but you 202020. 150th anniversary year on d w. this is deja vu news live from berlin tonight a nation under lockdown italy takes radical measures to fight the coronavirus. the entire population of 16000000 has been told to stay at home restrictions on travel and public gatherings are now in force we'll bring you the latest on the outbreak there and around the world also coming up. it's super tuesday round 2 in the race

for the democratic party's nomination in this year's u.s. presidential election the pressure is on bernie sanders to catch up to joe biden looks poised to increase his lead. and president for life or something close to it russia's parliament backs a lot of their putin's plans to change the constitution so he can stay in power until 2036. spicer welcome to the program the number of corona virus cases in europe's most affected country italy has surged above 10000 the country has recorded more than 630 deaths italy's neighbors have started tightening their borders and an increasing number of countries have stopped flights to and from italy the entire

country has been placed on lockdown. a rare sight in rome the coliseum with few visitors it was so silent. you could almost hear the ancient romans cheering on their favorite gladiators modern day romans seemed willing to accept the government's anti-virus lock down if we're gratefully. i've seen the government directives they are quite precise they must be followed and everything must be done to ensure that they are respected. if. i live here and it's always full of people but this morning there's no one it's not noise this reality. the government's measures to restrict people to all but essential travel commuting for work is allowed if people have documentation proving it's necessary the measures will stay in place until at least the 3rd of april as he announced the national lockdown italy's prime minister had

a message for young people. i'm about to sign a decree that we can sum up with the expression i stay at harm. we understand that young people who want to socialize. we've seen the images photographs with a knock life is the fun way people drinking outside. it's no longer possible for us to allow this because of the risk of infection. across town in the vatican pope francis urged catholic priests to have the courage to go out and help those afflicted with the coronavirus perhaps he had seen the photo of a nurse exhausted by the battle against the disease the picture has gone viral on social media. the corona virus is spreading in germany as well with 200 new cases

recorded on tuesday in the 6 worst affected states germany has advised its citizens to avoid travel to italy it's also called for the cancellation of any public gatherings of more than 1000 people. images like these are likely to become common in germany soccer matches without spectators a precaution against the corona virus on tuesday morning the state government of bavaria banned all gatherings of more than 1000 people other states are also limiting large scale events in the coming weeks before i'm sure whether the events can take place without spectators so with just a few 100 will have to be cancelled or delayed it will be up to the sports associations. to bindis it the robot cost scientific institute supports these measures and is calling on communities and hospitals to activate their emergency plans this is one for this is important we are just at the beginning of the demick and we will only be able to cope with it when all those in positions of

responsibility take action in this imminent crisis. economy ministers from the federal and state levels have discussed coordinating stimulus and support measures the federal economy minister said several 1000000000 euros is being made available to. the overall and. east kind much as possible we don't want any businesses in germany to go bankrupt because of the coronavirus indians or vents in most and we don't want any jobs to be lost either. for living in the government is striving to make it easier for those working reduced hours to access benefits a decision on that is due wednesday time now for a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. turkey's health minister has confirmed that the 1st coronavirus case in the country a male patient his family and people who had close contact with him are under

observation the minister also said the men caught the virus in europe. violence broke out in venezuela's capital caracas as participants in a demonstration led by self-proclaimed president one quadro clashed with security forces police used tear gas to stop the protesters from marching on the national legislature which pro-government lawmakers seized in january. 2 months after hosting a summit on the libya conflict germany's chancellor met with libya's eastern commander in berlin angler merkel stressed the importance of a cease fire and a political solution during the talks general hell if i have to are and his rebel forces have been fighting the un backed libyan government for control of the capital tripoli since last april. to the u.s. now and the race for the white house polls have begun closing in a 2nd big night of democratic primaries voters in 6 states have been casting

ballots and exit polls have indicated some good news for former vice president joe biden early results indicate that biden will win the states of mississippi and missouri he's also leading in the race for the night's biggest prize michigan biden's rival vermont senator bernie sanders had been hoping a strong showing in michigan would help him close the gap between him and biden in the race for delegates. and for more here on the votes and the evolving political situation joined by william glu crotch so the numbers are good news mainly for biden good news for bite in bernie sanders keeps having more and more and more that it seems like he's to catch up. it's being called so far the 1st 3 states for joe biden michigan mississippi missouri let's let's be very clear these are projected wins not all the votes been counted

affected could easily be many hours or even if sometimes days for really we have a full vote count but it does look like that biden that i'm sorry michigan mississippi missouri is going to joe biden but let's clarify that it doesn't this is not a winner takes all system delegates get a lot of proportionally so right now we're looking at $690.00 delegates for joe biden 5 or $74.00 delegates for bernie sanders that's the current figure these numbers are going to continually change that maybe change right now based on how quickly these numbers are going up there are 352 delegates at stake tonight alone and the magic number is 1991 that's the just over the 50 percent mark of total delegates that you need to become the democratic nominee for president ok we're getting in kling's of good news for biden what is bernie sanders need to do at this point in the race i mean there's not much he can do he needs the voters that he that the people the especially young people who say they really love bernie sanders and are filling his advance filling his campaign stops they need to go out

and vote for him all this and susie has and that's fine bernie sanders has a lot of enthusiasm especially among younger people across race religion ethnicity all kind of cuts across all kinds demographics young people really are attracted to bernie sanders but also young people are historically the ones that vote the least so bernie sanders is a very uphill battle if he really wants to win and right now it's not looking so remember he won michigan in 2016 white handily over hillary clinton now is looking for the other way towards joe biden voters want. voters want someone who they think can beat donald trump and right now that's coalescing that ideas coalescing around joe biden not bernie sanders and you know american presidential elections are relatively speaking quite long drawn out things when you compare them with other countries what is the shape of the race going to be like on the democratic side in the weeks and months to come well now the question is if bernie sanders does not do well tonight he performed not great not terrible last week in super tuesday if he

doesn't perform well tonight there are fewer avenues for him to continue the question is would he drop out would democrats be able to push him out. in a way and will biden be able to become the nominee and sort of wrap this thing up before the primaries are really over if not of by then scuse me bernie sanders stays in keeps on fighting for states in the future primaries to come we could see ongoing contests all the way up until the national convention in the summer or they'll be the final delegate vote count and we'll have to see which candidate reaches that magic number 1991 or more to clinch the democratic nomination ok. thanks for that insight. russia's lower house of parliament has backed president vladimir putin's plans to allow himself to stay in office until 2036 he told the duma the changes to the constitution were necessary to guarantee the country's

future stability currently the russian president can only serve 2 consecutive terms if the changes are approved that limit would remain but mr putin would be allowed to run again by effectively pressing a reset button after his current term ends in 2024 and we just. but we are not passing amendments for a year or so or even for a decade i hope that they will be in power over a longer historic perspective. but at least 30 to 50 years time. and in such a long run people must have guaranteed was that regular changes of power are secured because of them we need to think of the future generations so i don't think it's worth removing the number of presidential terms from the constitution and we spoke to our correspondent emily sure one in moscow and i asked her for more information about what these constitutional changes will mean these measures

essentially if they are passed and if the constitutional court here in russia proves them they mean they they mean a kind of reset button for presidential terms here in russia after all president putin is currently in his 2nd of 2 consecutive terms his term in office and in 2024 and according to the current constitution he can't run again after that now these measures could remove that hurdle and could mean that he can run again in 2024 now we just heard him saying that he doesn't want term limits to be gotten rid of overall but essentially since he started his term in office people have been discussing what will happen next and when he announced constitutional changes in january everyone has been here experts have been theorizing about what that could mean for putin himself what role he could take on and it seems that he does want to stay president in what observers here have been calling

a kind of sting operation to keep him in power was did have you correspondent emily sure won in moscow. a new report by the un's world meteorological organization says the past decade has been the hottest in human history the report also says 29000 it was the 2nd hottest year since records began presenting the findings that in new york secretary general. said the outlook is bleak we have also broken record in. methane. and i'm out of those so carbon dioxide is the most the important one with this going to be through with the warming so far its lifetime is over several 100 so for years so this is a problem to the gold wave soccer now and in the champions league germany's rb leipzig advanced to the quarterfinals for the 1st time in the club's history

leipzig cruised to a 3 male victory over english side tottenham hotspur made it for neil on aggregate after the germans one nil win in february elsewhere beat italian side $4.00 to $3.00 sealing an impressive $8.00 to $4.00 aggregate win now if you've ever wanted to own an original picasso and who hasn't but never had the money think again you could own this piece by the spanish master for just 100 euros it's being raffled in paris with the tickets sold to raise money for charity paintings real value is estimated that between $2.00 and $3000000.00 raffle will be held at the end of this month proceeds will go to the antipoverty charity care. and a reminder of our top story italy has imposed nationwide restrictions on travel and public gatherings as it battles the outbreak of the coronavirus country 60000000 people have been told to stay at home. thanks for joining us next

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