we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does the . u.s. president donald trump pick some familiar faces to defend him the impending impeachment trial. but don't have one on kimmel santamaria this is the world news from al-jazeera rival protests in libya for and against the war khalifa haftar ahead of an international conference to try to end the fighting also airports in the u.s. start screening some passengers from china as fears grow about the spread of a new virus or exposing the truth about west africa's fake drugs trade and cameras

revealing a huge money making business. so us president donald trump has unveiled his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and there are some well known high profile lawyers there people like ken starr who led the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton and was also part of the legal team for the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein also harvard law school professor alan dershowitz whose clients include former football o.j. simpson the movie producer harvey weinstein and he represented epstein as well our correspondent in washington following this is gabriel alexander he says president trump isn't taking any chances with his legal team. trump is taking this very very seriously i mean these 2 lawyers that he brought in to be part of this team are celebrity lawyers that are very very well known in washington and have

a long history in this city and really in the nation 1st looking at alan dershowitz a long time a law professor at harvard he's considered one of the preeminent constitutional lawyers in the u.s. dershowitz is actually a democrat voted for hillary clinton however he has come out very strongly over the last 3 to 4 months or so even if before that saying that he believes that this impeachment trial is something that should not be pursued constitutionally and that there are no high crimes and so-called misdemeanors and so that's really caught trump's attention and i think that's probably why he brought dershowitz on his team also dershowitz his peers on television here in the united states as a legal analyst a lot so he's very adept with the media spotlight and i think that's something that trump probably appreciates also you have ken starr who was from the late ninety's where you're well known in washington d.c. as you mentioned briefly he was the independent counsel that helped to prosecute or

bring the trial impeachment trial against the then president bill clinton and so i think starr is very well known to and i think that's why he was probably brought on this team as well i think you can read into this that trump wants the absolute best people that he can get his hands on. the news and hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the libyan capital tripoli against wald when they found they say he shouldn't be included in the international conference being held in germany which is trying to end the war protests is held signs calling half to the devil's message. but this was happening as well as support for after in the eastern city of benghazi where people chanted and slogans and demanded a halt to oil exports they say oil revenues only benefit the administration in tripoli libya's national oil corporation though is warned any disruption will have far reaching consequences and will happen for the whole country. so there are preparations underway for the peace conference in berlin on sunday representatives

from a number of nations will meet in the latest effort to end months of fighting in libya diplomats are expected to push for a truce agreement and a u.n. monitoring mission on the ground. on the country's coming russia turkey egypt but the u.n. recognize government is calling on qatar and to newsier to join as well the war had explains why the foreign ministry in tripoli has sent an official letter to the german embassy in tripoli requesting that both qatar and tunisia be invited for the talks we know that the government of national accord is keen to include both countries to achieve some kind of balance facing the other daily geisha in supporting the warlords really for have to do as you know at least 4 countries supporting the warlord khalifa haftar are invited to take part

in the 1000000000 talks on sunday including the united arab emirates egypt russia and france so by this move the government here in tripoli is trying to achieve balance it says that tunisia is very important to take part in these talks as tunisia not only as a neighboring country and being impacted and affected by the ongoing crisis in libya but it has been also costing thousands of libyan if you g.-d. and as for qatar the government says that qatar has been all supporting the freedom revolutions in libya since 2 n.t.l. event and the government believes that qatar is a key. player in the peace talks in berlin. some thoughts now from jason park founder of the consultancy libya analysis he explains why the conflict now involves so many countries including greece ever since have to attack tripoli in

april $29000.00 the nature of the civil war in libya changed for the last 4 years before then you had a proxy war the different libyan coalitions were fighting with outside actors supporting one side or the other but now what's happened is it's really the outside actors who are running the show and the different libyan coalitions are fighting and have to has many supporters in egypt russia the u.a.e. saudi arabia jordan and to some extent even france where as the g. and a has not been able to get military support from its traditional allies the u.s. u.k. and italy so it's been between a rock and a hard place and desperately only the turks have stepped up to the plate with the drones air support and mercenaries that the g.n.a.t. needs and in exchange for that they demanded you need to sign this maritime m.-o.

you and the maritime m.-o. you violates the international law of the sea known as un closs in giving a turkish libyan shared zone of economic influence between south western anatolia and the libyan coast and of course that has enraged greece and cyprus because they've been prospecting for natural gas in those waters. turkey's president rejected type one has accused the syrian government of breaking a ceasefire agreement and killing 20 people in the last opposition held province of a deal came into effect last sunday but the violence carried on and pushed more people from their homes reports. the ceasefire deal was short lived in a loop syria's last opposition on play. brokered by turkey and russia it came into effect on sunday. this was filmed on thursday it shows

a russian jet in the syrian army pounding opposition positions they say they were provoked. but the most enough military operations result on southeastern fronts after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors. the insurgents a rebels aligned with the syrian opposition the last fighters in a war that began nearly 9 years ago is supported by turkey president responded to the escalation after friday prayers. unfortunately this is clear proof that the syrian regime is not abiding by the steps that we took regarding the ceasefire and the excuse is always ready this is the excuse terrorist organizations are doing this or that these are all lies. you are living in this province a 3000000 people it's the last opposition stronghold with little recourse they sing of the suffering heart full of not fear. this is as

much a protest as a funeral they say despite the ceasefire 2 bombs killed their friends here on wednesday. and in the shadows 350000 syrians who fled their homes since early december michael hart the found shelter in mosques across the province. now that we have no one our neighbor knocked on the door in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as we were living on relief and aid. life is stark here in the winter many refugee seems as if just building carcasses has no heat. is it on the left we are waiting for someone to have mercy on us come to help us here we committed no crime to be punished this way no one is looking at us in mercy my husband and son of both disabled our life is destroyed this was meant to be

temporary now the cease fire has broken again shallop palace al-jazeera. dozens of people were injured in the iraqi capital baghdad in fights between police and protesters security forces fired tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators who were trying to reach a bridge near tahrir square that is where thousands have been camped out for months demanding political change hundreds of people have been killed since the mass purchased began back in october. now 3 u.s. airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from china for a new virus so far killed 2 people new york's j.f.k. airport along with the san jealous and san francisco airports will begin taking passengers temperatures and asking them about their symptoms. i have read some news about it and we've heard about their. problems and i think it's each is that the corner back the other is it's going to be good choices to make caches

about it and then make sure it's a real thing don't spread it around a little bit. not know verse but you know i don't know because the 1st time i go to china and then maybe you know that i am i get the following. but i'm going to be careful. china says almost 50 people have been infected but some research also from london's period college suggesting there could be more than 700 cases the u.s. based center for disease control says it hasn't seen this kind of disease before chinese officials have identified this al break as being caused by a novel coronavirus a corona virus is a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but it actually can also cause more serious diseases like mers and sars is katrina you now joining us from beijing katrina tell us the back story 1st of all about where it seems this virus is coming

from. so this is this virus is coming from a city called rouhani which is in the southern province of china and it's not a small city about 11000000 people live there and the people who are 1st reported to have cases of this now what we know as the coronavirus have all but were all associated with a particular seafood market and this market also sold other kinds of live produce we're told so everybody who was quarantined and there were about 700 people who were 1st quarantined in that market who were either working in that market or were known to have frequently gone to that market those people were quarantined now at the moment we've heard that there are so far 45 cases of this corona virus and they're all people from all people reported the connected to this market but

there are of are of course fears as you mentioned that there are more people now especially you know we're coming into the chinese new year period here in china and that's a huge concern 11 people 11000000 people who live in who hired the government says that during chinese new year you have some 2000000000 trips made across china so there are concerns that this could break. into other areas in china although of course the government is very very worried about causing any panic as well but there is some skepticism around those numbers we've had 2 people confirmed dead from this virus so far is that from the chinese government or any authorities about precautions that they're taking obviously we reported on what the 3 american airports are doing but what about the source. right so what is interesting that so far we haven't seen any sort of measures similar to that from the chinese government i think they're very much worried

because it is such a sensitive time about causing any panic about this spread so everybody the government has told people that they have not ruled out human to human contact and that if anybody should so any signs of fever or any sort of cold and flu like symptoms or pneumonia like symptoms to go straight to the hospital all or all hospitals across china have been alerted and there will be everyone who has any symptoms that might. alert the medical authorities will be tested for the krona virus but interesting lee there hasn't been any other sort of measures in terms of public transport any scans and that kind of thing as yet i think the government is quite concerned about this but of course going forward now that we know that there are 45 people at least found with this illness people are going to start to ask questions as they were already are and certainly we have colleagues who are from the city of war who would be normally going back home for the chinese new year who

are deciding especially with their children that they're not going there at all so there's a really starting to be a lot of concern among the chinese public and certainly there will be some demand for more answers from the government in days to come thank you for the update country you're in beijing. in the news ahead india's new citizenship law it's creating panic among hindu isms lowest social group. and were in guatemala with families who say they have nothing left to lose on their journey to what they hope is a better future. but . you still got plenty of showers across southeast asia some lively ones there just around borneo as a bunch of malaysia pushing down into indonesia say some heavy showers in the heat of the day a little bit of wet weather too just pushing into central areas of the philippines

for sunday push on into monday that will sink a little further south was scattering of showers there through malaysia some showers that just affecting a good part of indonesia want to see showers a possibility into the far northwest of australia over the next couple of days but over towards the east that's where the main focus has been for some really heavy rainfall you can still see this large area of cloud and rain which brought some flooding into parts of southeastern queensland this is around the gold coast school saying $214.00 millimeters of rain and flooding remains an issue as we go on through the next couple of days actually what's the weather still there on the eastern side of new south wales pushing down into victoria was a chance to sink further showers here as we go on through sunday and going on into monday as well not too far away and by monday that is somewhat to weather just pushing in across the other side of it or western areas seeing some cloud and right look at that rain gathering to the southern parts of new south wales with the

flooding in the forecast. and counting the cost from palaces monster trade deal is china capitulates can beijing deliver tens of. billions in extra trade russia seeks to isolate ukraine with a pipeline via turkey plus south korea's duds struggling to climb the social escalator counting the cost of now just. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from london broadcast. on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines u.s. president has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate ken starr's one of the most high profile lowest sign up in the last impeachment has to go to bill clinton rival protests have been held in libya and of a u.n. backed peace conference to try to end months of fighting demonstrators in the capital tripoli say eastern based warlord khalifa haftar shouldn't be included in sunday's talks while his supporters were rallying in the city of benghazi. and u.s. airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from the city in china for a new virus that so far killed 2 people there china says almost 50 people have been infected but experts believe the true scale of the outbreak is. mexico's government's promising jobs generally 3000 migrants hoping to get into the u.s. at the moment they're in guatemala trying to make their way north towards mexico

and then on to the u.s. but of course central american countries of been under increasing pressure from washington to stop migrants crossing into america john heilemann reports from guatemala city. die another and dead march from honduras thought the family had finally made it when they reached the u.s. not for asylum instead he was suppression sent them to guatemala they say without their consent you know you know if you know my husband they gave us papers to saying they would in english when we asked what the where they said they just had our details on them when we saw the asylum officer the next day he told us we st our consent to go back to. they're not alone the u.s. is now shipping hondurans and salvadorans who arrive at its border to guatemala to apply for asylum there instead more than $100.00 so far and no being for a mouse they're not being informed of what's going on in the u.s.

they're being told they're going higher and it's a surprise for them to arrive in guatemala. president trumps of ministration says the country is safe for asylum seekers and the question. in the 2019 fiscal year guatemala was actually the biggest source of migrants detained at the u.s. border over the years it struggled to keep its own population from leaving let alone taking care of asylum seekers coming in here. the country's one of the poorest in the hemisphere and the u.s. travel department itself warns but crime such as armed robbery murder is common gang activity such as extortion violent street crime and narcotics trafficking is widespread he added to that the asylum system here is skeletal there are only a dozen case officers meanwhile. n.g.o.s of picking up the slack. we had to provide the migrants with legal aid and medical aid food everything so we

know the state doesn't have the resources to offer asylum or even conduct the process we asked the u.s. department of homeland security for comment we didn't hear back. but it's reach similar agreements with honduras and el salvador hoping to reduce pressure on a clogged up immigration system that means asylum seekers could soon be sent to the world's most violent countries. after a night at a migrant shelter. and their children are trying to get the bus fare together to get home they were dropped in guatemala with nothing but the clothes they're wearing john homan now does it or what. ukraine's president. has rejected the resignation of his prime minister on friday on a ski on shark offered to step down after all your recordings were leaked where he criticizes the president's limited political experience has not confirmed the voice

is actually his but on social media said he'd step down to remove any doubts about his respect and trust for the president now hundreds of thousands of people in africa are dying every year from taking counterfeit medicines this is according to the world health organization african leaders are now meeting and told her to sign an agreement to crack down on the illicit trade which is worth $200000000000.00 in west africa alone because hard as a report from dakar in senegal it started with a niche and turned into a rash it was then factories are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man that market. after taking them she found she couldn't walk she started vomiting and even lost her teeth she ended up in hospital in intensive care. the doctor told me i was going to die i had to tell them the truth i couldn't afford to buy drugs in the pharmacy so i bought them on the street. to the pills

from a market like this one cameras are not welcome here ours is concealed. we're soon approached this man tells us he buys and sells medicine then shows us what he has among the drugs he selling or the pills that poison far too he tells us it's good quality it's from france he says this is the medicine that we bought inside the market we bought the exact same one at a local pharmacy now some of these drugs look completely different others are identical would be impossible to tell which one is real in which one isn't selling drugs outside of a pharmacy on the streets is illegal here in san diego and throughout most west african countries but the law is rarely enforced the world health organization says that the african continent is flooded with counterfeit medicine saying that at least $100000.00 people die every year ingesting think medicine counterfeit drugs

is a $200000000000.00 trade and it's said to be booming in west africa the fake medicines are made in china or india or nigeria pharmacist say their warnings about the counterfeit are too often ignored if it's the state's responsibility to protect its citizens this is poison in our health care system and this is having a devastating impact on our population. to no longer trust medicines she's focusing instead on the food she eats saying a good diet may be the best way to stay healthy nicholas heart al-jazeera car. thousands of people in the philippines who were forced to leave their homes after the volcanic eruption there have been allowed to go back briefly and can only stay for a few hours though just to collect their belongings and to start cleaning up bride reports from the town of talisay which is in the danger zone. the to harlowe eruption has turned this part of tel aside into a ghost town population normally in the thousands it's now deserted its

residents are only allowed to come back a few hours each morning to collect belongings and start the daunting task of trying to fix up their homes. their real or tank reliques shows us the thickness of the layer of debris left behind by the eruption. with his children the 1st priority is making their home livable again before even thinking of restarting the family business. or my long walk it's depressing i want to cry it'll take such a long time for us to recover it makes you lose hope when. the town is just 5 kilometers from the volcano and boats from here used to take tourists on day trips to the island but this is as close as. is allowed to get he has a herd of cattle on the island but can't retrieve them. this is our source of livelihood and what will happen after this tragedy if we can get our cattle we can

start a new life when the volcano erupted the prevailing winds pushed the plume of ash and dust in this direction completely covering towns like this one forcing its residents to flee to safety well over 50000 people lost still sheltering in evacuation centers around this province many towns like this one are allowing residents back for short periods. but by 10 am it's time for people to leave again and the police roadblocks are back in place those displaced are being supported by relief supplies but what they really want is to know when they can return to their homes permanently. the tank will eat family finish their clean up for another day but will be back tomorrow returning to live in their houses one thing getting their lives back together that's far more of

a challenge to robert pride al-jazeera batangas province northern philippines now in india hindus from the lowest rung of the faiths caste hierarchy have joined the protests against the citizenship law and the one which often citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims thing is they're not the only ones feeling threatened and reports in the state of a pradesh. 22 year old is going around his village in the northern state of their predation to convince parents to send their children for free education. the classes are organized by a community called the army which was formed in 2014 to tackle the problems faced with upper caste hindus. delegates are at the bottom rung of the caste system and say they are often violently discriminated against our local wants all delegates to

know their rights but now there is added concern about the new citizenship law because it means that either man this be the big government that mean opposition is against. muslims and the it the a community is worried that today they are targeting muslims. tomorrow it will be us. in new delhi the beam army led the lights in a protest against the law. their leader. was arrested. the opposition says the indian government broke the new law to create a hindu muslim divide but it may have cause unintended splits many in the ballot community traditionally marginalized but upper caste hindus are now questioning the law their opposition along with that of muslims has the power to change governments so the class activists say it will be at a serious disadvantage if the government asks for multiple documents to prove their

citizenship historically they have been the settlers landless people so which document they could possibly have the lids and the muslims are the water of change they represent change in the society if they are being pushed to the wall they will work for the change. are looks father believes the law is a way for the government to die work attention from economic problems but it also provides an opportunity to target ballots. the thinking of those who are privatizing government is they will give jobs to the people not the ballot they want to sell them but these women also members of the dalit community supports the new law. at it must be good i trust the prime minister he would have made a good will. the indian government says many of the religiously persecuted people

it will grant citizenship to other dully. but i look says young who were able to vote in the last elections were seduced by false promises made by the ruling nationalist b.g.p. . he says it won't happen again education will see to that. al-jazeera. india. past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate ken starr's one of the most high profile lawyers to sign up he led the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton rival protests have been held in libya a head of the u.n. backed peace conference trying to win months of fighting demonstrators in the capital tripoli say the eastern based world police for hafter should not be included in sunday's talks in berlin his supporters were rallying in the city of

benghazi 3 u.s. airports a bigger screen passengers arriving from city in china for a new virus that so far killed 2 people there china says almost 50 people have been infected but there is a belief the true scale of the outbreak is far bigger the 3 u.s. based center for disease control says it hasn't seen this kind of disease before chinese officials have identified this al break as being caused by a novel coronavirus a corona virus is a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but it actually can also cause more serious diseases like mers and sars. ukraine's president vladimir olinsky has rejected the resignation of his prime minister on friday or less. offered to step down after already a recordings were leaked where he criticized the president's limited political experience on general cannot confirm the voice is his but on social media he said

he offers to step down to remove any delegates that he respects and trusts the president's mexico's government promising jobs to nearly $3000.00 migrants hoping to get into the u.s. at the moment they're in guatemala making their way north towards mexico central american countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to stop migrants crossing into the u.s. and thousands of people in the philippines forced from their homes after a volcanic eruption have been allowed to go back to their houses briefly in one town the evacuation order was lifted so residents could collect their belongings and rescue their animals the volcano's activity has weakened but there are still fears it could erupt again. ok so those are the headlines phenomenons he's got the news hour in about 25 minutes from now next it's counting the costs down.

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