this is g w news live from berlin germany pauses to honor the victims of a racist terror attack political leaders join survivors and their families for a memorial in the western town of an out where last month a far right gunman shot 10 people dead germany's president says his country must do more to fight racism in anti muslim hatred also coming up tear gas and shots fired on the border between greece and turkey greek authorities use force to keep the

surge of migrants migrants who were told just a few days ago by turkey that you're free to go to europe plus turning the tide in the u.s. of former vice president joe biden wins big on super tuesday surging ahead of front runner bernie sanders and michael bloomberg half a $1000000000.00 gamble it didn't pay all begins his campaign and backs. it's good to have you with us 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 relatives to remember the victims a far right gunman shot 9 people dead in bars in the town 2 weeks ago he then went on. and to kill his own mother before turning the gun on himself german chancellor

angela merkel she joined victim's friends and relatives at the ceremony today in the aftermath of that attack and she described racism as a poison in german society during today's ceremony the german president. or acknowledge that germany has a problem with racism and islamophobia he called on all germans to defend democracy and here is part of what he said he demonstrated on some good minds i'm done leaped 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 near to an end of it has to do more and must do everything necessary. 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. president there earlier this evening i'm joined now in the studio by my colleague and our political correspondent. key 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 there was a lot of criticism for to the from the community in 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 as i issue right now reigning in germany about identity and what it means to be you know the direct aftermath of the attack in the know it we've heard time and time again since then that this attack was a wake up call for germany i mean what did what have you heard i mean how bad 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. of a regional politician in june last year he was per refugee and then of course we had the attempted and semitic attack in which 2 passers by were killed in the eastern city of halloran going back before that we had the notorious n.s.u. the national socialist underground murders and for years now there have been concerns raised about the far right infiltrating military infiltrating all thora t's in germany of course there is an overhaul plans to try and get to the root of these problems but of course there is a lot of work to be done which is going to take a lot more than than a few commissions here in there to get to what the at the end of the day is a very fundamental problem here. overnight either he bridges always thank you. well here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world

u.s. forces have bombed telling banned targets in afghanistan after militants killed at least 16 afghan government soldiers in attacks north of. the resumption of hostilities comes less than a week after washington signed a peace deal with the taliban the swedish climate activists gratitude back today met european commission president are so fun to lie in as they you published its draft climate plan committing it to 0 emissions by 2050 but branded the plan is inadequate saying europe sneed to stop pretending that it's leading the world in the fight against climate change while still building new fossil fuel power plants . 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 ongoing worst hit areas around the capital city nashville. there was violence today that greece's border with

turkey greek border guards used force to repel thousands of migrants trying to cross into greece many of them are refugees fleeing war zones in syria last week in turkey's president cleared the way for them to cross turkey and to head for europe but they are finding that europe's gates are closed. 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 migrant through objects over the fence there were reports of casualties among them. 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 the bullet is still lodged in his head. carol. that greece denies the reports saying they're fake news being spread by turkey in his speech to parliament on wednesday morning turkish president. no one called 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 you foreign affairs chief use a phone 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 $60000000.00 euros in immediate aid for the refugees in northern syria. 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 now nearing 3000 globally more than 94000 cases of the infection have been identified in italy the death toll has now risen to more than 100 with

the state jump of 28 people dying in just the last 24 hours the italian government announced today that it will close all schools and universities across the country until mid march so many people in corona's virus affected areas are concerned about being stuck at home if they have to sell foreign team and that is leading people are leading to people stockpiling food and other essential supermarket sherry's as you see here in many countries have been emptied out because of people panic buy in australia supermarket chains have had to start rationing toilet paper after shoppers started stockpiling. w.'s soccer is here now and you're not stockpiling toilet paper i understand but yet you have the what why are people doing this so this panic buying in australia started over the weekend after the 1st coronavirus death was confirmed then now it might sound a bit unnecessary just a part of 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 might be worried yourself about the spread of this virus but 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 the 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 see someone suggesting that maybe if you brush your kids in lieu role that that might protect them from the virus who knows but he's in 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 partly 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 mosques and. the world health organization have said that many countries might be compromised because from fund health care workers won't have the equipment that they need and it's a lead now authorities have been seizing medical equipment that was being sold online at inflated prices as i said hand sanitizers sold out in many cities in many countries here in germany there are reports now that people have been stealing hassan's. this is from hospital waiting rooms. and from the president among them a cause that the government will require stationed 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 you know 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 is don't panic there'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 into the united states and the super tuesday primary results super results for former vice president joe biden he has now taken the lead against the other democratic candidates for u.s. president biden now has at least 400 $53.00 delegates after winning 10 of the super tuesday races so far but of course that race is not over for bernie sanders his 4 wins on super tuesday put him at $382.00 delegates to clinch the party's nomination a candidate needs to secure at least 1991 delegates billionaire mike bloomberg

piece struggled to make any headway he was only able to win one primary and that was in the pacific territory american samoa due to his poor showing 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. just a few days ago the press the furniture declared a campaign gird. louis and then carried south carolina deja vu save our must our charo we're only going to super tuesday are over but 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 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 vote in our yard tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination was and we're your going to the feet the most dangerous president in the history of this country was sanders went into super tuesday as the front runner he's particularly popular with younger and latino voters was the guy that bernie sanders has what it takes any as have all 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 i do 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 camp. now moves on to michigan and 5 other states holding primaries next tuesday 350 more delegates are up to be won. the race continues you're watching the news from berlin kate ferguson is up next with g.w. business stick around she'll be right but. my 1st bicycle was a sawing machine. where i come from women are almost by this ocean for. something as simple as learning how to write a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me missed him and. finally the game bobbins engine by.