this is g w news from berlin germany pauses to honor the victims of the races cherif attack political leaders joint survivors and their families for a memorial in the western town and where last month a far right gunman shot 10 people dead germany's president says his country must do more to fight racism in muslim hatred also coming up tear gas and shots fired at the border between greece and turkey greek authorities use force to keep out of search of mine workers migrants who were told just days ago by turkey short free to

go to europe plus turning the tide in the u.s. former vice president joe biden wins big on super tuesday he's surging ahead of front sanders and michael bloomberg has half a $1000000000.00 bills to pay you know he has ended his campaign he's now backing bite. off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin tonight here in germany remembering the horror of han l. 2 weeks after a racially motivated killing spree in the western german town the country's leaders today joined thousands of people including survivors and their relatives to remember the victims a far right gunman shot 9 people dead and she set up bars in the town 2 weeks ago then went on. to kill his mother before turning the gun on himself the german

chancellor angela merkel join big times friends and relatives at the ceremony today in the aftermath of that attack she described racism as a poison in german society. where during today's ceremony the german president from valter steinmeyer acknowledged that germany has a problem with reese ism and islamophobia he called them all germans to defend democracy let's hear part of what he had to say eat a man stand on them get mines i'm undone leapt every person who lives in our country must be able to live in safety and peace our state has the duty to protect this right. it has to do more and must do everything necessary. it is responsibility falls 1st of all on our institutions on the men and women at the top and this responsibility falls on all of us. it challenges us to stand together

against hate and persecution. against terror and violence. and that is the measure by which we will be judged. that's a german president there earlier this evening i'm joined now in the studio by my colleague and our political correspondent keith brady keep you've heard the speech the president talking about responsibility there what did you make of what he had to say there are a lot of interesting elements in that speech one thing that stood out to me as well was when he said that this crime didn't happen by chance that there was actually a back story that to this a back story of of hate speech and exclusion and discrimination against minority groups here in germany and that was very carefully criticism of this normalization of far right rhetoric in germany in recent years a swipe if you will even at the far right. party but also it was interesting that he stepped back from some of the comments that he made initially after this attack

as well saying by the symbolically that this was an attack that that was all and of course it was a lot of criticism for to carry from the community in the however this comments when they're older they understood symbolically what he meant it was fair enough that they also said to me while i was in had no no it doesn't affect everyone and you don't know what it's like every day to be ostracized and be constantly trying to prove your worth as a german and this was a very much at the center of his speech as well these i issued right now range of me about identity and what it means to be you know the direct aftermath of the attack you know we've heard time and time again since then that this attack was a wake up call for germany and what did what have you heard. is the far right extremists seen in this country well this was a wake up call germany has certainly missed many many alarms already this was the

deadly far right extremist attack in germany in less than a year of course we had the killing the shooting and killing of. a regional politician in june last year he was. and then of course we had the attempted and semitic attack in which to passers by were killed in the eastern city of haliburton going back before that we had been a tourist and i see the national socialist underground murders and for years now there have been concerns raised about the far right infiltrating military infiltrating or thirty's in germany of course there is an overhaul plans to try and get to the root of these problems but of course the is a lot of work to be done which is going to take a lot more than than a few commissions hair in there to get to what the but at the end of the day is a very fundamental problem hands and it can't be done overnight either he brady as always thank you. there was violence today on greece's border to turkey greek

border guards used force to repel thousands of migrants trying to cross into greece many of them or refugees fleeing war zones in syria the last weekend turkey's president cleared the way for them to course turkey and head for europe but they are finding that europe's gates are close. hundreds of migrants trying to cross the border to greece once again on wednesday without success they were met by greek police using tear gas migrants threw objects over the fence there were reports of casualties among them it's 6 people were brought to the hospital today one of them already dead 5 patients are being treated in the emergency room one of them has a cracked skull and a bullet is still lodged in his head. to get. that increased denies the reports saying they're fake news being spread by turkey and his speech to parliament on wednesday morning turkish president aired a one calling for better treatment of the refugees. united some much too much that

i call on all countries especially greece not to treat the refugees at the borders with respect in accordance with international human rights conventions. crisis diplomacy in ankara air to one met european council president shall michel on wednesday afternoon very little was reported on the meeting e.u. foreign affairs chief yosef oh on the other hand didn't mince his words on his trip to ankara he demanded that turkey no longer encourage migrants to head for the e.u. the e.u. has now promised 60000000 euros in immediate paid for the refugees in northern syria. are for more now we want to check in with boris just because he is the spokes person in greece for the u.n.h.c.r. that's the un's agency for refugees forces good to see you we know that this is a fluid situation not only at the border but also on lesbos which is also

a main entry point for people coming from turkey how is the situation at the moment where you wore. well there will most of us of a situation thankfully has been calmer since yesterday haven't had any boat arrivals but it has been a tense few days including because of intimidation and violent attacks against united syrian workers from some groups of the locals but also against journalists we've been deploring these actions we've also been affected on sunday one of our senior most colleagues on the island was verbally harassed and pushed as she was addressing a group of locals that were not allowing the boat to disembark on that boat there were families with young children they were telling them to go back later on that evening on sunday a transit location that we've been running for 4 years with the help of n.g.o.s for new arrivals in the north of the island was burned to the ground in arson attacks so thankfully these the past couple of days it's been much calmer but obviously the

situation is still quite fluid it's understandable the local communities are been under intense pressure greece has shown incredible compassion and principle to refugees but what we have now is not just the last few days but months of a critical situation on the islands with overcrowding and now $40000.00 asylum seekers that should at least half of them urgently move to the mainland through a decisive government action course we got reports finding in tear gas even. some guns being fired in the direction of refugees at the greek turkish border today what more can you tell us about that. well the situation as the last few days has been quite tense border with. you we have reports of people being pushed back and of the excessive use of force being used of course

states out of the gentleman right to their borders to the regular movements but this should be done in a proportionate way over with or without excessive use of force and it should allow those who wish to sit beside them to have their cases handled in an orderly way so we have been appealing for calm and straight through we hope the deeds of these situations will be resolved in the next few days. because of the u.n. h.c.r. spokesperson joining us tonight from the greek island of lesbos we appreciate your time tonight thank you 30 thank you for having me. well here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. forces have bomb tell about targets in afghanistan after militants killed at least 16 afghan government soldiers in attacks north of can do the resumption of hostilities comes less than a week after washington signed a peace deal with the taliban the swedish climate activists gratitude today met

european commission president funded lion it came as the e.u. published its draft climate plan committing it to 0 emissions by 2050 but to bear branded the plan as inadequate saying europe leads to stop pretending that it's leading the world on climate while still building new fossil fuel plants it's. 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 still under way worst hit areas around the capital city nashville. where in the united states those super tuesday primary. as olds are coming in super results for former vice president joe biden he has now taken the lead against the other democratic candidates for president joe biden now has at least 453 delegates after winning 10 of the super

tuesday races so far it's important to remember that number but the race of course is not over for bernie sanders his 4 wins on super tuesday put him at 382 delegates and we're still waiting for results from california now the clinch the party's nomination a candidate needs to secure at least 1991 delegates the billionaire mike bloomberg now he struggled to make any headway he only won one primary and that was in the pacific territory american samoa due to his poor showing he has quit the race today he quit the race and he endorsed by. super tuesday proved that joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination is alive and well. here's to you days ago the press the pundits who declared a campaign gird. louis and then kerry south carolina deja vu save our

must our tour only got to super tuesday be over well it may be over the other guy. the former u.s. 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 by that if they can he has since the obama administration senator bernie sanders is by no means out of the race for the democratic nomination vote tonight a hard sell you were the absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination was andrew you are going to the feet the most dangerous president in their history of this country

was sanders went into super tuesday as the front runner he's particularly popular with younger and latino voters was good i think that bernie sanders has what it takes any as have all of the people that i was hoping very would do better in some of the states he was a little exciting in the passing at the same time i do 2 other hopefuls senator elizabeth warren and former new york mayor michael bloomberg both performed poorly paul warnes 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 camp. hey now moves on to michigan and 5 other states holding primaries next tuesday 350 more delegates are up to be one. that's right the race is far from over sorry about that let's bring in our correspondents defines the monkey standing by for us in washington d.c. good evening to you stefan sort of talk to me

a little bit about what they're calling joe mentum the former vice president joe biden he managed to turn the tide despite what most people were thinking how do you do it. if you do that as well they're about is scratching his head. at the moment but no not really so he's right the press and he's been a little bit of press bashing there declared his campaign all but dead last week and not only back it was that there was no telling that he will go with south carolina with that margin 30 points before anybody else and now super tuesday that was a marvelous win for the vice president and for joe biden for the joe biden campaign black voters that him put him over the line and women women educated college educated people in urban areas and women that's what sanders did not kept allies on and what biden was put over the line in all those states and he got

a lot of endorsements from former rivals you dropped out bernie sanders did not have that luxury can he can he still make up ground and compete with biden in a meaningful way moving forward. yeah absolutely right brenda those endorsers off from clovis are. in iraq helped massively by and campaign sanders didn't have that and he doesn't have any 1000 get it i think he won't have those endorsements. there is elizabeth warren elizabeth warren is maybe on the brink of throwing in the towel everybody's back to this literally because his she has virtually no chance of getting a significant delegate count the vote count so she and that is the question will endure sanders doesn't do something good for him yes or no the answer is virtually no why because the democratic establishment and elites are circling the wagons around biden biden is for them the most electable and generates the biggest chance

for the democrats to. win the election in november to get the. president right behind this house out of this house biden is the ticket for this according to again the democratic establishment and one more point senators just gave a little press conference and he paints this us against them picture right now still him and his campaign against democrats elites and establishment that's definitely not good for unity in the party and then we've got the billionaire bloomberg the washington post today reporting that if you do the math he spent so much money and got to see if you votes that he actually spent $100.00 for every vote he got he's out of the race now so who's going to benefit from the loss of this billionaire. i think also biden and why is that because he will have he said he will and you remember this probably

spent about a $1000000000.00 on whoever is going to be the at the end the candidate against donald trump and he will follow up on this at least that's what everybody says and thinks so there's a little bit of legal work to do is to form a super pac but then he can actually get a lot of money into the democratic party in $2.00 words the campaign of the candidate which he will stand against all trump but yeah absolutely right the man spent $500000000.00 more than that half a $1000000000.00 in his campaign just compared to this the biden campaign spent $15000000.15 remember half a 1000000000 talking about the prince in the pauper here in politics amazing to find the money on the story for us in washington thank you. are turning to the coronavirus china is reporting another drop in the number of new cases of the infection but the death toll in the country where the outbreak began is nil nearing

3000 elsewhere italy's death toll has now risen to more than $100.00 with a steep jump of $28.00 people dying in just the last 24 hours the italian government today announced that it will close all schools and universities across the country until mid march and the german airline tons saying it will ground a $150.00 aircraft due to the corona virus. well many people in areas affected by the virus are concerned about being stuck at home if they have to self quarantine and that is leading people to stockpile food and other essentials i mean this is for real supermarket shelves in many countries including here in germany have been emptied because of people panic buy in australia supermarket chains have had to start rationing toilet paper after shoppers began stockpiling toilet paper. w.'s soccer is here now and you're not stockpiling toilet paper i understand

but yet not yet but what more why are people doing this so this panic buying in australia started over the we can alter the 1st coronavirus death was confirmed then now it might sound a bit and this is there just a part of toilet paper in australia 1st of all it's not a product that will stop the spread of the virus. it's there's no shortage of toilet paper and it's not strictly necessary for survival the apocalypse but panic buying of course is not a rational thing you must be worried yourself about the spread of this virus because you see other people start buying up this product you want to make sure that you are not left without toilet paper so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy people think there might be a shortage and that creates. just saying that there is no shortage of toilet paper in australia yet authorities are saying not but of course hash tag toilet paper gate is trending you know and people have been posting pictures like this you can

say as someone suggesting that maybe if you brush your kids in lieu role that might protect them from the virus who knows but that australia have been of course a bit baffled by this but the prime minister is saying. i'll talk to supermarket chains that they can meet any spike in the bond as pike in the market ok there is a serious side of course to all of this stockpiling right there is of course many people and many places have been stock piling protective equipment and this is a problem like things like face masks and hand sanitizer the world health organization have said that many countries might be compromised because from time health care workers won't have the equipment that they need and it's only now authorities have been seizing medical equipment that was being sold online at inflated prices as i said hand sanitizer is sold out in many cities in many countries here in germany there are reports now that people have been stealing homes on top. this is from hospital waiting rooms. and in france president among

them a cause that the government will require all facemask stocks in the countries to make sure that the health care workers have what they need now healthcare health care experts say that we should not be stocking these face masks they are and they are not that effective in protecting us in one room the on the bus or on the train that health care workers really do need them when it comes to the toilet paper with the advice don't panic that's enough for everyone there should be enough for everyone while it's going to be a clean world after all of this wealth after as always they. are here's a look now at some of the other stories making headlines this hour an evacuation order has been partially lifted for the japanese town near the fukushima nuclear plant food was abandoned following the reactors meltdown and explosion back in 2011 cleanup work has now made a small section of the town safe the most of it remains off limits rescuers are

searching for dozens of people missing after landslides hit several cities in the brazilian state of self paolo at least 16 people are confirmed dead so for brazil's a heavily populated southeast has suffered 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 alleged connections to cases of sexual abuse it's part of the church is drawing together information on abuse coverups vatican investigators will go to mexico later this month to examine those allegations. some sports now and a new charity in the u.k. that's hoping to encourage more black people to go swimming recent figures from the government body sport in england showed that 95 percent of black adults and 80 percent of black children do not swim at all well the consequences of that can be deadly the world health organization says minorities are greater risk of drowning.

steering is on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of her sport against the odds she could become the 1st black female swimmer to represent britain in the olympics. i'm very proud of my statement this is such a. it's this is why i believe i am the only one i wish i wish i wasn't the only one in the sense i. just be nice if people are more involved in something in that way of success it's a higher level but people account for just 2 percent of all registered swimmers in england it's why dering has joined forces with filmmaker and a curator sets up a charity that aims to challenge you stereotypes around blacks when this is the big blow theory they say not people healthy happy bones and because of that because low people believe in that. and with ladies what we need is to have the chlorine today

. people don't. mind it's not hobby time. involvement is personal he produced a film about overcoming his own anxieties with. the lack of diversity in swimming has also been blamed on affordability and accessibility many still perceive the spool she said latest. we need it better to start with exactly it's a fast pass on our species because breaking down based barry a state supreme court so generations of people say that this is a school for that it's not an activity for them that's why we kind of have. dearing has shown will cease possible she's now hiking those. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you germany's leaders have expressed solidarity with the victims and survivors of last month's racist terror attack. on speaking at the memorial today the german president said that the attack

was proof that racism an anti muslim hatred are spreading throughout the country last month's attack left 10 people dead in kind now and said shock waves through minority communities german chancellor angela merkel was seated in the audience next to relatives and survivors and she showed her support there been fresh confrontations at the turkish border between police and migrants seeking to enter the european union. security forces have been trying to prevent refugees from crossing the land border migrants have made repeated attempts to breach the front either in recent days and the billionaire and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has dropped out of the u.s. presidential race and indorsed former vice president joe biden that's after a super tuesday that sold by didn't win victories in the 9 states and surge ahead of vermont senator bernie safe. watching d.w. news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day don't forget to visit dot

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