our documentary series slavery route starts march 9th on d w. a local. lan. oh. this is deja vu news life for lent some respite for civilians trapped in syria is the province russia and turkey agree to a cease fire a tense calm it's been reported in the region for almost a 1000000 people have been displaced as a result of fighting between government and rebel forces. also coming out thousands of migrants and refugees stranded between turkey and tear gas their hopes of

passing to europe are dashed as greek border guards make a fresh show us force we'll get the latest from our porch spawn and on the ground. about $1.00. to buy a gun attack targets a shia memorial ceremony in kabul the taliban says it is not to blame. and tackling the coronavirus researchers race to develop a vaccine as global cases of the infection soar past 100000 spot it may take longer than helps. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us a human rights monitor says 15 people have been killed in clashes between syria's government forces and rebel fighters in southern it live this despite a tentative cease fire that. went into force at midnight now the ceasefire is

a result of talks between turkish president to regift half hour to one and russian president vladimir putin it is hoped that their meeting in moscow will to fuse the increasingly volatile situation in the region and avoid a direct confrontation between turkey and russia. after 6 hours of talks and one in putin stepped out in front of the cameras to announce a security corridor or joint patrols and the all important cease fire the 2 leaders have looked 10 says the negotiations began the complex and long running conflict in syria has put turkey and russia on opposing sides but now they say they are committed to deescalation what i'm saying what you're going to do we hope this agreement will lay a foundation for the suspension the fighting in libya because we hope to end the suffering of civilians there and to avoid a greater humanitarian crisis. the northern syrian province of

the last stronghold of anti-government rebels. with deadly airstrikes happening almost every day in recent months syrian troops have been fighting rebels with support from russia. but the rebels are backed by turkish soldiers the latest ceasefire deal establishes a security corridor on each side of it live strategic east west m 4 highway joint turkish and russian patrols will begin on march 15th. speaking on russian television shortly after the deal was announced syrian president bashar assad played up his times with moscow. by turkish aggression a common goal of russia remains to make turkey change its policy away from supporting terrorists and to bring our relations back to normal. with thousands displaced by the fighting the international community led by the

e.u. is focusing on alleviating what's already a humanitarian catastrophe an earlier cease fire deal for it led quickly fell apart as turkey and russia accused each other of not sticking to the agreement the world is now waiting to see whether it's that pattern will repeat itself. and for more on the story we can speak to simon megan he is a political analyst at lancaster university in england hi simon what do you make of this latest meeting between putin and air to one can the ceasefire be effective and can it last. i think it's a good 1st step in terms of true venting tensions between russia and from escalating and that was one of the big concerns in terms of this this moving beyond a devastating humanitarian crisis in syria to something that could escalate and drawing more regional powers i mean a conflict between a major nate i like and russia would be devastating to the local politics so in

that sense i think it's a positive step but in terms of what's going on in syria i think it's it's a big leap for the status quo which is that the big bully by senate continuing to reclaim land that he had lost hopes twits who have been after the arab uprisings and he's now step by step regained control over well in syria yemen i want to ask you about a turkish president adeline's position in all of this because he wanted many things out of this he wanted to topple should he want to get the minissha and rein in the kurds power he also want to prevent more refugees from coming to turkey and trial with europe to resettle the ones who are already in turkey are any of these aims feasible. i think what you just outlined is a pretty good overview of the types of challenges that he is facing at present this range of cold plex issues that will sort of squeezing mr either one in terms of the pressures that he's facing domestically and regionally and what we still to see is

that the sort of scots are going to approach the different aspirations or let's not forget that tripe so the sense of the conflicts bashar al assad and. the one they would they were close friends they could hold it together so it's greenlee's to the changing as a consequence of the rapid movements on the ground and it strikes me that mr wright the one is just responding to those events rather than having a very clear trajectory in mind in terms of what you want in terms of a long pole at sea or a long set of policies he's responding well that then perhaps wanting to restrict the flow of refugees from syria into turkey what about russia's position who here we know that president putin as a backer of bashar assad's regime but what does moscow actually want to change in syria i think it wants to see the return to power complete so far in power by charlotte said it doesn't want to see any further unrest it doesn't want to see rebel groups gaining power it wants to see us out containing every form of this

sends across the state it wants to see a complete control exit bipasha and his regime with very little opposition and that's in part because of the russian naval base taking place in syria but also because syria is a key strategic ally of russia it's thrown his hat behind them for a long time and while that was a period where it looked like the united states and others could perhaps drive a wedge between russia and syria that time is gone and i would say that what russia wants is complete and total control of assad over syria famine made in from lancaster university thank you for that analysis. thank you tensions between greece and turkey on their shared border are rising as thousands are stranded between the 2 countries greek border guards continue their use of tear gas and other measures to prevent migrants and refugees from setting foot on greek soil and on the other side of the border in turkey tear gas is being deployed to

stop migrants from turning back on chris become sending and $1000.00 extra special forces and last night under the cover of darkness thousands of markets attempted to enter the european union but many were arrested and greece and they were sent back . sent us this assessment from turkey's border crossing with greece. the situation here at. the border crossing with greece remains tens of thousands of refugees are still there demanding to be allowed into the european union now. how ban journalists from entering the area which makes it very difficult for us reporters in the pen verify what happens along the border what we do know is that tear gas was fired again this morning by greek border guards and. now each side is blaming for the escalation so right now it seems very much unclear what will happen

to the people holding out there many of them have been here for a week sleeping in the cold with no shelter whatsoever. those tensions at the greek turkish border are raising concerns here in germany that the 2015 refugee crisis could play out again when the country took in more than a 1000000 people there was a large political fallout of the rise of the far right wing party the alternative for germany but recent polls show a majority of germans would still be willing to accept more refugees. scenes of thousands of migrants seeking to cross europe's borders bring back memories for many germans of the summer of 2015. chancellor merkel refused to close germany's borders and the country took in more than a 1000000 refugees it proved a controversial and fateful decision now turkey has ceased abiding by a 26000 deal with the e.u.

aimed at holding back migrants in return for financial aid on course as it can no longer cope with more than 3000000 refugees who fled the syrian civil war. most germans are against renegotiating the pact according to a new poll by the end for test institute just over 30 percent say the e.u. should offer turkey greater assistance nearly 60 percent say the e.u. should not give turkey any additional support then there's the question of what to do about the situation on the border between turkey and greece which is a member of the e.u. a majority of germans is against stopping the migrants from crossing into the e.u. over 40 percent of those polled say the migrants should be denied entry well over half say they should be allowed to continue their journey to europe nearly 60 percent of those polled in germany said the migrants and refugees should be permitted to enter greece and then be resettled among the e.u.'s $27.00 member states but germans are almost evenly split over whether individual countries like

germany or france should go it alone and take the men even if other human beings are opposed the response to the migration crisis on europe's doorstep remains a heated issue in germany one that could also determine the future direction of chancellor merkel's conservatives as they search for a new party leader. you're watching d.w. news still to come researchers race to find a coronavirus vaccine as covert 19 sweeps across the globe will find out how close they are to success. but 1st let's check in on some other stories making headlines around the world in a bangladesh thousands of muslims have held a demonstration in the capital dhaka to denounce india's controversial citizenship law the triggered deadly riots in delhi the protesters are calling on the bangladeshi government to cancel a plan to invite indian prime minister narendra modi to a ceremony next month. ivory coast president alassane ouattara says he will not run

in presidential elections in october the 78 year old says it is time to transfer power to the younger generation opposition parties welcomed the announcement to have sparked months of speculation by hinting he might seek a 3rd term in office in tunisia police officer was killed after 2 men on a motorcycle blew themselves up outside the u.s. embassy in the capital tunis officials say 4 other officers and one civilian were hurt during the suicide bombing it was the most serious attack in the country in months. now at least 29 people have been shot dead and dozens injured at a memorial ceremony in afghanistan's capital kabul the afghan high peace council chairman mohamed karim colleen was speaking when gunmen opened fire now officials say all the victims were civilians prominent politicians including the chief executive of do not do an escaped unharmed it was the 1st major incident in couples since last weekend when the u.s. and the taliban signed a deal aimed at ending the war in afghanistan. and

we can speak now to journalist that he feels he is in a capital couple hi ali what it makes this attack so significant especially when we see in a string of deadly attacks in couple. i don't know this attack is any more significant than any other ones but what we have to remember is that this is the 3rd time in 3 years that this specific it's a commemoration has come under attack and so i remember earlier today another journalist was saying online that if this is the 3rd year that this specific memories come under attack what are the security intelligence forces doing how is it at the same place that the same event keeps getting targeted and how you know these politicians and don't they have. all of these people made it out with no problem but you know civilians are the ones that are paying the price ali who could be responsible for this attack. it's hard to tell because at the moment the taliban

have tonight any responsibility for the track of course in afghanistan there's no shortage of guns and you know people with grudges and you know with nefarious means in mind but it will be really interesting to see what investigations if there are proper investigations conducted by the have on government and possibly by the u.s. or anyone else just see who is actually behind it but at the moment what what's really concerning people is that you know this was a commemoration a vent where hundreds if not thousands of people would have attended and again it's you know ordinary civilians paying the price it was just last weekend that the u.s. and taliban signed a deal aimed at ending the war how will this affect the peace process i mean if it turns out i mean so far the taliban we have to take them at their word because there is no evidence that to say the contrary little one has denied any responsibility in this attack and it also doesn't make much sense for them to have targeted this event so i don't think it will necessarily have

a direct impact if anything the government will try and play it up and say to the u.s. you know you shouldn't leave in 14 months because the rest of the country is not safe and there are other groups still around the could pose a threat to the people all right journalist speaking to us thank you so much. historic sites are lucky to see visit is as a tally and stay home and tourists stay away. anything to slow the spread of current sites are lucky to see visitors as a tally and stay home and tourists stay away. anything to slow the spread of corona virus which has killed $148.00 in italy alone. but how other states on the continent on dealing with the outbreak differs considerably germany has seen a launch rise in infections with hundreds of cases although a few places affected have been closed like this kindergarten near the dutch border

the government is opposed to too many restrictive measures and. the symptoms we've seen so far are symptoms our health system deals with every day and it makes the question which measures are appropriate and which are northeast or fish. and given what we know about the virus that at this point i would feel that any measure restricting cross border travel is not a poor plea and. european health ministers launched crisis talks in brussels on friday they agree they have to slow the spread of coronavirus but how they go about doing that is still being worked on. well the chief of the world health organization is calling on governments to pull out all the stops to combat the corona virus outbreak this after the global number of kobe 1000 cases soared past 100000 health officials around the globe are scrambling to build a robust public health response and researchers are working to develop

a vaccine but how close are they to success here's more. the most effective way to prevent specific infections is to harness the body's own immune system that scenes like those used to prevent flu are made from either a weakened version of a virus or pieces of its genetic code the vaccination puts the immune system it makes antibodies that help it respond quickly to the target virus if exposure occurs under ordinary circumstances it can take up to 5 years to develop a safe and effective vaccine but in a race against the novel coronavirus some labs have already begun testing candidates in animal models sounds promising does that mean we'll be seeing one in the next few months that's been implied we're talking about a vaccine and they're moving very quickly all of the pharmaceutical companies are moving along very quickly but in vaccine development experts say quickly is

relative if everything moves as quickly as possible all the soonest that it could possibly be. a half to 2 years that still might be very optimistic in the meantime could antiviral drugs and at treating those who are already infected help the development curve for a new medicine is even steeper than for a vaccine that can easily take 10 years for a new pharmaceutical to gain regulatory approval and the industry claims it costs upwards of a 1000000000 euros around 9 out of 10 drug candidates never go into production they fail at some point during testing but there's also hope that some medicines that were originally developed to fight other diseases could be repurposed like a compound called rem does appear it was originally planned as a treatment for ebola and was tested when a major epidemic had west africa back in 2013 though it didn't prove very effective

against that disease the company says it does affect corona viruses and hence could help covert 1000 patients disease experts say repurposed drugs originally developed to fight malaria or hiv also show promise clinical trials with all these compounds are ongoing. let's talk about all those efforts with derrick williams from get up the science issue with us here in studio hi derek we were already hearing about vaccine development when the outbreak 1st became really known in january and now we're hearing that this could take at least another year before a vaccine is developed why the delay well i mean what originally the a lot of the groundwork was already done for looking into vaccines for coronaviruses due to the outbreak of sars and mers which are related coronaviruses so there was a fundamental sort of basis of knowledge there we weren't starting from scratch weren't starting from 0 but the candidates could be could be put forward very

quickly but a candidate is just that it's a candidate it still has to drop to go through a whole lot of regulatory hoops before it can be declared both safe and efficacious so the 1st the 1st hit that it has to go through is the animal testing and and you can't just tested in any animals because you need an animal that's going to react to the virus in the same way hopefully that a human would so to get results that are robust and so they're searching right now for the right animals to test that that's in what's called the pre-clinical phase look later will come that phase where they begin to take a test in humans to see whether or not a vaccine could be is actually safe and then they'll start testing this if they can see this effect of miss but that's you know that can it shows you a little bit and at the end of all of that process once you have something that's both safe and effective you still have to ramp up production on it so that's why it's even talking about timelines of a year to 2 years it's very ambitious what about other medicines existing medicines that are being called into question as a possible use here possible treatment how can it be that

a medicine that was developed to treat ebola could possibly be repurposed to treat cold in 1000 what's interesting here is the word we're desperately seeking for treatments as quickly as possible and so one of the 1st stops that they that they're going to take is they're going to be looking at medications that have jumped through most of those. regulatory hoops already or maybe all of them and they're hoping to get to strike it lucky now now rim does appear which is this which is one of the leading candidates that they're testing right now in china it didn't prove to be all that effective against ebola out in the field which was it was initially developed for but then they later discovered that it does show some activity against the both the stars and the mers virus now now the way that it does it's effective in the sense that it seems to to hinder replication of the virus now about the replication of the virus is a very fundamental evolutionary information that tends to remain intact across species it's kind of basic evolutionary information so they have high hopes that by

affecting this activity in stores and mirrors that the qur'an the novel coronavirus that causes covert 1000 that it will do the same thing in that virus but the jury's still out ok so how are people who have been infected with of an idea how are they now being treated in the hospital when most of the people who are have have contracted serious cases of it they require hospitalization or they are elderly people who have what are called co-morbidities they have conditions like diabetes or existing respiratory conditions already and and those are the people who are who are tending to end up in the hospital because there is no existing medication for treating them or none that's been approved yet they're being treated in the same way that that they would be treated if they came down for example with a very serious case of the flu there it's they're focusing on fluid intake on pain relievers and they're using you know in worst case scenarios than breathing apparatuses to help them to help them breathe but i think it's really important to

say we can't state often enough that 4 out of 5 of these cases to the best of our knowledge are mild enough that they don't require hospitalization and so people should be beat not be worried as much about that and remember that that once they've had it at least theoretically their immune system will have wiped it out and will also provide them with some kind of immunity at least theoretically for a while right eric williams from d.w. science thank you so much. now it's being billed in rome as the exhibition of the year and organizers hope it won't fall victim to the coronavirus contagion a 3 month show dedicated to the works of renaissance master raphael is opening in the eternal city and it is the biggest of its kind ever. it's one of the most eagerly anticipated shows of the year this carried our crew in our

low museum pre-sold around $70000.00 tickets before dawes even opened. 120 works by roughly 0 have been assembled from the collections of many major museums around the world. florence is museum as a major contributor its director put a positive spin on the risk that visitor numbers could be down due to the corona virus outbreak. we really want to have all these crowds and this expression. there will be met as it was because it's a unique opportunity but if you actually can get through to the paintings up with us nothing wrong about. the pictures visitors may be able to get closer to include the famous for. allegedly depicting a baker's daughter who was rough rio's roman love our. st john the baptist as a boy together with prepare

a tory drawings. and this presumed self portrait. raphael died on his 37th birthday after 8 days of fever and was buried in rome's pantheon. this is deja vu news and these are our top stories a human rights monitor says more than a dozen people have been killed in clashes between syria's government forces and rebel fighters in southern italy that's right a tentative cease fire that went into effect at midnight following talks between turkey and russia has. there been clashes a turkey's border with greece where thousands of migrants have been encouraged to enter the european union tear gas has been deployed from both sides as greek security forces stand guard to prevent the migrants from crossing the border. at least 27 people have been shot dead and dozens injured at a memorial gathering in the afghan capital kabul it is the 1st major attack in the capital since last weekend when the u.s.

and the taliban signed an agreement aimed at ending the war in afghanistan. and a cruise ship with 3500 people on board has been ordered to stay away from the northern california coast until corona virus tests have been carried out around 100 people have been identified for testing after suffering from flu like symptoms a traveler from a previous cruise died of the virus this is due to the news from berlin.

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