the bell. this is deja vu news live from berlin and some respite for civilians trapped in syria as it led province russia and turkey agree to a cease fire a tense calm is being reported in the region where almost a 1000000 people have been displaced as a result of the fighting between government and rebel forces but also comes out of the water all. damp down attack

targets a shia a memorial ceremony and companies of the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. tackling the coronavirus researchers race to develop a vaccine and global cases of the infection for past 100000 but it may take longer than albert. thank you. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us a human rights monitor says 15 people have been killed in clashes between syrian government forces and rebel fighters in southern it led this despite a tentative ceasefire that went into force at midnight that the ceasefire is the result of talks between turkish president vegetative everyone and russian president vladimir putin it's hoped that their meeting in moscow will disused increasingly volatile situation in the region and avoid

a direct confrontation between turkey and russia. after 6 hours of talks and a one and 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 had 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. we hope this agreement will lay a foundation for the suspension of fighting but. we hope to end the suffering of civilians there and to avoid a greater humanitarian crisis in. 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 al assad played up his ties with moscow. russia remains just policy away from supporting terrorists and to bring our relations. with thousands displaced by the fighting the international community led by the e.u. is focusing on alleviating what's already a humanitarian catastrophe and earlier a cease fire deal for it live 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. meanwhile tensions between greece and turkey on their shared border are rising as thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded between the 2 countries greek border guards continue their use of tear gas and other measures to force people back to turkey but on the other side of the border turkey is also deploying tear gas to stop them from returning there ancora is sending in $1000.00 additional special forces last night under the cover of darkness thousands of people attempted to enter the european union but many were arrested in greece and they were sent back and correspondent yulia hunt sent us this assessment from turkey's best aquila border crossing. the situation here talkies quite a border crossing with greece remains tens of thousands of refugees the migrants are still there demanding to be allowed into the european union now turkish believe

how banned journalists from entering the area which makes it very difficult for us reporters to go in the pen the verify what happens along the border what we do know is that tear gas was fired again this morning by greek border guards and by talking . now each side is blaming the other for the escalation so right now it seems very much on clear 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. let's check in now on some other stories from around the world in bangladesh thousands of muslims have held a demonstration in the capital dhaka to announce india's constant denounce rather india's controversial citizenship law that 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. in tunisia a 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. at least 27 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 was speaking when gunmen opened fire now officials say all the victims were civilians prominent politicians including chief executive of do a duma escaped unharmed it was the 1st major incident in couples since last weekend when the u.s. and the taliban signed a deal ended ending the war in afghanistan of the group calling itself the islamic state has now claimed responsibility for the attack. and for more on the story we can speak to a journalist latif and he joins us from couple hi ali what is the latest that you can tell us about this attack. so we're seeing that you know dozens of people were

killed and injured and as you said earlier the so-called islamic state forces are claiming responsibility for the attack which if it pans out means 2 things one is that last year the same commemoration was attacked when rockets were fired upon it and again the so-called islamic state took responsibility for it but the other issue is that it was in october last year that the president went to the eastern provinces of afghanistan and made a big you know sort of show out of saying that the government had a limited diet forces in afghanistan so this attack if it really pans out and it's really true that the so-called islamic state forces were behind it it raises huge questions about the government's claim that they were able to get rid of these forces only a few months ago ali why is this memorial service continuously target. i mean if it again if it ends up being makes a lot of sense because unfortunately forces continually target places where groups

of shias will be in attendance so that includes our monies that includes something like this because you know it was a slain jihadi leader who was from a shia group food from a hazaar group and so this is why a group like this law mixtape would target such an event and again because it's been repeatedly targeted it's been 3 years that this event has come under attack people are asking how is it that the security and intelligence forces aren't able to foresee these attacks and take proper precautions ahead of time to make sure that because you know as you said earlier the prominent politicians you know were escorted out fairly quickly and again it's the civilians that are paying the price that are the ones that are being killed and injured yeah it does raise a lot of questions about the security situation and couple at the moment and it was just last weekend that the u.s. and the taliban which says it was not involved in this attack signed an agreement aimed at ending the war so how will this all affect the peace process. well it

really does turn out to be doesn't affect the peace process and that way because the agreement that was signed last week allows for the united states and that of one military to continue attacks on so-called forces so it doesn't immediately impact that what it could do is give the government more reason to tell the united states hey don't pack up right away don't leave immediately in 14 months because this kind of a threat still exists in the country all right journalist ali latif he's speaking to us there thank you very much. thank you you're watching news still to come on our show a blockbuster exhibition for a renaissance master the largest after an exhibition of rafael's artworks opens and broke my will the coronavirus scared many people away. but 1st let's focus on the grounds of virus new infections continue to rise in many parts of the world amid fears a cruise ship with 3500 people on board has been ordered to stay away from the northern

california coast until tests for covert 1000 have been carried out their test kits have been lowered to the grand princess by helicopter after a traveler from a previous ocean cruise died of the virus although no cases have been confirmed on this cruise around 100 people have been identified for testing after suffering from slew like symptoms but national responses to what's emerging as a global pandemic vary widely such as here in europe. the lockdown in italy continues this school in rome is just one of tens of thousands from across the country forced to close its doors the government here taking drastic measures to contain the outbreak but if you go bad in an on air it was not an easy decision for the government we also waited for the opinion of the scientific committee men and we've decided given that the situation is changing so quickly so to suspend all

academic activities beyond the red zone until the 15th of march. even the capital's historic 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 in italy alone. but how other states on the continent on dealing with the outbreak differs considerably germany has seen a large 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. if you're busy it's because all of the symptoms we've seen so far are symptoms our health system deals with every day and it begs the question which measures are appropriate and which are not just with fish. and given what we knew about the virus at this point i

would feel that any measure restricting cross border travel is not a poor plea and fights are in the future on your medicine 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. while the chief of the world health organization is calling on governments to pull out all the stops to combat the corona virus outbreak and this after the global number of covered 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 but 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 on the alert 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 and 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 along 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 that treating those who are already infected

helps 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 rentes a fear that 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 19 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 debbie scientists 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 that 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 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 preclinical phase look later will come the 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 it is the this effectiveness but that 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 or possible treatment how can it be that a medicine that was developed to treat ebola could possibly be repurposed to treat covered 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 coven 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

a contract that serious cases of it they require hospitalization or there 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 and 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 not be worried as much about that and bring member of 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 derek williams from d.w. science thank you so much. now in rome it's being billed as the exhibition of the year and organizers are hoping that 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's the biggest of its kind ever. it's one of the most eagerly anticipated shows of the year this day every day 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. provinces see 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. would we really want to have all these crowds and this expression. there will be manifest as because it's a gimme opportunity but if you actually can get through to the paintings i mean there's nothing wrong about that. the pictures visitors may be able to get closer to include the famous for. allegedly depicting a baker's daughter who was rough rayos roman love our. st john the baptist as a boy and together with prepare a tory drawings. and this presumed self portraits. raphael died on his 37th birthday after 8 days of fever and was buried in rome's pantheon. now

authorities in the south african city of cape town of held a concert aimed at boosting business at an historic square where refugees have been camped out for months last week and police removed hundreds of refugees from other african countries who've been staying at this busy how bright in the center of town our correspondent adrienne krishna's been following developments there for the last several months and he reports now on the changes that kate townsend greenmarket square. it was a time in the heart of cape town the city has organized a free concerts to support local businesses right at the spot where hundreds of migrants living on the street were forcefully removed by the police on sunday. join hands are celebrating in front of the stage hundreds of the refugees still live inside the church right next door and they have less reason for celebration this. after xenophobic violence in south africa last year these migrants gathered in the

city and steve to be relocated to another country. who from the democratic republic of congo says she was a victim and doesn't feel welcome in south africa the more so more than 4 months she has been living inside this church with her children who no known go go to school. we have a choice you know sometimes. it. is not good for them because there are seeds is just sort of this is not a situation. where you basically. kind of. work. i just sometimes sleep or study in my last 2 books i miss my classmates. and just learning. since the city enforced its bylaws and at the camp outside the church is even more crowded it's. eileen buku and the refugees here insist they

are not safe in south africa and want to be taken to another country most of the governments and the united nations agency in charge of refugees did not listen to their demands now even the church asked them to leave after they've stayed here for more than 4 months business owners on the popular green market square hoping that the remaining migrants will also leave soon i think it makes people to want to come back here again. when you come here and you smell feces and urine not that pleasant and also when you get arrested on the streets if you're a woman who was in the prison and we found that the bookies if he looked up again you have a day in the ball nobody could go to the polls this is a good. many african migrants doing business in the area disagree with the groups in the rate of a feeling threatened hundreds of thousands of foreigners living in south africa those people. don't know what's wrong with them where they come from

i don't know if they have somewhere over the ghosting somewhere before outside i don't know but the way they come with everything is how we appreciate for government also allow for the. people that he was in the last person wouldn't play list to for us to pull his news we're over this time around for this part of the world to come right now is hard to find. a group of migrants in the church continue to feel left out not only from the concerts but from society as well. now it's a sign of how much ties have improved between the republic of ireland and the u.k. britain's kate and william have wrapped up their historic 1st tour of ireland with a visit to a venue long associated with irish nationalism in the western city of galway the duke and duchess of cambridge tried their hand at gaelic curling. kate and william

looked relaxed on the playing fields of salt mccurry g.a.a. club the british establishment seemingly teasin of boston of irish nationalism. until ireland hosted france and then england in rugby union speech 6 nations at the tema croke park in 20 was 7 the gaelic atlantic association had long banned what it deemed to british sports from being played on its premises no british royalty stood harley in hand as symbols of rapprochement go there could be few more potent that's not to say the irish game came easily to the british pair have let it live but it didn't stop them trying. was. their young hosts were clearly taken with the royal celebrities in their midst. one later more unlikely scenes in goal the city center william and kate the duchess

clad in emerald green to can one of the traditional irish music sessions for which goalies pubs are famed. before emerging to a warm reception. union jacks flying alongside irish tricolors to greet the couple. the convivial atmosphere belied the high security laid on for the royal visit with police sharpshooters deployed on surrounding rooftops but kate and william didn't seem concerned as the enjoyed a warm sendoff. now they organize. years of the tokyo 2020 olympics have announced that all the venues for this year's games are ready 8 new venues were built for the summer olympics the aquatic center will host swimming and diving advance and the national stadium will host the opening ceremony on july 24th well coronavirus has raised questions about whether the games will be postponed or

canceled but in recent days officials have insisted the competition will be again as much. coming up next on news asia controversy in pakistan as a women's march planned for the weekend divides opinion and sparks a fierce debate. and the widow was ostracized in a world bangladesh after their husbands died what lies behind the street. station forget the news asia.

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