[000:00:00;00] the old. violent demonstrations in the iraqi capital while protesters in the south of the country block roads in an act of defiance. america mozzie in london you're watching out 0 also coming up on the program the world health organization calls an emergency meeting as the chinese coronavirus jumps borders and human to human transmission is confirmed. as democrats carry out

final preparations for only the 3rd impeachment trial in u.s. history the white house lays out its defense of president donald trump. and chaos as hundreds of migrants across cross from guatemala into mexico as they continue their desperate journey to the united states. welcome to the program at least 2 people have been killed in baghdad after iraqi security forces used tear gas and live ammunition to break up anti-government protests meanwhile in the south of the country hundreds of demonstrators that blocks main roads in several cities had been a brief lull in protests as regional tensions between iran and the u.s. took center stage but iraqis continue to say the prime minister has not fulfilled his promises and they're calling for an overhaul of the political system imraan

khan reports now from the capital. in one of the main squares in central baghdad police and protesters confront each other it began 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 board of corruption a cool had gone out to protesters to block main roads in baghdad a major highways in the south cutting off access. police use live ammunition and fight a gas in 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 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 not about to show today's did you want to for months no one has listened to our demands they're killing us it's just bloodshed. throughout the day took took 3 wheelers

have been ferrying to gas victims to makeshift hospitals like this one. i went to tyrone square in baghdad the people wanted me to help them i was also attacked by tear gas i fell 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. al-jazeera baghdad. well now in all the developments we're

following tonight 2 blasts have been heard in iraq's capital baghdad now it's not clear what caused these explosions but the reuters news agency is reporting that 3 katyusha rockets landed inside the capital's green zone which is home to international embassies no casualties have been reported. the world health organization will convene an emergency meeting in geneva on wednesday to address the spread of a mystery illness a region ating in china the virus has killed 3 people since 1st being detected in the chinese city of one han more than $200.00 cases have now been confirmed on monday officials said they had evidence of human to human transmission south korea's centers for disease control and prevention as also reported its 1st case a chinese woman who flew into incheon city from ohio on sunday has now been quarantined this follows one case being confirmed in japan early in january and

then 2 in thailand 6 days ago katrina reports now from beijing. started hospital are working around the clock to identify a mystery virus which has been linked to stars severe acute respiratory syndrome at least 3 people have died and the number of those confirmed to have the virus is growing the chinese officials say the outbreak is under control. all the. new cases have been a been tipped to a visit to the hospital and we have concentrated resources experts to treat to patients in one place sheba. the virus which causes pneumonia like symptoms originated in a $100.00 seafood and meat market cases have been confirmed in beijing in shenzhen and found in chinese visitors japan thailand and south korea 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 what hasn't it is the growing concern about the

spread of the virus people here are looking to the gun will do more to keep them safe but god i don't think the government is doing enough because i'm just not here enough to tell us about it i don't think they will give us the true number of those infected i'm worried 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 or give us past and accurate the 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 work on for us to fully otherwise 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 things we still don't know videos are circulating on chinese social media of passengers being tested on flights for move on 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. the white house has filed a 110 page legal response laying out their defense ahead of president donald trump's trial in the senate starting choose day his lawyers argue that democrats have diluted the standards of impeachment they argue that the house democrats' novel theory of abuse of power improperly supplants the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors with a made up theory that would permanently weaken the presidency by effectively

permitting impeachments based merely on policy disagreements so let's go live to see in washington they seem to be calling for much more restrictive conditions on impeachment what does this document reveal about the case the president's lawyers will make. case is that ever since the 2016 election the democrats have been trying to overturn those results out of trying to affect the 20 twentieth's action 1st with russia gate which came to nothing no evidence of collusion and now with ukraine gate in the throes ukraine gate is concerned it's spurious according to trump's case it is the president's responsibility and job to fashion foreign policy some veera perhaps from the state department a war of a can come to congress and say well this isn't our accepted foreign policy towards ukraine that's irrelevant donald trump is a new president he has a new policy and he's interested in corruption in ukraine or the biden asunder up

to no good that's legitimate foreign policy also has questions it's in the u.s. national interest anyway they argue no quid pro quo has been proven that aids or a visit to the white house for the ukrainian president was withheld in order to get a quid pro quo off an investigation into biden they said that was never proven all that the congress has heard from witnesses with 2nd hand knowledge now of course the democrats will say well the reason we have any 2nd hand knowledge is because you stop those with firsthand knowledge from testifying but even here there this is this is and this speaks to the obstruction of congress article of impeachment trial of insurgent says yes but because the president in shaping u.s. foreign policy has the right to have confidential negotiations discussions with his advisors about that without the fear of don't suddenly be made public that's part of the decision making progress and finally process rather and finally the point is there has to be a standard for high crimes and misdemeanors based on something or not something is

the criminal justice system and law the law of the land and nothing that the democrats have alleged according to all trump is illegal as far as they can see if there isn't that standard that high crime misdemeanor has some some sort of shadow in the criminal legal system of united states then as you suggested. the whatever the opposition has a majority in the house of representatives and they don't like a particular policy they can say abuse of power that's impeach so that's that's generally the argument so of course president legal team might just be addressing the senate when the trial gets under way they will be speaking directly to the american public how could this impact trump's reelection. i mean there are signs though that is uppermost in the white house's strategy i mean he's probably going to be acquitted that is almost certain and i think the the all humans are going to be made by the white house are going to be as simple as possible directed

at the the television viewing public and those who read newspapers not so much the senators who will acquit and then they expect this will be wrapped up by february 4th the state of the union address could make a triumphant speech about how he was acquitted by the senate off to a sham investigation in the house the poser remain consistent 50 percent think they'll trump around 50 percent think that he should be impeached 50 percent think he shouldn't be impeached or really frankly don't care and moving forwards this is something that don't trump is likely to campaign on and in fact has raised a great deal of money on already thank you very much from washington chabris. now european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a cease fire in libya but only if an initial truce holds comes after a summit in berlin on sunday and could include a monitoring mission and restarting a naval operations top hold a u.n. arms embargo has been a shaky truce in place between as eastern based government and the u.n. recognize administration which is based in tripoli after he's been fighting to take

over the capital since last year and in an exclusive interview with al jazeera the leader of libya's u.n. recognized government. said he's hopeful the meeting marked a real opportunity for peace. because it's probably we are cautiously optimistic about the berlin summit simply because we have had previous meetings and understanding it but we were not met by a genuine political partner on the contrary we were met with malice and treachery along the way now all have come to realize that there is no military solution to the crisis in libya despite the fact that haftar and his forces do not believe in diplomacy nor a political process we hope that half stars our allies and supporters have also come to this conclusion and would recalculate their moves in order to revive this political process the berlin solution has introduced 3 main courses of action military political and economic progress must be achieved on all these 3 fronts simultaneously in order to arrive to

a comprehensive solution in libya the core problem is the negative intervention by foreign forces the. head is in libya's capital tripoli and says that the military commanders fighting half the us forces don't want foreign intervention. it's relatively quiet today compared to the past couple of days but nevertheless this intuition on the ground is not as promising as it was hoped for through a bill in conference and no military commanders on the ground spoke to us and it seems that they are determined to continue fighting and concerning the options that europe is looking into in order to enforce this cease fire many military individuals on the ground say that they will continue fighting and the government and military sources say that they are not in need of any foreign or european. military intervention to impose order and force the seas fire but they say that

they can do that by continuing fighting until they pushed after the forces out of the capital tripoli meanwhile the situation on the india oil industry the oil terminals in the east of the country is still very key your take as. prime minister sort of seems to be determined not to sit with the warlord cliff or have to. have to is now linking. the distribution of the oil revenues to making peace lifting lifting the blockade from the oil terminals in this the country is linked by have to the distribution of the oil revenues and some commenting that this is rejecting that and it seems that some of us is determined not to say that with a lot of heavy for have to. now don officials are saying just killed at least

7 people this includes 3 children it happened at a wedding party in the capital hard to mean 2 dozen other adults and children were also injured and taken to hospital it's not clear who was behind the explosion and then in tunisia president has chosen a former finance minister to be the next prime minister. has now has a month to form a coalition government that will gain the approval of a divided parliament a previous nominee was rejected earlier this month. fails if he fails to win parliamentary backing there will be another election in the country tunisia has had a caretaker government since october when the largest party took only a quarter of the seats. coming up. it is an attack that has been very very well coordinated. africa's richest woman says she's the victim of a politically motivated attack after she's accused of corruption worth hundreds of

millions of dollars. and the wealthy and the powerful begin to descend on davos for the world economic forum on the climate crisis is top of the agenda. but. we still have a few showers in the forecast eastern parts of australia you can see this cloud still very much in place down across the victoria any sort of victoria in particular easing over towards the southeast of new south wales so for tuesday for the times for example it should be largely dry in melbourne 22 celsius but we are going to see some of the strong winds making their way through a few showers further north the useful right pushing up the eastern side of queensland and plenty of shower was actually just around the top and i would also northwest of australia as we go on it's wet to stay. more of the same here further south as generate dry $32.00 in melbourne that's

a bit more likely tennis weather that we would expect the weather weather will come in through the latter possibly thursday particular sherry right as the system sweeps it's way across the southeast of oz further north you see some showers of a wintry nature making the way across northern parts of japan pushing across the sea of japan so some sleet and snow there for a time over the mountains sickly just around though the sections of honshu into hokkaido they will gradually make their way further east was as we go on through wednesday wednesday is a lousy find dry day largely dry to across the korean peninsula northern parts of java but heavy rain setting in the central parts. but. they join one of their wild smiles not torrijos on the groups. but found a way out rebuild their lives and help us. attain of

course to create child soldiers and to have refit exploitation and women door to back have been radicalised nude scenes tunnel design or. roof. or. welcome back to headlines now anti-government protests have reignited in iraq as the deadline set by demonstrators for a form has passed at least 2 protesters were killed in baghdad when police used live rounds the world health organization will hold an emergency meeting as a deadly virus which has killed 3 people spreads in asia chinese experts say the corone

a virus can move from person to person in the white house the same charges against president trump a frivolous and dangerous less than 24 hours before his impeachment trial gets underway. thousands of people protested against tighter gun laws in the u.s. state of virginia the demonstrators said they wanted to send a message to legislators who are considering a range of new gun controls this comes after 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in the state last year. i was at the rally thousands of gun owners surrounding the state capitol in protest against new gun control laws. it's legal to own and carry weapons in public in virginia and most did it we're going to show defiance to a package of new gun control laws working their way through the democratic controlled legislature so we came to support these folks and to talk to people and find out what's going on with them the rally was held amid heavy security the

governor banned weapons from inside the capitol grounds and called a state of emergency wanted to avoid a replay of this. violence at a 2017 white nationalist rally in charlottesville they killed one person. gun violence has hit close to home in this state recently last year in virginia beach he disgruntled city employee shot and killed 12 people. organizers of monday's rally were eager to give off the impression they were peaceful law abiding gun owners but everybody outside this was you could bet your boots that probably aren't well i haven't heard one shot of you not home would thank goodness i've heard one shot. guns aren't the problem there were worries of potential violence of outsiders and. anti-government militia groups coming from the outside trying to maybe stoke violence here at this rally but we have seen absolutely none

of that so far it's been a completely peaceful event here large numbers of people all of whom say here that they're out here with their guns to show that this is their right and they want to keep that right and protected gun owners like bill gardner who brought his assault rifle to the rally a gun he says he does not use for hunting you hear all these parents and start talking about what do you need a ride with this deer or this animal has nothing to do with that it's a check on. gun control advocates cancel their plans for a counter-rally on monday to avoid provoking confrontations. this was a day for those who love their guns to show that they are holding on to them tight and don't plan to like go. no gabriel is on doe al-jazeera richmond virginia. hundreds of migrants from central america have forced their way into mexico by wading through

a river at southern border that they became impatient after authorities stopped them from crossing the border bridge connecting guatemala to mexico mexico has stepped up its police presence with hundreds of national guard troops deployed to the area as migrants threw rocks at them the country is on the map. pressure to prevent people from reaching the u.s. border with president threatening trade and on the sanctions if they do. that then you know. we just want to pass through here we didn't come here to stay here we just want to get to the other side i'm a mother i need to look after my daughter and i'm a single mother we just want to find work please i'm so scared and i don't want to go back to my country because there's no work there there's nothing my daughter and i are suffering from hunger. john homan brings us more now from c.n.n. that had go on the mexico border where he says people are desperate to get to the

united states we've spent most of that far in here great family of what the bottom of that and the 2 young children if they try to work out how they were going to get into mexico they actually wanted to get here for asylum she said that you can probably get by going to guatemala city to some of the honduran touching the story of what would be like trying to free all the fees like you don't because they don't have enough they need it. so everyone is on the bridge to the bridge between guatemala and shocked to see that the dow good south and south make you guys 3. actually had to be a petition to the mexican government to allow you know i love washington who can get rich government stepped up to the possibility or not that moment everyone thank you granted it's down to the river the truth only about me beeps or any way to prove that a man came up on the mic so i let the national guard mexican super militarized

police troops away to cuba. africa's richest woman has denied allegations that she siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars out of angola and into offshore accounts speaking to al-jazeera is about to santos responded to leaked documents which journalists say implicates her in widespread corruption because like a true points. she's facing allegations of fraud and corruption the daughter of angola's former president is a builder santos is at the center of an investigation now claiming she saif and hundreds of millions of dollars of government money to offshore accounts thank you for speaking to al jazeera she called the corruption probe and all cars straight attack against her saying her wealth is self-made and she hasn't done anything wrong this is a very concentrated attack it is an attack that has been very very well coordinated is an attack that is very much where the needed between

a foreign media that is acting together with the angle of 30 days to try and create a false perception of my business and her father show say duato dissenters wrong done polo for almost 40 years until 27 tane the international consortium of investigative journalists detained papers which it says shows he gave his daughter big chunks of some of the country's most valuable resources as she built a business empire that stretched from telecommunications to banking and construction prosecutors fruit's her bank accounts and assets last month 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 in offshore shell companies and from there into all kinds of

assets including luxury homes and big businesses before being forced out. by her father's successor. is a builder centaurs headed angola's national oil company sonnen goal but the new government suspended some of her projects and seized an estimated $1000000000.00 worth of assets in a corruption drive last month her half brother shows a fuller manor went on trial for corruption he's pleaded not guilty and goal 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. jay also accuses angolan government officials as well as western financial firms lawyers and accountants of helping isabel dissent toss stash away public funds the portuguese authorities are possibly investigating and other governments around the globe are likely to take a closer look at some of the money that's for their financial systems despite her

legal troubles to sentosa remains defiant she's even considering running for president to $9.00 goalless next election in 2022 nicola gage al-jazeera. over 50 of while the economic forum is getting under way in this with mountain resort of davos and the climate crisis is going to be the top issue on the agenda this year the international monetary fund is among those calling for urgent action after it was revealed that for the 1st time environmental concerns a dominating the top 5 long term global risks for business leaders the countries need to cooperate in multiple friends to raise growth and spread prosperity the need to reverse protectionist trade measures a result the impasse over the world trade organizations appellate court must adopt strategies to limit the rise in temperatures of the severe consequences of weather related national disasters. a new international taxation regime is needed to adapt

to the growing digital economy and to curtail tax avoidance and evasion while ensuring that all countries receive their fair share of tax revenues well another important issue at the world economic forum is going to be the issue of health care campaigners are trying to persuade companies to pay more in tax that's what they want to help fund health care for some of the poorest people in the world oxfam estimates that if the richest one percent of people spent point 5 percent more tax on their wealth it would pay for health care to save the lives of more than $3000000.00 poor people such as the roughly 38 percent of people globally u.n. aids estimates have but are not getting antiretroviral treatment we need by an email is the executive director of u.n. aids and she says that the super rich attending dowels could help solve the hiv epidemic 1700000 people last year where

newly infected by its hiv we were not able to prevent them from getting this virus deadly virus at this same time 15000000 people are still not own treatment for hiv and yet we could do this here in davos there would be at least about $400.00 be the or naz here if they sat in one room they could solve the problem of a try v it's like loose change for them considering the 1000000000 see how we are in a situation where they have top reach and their companies are allowed to not to pay their fair share of taxes and the poor people ordinary people pay with their ill health we need to rein in their results says and spend it on people's health. i'm an asian minister says rich countries who want to make it the world's rubbish

ben can dream on those were his words the country sent 150 containers of plastic waste back to nations including the united states france the u.k. and canada since the end of last year she's saying that the country needs to defend itself and expects to send another 110 containers away by the middle of this year in 2018 china balmy imports of plastic waste leading to shipments of unwanted rubbish being rerouted to southeast asia the government of malaysia has reparatory to 150 containers of plastic illegal plastic waste with approximately treat 1737 metric tons. look at headlines now anti-government protests of every ignited in iraq as a deadline set by demonstrators for reform has passed at least 2 protesters were killed in baghdad when police used live rounds while demonstrators blocked roads in

the south of the country according to early elections and a new independent prime minister after claims of corruption monday was the deadline that was set by the protesters to the iraqi government saying that during this week if you do not take concrete actions toward our demands are we will come out again to the streets we will talk iraq and that is essentially what they did throughout monday you saw in baghdad multiple checkpoints on the highway on measure our crees which link baghdad to other parts protesters came out erected barricades the clash with police they threw stones and molotov cocktails at them to which police were pried with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets as well as some activists saying that live munitions were used. world health organization will hold an emergency meeting as a deadly virus spreads in asia chinese government experts say the disease which has killed 3 people can move now from person to person they've confirmed that cases of the strain of quote

a virus which was 1st recorded in the city of who had have now been seen outside of china in south korea and thailand the discovery of transmission between people means it could spread much more widely and quickly. the white house says the charges against president trump a frivolous and dangerous less than 24 hours before his impeachment trial starts and the summary of his defense against accusations of abuse of power and obstruction of congress its claim the charges should be rejected and trump acquitted and e.u. foreign ministers say they will look at ways to support a ceasefire in libya following a summit in a week long truce has been struggling to take hold with some scattered clashes around tripoli relief after us forces have been attempting to take the capital from the un recognized government since last year radicalized youth is the program coming up next and then more news from doha after that one day i might be covering politics as usual and the next one might be

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