i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are set to hold crisis talks with a coalition partner the social democrats to address nationwide outrage over the role of the far right in a german regional election earlier this week some regional say the lawmakers sided with the populist alternative to germany party to block the re-election of the left party incumbent installing a liberal premier in the eastern state of for india the shock political maneuver shattered a post-war consensus among mainstream german parties to extremist politics. it's been a tough few days for the leader of germany's conservative christian democrats or cd you. get karrenbauer widely seen as chancellor angela merkel's protege has been caught in a political fiasco ever since our party's regional leaders in the state of touring gear teamed up with far right politicians to elect a new state premier on friday karrenbauer wentz once again on the record saying her party would not work with the far right put it in order for the c.d.u. in germany and also the c.d.u. enteri

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i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program both already he's in china say the death toll from the corona virus has now passed the 800 mark that means the disease has now killed more people than the sars outbreak back in 2003 well most all the reported deaths and most of the new infections are in the chinese province of hugh banks where the crown a virus was 1st discovered globally there are now some 37500 confirmed cases of the virus china says there have been few and new infections than in previous days but overall the virus continues to spread on monday millions of chinese are expected to return to work after the extended lunar new year break is over nevertheless china is still far from back to normal. less is the extent to which china is trying to get a grip on this outbreak medical officials forcibly remove a family from their home. it is believed he had just retired from wu han and had refused to self quarantine a 3rd man is determined not to go without a struggle. in the end it takes 4 adults to drag him out. at the world health organization the spread of the disease isn't their on

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program emergency services in thailand say more than a dozen people have been killed and many more wounded in a mass shooting police say a soldier opened fire in the city of course north northeast of bangkok it's thought he took a gun from his military base and opened fire on video footage shared on social media show. paper on the street apparently claimed to safety as multiple shots rang out. police have identified a suspect or allegedly posted on facebook they were also saying that hani in a popular nearby shopping mall where the shooter is or to be still holed up. well let's go to bangkok now a foreign issue is standing by for us for a what do we know about the shooting at this stage. by now we have learned that the incident apparently started around 330 in the afternoon that is more than 6 and a house hours ago so this situation has been going on for quite a while now and it is still ongoing as you said. at harrington least 17 people have been killed this is the latest that we're hearing certain has been concerned death by the police but apparentl

on rebecca ritter's welcome to the program u.s. senator bernie sanders has scored a decisive victory in nevada democratic party presidential caucuses a strong showing in the 1st contest in a demographically diverse state strengthens his front runner status the democratic candidates and now looking ahead to the south carolina primary in awake and then super tuesday on march 3rd that's when 14 states will hold primaries including kay states like california and texas. so far so successful for bernie sanders such resists confidence of winning in nevada he'd already moved on to another battleground texas one of the key super tuesday states you know dreidel we are short or to go. a multi-generational multi ridge racial coalition which is going up not only win in nevada it's going to sweep this country . the father is the most diverse state to have its say in the contest so far polling suggested sonne this had done well with hispanic votes is his plans for universal health care also resonated with many i was i he's now the clear front run

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program or storage fees in china say the death toll from the corona virus has now passed the $800.00 mark that means the disease has now killed more people than the sars outbreak back in 2003 or most all reported deaths and most of the new infections are in the chinese province of hugh ballet where the corona virus was 1st discovered globally there are now some 37 and a half 1000 confirmed cases of the virus china says there have been a few new infections than in previous days but overall the virus continues to spread on monday millions of chinese are expected to return to work after the extended but up to stereo course is a molecular biologist from northumbria university in newcastle in the u.k. and he joins me now sariel high more people have now died from the corona virus than from the deadly sars outbreak nearly 20 years ago is that of course cause for new worries. no it's not quite simply because the number of cases that we have occurred on the virus by far outstrips the number of cases overall but we have 4 shots so the relative danger of the vi

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program italy has announced its 1st deaths from the corona virus as the number of cases in the country more than quadruples the world health organization has worn out the window of opportunity to contain a wider international spread of the epidemic is closing and the search governments around the globe to act quickly many countries are already stepping up precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus. this plane bought taiwanese evacuees home from a quarantined cruise ship in japan hit by the corona virus. while their plane and all luggage gets authority disinfection the evacuees will be isolated for another 2 weeks. these precautions are the new normal in the fight to contain the corona virus. in italy top officials meat of the virus claimed its 1st victim in the country an elderly man in northern italy died after being hospitalized the number of cases spiked to 17 in just one day in kodo new a town southeast of milan official shut down schools and businesses that you don't see that camp at all of a huge an official order to close down

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program hundreds of refugees in turkey have been moving to the country's borders with the e.u. after turkish officials threaten to allow them to cross into europe it comes off the dozens of turkish troops were killed in an airstrike by syrian government forces in the region of adlib turkey has recently been pressing european leaders to support its military campaign in northern syria the tensions are fueling fears of a revival of the 25th day migration crisis. refugees slip under the border fence from turkey to greece when the greek security forces arrive some of them turn around and look for another place to get through. more and more people have been making their way towards the greek border since late thursday they want to cross into europe and career has made it clear that it won't prevent syrians from entering the european union. we heard the border is open we took off right away to come here just the. turkish president. decided to open the border late last night as an apparent response to an airstrike it kills 33 turkish soldiers in syria's province i

has sparked a controversy with its carnival theme pride products rather due to the reporter rebecca ritter's investigated what did you find well as you just mentioned a bakery in the western city on cologne has caused a bit of a stir this year with some of its produce it is selling these sweets known as chocolate kisses they depict colonial stereotypes many say there are reds i think we have a picture of the may have a they were this is civilized stated by after the author and columnist. posted a picture of the pastries and she wrote cafe come visit your pastries disgust me the white ones are not intended to represent balance they represent north africans there's 2 in the photo out of these so there's one that represent african people with the swollen face is. so the big sort of swollen red lips and earrings now the cafe was. asked to comment on it they said we absolutely did not mean to offend anyone there is no racist thinking behind it many of our customers of people of color and today no one has complained. that's been the tone of some of the responses on social media as well people sayi

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program hundreds of refugees in turkey have begun moving to the country's borders with the a year after turkish officials declared they will not be prevented from crossing into europe greece and while garia both members of the european union say they're stepping up the controls to prevent the migrants crossing turkey's decision to allow the migrants to lave came after $33.00 turkish troops were killed in an airstrike by syrian government forces in the region of it live. well for more let's bring in dayton new correspondent but ray get in brussels and dion jones in istanbul but i'd like to start with you we've been saying migrants moving towards turkey's border with the aid you in quite substantial numbers today how concerned is the. well the e.u. commission in brussels is certainly on high alert but officially they say the spokesperson said they expect turkey to stick to its commitments there's no official declaration by the turkish government yet that they will leave the e.u. migrant or refugee deal and let people just go and we heard from the turkish mini