed up to take part in the marathon and since i had nothing to do this morning i thought i might as well go and run it was my goal and if i can do it why not we have to stop all this paranoia with what's happening and we have to keep things in perspective specifies what it says. in recent days the u.s. australia thailand have reported the 1st deaths on their soil but with more than 50 deaths iran has the world's highest toll outside of china the epidemic is impacting businesses and daily life and shaking the country's already struggling economy. people are panicked a little under stress is led to
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a drop in sales people have also become more hygiene obsessed and buy less food from bakeries restaurants and caterers. catering go as markets around the globe take a hit some countries are more vulnerable than others. japan is one of the countries battling a growing number of coronavirus cases more than 250 people have tested positive there the government is warning citizens not to gather in large groups and take the drastic measure of closing schools until the school year ends in late march is closures will affect 13000000 students many after school services have extended their hours and the government has promised to create a fund to help workers who have to take time off to care for their children. and for more on this we can speak to michael pan he's a journalist in the capital tokyo hi michael today is the 1st day that schools have been close as we said it's set to affect 13000000 students i mean how are students
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how are parents coping with this. they're scrambling i think would be the shortest way of putting it. right you know people weren't expecting this decision and so it's not something that really has much precedent to that that all of these school children across the nation suddenly are home. rather than going off to school which means that all of their parents who are at work for example if they happen to have you know 2 parents who are working they kind of depend on having the kids at school and so companies and employees are having to make rapid adjustments and it's creating a lot of confusion and this is something suddenly aware this issue has now touched almost every family's life in japan which is which is pretty amazing it's a pretty drastic measure i mean how satisfied are people there with the government's response in general to the coronavirus. not very in fact
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i think it would be fair to say that the government right now is probably facing its most serious crisis politically that it's ever had in its 7 years of power i mean to be honest the government's wobbling right now the prime minister was forced in the diet debate today he was under heavy attack by opposition parties and he admitted that his decision to close all the schools of the nation was made without consulting a single expert and was a political decision that he made without really completely knowing all of the ramifications for it and this is going to be extremely damaging to the government which was already under assault for its handling of the diamond princess and other issues they haven't really done very well on this issue all of this michael ahead of tokyo hosting the olympics this summer i mean how realistic is it that these olympics will go ahead given the circumstances. well whether it's realistic or not
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has no it's hard to say at this point i mean we're still only at the beginning of march and the olympics are scheduled to open in late july so you know it's you know we don't know exactly how far the containment of this virus will go in the next 2 or 3 months but what can be said without a doubt is that it's going to impact the olympics that there's going to be fewer visitors that many of the events that were scheduled leading up to the olympics are not going to happen and that you know the mood will not be as good so whether the olympics get can certainly council or not i think we're still too early to say but they will definitely be damaged by this call but 19 outbreak journalist michael spann speaking to us from tokyo thank you for your insights thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world japan says it is working closely with the u.s. and south korea after north korea fired 2 short range missiles into its eastern sea
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the launches were the 1st since november and traveled a distance of around 250 kilometers south korea says it is monitoring for additional missile tests. people to judge has ended his campaign for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination the former mayor of south bend indiana had a disappointing performance in south carolina's primary on saturday his decision comes just before super tuesday when 14 states go to the polls in a contest that could produce a clear front front runner. there were scenes of panic at a shopping mall in the philippines where a man has been shot and wounded and about 30 people taken hostage police say the gunman is a disgruntled security guard heavily armed police have entered the building near manila and negotiators are trying to end the standoff peacefully. voting is underway in israel's 3rd election within a year as the country tries to end a political impasse central left opposition leader benny gantz cast his vote and
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what polls show is a neck and neck race he's challenging conservative prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is due to stand trial later this month over a series of corruption scandals the previous 2 elections were inconclusive neither side won enough seats to form a government. and let's speak now to gil hoffman he's the chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post newspaper gil thank you for joining us so what are the chances that this election will finally break israel's political deadlock. it's quite unlikely at this point benjamin netanyahu would have to pull off a very impressive victory he would have to get a majority for his right wing block excluding the people in the bloc that don't want to be the prime minister of it because of his corruption charges there's he's run a very smart campaign i've been following him around i've seen how his grassroots is very motivated but it's would still be extremely difficult it's remarkable that this is israel's 3rd general election in a year i mean what are voters saying are they fatigue that's entire process are
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they frustrated. you know i thought they were after the 1st election i wrote on the cover of my newspaper the day of the 2nd election lowest turnout ever expected and i was wrong the turnout on that of being relatively high it weighed almost 70 percent the turnout went up so while i definitely feel the fatigue of people we could end up having the same 70 percent turnout despite that because people realize that there are very important issues on the line and no matter who wins this election we're going to have a peace process right after the election efforts to solve the israeli palestinian conflict it's very serious what about the fact that the prime minister is about to stand trial on corruption charges i mean how does that affect today's vote. well there are people who would be quite humiliated to have a prime minister on trial and because of that they won't be voting for netanyahu so
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that will definitely be a factor in how people vote then there are people who consider the the charges against him frivolous or a witch hunt much like the supporters of donald trump were in the united states and they will vote for him anyway and guess what about benny gantz his chances i mean how has what is his message been to voters. his measures as been to voters that way you can have a former general like him keep the citizens of israel safe and secure while also being clean that it's time to after 10 years in a row 14 years in total that you know of being prime minister to give somebody else a chance that he's assembled the right team to be able to do it to run the country better and and to put the citizens 1st and himself. and i just want to throw this forward what happens if after this election there is inconclusive once again what happens then. the problem all along has been that the politicians have not been lying during the campaign they said i would sit with
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him i won't sit with her and after the campaign we thought they would break their promises and they didn't know the hope is that they will be such outrage at the prospect of a 4th election that they would break those campaign promises that somebody would finally compromise and give it if they don't we are going to a 4th election and maybe a 5th and maybe a 27th but god forbid. the jerusalem post chief political correspondent thank you for joining us. here watching t.v. you news still to come in the bundesliga lights it we're having to come to the gallows to leaders byron to the point but he does not go as planned. but 1st over the weekend the u.s. and the taliban signed a long negotiated agreement to end the war in afghanistan but it's already run into trouble afghanistan's president ashraf ghani says his government has not pledged to release thousands of taliban prisoners even though that was part of the deal.
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these signatures given at a historic summit in qatar's capital doha milestone on afghanistan's road to peace after almost 20 years of war. but that road was always going to be rocky under the deal the afghan government will release thousands of taliban prisoners ahead of talks between afghan factions but afghanistan's president ashraf ghani said his government never agreed to that and it wasn't for the us to decide. now where that would be better you know no commitment has been made for the release of 5000 prisoners while we have repeatedly said this issue clearly with the u.s. envoy south my colleagues that and other officials that mommy this is the legitimate right and self-determination of the people of afghanistan to request has
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been made and it can be part of the negotiation but it cannot be a precondition for that are getting a lot of them afghanistan's. for many afghans the hope of an end to the violence is tempered by fears for their country's future. with their daddy but you don't because if the us leaves afghanistan we afghans are worried about a return to the brutal situation that the taliban will stop their attacks again. so we call on the taliban to sign the peace deal with the afghan government as soon as possible though that's a common tactic to. women and girls especially suffered severe repression under taliban rule. kabul veterinarian toher rob rezaei is worried about the threat to women's progress if the group we gain strength through talks with the government. i don't feel very optimistic because i don't know who will come to power if there's peace with the taliban. looking at their history i feel less hopeful that i'll be
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able to continue my work if there is peace with the taliban the war will come to. it's now a waiting game to see how talks between different afghan groups play out following saturday's deal. like reside people here hope they won't have to pay for peace with their freedom. in the bundesliga be leipsic lost ground in the title chase after a one all draw at home to buy or leverkusen remain 2nd in the table but they're now 3 points behind leaders. white 6 days believe it's their year to win the title and they were pumped up for this top of the table question with laver whose. car i haven't seen company had the better momentum coming in with a 6 game winning streak plus events you can europe. for t.-mo hannah and the home
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sites title ambitions to remain tangible they needed maximum points especially being at home but it was leon bailey who needed for the visitors in the 29th minute waiver cruises the demon mary intercepted a bad pass did the leg work and found chi habits who set up the leap from point blank range his 5th goal this season of a life sick didn't need long to respond and were helped by a mary who took down vanna setting up a free kick and christopher own cuckoo didn't waste it finding patrick shakoor level to score with the beautiful header that was just out of her debts he's reached was after the break life's it had a good look then a touch passed in cuckoo but predicts keep since not this time and for events what could have been the game winner. with 2 minutes to go live 6 marcel sabates ahead too much on it from outside the box missing another chance to score remain the same
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until the end of life 6 share the spoils with leverkusen with an evenly matched draw. only on berlin's game with false burglars stopped after only one sans target hoffenheim zone or more hop with offensive banners was the latest in a series of protests against top fans are critical of how the billionaire has used money to circumvent under sago rules and own a majority stake of his club i mean yawns christian can't know was on a day ahead of his 400 sprinters league appearance the berlin is hoping his experience can inspire their push for an unlikely european sports venue on when to head against the run of play in a tight 1st half i see best in anderson bravely heading home before being cleaned out by will spare key cone cast steals i everything seems right in
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your own swelled until. now. the referee drew a temporary halt to proceedings another game suspended because of chanting and ban is directed at hoffenheim own a de mar hall who neons players pleaded with the home fans to take the banners down the match was halted for more than 10 minutes that was enough to calm things down when the players did make their way back onto the pitch there were no further problems. the break in play didn't check only on streit marvin friedrich made it to nearly on 56 minutes i 4 minutes later though the wolves hit back gary hart showed 3 tricks that he doesn't have the pace in tom bullet head is i inside the final 10 minutes and not the header this time of the glancing variety securing a point for both spoke out very holistic the onus of the final score i
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. all right let's take a look at how this weekend's results have affected the bundesliga standings of the defending champs byron they're stretched their lead over lights they get to 3 points dortmund and are hot on like 6 heels asked the other and cologne continue their upward trajectory mines pulled clear of danger by beating the potter born. south africa's biggest soccer match celebrated its 50th anniversary when kaiser chiefs travel to the orlando pirates $90000.00 people packed the stadium for the so wet on derby and produced an atmosphere that was both ferocious and friendly feeling. that yes the sons of both sides were at fever pitch ahead of sub-saharan africa's biggest game. that was out of reader has brought out every player that they know to do as such they have to remain there you can make your cardio oh you can't do you good here today the class is going to
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suffer today to post it to an effect for certain death then i ask that don't doubt i am. table topping chiefs were looking for a win to boost their bid for a 1st league title in 5 years while pirates knew victory for them could reignite their own championship challenge. little wonder then but supports us went through the agony. in the end a heroic goalkeeping performance helps you a one nil win for chiefs. that group get the ball to do. with who was too good i was up to go i feel like i've been grabbed by the good people at the credit goes because that's a good people. but despite the tension funds managed to keep things good natured both during and after the game. no upsides we are like this with. a game is a game we have to know that sometimes we sometimes we are who is. easy to say
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