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 down a surge of migrants they've spent days there after being told by turkey you are free to get 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 former vice president joe biden surges ahead of bernie sanders while the elizabeth warren and mike bloomberg worked to reassess their fading can't take. anybody coronavirus on

the march around the world the demand for test kits is booming even as a taper lynn company that makes kids find out how important plus german lawmakers vote again today as congo americans party tries to put to bed a little scandal surrounding cooperation with the far right and the rings. 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 have made repeated attempts to breach the frontier in recent days thousands of people have been stuck in no man's land outside the turkish city of a d.n.a.

since 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 new to unless of course 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 men 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 and then make that nasty. some are taking drastic action to get their message across

a new 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 e.u. leaders announced $700000000.00 euros in assistance still greece's prime minister called for more to be done. europe has not being up to dealing with my question questions i hope this crisis will serve as a wake up call for everyone to assume the worst possible. 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 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 out and that's one of the main the border

crossing points between taki and greece and there have been some quite dramatic scenes further away from 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 says something hot been fired from the takesh side as well it's a little chaotic as i mentioned and refugees in the area refugees my friends 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 them they say several people have been injured and here on the turkish side we saw several ambulances passo people have been injured and the situation that remains very tense it seems are some dramatic scenes over there at the border. satisfied. so far. no i don't think so i mean prison edwin says strategy or ramping up 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 migrants 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 border as to europe open because he says turkey already hosts so many refugees it's had its limits and it can 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 what you money tarion issues and they're turning a blind eye to the humanitarian situation the crisis in syria is a live 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 we see there waiting behind. children want to us all this chaos.

trying to cross. many of them have been waiting here for about 6 days now they came and the firm believe that this would be open but then they realized that's not true 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 off to drink they only have basically blankets to somehow you know protect them against the elements it's been very tough for 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 us the bruises they hot 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 rides back to istanbul for about

8 that's 12 year olds 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. all 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 take a look at the latest numbers biden now has 453 projected delegates after winning 9 of these super tuesday races so far but the race is not over because bernie sanders had 4 wins on super tuesday enough puts him at 382 delegates to clinch the democratic party's nomination a candidate needs to total 1991 delegates. was

super tuesday proof that joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well just a few days ago the pressure the furniture the credit campaign to get. i think a south carolina eventually shaver was. our trial where only got to super tuesday be over well maybe over there ever go was 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 voters 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 then 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 in our tell

you were the absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination was and where you are going to the feet the most dangerous president in their history this country was sound as went into super tuesday as the frontrunner he's particularly popular with young and let. does and i think that bernie sanders has what it takes to be as the people that i was hoping very would do better in some of the states it was a little exciting at the crossing at the same time 2 other hopefuls senator elizabeth warren and former new york man michael bloomberg performed poorly they're 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 other states holding primaries next

tuesday $350.00 more delegates are up to be won. by let's get more now on super tuesday joining me in the studio for one call here is us political analyst and professor at bard college here in berlin. 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 senator. and mayor pete both getting out of the middle lane those votes went to bible moderate candidates there as the moderate moderate candidate that's the bit the other thing i think what we did not see until really this week past weekend 72 hours ago. you're running 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 the next question was going to be you know if your bloomberg or your war and you see this pretty poor showing today do you think about dropping out. for 500. a $100000000.00 having america samoa 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 it 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 it's of rooting for a winner there i guess the u.s. political analysts are in color thanks very much to be here. turning to the coronavirus now 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 fires began is now nearing 3000 elsewhere iran's death toll has risen to 92 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 recently returned from italy and italy itself has announced it will close all schools and colleges across the country for 2 weeks. and here in berlin german health minister again sean has been briefing parliament on the status of the coronavirus here he said the corona virus outbreak has now turned into

a global pandemic the world had not yet reached the peak of the outbreak at the same time we asked germans to stay calm and said that the health system was prepared the number of confirmed cases in germany increased to 240 on wednesday with 15 of germany's 16 states now affected germany's banning the export of medical equipment such as masks protective suits and gloves and the handover message industry fair is now the latest major event in germany to be canceled or postponed it's been rescheduled for later this summer. for more let's bring in andrew oman he's a german m.p. with the opposition party f d p he's also a medical doctor himself a thank you for joining us now the german minister for health has just briefed parliament you heard that speech what did you make of what he had to say. i think he made very smart comments he was very calm explained the situation here actually

explained the situation our commission for health care we we have a starting. in germany as well but the case is still very low and he actually urged just all to be calm and there's no reason for panic shopping in you that's very important this is so he sent out to the community let's talk about panic shopping i was out shopping yesterday i went into a local drugstore that there were no there was no hand sanitizer there were many other items sold out and that's not really nice lated case is there a sense that germans are starting to to stockpile supplies just in case. i think there is a miscommunication so far in the german population there where they think that we have to be panic there is there's the situation that we might not have under control and that's why hand sanitizers are sold out in many shops through out of germany this is not a local observation is this every word country however the information that we

receive from our. very clear is that just be sure that you wash your hands carefully and you have to be careful with coughing and so is your personal hygiene precautions that are very important these are things that have to be understood by everybody i think this communication pipeline has to be opened wide so that everybody can understand how to react but again panic shopping is the wrong way to go now as we heard 15 of germany's 16 states are now reported infections how prepared in your opinion is germany to contain the spread of the virus further . i think the containment of the infection is hardly possible i think we can only slow down the epidemic that's happening in germany because we have the numbers from other countries throughout the world that we cannot contain in this situation however we could slow it down and we are very optimistic that the peak will be reached maybe sometime in april or so in the summertime is starting

off as you all know but respect for infections drop after spring time in the summertime we do not have flu infections anymore and hardly any colds and i think that's the same direction the corona virus preceded i think that's what we have to have to be sure that our health care system is not overwhelmed by too many cases in the i.c.u. use so far the case numbers are so small that our system can handle it very easily i could say that right now we have a flu epidemic going on in germany and a lot of patients are the i.c.u. being on a respirator this is not this a case for corona virus yet and i hope this is going to help every certainly hope not as well andrew allman a german member of parliament with the f d p party thank you for joining. your welcome thank you are to the eastern german state of the brain here now it's a state you may not have heard of but it set off a political earthquake earlier this year when conservative m.p.'s joined forces

with the far right party to elect a state premier now when the dust settled the head of chancellor angela merkel's party had stepped down today lawmakers will try again in an attempt to put an end to the political crisis that has rocked the country. a winter school and in february the state parliament of turin elected thomas camera from the business friendly f.t.p. as the new state premier backed by bjorn herco one of the most radical leaders of the far right d. and by the c.d.u. . a nationwide outcry followed that same evening chancellor angela merkel's conservatives were accused of betraying democracy and breaking a historical to prove against cooperating with the extreme rights machall who is in south africa spoke out the next morning was months are off for this process is unforgivable the outcome of the election must be revoked.

c.d.u. leader and the gretsch cramp karrenbauer tried to take charge she touched to injure with a clear message that the c.d.u. does not work with the a.f.p. but despite several crisis meetings she was unable to win over all the cd use regional members news state premier thomas camera she admitted the election result was wrong and agreed to step down. not for the 1st time crime karrenbauer was accused of failing to get a grip on her party response she would stand down as party leader and abandon her other ambitions easier than this i will not be running as chancellor. merkel's era parents wanted to maintain the c.d.u. is the party of the center. very clear position no reproach meant and no cooperation with the a.f.c. and the left. wing. karrenbauer may be going but the cd

use strategic challenge remains how to deal with the socialist left party and the far right a f d. 3 candidates want to take over as party leader and possibly become the next chancellor the battle into ranger highlights the challenges facing the winner. he abused chief political editor miguel acosta joins me now from our parliamentary studios good to see you mikael so today it's round soon lawmakers in the ring your try again to elect a new state premier can we expect a different outcome this time around. yes we can because everybody has been playing not through not just the math but also the potential strategic options and any kind of tricks that could be played by the far right party which the last time around only managed to put itself in the same camp with angela merkel

c.d.u. party by simply not voting for their own candidates and this took everybody by surprise this time around we see a faceoff between john hooker who leads the extreme right wing of the far right if tea party and. from the left party both parties are going to marco's party says it doesn't want to cooperate with so a very interesting vote indeed and we heard a bit of this in the piece but just remind us again why did this small east german state have such a big impact in fact bringing down the head of of angela merkel's party. because it exposed essentially the weakness of the party headquarters and particularly the woman who was seen as destined to eventually succeed anglo-american not just as party leader but as a potential next chancellor candidate as this smacked of historical references going back to 933 when the mainstream conservative camps started supporting the

far right extremists and that was none other than adult hitler and that's how deep this rift here was and how big this was to the political system particularly in the conservative camp of angela merkel's c.d.u. party this leaves open a regional vote today and father open who will lead the conservative c.d.u. party into the post merkel era in the end our chief political editor miguel occurs now following that vote for us today thank you very much our sports now on a new charity in the u.k. that's hoping to encourage more black people to go swimming recent figures from the government bodies sport england show that 95 percent of black adults and 80 percent of black children don't swim and all the consequences of that can be deadly the world health organization says minorities are at greater risk of drowning.

steering is on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of her sport against the old she could become the 1st black female swimmer to represent britain in the olympics. i'm very proud of my statement says that to say. this is what i believe i am the only one i wish i wish i wasn't the only one in that sense so i. would just be nice if people more involved in something in that way in this it took it to a higher level but people account for just 2 percent of all registered swimmers in england it's why dering who is joining forces with filmmaker at a curate to set up a charity it aims to challenge stereotypes around blacks when this one of them is the big bold theory they say people health have been the cause of death because people believe in that. and we've made these what weight is the head the. way today . the mind is not.

the cure is involvement is personal he produced a film about overcoming his own anxieties with water the lack of diversity in swimming has also been brain don't afford ability inaccessibility many still perceive the spool just elitist. we need to actually start with the black community fast if you want our species because breaking down those barriers basically but so far generations of people say that this is a sport so that it's not an activity for them that's where we kind of have to start . doing his show what is possible she's now helping others follow her lead. all former judo world champion who fled iran has been cleared to compete for mongolia instead of this year's tokyo olympics so even ally went into hiding in germany after a dispute with iranian authorities at last year's world championships he said was told to deliberately boost a match to avoid facing an israeli competitor while i was granted asylum in germany

before switching to team mongolia he was scheduled to compete at the olympics with a refugee team. i don't mind now the top story that we're tracking for you at this hour there been fresh confrontations of the turkish border between police and migrants seeking to enter the european union the security forces have been trying to prevent refugees from crossing the land border migrants have made repeated attempts to breach the border in recent days. rushing to the news. the u.s. bombs taliban positions less than a week after the historic peace deal in doha is the withdrawal agreement unravel. and we need to be victims of the delhi thrives struggling to rebuild their lives. all that more indeed on the news asia with the russian biology and remember in the meantime visit our web site t

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