china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. look at the. this is deja vu news live from berlin and then entire hospital in quarantine. clinic is closed to all visitors after several patients and staff test positive for the more virulent newton strain of the coronavirus. violence in the netherlands as protesters vent their anger over new tougher code restrictions including

a strict nighttime curfew for the entire country. in portugal cold polls have closed in the country's presidential election held even though the country is suffering from record numbers of new coronavirus cases. on the spicer thanks for joining us authorities in germany have sealed off a hospital in the capital berlin after registering positive tests for the new more contagious corona virus variant the mutation is now spreading rapidly around the world the hospital has stopped admitting new patients and workers can only travel to and from their homes. the humboldt clinic in berlin where more than one and a half 1000 staff and 400 patients are in quarantine the hospital will not be admitting any new patients front legs

a fortnight it's not nice the patients they aren't allowed to visit. i'm sad my daughter is inside she's waiting for things. drinks but i can't go and. it's the 1st clinic closure of its kind in germany it comes after 14 patients and 6 tough members tested positive for the highly contagious new kind of the 19 strain that originated in the u.k. stuff we tested negative can only travel between work and heart but testing of all patients and staff is ongoing. today the 1st results are starting to come in and we are not optimistic. we hope to have a better view of the situation in the coming hours and days but we can already see that the number of cases is increasing it's up to the industry side touched like the humble clinic is considered exemplary it is one of the early clinics in berlin that has been testing for the mutation since the start of the you move i mean it

was only because we did a preliminary screening of positive tests that the new virus strain came to our attention and we could act accordingly to protect the population as well as our employees and patients in kenya. despite that quick action there is great concern that the new virus variant will still spread both in berlin and the rest of germany . and to prevent the spread of the virus and its new variants germany has introduced tougher restrictions for travelers coming from countries considered high risk either because they have high numbers of covert 19 infections or because of widespread cases of new more contagious variants of the virus. border police have stepped up controls at german airports for passengers from around 30 countries all travelers now need to show a negative coronavirus test taken less than 48 hours before arriving in germany.

rioters protesting against coronavirus lockdown measures have clashed with police in the dutch city of. protesters pelted police with rocks while officer shot tear gas and water cannon and arrested at least 30 people trains to the city were stopped in their tracks and local media reported looting at the railway station in amsterdam police also used water cannon and dogs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators opposed to the country's 1st curfew since the 2nd world war. and for more on this we're joined now by journalist michelle kesse in rotterdam can you tell us more about who the protesters are. well it's colorful coalition and of people with all kinds of outlandish beliefs and there are people that simply do not believe that the situation with grown is as bad as it is and the people think that the restrictions are overdone there are people that are against 6 nations and there's a whole bunch of conspiracy think people the 5 g.

mass and people that actually believed it. and deacon i farmar so you have all these people mixed together with young people. looking for. a way to fight bullies and front and it's so been fueled by right wing groups in parliament is it safe to say that these people who are making headlines and is a marginal phenomenon how much support is there in the netherlands for the coronavirus restrictions. well the demonstrations you see that's a marginal phenomenon although it has been the round ever since the beginning of the lock down some of you seen riots and protests. since late spring early summer overall though there's quite a bit of support. it was 77 percent support by the end of the

year and the situation now is a bit more complicated because we have a government and the political debate is heating up. going into elections in march so more. and more people are disappointed things are very long and grown is not going away and. very bad through the vaccines . or you're just saying the coronavirus is not going away frustration what is the overall coronavirus situation in the netherlands. where we had. a big spike in. inspections in december and new measures taken down so now it's going. down again but the curfew did going to effect last night is introduced because everybody's afraid of the strains especially. from the u.k.

the idea is that its debt will come to. the dutch health care system could collapse so we're preparing basically for a much worse situation. ok well let's hope it doesn't happen journalist michel thanks for your insights thank you. let's take a look now at some more pandemic news from around the world. israel has announced a weeklong ban on most incoming and outgoing flights in a bid to slow the spread of new code 19 variants exceptions will be made for freight and for humanitarian flights this comes as authorities race to break an outbreak of highly contagious variants of the virus. new zealand has reported its 1st corona virus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than 2 months the case involves a 56 year old woman who recently returned from europe and tested negative twice

while in quarantine officials are investigating how she caught the virus and which variant it was. european union council chief has warned covert 19 vaccine manufacturers of possible legal consequences after they announced delays in delivering doses vaccine partners biotech and pfizer blamed supply chain issues astra zeneca said a production glitch would hamper supplies to europe. portugal is battling the worst corona virus infection rate in the world but nonetheless voters went to the polls today to elect a new president incumbent marceau rebel d'souza is seen as the front runner for the largely ceremonial post the country has been under a national lockdown for 10 days and voting took place under strict distancing this is portugal's worst crisis in the coronavirus pandemic the 7 day incidence rate is $785.00 that's more than double that in the united kingdom the united states and 7 times that in germany and our correspondent young philip schultz joins

us now from lisbon and philip we're getting news agency results from polls that have just closed saying that the incumbent has been reelected what more can you tell us and especially about how this election took place. yes exactly projects and indicate that the incumbent president my solo at or below that so it's. reelected and reelected by. a margin to receive the rolands or 60 percent of the well with and you will be in office for another 5 years of course those are not official results yet. they are quite reliable. of course this was not a big surprise he was the favorite and for many portuguese the much more interesting question was how many people actually went to the polling station since the polling stations despite the dramatic infection numbers and it really seems

like. churn out of numbers very low probably below 50 percent and this is still not as low as some of the of us predicted. so in some many people chose to do their civic duty regardless of the danger kate can tell us why is the infection rate so high now in portugal. but it's probably has several reasons the one of the most important reason that you. coronavirus coming from the united kingdom is spreading very. well to probably some after effects from the relaxation of measures during christmastime but experts agree that it's mainly the new variants that it's much more contagious that is causing the problems at the moment and at the beginning the government was

quite relaxed with the measures didn't take measures fast enough. the lock down just started about a week ago and new dates suggests it's already probably 30 to 40 percent of all new coronavirus cases. involve. a variance from the u.k. what about ok thank you for those results and that inside philip schultz reporting from lisbon thank you. a migrant rescue ship carrying more than 370 people including a one year old baby has finally been given permission to dock in a sicilian port. on board the ocean viking are migrant were are still migrants from guinea sudan and sierra leone who were rescued from distress at sea as they were trying to cross the mediterranean in a bid to reach europe ship had appealed to several countries to allow the migrants to go ashore it's due to dock in sicily early on monday and let's bring in yet

a charity allchin bertalan from the rescue organization s.o.s. many townie this is good news i mean that the ship will now be able to go ashore what else do you know. well 1st of all that is a huge relief i don't board the miking of course tonight we were at a signed a place of safety in italy for the $373.00 people we had previously rescued on toast in friday the situation on board was extremely stressful for the people we had among them 3 pregnant women we had $21.00 babies on board so many southward sickness and staying another night at sea with the current rough weather conditions would have been extremely difficult for these people. let me also say that our crew was really really humbled by the resilience of these people that we rescued and deeply touched by this story and what is your organization asking from from

european countries and the european union i mean this is an ongoing phenomenon well as relieved as we are right now that these people men women and children trying to get to a safe place of safety we of course deeply concerned as we hear about adelaide to step on the central mediterranean this morning so the humanitarian crisis at the doorstep is going on for years now and they are means to stop it actually and these means light at european level that includes the establishment of a dedicated trying to european search and rescue program but also the urgent establishment of affair in locations this time for those rescued based on the amount new member states. let me ask you a question we often hear in the mouths of politicians who are from you know right wing parties just could rescue operations like this be emboldening migrants in africa to try the dangerous journey to europe and if so is there

a way to fix that. well we've seen at least from empirical data that pays no evidence that the presence of so to rescue ships is an incentive to people actually out risk the dangerous journey to europe but what we do know is that the reasons why they why they flee across the sea actually lie on land in libya and the countries of origin and for sure not at sea. but thank you for that insight on the situation of the vessel and that is finally being given right to dock and to get the migrants ashore you know reporting answering our questions from berlin from s.o.s. many town a thanks so much. time for sports now in the bonus league or let's have a look at the results from this weekend 1st place byron defeated last place south of 4 nil the 2nd place team didn't fare as well leipzig losing to meit's 3rd place leverkusen loss to waltz burke frank for beat bealefeld her to berlin fell to

braman on friday gladbach the dortmund in a 6 goals thriller and in sunday's late game hoffenheim beat cologne. and that's it for me and the team here in berlin sports life do you call it the ball or do you call it soccer that's coming up after a short break stay tuned for that next peiser thanks for watching. w.'s crime fighter are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues only because those are available online and of course you can share and discuss song w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now

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believe is a 1st of all go after football we call it the you call it soccer get used to it i still recall it will be. our a football channel or a soccer channel well we are quite an international bunch more englishman tom calls it the 4th day from the us sets soccer such as call it mark called 6th and daniel tells us what it's called at her home and canada. but a lot of our viewers tell us we shouldn't be so callous with our choice of what is most comments on our channel suggest we should call it football and nothing else the term soccer makes them flourish and that's one of the lots of fans of comments others say soccer is totally acceptable there is a war of words going on in our comments why not only then up.

what you see here as manchester city striker sergio aguayo reaction to former football. using the word soccer in the south we did that in soccer sometimes don't eat with your eyes useful but not so good scuse me people hate the word soccer type the phrase it's football not soccer into google search and you can't deny it these 2 words. that whole. they are the most controversial work on social media. and i remember it being used as a word regularly when i was growing up in england then at that period but then since the 1980 s. really it's become a word in england if you describe the game of football and call it soccer. people who get very angry at you and not just a little bit angry very very angry they will shout at you and they will scream and

they will say don't use that american word it's not soccer and if you go onto the web and type it's football not soccer you'll see this. outpouring of anger from mostly from britain not just from great you'll see you'll see french or german or you know. people also saying during its proxy stop saying soccer stefan szymanski in silicon valley are beinecke have written a book about it it's also a linguistic phenomenon this is really believe unique there is never been a word that we can for me that has been exiled from the language there are words that go out of use that it's never been a case of a word which has been used for a long time and then dropped because somebody else uses it. the war on the word can be found on merchandise products fashion items and even in our office

is the disrespect that you receive as soon as you say the word soccer you instantly don't know anything about it you shouldn't be speaking about it you are crazy you have no idea what's going on what you see even though you've played select such a long time yet. think of like any to example has got me into trouble or and for ever. i have cousins from florida talk about soccer and i just i just remember thinking like oh you can be really good to me this is horrible they didn't think. i used to hate it when i was growing up. in the ng to respond most exclusively addressed at americans listen to english comedian john cleese. why do we americans insist on calling it's soccer why do they have such a problem calling it football. the messages. here the most popular game on earth is called football not soccer which is wrong. the correct terms are football and.

it's a bit like also many 2 words that describe the same thing so why all this anger and frustration caused by these horrible. it's like. jumper and whether the city. is football. rights or jail but there are many versions of football rugby league a lake australian rules football and football also known to the rest of the world as. what. are you talking about american football so the us and others like canada south africa japan and all these other parts of the globe marked green on this map structure of the term soccer so even for those who hate to say soccer football there are good reasons to use both terms

firstly to let someone know what sports you're talking about like a maryland person is talking to me and he said probably. if you read soccer or you like it on the context i mean i would if i was just talking about general. i mean i would. talk about sport and differentiate and then i would use the word soccer and i would want to punch myself in the face which i used to. what's even funnier see the flag let's change it into the nation's flag. as best we know. that university british school boys love that game but their competitive desires required regulations $863.00 rules were defined and the football association was formed but there was still other. versions of the gang that's why our new rule book was written one that allows the use of hands it's

known as rugby football this distinction between a rock b. football and association football marks the origin off soccer like rocco is a shorter version of rugby football soccer became a snappy a version of association football this can be a rat in a tiny letter from 1000 or 5 published in the new york times as a matter of fact it was a fact at oxford and cambridge to use are at the end of many words and as association did not take an art easily it was and is sometimes spoken off as sokka . and not a surprising fact can be found by reading papers from the states. so as best we know the words that was at oxford university in the 18th ninety's and we know. american and australian newspaper sources people in australia earlier and the state will say don't call it soccer that's an oxford word the proper name

is. get me a map. it was the soccer version the one played with the feet that soon spread from england to everywhere. everywhere except. the united states here the other spots the one with the hands rocket exploded everyone laughs that's game that developed into the most popular sport in the us and something very british. the america be sure is deliberately kept short so that the sponsors. get as many commercials as possible. the world couldn't accept that the world's great super

nation didn't love the world's game and on top of that changed it's make. the pass time for people to point out how wrong americans are the aim of these graphics is to convince americans if you don't like our spot name it right as if they care it. so it's completely absurd to tell americans not to use a word that you yourself have used in the past and which you are big anyway so that's absurd as well but also it's. the asymmetry in this in the intensity of this debate because we're british people and europeans this could be the source of it. and i'm tired we're americans it's a shrug of the shoulder they don't care it's even worse now that the usa has become a global force in football the fan community is growing the man take part in what cops and the women even when they're. the fact that north americans are like

encroaching on territory that is considered european and that's kind of like but it's our sport you can't call it you want to come in and you want to call it soccer and you want to be good at it too we weren't that good our football for a long time and now it's time to change is lot of americans in the bonus they get it's kind of like what happens if we lose against them. like yeah i think i think euro think it's not just the world that's a problem but with. i think. we have a chip on our shoulders a bit and you know cultural imperialism. from coming from the states which is ironic because we consume so much culture specifically i think this idea that they're not quite good and that these people are quite good. looking for though they thought we were here is the right word you're you. so today's the american way of life has become so dominant that for some europeans the argument

about football or soccer is now the last remaining battlefields to defend their culture. this is a form. of cultural jealousy and anti americanism to say you you know i'm not allowed to use this word you must use the word that everybody almost everybody else uses it because well it's strange because this is the one i suspect of global culture which the americans have not dominated if you think about music movies. all my most forms of culture have been globalization being dominated by americans and american businesses and soccer football is really. global activity which is not predominantly american. so what's the solution well this and have sold it on maybe put out widespread information that the word of english. the word came from england what does the

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