use to the world from here. china's deadly corona virus is spreading south korea confirms its 1st case. i'm so glad this is al jazeera live also coming up barricades and burning tires renewed protests begin in iraq's capital baghdad. world powers back a cease fire in libya but more shilling and an oil blockade raised doubts for whole . plus ship hijackings double in the gulf of guinea making it the world's most dangerous waterway.

we begin in china where outbreak of a new corona virus has spread to more cities it also confirmed in the 3rd asian country south korea's centers for disease control and prevention as now reported its 1st case that's after a chinese woman who flew into incheon city from on sunday was quarantined japan and thailand have also reported cases of the virus the virus has killed 3 people since 1st being detected 139 new cases were confirmed over the weekend including in beijing and chains and near hong kong after london and click confirmed patient was identified in the quarantine phase and there is no community exposure and those who have come in contact are currently being investigated. because you knew you was live 1st now in beijing traynor of course all this happening on the eve of what is a very very big period of travel during chinese new year tell us about the concerns inside the country right now that's

right well firstly one of the concerns is how fast the number of those affected officially have it have been rising on the weekend we had 50 or so people confirmed to have this mystery coronavirus and today that number is about 200 so i think people are concerned about how fast this is spreading especially given as you mentioned we're heading into the chinese new year period now one is not a small city about 11 pm 11000000 people living there it's a quite a major transport hub and during this time for chinese new year you have hundreds of millions of people going home or crisscrossing the country taking public transport now the bain main concern is that authorities have not ruled out human to human transition transmission of this virus although we know that it has originated in the seafood market in which is now being closed and all the people who are connected directly to that market have been quarantined and those who have been

given the all clear have been let go but at the same time we're hearing as you mentioned cases in japan thailand and south korea supreme in china starting to ask the question if this disease is ending up. much further afield outside of china what are they what are the chances it's going to pop up in more places in china itself and we've had cases confirmed in beijing cases confirmed in shenzhen and we have now more cases potentially in the province of georgia which is not far from shanghai so what's the government doing here to train it to either stop the spread but also to quell some of those concerns some of that fear even panic that might be creeping in. that's right so we've seen the government step up checks for people taking public transport so we've got checks across airports checks or across railway stations people monitoring temperature particularly for any outbound flights or outbound. trains from the city of 100 hospitals are on alert hospital stuff around the country are being given some provisional training

on as as much as we know about this virus and how to treat it and people in one city that itself have been told as much as possible not to go outside to pay attention to washing their hands to mosques and any big public gatherings have also be can't been canceled and they've also stepped up the regulation of any markets where they have live animals as well but at the same time there is concern that this is really still not enough i mean given the sensitivity of this of this time it's post via a time of celebration this has to be a time of rest for the chinese government itself so they're really taking pains not to cause panic to the point that 8 people who had have actually been detained for spreading rumors about this virus for telling people that that it is definitely stop so the government have been a pain to tell people of a surf on those recent times the majority are mild we're not sure yet how it can be transmitted to people but there is a lot of skepticism as well about whether the government is being completely

transparent about this about this illness because we know in 20022003 when we had the outbreak of sars that affected thousands of people where hundreds of people died here in china that the government weren't being very honest at the beginning of that outbreak and there are fears that we're seeing a similar thing happen today with the coronavirus to try to thank you could prove to you live from beijing. police have fired tear gas in baghdad as they tried to break down protesters barricades on the outskirts of the capital and latest round of mass demonstrations broke out there and in a number of cities in the south including knowledge of a nasiriyah protesters are trying to cut off the south of the country by blockading major roads to demonstrations began you know people are angry about widespread corruption and a lack of public services. here in town imran khan who joins us now in baghdad more about the book tides and what impact they have. well in the south of the

country the provinces that face baghdad the blockade is actually holding what the protesters have done is they blocked off the main highways on the roads leading from provinces like nasiriyah and babylon into the capital the only things that are getting crusader protest is emergency vehicles and food supply trucks this is a real escalation from the protesters. in terms of what they can do by blocking off these roads are effectively trying to cut the south of the country off from the rest of the country now this is a real escalation as i say in the reason why they're doing this is because they're frustrated that their demands are being listened to they say that the government hasn't put in place a new prime minister the new prime minister has been called the elections that house happened so the protesters are meeting each trying their hardest to escalate a book real pressure on the government here in baghdad how about the road block

a road works nights what happened this morning have very in the early hours of this morning is the security forces went in and they played those book hates they were there was take that sort of big fight at the protesters just in one of the makeshift hospitals just behind me there are people in that hospital who are suffering from the off to face at a gas now let's just take a closer look at what the protesters want why they've taken this action. preparations begin for what protesters say will cripple iraq's roads they may be small in number at the moment but these protesters say they will cut off the south of iraq from the rest of the country by blocking all the main roads the reason is simple they say their demands for a new prime minister a new elections have been met and if they don't meet by sunday night they will make good on that threat all across the south and the shot it so out of ostend we block the roads and are demanding our rights the rights of young people to get jobs we

want rapid elections an independent candidate who doesn't belong to the old parties . are going to demand the central government go to early elections and nominate a new pm independent and accepted by protesters if not we will escalate and block the highway and all the entrances of the city and kick out the corrupt officials so if iraq's security forces are letting the protesters make a stand now. in babylon we allow the demonstrators to express their constitutional rights but not affect or harm other residents when demonstrators block the roads the security forces negotiate with the protesters to find solutions and we become mediators between babylon's local governments and the demonstrators. throughout the south of iraq protesters gather every day in large number but they're concerned that they're not being listened to prime minister i'd love to muddy has said he will step down and he's currently indicated take a role but so far none of the alternative names put forward for the top job are acceptable to either parliament or the protest movement and that's frustrating the

protesters. well now in the coming days this is a decisive moment for the protest movement itself will the government they said they are hoping that the road blockade in the south certainly is going to put pressure on the government and they will have to listen however the government seems to be holding as well so it remains to be seen what happens next if this road block doesn't work what do the protesters do then what can they escalate swards to put pressure on the government thank you run him run john live for us in baghdad. new violence has broken out in libya hours after a peace conference wrapped up in berlin military forces aligned with the un recognized government accused those loyal to warlord relief after of showing residential areas south of the capital that casts doubt on the latest push for peace by war leaders who promised to respect a u.n. arms embargo and work towards a permanent cease fire. are reports from the german capital. it was

the most important gathering to and libya's conflict in many years but from the start german chancellor angela merkel was struggling to narrow differences between libya's rivals the prime minister of the tripoli based government of national accord phases with used to sit down with warlords highly for have to leave merkel shuttling back and forth to convince spaceship powers to help secure a permanent cease fire and stop the flow of arms into the water on country. nothing here in berlin there. everyone with an agreement including the regional organizations the arab league to a you and of course the african union that we need a political solution it's become evident in the last few weeks that there is no chance for a military solution which could only increase the suffering of the libyan people

the u.n. chief said the new diplomatic gains made so far boost the chances for a new political process and led by the libyans weirds already in part is to engage in a leave you no longer dialogue under the auspices of the united nations paving the way for a political solution to the crisis despite the consensus among the participants of the conference there remains a huge disagreement for us president manuel mcraney called for an immediate and to foreign intervention paris has recently expressed concerns over turkey. growing influence but for president of us of. turkey's role is crucial to and violence and to prevent her from capturing tripoli. we have been trying on a number of occasions to have a cease fire agreement signed a government of national accord signed a cease fire agreement yet it wasn't signed by the other party led by half tad if

we fail to heavy a cease fire in place and if we fail to have an agreement signed we will never see how to ask hostilities coming to an end russia is also expanding its influence in libya but appears to be willing to team up with turkey to ensure the cease fire holds even though both countries support opposite sides of the conflict. because. we think both the parties were coming to moscow as they both had heeded our calls and they had both responded to our demands of a ceasefire now we are in berlin we hope for more success in this particular crisis . the us well has significantly diminished in the oil rich country the e.u. is divided the french support have to while the italians. there were hopes the conference will bring all the parties that can and the conflict button is you know was shunned from the peace talks after receiving an invitation

last minute morocco which host of the 2015 peace talks and a key supporter of the d.n.a. were also excluded the bullying conference was essentially about political dialogue libyan rival groups will meet in geneva in the coming weeks to see if they can form a new government or risk turning their country into a permanent playground for foreign intervention. belin. still ahead on al-jazeera shot arrested and charged for damages our potence of india's new citizenship they're being intimidated. plus we'll tell you what's causing the largest swarm of locusts in east africa in 25 years.

hello there not bad conditions generally across much of central europe we've got a bit of cloud around one of 2 lightly scouted showers a loss of time streaming in across the north but it's actually keeping the weather away from you can out of ones because we've got a little ridge of high pressure in control what we haven't got is this dry conditions for eastern spain we have this role the potent storm system now and this is going to sit through the western med over the next couple of days it will spread the rain the snow really right the way along these coastal areas and as we go through monday and choose day we could be accumulating as much as 175 millimeters of rain on mainland spain meanwhile across into the valley erikson very heavy amounts of rain so we're across into new york where we could see 150 millimeters of rain and she's day it tends to spread further inland and of course in that cold air it will actually turn over to snow so choose to elsewhere not a bad day we've got a lower temperatures set in london and paris 4 degrees celsius to tell see is in

zurich but it doesn't come into clear skies as a nice sunshine ones and the morning mist has cleared now we will of course see more of those rain showers into morocco on into algeria or coming from that system just sitting in the western med by choose day the rain a little bit lighter beginning to pull away but much cooler in are about there with a high of just 13 celsius. but. capturing a moment in time. the snapshots of other lives. of the stories. provided clips into someone else's well out dated was due to or. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. like the witness on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories south korea has become the 3rd asian country to confirm its 1st case of a new coronavirus that is originated in china patient numbers of triple than 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of la. police have fired tear gas in baghdad as they tried to break down protesters barricades on the outskirts of the iraqi capital the latest round of demonstrations broke out there and did a number of cities in the south. fighting is broken out south of the libyan capital tripoli hours after a conference on stopping the violence ended in berlin all the leaders agreed to

respect the u.n. arms and push the warring sides toward a permanent ceasefire. the number of ships being a hijacked in the gulf of guinea has doubled in the past year the international maritime bureau warns the region has become the tourist for piracy with 90 percent of attacks taking place there they were chased from west african countries are meeting in senegal to try to find a solution as nicholas hawke reports from dhaka. it's a calling she often finds hard to explain it comes from a deep desire to defend her country and its waters after visiting senegal's naval headquarters on a school field trip 16 year old has made up her mind she'll be joining the navy you know it's a noble cause protecting the ocean from polluting vessels and saving people's lives at sea even if it's dangerous i want to be part of the mission the navy is on a drive to recruit more soldiers at sea while piracy globally has dropped the

number of boats attacked in the gulf of guinea has doubled in the last year this has become the world's most dangerous waters not only is it a major transit route for cargo ships the shores of senegal are also rich in marine life attracting illegal deep sea fishing vessels that are polluting the sea floor. of some problem 90 percent of the world's trade happens on water we need to protect the oceans to protect our economies and the trade most attacks are taking place off the coast of nigeria in angola to oil exporting countries the attackers are gangs often made up of poor fishermen frustrated in seeing this wealth they have no access to taking away from their shores senegal discovered 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and a 1000000000 barrels of oil it has just allocated exportation rights to multinationals. the drilling has been started by there's this expectation that this newfound wealth will be equally redistributed among all senegalese especially among the fishermen communities who have suffered from illegal fishing on these

waters they say the ocean is a precious resource that needs to be protected. while the trumpet ministrations says it's pulling back u.s. troops in africa in march the u.s. navy organized its largest naval games in africa and the gulf of guinea with $3000.00 troops $33.00 countries including senegal. there are no physical boundaries on our territorial waters and so to protect it we need men power and soldiers willing to take action and neutralize the enemy we needed. and so this will require a new strategy for senegal and the region with fresh recruits willing to take risks needed to protect the ocean and its untapped well. nicholas hawk al-jazeera car. the un has warned that a missile attack on a government military camp in yemen could derail if it's to deescalate the country's 5 year long conflict at least $111.00 people were killed and $62.00

wounded in the attack on sunday yemen's government has blamed the rebels and has vowed to retaliate the foreign ministry says a mosque inside the camp was here while soldiers were crying. leaked documents suggest africa's wealthiest woman siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of angolan government money to offshore accounts a journalist organization says the papers implicate the former president's daughter is a bill dos santos broad has more. this is the woman at the same tour of an investigation dubbed the wonder leaks isabella santosh the daughter of angola's former president a billionaire and africa's richest woman success is self-made but a group of journalists say documents prove she ripped off a country to enrich himself our investigation which took 8 months and more than 100 journalists to complete found dos santos aided by her sort of qadri of

western advisors funneled hundreds of millions of dollars and offshore shell companies and from there into all kinds of assets including luxury homes and big business and. her father. the country for almost 40 years until 2017 the group says he gave her a big chunks of some of angola's most valuable resources and she built a business empire that stretched from telecommunications to banking and construction she used to head angola's national oil company sun and go before being forced out by her father's successor. so his government has suspended some of her projects and seized in a stimulated $1000000000.00 worth of assets and a corruption drive earlier this month she told al-jazeera it was a political vendetta definitely this is a politically motivated attack there's no doubt about that my father was on the former ruler of angola he was president for

a very long time and he chose not to stand for this election and he chose not to stand in 2017 believing that it was important to have a transition it was important for someone new to come and unfortunately the nuclear who came on board have now trying to. is politically motivated attacks on his family and specially on his children last month isabel's half brother joe say philomena to santosh went on trial for corruption he's pleaded not guilty. angola is rich in oil and diamonds but it remains one of the world's poorest countries with a staggering wealth gap the i.c.i. j. accuses angolan government officials as well as western financial firms lawyers and accountants of helping isabella some to stash away public funds the portuguese authorities are possibly investigating and other governments around the world likely to take a closer look at some of the money that's for their financial systems despite her

legal troubles is about to santos remains defiant she's even considering running for president and in goal is next election and 2022 electoral brian al-jazeera muslims in the indian state a vote up for their say they're being singled out for punishment after protests last month at least 20 people were killed and more than a 1000 arrested in the state during demonstrations against a new citizenship law as an answer vora reports some of those shot and arrested now facing demands for money they can't afford. so man had left his house on the 20th of december to go and buy milk for his daughter on the streets of not or people were protesting at the controversial new citizenship law that many say discriminates against muslims suddenly he says he fell to the ground he'd been shot in the stomach and their god just saw the policeman fire me with my own eyes who's wearing a helmet in a police uniform the protesters were far away but the police were near me. and so

man's name has appeared on a government notice demanding payment for damage caused to public property. hundreds more have received similar notices in other towns and villages. we had never imagined such a tragedy would happen in our lives the only early member of our family is bedridden so how can we pay them our earnings were already meager about $200.00 to $300.00 rupees a day we don't even have electricity in our house. oh yes. gershon is all months pregnant and desperately wants her husband home she says on december 28th police broke down the door of their house while they were saying their prayers her husband saw there was arrested. everyone's giving me different deadlines it's been a month but no one's listening to me or helping me i'm in

a lot of trouble please bring back my husband we've got to get. goossens her husband is also one of 39 people in the town to have received a notice to pay damages. political analysts say the governing hindu nationalist party the b.g.p. was quick to penalize many muslims for the protests and also blame them for any damages caused and that it is using financial pressure and the police to try and silence them we asked the police to comment on these claims but they were unavailable many people in this neighborhood who left their homes a month ago scared off with violence have still not those estates a young men are being randomly arrested for no apparent reason in this town as in many others in order for the muslims fear the police are taking orders from the top in the government at least 20 people died on that one day in december throughout

their predations state police have admitted causing 2 of the deaths but say officers acted in self defense and that police were deployed only to maintain law and order after a al-jazeera letter predation india. a plague of locusts is devastating crops in eastern africa threatening supplies of food in a region already facing shortages swarms of now across from ethiopia and somalia into kenya local communities say a government insisting insecticide programme isn't working malcolm web has more from some brew county. second island then is attempts to scare off this woman locusts completely futile he's the chief of a community of herders here in eastern kenya. until it is finished you're going to want it because one of the small more shrubs. i know

most kind of gotten tormes crossed from neighboring somalia and ethiopia in recent weeks it's the worst plague of locusts to fact the region in 70 years one locust by itself looks harmless but it can eat its body mass in plant matter every day if there were swarm of tens or even hundreds of millions can eat tons of food each day and that's devastating for the farmers and herders who live here it's dry for most of the year people depend on their animals to survive yet the moles depend on the plant and the plant being devoured the government started spraying insecticides which it says are harmless to people and livestock. it's released $2000000.00 to fund the fight against the locusts the un's also contributed. rym any farms in the neighboring province there the locusts could

devastate food supplies and the economy the response is meant to stop that but it hasn't been working well we found this warm the day after it had been sprayed this village administrator told us the actions taken so far haven't been effective and more must be done we seen that the number did they are going to get very low number so i don't think that it will disease and that is what doesn't work. and so the locusts keep eating and their population keeps growing. but the agriculture minister told us the insecticide is now working and the swarms will soon be stopped he can cause i'm told one will please roll i think is the mixing intensity will there be greedy about cuba that was a problem that has been corrected the government is to get. tons of the supplies

scientists say it was on seasonal rains across the region last month that caused the locust population to boom it watered the plants they eat and they'll soon start to threaten people's food security if their feasting isn't stopped malcom webb al-jazeera county kenya. space x. has completed the last major test of a crew capsule needed before it can launch nasa astronauts from u.s. soil. i there you just saw that trying to jettison again i really was years here in my car in california this stuff is looking great so far the american aerospace by new factor of mimicked a launch fadia off the florida coast it was testing whether the capsule could separate from a rocket and return the crew if something went wrong by 6 found you know on musk

says it was a picture perfect mission. this is great you know it's really great there anyone who has an adventurous spirit of the body is going to be very excited about this and i think it will help breed a great interest in space. this is al jazeera these are the top stories south korea has become the food asian country to confirm its 1st case of a new coronavirus that is originated from china patient numbers of tripled and 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of. trade a year has the latest now from beijing one is not a small city about 11 pm 11000000 people living there it's a quite a major transport hub and during this time for chinese new year they have hundreds of millions of people going home or crisscrossing the country taking public

transport now the bain main concern is that authorities have not ruled out human to human transition transmission of this virus although we know that it has originated in the seafood market in which is now being closed and all the people who are connected directly to that market have been quarantined and those who have been given the all clear have been let go. police. barricades on the outskirts of the capital. number of cities in the. protestors have cut off the south of the country. the demonstrations began in october people are angry about widespread corruption and a lack of public services. libyan capital tripoli hours offer a conference on stopping the. leaders agreed to respect the u.n. . and push warring sides toward a permanent ceasefire. any everyone is in agreement including the regional

organizations the arab league and of course the african union that we need a political solution become evident in the last few days. which would only increase the suffering of the people. completed the last test of a true before we can. from. the american aerospace manufacturer. off the florida coast it was testing whether the capsule could separate from a rocket and return the crew if something went wrong. those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. of the. trade deal is china capitulates. tens of billions in extra russia's. south korea. just.

growing frustration with lebanon's economic crisis protesters are angry that 3 months of anti-government demonstrations seem to have gone nowhere what's needed to break the stalemate in the 11th leadership willing to change the political system this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey for 3 months now people in lebanon have been demanding change worsening economic crisis means many can't find jobs pay for basic goods or even withdraw money.