civilians to flee plus could this man become the next head of germany s conservative party perhaps the next chancellor predict merrick s throws his hat in the ring after transport on the american chosen successor said she is no longer in the running and at reclaiming what their families lost under the nazis people of german descent say berlin is creating unfair hurdles swinney comes to their wife to regain german citizenship. i burnt off it s good to have you with us china has reported 97 more deaths from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections today. almost all of the new deaths were in the who by province the epicenter of the outbreak but chinese health officials say these are the lowest figures since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by april the w.h.o. head says that despite so the number of cases stabilizing the outbreak could quote still go in any direction of more now i m joined by duns hong kong a senior fellow for global health at the cou
decisive measures to combat the coronavirus this as the death toll in china from the outbreak losses of 1000. i m told me a lot before welcome to the program until recently it was considered a done deal but now the german chancellor succession plan has fallen apart the woman widely seen as next in line to chancellor angela merkel says she has changed her mind and will not run for the top job in next year s elections and a great crime karen bought known as a k k is stepping aside following events last week there broke a political to boom in germany a conservative c.d.u. party for the 1st time teamed up with the far right alternative for germany party to win a regional election a taboo to father put a case credibility as party leader into question. on the compound gave little notice before informing party leaders of her decision she was long chancellor angela merkel s hand-picked successor now she won t be her party s candidate for chancellor and plans to step down as party chi
hampshire. we have the top stories. we begin in asia and the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. the death toll retain 910, higher than sars. joining me from hong kong is stephen engle. give us the latest. containment remains the operative word both inside china and outside. let s begin inside china. there is a total globally of 910 confirmed cases of deaths. 908 is inside of china. than theore deaths sars outbreak in china and hong kong and elsewhere around the world. there are more than 40,000 confirmed cases. the good thing according to the world health organization in china, they see the number of new cases has plateaued, but the challenge is as many of the workers are starting to go back to work after the extended holiday and all of those travelers getting back into the factory, can china keep the number of new cases at that stable level? that will be very key to the global outbreak. outside of china, we have that , now 136ip in focus additionalases, an 66 cases were r
announcement that she will be stepping down as leader of the cd you bought well certainly was a surprise she s been wrapped up in in several scandals over her time in office as the c.d.u. party leader and then also shortly after that she was appointed the office of defense minister and so far we ve heard that she will be continuing to stay on as germany s defense minister but this was surprising it seems that many things had been sorted out over the weekend following the scandal in the eastern state of just to remind ourselves of course last week the state pregnant state premier in thuringia was elected there and that was done through cooperation between the conservative c.d.u. the per business d.p. and the far right a.f.d. so effectively the conservatives there actually overstepped party line they crossed party lines as the c.d.u. the conservative c.d.u. like of the parties in germany say we will know. work with the far right a.f.d. either directly or in directly but in the
was moved to the oscars for the 1st time a non english language film will be aboard the best picture a movie correspondent has the latest from hollywood. kind of a warm welcome to you i m a myth i m cheema we start with some breaking news in german politics the leader of the governing christian democratic union on the c.d.u. has said she s stepping down on a good come card and ballot known as a kid had been widely tipped to succeed when the chancellor retires from politics in about 18 months time her decision to stand on follows the scandal over the involvement of the far right alternative for germany in a reach to election. says her move will not affect the stability of germany s coalition government she has just given a press conference here in berlin here s some of what she had to say. i will not run for chancellor. if as i have an hour as such i will accompany the process of finding a candidate for chancellor ship obviously to you in the future the governor we have passed