Conservative suffered their worst result in almost 7 decades. And in german football byron live accusing the edge closer to a Champions League spot with new captain chi however its pulling the strings they beat struggling to claim their 5th consecutive victories. On the spice are welcome to the program as the corona virus spreads far beyond china several countries are taking tough new steps to contain it in italy the deaths of 3 people from the disease have prompted authorities to put several towns on lockdown and to cancel the final days of the carnival in venice other countries are now on high alert including iran south korea is the country with the 2nd most infections after china and has seen a sharp jump in the number of cases over the last few days. Scenes like these from china citys in lockdown are now becoming familiar across the globe following new deaths caused by the novel coronavirus. Asia remains the continent hardest hit by the outbreak on sunday south korea raised its disease alert level to the highest possible there are hundreds of registered cases in the country and the number of new infections is still surging meanwhile the coded 19 commonly known as the corona virus is becoming increasingly political in Iran Supreme Leader ayatollah ali how many accused irans enemies of spreading propaganda about the virus online in order to stifle voting in parliamentary elections. Will mutiny. You know how massively they worked using various platforms to lower voter turnout how to nasm you know how during the last pretext they resorted to was this corona virus which has scared many. You have could usually do both on the. Iranians accuse their leadership of hiding the real scope of the outbreak. We dont know whats true and whats false since a government is constantly lying to us. Health experts say maintaining a healthy immune system is key to fighting off the virus protective masks are now the dominant picture of residents on alert. In italy residents of northern towns prepared for a weeklong quarantine nerves began to fray among locals facing new lockdown measures. Now authorities have canceled the last 2 days of the famed famous carnival starting sunday evening many revelers were in play again medical themed costumes some were not impressed. The bad leg was good its useless to stop the carnival because there are hospitals and pies and supermarkets and restaurants and trains and planes and ferries which are all open spaces so how do you solve this problem stop a carnival its all ridiculous. With more than 100. 00 cases reported in everly since friday authorities have their hands full trying to prevent a widespread outbreak. And earlier we spoke to our correspondent seem a governor in rome and i asked her about the measures being taken in italy yes theyre put in place these extraordinary measures youve got these 10 or so towns in northern italy that are effectively on lockdown and that means no one can enter the losing risk and no one can leave they face on the wrist the possibility of fines as well as a rest of the areas are being patrolled by the police and the military could be also called in if necessary and the reason why theyre taking these serious measures is they want to try and contain the spread because nobody particular for instance in the north of italy is where were seeing the largest number of infections the figure now is some 150 or so all of infections and weve seen so far 3 deaths in italy the latest case being a woman a 77 year old woman in the town of crammer also in longer diesel schools are also shut cinema as. Museums are also been closed milans iconic wall mall or cathedral is going to be shut and as you mentioned carnival cut short in venice a really very serious measures that the authorities are taking the see the numbers appear to be rising its also because italys deepening the precaution of doing more testing more than 3000. 00 swabs have been taken to test for these fires. Time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world south korea has sent a president ial plane to japan to pick up a group of its nationals who spent 2 weeks for 19 in a cruise ship this comes as the country announced more than 160 more cases of the coronavirus south korea now has the largest number of infections outside of china. Police demonstrating for better working conditions in haiti have opened fire at the Army Headquarters the Defense Ministry on the caribbean island reported that at least one serviceman was killed and at least 3 Police Officers were wounded when soldiers return fire. Togos president for messing has won a 4th term in Office Official said he garnered more than 70 percent of the vote but the main challenger to sing day has also claimed victory and accuse the incumbent of rigging the elections. Italy has agreed to allow 274. 00 migrants to disembark from a rescue ship after they were stuck at sea in the mediterranean they were found off of the coast of libya by the ocean viking vessel but authorities have ordered the migrants to be kept in quarantine amid concerns about the coronavirus. The workers in hazmat suits were waiting for the migrants these men women and children had been found off the coast of libya and rescued in 3 separate missions now theyll have to spend 14 days in quarantine. You know to the. Main drive or to the isolation of all migrants who arrive today inside the exclusion zone that it was cheated. Because in all. Its a strong senator record for a strong piece of mind to get a whole worlds experience you know a major alarm. And there is a lot of. S. O. S. Measures around a which runs the ocean viking says it will comply with the precautions presented traits the medical charity said to corona Virus Outbreak should not result in unwarranted new public anxiety around those rescued at sea or a pretext to prevent the ship resuming its lifesaving work. Were off really good this morning. Were arguing. From bar was earlier that being jubilation in relief for the 274 migrants whod been stuck at sea. They spent 4 days on board the ocean viking off to being pulled from the mediterranean for the. I. V. I am happy that im up there but if you think i think i. Was happy to be getting off the softer there o. T. M. That see these new arrivals face yet more uncertainty over germany social democrats have won sunday state election in hamburg with 39 percent of the vote the victory march a turnaround for the center left party its support fell sharply in other recent state elections voters punished chancellor Angela Merkels christian democrats who received just 11 percent of the ballots i was i. Finally a result to celebrate for germanys ailing social democrats after a run of election losses the s. P. D. Were the clear winners in homburg on sunday nationalists p. D. Leaders welcome to turn around. For justice and pushes this case the s. P. D. A push and i think its the right kind of politics and i think its the kind of politics that suits the whole this meeting is be depressed. But for chancellor Angela Merkels christian democrats its the worst state election result in almost 70 years. This is to be to lattakia its a bitter day for the c. D. U. In germany its an historic lead bad election result for the c. D. U. In hamburg and theres no way to put a gloss on that. Number of screens doubled their vote i they are hoping to be the main challenger to chancellor merkel c. D. U. In federal elections next year just yet as additional. We see we really have an extremely challenging situation for democracy in germany and the c. D. U. A say preoccupied with south city can essentially be ruled out as the party of government just didnt always have. A. Green supporters chanted nazis twin it looked like calmer voters had kicked out the far right alternative for germany but as more results came in the if he moved above the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the state parliament. And we turn to german football now in the Bundesliga Byer live accused maintained their strong start to 2020 with a home when over struggling out for its a fixture in which leverkusen have had a very successful record that theyve never lost out at state 20 threes meeting continued the tradition with a to nail victory for the hosts. Home fans in crazy costumes it baby arena could only mean one thing carnival. But labor couzin coming off euro police victory wasnt clowning around with aus burke aside thats only one once in their last 5 outings will labor couzens kevin fallen out have its was sporting the captain armband for the 1st time in midway through the 1st half how thats found most of the abbey with the perfect past that led to the abbes 4th goal this season 5 and a 3rd assist from kind habits. After the break nadeem a merry doubled labor couzens lead for his 1st goal for the club the mary picked up position inside the albert half and fired to goal surrounded by white jerseys. With the 2 nil victory laver couzens won 5 straight and all competitions and remain perfect at home in 2020 while out burke hasnt won on the road since december and in sundays late game in the Bundesliga Wolfsburg enjoyed a 40 victory over mines croatian youngster yosef kahlo opened the scoring with a fantastic Long Range Strike in the 21st minute the home side added another just before the break and if 3rd shortly after it was for a not so stephan dance through the minds defense make it up for now with a brilliant solo effort his 2nd full game victory leaves balls for 7th in the table just 2 points behind 6th place show. And sunday was a day 4 of the 70th birthday an International Film festival this Opening Weekend has already been packed full of star power and premieres including for the 1st german movie in the top category director Christian Petzold film entitled dina is positioned to make a big splash. Dina has a broken heart a man cheated on her now this man is supposed to die Kristen Pitts old film is based on the myth of the mysterious. Sprite who legend has it kills unfaithful spouses. But then christoph appears unexpectedly in her life and suddenly you love turns the legend on its head. It is a diver she and historian and together they venture into deep emotions the water the symbol of letting go it was a personal challenge for a director not only hands on with every day time ago. We were so connected to christian via the radio intercom we could really dive into our own element. Of money and since it wasnt possible to conduct these long monologues on all sorts of topics it really left us alone in our element. And im fine i dont pull a b. S. And friends for a play an intimate couple with plenty of intensity in his destiny is different in this case because the be unfaithful kristoff wants to love her some silly avoiding spoilers as to how this all plays out initially everything looks like a fairy tale. In looking at this kino i always thought that cinema is the place where you could make things make the world sing something bling clinton but fairy tales do this too. Its old retelling of the myth doesnt always deliver the performances from b. A and raquel ski as the love struck leads more than make up for its shortcomings. And you are of course watching news live from berlin up next film with a look at the fatal consequences of south americas commodities boom and over again you can always stay up to date on our website dot com on next vice from berlin thanks for watching. And language courses. Any time anyway