Skip to main content

tv   DW News  Deutsche Welle  March 4, 2020 5:00pm-5:31pm CET

5:00 pm
i am. this is the abuse live from girl in tear gas and shots fired on the border between greece and turkey because the words used force to keep out in search of migrants they spend days there after being told by turkey you're free to go to europe also coming up a filmmaker documents the darkest days of syria's civil war and find scenes of hope we'll talk to the director of the groundbreaking documentary force on. plus turning the tide in the u.s. former vice president joe biden wins big on super tuesday leaving front runner
5:01 pm
bring senators behind him and michael bloomberg kept the $1000000000.00 gamble deals to pay off he ends his campaign and acts by that plus with the corner virus on the march around the world governments are racing to test as many of their citizens as possible we visited a test kit maker right here in the german capital to find out just how they work. thank you so much for your company everyone tensions over migrations have let to violent scenes on greece's border to turkey it was triggered when turkey said it would no longer stop migrants in his territory from trying to reach the e.u. well since then we border guards have been using force to repel thousands of migrants trying to cross into. so many of them are refugees fleeing war zones in
5:02 pm
syria and beyond but after finding europe's doors shut they've now become stranded outside the turkish city. or shots and tear gas 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 athens says the allegations are fake news people desperate to reach the european union are stuck in limbo on wanted by both countries with no safe place to return to. live in my new 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
5:03 pm
didn't open the border i need to go back it's been days. he you council president shall michel met with turkish president wretch of tayyip erdogan in ankara for crisis talks europe has now offered an additional $170000000.00 euros for vulnerable groups within syria but he was officials say that this decision to open turkey's borders has not increased 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
5:04 pm
happened earlier today at one of the main border crossings between taki and greece 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 have 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 officials have been using
5:05 pm
live ammunition now that something the greeks strongly denies they dismissed 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 a 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 for another . tough night here at night to get some very cold people have nothing more than
5:06 pm
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 bosses 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 wanted to use attention it's certainly security are right now so today's top diplomat promised an additional $170000000.00 euros in aid to turkey to deal with the refugee problem is this a problem the thing you can buy or payoff. i
5:07 pm
think it's not really about the money i mean this strategy of prison 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 is it live where prison edwin's forces are fighting a 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 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 there in he wants a no fly zone there and i think this is what this is about this is what he's trying to get and he's been. in europe and actually that's what critics and observers are
5:08 pm
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 edwin wants yulia han reporting at the turkish greek a border thank you for your continued coverage. now many of those refugees on the border with greece are fleeing the conflict in syria over 1000000 people have been displaced in the country's north amid a surge in violence there well now comes a film offering a moving account of people's lives during the war for sama is a debut documentary from self-taught filmmaker whether conceived she filmed life inside the city of aleppo over 5 years of war and after winning awards at film festivals around the world for sama is now finally been released and germany. is in china. should go so he can nominate engine.
5:09 pm
was a university student you know let go and. in 2012 she joined the uprising against syrian president bashar al assad. she became a citizen journalist documenting the resistance. and the crackdown the elect the vocal about the about trying to find. some solace. to shield them from him on. how to make on time you should go. to for simply you have to have a. look at it she captured scenes of suffering.
5:10 pm
and moments of joy. amid the. k.o.'s her daughter some i was born. good to. some on a modest income to for michelle and proceed with. their children she wrote the. amount to come to you from odd. was hard to decide whether to stay and hope for peace. or flee the bombs and bring her daughter to safety.
5:11 pm
for summer has one dozens of prizes including best documentary at the british film awards and an oscar nomination. so much. pain in. a story made for one child now affecting audiences around the world. and tomorrow for some of the oscar nominated film is released here in germany and i am delighted to have the film's narrator producer and co director with me here what at conceive a very warm welcome. you have decided to call your film a love letter to your daughter why it was like so complicated tonal acquired to start and how tall like 35 years off the syrian and like people suffering and hold
5:12 pm
at the same time and one story but for me and i have to say it for some of us something at anybody's anything and affecting the whole struggle that we have assyrians we were looking for a better future for us for our children for the future of our country and for someone like us someone my daughter she is really presenting that in one point. no you started filming very early on when the 1st protests started breaking out on campuses back in 27 you kept filming i wonder did you know what the time it was going to evolve into what it is now like never at all and we at the beginning of that evolution we thought that this is going to be like months or a like you know 2 or 3 months 6 months maximum when the syrian people would be all of all of them in the street and we were chanting for freedom democracy so we thought like whatever that is human that they were outside is watching and they were stopped and then like it's been 5 years since that time when we were displaced out of value and unfortunately 2 years of fighting on the phone at the same time to
5:13 pm
see if there's were displaced and now as we live just speaking on the senate now everyone knows what's happening right now and unfortunately. in 2015 very crucial period in your life you are in aleppo bombs are raining on you incredible things are happening that we can't even imagine you fall in love you meet your husband and you have a daughter now. how is that possible so it's possible because this is what you can see it's just one story but it's like the story of every syrian who went through that experience and only lived inside syria or even outside we needed to have like all we need to what he had that told me even if it's not existed one time when you see like all the death around you and all like the crimes that it's committed like from people like you would like to see them people assad regime or one of these people who are committed these crimes and i just normal people who you want to look for a better future for you and for the of children you just try to defend yourself by
5:14 pm
all of that tate and make more love make more hold just to create that space of life around you it's probably difficult to watch the film now when you view you what possibly every word there is and you've been lauded what does it do to you to see your. what happened over a long period of time i would say like in one point i'm very proud of making the film and make it possible to all of people to know about syria but at the same time mostly i'm very disappointed that now it's been 3 years since we left and if we were displaced it's now you can see like what's happening i 1003500000 civilians forced to like and there at the attack by the regime and russian forces unfortunately also we are a syrian is like a black card to bring between countries from tokyo to greece to the. like to the u.k. to the u.s. and no one is really care about the dignity and the life of the syrian people they
5:15 pm
are all just like looking for their benefits and so like really hard to watch you know i'm sitting now here but as you've seen and next to the border in greece how many people they are just like literally dying in the cold because they are looking for a better life let's talk a little bit more about that because of course there is a fierce struggle going on there and it seems like persian regime forces are having a real perhaps there does that mean that the struggle was for naught all those years all those people who died you know like when when when you think about this you should like think about the whole ward that that's fake about oil companies who speaks about freedom and dignity are fake i don't want to say about this i'm really hoping that this all is targeted whatever it's like i've been looking now for 9 years i believe that freedom and dignity and democracy is going to push us and that's what i'm trying to like to to keep thinking about because every person and syria has like sacrificed so many soldiers and people and country will never be for
5:16 pm
nothing what you make of the fact that the european union now has closed its doors to people from syria i literally can't believe that i'm still like thinking that there's something there must be something and they will like couric to make mistakes there's a big show was coming out they still. it is about greece coming to syria and after they wanted to war too and i can't believe that the same country as well as taking a lot of freedom and democracy they are closing their doors in front of gets in front of like young people who are just looking for a safe place to weather could see birth film maker thank you thank you so much thank you for coming you. want to get up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. forces have bomb taliban targets in afghanistan after militants killed at least 16 afghan government soldiers in attacks north of could induce the resumption of
5:17 pm
hostilities comes less than a week after washington signed a peace deal with the taliban. the german state at the center of a political earthquake last month has real acted former premier. form the left party gets in through from its chance to sort of see the new party had found themselves backing the same candidate as the far right and let see america's heir apparent stepping down as leader. of the southern u.s. state of tennessee has declared a state of emergency after suffering its deadliest tornadoes in 70 years at least 24 people died in the storms with the search for bodies continuing worst hit areas near the capital city nashville. and we're going to stay in the u.s. projections from the super tuesday primaries show former vice president joe biden
5:18 pm
taking the lead against the other democratic candidates for president only 4 contenders are left after billionaire mike bloomberg quit the race due to his poor showing just $101.00 days after he got it while joe biden now has $453.00 delegates after winning a 9 of the super tuesday races so far but the race is not over for mr bernie sanders who is a political writer for rival rather his for wins on super tuesday put him at 382 delegates to clinch the party's nomination a candidate needs to secure at least 1991 delegates so there's still lots up for grabs. super tuesday proved that joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well. just a few days ago the press the furniture declared a campaign gird. louis and then carried south carolina deja vu shave are you
5:19 pm
must ever charo are only going to super tuesday are over well it may be over the other guy i'm the former us vice president can now claim to be the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination exit polls link his 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 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 virtue not a hard sell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination was andrew you are going to the feet the most dangerous president in the history of this country
5:20 pm
was sanders went into super tuesday as the front runner he's particularly popular with younger and latino voters was the guy he had heard the senators 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 was the 2 other hopefuls senator elizabeth warren and former new york mayor michael bloomberg both performed poorly while warren's campaign is still deliberating whether or not to stay in bloomberg has decided to drop out. by 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 more delegates are up to be won. well turning to the corona virus now china is reporting a nother drop in the number of new cases of the infection but the death toll in the
5:21 pm
country where the virus began is nearing 3000 and also iran's death toll has risen to $92.00 the highest outside china italy is considering closing schools and colleges across the country for 2 weeks and german airline those tiles has announced it will ground $150.00 aircraft due to the current a virus outbreak while meanwhile criticism is growing of the u.s. government for failing to quickly implement effective testing for the pathogen while knowing if a person is sick and infected with a virus is the 1st step in finding out 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
5:22 pm
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 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 down 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
5:23 pm
ingredients that they will receive after like 2 days at the same time order this small a 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 have 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. all right let's bring in professor eckhart to not go who is the director of the institute of medical management and health sciences at the university of beirut and is the president of tongji hospital a chinese german hospital in china a very good day to you professor we hear that the number of new cases in the region are going down that's very encouraging news why. well actually we don't know
5:24 pm
exactly why but maybe. 39 days. into bishop so many people who are us has to stay at home they're not able to move anymore in the city or in the area where they used to live but. that could be you are assuming that this is one of the major of results of this specific. reduction of movement that we don't each other in. the in the beginning help the problem oh right so there's a lot of people are quarantined and therefore contact interpersonal contact has been reduced professor there's a lot of conflicting information making the rounds 1st it was young people won't won't get it or die from it and that people that are older and those with existing lung conditions are more at risk but then of course there are some young people who did die for example the doctor who 1st reported the virus in china who was young
5:25 pm
well 'd actually if you don't about young. if we talk about yum we need children and the reason for that might be that this virus which only for a few weeks came from an animal to where it's human has a very strong in her logical response so if you are older and you do have a good emerging response you have a very a reaction when a child was just small and has not developed so far in intensity or the system the virus is not detected as difficult as it is so that is one of the reasons why children seem not to be so infected the notes on the other hand a 50 year old person is has all the really good to develop your system so there is no difference between the age of 203040 or 50 what we see is that people who
5:26 pm
already have immunity efficiency for example by a chronic illness like cancer again this or. 'd destruction of kidney function diabetes or other chronic illnesses those people in tend to have a higher risk of having problems who's this infection rather than as a full on virus or bacteria fictions that is not only typical for corona professor not all director of the institute of medical management and health sciences at the university of biotech thank you very much sir for joining us you are welcome. and are my now at the top a story that we're tracking for you this hour there's been a new confrontations at the turkish greek border between police and migrants seeking to enter the european union greek security forces have been trying to prevent refugees from crossing the land border migrants have made repeated attempts
5:27 pm
to breach the front tier in recent days. are at the stage soon going to hand you over to my colleague restaurant r.j. but well from my w. news asia i'll see you at the top of the hour with the world i'm. coming.
5:28 pm
to. the beach. passion the drama. petition drive marketing numbers on this here by that site and technician love hate. crime stats and. only.
5:29 pm
because we love football. play kick off on you tube joining us. they were forced into a nameless mass. their bodies near tools in. the history of the slave trade is africa's history. describes how the greed for power and profit plummeted an entire continent into chaos and violence the slave system created the greatest player and accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that moment to. from its very beginnings until this very day human trafficking has shaped the morgue and this is the journey back into the history of slavery
5:30 pm
i think will truly be making progress when we all accept these 2 years slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. this is the doubler news coming up violence in afghanistan after. the u.s. started on agreement to form the basis for peace talks in afghanistan but already there is fighting with the taliban on hopes for peace in afghanistan dead in the water plus. a week on the victims of very sectarian briards are struggling to rebuild and restart and define muslims and hindus take to the streets to short peace these forceful.

35 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on