Appeals for calm after. The worst sectarian violence for decades 20 people are killed as hindus and muslims come to blows over a controversial citizenship. Im the 70th birthday an International Film festival. And. The red cups. Today weve got a modern day adaptation of the german literary classic. Hollywood star power we have some high tech and Javier Bardem out here on the red carpet for the premiere of their film the roads not taken thats coming up. Welcome to the program we begin with the latest on the corona Virus Outbreak of this new form of the virus called 19 that emerged. In the chinese city of woodland is now spreading across the globe or the 81000 infections have been registered worldwide 30000 of those patients have since recovered but as more countries join the list of those affected the World Health Organization is warning that the world is not prepared for a pandemic 19 deaths have been reported in iran one of the countries that has seen a recent spike in infections and here in europe italy has become the front line in the struggle to contain the outbreak 12 people have died so far heres a closer look at how countries around the world of fighting to keep the virus from racing out of control. Recovered coronavirus patients in who are finally free to return home after one last spray the coronavirus is increasing its presence far beyond chinas borders it ranges from cruise ships in japan to cafes in italy on test runs public transport system to kindergartens and colleges interested or from germany closed after a local man contracted the disease the world is battling to stop the spread of this virus. To get off the engine of the horse hes in intensive care we just dont know i mean they dont have a vaccine so its just a waiting game and you cant do anything else did they come into contact with thats the problem. Thats what countries around europe are trying to find out. In the u. S. Which has remained relatively sheltered Health Chiefs warn the public to be on alert. The immediate risk to the general American Public remains low but as we have warned that has the potential to change quickly meanwhile 11 towns in northern italy where the virus has been diagnosed remained under lockdown military police are staffing roadblocks allowing only authorized personnel access nearly 50000 people have been placed under effective quarantine italys outbreak is the most serious in europe. Straight to italy then where we join our correspondent sima gupta samer tell us about the measures hes taking to contain this. Well still we have youve already heard about those 11 towns that are on lockdown that continues patrolling those towns not just the police but now the military as well all to ensure that the people who could be infected they made in that area and now were hearing reports about how all the tears its coming forward in those areas to help deliver any food or supplies to the elderly who may not have the ability to go up. So theyre getting the help they need it in those areas on top of that elsewhere in its lead for instance you know the region of law were always looking to theyre setting up tents outside the hospitals the sayings goes but tuscany as well in some other regions and its all to make sure that they contain the spread of any possible people coming in with the virus that it doesnt enter the hospital that people are checked out for the actually to the premises on top of that their efforts need to disinfect Public Transportation the buses that the better and some stay even do we get Certain School so all this to make sure that they could teach the spread those who have visited those specific towns of it contact with people they should quarantine themselves if the authorities have decided how that all testy will only be carried out those that show this city up until now has conducted more than 9000. 00 tests at the authorities are very keen to stress 95 percent of them now that its so i think want to stress lets not panic lets Work Together thats the hope anyway even though people. And these restrictions and theyre saying lots of public gatherings canceled missing cancellations was a catholic mass and despite this the pope still addressed tens of thousands of people today as he marked ash wednesday. Yes he did equal continue with other activities and thats because the vatican says well were discussing the situation with the health already switch discussing it with the region of lots who are group is located and group at the moment really isnt it locked down its not one of those areas that. Has very large infections in fact the regional teach people that were in the hospital. Really in a much greater stake actually Getting Better and so thats the way you get that said bill as you mentioned nasa is going to be cancelled a lot of people at times to follow them by screening instead to go online so they still cant participate the vatican however has closed all captains concerned that the humidity there might courage the spread of bodies and its interesting you know you put this in perspective saying that its not the whole country that is in lockdown and tell us then about the impact on this is having on peoples day to day lives and indeed on the economy well on the day to day life just to give you an idea here if you go to the local shops see those are sold out and said its high sold out people like that said they believe they didnt do something to to protect themselves but the reality is those things are particular deposit necessary only for those who are experiencing symptoms as spies the economies of the i think a lot of people are very concerned about that its a nice economy it is already a stack to watch and the to each its long but the beneteau at the account pop some 30 percent of italys economy one of the richest regions of italy and so the fact that the virus is in those areas the impact it could happen tourism is well lets not forget there have been cancellation of flights and cancellations at hotels so this could perhaps bring italy back into a recession could talking to thank you for joining us assume a go to interim. A quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a candidates took aim at the frontrunner Bernie Sanders the democratic president ial debate in the u. S. State of South Carolina on tuesday despite senator sanders extending his lead over recent weeks former Vice President joe biden says he still confident of winning the South Carolina primary on saturday. Protesters on the greek island of lesbo clashed with riot police for a 2nd day that objecting to plans to build a camp for up to 7000 migrants the beach or Governors Office has sided with the protesters and called a 24 hour strike. More residents in parts of shropshire in the west of england have been forced to leave their homes because of flooding river levels have continued to rise following weeks of Stormy Weather with or to say more rain could bring the risk of further significant flooding in coming days germanys highest court has overturned the ban on medically assisted suicide the decision comes after a group of patients and doctors argued that a 2015 ban on the practice was unconstitutional the ruling is fueling an emotional debate about euthanasia and end of life decisions its a highly sensitive subject here in germany where the nazis used a socalled Euthanasia Program to kill hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities the decision by the German Constitutional Court took many by surprise the ruling by the countrys top judges in college war means assisted suicide may soon take place in germany. I dont mind to presume the common rights of the individual contain an expression of personal autonomy that allows the right to a self determined if i had that right includes the freedom to take ones own life therefore also to seek help from a 3rd party as long as its offered. One of those people who brought the case to court was how much feldman he was unable to be present at the courts ruling hes been gravely ill for some time and wants the right to end his life. I dont want to experience this anymore the difficulty breathing and perhaps i will soon no longer be able to communicate and so on my quality of life has reached its limit is and i dont want to go on. But not everyone welcomes the courts ruling at a Catholic Charity hospice in berlin many see things differently some are. Simply concerned that there will now suddenly be a really easy way that its quicker and also cheaper thats not something i want in our society i want to be certain that Everything Possible is done so that people can live until the last moment as mentioned. There are various opinions on the high courts ruling also out on the street yavin is that is a good point if everything is done according to the rules and all the paperwork is there and the family agrees and i think its a good thing. I think that people should always give life a chance among all the times of terrible misery something good can happen i find it hard to then get a doctor involved. Thats didnt its all good and if its about someone who is terminally ill and has decided they dont want to live anymore then they should also have the possibility that someone can help them. With. The courts decision now puts pressure on the government lawmakers will soon have to establish regulations for medication and procedures we can get a view on this from professor lucas of director of the department of policy of medicine at the university of bonn is one of germanys foremost experts on the Palliative Care welcome to d. W. Professor what did you make of the courts decision. You wrote me going on and we were a bit shocked because it was actually. Even a bit harder than we thought because the ruling of the court actually said that you dont have to be really sick you dont even have to justify your suffering you dont have to be an extreme suffering as long as the patient says that this is what he is or doesnt even have to be a patient as long as the person stares that this is what i want to do then you basically have to give it to him and all the procedural information that the court said the it complement should take should not heed the pathway to assisted suicide so actually we think this is going too far and we are afraid it will just not there at this will not rule out to easily 2 patients to get assistance here is. My understanding of todays ruling is that doctors wont be forced to participate so presumably any doctor who does participate is not going to enter this go into this lightly. This would be the question actually. As long as we dont have any procedures and at least the questioners. Doctors will reflect critically they will work and my personal opinion is that there are lots of good doctors but there are also some of them who probably would not think another would not be sufficiently skilled to rule out any significant depression and patients and ive been working on this for about 30 years now. I have to say that i dont find it easy to see whether those depressed or not when you asked me for assisted suicide and i wouldnt really call like you on this rant without having any things procedures in place there is an inherent danger that some doctors may do this too likely to loosely and you have been asked for this yourself and you have had patients ask you to end their lives for them its the best of my to ask you and we do have is that i dont want to keep on living or even the classical like you know what a doctor why cant you do this for me but when i asked him for the reasons why. I dont want to be a burden to others or that they are not suffering right now but are afraid of suffering that way it may come and for all that you need more information you need better settings at the end of life and i would say you probably wouldnt need assisted suicide. We thank you for sharing your expertise and time with us professor professor lucas about broke from the university of baal. Now to egypt which was how the military funeral for former president Hosni Mubarak who died on tuesday at the age of 91. 00 his coffee was discarded to a mosque and then to the Burial Ground for a private family ceremony Hosni Mubarak ruled egypt autocratically for 30 years before being ousted in the arab spring protests of 2011 he was a key ally of the west who viewed him as a gallon top of regional stability but to many he was a terminator no closer to uncovering a motive a 29 year old suspect remains in custody and faces attempted murder charges residents in the small town of Falcon Mohsen held a church vigil on tuesday in a show of solidarity more than 60 people were hurt in the attack about a 3rd of them children some of those affected have life threatening injuries. The campaign to make sanitary products free has passed its 1st major hurdle on tuesday british lawmakers in scotland put the devolved government on a path to become the 1st place in the world to make menstrual products available at no cost the built received almost unanimous backing from the parliament and now moves to the 2nd stage where he could face amendments the law comes with an estimated annual price tag of 24000000. 00 pounds thats about 28 and a half 1000000 euros. Forced to watch the news of this story for so welcome alex so what is the case for making some of your products free but its Pretty Simple its to end so called periods of poverty to enable any woman any girl whatever whether theyre rich whether theyre poor to have access to suitable sanitary products now think about it for every girl or woman who is menstruating its around 5 days a month that costs a round about for those sanitary products in the 10 euros a month times that i 12 over up to 40 years were talking about a huge amount of money now scotland is already the 1st country in the world to offer free trip products in universities in schools in colleges and this bill would make sure that that is put into law and enable any woman in scotland who couldnt afford it to get access to those products so it gives a lot of how big this issue this period of well it is massive because of course that effects people who cant afford those products and there are some surprising statistics here take for example the United Kingdom around about one in 10 schoolgirls have said that they have been able to afford sanitary products in india its about 12 percent of women and girls and were talking about tens of millions of of women look at kenya hauffe school girls there so they dont even have access to sanitary products and therefore many of them are skipping school and you hear some awful stories for example in india of some women choosing to have a uterus is removed so that they can work because if they have their period they are unable to work because they cant get these products but its not just about the products themselves its also about the stigma surrounding periods and there is a very distressing example in nepal where although it has been banned there are some cases in rural areas. Where women when they are menstruating assent to socalled period hearts they are ostracized theyre on their own and some have even died because theyve tried to light fires to keep warm so theyve suffocated all they have frozen to death there are some countries the. Products as a luxury which seems odd seems absolutely crazy when you think about it and its been dubbed the socalled tampon tax take for example germany up until january there was a 19 percent sales tax and sanitary products that has not been cut to 7 percent but across the e. U. For any country they have to charge at least 5 percent thats due to be scrapped in a couple of years other countries have already scrapped it kenya for example canada but you can see why women now a calling time on all this saying theyve had enough its affecting their health their education their work and in some cases even leading to death. The 70th birthday and the National Film festival as screens a World Premiere today a remake of the 1920 s. Novel ballet and alexander plots but director bore han bonnies new adaptation sets the film squarely in the here and now those are going to go with anybody to the end of the 2nd terms. Good sign. This ones for. The word conspiracy. So lets join the w. s im going to see if im scott to rocks right down the red carpet so welcome jens classic 1920 s. No hold remade a centuries later what parallels and i enjoy. Yes interesting because i asked the director bronco bonnie exactly that question before the film premiered here and he said that he went when he went back and re read in alexanderplatz which is sort of like the ulysses of german literature and he said he was struck by the parallels that he found between the novel and the modern day situation here berlin because as you might know the novel is really about an underclass in berlin that lived sort of a pair in a parallel universe to the sort of upper class privileges of a lot of the huge disparity between rich and poor and the director said he eat felt that really reflected what was happening in modern day but then his interesting i think genius stroke in this film is for the main character the french vivre cop character which is a small time criminal german criminal in the in the novel he decided to take a character he thought would represent the lowest rung of German Society today and thats why he picked a african refugee to play the french the republic. Dublins novel is most famous for pushing the boundaries of what a novel can do how it can be written i dont think the film got that far but i still think it was a well to. Story lets lets take a look at the competition director sally potter presents the road not taken and lights a once thought about. Well fill this was a star studded film we had Javier Bardem starring as leo he plays a man who is basically not there hes suffering from early onset dimension is being taken care of by his daughter whos played by elle fanning also a well known star and someone high is also costarring with them so its going to be a big red carpet event tonight the film really goes into his memories and kind of presents the different futures he could have had as a writer as a man as a father as a husband yeah if you can Say Something about sally paul yes i bought herself a sort of an icon of in the cinema because she manages to make these star studded films on a real shoestring budget this film of those has a bunch of big stars was shot over just 4 days on 2 continents its almost a miracle it even got made and came to the bell another also in the competition is the film about the taj mahal film off heartening explain this to us. Yeah this is sort of i guess youd call it the sort of real life truman show this is part of a massive art project for they took some 400 actors in and put them in an installation in ukraine and made them live as if they were living in soviet russia in this sort of military institute in soviet russia over almost 3 years and they shot them 247 and theyre making several projects out of this including several films and this is just one of the very 1st to come out to premier it in the story follows the title character natasha who works at a canteen at a Research Institute she becomes romantically involved in one with one of the researchers there which puts her under the scrutiny of the soviet authorities and now just a word of the war of warning this is an 18 and up audience its a brutal film and its especially more brutal because you know when youre watching it that the actors dont have a home to go to afterwards theyre stuck on the set theyre right theres no one to say cut. All right. Lets see if the berlin International Film festival thank you. And sports a 5 time grand slam champion mary a shot of provence retiring from tallis at the age of 32 the teenager prodigy what her 1st grand slam at wimbledon in 2471 completed a career slam all 4 major titles by winning the french open in 2012 the russian who moved to florida as a child of the 15 month band of the failing a doper test in 2016 position shoulder injuries mean she played only 2 matches in 2020 and lost both. This is t. W. These are our top stories for the 1st time officials are reporting more new infections of the corona virus outside china than in the World Health Organization says the world is not prepared for a possible pandemic of the disease in europe the outbreak is spreading from italy where 12 people have now died. Germany science courses lifted a ban on assisted suicide ruling it unconstitutional the verdict means doctors will be allowed to counsel terminally ill patients on ending their lives and provide them with lethal drugs although medical professionals will not be permitted to administer the drugs themselves. And his Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has appealed for calm after 3 days of sectarian riots that have rocked the capital danny at least 20 people lost their lives during demonstrations for and against a new citizenship law. And egypt has been holding a military funeral for former president Hosni Mubarak he ruled the country autocratically for 30 years before being ousted in the arab spring protests of 2011 he died on tuesday aged 91. This is d. W. News from birth and for more followers on twitter or visit our website d w dot com. Up next ill be doubly made in germany has a look at the world when big water supply is not need to rethink we the ways we humans i want certain results is about spot next album back up top off beat up with more. Coverage to. Run dry. No. Water is very big business and its getting close gassy. What do we have to do not too high and dry. Do we have to rethink the water industry. Made in germany. To dublin. They were forced into a nameless mass. Their bodies near tools. The history of the slave trade is africas history. It describes how the greed for power and profit from it in an entire continent into chaos and violence the slave system created the greatest planned accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that moment in time. From its very beginnings until this very day she meant trafficking has shaped the way. This is the journey back into the history of slavery i think we will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. Our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. The worlds most important resource a given for many regions but experts warn 2 thirds of the global population could face water shortages in the next 5 years like so often in life you only notice something when it starts becoming scarce and by that time