solutions my name is on the fact she's not and i work at g.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin tear gas and shots fired on the border between greece and turkey greek authorities use force to keep out a surge of migrants they spent days there after being told by turkey to free to go to europe also coming up super tuesday leaves 2 candidates at the top in the race to face donald trump in america's general election this november former vice

president joe biden surges ahead of bernie sanders while blessed with more and mike bloomberg look to reassess their fading campaigns plus with the coronavirus on the march around the world the demand for test kits is booming be visited berlin company that makes kids to find out how they work. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us there have been fresh confrontations at the turkish greek border between migrants seeking to enter the european union and police determined to stop the greek security forces have been using tear gas to prevent groups of migrants and refugees from crossing the land border they've made repeated attempts to breach the frontier in recent days thousands of people have been stuck in a no man's land outside the turkish. city of a deer in

a sense friday and the situation on the greek islands closest to turkey has also been deteriorating on lesbos long a flashpoint in the migration crisis refugees and locals have been clashing with police. standoff at the port of me to unless both a group of migrants heard there were ships ready to take them to the mainland but police wouldn't let them through and with more migrants arriving from turkey the situation on the island is tense residents say they cannot take in any more migrants. we as locals stand up against this. is the lead man i mean we want to make it clear to the local authorities the parliament and the government that we will not accept any new migrants in the cab. some are taking drastic action to get their message across a new an occupied migrant shelter was set on fire on tuesday. right wing

extremists even blocked entry to migrants and humanitarian aid during a visit to a greek turkish border crossing leaders announced $700000000.00 euros in the systems still greece's prime minister called for more to be done. europe has not been up to the. question i hope this crisis will serve as a wake up call for everyone to assume the responsibility. but there are no signs of that at the border where migrants are stuck in a no man's land and wanted by both sides let's get more now from our correspondent she joins us from turkey just across the border from greece either you develop a developing situation where you are at the border what's happening on the turkish side. well i'm it's one of the main the border

crossing points between taki and greece and there have been some quite dramatic scenes further away from me here at the border where hundreds of migrants are still trying to cross into greece into e.u. territory now we can't move any closer because turkish soldiers have sealed this area off they're not letting journalists in right now but according to the reports we're getting and we heard shots were fired earlier greek border guards have used tear gas again against refugees to keep them out there are some reports that something hot been fired from the takesh side as well it's a little chaotic as i mentioned and refugees in the area refugees migrants have been trying to cross they send us journalists covering the situation videos on what's up with the dramatic scenes actually the refugees are saying greek

a border guards have fired at the. they say several people have been injured and here on the tucker side we saw several ambulances tasso people have been injured and the situation that remains very tense it seems some dramatic scenes over there at the border. is it satisfied. no i don't think so i mean prison edwin says try to pressure on europa by sending refugees to war the border as it seems has not worked out so far because e.u. leaders yesterday said they would stand by they would support greece they actually thanked greece for protecting the borders despite all the brutal methods greek border guards have been using in recent days against migraines and refugees

a local government governor the local governor of this region here in turkey was at the scene a little early he accused of human rights violations and he also said turkey will keep its borders to europe open because he says turkey already has so many refugees it's had its limits and it can't take in any more and that's the line of argumentation we hear from other turkish officials they say the e.u. is focusing on security and not on who your money tarion issues and they are turning a blind eye to the humanitarian situation the crisis in syria where hundreds of thousands of people are basically waiting and seeking security from syrian regime bombings over there and this is what turkey has been warning about so it remains to be seen if they're going to keep the pressure off a what's going to happen here in the next days at the border. there waiting behind . children watches all this chaos. trying to

cross. well many of them have been waiting here for about 6 days now they came in the firm believe that this border what would be open but then they realize that it's not true that people have camped stayed day and night outside in the open in the cold families with little children they don't have enough to eat and nuff to drink they only have basically blankets to somehow you know protect them against the elements it's been very tough for clothe them we've also talked to migrants here who say they made it to greece where then detained by greek border guards beaten up their phones were being taken from them their money was being taken from them they showed as the bruises they have from these beatings and then they were sent back to turkey they told us and now they don't have even the money to get a bus ticket back to stumble or the other places where they came from now we actually also see buses here in the area offering writes back to istanbul for about

80 turkish lira that's 12 euro zone so the situation is very uncertain we see people are going back but still there are at least hundreds of people still waiting here at this border crossing trying to make it to the other side. on their forests of the turkish greek border thank you very much for your reporting. projections from the super tuesday primaries in the united states show former vice president joe biden taking the lead against the other democratic candidates for president let's take a look at the way just numbers now biden has 453 delegates after winning some of these super tuesday races so far but the race is not over yet spurning sanders he won 4 states on super tuesday that puts him at a 382 delegates and to clinch the nomination well the magic number 1991. see pictures day proof that joe biden's

campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well just a few days ago the press the furniture the credit campaign yet. and they carried south carolina days from a saver was. our tour only got to super tuesday to be over well maybe over there ever go by. the former u.s. vice president can now claim to be the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination exit polls linking success to strong support from african-americans as well as older and suburban votes has a moderate myself so i think his message can reach a lot of people who are in the middle reach both left and right by been a big fan of his since the obama administration senator bernie sanders is by no means out of the race for the democratic nomination just yet tonight large though you were the absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination

was of the. era where you are going to the feet the most dangerous president in their history of this country of the sand as went into super tuesday as the frontrunner he's particularly popular with young and latino voters and i think that bernie sanders has what it takes any as have all of the people who i was hoping very would do better in some of the states he was a little exciting in the passing at the same time to other hopefuls senator elizabeth warren and former new york man michael bloomberg performed poorly there facing calls to suspend their campaigns and let voters choose between biden and santas super tuesday is an important date in the presidential election calendar but it only represents about one 3rd of the delegates that are up for grabs nationwide the campaign now moves on to michigan and 5 of the states holding primaries next tuesday $350.00 more delegates are up to be won. by let's get more now on super

tuesday joining in the studio for one call here is us political analyst and professor at bard college chamberland. what a day for joe biden i mean he one of these 9 states including some he had even really set foot in recently what was behind this big time successful i think 2 things the and they're related the 1st is that the middle lane got a lot less crowded a following the south carolina primary and a meek senator. and. judge both getting out of the middle lane those votes went to bible moderate candidates there as the moderate moderate candidate that's the big the other thing i think what we did not see until really this week past weekend 72 you hours ago. your inning and the depth of the desire for. an obama era restoration and

that is represented by. joe biden he has played that melody and i think that at least among the democrats is a winning strategy for him bernie sanders also had a big night he won a few states including the big prize of the night california with lots of delegates it's looking like a 2 person race could sanders catch up at this point. in many ways it's like a sailing race once you sort of get ahead with the lead you just have to maintain your lead it's going it's going to be a lot harder for sanders from this point on i think we don't want to underestimate the importance of both bloomberg and warren and watch what they do because if we go into the party. convention without a majority. and go into a 2nd round then suddenly 16 percent of the so-called superdelegates the party establishment will have a say and that looks much better for biden than for sanders well the next question

was going to be you know if you're bloomberg or you war and you see you see this pretty poor showing today do you think about dropping out. for 500. a $100000000.00 having america and a lot of 3rd place finishes the only thing that i could really imagine that might play a strategic role for him is preventing a majority going into the convention of either candidate and being so to speak a kingmaker at the table and buying that with elizabeth warren it's very difficult for me to guess unless she is hoping to take votes from bernie sanders is it possible to say that here in europe europeans are rooting for anybody in this democratic race well let's just say compared to the president the current president of the united states we are looking at a stable of european champions the only person that the europeans should be probably rooting for would be whoever has the highest likelihood of winning the

next presidential election of running for a winner there i guess the u.s. political analysts over in color thanks very much to be here. our let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines at this hour the southern u.s. state of tennessee has declared a state of emergency after suffering its deadliest tornadoes in 7 years at least 24 people died in the storms with the search for bodies continuing worst hit areas around the capital city of nashville. rescuers are searching for dozens of people missing after landslides hit several cities in the brazilian state of south at least 16 people are confirmed dead so far brazil's heavily populated southeast has suffered an intense rainy season this year causing flooding and landslides. swedish activist greater to has met the european commission president or sort of phone line as the blog prepares to publish a draft climate point it will commit of the e.u. to 0 emissions by the year 2050 but 2 merck has criticised the draft she says the

e.u. should be more ambitious in the short term. also been less than a week since the us signed a deal with the taliban on withdrawing its troops from afghanistan but in a setback to the peace process taliban militants carried out a series of deadly overnight attacks against afghan police and security forces in quddus in the north of the country the u.s. responded with an airstrike against militants in helmand province all of this coming just hours after taliban leaders assured us president trump in a phone call that they wanted a session of violence. 7 the taliban celebrating after their historic deal with the us. the agreement in doha was heralded as a major step towards ending afghanistan's new war 2 days later taliban fighters are back on the offensive carrying out dozens of attacks across the country. afghan

security forces came under deadly fire in kandahar and herat the worst violence in those with up to 20 killed came only hours after a phone call between u.s. president trump and the taliban's political chief i spoke to the leader of the taliban today we had a good conversation we've agreed there's no violence we don't want by let's see what happens they're dealing with afghanistan but we'll see what happens. so far taliban leader mullah abdul ghani baradar has only negotiated with the u.s. and not afghanistan's elected government in kabul. this interim afghan talks with president ashraf ghani administration were to get underway next week but they already appear in doubt the taliban has made the talks conditional on the release of 5000 taliban prisoners a demand the afghan government refuses to meet. meanwhile the pentagon is pushing

ahead with its troop withdrawal in afghanistan and taking the long view on the latest taliban attacks you know this is going to be a long windy bumpy road there will be ups and downs and will stop and start that's going to be a nature of this over the next days weeks and months and so i'm not going to get too excited about what happens at the moment. on uncertain time for peace in afghanistan where no one appears ready to put away their guns just yet. on turning to the coronavirus and some good news china is reporting a decrease in the number of new cases for the 3rd day in a row but the death toll in the country where the virus began is now nearing $3000.00 elsewhere the wrongs death toll has risen to $902.00 that's the highest outside of china the e.u. has reported the 1st confirmed case of the virus at its administrative center in brussels the official there had reason recently returned from italy and australia's largest supermarket chain is get this rationing sales of toilet paper after panic

buying hit stores there in recent days. meanwhile criticism is growing of the u.s. for failing to quickly implement effective testing for the pathogen knowing of course if a 6 person is infected with the virus is the 1st step in determining who needs to be quarantined our next report looks at a testing method developed here in berlin now being used across the world. determining whether or not someone has the corona virus isn't as simple and straightforward as it sounds the process generally begins when a patient complains of symptoms like fever or a dry cough the challenges distinguishing a coded 19 infection from the flu or other respiratory conditions because the symptoms are so similar testing begins with a swab sample usually taken from the mouth or nose although experts believe mucous coughed up directly from the lungs is a better indicator many of the various tests use a method known as the polymerase chain reaction or p.c.r.

and it works like this if a sample contains the corona virus the chemicals in a test kit begin to react with its unique genetic material and start copying it over and over again the copies are tagged with the dye so even when low loads of virus are in a sample they grow more and more detectable with each new generation of copies. one such test for the corona virus was developed in berlin back in january by dr coast john tossed and his team who can take several hours to get a positive for a negative result. will look at all recipe orders some specific ingredients that they will receive after like 2 days at the same time order this small or cool for us that they will also receive within very short time. and then they can start testing in the last few weeks the w.h.o. has sent some 250000 of thorsten's p.c.

or kids to labs across the planet the means to detect the virus quickly will play a vital role in combating it effectively but in parts of the world like africa the technology is still far from common. and here in berlin german health minister against iran is briefing parliament on the status of the corn virus in germany the number of confirmed cases increased 221040 with 15 of 16 federal german states now affected as of wednesday germany is banning the export of medical equipment such as masks protective suits and gloves and the one over message industry fair is the latest major events in germany to be canceled or postponed it's been rescheduled for later this summer. item joined out by de w.'s reporting for us from the german parliament. understand that speech now by u.n.

spawn has just wrapped up now what are the german health minister have to say. well he is basically trying to calm down the population and to ensure everybody that the good german government is taking this crisis is very seriously indeed and yet there is no need to panic that was basically his message he said that for the very 1st time since news broke of china outbreak of the corona outbreak in china germany issued a quarantine measure plan so that one them tiny he said to make sure that the virus didn't spread in germany earlier than it did because now actually the most the highest amount of cases that we have here in germany is now spreading in the country itself and it cannot be linked to foreign countries which was the case last week so he's basically reinsured everybody that the government is taking appropriate measures and that there still is no need to panic and you know as we

heard there are 240 cases now in germany 15 of germany's 16 states now reporting infections how prepared does it seem germany is to contain the virus from spreading any farther. well there is a daily briefing from the government body that's in charge of public health and disease prevention and they're keeping a very close eye indeed on. the dynamism of the spreading of the virus and. reminded everybody again that they're in close contact with all the health officials including the mayors in the cities that have to basically decide whether to put somebody into quarantine are not and yet germany has not issued a wholesale ban on mass events and they say that it's up to every organizer for themselves to assess the risk and whether they can afford closing down big events or postponing them like they have done with some of the major events but not

a whole sale ban on these events and then there's a ban on exports of medical equipment that's needed to treat those patients because they say they need those gloves for example they need them in hospitals and so they can't afford to sell those abroad at the moment some people are of course monitoring the situation very closely when it comes to the impact on the economy and there are a few politicians who are now calling on something like economic stimulus package is especially for smaller companies that may see themselves forced to close down their companies for a short while just to make sure that the virus doesn't spread if there is a suspected case. nina hasa reporting there from german parliament thank you very much. every morning a flying carpet of green descends over a busy area of india's chennai city thousands of wild parakeets coming in for their daily meal one to the home of one man joseph 2nd the bird man of as he's called

the camera of repairman has been feeding wild parakeets on his rooftop for more than a decade now and it's a pretty that begins early in the day. early morning in chennai i j subsea car is preparing another open air breakfast on these terrorists . and he's guests literally flock from far and wide to enjoy. this simple meal of so dries chickpeas and grain is served to more than 8000 parakeets every day. after watching patiently from above the banquet can finally begin. on t.v. it's. beginning this has been going on for the past 25 years and actually birds like crows minus barrows and pigeons used to come but parakeet started coming after

the tsunami in 2004 not locals call in the good man of chan on top of that comes at a cost a $68.00 gauge is more than. warmed by surf more than 65 kilos of rice to these birds every day this cost me 2000 rupees or about 40 percent of my income or somebody offers me money or rice i accept it as a local. the daily feeding frenzy morning and evening has become a local attraction but for how much longer. the owner of choice of sick oz building wants to tear it down and has given him an eviction notice. he may stand to lose his hard but the bad man of china says he's more worried about who feeds thousands of for the trains when he's gone. the former judo world champion who fled iran has been cleared to compete for mongolia instead at this year's tokyo olympics so

even when i went into hiding in germany after a dispute with iranian authorities at last year's world championships now he said he was told to deliberately lose a match to avoid facing an israeli competitor. why was granted asylum in germany before switching to team of mongolia he was scheduled to compete at the olympics with a refugee team. and remind of the top stories that we're tracking for you at this hour there's been fresh confrontations at the turkish greek border between police and migrants seeking to enter the european union create security forces are trying to prevent refugees from crossing the land border migrants have made repeated attempts to breach the border in recent dates. and in the u.s. race for the democratic presidential nomination joe biden has sealed his comeback after nationwide wins and 9 of the super tuesday primary states senator bernie sanders finished a strong 2nd he won the biggest prize of the nights in california disappointing

results for former new york mayor mike bloomberg and senator elizabeth warren they may have to reassess their campaign. coming up next eco africa the environment magazine and a reminder all the latest news and information available around the clock on our web site that's d.w. dot com or you can follow us on twitter at the w. news and i'll be back with more news of the top of the hour.

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