prize no one the corona virus outbreak is now a pandemic a $114.00 countries more than $4000.00 dead and the w.h.o. saying it is a warm but how little national leaders are doing to stop the virus enter german chancellor merkel a scientist by training today the chancellor used statistics to drive home a sobering message most people she said will catch the virus. this is the day. when the virus is out there the population has no immunity and there are no vaccines or syrupy so far. so a high percentage of experts say that 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected as long as this situation continues.

also coming up after a 2nd super tuesday of winds joe biden seems almost unstoppable in his bid to challenge president. but he still has one rival standing in his way. and i want to thank bernie sanders who supported through their tireless energy and their passion we shared common goal and together. we will defeat. which our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with giving the coronavirus a label that could do more harm than good today after months of watching the virus spread from china to europe to the americas the world health organization declared the corona virus outbreak a pandemic and simply stated a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which humans have no immunity spreads around the globe pandemic does not refer to how severe or dangerous that disease is but the label can scare

people which explains why the w.h.o. and waited until today italy has become the new focal points as the number of new cases in china decreases the death toll in italy is now at 827 the entire country remains under lockdown with hospitals reporting a surge in patients and a shortage of equipment and supplies and what is happening in italy is being called a preview of events to come here in germany today german chancellor angela merkel told the country to brace itself saying 70 percent of the population will most likely become infected with the coronavirus. just being aware of this fact and aware of the fact that there. are vulnerable groups of the populations people with existing ellis' older people who can have a more serious case of this virus if they catch it means that our approach has to

be defined by ensuring that our health system not be overwhelmed but rather that we have to be able to deal with the options we have in the health care system to ensure that we slow down this spread of this disease and this is why all of the measures that we could sing into place are crucial because they gain as time well the german chancellor says staying ahead of the virus is crucial to slowing it and to stop it from spreading further but there is also criticism of the chancellor's approach here's the w.'s chief political adviser mcculloch often are. well it was a rather sober assessment of the situation as she basically told the public that this virus was now here and that it would be here to stay for some time that there would indeed be more deaths and that this was a situation where the government doesn't really have all the answers yet so that's pretty strong stuff for a country that likes to see the political brand of stability that you provided

bungler machall in place she pretty much echoed the scientists who's pretty much in charge of this the head of the whole box called institute here in germany those recommendations to take care not to have gatherings of more than 1000 people and at the same time to sort of mining ourselves that she came out of a conference call with e.u. leaders calling for you approach of course also knowing that joint approach will be cut short spur tensity just by the very fact that every country is pretty much fending for itself right now in trying to track this disease and trying to stop it from spreading the good from the reporting there still ahead on the day europe remembers the victims of terror attacks the lives lost and the winds changed forever if a 1000000 home of the and the families are in deep pain. wounds which we will never

be able to heal. or he will most likely spend the rest of his life behind bars the disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein was sentenced today in a new york court to 23 years in prison the punishment follows his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges. thank you. for any that sentence that was just handed down by this court was a scene that number was a noxious here is just the last part of what we need said she said i've never felt vengeful and going into this initially i didn't even feel anger. i just felt sad sad for myself sad for everyone he hurt and i even felt sad for him for having done

this to himself. art i'm joined now by journalist james rhino he is in new york he has been following this case closely for you james we know we understand that there was a lot of drama outside the courtroom today walk us through what happened. ok well as you say a dramatic day in the courthouse in lower manhattan where weinstein the film a hollywood movie producer now disgraced was received his jail sentence of 23 years not the maximum he could receive which was 29 but still i think what everyone agrees very substantial tents and we saw him in the morning at the rikers island jail the prison cell notoriously violent place that he's been caged inside since he was convicted last month arrived at look or how thin and puffed and in a wheelchair a sign of how seriously the. trial is impacted and of course that

he came face to face in the courthouse once again with the 2 women who leveled allegations in which we convicted i'm paul roberts who gave evidence against him and yet quite a dramatic day before and after the. sentence was delivered. this trial has been seen as a landmark trial in the me too what message was the judge sending today with this prison sentence. yeah i think if you could consider this being some kind of turning point it's been a turning point i think it's important way which is in the polls when it comes to the rape and sexual assault case it's often been very difficult to prosecute it's been one person's word against another one consensual thing happened and somebody else who says that but it wasn't consensual in this case what happened is the jury

quite simply believed the women they believed what they said they believe their claims that they were making and they didn't believe harvey weinstein who didn't even go before the jury and deny the allegation and i think what the judge did is he took the verdict that the jurors gave and. what i'm going to do is i'm going to harvey weinstein a serious sentence. but the case been made again. and just remind us the justice system in the united states it's not finished with harvey weinstein is it. no you heard the defense attorney harvey weinstein talking about how she's most likely going to be going to appeal she said that the challenge was that not just the long that america would have. spent my thyme in jail and of course the harvey weinstein it's not over there

are added charges and i have a place pending against quality weinstein of course the 2 through which he's been convicted again that's small compared to the what is it now 18 women who've described arrow going experience itself and so i tell root with harvey weinstein 2 particular charges in los angeles that he yet to face those charges could see him convicted for another 28 years behind. it all right reporter james rhino with the latest on harvey weinstein tonight in new york james thank you. but i cannot tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to who have said i quote i don't like what your campaign stands for i agree with what your campaign stands for but i'm going to vote for joe biden because i think joe is

the best candidate to defeat donald trump and of course we have heard that statement all over this country needless to say i strongly disagree without assertion. well that was a defiant bernie sanders vowing to continue his campaign to become the democratic presidential candidate despite another dismal performance on yet another super tuesday well joining me tonight here at the big table is julie is with the lhari political campaign consultant and a veteran of the obama 20082012 campaigns julius's good to see you again we keep meeting this way tell you with either joe biden or it's bernie sanders how much life would you say there is left in the campaign for bernie sanders i think it's about to be over look this race is about delegates you need 991 delegates to clinch the nomination and joe biden has the late he's up 150 delegates so i think

everything speaks in his favor especially the schedule moving forward or states like florida coming up more joe biden is expected to perform very well not just the states but also the demographics in those states are absolutely in his favor i mean i guess that bernie sanders would have to win every primary now in order to mathematically beat biden in terms of delegates that is absolutely ok today sanders said that he is looking forward to a one on one debate with joe biden this coming sunday sanders does much better in debate then. it's absolutely true and i think bernie sanders has shown that he is absolutely in command when he's on the stage that he can hone his argument actually delivers a message and joe biden with the exception of may want to 2 debates has actually struggled on that debate stage but again it's not about the debates anymore it's not about momentum right now it's about raking up those delegates and it's almost impossible to get it's almost impossible for bernie sanders to come back from that

dominating leave that joe biden has accumulate in the delegate race you know why why go through this look campaigns and this i think is true for every election campaign in the history united states candidates never joppa. because they don't see a path forward they drop out either because of a lack of money or because they feel like they don't have anything else to offer and that. still has the money so he can continue to keep going he still can tap his donor base where people can donate $5.00 or 10 or $15.00 an hour for save plenty of emails from the senders campaign now look i think he wants to go up there one more time on that debate stage and tell people what he actually stands for framed that debate for election night maybe pull out a lucky punch in his mind he's come too far to just throw it all away sanders today mentioned the generational divide represented by these 2 campaigns the seat of those under 50 support sanders those over 50 support biden's basically what he said

which is take a listen to what biden said about that a couple of days ago and then listen to sanders answer to it today. look i view myself writ not as you know there's an entire generation. behind you they are your peers in order to win in the future you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country and you must speak to the issues of concern to them the future but biden's come in it struck me somewhat as bizarre saying he's a bridge to the future meaning that he's not the future but when voters elect a president they're voting for the future voters usually vote for a vision right yeah but in this election at this time i think people are looking to

get rid of donald trump and this is the argument that's been made over and over throughout this primary people are saying who is best equipped to get donald trump out of office of course they need a positive message of course they want to look at joe biden and say what does he offer for the future but keep in mind what this election is about right now you mentioned the opening segment the coronavirus you mention the stock market that has plunged 20 points since you know there were coverage of the of bear market is actually today absolutely a bear market so we're in a crisis and we're about to move on to potentially a full crisis and i think there's one poll one exit poll that was taken on tuesday night people were asked who do you think is actually best equipped to handle a crisis and people favor joe biden by 16 percent percent over donald trump so i think that's the argument that he's making and best equipped to navigate us through that crowd and agree with you there i'm wondering though is he also telegraphing to was that he plans on being a one term president i think and there's been some talk within this campaign to

actually message that look i'm just going to run once i think that's a terrible idea nobody wants to see a president who doesn't actually want it i think joe by. needs to be up there he needs to be healthy and needs to be full of energy which he can be and actually make that case look i'm here to change things better it makes that his vice presidential running mate announcement that decision incredibly important right yeah absolutely right got to you want to venture any guesses on who do you think will choose well so i think bernie sanders hit it on the nail when he just said it you know you need to excite young people and so. joe biden needs to figure out how do i keep my base you know moderate people suburban moms who live in the suburb and go out there vote but still excite young people right so that's the big question i think stacy abrams looks good and i don't know whether she'd be up for an interesting speedboat just as up there i don't know if you can go without

a female candid to actually get all those female votes but i think right now if you look at all the candidates standing by he's got a pretty big field to choose from next tuesday will be what they're calling super tuesday 3 that's right if sanders suffers more losses which you expect him to do you see him then calling it quits in the democratic party i think everyone inside the party would agree needs time to heal these divisions before the summer and the last phase of the campaign i mean i remember 2008 when barack obama campaign went head to head with bill clinton in that campaign got pretty nasty but in the in you know barack obama was able to bring people in and expand i think this is how movements get built you need to at not just to divide and i think this is what you know joe biden has to do and if bernie sanders is actually real about what he has been saying that his number one priority is to actually defeat donald trump i think

he needs to message that to his supporters as well that they need to bring it in and actually support the nominee whoever that might be even if it's not bernie sanders who they have all been rooting for yeah yeah and as it looks right now it probably will not be bernie sanders i think that's true judy from the law as always jealous we appreciate your insights valuable stuff thank you thanks for having. i don't us you see that the mess of such nations suicide attacks terrorists kill blindly. they seek to obliterate without a trace steel existences. to all efforts to forget it and to remove their names from memory our nation will resist we will speak their names we will remember their faces. that was french president emmanuel there speaking at a ceremony in paris today to honor the victims of terrorism here in europe france has

been home to several major terror attacks including the mass murders inside the by think nightclub and the killing of cartoonists at the charlie a newspaper of france unfortunately it's not alone germany also has its list of terror attacks there was the christmas market truck attack here in berlin back in 2016 last month 10 people died in a racially motivated mass shooting in the west german city of how now in our next report we look at how people cope when the attack has become a memory. khan and his colleagues from the victims advisory board at the marketplace where the attack took place 3 weeks ago since then the city has not been the same. because. we're getting more and more responses from relatives and eyewitnesses and from the city community that there is a latent fear. not because they're too often there's

a cause for concern. so are afraid to take their children to school that they're scared to go anywhere. this is actually the case at the moment moment. here in town hall the advisers trying to give the victims' families help and support each family has its own advisor. relatives need a lot of peace and silence and sympathy now above all they need a lot of stability a feeling of security that we are there that we take care of things that things are on their way common their tasks range from organizing the funerals and paperwork to simply listening and being there. when one of the and the families are in deep pain . they bear wounds which we will never be able to heal. but

what i see and really appreciate is that they're not just in despair and they are not at all angry and resentful towards us or toward society. after. today holbert and his colleagues are visiting the kiosk come up with the bill he watched from his shop as the assassin shot through the door of across the street he knew many of the victims and like many other locals has been terrorized by the experience. in any case we can't forget it it will be in us. and we will carry it with us for years. because we all knew the guys. and i was there that night as i said. and it's just hard to forget something like that but we have to live on really far as we can as best we can. get. it to this day he's

afraid if someone comes into the kiosk late at night. and most often listen to his concerns even. if we know one or 2 people who are always there for you and back you up and say come on you need to go here or get this done that's very nice those 14 ish. i think the others are also very glad that they take care of us and ask. relatives and friends of the victims say a thorough investigation is crucial to come to fake news about the perpetrator and help soothe their sense of insecurity they also say the state needs to do more to tackle racism. or do you talk about the impact on these survivors and their families i'm joined tonight by mr roland he's the official victim representatives

for mr good to have you on the show and tell me what does a victim representative do. first of all i'm still a lawyer still working in criminal law and more over i'm doing this in an honorary capacity for more than 7 just know i was the 1st one in germany at all and therefore looking how to improve the situation for the weak teams how to help with law if something we have to change especially in the last and all the things and make most of the most important things is to build a very good and working net. to victims need most from you are you the person who goes to them and and gives them a hug or are you the person. and who tells them how to get through the legal system 1st of all i tried to connect them with professionals who can give good wise

where they can find financial support and other kinds of aid so what i'm doing i'm under networking men and how big is the need for what you do i think need to still very very big. for example we have about 80000 victims of crime just in berlin here. about 8 to 10000 need so much help they go to the victim support organizations and so if you see this you know when we talk about terror attacks here in europe obviously we're talking about taking place in different countries are there international differences in the status of victims yes there are some differences in the end all the way tim's saying they're injured people so why was they lost somebody they love and so they need help they need personal how up they need financial compensation all these things and this is

what they combine mean what you do mr vapor is is almost some people would say it's almost like the work of an angel or guardian angel because these are people that you meet at probably at the worst time in their lives and you offer a helping hand this is what they need in that situation and for me it's still very sad to see and how many contraries this only a little help or even no help and so we still have to work on this we make it better right now than we did some years before and this is a very big issue in whole europe how do you i mean you're a human being as well how do you protect. because i'm sure you're affected personally by the scenes and the situations that you experience i mean how do you

cope i couldn't cope with this very bella do this as a lawyer for more than 20 years and so i'm used these cases and i try to separate that from my private life yeah. winds philosophy there mr rove on weber's berlin's victim commissioner you're doing valuable work mr vaile thank you thank you so much for having me thank you. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at d w news or you can follow me at brant goth t.v. and don't forget when you write to us to use the hash tag today every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow gives another day we'll see of than ever before.

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