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and discuss on t.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now . this is day w news live from building the prime minister of greece is the e.u.'s a migrant deal with turkey is as good as all of. this is new clashes erupt on the greek turkish border as thousands of people make a push to reach europe the e.u. accuses turkey fusing migrants full clinical purposes also coming up this is not the time to give up. this is not
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a time role for excuses. this is a time for pulling out all. the head of the world health organization so it's governments need to make containing coded 19 the highest priority as global cases rise beyond 100000 researchers or pricing to develop a vaccine for the virus one in 1000 longer than what. also on the show title challenges also friends don't know about fight about the pole position and the chase behind champions find it's a must win match for both of. i'm anthony howard thanks for joining us tensions continue to mount on the greek border with turkey as thousands of migrants seek to into europe the european union has
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told them by will not be allowed to enter and is accused turkey if using the migrants for political ends the greek prime minister says the deal between the e.u. until he of the migrants is quite good. greek police fire tear gas to push back migrants desperate to get through this border fence those who make it are promptly detained. bartolo. and among the people stuck in the no man's land between greece and turkey hope has turned to rage. there are rumors of not only a month if you want to see his farm reduced this country is ours if you see it we are. in the turkish town of a deer near the border migrant families prepared to spend another winter night in the open. they rely on the help of local volunteers for
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food and warm clothes but there isn't enough for all. these illegal but they were coming from 50 kilometers away just to help them under the name of god. you're coming us instead of them. only here to help us volunteers it's the 2nd time we've come to. try to do our best all we can do clothes just food we're trying to help these kids there's no benefits for us like them it all got out on friday he you said it's from tears would remain shut and urged migrants not to come to the border. but turkey says he can no longer cope with the number of refugees he has deployed special police to prevent greece from sending back those who managed to cross. these people remain trapped as both of you accuse each other of using them as pawns
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in a bigger political game. well the situation on the great turkish border is changing rapidly and. joel do we have any clue what's happening in what we know that turkey maybe looks like changing its position on the migrants on the border there and once again blocking migrants from crossing now that's because turkish state media is reporting that the turkish curse god has been given a presidential to block boats from crossing. because it's too dangerous and reporters in turkey have also been hearing on the border i've been told. by turkish authorities because they have no chance of crossing into greece we're still trying to get details on these situations but it does appear that maybe position of having to open gates to europe. does this leave the agreement between europe and.
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its well the greek prime minister. has said on friday that the deal is dead because he had completely violated the terms of the agreement by encouraging asylum seekers to cross the border now the deal was struck in 2016 you might call it the anti margaret deal because under its terms turkey agreed to block asylum seekers from trying to cross into europe and in exchange europe agreed to give 6000000000. living in turkey among many other conditions now the. president. also says that the deal needs to be revised so it's not a formal end to the deal yet but it's a clear sign that it can't continue in its current form and what about europe's collective stance when it comes to. well the european foreign ministers of the support greece they met on friday in croatia to express
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a solidarity with the greek position and europe's top diplomat also used the chance to make a statement directly to the. on the border let's listen to what he had to say. don't go to devoted. to bullish not open mission one tells you that you can go because it will dissolve and you can go freely to a root of 2 snipers that's not true avoid a situation in which you could be in danger. of borrow the chief diplomat for europe he also said that europe might be prepared to give more money to turkey on top of that $6000000000.00 in aid if turkey stops using the migrants as human bogen in chips now turkey for its part is accuse european countries of trampling on international law and violating their own values and they have a point there because as you might recall to greece has announced that it is stopping to accept asylum act locations for
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a month now the united nations says that that is in violation of international law human rights groups of also lined up to criticize europe and greece for that position and to put this in perspective even the united states under donald trump has not stopped entirely accepting applications for asylum on its mexican border and being forgotten all of this of course we must remember of thousands of desperate people who don't know what's happening and are in in desperate need of humanitarian aid on the border joe don't for as always great to have you with us. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. at least 27 people have been shot dead and dozens injured in the afghan capital it's the 1st major attack in kabul since last weekend when the u.s. and the taliban signed an agreement that ending the war in afghanistan so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the. suicide bombing outside the u.s. embassy in she has killed a security god 4 other gods and
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a civilian were wounded in the blast it's the most serious attack in the north african country in months. in bangladesh thousands of muslims have held a demonstration in the capital dhaka to denounce india's controversy 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 hendra modi to a ceremony next month. ladyship the leading publisher of raba hash it has crashed plans to release the or her biography of film like a body ellen move comes following criticism and the stuff walkout of allegations allen molested his daughter the book was due to be released next month. turning now to the latest on the corona virus in the us the south by southwest festival a major gathering of music film an arts events in austin texas has been cancelled
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a cruise ship with 3500 people on board has been ordered to stay away from the northern california coast 21 people have tested positive for the farthest she white has suspended all flights to and from 7 countries and colombia has now confirmed its 1st corona virus case. well the head of the world health organization is calling on governments to quote pull out all stops to combat the conversion of corona virus outbreak this after the global number of coded 19 cases soared past 100000 health officials around the globe scrambling to build a robust public health response and researchers around the world have been pricing to develop a vaccine but how close are they to success is a closer look at just how vaccines work the most effective way to prevent specific
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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 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 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 the soonest that it could possibly be. a half to 2 years that still might be very optimistic in the
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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
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to fight malaria or hiv also show promise clinical trials with all these compounds are ongoing. sport now and the organizers of the tokyo 2020 olympics have announced that all of the venues for this year's games are ready i even were built for the summer olympics the aquatic center will host swimming and diving events. and the national stadium will host the ceremony on july 24th the coronavirus had raised questions about whether the games would be postponed or even canceled but in recent days officials have insisted the competition will play take place rather as shipped. to the bundesliga now where the standout game this weekend pits 2 title hopefuls against each other 3rd place dortmund travels to 4th placed in glad back on saturday in their pursuit
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to de-fund by and munich neither side can afford to drop points in the battle of the brushes off the field both clubs hope their fans will behave after offensive ben has caused controversy in recent weeks. but the adult men have already beaten. back twice in the league cup they say isn't now they go to go back needing another win to keep the pressure on at the top. a one nil home win over friedberg last weekend was more labored than dortmund hoped i stuff for what holland was surprisingly only a substitute but is expected to return to the starting line up fellow january recruit emirates chan has also impressed the gladbach coach. as we know dortmund added 2 important players in january and that means the challenge is even more exciting for us dortmund are
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a very strong team who have the ambition to be german champions. klatt back also have an outside chance of the title but have not beaten dortmund since 2015 having lost 9 straight league games against them it's gladbach 1st bundesliga home game since an offensive bana against tottenham investigate now hope set up a fan rebellion across the league the club say there can be no repeat dortmunder concentrating on what black but can do on the pitch system going back a flexible with their tactics when it comes to the opponent system they've done that often they are very good at it i must say. the battle of the brochures could end the title dreams of one of these teams the blunders leaguer is reaching crunch time. and before we go don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our from google play from the app store or give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any
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