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 we're going. to go again i missed on here today and this is al jazeera live from die hard also coming up the destruction of davos donald trump arrives at the world economic forum in switzerland as his impeachment trial begins his home. although republican leader of the u.s. senate is proposing a quick trial for the president democrats are calling it a cover up. and protecting the world's most famous shipwreck of the treaty between the u.s. and the u.k. to preserve the titanic's remains.

well china has confirmed a 4th death from the corona virus and says it is being transmitted between humans there's now concern about so-called super spread as off to one man and infected 14 medical stuff beijing is now saying nearly 300 people have been infected but scientists warn that number is actually likely to be far higher the world health organization will meet on wednesday to consider declaring the outbreak an international public health emergency cases have now been confirmed in thailand south korea and japan where prime minister shinzo are they talked about it at a cabinet meeting. there were hundreds 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 minister of health labor and welfare and other related businesses to food the strength and 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 saw as severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed nearly 800 people wild wild back in 2003 now chinese authorities suspect the virus originated in a seafood and meat market in the city of we've had it's thought that the virus made a species to species jump there's a 10 day delay between infection and detection that includes an incubation period and then a further delay before hospital admission katrina you is in beijing for us and she says new measures are being put in place to try to contain this outbreak. this afternoon we just received a statement from the 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 it's understood that this may have come from a wild animal from field and all public buses must now be sanitized on

a daily basis and people who have any travel tickets out of able to freely exchange those tickets or apply for a refund so this is increasingly being taken more and more seriously we also heard from hong kong an expert in hong kong who has experience in dealing with the saws 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 rosso hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in history earlier but also potentially live from this is a major concern for the government and 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 well i spoke to benjamin khouri he's a specialist on infectious diseases at the peter doherty institute for infection and immunity and he says it's possible the virus will mutate as it transfers among humans. all indications would suggest that this does is a virus that has crossed the species barrier which indeed was the case for saas and also for the most current of our us which arose in the middle east and as so many from 2012 i would score significant outbreaks there that's also suggested by the fact that it was initially opinion logically very strongly linked to that modified food and seafood market inward. and it may well be the case that ultimately. a different mammalian or bad species is identified as being the host sorry it has

crossed the species beria what we can see then is that as viruses progress through human to human transmission. they can change and certainly of the past need to infect more people who can become a higher infected right to a hot more virulent but sometimes we see through the course of an epidemic that the actual pathogenicity or the severity of the all this is drug that may be due to some viral 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 are being tested and those who have mala forms of the disease and it's early days when we see this happen as as the further investigations occur in china and elsewhere moving on now and u.s. president donald trump has arrived at the wild economic forum in davos where he set to deliver a headliner mox on the same day as his impeachment trial begins in the senate trump

says he is attending the gathering in switzerland despite the proceedings in order to encourage investment in the united states the global political and business elite will also hear from teenage climate activists pressure turn back with climate expected to top the agenda the countries need to cooperate on multiple fronts to raise grow old and spread prosperity the need to reverse protectionist street measures a result the impasse over the world trade organizations appellate court. they must adopt strategies to limit the rise in temperatures of the severe consequences of weather related national disasters the 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 protesters are also calling on wild leaders to do more to tackle climate change hundreds of activists have launched for 3 days across what to learn to get to davos

they say those attending the meeting are largely responsible for the climate crisis but are different again to james bays joins us now live from davos james one of those attending as we've been saying is u.s. president donald trump has now touched down there i believe he is expected to speak in a few hours any idea what he's likely to say. well i think we're going to be watching his words very closely because of course president trump is here in davos when there is so much going on in washington this is the 1st day in a matter of hours of the impeachment trial and yet the president of the side to come here or smarts a speculation was he going to cancel at the last minute when he didn't and he landed here in the last few minutes or so be speaking here in about 20 minutes time clearly i think his advisors have decided that this is a good look on this day a chance for had time to mourn the world stage looking presidential am die think

showing his strong suit because he's going to be among the world's top business leaders and that really is the strong card of the trumpet ministration the economy in the state of the stock market so i'm sure you're going to hear a president trump who's very bullish about his achievements with regard to the financial situation will eventually impeachment will he mention the climate we'll see our james while years ahead of us he might also run into better turn back he has been given top billing there this year do you feel that there's a a distinct shift there towards decarbonising economy certainly is something that the world economic forum been talking about for a long time but it is the defining issue of this year's 50th world economic forum here in and as you say when you open the program the 1st phrase you see is growth and tom burke who is in some ways the headliner of this event and she's already

been speaking she was asked waters changed since since she started her youth movement on climate change. the climate and the environment is it's hard to top it right now and not saying see young people for shame but of course if you see it from another perspective or pretty much nothing has been done since the global emissions of c o 2 has not. reduced and that is of course what we are trying to achieve among other things. while you remember back in september at the u.n. general assembly you had president trump and growth in the same place at the same time briefly in the picture of her the with the ring look but she gave the u.s. president well they will be in the same place at about the same time here again in davos she's already spoken president trump speak one hour and 20 minutes from now and going to do work speaking again straight off to him will they meet will they

exchange any comments or will wait and see but to talk burgers already said she has very little to say to the u.s. president she has very little to say to anyone who doesn't listen to scientists james is there for us and across all of the happenings for us thank you james. but as we've been saying while u.s. president donald trump is in davos after months of arguments and build up his impeachment trial is set to begin in the u.s. senate later on tuesday trunks accused of abusing the powers of his office by trying to force ukraine's media to investigate a political rival and 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 to call for us. 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 that he asks for investigations into a debunked conspiracy theory about the election and later brings up the biden's asking for help from foreign governments that could impact us elections is against

the law the president must be held accountable no one is advanced in 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. what the whistleblower said was true colonel alexander vivan was on the call to reported it to white house lawyers it 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 and ukrainians who prefer to play by the old corrupt rules sought to remove 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 sunburned 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 sunderland was a $1000000.00 donor to the president's inauguration he was rewarded with the job of ambassador to the utopian union as 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 poa 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 him 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 a president and remove him from office alan fischer all to see you know washington . well still ahead on al jazeera. like a lot of people lost the scent of you feel like there was no hope in libya surrounded by fighting the use of libya a force to consider if their future lies attire. and in the driver's seat how technology is helping disabled people in australia take more control of their lives . hello the satellite picture reflects what you might expect this time of the year with most of the rain in malaysia or especially indonesia that is not a lot in the way of big thunderstorms except over the water but i think we'll see

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hello again i missed. a reminder of our top stories this hour china has confirmed a 4th death from the corona virus and says it's being transmitted between humans beijing now says nearly $300.00 people have been infected the world health organization is considering to carrying the outbreak an international public health emergency. u.s. president on trump is set to address the wild economic forum in davos the same day as his impeachment trial begins in the senate the global political and business elite who also hear from teenage activist. president from some beach one trial is due to get underway on tuesday 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. now protesters have blocked roads in baghdad for a 2nd day as a new wave of demonstrations spreads across iraq police have been trying to clear

the barricades but protesters have been hurling rocks and firebombs at least 5 protesters were killed in this latest round of violence after police opened fire in the capital on monday mass demonstrations broke out over frustration with a lack of government reforms among condos in baghdad where protesters have now set up new barricades. this is girl on the square in baghdad the protesters have set up barricades as you can see to try and blow the streets off now on monday there was violence against the protesters when they built one of the squares just slightly further down to their own square and at least 3 people were killed now you can smell the tear gas in that unusual also smell the residue of the burning tires one of the key methods that the protesters use to drive blockade the streets these took the lives that you see they keep driving by often they take people to make shift poles with tools. which is just behind just over there now the protesters

all very frustrated they say they did moans all being listened to there's no new prime minister and there's no new elections so this is why they've escalated what's happening is sporadically the police firing tear gas at the protesters to draw and disperse them but as you can see they are gathering of a larger number. 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 it could include a monitoring mission and restarting a naval operation to uphold a u.n. arms and barber and as tony back he reports from tripoli after years of conflict many young people there now see their future away from their homeland. they signal v for victory but these 5 year olds don't really know what it means it was a common gesture in the revolution 9 years ago now it's being used as libya is

mired in conflict once again this school in tripoli has been hit 3 times by rockets these children are caught in the middle of a fight between government forces and those led by warlords khalifa haftar and they are learning about death and destruction 50 percent of the $450.00 peoples at this school are said to be suffering from trauma. with war destruction and indiscriminate shelling this is an extremely hard and difficult psychological impact on the children can see many are completely broken and they have no desire to continue their education. it's not a good time to be young in libya life is precarious the economy is suffering and the staples of life will become luxuries and once they finish school the opportunities are limited to us the sky's the limit for it when you kind of live in libya that limit is kind of you know decreased. more and more are leaving they prefer to take their chances abroad and stay and face unemployment and hardship at

home 100000 students at tripoli university just half of them are expected to find a job after graduation that when they. show. many have left their studies to fight because the government did not give to the use the opportunity to study in these hard times it's destroyed the future of young. men let me make my last year in the middle of no i wish i could leave who doesn't hope for that when a country cannot guarantee you a job abroad they show appreciation that you're educated. there are no official statistics of how many of the young educated are leaving but everyone agrees it's not an insignificant number next to achieving a lasting peace here the biggest challenge is going to be how to stop the departure flow of libya's young talent before it becomes a flood. at this intellectual form they're trying to do that by helping people set up their own businesses such a large number of people lost the sense of you feel like there is no hope if you

have a lot of them are trying to go upward and various you know departments of the various specialties but it's it's very worrying because they don't see if you're training. when moammar gadhafi was overthrown as leader in 2011 people the young in particular who promised a bright future 9 years on and the children of libya are still waiting tony berkeley al-jazeera tripoli. tunas is president has chosen a former finance minister to be the next prime minister it is fast fact now has one month to form a coalition government but that will need to be approved by parliament it's already rejected the proposed government put forward by the president's previous nominee how big germany now a government appointed commission in myanmar says the army probably committed war crimes against rohingya muslims but not genocide the commission found security personnel use disproportionate force in tooting killing civilians rape and

destroying homes united nations prosecutors say genocide was committed during that crackdown on the muslim minority 3 years ago around 3 quarters of a 1000000 a fled to neighboring bangladesh where most from maine a former head of interpol has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for bribery in china many hallways trial was one of the most high profile during president xi jinping as anti-corruption campaign the fence chinese to head to the global police coordination agency went missing after resigning 2 years ago after his arrest in china he admitted receiving $2000000.00 in bribes while a government minister thailand's constitutional court has acquitted leaders of an opposition party of attempting to overthrow the monarchy relieved the poor says of the future forward party chaired as the verdict was delivered in bangkok the party faced decision if convicted and could still be banned in several other cases it faces party leaders say the charges are politically motivated now the world's most

famous shipwreck the titanic is now under the protection of the u.s. and the u.k. in a new agreement it grants both countries the power to authorize entry to the sunken ships hollow and the removal of artifacts the titanic sank in 1912 of the east coast of canada and its wreckage became a unesco protected site 100 years later. i'm is a professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university in the united states he says the wreck has been robbed because it's such a famous. the titanic however because of the extreme interest the let's say how famous it is any. coverage from it obviously have a huge amount of value and the wreck had been you know if you will visited and i would quite comfortably use the word pillaged if you will.

or a grave or all because it is essentially an underwater grave for over 1500 people and this has caused you know a lot of concern for a lot of people so. you know in order to prevent further authorized axes by private or even you know businesses entities etc from continuing to access the site this now places century for the 1st time some sort of lead straight or regulation that permits only. the united states and great britain at least in this case to provide access or licenses and it reinforces what came out of the 2001 can vent unesco convention for the protection of maritime cultural heritage sites wellness training governments came from people with disabilities has created

a series of innovations and it's based on high tech start ups which help the disabled take greater control of the lives and to thomas has more from simple. a decade ago this wheelchair was the height of technology in the disability sector for macs bert's it was a life changing innovation but now he's developing his own applying even more modern technology to services but innovation is a website that guides people with disabilities to places they can access this cafe has stairs leading down from its front door useless to people in wheelchairs the app shows an unsigned alternative entrance through an office block being there through provides a style where. you're going from age old. so for example you move you could. you care. to name a bridge story. in time but types of mapping apps will integrate information

to show wheelchair friendly routes innovation is taking off in australia because of a new tax payer funded $20000000000.00 australian dollars or $15000000000.00 us dollars a year national disability insurance scheme supported by both the country's main political parties grants a given directly to people with disability to spend on the services they need we're seeing investors are really taking this spice seriously with the advent of the national disability insurance scheme saying that government is is increasing their spending from around about $6000000000.00 a year to $22000000000.00 a year it's a it's a market that is really unparalleled in lots of whys many startups like those represented at this networking event have flourished technology is at the heart of most pat and glen methods with the help of one of them higher up is an online platform that

helps people find higher and manage their own support work it's traditionally agencies would find work as people. disability would have little choice over who they got and that person would change frequently in the us i had no choice and who supported me it was very disempowering now i have full choice and control with have supporting me but when they come in. the platform means people with disability can choose their own support work is based on availability and mutual interests but leads to consistency and often to friendship without technology you wouldn't be out to have this immediate connection with paypal so if with within 30 minutes got sent a message sent a message back and arranged to meet up the next day i'd started working with technology in the disability sector is often thought of only in the physical realm increasingly services online for the power of the innovation andrew thomas

al-jazeera. well you can find much more on our website including updates on the unrest and violence in iraq the address for that is al jazeera dot com. now 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 beijing says nearly 300 people have now been infected the world health organization is considering declaring the outbreak an international public health emergency between e.u. 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 taken 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 u.s. president donald trump is set to address the world economic forum in davos the same day his impeachment trial begins in the u.s. senate the global political and business elite will also hear from teenage climate activist aggressive totenberg. while senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern those proceedings in the impeachment trial which are designed to end it as soon as possible democrats say they'll try to amend them protesters have blocked roads in baghdad for a 2nd day as a new wave of demonstrations spreads across iraq police have been trying to clear the barricades but protesters have been hurling rocks and fire bombs at least 5 demonstrators were killed in the latest round of violence after police opened fire

in the capital on monday in southern iraq hundreds of people brought to main roads in a number of cities. a former head of interpol has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for bribery and china men home ways trial was one of the most high profile during president xi jinping is anti corruption campaign the 1st chinese to head to the global police coordination agency went missing after resigning 2 years ago and after his arrest in china he admitted receiving $2000000.00 in bribes while being a government minister well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after radicalized youth do stay with us. the climate crisis and the environment take 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 sun as they discuss how to save the planet from the threat of rising temperatures

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