berlin. migrants in turkey move as the border is open. they will no longer stop them from entering the eu. it i is beingng killed byby f ff war as turkey strikes back against syria for the deadly airstrikes. also on the program, the world health organization raises their risk for the coronavirus to the highest possible. you will hear from a researcher working to predict where it will surface next.

in sports, china's olympic swimming champion is banned for eight years after breaking anti-doping loss. today is the final day of screenings at the berlin international film festival. we are down at the red carpet area -- carpet. >> with scene of the films. we will get the tips for which film we think will walk away with the golden bear. >> will it be something political, funny, or weird? find out later in the show. ♪ phil: i am phil gayle peer welcome to the program. there have been points along the land and sea borders of turkey and greece.

refugee boats arriving on the greek islands and groups of people have turned up at the land border. turkish officials announced they would no longer stop migrants from crossing into europe after dozens of turkish groups were killed in an airstrike. that prompted retaliatory strikes from ankara against syrian targets. turkey's decision to open its border have fueled fears of the revival of the 2015 migrant crisis. >> into greece. once forces arrive, some turn around and look for another place to get through. more and more people have been making their way towards the greek order since late thursday. they to cross into europe. ankara has made it clear it will not prevent syrians from leaving turkeyey and heading toward the european union. >> we are the border is open. we took off right away to come here.

the turkish president open the border late last night as an apparent response to an airstrike. it killed 33 turkish soldiers in series -- in syria. he repeatedly warned the eu he will open n the western border o refugees if brussels didn't help ankara in its fight in idlib. oil just to -- loyalist to assad -- ground troops wewere sent. heavy fighting in idlib since last year. attack on the turkish military, ankara asked nato for a special session. the head of nato has offered help to ankara and called syria to exercise restraint. >> we also call on russia in syria to fully receive backed international -- fully respect

international law. >> the latest escalation has shown how quickly the war in syria spills across borders. escalations cause borders far beyond them. phil: let's go to the border between turkey and greece. people have been arriving there. what is going on? >> i am right here at one of turkey's land border crossings with greece. during the day, many have headed here from other parts of turkey, after they heard news reports that turkey would no longer stop refugees from trying to reach europe. people came individually. some said they were brought here by buses. others told us that smugglers were involved and now people are basically here behind me in this border zone and some say the no

man's land between turkey where i am and greece on the other side. it is very difficult to say how many people we are talking paired we can't see -- talking. we can't see far in there but talked to reporters earlier in the day and they said several hundred people have definitely gathered during the day. people moving through these fields towards this border area. surprisingly, not too many syrian refugees peered we talked afghan and people from iraq who said they do not want to say -- stay in turkey and want to move towards europe and taking the sleep of fate. it seems there is no way for them to move into greece. the border is closed. for people here, a lot of uncertainty right now could they

definitely do not go back to turkey. that is what they told us. phil: so they are through the turkish border but not over the greek border. one of the greeks men saying? >> greek authorities have tightened border controls. the security forces here earlier today have been using tear gas basically to keep people away. one afghan lady told us she was beaten. that is something we can't independently verify. greece has made it clear that they will keep the borders closed. the greek prime minister said illegal crossings will not be tolerated. all the latest developments for the people here who came here who were hoping they could cross into europe meet uncertainty. it started raining heavily. itit is called. many people will have to spend the night in these temperatures.

phil: it is an odd reaction from ankara. how does opening the border help turkey with the fight in idlib? >> right now, the turkish authorities are basically looking the other way and they know very well what kind of effect these pictures of people of refugees moving towards europe, what kind of effect it has with the european government. president erdogan is under a lot of pressure in idlib with the humanitarian catastrophe at his border this deadldly conflilict therewh syrian regime forces and now he wants and needs international support. he wants to establish an international no-fly zone over syria. for all of this, he e needs the europepeans and gerermany andnd frcece.

what we are seeing is the widely interpreted as a move by turkey to increase pressure on the europeans to act and help turkey in idlib. phil: thank you so much. now to the coronavirus and the world health organization says there is a very high risk of it spreading globally. they won it could reach most if not all countries in the world. 57 territories have reported infections. also the first death of a british citizen, a man who had been quarantine above -- on a cruise ship. 500 new cases. nigeria has registered the first case of the virus in africa. let's take a closer look at south korea, where we have seen factions. 30 struggling to keep the onus

from putting further -- keeping the virus from going out of further control. it has hurt the pop industry. >> queuing up for facemask, south korea has the highest number of current of -- of coronavirus outside of mainland china. people trying to get masks. streets almost empty as the general public takes precautions. >> i work k for a well for organization, that it has shut its doors for the timing being and will remain n so until the ououtbreak hasas subsided. so i have to find another place to work, but i am f finding that difficult because of t the outbreakak. >> my university is forcing me to go home. i have only been here for a week. it is better than nothing, but i would rather not go back. >> in the center of the south korean capital, it is normally a hub of activity y including

cultural events and rally but demonstrations and gatherings have been banned rich schools and museums and theaters sports venues all suspended operations as the government tries to stem the spread of the virus. that government coming under increasing pressure. >> the pop scene taking a hit. megastars bts has canceled concerts. they are the biggest boy band in the world and are seen as an evelyn of south korea's cultural and nine pounds. abroad, south ends in other asian countries say they are facing discrimination as a result t the virus. >> i wish people wowould realize it is rorobin with the spread of the virus itself and has nothing

to do with asians in general. >> hospitals in south korea stepping up efforts to contain the virus as outbreak continues to affect more and more countries around the world. phil: as we wait and see where the coronavirus goes, we can talk to professor dirk brockman who is an epidemiologist with the berlin humble university. his research includes computer modeling and the spread of the infection. welcome to dw. what does the data tell you? will it become a pandemic? >> it is certainly going to go on to global levels. initially it was china and then now we are in the second phase were countries like italy, iran have circulation and it is very likely this will become a global scale event. phil: what are you looking at

where you were trying to work out where it will spread? >> one of the main models we view as a computational model that incorporates almost the entire air transportation network, 4000 airports, 51 thousand direct connections and all the passengers traveling between these airports. during an onset like in china and hubei, the apply this model and then we predict withth the risk is at different airpoports and d different countrieses andt gives us a measusure of whwhen e epidemic is goingng to get to a cecertain place. phil: so the models are predictive as well as reactive? >> mostly predictive in saying that we expect this to happen in the u.k. or in germany or france at that time. phil: does the data tell you when this is like you to peek

and tail off? >> it did in china but we cannot do this on a global scale because what is generic for these frightening phenomena there is an outbreak in a confined area and then it spreads locally and then there are other outbreak locations. like in italy, now there is circulation and we have to incorporate this. looking at the numbers we cannot say this -- when this will peak but it looks like it will occupy us for the next months. phil: you mentioned air transport and that is very interesting. nigeria's first case has been registered. an italian coming back, flying in. would one of the most effective ways of controlling this be just to shut down ports and airports? >> that is a good idea one would think that you shut down airports or reduced traffic and the models show or indicates

that if you reduced traffic by a certain amount, by 50 or 90%, you are going to delay the event. when you approach the system by reducing traffic, you have to shut down entire places or an entire airport. that works a little bit. phil: so if you are advising the who and they said, you have to do this one thing, what would it be? >> one thing that seems to be most effective from our models is to reduce the number of people that can actually acquire the disease. we call them the susceptibles, those who can just be affected by others. if they change their behavior on a mobile or countrywide level, not going outside or hygiene and washing hands, that is an action that reduces the transmission. and then you can contain such an event.

philil: thank you for jumping -- joining us. you are watching dw live from berlin. now a look at other stories around the world. a major fire broken out your one of pierce's railway stations. the blaze is under control. it is believed to have been started by opponents of a congolese singer and his protest -- concertrt taking placace in e area. both wagon struck a deal to compensate car owners affected by its dieselgate scandal. they will pay damages to more than a quarter milillion driver. they outfit the cars that manipulated emissions readings. the timber -- greta thunberg has appeared at a rally.

she told thousands that she would not be silenced while the world is on fire. we will turn now to violence that has left 38 dead. it began last week in protest over a controversial law that couldn't say makes it difficult for muslims teen citizenship. 30 say no incidents have been reported over the last two days and despite the quiet, fear prevails amongst muslim residents who allege they were targeted by mobs. dw has been to visit one of the neighborhoods hit by violence. [crying] >> shock, fear, and loss is all she is left w with. a few d days ago she fled for hr life when her fire was -- - home was set fire.

d[speaking foreign language] [crying] >> similar stories of grief fill this house. she lost her home for decades. she lost her cools in jewelry -- her clothes and jewelry. they are getting by on the kindness of neighbors who have offered food and shelter. after three days of arson and rioting, and uneasy quiet has settled over the neighborhood do the duty -- due to the h heavy presence of officials. this is what home looks like now. muslim residents point out that while theieir houseses were selectively gutted, hindu homes

stand unscathed. he h had lived i in this house r 10 years. now he cannot go in to salvage his belongings as the structure is on the brinink of collapse. [speaking foreign language] >> this is the mosque where these men would have offered friday prayers todayay. i witnesses s say this is where the writing started. [speaking foreign language] >> even as they mourn the damage, they are grateful to be alive but as they pick up the pieces, they know that this quite does not meaean the bebea-

peace has been restored. phil: the court of arbitration for sports has found a chinese swimmer guilty of doping offense and destroyed his old -- own blood samples in 2018 you will be banned for eight years for drake -- breaking anti-doping laws which will most likely stop his career. >> he says he is innocent near the chinese olympic swimmer wants to appeal the decision to let people know the truth. he destroyed blood samples after testing authorities visited his home in 2018. his justification for doing so was based on the fact that some of the testers did not have proper accreditation. he was supported by the international governing body for swimming who agreed the test was invalid but the anti-doping agency disagrereed.

they claim the destruction of samples as a form of tampering. the court of arbitration agreed, banning him for the maximum eight years. >> the athlete failed to establish that he had a compelling justification to destroy his sample collection containers. it was not for the athlete to decide alone that an anti-doping test shall be invalidated. >> china's swimming association supports him and his version of events despite the guilty verdict. but for now, china's rate is swimmer is out for eight years, a lifespan for many athlets. and his peer w who refused to share the podium with them at the world championships has been vindicated for the stance he took in 2019. phil: let's get more on this landmark decision. let's start with the courts

reasoning. why guilty? >> he did not have the right to destroy the samples. whatever led up to it, how protocol was handled, he did not have the right to destroy the samples. that is where the case hinged on the four people who entered his house in the middle of the night , only one of them had the correct accreditation and that was where it all hinged. whether they follow the right steps and whether he felt he could then trust those people taking the samples. the landmark decision part of it is that they heard the same

evidence and then when they heard the same evidence about the protocol and who came in and how the testing was made, was that they came out with the answer he had no case to answer. they had exactly the same answer and cleared him to compete and keep swimming. he went to the world championships and one as well. both people heard the same evidence. once they came up with no case and he couldn't keep swimming, then it goes to the court of arbitration of sport who are fighting and they came up with a decision. that is the landmark part, how can there be such a disparity between the two bodies? phil: in eight years i soon because this is not his first offense. chinese swimming authorities, what have they been saying today? >> he said he will appeal this

decision. that is what he said himself. he is now fighting for his career. he must think that eight years is the end and cannot shut down for six years and be a professional athlete and then come back. he has to fight this and fight this now. tokyo on the horizon. he and his lawyers need to sort this out and get it to a higher body. they will implement the band as it stands pending further litigation. the fans in media are saying they have been that -- that he has been singled out and treated unfairly. phil: eight years is harsh because that is at least two olympics. he is a controversial figure. how are his fellow athletes reacting? >> it is been one world inside china and one word outside, almost a sight of relief from

athletes. lizzie simmons is an olympian from great britain and once called him the harry houdini of doping. it seems like justice has been served. a lot of that type of thing owing on. one you may have seen during the world championships didn't stand with him on the grounds that he previously caught him with drugs and wouldn't take it. he said my stance has always been about clean sports, it is not and never will be about individuals. they feel the playing field has been leveled and a message been sent that it is already political. mac horton was due to have his name put on a new swimming pool at his former school. they were going to call it the mac horton swimming pool into the chinese parents with kids going there who pay $100,000 a

year, said not so fast and not so happy with that decision. it is political. in australia where they make a lot of money on chinese students coming to study, they don't want his name on the pool because it will cost them money. if mac horton gets in the pool with him at the olympics and is cleared to do so, the water might boil. it might not be pleasant. phil: thank you. today is the final day of screenings at the 17th berlin film competition. they have sent us their predictions. scott: my tip would be for the irani and film there is no evil, it takes on the issue of the death penalty in iran and the

toll it takes on the executioners. that is by the filmmaker who was not able to make the premier because he is not able to leave iran and banned from making films. he made a film anyway and i think the courage of the filmmaker combined with the issues this film takes on really gives it a good standing at being a political festival. what put it over the top was the great storytelling. there are moments that are heartbreaking and i definitely would see the film again. amien: it is one of my favorites and a top pick. another political theme, from an american director, eliza hickman's never rarely sometimes often. this is about the subject of abortion and f follows a 17-year-old girl who wants to have an abortion without her parents' c consent and crosses e state line and go to new york to get a termination. in makes it sound like that is a

politically divisive film. it is a a subtly told story and delicately drawn. that could win over the jury, especially with the emotional aspect. the combination of the political themes and the fact that it is a female director, that could give it the edge come saturday night. scott: i wouldn't mind seeing that when as well. more coming up during the day. phil: this is dw news. i will take you back -- i will be back in a few moments. you can also check out the website. had a good day. -- have a good day. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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