rebel stronghold triggers an international standoff and prompts hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee plus could this man become the next head of germany's conservative party and the next chancellor predict marriage throws his hat in the ring a moment a chance on the marital had selected as her successor she says she is no longer in the run. off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome tonight the most positive outlook since the coronavirus scare began china is suggesting that the virus is outbreak has reached its peak health officials there have reported 97 more deaths and more than 2000 new infections but they say these are the lowest figures. since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by april but the world health organization says that an apparent slowdown in the epidemic should be viewed with extreme caution adding that the alberich could still go in any direction. for more now i'm joined by duns hong kong a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations it's good to have you on the program let me start by asking what do you make of the way china has handled this epidemic so far but are they taking the right steps to control it . all beginning in january 20th the government has launched a very kone measure rose and tackling the outbreak including quarantine this time cd and the surrounding c.d.'s you know basically you have 100000000 people quarantined in who by and that roche tass. seemingly and she the. stabilizing the epidemic although to what extent he's actually back that remains to be seen what do you make of china saying that this rate could be over by april or as soon as april i mean is it possible to even make that kind of prediction at this point. well i think it's too early to say wayne we're going to see the fashion poison go away the crises will be over but mainly public house next hers i think that we going to see the infection poisoned and that is that case is starting to trough up in late april. probably and sees other thing who pay for the entire china probably we're not going to see day. point to drive and next month so my hunch is that. very likely awaiting to see the virus die. may in may and instead of april so that's a month's difference and that brings us to the international response that we've seen so far has the international response or has it been proper in your opinion has it been enough. well i think if you look at international response you know so i think is a very uncoordinated. almost like a knee jerk panic response to the break in china and very likely many of this response to these violated international health regulations article 23 which allows countries to take measure as based on their national all but it also say these many of us should not be to even basic. to people and those are reasonably valid. that could achieve appropriate and their goal of health protection so do you think the u.s. policy for example of not allowing anyone any chinese nationals for example to come into the country or putting people in quarantine do you think that has been too drastic i think so all right well that's going to rep it up young hong kong a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world italy's senate has cleared the way for former interior minister matteo salvini to be tried on charges of holding migrants hostage he says that he was defending italy's border when he refused to allow rescued migrants to disembark from the ship for several days last summer police in northern ireland have charged a man with murdering the journalist lira mckee she was killed last april during a riot in london during the dissident republican group a new ira later said that it shot nikki by accident at 52 year old man charged is one of 4 suspects arrested on tuesday the mastermind of the 2008 moon by terror attacks has been jailed for 5 years by a court in pakistan a thesis saeed was convicted on 2 charges of financing terrorism he founded the group of blamed by india for the move by attacks in which 160 people were killed he has denied any involvement. the latest advance by syrian government troops into the rebel held in the province has ruptured relations between the key international players in the conflict the past 10 days have seen deadly clashes between turkish soldiers supporting syrian rebels and forces of the syrian regime turkey's president richard tell you about a one has hit out at syria and its russian backers promising to attack regime forces everywhere in syria if his troops are attacked meanwhile the country's humanitarian crisis it continues to grow. the roads out of sarmad and it live province in the last 2 months more people have fled the fighting here than at any other time in the syria conflict many are braving the harsh winter conditions simply to get tight. to my family out of it's really sad to see people here enduring snow and cold and most of my children what are we going to do we've got nothing left we're sleeping under all of trees. so it's a terrible sight. this road is completely cut off because it's packed full of cars. and people have no idea where they're going. this is what they are leaving behind violence has flared in it late in recent weeks and strain ties between 2 of the main international players in the region russia and turkey and correct has sent more troops to the area and has warned it will strike syrian regime forces if its soldiers come under renewed just tack to cheer their home or anyone targeting turkey should know that they will pay the price for this not only have the sought of the attack but everywhere. hundreds of thousands of people have left in recent weeks but not everyone can get tight those still stuck in a face an anxious wait and a worsening humanitarian crisis. earlier we spoke to a bill kelty he is a teacher in dart it say a village in the countryside west of aleppo we asked him about his living conditions in a region that has been ravaged by war for years in fact these days people are facing one of the most difficult situations you know maybe in the last 9 years because now all people are fleeing from the west and countryside and it lead to north to the borders of cherokee and in fact just. outside my home a long line of cars maybe 10 kilometer line of cars are just leaving and fleeing a don't know they don't know where to go and all people in fact they are mentally ill psychologically ill and physically ill in fact even i did numbered just now that it's 2 days my daughter's birthday never the miss who cares we can't i can't help i can't make a party for hair i mean this is just how people think they can't think anything just to have to go what to do and they don't have answers like me in fact is getting so closer to the borders of turkey and people don't know what do you if they've lived now so what's the next step i mean they think they are fleeing from day to day this is in fact the whole situation these days in fact i wanted to send a message for the hold that this is maybe the last step to take to do it to take it to take an action for this people i don't want anyone to tell the next generation that we didn't know we didn't hear we didn't see it because yeah the last period the last 9 years had been very horrible 14 people by the coming in might might be the worst. a teacher and his desperate cry from the war in syria in the united states bertie sanders has one of the new hampshire primary democrats are selecting a candidate to take on donald trump in the presidential election sanders narrowly beat former mayor who won last week's iowa caucuses. of politics here in germany the conservative politician friedrich maritza reportedly plans to run for the leadership of chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats the c.d.u. he was widely expected to enter the race for the position of party chief there big surprise here in 2018 mads narrowly lost the race for the leadership 2 on a great crumb. on monday she stunned the country by announcing that she is stepping down. for more let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you melinda friedrich meds and we know they have rarely seen things. if he were to become leader of the party might she rethink her current plan to remain chancellor until next year. that could well happen it's not only her plan of course she is at the head of a government whose official term goes until 2021 and she has said she would stay out that term but the fact is that these 2 fried fish mats and they have a long history their rivalry goes way back in in fact she proved such a nemesis for him that he wound up leaving politics altogether for many years he is distinctly to the right of chancellor merkel if you remember he was the author of that term leading culture to describe the idea that germany needed to return to a stronger sense of its national identity all of that could make them very easy bedfellows so to speak so many people do speculate that if he were to become the head of the party that she might step down earlier which in fact with them prompt new elections because the social democratic the junior partner in the governing coalition has said it's ready to serve out to the end of this government with angela merkel in place as chancellor but not with somebody else and let's say pretty med's does become party leader of the christian democrats does that mean that he would follow anglo-american and would be a candidate to become the next chancellor. well that is the current intention of the new great crown current power who is still leading the party as you'll remember all this was prompted by a crisis in a local election in the state the eastern german state of 3 where at the chancellor's conservatives the cd you voted side by side with the right wing a.f.d. party to put in place an outsider as state premier all of that sent shock waves all the way to berlin because it is a taboo to cooperate in any form with the right wing a.f.d. so under great crump can crown bar was not able to establish her thought authority over the local party she said you know we need new elections she explicitly splits at least said to them they should not wote next to the f.d.a. and they went ahead therefore she stepped down she has a plan and her plan is that to reunite the head of the party with the chancellor candidate but a number of people say this is not going to work because of the time frame and there are quite a few. wrenches in the works at this point for her plan so i don't think we can count it and even if 3 dish mats did become chancellor candidate and party leader that is not to say that the c.d.u. would have such a strong showing in the next election that they could in fact then lead the next government that's true assumptions and politics are very dangerous that's for sure chief political correspondent linda curry melinda thank you. well leaked documents reportedly show that the cia and germany's intelligence agency the b m d balt and encryption company in the 1970 s. and used it to spy on clients for decades reported by the washington post of the german public broadcasters e.d.s. revealed that the aegis use relied on a swiss based company that sold in christian devices to more than $100.00 clients around the world. so it was like a spa novel here to talk about the story my colleague nicole rees is with me so i guess people are wondering how did the german secret service and the cia how were they able to spy on so many countries well in the most scandalous and ruthless way if i may say so we're talking about operation rubicon here and that might very well become the most important spying mission that has ever happened in history so far and that we know of of course as we know one of the yeah so on the b. india and the cia in 1970 board company in switzerland that was crypto and crypto was offering a technology to encode important information so a very interesting product for countries that want to protect information that is of flowing between military service for example and communication channels and their biggest top secrets or missions so they built this company and then manipulate it to decipher the machines but then being sold to over a 100 countries in the world we're talking about countries in europe africa asia south america so quite a dimension and all these countries all of the technology thinking they bought the safest thing f.-a thinking that switzerland as a neutral country of course also is a safety but in the end they've paid millions for a technology that was then accessing that top secret service like that in a digital trojan horse if you will that there is a ball it's sort of and you also have to think about the dimensions because i mean there's also money involved the money that they paid and that then the b. and d. and the cia kind of got a really bad deal give it give me some examples of which were the most remarkable i guess you know events or or into these that were spied on well as you can imagine lots of things that happens for at the last decades and in germany and the united states at least that the india and the cia were very well informed about their planning for wood and movements and so why. example actually happened here in berlin talking about the bell bomb being in 1986 the bell was a clump in west berlin that was very popular among american soldiers who were stationed here and it was bombed free people died another 200 were injured and the cia at least knew about it probably also knew about the planning the day after the then president from up reckon announced that he had precise information about this attack and that libya was behind it and so you might very well ask why you know why did did anybody intervene 10 days later the u.s. forces then attacked libya and well they were able to get all this information from operation rubicon because they couldn't read and decipher what was coming out of the libyan embassy and then we've got we've got 30 seconds here what does this mean for switzerland neutral switzerland yeah neutral switzerland now has to crack a very tough not they in launched an investigation about of this whole operation obviously their credibility is at stake here and they also have suspended export licenses for a crypt a successor company so trying to you know stop this device and they're also bought from them many questions that need to be deciphered revealed. yet to come also about that money where has it gone to is a very good for the story with long words all right the reasons always we appreciate your reporting to cope thank you young impressionable and trained to kill it's estimated that 250 cells in child soldiers were recruited and deployed in 2018 in the least 16 countries from south america to asia but as you can see the problem is grave is in africa our next report takes us to south sudan which has one of the highest number of child soldiers in the world. a boy beside 2 guns the 14 year old peter draws himself in order to protect him we can't reveal his identity or use his real name peter is still trying to come to terms with what he experienced in south sudan's civil war. when i left my aunt and sister i was 10 years old. i fled because of the war i had never heard the sound of gunshots before i was afraid that i might be shot so around. a civil war broke out in south sudan after the country gained independence since then different groups have been fighting for power some 400000 people have died so far millions have been forced to flee the violence abruptly ended peter's childhood he struggled on his own at 1st until a rebel group to command. they taught us kill us how to hide ourselves and run. they trained you on how to load a gun. and how to shoot. peter was in the militia for 2 years he was then able to flee to uganda he likes being able to go to school there with help from save the children his life is slowly returning to normal. my heart was happy when i arrived in uganda. i saw schools and hospitals and i was excited and said this is a place where you can at least study and get medication whenever your search. as soon as peter finishes his homework he takes care of his pigeons his pride and joy he spread a good dozen safe peter says living in safety has given him the strength to be hopeful about the future. well it has been almost 2 weeks since the u.k. officially left the european union and it also means of course several in d.c. in the european parliament so how are you lawmakers how are they coping with this change u.w.s. barber of a vessel called up with several of them in found that the holes left by bricks that they have yet to be filled you see the flags of all e.u. member states happily fluttering in front of the european parliament italy belgium denmark they're all there and only if you look closely you notice that one is missing. britain has now left the e.u. how is life going to carry on after brecht's it this is richard corbett one of the most outspoken pro europeans from the labor party who has now left inside the committee room of social democrats german parliamentarian. still can't quite believe that his best friend after so many years is gone so normal the. church would have been the place of richard which saw sitting next to me in the from rule group meeting with was it was nice richards next to me and it said that he's gone the u.k. lost 73 seats in the e.u. parliament because of president and 27 of those where redistributed to other countries one of the winners in this lottery is barry andrews from ireland so i'm very sad for our colleagues particularly from the liberal democrats that are not here but i hope now to be able to fulfil my mandate so yes it's been some good luck for me but the circumstances are not ideal but the newbie also gets to hold his 1st speech in the plenary and most fittingly it is about the new stations on the future relationship especially trade between the e.u. and britain we're at a delicate stage in proceedings and there is no example in history where negotiating parties are seeking to impose trade barriers so it will be difficult to tell the rank of from the green party has like most of her fellow members of parliament not quite digested what happened just 10 days ago but she's also looking for a way for that it's a fast ask a week without our british colleagues and it still feels a little bit surreal that all the seating has changed in the plenary and. then i think anyone we have said of this friendship and with initiatives with conferences with debates we want to keep this information channel going and by the. so obviously and the affection that we feel for each other the friendship that we feel for each other because that doesn't go away just because the fact. breaks it has no really happened and british parliamentarians they have now truly left the european parliament their friends and colleagues they're still grieving but like after every other divorce they knew in the end life will have to go on. for provisional there reporting formula one that now and glamour team ferrari they have unveiled the car that they hope will help them get back to winning ways the season after years of failure german driver sebastian vettel is meant to be their number one but the emergence of teammate shaun the clear has calls tension in the team but the pair may put on their best smiles at a glitzy ceremony ahead of the opening race next month. a grandiose theater in northern italy was chosen as the venue for the unveiling of ferrari's 2020 formula one car the most successful team in the sport have however not won a will drive us title since 2007. germany sébastien fettle one for titles with previous team red bull but struggled badly at ferrari last year so he hopes several technological innovations can give him the boost he needs. i think . it's an incredible achievement obviously a lot of hours that go into the car i like it a lot so i think we had the opportunity to obviously see it a little bit before and to have also a direct comparison with last year's kind you can really split the difference especially when it comes to packaging and the back part of the. fals main problem last season was his own team mate shah lech left the 22 year old from monaco outperformed the german and several incidents led to speculation their rivalry was causing problem. electric believes he can do even better this year the approach is a little bit different just because now i know the team i know. but it's still an improvement over last yes ga so we've been working all together to make it better. and to be more ready fulfill the shia will champions miss avies revealed dead new look caught on monday they hope it will power a title holder lewis hamilton to a 7th championship equaling michael schumacher his record all. have an epic challenge to topple them pre-season testing begins next week with the 1st race in australia on march 15th. all right from fast cars to fast planes air bus has used the singapore air show to unveil a prototype of what it believes could be the passenger jet of the future the maverick is a scale model of what's known as a blended wing body aircraft the revolutionary design is thought to be 20 percent more fuel efficient than the passenger jets we use today or both claims it would give travelers a totally new experience one of the challenges is working out how to prevent passengers at either side from being thrown about too much when the aircraft turns . no martinis on board this is g.w. news i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day stick around for that will be right. robotics and learning marched realises 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