brain. protesters and security forces clash across iraq as anti-government demonstrations intensify. and watching all just their own life from headquarters in doha and also ahead as world powers back a cease fire in libya the european union says it will consider military support to uphold any peace deal. as a deadly new virus spreads beyond china's borders there are fears it could be transmitted from human to human in a. bus ship hijackings double in the gulf of guinea making it the world's most dangerous waterway.

hello we begin with reports that iraqi protesters have been killed after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the capital baghdad dozens are said to be injured it's the latest round of mass demonstrations to break out across the country imraan khan has more. in one of the main squares in central baghdad police and protesters confront each other again in the early hours of monday as protesters tried to block the road leading to the square they want a change of government and accuse the current one of corruption a cool that got out to protesters to block main roads in baghdad a major highways in the south access. police used live ammunition and fight take gas in the attempt to disperse the crowds in the capital but a standoff sued lost in several i was angry iraqis are determined to get their message across the woman said it felt as if you had. the idea isn't just blocking

the roads all the people here often straighted so we make noise here to make sure that we are heard a lot about the shape of the days do you want to for months no one has listen to our demands they're killing us it's just bloodshed. throughout the day took took 3 wheelers have been ferrying take us victims to makeshift hospitals like this one. i went to tyrone square in baghdad and the people wanted me to help them i was also attacked by gas i feel down the security forces have been using tear gas and live ammunition. iraq's national security council has authorized the arrests of protesters but so far that's had little impact on the movement there wasn't the same level of violence elsewhere in the country as the wars in baghdad and the roadblocks in the south the protesters considered a success the real question for the protest movement is where do you go from here once you started blocking off roads in the south of the country effectively cutting off the cell from the rest of the country where do you escalate your demands being

listen to and that's really angering the protest movement now it really remains to be seen whether the blockade of the roads is going to work and whether the government will listen as a result of it imran khan al jazeera baghdad let's now bring in osama bin job and he's also joining us from baghdad for an update because we are hearing reports of casualties asama. yes we've been able to see some videos that activists has shown us of at least 2 people with head wounds and or abdomen in the rooms and they're saying that these people were killed by security forces but the security forces have not confirmed any casualties nor have the hospitals these are activists accounts seeing that multiple people have been wounded as yet again about a violence because of the iraqi security forces again started to use tear gas has been it's been reported on them been hearing sporadic shots being fired which according to activists is gunfire that's being used on the us so far as you can see

behind me these took says as you can see have been ferrying people who've been inhaling tear gas there's a constant barrage of to i guess that have been fired at them they've moved back about 500 meters from the position they were in they were trying to choke another are tree from yet another point in the capital baghdad monday was the deadline which the protesters had given to the government saying that their farms have not been taking place and they have been coming out in force nearly 500 to be killed 25000 have been wounded and yet nothing seems to be moving in the direction that they want so where does the protest movements head to next. according to many of the people we've been speaking to they say they will continue to come here they've been coming here since october and they will continue to come here until i their. demands are met which is access to jobs which is more public

services which is an end to corruption they say everyone in the political spectrum right now has been tainted with corruption in they want an end to it and they say until that changes they will continue not just to talk baghdad but across the country as well we have been hearing reports that it's not just. the protesters who have come out many road links to problem says it is. a sit in including syria have been cut off there have been clashes there has been and in the lead up to these protests there did dying down in the last couple of weeks especially after the tensions rose between the united states and iran but the in the lead up to this they've been saying they're being intimidated by government forces forces which are loyal to iran is going but they will continue to come out in force until their demands are met ok. thank you. now the e.u. says it's considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including

a possible military led mission on the ground foreign ministers are meeting in brussels one day after a berlin peace conference brought together libya's warring sides in several world powers but fighting broke out south of tripoli just hours after that summit came to an end the e.u.'s top diplomat joseph says any peace settlement will need the bloc supports hassam hand but i was in berlin and he says diplomats are still discussing their options for a monitoring. yesterday when they were talking about the need to put an end to the conflict in libya they were to keep thinking about 2 things here to ensure the cease fire holds for as long as it takes until the trust is built between the 2 warring factions in libya but to have a genuine ceasefire you have to ensure that arms are not flown into libya the foreign intervention must come to an end and this explains why the e.u. now is thinking about new mechanisms of force on the ground to ensure that this is

fire holes and reactivating the naval the mission there was off the coast of libya it was established in 2015 but it was abandoned in 2019 against a backdrop of huge device particular between france and italy about how to deal with the libyan crisis i was talking to libyans yesterday about particularly the presence of peacekeeping forces in libya and they were categorically were saying basically that we're not going to tolerate the presence of foreign troops operating on the ground even if that is going to be to ensure the cease fire holds there might be another option for the e.u. that could succeed in the near future which is encouraging military commanders from the east and from the west to come together negotiate the modahl it is the procedures about implementing the ceasefire that could be conducive to a permanent political solution to the crisis in libya iran's foreign minister is threatening to pull out of the 1970 treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear

weapons if its nuclear activities are reported to the un iran has denied claims it's violated the more recent 2050 nuclear deal there spite having rolled back its commitments to the pact iran's foreign ministry has also criticized european powers for failing to salvage the agreement to herat has been scaling back its commitments under the deal after the us withdrew in 2018 britain france and germany triggered a dispute mechanism this month citing iranian violations. at least 6 people have been killed by a series of russian air strikes in syria the attacks happened in western aleppo nearly 30000 civilians have been displaced over the last 3 days in the latest round of shelling in the area the un has called for an immediate end to hostilities saying the latest cease fire has quote yet again failed to protect civilians the spread of a new and potentially deadly virus appears to be accelerating in asia the corona virus has killed 3 people since 1st being detected in chinese city of han it since

spread to 3 other chinese cities including beijing shanghai and near hong kong 217 new cases have been confirmed it's also spreading internationally south korea centers for disease control and prevention has now reported its 1st case a chinese woman who flew into insurance city from hahn on sunday has been quarantined that follows one case being confirmed in japan early in january and 2 in thailand 6 days ago the chinese president xi jinping says the virus must be resolutely contained katrina you reports from beijing. stothard hospital are working around the clock to identify a mystery virus which has been linked to star's severe acute respiratory syndrome at least 3 people have died and the number of those confirmed to have the virus is growing but chinese officials say the outbreak is under control there all the. new

cases have been a been taught to a visit to the hospital and we have concentrated resources experts to treat patients in one place so the virus which causes pneumonia like symptoms originated in a. meat market cases have been confirmed in beijing and shenzhen and found in chinese visitors japan thailand and south korea human to human transmission has not been ruled out and that's a problem because this week marks the official beginning of china's busiest travel season hundreds of millions are using public transit ahead of chinese new year celebrations checks are being conducted in railway stations and airports but that hasn't always the growing concern about the spread of the virus people here are looking to the government to do more to keep them safe but i don't think the government is doing enough because i'm just not hear enough details about it i don't think they will give us the true number of those infected or more aid and that's why i wear a mask when i'm out others say they trust the government's handling of the virus i

believe the government to would give us an accurate information i think they're more worried than the public they were have to figure out how to deal with it so i'm not worried but the outbreak is bringing back an easy memories of the 2003 saw outbreak which killed almost 800 people worldwide and left more than 8000 sick authorities initially withheld information about the epidemic leading some to question the chinese government's transparency around the new virus british researchers say they could be as many as 7100 cases the world health organization. has sent a research team to root for us to fool the other lies the extent of human to human transmission we need to collect more and more information so this is obviously the new diseases and so many think we still don't know videos are circulating on chinese social media of passages being tested on flights from behind but the government has appealed to the public to remain calm 8 people were arrested earlier

this month for spreading rumors about the outbreak online but preventing the spread of the virus may not be as straightforward as controlling the spread of information katrina you al-jazeera beijing still had on al-jazeera offering here the corruption claims against africa's richest woman and her denial in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera. and we join a caravan of central american asylum seekers trying to reach the u.s. back in a moment. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across japan it is going to be quite snowy here across the northwestern part of japan now we call the sea effect snow we have that cold air pushing across the relatively warmer

water picking up a lot of moisture dumping it here across the northwestern part of japan so tuesday that is going to be the scenario by the time we get towards wednesday we do expect to see improving conditions there tokyo a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of 10 degrees here crushing high though it is going to be quite wet that's going to continue not only for wednesday but possibly on to thursday as well lot of that rain begins to push toward south korea it won't be so but it will be down here across much of the south even osaka could see a rain shower or 2 there where across the philippines not looking too bad to the north down towards the south though we are picking up a few more showers in the overnight hours for parts of say boom we're going to be seeing about $28.00 degrees you there down towards the court of the expect to see some very heavy rain as we go towards wednesday and up here towards parts of coaching it is going to be a partly cloudy day with the showers in the forecast at 32 degrees and then very quickly across parts of india really not looking too bad over the next few days most of the heavy rain showers have ended we are going to see had her bad with some

clouds in the forecast attempt of 30 inch knife at 31. tool to al-jazeera we were told to get to the ministry of all the russian has this been addressed by to ok we listen what is the proposal of spain for a couple and you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. investigating the use and abuse across the globe on al-jazeera. the.

fellow down the top stories on al-jazeera this hour to protest starts 7 killed and dozens injured in the iraqi capital baghdad after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the city rallies have also broken out in several southern cities. the e.u. says it's considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including a possible military like mission on the ground for ministers are meeting in brussels one day off to a berlin peace conference brought together libya's warring sides and several world powers. south korea has become the 3rd asian country to confirm its 1st case of a new coronavirus that's originated from china patient numbers have tripled and 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of 4 han. lebanon's president is meeting the heads of security agencies he has met them about is to discuss the recent wave of violent protests michel and says more needs to be done

to preserve peace and stability after 2 nights of fun rest left more than 500 people injured on sunday there were violent confrontations between riot police and protesters outside lebanon's parliament frustration has been growing over a financial crisis and the failure of politicians to form a new government has more from beirut and she says many protesters are concerned about the president's comments. there reinforcing the security barricade outside parliament building last night tried to storm the parliament building they were prevented from doing so they were hurling stones and sticks and security forces responded with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannons now president bush saying that the security agencies should differentiate between the peaceful protesters and those who value those who carry out attacks this is causing some concern among the protesters who told us that they believe the authorities could use this as some

sort of an excuse to carry out even more or to use even more force against the protesters because what the protesters have been saying is this is there are no infiltrators we have decided to change the protest movement from a peaceful movement into a violent campaign because those in power are not listening to our demands are not listening to our voices i have to say that the security forces have come under a lot of criticism by human rights groups especially when they were using rubber bullets today they were firing at close range and they were targeting the protesters the number of injuries in hospitals people have lost their eyes so human rights groups are saying that they could have been targeting the lower half of the protesters bodies instead but security forces have issued a statement as. well when the public or private property has been vandalized and we are assaulted then we have the right to respond. the daughter of angola's former

president has dismissed the trove of the documents which suggest she siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from the government into offshore accounts the international consortium of investigative journalists obtained papers which it says implicates isabel dos santos last month prosecutors froze her bank accounts and assets as part of corruption probe speaking exclusively to al-jazeera has called the accusations a coordinated political attack. this is a very concentrated attack it is an attack that has been very very well coordinated is an attack that is very much for it in between a foreign media that is acting together with the ngo and us already is to try and we ate a false perception of my business my business is a private business i work in the private sector i have built over 10 commercial companies in angola companies in retail so supermarkets cinemas shopping malls

media telethon these are commercial companies that work every single day i've built 5 of and those most loved brands i have over 20000 employees greatly and one of those largest taxpayers so these companies are companies or commercial companies the word every day they serve thousands of being bought this is a politically motivated video attack and it is an orchestrated attack my lawyers and myself we have written to a c.a.j. repeatedly saying please give us the occasion to review the documents that you're mentioning now when you're talking about 715000 documents 1st i doubt very much that in just a matter of a few months people had the opportunity to read them all i don't think it's possible 715000 documents i'm sorry this is just a very very large number of documents for it to be reviewed in such an amount short amount of time and that's my 1st concern my 2nd concern consumer these are documents are bleeped we never had an opportunity to even authentic it is documents

and there are standing i don't know we have asked for these documents we said can we see them can we have any information and i see angie simply refuse. the number of ships being hijacked in the gulf of guinea has doubled in the pasir the international maritime bureau warns the region has become notorious for piracy with 90 percent of attacks taking place there naval chiefs from west african countries are meeting in senegal to try to find a solution as reports from jakarta. 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 since 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 shows promise of a 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 but 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 it's the 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 territory all 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 relatives of the victims of the 1995 genocide have filed an application against the netherlands in the european court of human rights the mothers of accuse the dutch

troops of failing to protect the muslim men and boys who were killed by bosnian serb forces death soldiers were guarding a un safe zone when it was attacked last year the court ruled that the state was only 10 percent responsible for the deaths. hundreds of people have protested in the indonesian capital against a bill that labor unions fear would weaken protection for workers president over we don't know once the overhaul wants to overhaul the country's labor laws is trying to relax rules that businesses say make it costly to hire and fire employees the government believes hampering investments in jobs growth unions say the changes would end the minimum wage and force people to work longer hours. diversify a menorah labor unions reject the omnibus bill on job creation because the government is talking about changing the hourly minimum wage which could lead to lower incomes they also plan to erase the pincian screen this bill will only

benefit companies this is not about investments it's just about protecting companies unions need to be involved in drafting this little. thousands of people from honduras have left their homes in the last few days hoping to reach the united states well some have reached the guatemala border town of tecoma mon trying to cross over into mexico but many of them don't know that as they're trying to leave guatemala the u.s. is sending planes filled with their countrymen back john home and has more from. some fool 1000 home during as you just beginning a long journey north passing through what tomorrow or sleeping rough and then jury blistering heat for them the end goal is worth the asylum in the u.s. but there's something many don't know and it's this even if they do reach the u.s. border it's likely they'll be flown back to guatemala to seek refuge here instead it's part of a u.s. plan that's been operating since november but in food days spent with the caravan

hardly anyone we asked was aware of it. you know i didn't know that until now sending us to a country that we don't know where there's not much well why don't they just send us home. those in the queue waiting to get into a shelter bruce. so in a way and taken about once they found someone to get them when we don't feel safe here it's a violent country like i'm doing us that's not what we made the sacrifice to help our families for the bottom of the city we took one of the one bruins who'd really been simply where he was too scared to go on camera to look for them or the problems with the gangs and one door if i go back there they could kill me he's now requesting asylum in guatemala but he says he was sent here under false pretenses and they don't care what the my life they told me to go to guatemala and wait and then come back for my us court date they never told me i was being deported here for good migrant defenders told us the other one durance had similar stories. their

countrymen continue north you might think that people would turn back once they found out that their chances of asylum in the us were incredibly slim and that actually they'd likely be sent back here to guatemala but that wasn't the case for the people that we talked to once they understood the situation said they carry on and they're fantastic if you never lose hope i'm still optimistic we can cross with god's help. we're going to try to anyway because we want to be a better future for our children. blind faith perhaps but born out of desperation those who see few of the ways and it's a public see the danger zone home and how does it to cooma. more than 70 inmates including members of brazil's most powerful gang have escaped from prison and para why the government says president specials must have been aware for an operation to dig a tunnel as hundreds of bags of earth were uncovered in some cells but the interior

minister says that may have been a ruse to ensure no officials involved are held accountable as many inmates walked out through the main gates. a plague of locusts devastating crops in eastern africa threatening supplies of food in a region already facing shortages large swarms of are crossed from ethiopia and somalia into kenya local communities there say a government insecticide program isn't working markham wire reports from some bora county. secondly lenny's attempts to scare off this woman's locusts are almost completely futile he's the chief of a community of herders here in eastern kenya. and then it is finished you are going to want it because once the more death more shrubs. kind of come to the swarms crossed from neighboring somalia and ethiopia in recent

weeks it's the worst plague of locusts to feck the region in 70 years one locust by itself looks harmless but it can eat its body mass into matter every day so a 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. to many 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 rescinded the big number did they are going to kill very low numbers so i don't think that it will do anything it 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 couldn't. leave the room i think is the mixing intensity of. the greedy about cuba but. the problem has been corrected government to think in. terms of the. scientists say it was on seasonal rains across the region last month that caused the locust population to. get watered the plants they eat and they'll soon

start to threaten people's food security if their feasting isn't stopped malcolm web al-jazeera county kenya. well again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour 2 protesters have been killed and dozens injured in the iraqi capital baghdad after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the city rallies have also broken out in several southern cities iran has more from baghdad. while i with this is that told us that these one that has been killed as a result of the police using live fire what's been happening throughout the day is the protesters are been moving this way and burning tires i don't know if you can take it out but you can see the blood of the burning tires over that they've been

trying to cut off the city the police forces pushing back using tear gas and now in the last couple of hours we have been hearing live fire 'd being used against the protesters. you says it's considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including a possible military led mission on the ground foreign ministers are meeting in brussels one day after a berlin peace conference brought together libya's warring sides and several world powers. iran's foreign minister is threatening to pull outs of the 1970 treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons if its nuclear activities are reported to the un iran has denied claims it violated the more recent 2050 nuclear deal despite having rolled back its commitments to the pact the foreign ministry has also criticize european powers for failing to salvage the agreement sohan has been scaling back its commitments under the deal after the us withdrew in 2018 and britain france and germany triggered a dispute mechanism this month citing iranian violations at least 6 people have

been killed by a series of russian air strikes in syria the attacks happened in western aleppo nearly 30000 civilians have been displaced over the last 3 days to the latest round of shelling in the area the un has called for an immediate end to hostilities saying the latest cease fire has quote yet again failed to protect civilians south korea has become the 3rd asian country to confirm its 1st case of a new coronavirus that has originated from china patient numbers have tripled in 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of han those are the headlines it's talk to al-jazeera that's next. the whole deal. is to deliver news people who are subject to the decisions made by the powerful are simply not least people they're all individuals with children the. stores this place has become a complete trap you have to feel on the ground to treat the listen to this he respects

. the. less january the almost unknown president of the israelis opposition controlled national assembly took his country and the world by surprise. amaziah. declared himself in term president the justification was that president nicolas maduro was not a legitimately elected leader but a usurper and a dictator. venezuelans desperate for economic and political change rushed to show their support with the united states leading the charge nearly 60 countries followed suit. but 12 months later at the promise of political.