it's fascism were terribly important pressures in the family it makes me see this letter. i found. on al-jazeera. the. al-jazeera. hi there i'm convinced this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the world health organization stops short of declaring the coronavirus a global emergency concerns are growing as it spreads from china. this president must be removed from office. especially before he continues his effort to corrupt our next alert. democrats lay out evidence that donald trump quote

flagrantly abused his power as they make a case for his impeachment in the senate. the world's top court orders me and ma to take urgent steps to protect rocking the muslims. and helping to hold so-called birth tourism the u.s. imposes new visa rules for pregnant women traveling to the country. health authorities around the world are scrambling to contain an al break of corona virus 18 people have died in china with the new virus originated and more than $600.00 people are confirmed to have the disease the world health organization acknowledged that the respiratory illness is an emergency in china said it's too early to declare it a global one chinese officials are working to contain its for it and will harm the city with a virus started trying. ford has been shut down several of the cities are on the

lockdown health officials are worried transmission rights could increase as millions travel to celebrate the new year which starts on saturday in a moment see how people are coping in china but 1st lady barbara has more on the international response. but few maci know airport had road they're taking no chances for good reason the people being monitored with the scanners have just flown in from will hand the center of the outbreak. they left before the chinese city was put in lockdown but scenes like this have played out around the world at sydney airport serving australia's largest city many of those flying in from blue hand on thursday will face masks they knew they'd be screened but there were no reports of illness and they weren't overly worried before we got off the plane and . a few. 'd people braved to be everywhere and when we get out and. a sun some people. tested

a fever and asked some questions about your health in the u.s. one person is known to have contracted the virus health officials in the state of washington where the man lives so he's well and should be allowed home soon as of now there are at least 16 identified close contacts local health departments started reaching out to them yesterday and continue to do so today and the list of countries with confirmed cases of the virus is getting larger both cities to nature but some further afield the data that we've gathered has suggested you know that this could be a very dangerous virus but potential for global spread in and even i don't think it's going to extreme to say even potential you know for a global epidemic. but i don't think that's inevitable at this point and i and the next couple of weeks will be really important to making an assessment of what the real risk is still. the mere possibility needs checks like this at major airports

until medical experts know a lot more there's a whole series of questions we have to ask we don't have all of those answers yet we have some of them we know how to diagnose it we increasingly know how to treat people when they get it what we don't yet know is when somebody is infectious and who they pass it on somebody else the next few weeks could tell us exactly how much of a threat this corona virus poses worldwide. al-jazeera well more now on what china is doing to keep the virus from spreading brown reports from hong kong. but 1st china's government warned people against traveling to hand the epicenter of the virus now a day later it's gone a step further and banned all travel to and from the city 11000000 people are effectively living in quarantine many people fled to han before the ban took effect unverified pictures posted on social media shows signs of panic among those who

stayed behind a hospital in the city where face masks are now reportedly being rationed. now the ban on public transport has been extended to other cities in central china. well miracle. arriving in hong kong passengers from one of the last flights out of. silent by choice the incubation period for the virus last up to 10 days doctors say it's therefore possible that some of them could be carrying a silent killer after returning to hong kong if you have a fever or other symptoms where a surgical mask as this disease spreads and hong kong's medical authorities are raising awareness with cheery public service announcements. like other parts of china hong kong is becoming a city without a face the official advice is to wear surgical masks in crowded areas including on

public transport yet some experts doubt they'll be effective. from manila to tokyo airports across asia are screening all passengers for signs of infection medical experts still don't know if this is a highly well mildly contagious disease there is that all the experts still don't know about this disease they're still trying to find it soles and they're still not sure how easily it can spread from person to person adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. democrats in the u.s. a pressing on with a 2nd day of the opening statements and president donald trump's impeachment trial focusing on what they call his dangerous abuse of power all i tried had no grounds to push ukraine into investigating political rivals joe biden the president is accused of withholding military aid in order to put pressure on key of prosecutors

in trying to convince the senate that trump should be removed from office democrats also repeated their calls for new documents and witnesses to be presented before the senate the presentations themselves argued both in implicitly and explicitly for the importance of witnesses and documents at key points yesterday it was so clear that we already hear from ovine and blair and duffy and bolton who are at the center of these events it was so clear that we must review relevant documents if someone doubts a witness reporting a phone call the way to verify it to see if it's true is look at the underlying document they don't want that. well for more she have returned he joins us now live from washington she had democrats there every surprising nichols venue what is this to be admission but the ruled out what i thought could have been quite an exciting witness walk of sorts for a biden. right there that's what would be john bolton the former national security

adviser for joe biden but you can see why the democrats don't want that to happen as we speak in the democratic primary campaigns the major issue is does joe biden have a problem with corruption that was the name of an editorial that appeared in the guardian the charge being that for years throughout his senate career joe biden has taken loads of money from the credit card industry from the health care industry from the climb from the fossil fuel industry and just done that bidding in the senator joe biden today is that but can you imagine the effect on his campaign if now suddenly he has to appear as a witness in the impeachment trial here of donald trump denying that there's anything weird about his son home to bite he being on the board of hate allegedly corrupt ukrainian energy firm while he was vice president even though home to biden has no experience in the energy industry and he's raking in tens of thousands of dollars each month it may be nothing illegal about that but it certainly looks a bit of good will toward even even republican democrat say that so this would be

terribly good for the establishment candidate of the democratic party so you can see was a witness what is on the cards right now and because the republicans democrats even today have been making a great deal about how there's nothing to see when it comes to joe biden the republicans are saying look if you were suggesting we're going to go after but now you've opened the door now so where do we make our case we will now go after after biden and there's a suggestion that if you do manage to get 4 republicans to say ok we do want john bolton to testify they will go after of the joe biden sort of destruction thing no underlying the arguments nonetheless the democrats do say outwardly that they do what the witnesses and what's going on is a coverup. this presidential stonewalling of congress is unprecedented in the 238 year history of our constitutional republic it puts even president nixon to shame taken together the articles in the evidence conclusively established

that president trump is places own personal political interests 1st he has placed them above our national security above our free and fair elections and above our system of checks and balances this conduct is not america 1st it is donald trump 1st so you have to follow where hearing a lot of what we've already had before can we expect anything off script. i love him but what we can always be something off script i mean certainly off the outside of the camera's vision apparently of the senate as a rather in the off script so the senator is not even being present for some of some of the testimony and doodling and and doing crosswords and all sorts of things other than that the source of the testimonies concerns from the house managers now it seems like they're just simply giving a presentation of what was learned during their inquiries and what's come what has emerged emerge since what they're trying to do what they were trying to do today

was they laid out that narrative which i hope it's a definitive narrative of how they say donald trump was in acting a shadow foreign policy trying to blackmail the ukrainian government for dirt on his opponent to try and cheat in the 2020 election and now they're making the argument and this is why this is an impeachable offense the republicans saying you can't impeach a president unless they've actually done something criminal and abuse and what you've said that but that's not necessarily a criminal a criminal offense and the democrats are saying no in 1909 during clinton's impeachment republicans argument was it doesn't have to be a criminal offense in order for president clinton to be impeached now and now the chips which change their tune the problem with that as always with democrats and republicans is is that the democrats have also changed their tune since 999 jerry now who we just saw there in 1009. 100 be an impeachment if there's bipartisan support in the house where there wasn't this time so each time the democrats make an argument the republicans do have

a pretty obvious rejoinder you know that's the danger and that's probably what we'll see over the coming days both were democrats and when the republicans begin their opening statements on friday i think that she has brought sounds e.v.a.'s on saturday thank you for that. thank you more to come on the news hour including one year after venezuela's won why don't declare himself as interim leader what's changed in the country. and in sports one of basketball's bryce's to young stars doesn't disappoint. you and he's here with that story. that donald trump says he will release its long awaited pace plan for the middle east by tuesday hit all the visit by israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz a jew to meet to discuss regional issues and the ongoing conflicts between israel

and palestine next week a spokesman for palestinian president mahmoud abbas has warned israel and the u.s. administration against crossing what he called red lines presence libby joins us now live from washington d.c. chris and so we're going to hear more about this middle east peace plan what would we know. we know very little at this time the president did tell reporters aboard air force one just a short time ago that it is a great plan and that he's likely to release some of the details ahead of that meeting with netanyahu gantz but at this stage we know very little we know that the president has been working on this for more than 2 years with his son in law senior adviser jared questioner we know that there's an economic component to it as well as a political component jaron questioner back in july announced that $50000000000.00 would be contributed toward this peace plan towards helping the middle east but the political aspects of it have been kept very much under wraps the united states of

course has during this time the trump administration has taken steps that have been favored very strongly and that had been sought very strongly by the israeli government recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem just in november secretary of state mike pompei o announced that the united states would no longer consider israeli settlements in the west bank illegal both of these steps very contrary to tradition here in the united states and seen as against international law and international agreements and a step towards israel this of course is angered the palestinians who as you say are cautioning against crossing any further red lines one we know one thing that benjamin netanyahu has been advocating for is annex in parts of the west bank to israel so there's been some reported some rumors that that could be part of this political aspect of the deal coming up we have not heard that officially but that's

the speculation at this stage so really it's anyone's guess but we know the president very much would like to do this deal he prides himself on being a deal maker and he says this would be the deal of all deals so we may hear a little bit more ahead of the meeting on tuesday the dale of the century as he calls it a question how can this be valid how can this middle east peace plan be valid if the palestinian side is not involved. yeah it's a good question and certainly the palestinians have been asking that as well. they've been sidelined for most of the talks about this plan since the administration has come to power. the president did say that he had spoken to palestinians quote briefly when asked aboard air force one if you had discussed it or had this plan had it all been discussed with them he said that there was likely to be some negative reaction from the palestinians but he insisted that was

actually very positive plan and that they should consider it more seriously but do not see any change of tact and change of approach this initial meeting with the israeli leaders not the palestinians kristie saloon the christin salumi there thank you. and the u.s. has imposed new sanctions on 4 petrol companies it accuses of moving or oil exports for iran's elite could force the move comes 3 weeks after the u.s. kills could force command customs so the money washington accuses the firms of transferring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of exports from the national iranian oil company the u.s. treasury secretary says iran's petroleum operations fund what it describes as the country's global terrorist activities washington also imposed sanctions on 2 people with ties to the company's. foreign ministers from nations bordering libya have been missing in algeria to discuss ways of stopping the fighting egypt's sudan

entry nazir are among the countries that have suffered from the libyan conflict tony lee has more from tripoli. at the meeting in the algerian capital libya's neighbors renewed their support for the enforcement of an arms embargo and called for an end to foreign involvement in the conflict left of the to. the we agreed on many principles the only solution for the libyan crisis is a peaceful solution a political solution the solution must be a libyan solution with support from the international community. libya's internationally recognized government of political experts say that support is vital and the only way a lasting peace can be achieved but they're disappointed there has not been greater international pressure against the united arab emirates in particular which they say is supporting have to with arms and finance we are surprised because international community cannot see. as we expect i don't know why i.

guess why why because the money. maybe because the money warlord khalifa haftar forces control 2 thirds of the country for the last 9 months they pounded the suburbs of tripoli with rocket and shell fire trying to capture the capital there has been an uneasy ceasefire for the last 10 days but there has been violations in the south of tripoli the capital main airport was closed after the government said it was hit by 6 rockets and an unmanned drone was destroyed both sides claimed they had shot it down. have to us forces are blockading oil ports bringing libya's life blood industry to a virtual standstill as oil output plummets the cost to the economy saws at least $77000000.00 a day but the lost revenue will also hurt have to ask side already hurting because the girls were debris from benghazi electricity will go off. and i don't think we

will be able to afford to hold on for for a long time have to ask forces continue to receive their salaries from the central banking tripoli one of the many ironies in this complicated conflict 1st the berlin conference and now the algerian conference and on the 27th of this month there's going to be another conference in geneva the libyan people have heard a lot of talk about ways to end this conflict but what they haven't heard are concrete measures about actually how to do so. most libyans are concerned with security and day to day living including the price of food or medicine lives of the solution i don't feel it's the same old story in berlin or moscow they talk but in libya people are dying why is just wants to go back home he fled with his wife and 2 children when his home in south tripoli was destroyed by shelling home now is in a school. life is hard here we have very little and our home was destroyed it's not safe to go back we just want the water in that he is one of

the 146000 people who've been displaced in this conflict the hope is there won't be any more but in libya there are no guarantees tony berkely al jazeera tripoli. well u.n. secretary general antonio guterres told al-jazeera there's a danger that conflict will spill out to the rest of the region. what has happened in libya is that libya became a playground of neighbors and actors and the libyan people deserve species so it's very important and one of the things that was achieved in berlin was a commitment by all those states not to interfere anymore in the internal affairs of libya and not to interfere in the conflict we know that there is a long way to go to make sure that it's fully happens but i think there is an element of hope and the element of hope comes from. a serious situation became because it's no longer a question in which you have a fighting among libyans with some international support that it's your support

again such as i mention that there is no risk of a regional conflicts and in my humble opinion it is there to risk that to a certain extent made 1000000000 possible and forced all those that are involved to understand that now it's becoming a dangerous game it's better to stop it to the benefit of the libyan people but also to the benefit of peace in the region libya has been a center. of arms export and also fighters export let's remember that went to syria from the beginning and the the most worrying impact is of course with the sale and with the lake charles because more and more these 2 seams are interlinked and what we are living in the sale of the lake chad is a war with terrorist organizations that we are not meaning to take the top story now we're going to bring you more on the corona virus which is causing health concerns around the world that's alex cohen is the dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health and he joins us from fiji thank

you so much for your time dr kahn what do you make of china's efforts so far to contain the virus. so the chinese are being very aggressive and very were very fortunate they have such great public health scientists and laboratory scientists who were able to quickly identify this virus and now they're taking a large number of public health measures to try to prevent and control the spread of this across the china and into the world has you know at this point there are 644 cases within china and we've had disease exported to 6 other countries in the world health organization has decided not to declare an international health emergency fund now but says that could change any day how quickly do things like this move they obviously move very quickly we've seen over the last 2 or 3 days an additional 100 cases and it to the case count every day i believe there's

probably 2 or 3 provinces in china that have not yet reported cases and over the last few days the characteristics of this disease of become quite have become a lot more clear it causes a severe acute respiratory infection we do know this person to person transmission including 15 health care workers who have become infected we know that we have 80 people who have died of this illness and about 25 percent get severe disease so we know a lot more about this disease currently don't we did 3 weeks ago we do know a lot more now than we did yeah as you said some time ago but there is still so much that we don't know how long does it take to get a handle on the virus like this to to find a vaccine or to creative axing. so vaccine is off in the future what we need to do now is work with good ole public health measures to try to get

this controlled so identified cases quarantine cases where necessary isolate sick people get them diagnosed and treated i think that's where the steps are now the long term we hope we will be able to look at vaccine candidates and anti-viral drug candidates but there's nothing in the near horizon for those right now jim looking down a city all of and met a 1000000 people is unprecedented and more now as we can see the well health organization says i hope so as measures will be short lived do you think that's an appropriate response that is without a doubt and a very robust or excessive response we like to promote evidence based measures and we don't we do know social distancing works but that is pretty excessive to lock down a whole city in it and i believe it's not just one city anymore i think it's anywhere up to $5.00 to $7.00 edition additional cities that are essentially being locked

down currently i think that we'll have to leave it if the time has totally come in all the university of nebraska medical center college of public health think that. still ahead on al-jazeera. the russian new constitutional changes that could see that about putin in power well beyond his term limits plus. i'm talking partly in paris with some fashion designers sustainability is more than a fashion statement. and in sports after more than a decade away we'll hear from the international cricket team making their return to pakistan. hello there it has been a fairly quiet few days across areas of the united states unfortunately as we head

towards the end of the week of the weekend that is really set to change a massive cloud working its way towards the southeast and have a look at this it doesn't look too bad does it this is sulphur springs in texas not far from dallas a lot of spray on the roads but the air is turning cold and what we will see over the next couple of days is this a mass of rain heavy at times working into the southeast the eastern seaboard behind it to the north and we have got some very cold air in place that dividing line we are going to see some ice and some sleep it is the ice accumulations that could be very very dangerous so we're expecting some widespread travel disruption this is a say is through friday 2 celsius in chicago the snow is going to quite widespread throughout much of the midwest and at the same time another system working its way through the snow in from the pacific northwest so again friday into saturday we could see as much as 75 centimeters of new snow depth into the northern cascades and by the time we get to south of the into sunday this storm system working its way eastwards and a very nasty makes particularly up into new hampshire and maine we could see about

a centimeter of ice was to say very unpleasant travel conditions very dangerous as well tom which is behind this system was the case or not too bad 10 in d.c. 9 celsius in atlanta. when a french soldier was murdered in a so-called terrorist attack. his mother retaliated with a love. speaking out against intolerance and alienation. she travels the world with the result of a grieving mother who lost a son but adopted a generation gletty for a witness documentary on al-jazeera. a healthy environment depends on a healthy insect population but across the world. numbers are dwindling

. countless creatures are declining as a result of human activity. people in power investigates the extent of the crisis and asks what can be done to abate it. insect to get an on al-jazeera. why. the. you want to run a reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization says it's too early to declare an break of coronavirus a global emergency but has acknowledged there is one in china 18 people have died in china where the virus originated more than 600 people are confirmed to have the

disease. democrats in the u.s. suppressing all but the 2nd day of opening statements of president donald trump's impeachment trial focusing on what they call his dangerous abuse of power and produced calls for new documents and witnesses to be presented to the senate. donald trump says he will release his long awaited peace plan for the middle east ahead of a visit next week by israel's prime minister palestinians who weren't invited to tuesday's meeting have already rejected the move. i mean un's highest court has ordered me and take measures to prevent the genocide of. the international court of justice rejected arguments made by me and mas leader aung san suu kyi denying acts of genocide there was a rule that the government protect all evidence for a potential trial these baka reports from the hague. now ma stands accused of one of the world's worst crimes the genocide of its own people the cases brought by the gambia on behalf of dozens of muslim countries there are

a. creamy. risk of genocide on thursday the un's highest court agreed to deal with the case it also unanimously agreed to impose an emergency in order to prevent more violence the ruling compels me on mass forces to end all acts of genocidal violence including murder rape the burning of villages the prevention of access to medicine must also preserve all evidence ahead of a very complicated genocide trial the judgments binding cattle be appealed must prove it's following the order reporting back to the courts in 4 months time and every 6 months after the court has ordered these periodic reports and that is definitely a way forward to continue to get information on what's happening on the ground on another order that they that they issued was to the preservation of evidence so that in the future if they were say individual prosecutions that could still happen but indeed they want to see every 6 months what is happening how are you compliance

with this order so that they don't lose track of what's going on the decision comes despite a personal intervention from myanmar civilian leader aung san suu kyi the nobel peace prize laureate appeared at the court in person last month where she asked for the case to be dropped in my requests a call to remove the case from its newest she also denied genocide has been committed and accused refugees of exaggerating abuses its says the raids on range of villages in iraq and state in 2017 were legitimate counterterrorism operations around 3 quarters of a 1000000 of the most a minority fled to neighboring bangladesh joining the military offensive against them 3 years ago. the gambia believes was and is trying to wipe out an entire group all 17 from different parts of new orleans who are present in different cultures

and values have all agreed. that the general. cannot be tolerated by anyone into all. our top priorities just today that justice is partially solve this is a great day for us we will celebrate it took the i.c.j. more than a decade to reach a verdict of genocide following the balkan wars in the 1990 s. it's expected to be many years before myanmar faces a similar judgment he bark at al-jazeera the hague. refugees in bangladesh have welcomed the court's ruling. in cox's bazaar where he's been with a group of random refugees as they listened to the decision. the ruling by the international court of justice is very much welcome by the rowing director to come in it is here now we've been discussing with many of the people after the ruling

sitting out in the stalls they've been waiting here for hours wanting to know what will be the outcome that's been listening to a transistor radio listening to various news and they're discussing among themselves i would talk to them see what their reaction is that said it is very welcoming they're very happy and anxious listen to some of their reactions and i think we should include thanks to our love for this verdict and gambia free initiating the legal process also thanks to bangladesh for giving a shelter finally the verdict recognised our suffering in all the atrocities we went through the feel that peace in our heart out of me said i we've been suffering for the last 70 years and we're sticking it justice now we truly believe that the world has recognised the suffering now most of the people don't know the complex detail of legal matter what they know that the ruling was in favor of the rohingya refugees and they're running a community in russia now they know this is symbolic that meant something happen very quickly we don't know yet whether the myanmar will accept this verdict whether

other countries will not put sanction and pressure on myanmar what their own ingots know that they have been recognised that crime has been committed they've been telling the whole was the last several years that atrocities been committed against us now that's been recognised it's a very symbolic it's a moral and a psychological victory for them as to what they told me that israel is opposition leader is asking political and economically this to help and bring change to his country on glad i was speaking at the world economic forum in davos was one year ago at this very meeting that several leaders backslid of his venezuela's interim president nicolas maduro are still in power. what we needed to do is create a majority we are united and we will make a difference and what we hope is that europe as well will strengthen its position that will stand foursquare with us we've had about money meetings thus far and all these were formal meetings and we didn't have

a lot of time but what we were able to do is believe the sanctions have to be stopped because this can bring pressure on the dictatorship and that is a way to exercise pressure against them so it's most joins us now live from washington d.c. he is the special envoy for venezuela migration and refugee crisis at the organization of american states thank you so much for your time i'm glad i had a somewhat lackluster reception at davos many of said that suggests that international support for him is trailed off what's your take. well 1st of all thank you for having me i think the participation of president while your doubles is an easy story to one almost 30 years venezuelan president. was the last time that participated in such an important for him. and he had the opportunity to express to more leaders. and also leader from the private sector the

venezuela is not facing a conventional dictatorship venezuela is facing a criminal regime a criminal regime the during the last 5 years illegally detained 15000 people criminal regime that has at least $7000000.00 people in human in need of humanitarian assistance according to the nations and also a criminal regime the cost. fled the fleet of 5000000 venezuelans which is the 2nd largest displaced population after syria so i think it was important for him to to be there and also we need the support of the international community to restore democracy freedom in venezuela because what was going on in my country is not only affecting venezuela is affecting the region because my daughter has become a threat to the whole hemisphere you referred to your own bardot as president we should point out here that you are also the former mayor of 1 c.e.o.

district in caracas and were forced into exile by the federal government how much more can the international community do there are already sanctions on venezuela 50 countries came out in support of and yet is still in power. well i think there are any other there are so many other actions some policies that could be implemented 1st we need more countries to recognize where you go. interim president more countries in latin america in the caribbean in europe and also in africa i think there's a good opportunity a 2nd more sanctions could be implemented against the one who are involved in human . rights violations drug trafficking illegal mining money laundry on corruption 3rd also more actions could be taken to limit the transit of the office of the regime that some of them has to go from caracas to stumble or from

caracas to mexico city that should be a stop and then the international legal framework. is some actions when there is the need to protect the life of millions of in this case of venezuelans. right now. venezuelans who die because of starvation because of lack of many seen because of violence and if they don't die they are displaced like the 5000000 people are right now so in that case the international community legal framework such as the rio treaty or they're all the responsibility to protect to protect the life of the of the ones who are in risk because of this regime that by the way. very close links with extra regional actors like russian federation or like a hizbollah the government of iran some analysts have just suggested that it was

the very fact that the u.s. backed so strongly at the outset that perhaps meant some venezuelans perhaps racist and lee supported him to do it what are your thoughts on. the the vast majority of the international community vast majority of the democracies of the world support. one of them is the united states which is a strong ally of the interim president while you have colombia brasil we try our neighbors or you are very one it will or in south american chile are supporting also a president way or you have almost every member of the of the e.u. so boardin and recognizing way those are present in the u.k. france germany or even countries like giorgio crane you have more. israel or you have australia or south korea japan so this is a in this is a very big international coalition that is with the people of venezuela which are

the ones who are suffering because there is no food there is no medicine there is violence there is even lack of services such as water electricity so if we restore democracy soon in venezuela it will not only be a good news for venice one as will be a great news for the region. and the world so this is an air force from from the international community who is supporting moto well the dictators of the world so you see turkey you see russia you see iran you see those are they are allies of model when you see all those countries there is no freedom there will have to leave it there thank you for your time that's david's months give us thank you. iraq's president has told global political and business leaders that foreign interference in his country must end salo was speaking at the world economic forum in davos his call for sovereignty came after growing protests against u.s. troops in iraq and missile attacks from iran. russia's the house has unanimously

approved a bill to amend the constitution submitted by president vladimir putin it's the 1st of 3 readings and as part of a week of rapid political changes it critics say will help put an extent his grip on power steadfast and has been following developments in moscow and sent this report. in a country known for its sluggish bureaucracy the process to amend the constitution seems to be breaking all the records only a week after put in surprise announcement that he wants to change the distribution of power lawmakers have forwarded unanimously to adopt a hastily written draft while lawmakers will get some more powers like approving ministers the presidency will be strengthened too by giving the head of state more control over the judiciary. the presidential republican there is no reason to move to a parliamentary republic russia is not only the biggest country in the world and the great state but it is also a country that unites many nations and regions. analysts believe that president

putin is changing the constitution to create a way to stay in power after 2024 but nobody yet understands how there's a term for people who try to explain the policies and plans of russia's head of state kremlin knowledge is a put its most recent moves have left all of them guessing but many believe after us annual speech that he will step down on a stone finishes 4 years from now a week later some are not so sure on the date put in move to change the constitution his ally prime minister met fate of replaced by the largely unknown had of the tax office. in a few days later he appointed a new cabinet even many russians puzzled by to speak in which these changes are taking place pretty woman and what we see is the strengthening of presidential power but we don't see anything to kind of balance it therefore it seems to me that out of all possible scenarios the one where putin somehow just days in power in

cubes of this looks more likely now than it was a week ago. whatever game of chess putin is playing the head of the constitutional commission has denied that he can run for president again the 2nd parliamentary hearing to adopt the amendments will be held on february 11th once parliament approved them the people of russia will get a chance to vote as well although it's not sure how and if that outcome will have any impact stop fasten al-jazeera. the head of one of angola's largest banks has resigned after being named in a corruption investigation centered around the daughter of a former president that follows the apparent suicide of a banker who managed the account of angola state oil for. the comely was previously chaired by isabel dos santos the daughter of angola's former president and africa's richest woman prosecutors have formally named her as

a suspect in the mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her tenure she says the allegations are misleading and untrue. spain's government for hold an emergency meeting to discuss a powerful winter storm that's killed 11 people earlier spanish prime minister pedro sanchez visited eastern areas affected by storm gloria 5 people are missing and their affairs the death toll could rise sanchez says global warming is partly responsible for the storm. comically multi-core climate change is also intensifying and i grieve ating the effects of these meterological phenomena what does this mean while all public administrations have to reflect on how to focus all the economic resources that we have an all public policies that we hope towards a new element which is climate change because the u.s. government plans to limit visas for pregnant women it wants to stop a practice known as birth tourism that's been foreign nationals into the u.s. to give birth so their children can become american citizens pregnant women

applying for visas could be required to prove they have a specific reason for travel such as a medical emergency it's debated that and 2017 more than 9000 children were born to mothers who lived overseas the state department said it was challenging to provide exact numbers but it said there were increasing reports of the practice from the u.s. foreign embassies and consulates was sarah pierce is a policy analyst at the migration policy institute she explains why the new government regulations will be ineffective. people can apply for visas to come to the united states and those visas are granted for up to 10 years so a woman could could apply for a visa years before she has even thinking about having a child if they really wanted to go after this industry they would pour more resources into going in after the companies that have built up the birth tourism is history these companies coach foreign nationals on how to get through their visa interviews how's them when they're in the united states and hook them up with

medical care to to assist with the birth so going after those companies would be a far more effective way to do this i think the administration has put out this regulation and kind of subject all for national women of childbearing years to extra interrogation as a way to really just signal and be symbolic that they are going after this issue it's under 10000 women a year are reporting that when they're giving birth in the united states that they reside abroad so these are really small numbers this is likely not a huge threat to us safety and security but i like i said earlier politically this is a huge pet issue for the administration this is the same administration that tore babies from mother's arms at the southern border and now they have signaled that they're specifically going after women of childbearing years i think they just they just don't have the public trust or the political capital capital on immigration to pull off this regulation without significant backlash. the u.s. and france have declared

a truce so the digital taxation plans talks were held on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos france has agreed to defer the tax on takes take giants such as google and amazon u.s. has agreed not to impose increased tariffs on e.u. good. regulators say suzuki and fear of broken rules on a mission to models were found to emit high levels of not urine oxide been allowed have been ordered to fix the issue or face a ban on sales across europe regulators across the world have been testing diesel model since volkswagen admitted in 2015 that it used illegal software to cheat us emissions tests still to come on al-jazeera. and spoiled brat found the doll i am for victory but it's a ball go and it will be here with that story and the rest of the action from the australian open.

welcome back the world's top design is a showcasing fashions finest in paris this week and on the glamour of the catwalk there's a new trend proven popular with design it's about the went along to have a look. it doesn't display of all people and fantasy. dutch designer ronald fonda camps paris crittle show models will sculpt traill gals from elegant take on eighty's glamour but fun to campus fashion isn't only a lesson in creativity but also in sustainability all these clothes are made from recycled vintage all riposte fabrics for is one of the worst things for the

environment so for me this is. for it for because this is made with all leftovers from. the code was made by an organization helping women in morocco part of frantic camps conviction that fashion must be responsible he launched his sustainable couture label 5 years ago were leading the way to make sustainability sexy sustainable the new normal because that's one of needs to be i think the bigger bros shoot. you know reduce their with their productions and make less clothes concentrate on making beautiful clothes. all these clothes that nobody needs. the fashion industry is one of the world's biggest polluters and labels influence mass market brands and consumers many concede it's time for change after 50 years in the business french designers retired with

a show with an anti waste message. clothes on. some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses are placed in paris and most say that they're trying to become more environmentally friendly but campaigners say this is a stain abilities increasingly used as an on trend marketing tool rather than a real plan of action. is an expert in sustainable luxury she says customers are helping to accelerate change the. consumers are increasingly aware and want to be more responsible socially and environmentally so in the last few years they brutalize that one way to act is to buy. differently. this former fire station in the city will soon become europe's biggest sustainable fashion hope called black has their own bringing together designers and experts helping them to create responsibly but they don't have the choice because now we know the nature is

suffering we cannot do exactly what we've done before we need to change something was changing a multi-billion dollar industry is a challenge but in an environment driven by trends where we responsibly make clothes maybe companies ultimate fashion statement. i'll just 0 hours. well it's time now for sports as andy thank you very much world tennis number one rafael nadal has reached the 3rd round of the australian open but as one came at some cost to one of the ball girls in melbourne. the. no doubt foreigner returned straight at the girl's head in his match against very honest she took it well both responded that his best to apologise was. that are not showing his softer side to his opponents the argentinean they've put up some resistance early on but nadal blew don't want to so why in the 3rd and

deciding set 637661 the final score nice new down then coming back one more time with another quick check up on the ball. well honestly. being one of the more scary moment that they had on the net is good because the ball was a straight on the head well for her bradley was not the good mom. it was so it was good for her honestly. the ball was quick and the straight on the her so. they happy that you had good so you had a very brave so well done. and his australia isn't it curious doing his best rafa nadal impression barfi and opponents you see want to from scoping that are serving routine after they were given time violations curiosus previously criticised no doubt full time wasting they did win this match in could go on to me in the forty's . or heavy rain and dust storms affecting some matches u.s.

open finest on medvedev struggling with some slippery conditions in his match against dr martin as of spain the roof was a venture to close for this one its problems on court didn't end there the world before needing a medical timeout you to a bleeding nose despite all of his problems he did go on to beat martinez in straight sets and he is through its around 3. now the most highly anticipated n.b.a. debbie for years has finally happened this year is number one draft pick design williamson played his 1st going for the new orleans pelicans after injury delayed his entry into the league so he'll malik reports. the waiting is finally over diane williamson the teenage then station to become one of basketball's biggest stars finally made his n.b.a. debut. and he didn't waste any time. and making an impact on the sun stampede that in the time we've been had been missing all season long because of the knee injury

there were no signs the rust however was a lot the sun was thinking his 1st night on the job only to come back for his team the new orleans pelicans against the visiting salmon tony. the number one draft pick showed off the skills that made him the dark college level. with an epic one quarter display he scored 17 points in just 3 minutes. and got new orleans within touching distance having started the quarter 12 behind you see. his long range shooting was particularly impressive the rookie sinking all 4 of his 3 point attempts. and why you didn't get to new orleans over the finish line for the win he did leave fans with plenty to be excited about. the energy to grow. the energy the city brought our army was a luxury. and i'm just grateful that they did so it was a culture of finally get out there. you know they are doing well where. there is

certainly more to come from the man hailed as the next le bron james so he'll malik al-jazeera reverser fame and i was like goal gave liverpool a $21.00 win over walls on thursday night and a 16 point cushion at the top of the english premier league jordan henderson put liverpool one up inside 10 minutes molyneux roll him in as did a cross for the hard seam in the 2nd half and it was 11 with full time approaching before filming i wanted liverpool 16 points ahead in our 2nd place manchester city iranian clubs have stepped back from their threats of boycott the asian champions league tournament organizers initially decided to stage all matches involving iranian same's on neutral territory due to safety concerns a compromise deal means that same's will now play all the away matches 1st before the security situation can be reassessed. by militias cricket seems says they're happy with the security arrangements in place for their t 20 matches in pakistan the 3 game series and lahore was only finalised last week

and its final issues 1st tour of pakistan 12 years the country has to try lanka for a test series last year the 1st such series in pakistan since gunmen attacked sri lanka's team bus in lahore back in 2009 and a fierce american college rivalry has rather lived down to its reputation a basketball game between kansas states and the university of kansas descending into chaos the off court action getting underway with less than a seconds ago in the game local police officers and coaches took several minutes to break up the fighting for players have been suspended. ok that is only sport for now more later and you can find much more on our web site of course the address for that is al jazeera dot com that is it for me for this news hour i will be back i will be live again to washington as well to get the very latest on the impeachment trial and all the day's drama there do stay with us here on out is the.

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and in-depth analysis of the day's headlines the poultice movement is only getting stronger the more people he killed the more resilient the resistant they will become inside story on al-jazeera. the world health organization so short of declaring the coronavirus a global imagine say but concerns ogling as it spreads from china. i'm going to tell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. president donald trump says his long awaited middle east peace plan will be revealed in the coming days. this president must be removed from office. especially if we continue says every corrupt.