A language learning app that teaches real life conversations and uses speech recognition technology. ding daily 10 to 15 minnae lesss are voiced bve speakers. ding baand they are at babbel. El. Com. Narratordefunding was also proby, the freeman foundation. Byand Peter Blum Kovler foundation; and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Announcer and now, bbc world news. Infections and droths from the virus continue to grow around the world, and the speed at which the contagion is spreading is not slo switzerland and the u. K. Have reported their first stats. Italys death toll has gone close15 t the who is suggesting some governments are not taking this crisis seriously. This is not the time to get up. This is not a time for excuses. As the virus spreads, so, too, that a huge amount of misinformation. Land k at a video of a woman eating a bat, which helps us explain se of the origins the virus. It does not. I wilnot be running for president in 2020, but i guarantee i will stay in the fight. We saw this one coming. Elizabeth warren has ended her bid for thwhite house. That means the nominee to ke on donald trump will be Bernie Sanders or joe biden. The ndon high court has ruled mohammed bin Rashid Almaktoum abducted two of his daughters and carried out a campaign of intimidation against his former wife. In the next three minutes, hell give you a comprehensive global update onoronavirus outbreak. The global tent told has no past 3000. The are more than 96,000 confirmed cases in 80 cntries. 80,000 of them are in china. We should ao say we know more than 50,000 people who have been infected have fully recovered. As we do every day, we heard from the World Health Organization. This epidemic is a threat for everyry courich and poor. And as we have said before, even the high Income Countries should expect surprises. The solution is aggressive preparedne. He are concerned that some countries have enot taken this seriously enough, or have decided there is nothing they can do. Lets go around the world, first to south africa, which has reported its first case. Here arrangements are made tt take the pati the center where they will be treated. F havdesignated hospita this. Doing with membersegoing to be family, taking them to quarantine. An an impoelement of south africas situation is it has the Worlds Largest idemic and there is a concern those that are hiv positive may bee m vulnerable to the coronavirus. Here in south africa, you have more than 7 Million People that is about 20 of adultsver that virus is known to weaken peoples immune system, so people with tb, respiratory problems are likely to become more vulrable, if this virus is not successfully contained. Moved to iran. , we over three and a half thousand cases, and t government has launched a National Mobilization plan. That includes closing its schools and universities. We also see Public Places in tehran such as this one being disinfected. These are unverified pictures of a hospital in the holy city. There appear to be bodies lying in bags in different partsf the hospital waiting to be taken to be buried. Officials are saying we dont know yet, whether they have done from corona. They are doing this on request of the families so they can make sure the cause of death, and then get perbussion for the al. The person who film at footage has been arreste the person in charge of the cemetery, where the mark was located, has also been removed from his post. Now we go to europe. Switzerland has reported its rst death. Bosnia has reported its first case. By far, the biggest outbreak remains internally. Schools and businesses close for the next 10 days. People across the country who ve children are now having to think about childcare. The government h promised to ok into measures to help people deal with those issues. Noit iclear whether they will give them financial aid, help looking for babysitters, whether it will come in allowing people to stay, one parent to stay at home, one to work. It should be said schools and universities in the north of the country have already been closed for almost two weeks now. Yesterday, in light of the rising number of infections, the government took this decision to close schools and universities across the country until midmarch. Lets go across the atlantic to the. S. In the last two days, our primary focus has been outbreak close to seattle. Enow a state ofrgency has been declared in california. One person has died there. They were on board this cruise ship, the grand princess, the francisco, and now that ship is being held at port because other passengers have been taken ill. Repcutedly with this new patienthat passed away, entered into this next phase that has required me, under the circumstances, to advance a proclamation of a state of emergency inlihe state of rnia. Jamie u cass is following the story from san francisco. Ware told there are 10 passengers and 11 crewin members shsystem symptoms of the coronavirus. The governor of california said they would be dropping tests off that ship and making sure everyone takes themefore they allow that ship to ce into port in san francisco. What happens next is as. Ones gu amazon is asking its employees in seattle to work from home for the rest of the month after a worker tested positiveruherefore the here in california, the governor of the state said they would reach out to counties with passengers on that ship to keep them updated. To theleiddle east, inian authorities are closing mosques and churches in bethlehem. Mrs. Manger square in bethlehem. Some days you cannot even see the ground because it is so packed with tourists. It is never this quiet. Part of the reason for all of these visitors is the church of the nativity, where christians believe jesus was born. Thousands has there every day. The crowds snake along through the square, but this place is being closed down. The whole of bethlehem in many ways is being closed down after four cases of covid19 among the hotel workers. We have heard a state of emergenchas been declared by palestinian authorities in the west bank. Globally, ove95,000 people affected, over 3000 people have lost their lives. Needless to say, a vaccine for this virus is urgently needed. Ore than 20 vaccines are in development globally. Several therapeutics are in Clinical Trials. To get to a point where a vaccine can be massproduced, you need to wait between five and years. In this case, scientists are trying to produce one in 18 months. Too so would be unprecedented, as the scientist explains. We received the sequence from the chinese government. We worked overnight, and the next day we designea vaccine. We immediately put that into manufacturer, the stage and is currently in. Lwe hope that w enter human Clinical Trials by the end of the summ. The Financial Times suggests that a vaccine pduced at this kind of speed would need serious gornment backing, an investment of around 2 billion. Some are startg to move toward this goal. Tsa lab e boston is making good progress. Ysit has taken 42 o identify the coronavirus in its lab and to create a vaccinagainst it. The first human trls will begin next month. But u. S. Health officials, as you will hear, are still cautious. The phase one trial is 45 individuals. Phase two is hundreds, if not thousands of individuals. It would then take a year to a year and a half to be fully confident that we would havehe vaccine that could protect the american people. Although the good news is we did it fast, thead news is, the reality of it mns we will not have a vaccine tomorw. There are political considerations, too. F last month, 40 members oe Democratic Congress in washington sent this letter to dold trump. That could also be expensive. As coronavirus is exposing some in the u. S. Health re we just mentioned the vaccines and also the testing fee has been a concern for a lot of people. While the testing itself is supposed to be free, according to many media reports, insured americans will have to pay more than 1000 to get tested for coronavirus. That is a really high fee for dinary americans. In china, t government promised to treat all of the patients for free, but that is difficult in the u. S. The congress of just passed a more than 8 billion bill to support combating coronavirus. Three american states, ionluding washinflorida, and california have declared a state of emergency in order to speed up allocating all kinds cf resources bat this virus outbreak. Still, there is no guarantee people can afford Virus Testing and vaccines at the moment. Thuch more information on coronavirus at the bbc website bbc. Com news. Two u. S. Politics, and we knew this was coming. Abelh warren is out of the race to become the democratic nominee. She did not win a o of the statsuper tuesday, making both the maths and the politics just about impossible, which leaves two contenders to take on president ump. Former Vice President joe biden. And senator bernie sande its been a fastmoving week. It certainly has. When you think back to just before the south carola primaryast friday, joe biden had it all on the line. Bernie sande, everyone was expected him to do well. To romp through super tuesday, stop has changed at an extra ordinary pace, none the least all of those people pulling out and putting their weight behind joe biden. As for elizabeth warren, she enjoyed a brief moment in the autumn where she was on top of they polls, but tos made it clear, there was not any room to run ia lane between the and the modernizerf the party she said she thought there was room there but there was not. Help me understand it. On the face of it, joe biden has not done anything different. Three weeks ago, everyone said he was tanking. Now, on the surface, he has not done anything differently, but he is right back in it. A couple of things. They africanamerican vote o really kicked him in the South Carolina primary. Really came home for him. Massively backed him. He went there straight after New Hampshire after the polls closed and put his repcaation on south lina. The significant member of congress, jim clyburn, put his backg behind biden. That made a huge amount of difference. En those people pulling out, those pulling out after South Carolina, that made another huge difference to the whole mom and that joe biden has had this week. It is an extraordina slightly, which is that joesethg biden still does not have what you may call vacant moments. Gsthose thould plague him during the campaign. In terms of the money and stcturing that he will get now as a result of what has happened inhe last feway he could not be in a better place. Lets talk about elizabe warren more. This confirms againa will not elect a woman for president. It never has done. This was an article that we saw. It will be hard to get over what has happened to elizabeth warren. In this article, she writes, we had the candidate of athifetime, nergy and vision, someone to lead us out of there night and the media basically ignored her. She said, dont tell me this is not about sexism. Ive been around too long for that. Elizabeth was asked about this issue earlier. That is the trap question for everyone. If you say yeah,re tas sexism in the race, everyone says whiner. If you say, no, there was no sexism, about a billion women think, what planet are you from . I promise you this, i will have a lot more to say on tha while there is no guarantee she would have gone on to take the nomination, it is undeniable it is a different experience for a woman running for this it is. There was a similar debate around the time when barack obama running to be the president. Namerican firsts raise certain questions. People say there is an ectability questn for a woman running against donald trump. Elizabeth warman took that on in the debates. There are five men on this stage and all of them have lost 10 ection between them and the she did hit this stuff pretty head on. Sometimes in amerih people imagining a woman being commanderinchief. That is a reality th the political pundits, operatives think about here. But i do think things have changed. There was a lot of discussion t arou time of Hillary Clintons candidacy for years yoago, where a lot og women were supporting Bernie Sanders. When you ask them, wu arent pportinghe female candidate . Theyay, we think the will be a woman president one day, we just dont want that one. Thank you, gary. Appreciate t update. Stay with us. We will keep our eyes on american politics. We will also speak to a Group Representing the daughter of the dubai ruler, mohammed bin Rashid Almaktoum, after londons highest court ruled that he abducted and abused that daughter. I have it withihin me to lower my a1 c. Ask your doctor about trulicity. We a here in the bbc wsroom. Our lead story is that the World Health Organization says the coronavirus epidemic can be controlled but only with a concerted response rl all of the s governments. In italy, the death toll has gone up to close to 150, and the contagion is not showing any signs of slowing. Turkey and syria have russia have announced a ceasefire in syrias idlib province. You can see it in the northwest of the country. It is the last rebel stronghold in syria. D Government Forces bac syria have been pounding towns in intimatnce the enof last year. Last week, though, tngs really escalated. This is the aftermath of an air strike that killed 33 turkish troops. That is turkeys worst military loss in a single day since the 1990s. Turkey is now retaliating against the syrian regime. That, in turn,thisks contact he russians, who support the syri rime. President erdon and vladimir putimet in moscow. There will be a ceasefire from one minute past midnight along the line of contact in the idlib deescalation zone. There will be security corridor set up north of the ghway, six kilometers south, basically a buffer zone. There will be joint patrols between russia and tury. Serious as the offensive is needed to drive out jihadists. What it has done is drivingle perom their homes. The u. Says close ta Million People have be displaced, some ve died. That we know was hit th morning. The u. K. Based Human Rights Group says 50 civilians were killed including a child and sa hundreds of civilians have been killed across the offensive as a whole. Turkey, in particular, is focused on the refugee crisis. It has already taken in close to 4 million syrianug rs and says it doesnt have the capacity to take it anymore. America, for its part, is rightly dividing this as an internional crisis. We heard from the envoy for syria earlier. It is the responsibility not just for turkey as a neighbor, involved in i existential security on the table, as our other neighbor syria, but also the united states, of the arab world, and of the european union,ll and nato toet involved. T donaldmp has deliberately reduced americas role in the region, so it doesnt have the sway that it once did, and others f haveled in that space behind, namely president putin. This article reads how Russias Putin became the go2net on syria. Hence, president erdogans trip to see him today. That seems to be a bit of a defeat for president erdogan. One of the things he had been pushin for in these talks was for Syrian Government troops who had been on the offensive in idlibckrovince to be pulled to their initial positions. There is nothing in this communique about that. The other big question is, president putin said tonight, he hopes this agreement will end the suffering of civilians in that area, end the humanitarian crisis. There was talk about encouraging displaced persons to come back to their homes. But willse they . Will three points be engh to persuade people to return, to persuade people that that ptill be peace i of syria . It is unclear. This is the billionaire ruler of dubai, mohammed bin Rashid Almaktoum. The court in the u. K. Has ruled he is responsible forhe abduction, forced return, torture, a intimidation of his own family members. The case against him was run by his former wife, Princess Haya of jordan. We know that she fled to buy last year with her two daughts, traveling initially to germany to seeksylum, before moving on to london, yhere she began a cust battle. We speak to the organizao she represents one of the she tihs daughters, the t5. What was youre when you heard e outcome . It has already been published in the media but it is wonderful to see a british judge has confirmed the allegations ma by the United Nations. Seeing the countrys standing up against this kind ofior. See princessaya. Y fascinating to originally, she met with latifa a year ago, and said that she was ok. Obviously, that was not true at the time. She has since led the country and successfully taken litigation action in the u. K. Against Shaikh Mohamme who is a very pouerful person y. We have come out showing how our independent british legal system is. We had a judge ruled that sheikh mohammed, who had a wonderful repution in the u 2. Over the trying to be involved in racing, local media, but when this action happened, when he conventions against humanw, rights, it is fantastic to see a judge say thate did that. That may lead to criminal actions ainst him in the ited kingdom. He is in a difficult situation at the moment. At least at this point, Princess Haya and her children are safe now we have to look at what this judgment means in tes of princess latifa, and her sister who was also abducted. Whatill thatean for them . Are they going to be released . Ishe uae going to grant th United Nations access to visit them and check on their welfare . Are they eventually going to have that freedom that they wanted . Thank you very much for joining us. From the group, detained in dubai. A rinder of our lead story, concerf the coronavirus, which continues to grow. Rtthe first re case in bosnia, south africa. In italy, theres been a dramatic shift in the death toll from 100 to close to 150. Inmerica, a state of emergency has been declared. Ste of an agencyer ncy has also been declared in the west bank. There are about 80,000 cases around the world in china. The chinese have a huge amous of restricti place, primarily around the movement of , in an effort to contai this. The who today issued a warning saying governments need tdo more if they are to contain this in the next few weeks and months. Presentation of this program is provided by. Woman collette guides travelers to experience the world more than 160 destinati across five travel styles, like small group explorations. Their inclusive tours feature local guides, cultural experiences, meals and accoations. Since 1918, co has guided travelers around the world. Learn more at collette. Com smallgroup. Man babbel, an Online Program developed by language specialists teaching spanish, frch, and more. Narrator funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. 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