we must remember the recent joke or among the most pushy cupid minorities in the world. think. china's fear of super spreaders as it confirms human to human transmission of a new virus 4 people have now died and the number of cases is growing. however i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up climate change high on the agenda as a global c.e.o. is in leaders of the top economies meet at the world economic forum in davos. the republican leader of the u.s. senate proposes that quick impeachment trial of the president trump democrats call it a cover up. cost how foreign powers are planning to help shore up

a shaky truce in libya and turn it into a cease fire. while china has confirmed another death from the coronavirus and says it is being transmitted now between humans they're worried about so-called super spread as off to one man in ruhani infected 14 medical staff the death toll in china is now at 4 with more than 200 people infected but scientists believe that number is actually likely to be much higher the world health organization will meet on wednesday to consider declaring the outbreak outbreak an international public health emergency cases have now been confirmed in thailand south korea and japan and they're all fears that it may have spread outside of asia after a man was quarantined in a strain after returning from china. we've got one gentleman that we're just

following at the moment who has travelled to work and has developed a response to this it is he's recovering at home and so it was done. and the spread of the virus was also discussed at a meeting of japan's cabinet there and they've confirmed one case. with the number of patients of coronavirus continuing to increase in china caution is needed for this reason based on the response policies decided today the ministry of health labor and welfare and other related businesses through the strengthen coastline corn tunisia's well let's take a closer look at this new virus it's being classified in a family of viruses that cause symptoms ranging from the common cold to sars severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed nearly 800 people worldwide in 2003 and chinese authorities suspect the virus originated in a seafood and meat market in the city of new hand it's thought that the virus made

a species to species jump there's a 10 day delay between infection detection that includes an incubation period and a further delay before hospital admission while our correspondent kareen e.u. is live for us in beijing katrina given that they're with or it is about finally admitted there is human to human transmission what measures are being put into place to contain this. well this afternoon we just received a statement from the 100 government saying there are new measures in place for those in the city tour groups will not be allowed to leave on cars are being randomly checked for poultry and other wild animals which is important because we feel as you mention that it's understood that this may have come from a wild animal some sort of animal all public buses must now be sanitized on a daily basis and people who have any travel tickets out of one are able to freely exchange those tickets or apply for a refund so this is increasingly been taking more and more seriously we also heard

from hong kong an expert in hong kong who has experience in dealing with the saas crisis in 2003 and he mentioned that there are estimates that there could be more than 1500 people at 700 people with this virus and that up to 20 cities could be affected of course at the moment we only have confirmed cases in in guangdong in shanghai and beijing and suspected cases in other provinces throughout china are also hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in australia as you mentioned earlier but also potentially in the philippines and katrina are really looking at the worst time of year for this to happen with chinese new year this weekend could this potentially get out of control. potentially i think that's why if this is a major concern for the government why president xi jinping on monday evening released a statement saying that this is going to be a priority for the government to make sure that the people have a safe and a stable chinese new year we have hundreds of millions of chinese traveling across

the country and outside of the country for this major public holiday this is the christmas of china and millions of people going in and out and hunted self is a major transport hub a population of 11000000 people so the government know that this is also not this is really yes as you mentioned the worst possible time all major redway stations and airports now have temperature infrared temperature machines to check people and also there's been more of messaging from the government actually there was a social media tweet a story a social media wave will post which is china's equivalent of twitter by an official from the legal affairs agency and he says he's encouraging chinese officials to be very transparent about any reports they're hearing all risk being and i quote nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity so i think there is a lot of anger still around how the saw as the virus was dealt with of course there

was an officials when that virus came out in 20022003 were not very upfront regarding the severity and the risks involved so i think the chinese government has learned lessons about the importance of transparency here in the trying to emphasize that tool the provincial and the lower level governments katrina you there across that story for us in beijing thank you katrina well let's dig into this a little more with benjamin khouri he is an infectious disease especially at the peter doherty institute for infection and immunity and he joins us now live from melbourne via skype and professor i want to start by looking at some of these figures we basically saw the number of confirmed cases in china triple over this weekend is this a case of the chinese authorities simply not admitting there were more infected people or is this a failure of containment. so there is another 3rd possibility which could be a play here which is just the whole system catching up with the diagnostic passages to be able to confirm these infections i think in contrast through what i was just

hearing on your telecast and what has been discussed with the saas advantage back in 20022003 i think the chinese government been very open 1st reporting to the departure country office in china on the 31st of december once i realized it was a cluster of cases and within 7 days i'd characterize these bars as a coronavirus and then in short order published the full genome sequence of the genetic code of this virus on jane for the world to say so i think china has been a lot more open than and working with international partners in an effort to contain his arse so professor this virus i understand initially came from an animal so it jumped the species barrier but now we're saying this human to human spread is the virus mutating that potentially getting stronger. so you're absolutely right all indications would suggest that. this is a virus that has crossed the species barrier which indeed was the case facades and also for the most part of our us which arose in the middle east and as suddenly

from 2012 or would score significant outbreaks there that's also suggested by the fact that it was initially opinion logically very strongly linked to that modest suit and seafood market. and it might hope be the case that ultimately. a different moment or bad species is identified as being the host sorry it has crossed the species barrier what we can see then is that as viruses progress through human to human transmission. that can change and certainly the passage to infect more people who can get that they can become a higher infected right off more virulent but sometimes we see through the course of an epidemic that the actual pathogenicity or the severity of the all this is draw that may be due to some bar or factors of a time it can also be due to the fact that testing expands into people with lists of the illness maybe those who have been presented to hospitals and side of the

people who have been tested and those who have mala forms of the disease and it's early days when we see this happen as the other investigations occur in china and elsewhere and it is and we'll be watching it very closely benjamin calley there an infectious diseases specialist from the peter doherty institute for infection and immunity thank you for joining us on out of there thank you so much now the 50th wild economic forum is underway in davos and climate is expected to top the agenda that its new report says that environmental concerns dominate the top 5 a long time global risks the business leaders investors and policymakers the international monetary fund is calling for action and a multilateral cooperation between countries. the countries need to cooperate on multiple fronts to raise growth and spread prosperity we 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 natural 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 the protesters are calling on well datas to do more to tackle climate change hundreds of activists marched for 3 days in switzerland towards us they say there is attending the meeting are largely responsible for the climate crisis where our diplomatic editor james bay is also in davos james i see that reza 10 bagger has been given top billing at this year's where it seems that there's been a shift here with financial systems now turning to try to de carbonized economies. absolutely although it's fair to say the organizers of the world economic forum this davus gathering now in its 50 fiftieth's year for some years have been stressing their green credentials but we're going to have an interesting few hours

here because as you say growth tom berg is in many ways the guest of honor she's going to be giving a big address here. but the speaker immediately before her giving the special opening address is president donald trump he is always way here landing in zurich in about 20 minutes time and then making his way to davos in just over an hour's time arriving here and of course this is the u.s. president who pulled out of the global climate deal the paris deal nearly 3 years ago and who is the person that climate activists focus on and focus all their anger on so interesting to see whether those 2 will meet they came face to face in september last year at the u.n. general assembly certainly has said that she really has nothing to say to president trump she said what i have to say to someone who doesn't even believe the

scientists i don't think president trump is likely to focus in his address much on the climate or let me ask you then is there a different mary and at davos this here i see protesters are expected to arrive there a minute in the coming hours and i also see the delegates have been given ice shoes to encourage them to walk between meetings rather than take cars is there a distinct shift there in the way that people are talking about climate. i don't think so to be honest i think although it is very much the the agenda item and the slogan of this year's world economic forum they have been talking green issues for quite a few years here though this time is the overall defining theme of this year's world economic forum will of course be watching president trump's speech very closely to see whether he gets that message and i think that's unlikely i

think his speech he's come here. many thought he would cancel this visit at the last minute but he has come here for the world economic forum i think because this is the sort of place that he likes to be among the global elite particularly at a time when the stock market is so high and james bears will be following all the happenings in davos for us thank you very much james. well still ahead on al-jazeera a psychologist who helped to develop the cia's controversial interrogation program a substantial grilling in the course of. the. case of very high pressure across northwestern parts of here at record breaking high pressure here actually you can

see the clear skies that's what we do have that high and this area of high pressure actually we're looking at the strongest high for belgium on record as far as you concerned with the pressure exceeding a 1050 millibars through the course of monday making is the strongest high here since 9057 so that is on usually will take some shifting as well as we go through the next few days for the south the de feria of low pressure here has been bringing some nasty weather into that he sed inside of spain fabulous snow they'll be more snow to come as they go on through the next couple of days some heavy rain as well very very strong winds gal force winds winds gusting at says about a 130 kilometers per hour over the next 24 hours or so that means big seas as well to see some 7 meta waves as a result of this system affecting that western side of the mediterranean there's that cloud that rain that sleet and snow as that quater weather further north a bit of cloud with a high here it has to be said but it will be largely dry over the next couple days

logic trying fact across a good part of europe but staying very stormy for the west the met. a searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and the news that would put in place to control it in this country. you know you're right so if you restrict the rights of most of the god orders you're not solving the problem of criminality of the pretty piece because these are not the people who work with people. who are your customers a lot of people that has the violence actually. rewind stray bullets on al-jazeera. the.

hello again i missed. our mind of our top stories this hour china has now confirmed a 4th test death from the corona virus and say it's being transmitted between humans about health organization is considering declaring the outbreak an international public health emergency. climate change is at the top of the agenda for the political and business elite amusing in davos for the world economic forum the international monetary fund has called for joint action and says the global economy is that risk from the climate crisis. now after a months of arguments and build up the impeachment trial of u.s. president all trump is set to begin in the senate later on tuesday trump's accused of abusing the powers of his office by trying to force ukraine's leader to

investigate a political rival and of obstructing congress as investigation alan fischer takes a look at all the events that led up to this point. this was the day after donald trump 2 coughers. exactly 3 years on he no faces a trial in the u.s. senate which could make that a reality it's an historic moment and it started in july last year with what should have been a routine phone call from his desk in the oval office donald trump called the president of ukraine a whistle blower was worried about what they had about the phone call and filed a complaint and that a letter to congress the allegation president trump was holding back hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid meant for ukraine and it would be sent if the ukrainian president announced an investigation into trump's political rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who want to new crane don't trump didn't understand the fuss i made a call the call was perfect he released the transcript but it seemed to cause more

trouble the key section as the ukrainian president promises to buy more u.s. missiles trump responds i would like you to do is a favor though he asks for investigations entered the bunker conspiracy theory about the election and later brings up the biden's asking for help from foreign governments that could impact u.s. elections is against the law the president must be held accountable no one is advanced the law the democrats who control the house of representatives announced an impeachment inquiry would begin the white house refused to cooperate several career diplomats came forward anyway he testified under oath what the whistleblower said was true colonel alexander vivan was on the call he later reported it to white house lawyers is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent the former u.s. ambassador testified that she was removed from her position after the president's

personal lawyer rudy giuliani pushed to get her removed ukrainians who prefer to play by the old corrupt rules such are and what continues to amaze me. is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a u.s. ambassador others said a small group of people close to the president were running a kind of shadow back channel u.s. policy in ukraine it became clear to me that giuliani's efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations are now infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting then came testimony from ambassador gordon saundra and he told congress the new ukrainian president wanted a white house meeting and he knew what he had to do to get it investigate the bidens was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes so england was

a $1000000.00 donor to the president's inauguration he was rewarded with the job of ambassador to the utopian union he was a key player with ukraine and insisted senior figures knew what was going on everyone was in the loop the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false the democrats have delivered 2 articles of impeachment one for abuse of power the 2nd of struction of congress 2 key facts have not changed that are critical to these impeachment proceedings one ukraine in fact received aid and 2 there was no investigation into the biden's throughout it all present trump insists he did nothing wrong we're achieving what no administration has ever achieved before and what do i get out of it tell me i get impeached that's what i get out of. by these radical left lunatics i get em

paged do you solemnly swear now the senate has been sworn in to act as a 100 strong judy in the trial of president trump. this is only the 3rd presidential impeachment trial in american history when the trial gets under way there may be witnesses there may be new evidence there will be votes or not there will be long days and at the end it will take 2 thirds of the senate to vote to convict the president and remove him from office alan fischer all to see you know washington. now thailand's constitutional court has found leaders of the opposition future forward party not guilty on charges that they sought to overthrow the monarchy party leaders say those charges were politically motivated and that the thai government headed by a former military mission to leader is trying to suppress dissent. european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a long term ceasefire in libya but only if warring parties stick to

a tentative truce that they agree at this month it could include a monitoring mission and restarting a neighbor operation to uphold a u.n. arms embargo and next year brian reports. the future of the shoppers at a markets in tripoli is being discussed thousands of kilometers away in europe the foreign ministers are trying to work out how to secure a shaky truce that's been in place in libya since earlier this month i want to stress once again the fact that we are not the still in a cease fire. truce. which is stable and you know the true scum be several times a day on sunday in berlin world leaders committed to stop interfering in libya's civil war and to uphold a weapons and that's been in place since 2011 but the talks failed to deliver that serious dialogue between the warring parties warlord khalifa haftar and the un

recognized administration in tripoli. and 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. has does mean battling to take over the capital since i broke and fighting have killed close to $300.00 civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands more but this civil war is also a proxy conflict each side has several powerful international backers analysts say europe is trying to prove its still relevant and united european ambassadors have been given 4 weeks to present concrete proposals on. how to implement the u.n. arms embargo which has been repeatedly violated by both sides.

in a way libya is a kind of cancer the kind of tumor which is growing throughout the region it's spreading despite the diplomatic efforts have does forces continue to blockade oil ports in the east causing output to almost 0 oil is central to libya's economy its largest export and a financial lifeline for the government in tripoli oil itself is ok by it all in terms of supplies the powers the ospital and other key facilities libyan citizens use so i expect also deterioration in humanitarian terms in libya in addition to what we've seen throughout the gruelling war the un is inviting top generals from the 2 sides to geneva next week and yet another effort to into the armrest elixir brian al jazeera there have been more mass protests in iraq against a lack of government reforms at least 5 protesters and 2 police officers were

killed in the latest round of violence on monday nearly 500 people have died since the unrest began back in october in southern iraq hundreds of protesters blocked main roads in a number of cities. now sharp divisions over syria have once again been exposed at the united nations on monday russia presented its case disputing whether the syrian government used chemical weapons and an attack on the city of duma back in 2018 that attack prompted u.s. led strikes against the forces of president bashar al assad mike hanna reports from un headquarters in new york. it's more than 2 decades since russia last called a meeting of this kind the open aria format in which interested parties hold discussions but no resolution is tabled the purpose to maintain that the syrian government was not responsible for the chemical weapons attack in the town of duma back in april 2018 the contention to that the fact finding mission report of the

organization for the prevention of chemical weapons was deeply flawed the argument was made by russia's representative to the o.p.c. w. and included photographs taken by russian military which purport to show that the syrian air force could not have dropped the canisters containing the chemical gas and that they were instead placed there by opposition groups on the ground the meeting was also addressed by a former weapons inspector who also expressed deep reservations about the fact finding mission report should be deaf to him but the real problem is that these common sense and logical concerns come up against categorical rejection from a number of western countries led by the usa it's becoming absurd now any comments on the work of the mission are immediately presented by our american and british colleagues as a slap in the face and slander but the russian contention was dismissed by

a number of nations in particular the united kingdom and the united states which describe the russian allegations as nothing more than brazen dissin formation we must not be fooled by theatrical or meetings designed to sow confusion about whether chemical weapons are being used in syria and who is the culprit it is the assad regime december mason and distractions like today's meeting hosted by the russian federation only serve to shield the assad regime from being held accountable by the international community and perpetuate n.p.n. a-t. . the debate is likely to simmer long after the end of this meeting but one thing is certain it will not be taken to a formal session of the security council because of the vetoes which have been consistently wielded by all sides in the debate to psychologists who developed the cia's program to torture terror suspects to give evidence this week

at a military tribunal in guantanamo bay it will be their 1st time testifying in an open court about so-called and haunted interrogation rather than jordan reports. the 5 men on trial for allegedly planning the september 11th attacks were all tortured by the cia before they were moved to the prison at guantanamo the self described ringleader khalid shaikh muhammad was water boarded 183 times now muhammad and his co-defendants may be sitting in a military courtroom this week when the psychologists who created and then participated in the cia torture program testify about what they did and why trust this is the 1st time that these men will be talking openly publicly in court about the pattern and practice of being the galahad that they were hired by the u.s. government to engage and james mitchell and bruce jessen were contract workers for the cia from 2001 to 2009 they've always defended working in the enhanced

interrogation program in cia secret prisons but after several former detainees sued them in 2015 justin and mitchell claimed the cia had forced them to keep waterboarding beating and humiliating suspects so they would talk legal experts say in the case of the 911 defendants this is a critical matter to explore really have a death by shooting you need to know. what was done to this person what this person did and what was done to them in order to make a reasoned moral judgment about their culpability the 911 suspects statements to the cia won't be used as evidence in their trial and after hearing mitchell and justin's testimony the trial judge could decide to block the statements defendants gave to the f.b.i. once they arrived at guantanamo it's not clear whether the public testimony from

the architects of the cia torture program will make a difference to americans 19 years after the september. at the time. 0 washington. and again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines china has confirmed a 4th death from the corona virus and says it's being transmitted between humans more than 200 people are known to have been infected so far the world health organization is considering declaring the outbreak an international public health emergency katrina you has the latest from beijing all public buses must now be sanitized on a daily basis and people who have any travel tickets out are able to freely exchange those tickets or apply for a refund so this is increasingly been taking more and more seriously we also heard

from hong kong an expert in hong kong who has experience in dealing with the sols crisis in 2003 and he mentioned that there are estimates that there could be more than 1500 people at 700 people with this virus and that up to 20 cities could be affected by climate change is at the top of the agenda for the political and business elite who are meeting in davos for the world economic forum the international monetary fund has called for action and says the global economy is at risk from the climate crisis u.s. president all trumps impeachment trial is due to get underway on tuesday ahead of that senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern those proceedings which are designed to end it as soon as possible democrats say they'll try to amend them thailand's constitutional court has found leaders of the opposition future forward party not guilty on charges that they sought to overthrow the monarchy party leaders say those charges were politically motivated

and that the thai government headed by a former military join to leader is trying to suppress dissent. there have been more mass protests in iraq against a lack of government reforms at least 5 protesters and 2 police officers were killed in that latest round of violence on monday nearly $500.00 people have now died since the unrest began back in october in southern iraq hundreds of protesters blocked main roads in a number of cities european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a ceasefire in libya but only if a shaky truce there holds that could into the monitoring mission and restarting a naval operation to uphold a u.n. arms and barker. well those are the headlines join me for more news here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us. the climate crisis and the environment takes center stage at this year's world economic forum in davos business people experts and leaders from around the world can expect an icy

reception from some as they discuss how to save the planet from the tricks of rising temperatures get the latest updates on al-jazeera. world leaders meeting in berlin agree to stop sending weapons to libya and for new talks and the civil war but on the ground the fighting goes on so will the many foreign countries feeding the conflict back home and who has the power to stop libya's slide further into crisis this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program imo seen dead is the libyan civil war is now in its 6th year a host of countries is involved with turkey russia and france just to name

a 3 providing support to the 2 sides vying for power the u.n. background.