rapidly changing. 20 years of me continues with good morning groups on how to 0. he was president donald trump pick some familiar faces to defend him in the impending impeachment trial. live from doha everyone come out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera airports in the u.s. start screening some passengers from china as fears grow about the spread of a deadly new virus also cyprus pleads for help from the e.u. warning it's a breaking point assassins of migrants streaming in. and exposing the truth about

west africa's fake drugs trade a hidden cameras reveal a huge money making business. hello everyone u.s. president donald trump has unveiled his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and among them 3 very high profile lawyers it starts with ken starr the man who led the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton he was also part of the legal team for the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein then we have robert w. ray he is also joined the team he succeeded star as the independent counsel and negotiated a settlement with clinton when he left the white house and then you have got a celebrity lawyer really a former harvard law school professor alan dershowitz his clients have included the likes of the football star o.j. simpson mike tyson the boxer harvey weinstein of course the film producer well our

correspondent to gabriel is on the in washington d.c. is following this and says donald trump is just not taking any chances with this 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 democrats voted for hillary clinton however he has come out very strong 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 threats if fine now constitutional lawyer for us associate deputy attorney general who told us despite hiring a top tier legal team it is likely trump supporters will rely on distracting people from proceedings. the strategy of the republicans is as follows they will hope that the american people will get bored after the opening arguments and the presentation

of the evidence that's already in play and after several weeks they'll say we just need to get to a verdict the 2nd element that militates in favor of delay on mr trump's part is that i believe as happened in the nixon and clinton impeachment there will be a national security crisis that will develop and mr trump will maybe assassinate someone like saul the many they'll be an escalation of tensions in the middle east or a straight a for most it will be said that we can't afford an impeachment trial we need to bring this to closure remember that's what mr nixon did in the yom kippur war and put us on def con 3 that was the highest nuclear alert stage with the soviet union mr clinton bombed iraq for 6 months hoping to deflect attention from his impeachment ordeal and i believe mr trump will not be reluctant to follow those examples so bill look for a big national security crisis in the next weeks on to other news in turkey's president has called on europe to support his efforts in the obeah ahead of a peace conference in berlin on sunday turkey backs the internationally recognized

government in tripoli which is coming under attack from the wall of khalifa haftar in a column on the web site politico reject typer on wrote this he said to leave libya at the mercy of a warlord would be a mistake of historic proportions keeping in mind europe is less interested in providing military support to libya the obvious choice is to work with turkey which is already promised military assistance and if the tripoli government was a full one warned groups including eisel and al qaida would find a court fertile ground to get back on their feet you know hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the libyan capital tripoli against the wall over they say he shouldn't be included in this conference in germany which is trying to in the purchases hold up signs calling have to the devil's messenger. but contrast that with this support from after only the city of benghazi where people chanted and slogans and demanded

a halt to oil exports they say or revenues only benefit the aaa guys to administration libya's national oil corporation has warned any disruption will have far reaching consequences for the whole country so the likes of russia and turkey and egypt all attending this conference in berlin but the u.n. recognize government is calling on qatar and tune is here to join in as well mahmoud arbil head explains why. the government of national accord is trying to stress. is trying to stress on the fact that both tunisia and qatar should be invited to take part and meeting and berlin because of the fact that the other delegation the other camp led by have has several supporters key players taking part in the billing talks including the united arab emirates egypt france and russia but on the other side only turkey the only country supporting the

government of national court is going bited to this conference in berlin so the government here gives a pretext for inviting qatar and tunisia saying that qatar has been all those supporting the freedom little blue shirts that ousted $44.00 decades of dictatorship of duffy and the government also says it believes that qatar is a key player in achieving peace in libya and as for tunisia the government says that is not only an able in country that has the right to be part of any peaceful settlement to the conflict in libya but also tunisia has been hostile to thousands of libya refugees and as a neighboring country has been impacted and affected by what's going on in libya and some thoughts now from jason patric who's founder of the consultancy group libya analysis he explains why the conflict now involves so many countries going to greece ever since have to attack tripoli in april 29th.

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 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 class 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 a car bomb has exploded in somalia in an apparent attack on turkish contractors this is in the town of northwest of market issue the turkish embassy in somalia says at least 11 people were injured turkish engineers having lunch with somali police at the time of the attack. 3 u.s. airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from city in china for a new virus that so far killed 2 people york's j.f.k. airport along with ascension and san francisco international's will begin taking passengers temperatures and asking them about their symptoms china is saying no

almost 50 people have been affected but research by london's puerile college suggests they could be more than $700.00 cases the center for disease control in the united states says it hasn't seen this kind of disease before. chinese officials have a dentist by this outbreak is 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 trying to use in beijing for us so spoke earlier about the government's response to the outbreak the chinese government they are very much trying to keep a lid on any sort of widespread panic and they're trying to say that everyone who is associated with this particular seafood wholesale market which seems to be connecting all the people who have been affected so far have been being closely watched or have been tested and that everything is under control and that they've said that everyone who is affected is from is from rouhani and so far it hasn't

broken out into other areas now of course the government is trying to do this because we're entering the chinese new year period and is not a small city 11000000 people live there and during this period there are about 2000000 trips made across china if there's any panic sparked around this corona virus that it could lead to all sorts of kael so the government is very much interested in trying to spread the message that it is all ok if you have any symptoms get tested because we're not ruling out human to human transmission but at the same time don't panic and just go about every business that's that's their message so far his doctor muhammad minear now a lecturer in biomedicine at lancaster university explaining how this family of viruses can be exceptionally dangerous. you know highly contagious they can force much from one person to another person very quickly in the short foreseeable time with a lethal impact so ugly that we detect them better prepared we were beefcake any action against that so any delay in detection could be grammatically lethal and as

you can remember that initially we didn't know the cause for this one therefore probably the virus has moved on to more places than if we knew the cause then we would have done something about it if we really look close to the genetic makeup make up their own very similar to each other and if we look on to the clinical signs they cause the biggest farce and this warm parcel of life that they do cause a similar kind of disease so as with the current information we have at the moment they're all highly likely that the viruses have a great potential to cause a much more lethal infection that what we are seeing at the moment. in the news ahead take it to the dangers and the latest from the erupting volcano in the philippines one of asia's most important river this is running dry and tell you why a little bit like.

how the weather's lotty set fabric cross china at the moment and clearing skies to that for japan's area cloud just pulling away into the open waters off the northwest pacific we are going to say one or 2 showers into northern parts of honshu a little bit of cloud in the rain just pushing its way across the sea of japan eventually feeding into northern areas of honshu as we go on through sunday and on into monday and of course over the high ground as well we will see some wintry weather mixed in there so a fair bit of snow a possibility for the south tokyo so the bottom out is not too bad 13 celsius here 1st guys across the korean peninsula clear skies to across a good parts of china but down towards the southwest of china could see some cloud and rain just spilling in here as we go on through the next day all to never have some disturbed weather recently around the himalayas so was a possibility of

a few flakes of snow a rolling through here but things generally quiet in down the city the case across much of in the of tools in the northeast up to world behati will west bengal you might just catch one achieve light showers but essentially the picture is logically that's the case through sunday and going on to monday a very similar picture a little cloud down towards the the far south east was shot was this for lanka. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wipe them out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping domino trouble float right now critical debate sequel of those 2 school children know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. more.

orders. here with al-jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump has unveiled his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate ken starr is one of the most high profile lawyers to sign up a force led the impeachment investigation into president clinton turkey's president called on europe to support his efforts in libya ahead of a peace conference in berlin on sunday the ship type one said it would be a mistake of historic proportions to let the warlord khalifa haftar gain control of the country. in 3 years airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from one

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 far bigger. turkey's president's reject typewriter one has also accuse the syrian government of breaking a ceasefire agreement and killing 20 people in the last opposition help province of idlib deal came into effect last sunday but violence has only continued and pushed more people from their homes shelob ellis has more but. the ceasefire deal was short lived in adlib serious last opposition on clay. 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. with the most and the military operations result on

southeastern front after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors the insurgence or 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 and you know. 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 strongholds with little recourse they sing of the suffering heart full of not full on deaf ears but. this is as much a protest as a funeral they say despite the cease fire 2 bombs killed their friends here on wednesday. and in the shadows 350000 syrians

who fled their homes since early december i call her the found shelter in mosques across the province and that then we have no one on a bit knocked on the door in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as we're living on relief aid life is stark here in the winter many refugee seems is it just building carcasses there's no heat water let me get back to that i haven't heard that was 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 and messy my husband and son about disabled our life is destroyed this was meant to be temporary now the cease fire has broken again shallop palace al-jazeera. cyprus is calling on the e.u. do help with the huge influx of migrants and refugees most of them take

a boat from turkey and then cross the border from the self declared republic of nor the design press critics accuse cyprus the country complain of deliberately making things up pleasant for asylum seekers to keep more from coming and support from rory talons omar has experienced much misery she's not giving her real name to protect family back in syria bashar assad's massacres forced her to leave via lebanon to cyprus but life here is not happy so do you think the government do you think cyprus as a country wants here now you know it's a racist country the day after their ship arrived 4 months ago omar's husband was arrested he's not being prosecuted but police won't say why they're not releasing him only that they think he's a security threat and. we came from an unjust country we came from oppression from bashar al assad syria then we came to this country thinking

there's justice democracy and human rights things aren't much better for many other asylum seekers people queue for menial jobs and me go welfare coupons through the night to be one of the lucky few seen by a handful of staff during office hours asylum applications can take many years to complete it's an overwhelmed and confusing system as more arduous routes into europe are restricted the relatively simple journey from turkey to the self declared republic of northern cyprus then into the south becomes more travelled. 15000 now have refugee status here upwards of 15000 more applications are pending now these aren't huge numbers on the global scheme of things certainly compared to the millions of refugees in turkey but cyprus is a tiny country and it now has the highest number of asylum seekers per capita of anywhere in the european union cyprus is interior minister says they need european

help because the system is at breaking point if turkey is is continuously. pushing people to across the green line to cyprus they are entering the european territory it's not a cyprus problem any more than my creation is it's a european problem but some on the ground see things differently doris polycarp who runs kisa a refugee focused ngo he's critical of europe's inaction but he says cyprus has created a hostile environment to make itself a less attractive destination if you don't do you our job and you are in fear that this will say they will blame you for this situation is very easy to say europe is the responsible for their not showing so that even you still are saying that we need. and we didn't do what we should do as with all refugee stories whether governments are on able or unwilling to cope it's real people who suffer rory

chalons al-jazeera cyprus mexico's government is promising jobs to nearly 3000 migrants hoping to get into the united states at the moment there in guatemala as they make their way north towards mexico central american countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to stop migrants crossing into the united states. now the water levels in one of asia's longest rivers the mekong have dipped sharp play off to china began testing equipment in one of the rivers up and downs the mekong flows through china but also 5 other countries including cambodia or levels are expected to plummet florence 3 reports now from cambodia has come pong champ province. hall stross has been fishing in the mekong river for more than 20 years just like his father did before him. from all the used to be a lot more fish we only had the castanets and they've been whole we used to catch about $70.00 to $80.00 kilos each time but now there's hardly any. he says fish

used to be abundant even in the dry season but not since the last couple of years he's also noticed more extreme fluctuations in water levels there are 11 dams in the upper reaches of the mekong river in china environmental advocates say these have had an impact on the river and the life in that 70 person up them they teach. 3. species meaning that then my quit. and downstream in vietnam all the way up to not and part of thailand so they depend lastly on the seasonal water level of the men that driven by day and flats. in early january china issued a statement to say it's testing equipment in one of its dams increasing outflow by more than half the mekong river commission and into governmental organization

warned countries in the lower reaches of the river including cambodia to expect lower water levels this week this season's drought has caused the water level in the mix to fall to its lowest in 60 years and there's been an exceptionally low flow of water in most parts of the river basin the 6 months. further from the. one that relies mostly on rice farming here people rely on water stored in horns during the dry season but even these have dried up. when there's no water there's lots of problems we have to spend a lot of money to drill a well and quitman small pump isn't good enough we have to get a bigger one already spent double of what i normally would in the mekong river commission and china have said bell conduct a study to identify the causes and impacts of this season's trout but with more dams being planned for the mekong it's communities who rely on the river who continue to pay the price florence al-jazeera province cambodia

parts of canada's eastern province of newfoundland and labrador are under a state of emergency due to an unusually strong snowstorm businesses in the capitals and johns and surrounding towns have been ordered to close and people told to stay off the roads there's concerns that the blizzards and extreme wind will only lead to more dangerous conditions the storm is expected to continue through saturday. thousands of people in the philippines who were forced to leave their homes after a volcanic eruption have been allowed to go back briefly they can only stay for a few hours each day to collect their belongings and try to start cleaning up the bride reports from the town of talisay in the volcano's danger zone. the to holler option 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. very last time it really exposes 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 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 house is one thing getting their lives back together that's far more of a challenge to robert bride al jazeera batangas province northern philippines.

hundreds of thousands of people in africa are dying every day and it's because of counterfeit medicines so says the world health organization and so african leaders are meeting in tango to sign an agreement to crack down on the illicit trade which is worth $200000000000.00 in west africa alone because reports from dakar in senegal. it started with an itch and turned into a rash it was then factors are decided to get some medicine but to save money she bought pills from a man at a 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 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. no longer trusts medicines she's focusing instead on the. saying a good diet may be the best way to stay healthy nicholas hawk al-jazeera. here on al-jazeera and these are the headlines u.s. president donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate. one of the most high profile lawyers to sign up he led the last impeachment investigation into bill clinton took his president's call on europe to support his efforts in libya and a peace conference in berlin on sunday which up typer one said it would be

a mistake of historic proportions to let the ward khalifa haftar gain control of the country. exploded in somalia in an apparent attack on turkish contractors this is in the town of northwest of the capital market issue. to see in somalia says at least 11 people were injured turkish engineers who were having lunch with somali police at the time of the attack. 3 u.s. airports have begun to 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 experts believe the true scale of the outbreak is much bigger. also we've seen research from london's imperial college suggesting there could be 17100 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 mexico's government is promising jobs to nearly 3000 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 as far into the u.s. and parts of canada's eastern province of newfoundland and labrador under a state of emergency from unusually strong snow storm businesses in the capitals and jones and surrounding towns have been ordered to close there is concern the blizzards and strong winds will lead to more dangerous conditions that's my lot for today thank you for your company inside story is coming up next.

how long a lot of reporting hold on to power the russian leader has named a new prime minister and promised to introduce constitutional reforms but what's motivating head and what are his plans for the future of russia this is inside story. hello i'm richelle carey welcome to the program russia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved the nation's new prime minister the former head of the federal tax service mccalmont used and will succeed to meet the medvedev that the of death resigned along with the entire government on wednesday after president vladimir putin now.