But. Also coming up the e. U. Raises its Risk Assessment for corona virus as global cases soar tyras fears are hammering the Tourism Industry cross the continent even forcing the worlds most visited museum to close its doors to voters in israel had to the polls for a 3rd time in less than a year will they break the deadlock between Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger benny gantz. Im sorry so much got to thank you for joining us a new migration crisis is taking shape on the European Unions eastern border of thousands of migrants are trying to make their way from turkey into greece thats after the turkish government said it would no longer try to stop migrants from crossing into the e. U. But her greece is pushing back deploying its military to protect border points and using tear gas to turn the mike. In fact athens fears a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis and it is suspending asylum applications for one month vowing to return anyone who enters the country illegally now many migrants have attempted to reach the e. U. Are camped out in the Turkish Border province of d. N. A. Some are still hoping to cross into greece while others plan to turn back. Unable to cross into the e. U. The group of refugees returns exhausted to this parking lot near the greek Turkish Border crossing a pause are cooler. Some havent eaten all day. They did not expect to be stuck on the turkish side of the border they brought back photos of the front here zone which journalists cannot access one afghan refugee claims the greek police fired tear gas to push them back. Their families were there and everybody is panicking everybody is crying in a very difficult condition theres no support for the migrants. Theyve made a camp fire to keep warm many here traveled from afghanistan but they dont have protected status in turkey and are hoping to reach the e. U. As soon as possible even though there is no guarantee of asylum there either. Of you know i want to study i want to live in peace here im no better off than i was back home no matter where we go people wont let us be. During the day groups of refugees arrive by bus load to a spot just down the road. Its unclear who arranged their transport this area is supposed to be a restricted zone but no Turkish Border police are here to enforce it. The migrants are attempting to cross the everest river on the other side lies greece. Many of those who make it across are pushed back by the greek military. The greek soldiers take everything from you if youre found able. Even your food theyre beating people and sending us back to turkey. And the. Those who didnt make it will have to sit tight on the border despite the cold temperatures when the sun comes up theyll try again. For more on the story and we can speak to d. W. Correspondent yulia han she fall she joins us now live from istanbul hi julie oh good to see you this crisis really has escalated tensions between greece and turkey weve seen the greek government accused turkey of using migrants as pawns to exert diplomatic pressure how is responding to that. Well turkish officials have rejected such criticism thats hardly surprising one advisor to president said criticizing turkeys refugee policy i quote him here was shameful and disingenuous at the same time. Re news surats prison edwin for example earlier today said that millions of migrants and refugees would be heading towards the European Unions a border and from my understanding this is intended to ramp up pressure on european governments to act over the situation in syria is it lift to share the burden when it comes to the refugees and migrants knows how afraid european governments berlin paris athens are all of another major refugee influx what gets lost in all of this are the facts and that makes reporting right now very difficult just to give you a brief example. Turkish Authorities Say nearly 120000 migrants have left turkey in the past days while the greek Authorities Say thats entirely falls they have in fact prevented nearly 10000 people from crossing into greek territory now the truth this probably somewhere in between but its not entirely or not very easy right now to see that truth yulia lets talk about the people who have been caught up in all of this the migrants where are they coming from and what conditions are they facing. Well their situation is desperate ive been at the Border Crossing at the Turkish Border in the past days many families came with small children this chaotic makeshift camp has sprung up theyre open to the elements people would make small fires to stay warm they do not have enough to eat and drink at the same time greek Border Police has been firing tear gas at people who were attempting to cross some migrants have also been throwing stones and other things back so the security situation there is also quite tense now people have also tried as you mentioned in your report to cross and other spots along this border others are taking boats from turkeys shores to try and reach the greek islands that rico start today reported that one child died when a boat capsized. As you leon reporting for us there from istanbul with the very latest thank you now Financial Markets in asia have mostly studied today after a week where the corona Virus Outbreak triggered huge losses around the world the number of new cases reported by china has dropped sharply but the epidemic is still spreading rapidly in other countries the total number of infections around the world now exceeds 89000 people more than 3000 have died indonesia and several other countries are reporting their 1st cases officials in italy the worst hit country in europe say the number of people infected with the virus jumped by 50 percent to nearly 1700. Not a tourist in sight the canals of venice without its famous. No sound of fans cheering in milans football stadium either across italy 5 major matches have been postponed due to the corona virus. As new infections climbed dramatically in europes worst hit country the Italian Government is imposing more drastic measures Army Checkpoints control quarantine areas in some regions and emergency aid has been promised to the sectors hardest hit by the rapid spread of the virus. In france tourists line up outside the worlds most visited museum the louvre on sunday in vain they were not allowed in the building after the museum staff voted to keep its doors shut due to fears of contamination from the flow of tourists. And to look to see the mona lisa that faintly but unfortunately its closed so im a bit disappointed that the french government has banned gatherings of more than 5000 people closing down trade fairs and large sporting events even though a Half Marathon in paris was officially called off hundreds of runners defied the ban and ran the full course. Now must decide signed up to take part in the marathon and since i had nothing to do this morning i thought i might as well go and run it was my goal and if i can do it why not we have to stop all this paranoia with whats happening. We have to keep things in perspective its just best for us what it says you know. In recent days the u. S. Australia and thailand have reported the 1st deaths on their soil but with more than 50 deaths iran has the worlds highest toll outside of china the epidemic is impacting businesses and daily life and shaking the countrys already struggling economy the mother look at the us our people are panicked a little under stress has led to a drop in sales people have also become more hygiene obsessed and buy less for. From bakeries restaurants and caterers. As markets around the globe take a hit some countries are more vulnerable than. The European Union has raised the coronavirus risk level from moderate to high heres European Commission president was enough underline the c. D. C. Has announced today that. The risk level has risen from moderate to high people in the European Union in other words the virus continues to spread. Despondent teri schultz is standing by for us in brussels with the latest hi terry so in light of this increased risk as we heard from president underline what measures the e. U. Taking. Sumi European Commission president or sort of underlie and the 5 commissioners who briefed for her today say yes is going to get worse lets be realistic but their main message is dont panic rely on science and stick together theyre calling for solidarity among Member States there have now been 2100 cases in 8 countries and 38 deaths so this is affecting everybody and as you heard underline say they do expect its going to get worse now the measures that can be coronated by the commission are things like joint phone calls theres going to be a Health Ministers meeting on friday euro zone ministers are going to have a have a Conference Call later this week and so the Commission Says everything that we can control we are controlling some things are left under the mandate of the Member States governments themselves but the main message again dont panic all right so you can see that the European Union is indeed taking this very seriously and what is at stake here for the e. U. There is so much at stake because as we know we havent seen the end of it yet its certainly by no means contained and youre already seeing huge drops in toryism as we saw in that story from from italy planes are being canceled passengers themselves are canceling trips its not yet clear what kind of compensation will be given to travelers likely not at all this will be considered one of these active god situations where nobody is going to be compensated if their trips are canceled you also had the economics commissioner paladin to lowney saying you know initially we thought that there would be a big drop followed by a rapid recovery that was probably too optimistic when china is affected as dramatically as it is that will affect europe so commissioner saying we havent seen the end of it yet but lets cordon it lets keep an eye on things together theyve now set up a website where citizens can remain up to date on all the closures that are possible on the rate of infection and on exactly what the European Commission is doing to try to contain contain the virus spreading through me teri schultz reporting there from brussels thank you for that update. Lets check in now on some other stories making news around the world a court in delhi has postponed the execution of 4 men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a 23 year old woman on a bus 7 years ago the 4 men have been scheduled to be executed on tuesday but one of the men filed a petition for mercy with indias president. A hostage taking incident at a Shopping Mall in the philippines has ended peacefully a group of people has been freed on harmed and their captor has surrendered to authorities thats according to the local mayor police say the hostage taker is a disgruntled Security Guard earlier he shot and wounded one man and japan says it is working closely with the u. S. Korea after north korea fired 2 short range missiles into its eastern sea the launches were the 1st since november and traveled a distance of around 250 kilometers south korea says its on guard for additional missile tests. Youre watching d. W. News still to come on our show in the bundesliga live think it was hoping to cut the gap to leaders environs to one point but it did not go as planned. But 1st the vatican has opened its archives on the wartime papacy of pius the 12th kept secret for decades amid accusations that he turned a blind eye to the holocaust critics call pious hitlers hope they say he knew nazi germany was murdering jews and did nothing about it the vatican says he worked behind the scenes to save jews dozens of scholars are in rome to pore over the archives documents. And we have our religious Affairs Correspondent martin with us looking into the story hi martin type why were these archives kept secret for decades and large i mean this is considered to be very very Sensitive Information that contains pretty much old the relations and all the forms of communication studies. With different powers different nations information that came from this. Friend bishop reason that came from Different Church members in our yes in which there were actually atrocities and war crimes being committed the position of the vatican has always been quite a me years and it centers to the vatican never really saw the time as being ripe to actually make this Information Available these pope obviously would have policy of transparency he seems to believe that the time no as tom what about pope pius the 12th i mean why is he such a controversial figure in the journal and position is. Its most extreme forms i mean in the most in the most critical voices is that the pope was actually collaborator in the fascist collaborators more sort of the more moderate critique and the one that we hear more often is that he did not do enough that he did not raise the alarm he did not give clear enough essential instructions to reseize. Atrocities that were that were being committed not only of jews by nazis but for instance there is also a very conflicted story with the polish church in which both nazis on the one hand and russian communists on the there were actually committing atrocities on the polish population and it is understood that the pope did not take Strong Enough by the by the many in the polish church against the germans this pope had actually a history with germany he had being german in the nunes you know so this is sort of part of the story and part of the intrigue at the very same time what is worthwhile saying is that the record of bias the 12 in terms of risk jews hiding juice etc its actually quite straightforward we know that a lot of jews were hidden throughout the Church System the vatican cells and that was at least by if not by their active participation most certainly with the blessing of the pope you mentioned that the current pope francis decided to open his archives and why what is he looking to achieve i think that you know this sort of. In the sort of. Stations that had been raised against the church for not just clarity but for their own moral scenes essentially that compromised the church can present itself as a moral authority one of the aims i think of this papa see both in relation to. The 12 but also with sexual scandals and so on and so forth including sort of Financial Issues related to the vatican bank is the drive to sort of bring in some light and show that the Church Actually has a political will to clean its own its own and show its own past or deal with its own past this i think actually falls within the political project our religious Affairs Correspondent martin back with us here in studio thank you very much youre welcome. Now voting is underway in israels 3rd election within a year as the country tries to end the political impasse once again polls show that the conservative Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is in a tight race with the center left Opposition Leader benny guns in the previous 2 elections neither side won enough seats to form a government but with voter fatigue setting in many hope the 3rd times a charm. He needs all the votes he can get fears of a corona Virus Outbreak could put a dent in turnout but israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is urging people to head to the polls anyway go vote. Its a pro the this is a democracy you have a great right that you should exercise with confidence of the thing is completely under control today weve taken all the precautions that are necessary people can go and vote with complete confidence thank you its not just the virus that could make people stay home analysts say voter fatigue has set in this is israels 3rd election in 11 months and support has splintered among many parties netanyahu has popularity has waned after corruption charges were brought against him in november his likud party is projected to claim only a quarter of seats in Parliament Polls put him in a virtual tie with his center left rival benny gantz. Its about time that much more united much one another unless the ones against the other one group hoping to make gains is the joint list an alliance of arab israeli parties theyve taken heart from recent polls. Today of we will make history. We have at least 15 seats and were getting close to 16 seats with everyones efforts. Yes our votes the boats of the joint list are the ones that will prevent Benyamin Netanyahu from forming a government and the joint list is the one that will make history at the. Thats and you know who may yet come out slightly ahead but with no hope for a clear majority his conservative party is bracing for more Coalition Talks and perhaps more deadlock the guns and lets speak now to gil hoffman hes the chief Political Correspondent at the Jerusalem Post newspaper gil thank you for joining us so what are the chances that this election will finally break israels political deadlock its quite unlikely at this point Benjamin Netanyahu would have to pull off a very impressive victory he would have to get a majority for his right wing block excluding the people in the bloc that dont want to be the Prime Minister because of his corruption charges theres hes run a very Smart Campaign ive been following him around ive seen how his grassroots is very motivated but its would still be extremely difficult its remarkable that this is israels 3rd general election in a year i mean what are voters saying are they fatigue thats entire process are they frustrated. You know i thought they were after the 1st election i wrote on the cover of my newspaper the day of the 2nd election lowest turnout ever expected and i was wrong and the turnout ended up being relatively high and waited almost 70 percent the turnout went up so while i definitely feel the fatigue of people we could end up having the same 70 percent turnout despite that because people realize that there are very important issues on the line and no matter who wins this election were going to have a Peace Process right after the election efforts to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict its very serious what about the fact that the Prime Minister is about to stand trial on corruption charges i mean how does that affect todays vote. Well there are people who would be quite humiliated to have a Prime Minister on trial and because of that they will be voting for him thats in the out so that will definitely be a factor in how people vote than there are people who consider the the charges against him frivolous or a witch hunt much like the supporters of donald trump were in the United States and they will vote for him anyway and what about benny gantz his chances i mean how has the what is his message been to voters. His measures as been to voters that way you can have a former general like him keep the citizens of israel safe and secure well also being clean that its time to after 10 years in a row 14 years in total that being Prime Minister to give somebody else a chance and that hes assembled the right team to be able to do it to run the country better and and to put the citizens 1st and himself. And i just want to throw this forward what happens if after this election it is inconclusive once again what happens then. Well the problem all along has been that the politicians have not been lying during the campaign they said i would sit with him i wont sit with her and after the campaign we thought they would break their promises and they didnt now the hope is that they would be such outrage at the prospect of a 4th election that they would break those Campaign Promises that somebody would finally compromise and give it if they dont we are going to a 4th election and maybe a 5th and maybe a 27th but god forbid. Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post chief Political Correspondent thank you for joining us. 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