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to 77 percent. this weekend. the but. this is you know we lose live from berlin tear gas and shots fired on the border between greece and turkey week authorities use of force to keep out a surge of migrants they've spent days there after being told by turkey you're free to go to europe also coming up turning the tide former vice president joe biden wins big on super tuesday leaving front runner bernie sanders behind him but their
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recent become the democratic nominee to take on prison trouble isn't over yet for those more and mike bloomberg it was a night of setbacks plus with the coronavirus on the march around the world governments are racing to test as many of their citizens as possible we visited a test kits and make a wait here in the german capital to find out just how they work. on layer like it's great to have your company everyone we begin this broadcast with tensions over migration that have led to violence scenes on greece's border to turkey it was triggered when turkey said it would no longer stop migrants in this territory from trying to reach the european union while since then greek border guards have been using force to repel thout. thousands of migrants trying to cross
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into greece many of them are a few gees fleeing war zones in syria and beyond but after finding europe's door shut they've now become stranded outside the turkish city of. shots and tear gas fired at the greek turkish border tensions are rising here as a new chapter in the migrant crisis unfolds turkey accused greece of killing a migrant and wounding others on wednesday allegations athens dismissed as fake news. those desperate to reach the european union are stuck in limbo unwanted by both countries with no safe place to return to that your money home i don't have a home i have nothing to go back to if i ever turned i would have to start from the beginning so going forward is the only option for me and my son. and i don't want to. go to good news we've been here for 4 days there's no food nothing then they
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didn't open the border i need to go back it's been days. the e.u. council president met with turkey's president in ankara for crisis talks europe has now offered turkey 170000000 euros to look after displaced syrians nevertheless e.u. officials say that area wants a decision to open turkey's borders hasn't helped foster trust between the 2 sides . and we can take you now to our correspondent you'll johann she joins us from turkey just across the border from greece a good to have you with us. the the situation along the border is very much an ongoing situation but there have been some very disturbing reports of the greek border patrol fighting with tear gas and even shooting at migrants last refugees what can you tell us about these reports. well these incidents
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happened earlier today and one of the main border crossings between tacky and griese where apparently hundreds all the migrants are still waiting demanding passage to greece to european union territory we were in the area but as journalists we are not to allowed anywhere near this border crossing so we hurt the shots that were fired we saw smoke and later the reports as they were coming in we understood that greek border police was again using tear gas to hold people back but the greek side also says tear gas had been fired from within the crowd of migrants towards the greek side and later videos have been shed on what's up apparently filmed by refugees apparently showing how injured people had been carried away turkish officials have shared similar videos with us and they are now saying one palace and was killed by the great border guards who according to
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officials have been using live ammunition now that's something the greeks strongly denies they dismiss this as fake news and that's basically the problem here reporting about the situation at the border the 2 sides turkey and greece are trading accusations and blame and it's very difficult to understand the facts to understand what's actually true and what's not yes exactly i mean that's what they say don't they in war the 1st casualty is the truth what does this mean for migrants this escalation that we're witnessing unfold right now. well at the migrants and refugees here in the area it seems are constantly being moved or are they moved to other places so it's difficult for us reporters out to actually follow them and to get axes because turkish authorities are somehow restricting that as well but i assume since there are apparently according to the figures we have still thousands of people here in the area they are now preparing
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for another. tough night here at night to get some very cold people have nothing more than a few blankets they light fires to stay warm yesterday we see many families here still with small children it's very tough for them but we also saw a lot of buses today offering rides back to istanbul for 80 turkish lira which is like 12 a euros so some families particularly families with the small children they have returned to istanbul either people we talked to say there are determined to stay here and wait no matter if it takes days weeks or months they say we have nothing to lose we want to go to europe so we have prepaid prepared to wait here all right now turkey one of the issues attention it's certainly security right now so today is top diplomat promised an additional 170000000 euros in aid to turkey to deal with the refugee problem is this
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a problem that you can buy or pay off. i think it's not really about the money i mean this strategy of present add on basically you know trying to ramp up pressure on the european union by sending refugees to the border i think it's not really about the money this is about the situation in syria as it lead where prison edwin's forces are fighting russian backed syrian regime forces there have been deadly clashes that have been losses and he has been warning europe for quite some time now that there is a human catastrophe in the making hundreds of thousands of people in it live have fled 2 wars the turkish border they are seeking safety in turkey possibly in europe and that's and once argument he wants international support over the situation that he wants a no fly zone there and i think this is what this is about this is what he's trying
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to get and he's been telling europe and actually that's what critics and observers are generally saying europe has not paid enough attention so far to this issue they have to have more action here on the situation it live and this is what prison at one wants yulia han not reporting at the turkish greek a border thank you for your continued coverage. next stop let's take a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. forces have bombed taliban targets in afghanistan after militants killed at least 16 afghan government soldiers in attacks north of conducive while the resumption of hostilities comes less than a week after washington signed a deal with the talabani. an evacuation order has been partially lifted for the japanese town near the fukushima nuclear plant about was abandoned following the reactors meltdown and explosion in 2011 cleanup work has now made
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a small section of the town safe again the most is still off limits. the southern u.s. state of tennessee has declared a state of emergency after suffering is deadliest tornadoes in 7 years at least 24 people died in the storms with the search for bodies continuing worst hits were areas around the capital nashville. and we're going to stay in the u.s. projections from the super tuesday primaries show former vice president joe biden taking the lead against the other democratic candidates for president while mr biden now has 453 delegates after winning 9 of these super tuesday races so far but their race is not over for mr sanders his rival he has 4 wins on super tuesday put him firmly in the 382 delegates number well to clinch the party's nomination a candidate needs to secure at least get this 1991 delegates. to
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choose day proved that joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well. few days ago the pressure the pundits and the credit campaign. and then against south carolina days from. our jonah got to super tuesday be over well it may be over the other guy. ah the former u.s. vice president can now claim to be the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination exit polls link to success to strong support from african-americans as well as older and suburban virtues a moderate myself so i think his message can. reach a lot of people were in the middle reach both left and right i've 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 to nod our heads no
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you are the absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nominee should. and where you are going to defeat the most dangerous president in their history out there scott turow if the sand as went into super tuesday as the frontrunner he's particularly popular with young and latino surges and i think that bernie sanders has what it takes to be as have all of the people i was hoping very would do better in some of the states he was a little exciting in the pressing at the same time to other places 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 sanders 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
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primaries next tuesday $350.00 more delegates are up to be won. naruto was a big night for us around was very in our correspondent over south who's in texas one of the states where super tuesday is primaries took place and was instantly secured by mr biden all over i mean i saw mr biden being described as the come back king how did he manage to again ground. yeah that was quite a surprise last night if you consider the polling didn't really show him coming out on top and. the bernie sanders supporters were really hoping for this unsurmountable a delegate lead to come out of the super tuesday last night so we have joe biden back here it's a big it's a huge comeback a sweeping victory over all these southern us states in particular are. not forget
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this is not a victory this victory is not about joe biden it is rather about the question who can win against donald trump and it really seems like a majority of the voters yesterday believed that this should not be bernie sanders and that this could be rather joe biden not because he's a great debater in fact his campaign stalled and did not do well for long periods of time but because many believe that bernie sanders policies are too far on the left side of the political aisle that he's not someone who who many people would be happy with in particular those so-called swing voters those who decided to vote for trump in 2016 and they're crucial for the democrats to win them back and joe biden is doing in particular well with those rather moderate candidates also he got the support of the black vote and that we could see especially after the south carolina victory just a couple days ago in addition of some important candidates dropping out. and door
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seeing joe biden very much last minute that's what we can see in the results let's talk a little bit about bernie sanders his his political rival let's just call him that i mean he was surging and he didn't do too shabby i mean he secured california which is arguably the biggest number of delegates or is the biggest number of delegates he was in the run up to the these primaries he was slated to win big in texas where you are but he didn't manage to do that how big of a blow is that. it's a big blow for him as you said he got the he was going to win the biggest state california but there again joe biden will also. achieve something and get some of the delegates well here in texas it seems like joe biden was able to convince the moderate voters and the black voters again black voters make one 3rd of the texas voters. bernie sanders is more popular among latinos that's going to be another
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challenge coming up in the weeks ahead for joe biden so it's a big blow in a big disappointment for bernie sanders and his many young supporters here in particular in the town of austin it's a university town where there are a lot of people supporting bernie sanders but it didn't turn out well for him here in the state of texas hour or to china says another drop has seen another drop in the number of new cases of the infection but the death toll in the country where the virus began is now nearing 3000 elsewhere iran's death toll has risen to 92 the highest outside china italy is considering closing schools and colleges across the country for 2 weeks and german airline lufthansa has announced it will ground $150.00 aircraft due to the corona virus meanwhile criticism is growing of the u.s. government for failing to quickly implement effective testing for the pathogen while knowing if a sick person is infected with the virus is the 1st step in determining who needs
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to be quarantined our next report looks at a testing method developed right 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 us. 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. 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
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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 to austin 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 smaller kill 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 up to austin's p.c.r. 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. well many people in coronavirus
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affected areas are concerned about being stuck at home if they have to self quarantine and that is leading people to stockpile food and other life stuff while supermarket shelves in many countries have been emptied out because of people panic buying and in australia supermarket chains have had to start rationing toilet paper after shopper started stockpiling and e.w. reporter all the car was has that story you weren't in that story for us what is going on yet so this stockpiling began over the weekend so the coronavirus death was reported in australia and opposed to putting a sort of paper in australia it's not a not something that is necessary 1st of all it's not a product that stops the spread of the virus and there's no shortage of it and it's not strictly necessary for survival you know in the apocalypse but panic buying a panic buying stockpiling is not a rational thing you might not be concerned about the outbreak yourself but you see
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other people's thoughts of buying this one product and then you start buying it and then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy people fear that that might be a social change and that can lead to a short. now saying that there is no shortage in australia authorities are saying that there are enough stocks of toilet paper but of course this has you know there's now a hash tag toilet paper gate in the trailer and people have been posting photos like this some someone suggesting that if you direct your kids in toilet paper maybe they will be protected from the virus and the prime minister where there. although it is a bit baffled by and by this happening but they do assure people that there's a function as can meet this spike in money that's all really funny and they've got a great sense of humor but there is a really serious side to stockpiling there is in many places people have been stockpiling protective equipment and this is the problem the world health organization has been saying to many countries can be compromised because they wouldn't there isn't enough protective equipment like facemasks and hansen as high
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as was for frontline health medical workers we have some examples in italy tortillas have started ceasing medical equipment is being sold at inflated prices online hand sanitizer is one product that is sold out in many countries here in germany there are examples of people stealing it from hospital waiting rooms and of course the other product face masks in france president and manuma court has said that the government will record facemasks talks to make sure that health care workers have enough now experts say when it comes to face mask we shouldn't buy the stocks of the facemask they are not necessarily as. effective in protecting us from catching the virus but health care workers really do need them when it comes to toilet paper the advice is don't panic this enough for everyone that isn't now so it's really bright in there is the other is that i thank you so much greatly
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appreciate it. and other news now. swedish activist great attune bergen has met with the european commission president or zawahiri ally and as the e.u. published its draft climate plan committing the block to 0 emissions by 2050 but to learn brand that the plan inadequate saying europe needs to stop pretending that it's leading the world on climate still building new fossil fuel infrastructure. rescuers are searching for dozens of people missing after landslides hit several cities in the brazilian state of south paulo at least 16 people are confirmed dead so far grizzles heavily populated southeast has suffered an intense rainy season this year causing flooding and landslides. the vatican's representative in mexico says 4 catholic bishops in the country have been referred to superiors following
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alleged connections to cases of sexual abuse it's part of the church's drive to gather information on abuse cover ups that investigators will go to mexico later this month to examine the allegations. to the eastern german state right now a well very regional m.p.'s there recently caused a polish a call a storm when delegates from america c.d.u. party found themselves in the same political camp as the far right party the state premier elected back then has since down and today lawmakers are taking a 2nd go at ending the political crisis over how much distance parties should have from or keep from the far right voting is still underway to elect a new state premier the left party's top candidate. was the widely expected to get the necessary simple majority the crisis has highlighted a rift in miracle c.d.u.
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party that shook germany's political system to its core all right did abuse chief political editor mcculloch of new joins me now from our parliament studios very good to have you with us mikaela so today lawmakers in through an elected rama low as state premier what went different this time round. well everybody was aware that the far right if the party could pull a political trick the reason given was last time around just a couple of weeks ago angela merkel's c.d.u. delegates here at the state level in theory suddenly saw themselves within the same political count as the far right if t. which led to the favorite in that race border not being elected of course we never would have reported on such a result lection if it hadn't broken the political to do here. norm corporation by mainstream democratic parties with the far right if tea party and that's also
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why this made already an entry into the history books because it smacked of historical references back to us 933 when the mainstream conservative camps helped to power that's how deep the impact was here in germany right so you've just outlined why this very small east german state had such a huge impact on national politics did it also create a lot of soul searching among the political establishment. absolutely nothing less than a political crisis within under that magical c.d.u. party that actually put a stop to her succession plan possibly and it could come combo of who had so far followed in anglo-american footsteps eventually stood down over her lack of authority that became all too apparent throughout this crisis her of course being able to exercise any control post wastes of control over regional delegates who
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simply didn't want to see that political risk coming of the f.t. not voting for its own candidate in the end what we saw in the ring is once again the f.t. trying to demonstrate the inability as they see it of mainstream parties by not even putting up their own candidate beyond hooka in the 3rd vote that hard to do to achieve political editor mikaela kirsner reporting thank you. this is due to reduce these are top stories. greek police have again used tear gas to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the country's land border from neighboring turkey and on the island of les vos migrants have confronted police on the waterfront after disembarking from boats from turkey. michael bloomberg has announced he is ending his campaign to become the democratic
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nominee in this year's presidential election it comes after primary elections in 14 u.s. states have made former vice president joe biden and senator bernie sanders clear front runners. italian officials say the country's death toll from the corona virus has risen to 79 and nearly 50 percent jump in just one day over 93000 people have been infected worldwide with over 3000 deaths in all. the taliban have targeted of gun government soldiers in overnight attacks north of could use in retaliation the u.s. military carried out airstrikes against the militants on violence follows washington's signing of a deal with the talabani at the weekend. this is the good news from berlin for more follow us on twitter or visit our website that dot com. so that's all there is for else more coming up at the top of the hour on larry
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a lot more rock there for all of us thanks for spending part of the day with us. oh boy.
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