and. lose. the world health organization stopped short of declaring necron a virus a global emergency but concerns are growing as more deaths are reported. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and coming up. president assad to unveil his so-called peace plan for the middle east the palestinians have been left out of the talks. this president must be removed from office. especially if we continue to use every our next door. democrats lay out.

democrats lay out evidence that trump flagrantly abused his power as they make a case for his impeachment and the senate. for easily ivory coast have demolished the homes of tens of thousands of people living near a main airport. an outbreak of chronic virus continues to spread with authorities in china saying the number of infected people as risen to more than 837 others have died from the illness bringing the total number of those killed in china to 25 world health organization acknowledged they respiratory illness is an emergency in china but said it's too early to declare it a global concern chinese officials are working to continue its spread and will haunt the city of 11000000 people transport has been shut down and several other major cities are under lockdown health officials are worried transmission rates

could increase as millions travel to celebrate the lunar new year which starts on saturday and a moment will go to china to see how people are coping 1st baba has more on the international response. but few polluted road they're taking no chances for good reason the people being monitored with scanners have just flown in from the center of the outbreak that. 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 mosques they knew that big screens. but there were no reports of illness and they weren't overly worried before we got off the plane and. a few. people. to be everywhere and when we get out and. 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. and the list of countries with confirmed cases of the virus is getting larger boasted eastern asia 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 it's inevitable at this point in. the next couple of weeks will be really important to making an assessment of what the real risk is still the mere possibility 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 that 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. to scott heiler who is in beijing says scott the numbers continue to increase and china houses are playing out there. right now or so it's really the concern is that travel for the lunar new year holiday that. today friday and will continue all the way through next week we're at a big. train station and this is where if someone's going to go to that epicenter. province this is where they would get this high speed train from beijing so seeing a steady clip of people almost 100 percent of people are wearing some type of mass

on their faces obviously because of what's been going on in that direction the trains aren't stopping there obviously because you've got this chance to walk down in that province in the sense of probably. china it's it's look that it's seen as this kind of a place and hub so trains will pass through there they'll go further south but they won't stop there so still seeing the city of people one big concern is that. is that you know and then for these here john is that what happens after this travel period after this holiday in the next week what's going to happen when people come back who've been traveling outside of that was if the company that was not there on the contact with people who are in that region that's the biggest concern right now because there is there are so many ports that so many people who have carried this virus possibly have been asymptomatic so with all the screening the fever checks and and the health checks that they still could have gone through

some of the system but having the chance face and centers around china so that's a big concern going forward next week but right now this is the 1st day of this 9 day holiday as we've seen now. for our name with the latest from beijing scott thank you. yes president says he will release his long awaited plan for israel and palestine by tuesday that's ahead of a visit by israel's prime minister and his political rival binny cants and washington d.c. next week trump says it's a great deal that will benefit the palestinians but they've already rejected the initiative after a series of pro israel moves by the trump ministration christian salome's in washington d.c. with more details on trump's plan. well we know that the trumpet ministration has been working on this deal for 3 years with the president's son in law jared cushion our senior advisor taking the lead on the negotiations we know that president trump would really like to deliver on this campaign promise he's in the middle of an

impeachment. exercise here in the united states it's an election year and he considers himself a deal maker and he has said that peace in the middle east would be the deal of all deal so there's a lot of incentive from the administration to get something done here as far as the details though don't have a lot of information at this point we know that there's an economic component and a political component to the deal the economic component was announced by kushner back over the summer he said $50000000000.00 in economic development package politically though the united states has already made concessions to israel they recognize jerusalem as israel's capital moved the u.s. embassy there over the summer just recently secretary of state my pump aoe said that the united states would no longer consider israeli settlements in the west bank illegal all of this opening tradition in the u.s. for a long time international agreements international law these were issues that were

supposed to be part of final status negotiations in the united states kind of unilaterally moved ahead and took sides with israel now we have prime minister netanyahu talking about annex in part of the west bank and so there's been some speculation some reporting that that could be the next phase of something that the united states is considering elie jacobs joins us live on skype from new york city he's a partner at the truman national security project we appreciate your time so much so. what is the trump administration done to make either side think that this this plan that supposed to be announced is actually being made in good faith. for the palestinian side that's to be sure every move that the trumpet ministration has done has certainly set back relationships between the americans and the palestinians and the palestinians and the israelis in terms of the israeli side. to think that because it's always sort of a cynical ploy to distract americans from crimes impeachment trial and to distract

israelis from bibi netanyahu is upcoming immunity hearings in the knesset is a bit farfetched it's kind of hard to see it not as they are saying it's at langley in the case of plainly said all cynical political ploy and the timing is that what you're saying it's really really hard to suggest otherwise and there's a huge question of why now why this week they've been doing on this planet essentially for certainly since the summer when jerry question laid out at least some of the economic principles behind this but they've really been sitting on this for upwards of a year and a half and one it was sort of close to completion we were told so the big question is why now and you know we can't really say causation correlation but it's really hard to suggest otherwise right now so you're right the only thing that we've heard about so far is the economic aspect and very little attention has been played to the political aspect what does that say to you can't get an economic plan even have

a chance without a political by iran. it's really hard to say that it could i mean the idea that they're going to attempt this outwardly necros where they're going to get the arab countries just to pressure the palestinians into accepting and accepting the deal i would just sort of the idea behind the economic part of it coming 1st really doesn't hold a lot of water because the palestinians have have turned down opportunities in the past when there was arab backing to these to these deals as well so does suggest that anything was going to be different now is a little farfetched and on top of that what's most concerning i think to global watchers is right now the israelis and the arab in their arab neighbors are getting along to a better degree than they have in the past love that has to do with the threat of iran and if this deal is looked at as so pro israeli that the palestinians can be even moderately thinking that it would be acceptable for them you could really damage those burgeoning nascent relationships between the israelis and the arab

neighbors. joining us from new york city with the air a term a national security project thank you very much. democrats in the u.s. are pressing on with the 2nd day of opening statements of president and pietschmann trial focusing on what they call his dangerous abuse of power i did a cast of reports in washington d.c. . with cameras banned from showing the full senate chamber a sketch artist captures the scene 100 senators without their phones barred from speaking and some even looking bored with the process the democrats lead impeachment manager opened the 2nd day of arguments in the case against president trump with a moment of where levity remarking on his audience's silence of course it doesn't hurt that the morning starts out every day with the sergeant at arms warning you

that if you don't you will be in prison but then it was back to the arguments thursday focused on the allegation that trump abused his power when he asked ukraine for election interference to his own benefit the articles in the evidence conclusively establish the 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 republicans have stuck by the president some calling the democrats arguments repetitive and unconvincing i want the american people to pick the next president not me the president's attorneys will present their case for acquittal in coming days arguing trump did nothing wrong and that the accusations against him are not impeachable offenses just don't have to meet basic fundamental constitutional obligations and they have to expect to hear more

arguments from both sides for the next few days than senators will have a chance to ask questions before democrats make their next big move they hope to open this trial to new witnesses only possible with some republican support the question is whether the democrats' arguments will be convincing enough to leave the senate wanting more heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. how does it has more now on the republicans and democrats over whether to allow witnesses in the trial we're going to get a better understanding of the republicans argue against witnesses both to its own caucus the republicans and to the democrats to the republicans are saying look if basically they're saying if more of you say you're going to want witnesses bear in mind this will go to court donald trump will sue this will take months and months and months and in the end if witnesses finally do appear in the senate will have the same result donald trump will be acquitted why waste our time if the house

wanted witnesses so much why didn't they go through the courts they just do their dirty work so that's that's the republican argument to its. members and to the democrats becoming pretty clear that they're suggesting look if you somehow by some miracle perhaps get someone to testify we will go after we will go after joe biden and that would be a bit of a disaster for joe biden as he's trying to fight for the nomination of the democratic party already from the left of the democratic party he's facing accusations of corruption there was an editorial in the guardian just a few days ago from a left winger saying biden has a problem with corruption for its entire career he's just done the bidding of the fossil fuel industry the banking industry the the health care industry and taking that as taking their donations biden denies all that but now if he was actually to be cross-examined in the senate as to why his son had a. ukrainian energy even though he his son had no experience in energy while biden was in vice president that would be pretty disastrous for him to still have on

al-jazeera. and a moment more ahead on al-jazeera. hello there it has been a fairly quiet few days across areas of the united states and unfortunately as we head towards the end of the week 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 gnostic 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 temperatures behind the system once the case through not too bad 10 in d.c. 9 celsius in atlanta. but. 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 in on al-jazeera. to. you're watching al-jazeera let's break out the top stories right now china's government says 25 people are now confirmed to have died following an outbreak of corona virus more than 830 people have been infected world health organization says it's too early to declare the outbreak

a global emergency. president donald trump says he will unveil his plan for israel and palestine by tuesday that's ahead of a visit by prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz palestinian leaders have not been consulted about the plan. and rats in the u.s. are pressing on with the 2nd day of opening statements of president donald trump's and pietschmann trial they're focusing on what they call his dangerous abuse of power and renewed calls for new documents and witnesses to be presented to the senate. the ivory coast's government has ordered the demolition of houses it says lie too close to the airport near the capital abidjan they are home to tens of thousands of people but the government says their homes are illegal or birth family reports. desperate to future to save their home. within a few hours nothing but. people trying to salvage what little is left to

the authorities these makeshift houses were built illegally but for the people here this was home and many. of. these men are asking why did they do this where will they sleep what kind of country is this where those with air conditioned homes are destroying people's homes but it's also their livelihoods they've all been able to evacuate those few chickens but many died they surprised us and started to demolish they broke everything. this was once part of a labyrinth of homes that house tens of thousands it's situated on the outskirts of a big german international airport that's where earlier this month teenager but then again hit in the landing gear on an air france flight his lifeless body was found by fighting his holes in powers. believe in but they're limited hidden in the

shantytown before jumping the fence onto the runway the government ordered the a jew for neighborhood evacuated to clear 200 meters safety zone communications milissa city toy said these occupations post air safety and security problems while most of the people living here were given 45 days to leave many were shocked when the 1st takers rolled in this week he's only there for the luck i was born here i've been here nearly 40 years even the mosque was destroyed we said at least leave the mosque but they destroyed everything we got all we could from our harness . residents say the government is not dealing with the crux of the issue the high cost of living in a country where almost half of the population lives in poverty and its poverty they say the lead to the teenage boys escape and them having no choice but to live near

the airport now many have nowhere to go. manley al jazeera. hundreds of central americans have crossed the border into mexico after almost a week long standoff with mexican security forces the country is under mounting pressure to stop people from reaching the u.s. border president donald trump has been threatening trade and other sanctions if it doesn't reduce the flow of migrants. hundreds of protesters have rallied in puerto rico accusing the government of holding up aid supplies to victims of a $6.00 magnitude earthquake earlier this month. and there's a mounting since the discovery of unused emergency aid in a warehouse dating back to hurricane maria in 2017 of testers gathered outside the mansion of governor wanted vazquez calling for her to step down similar demonstrations forced her predecessor to resign last year. because impose new

sanctions on 4 petrol companies accuses of moving or oil exports from iran to the likud's force the move comes 3 weeks after the us killed would force commander and so lamont a washington accuses the firm so transferring hundreds of millions worth of exports from the national ronnie and oil company is treasury secretary says iran's petroleum operations for what it describes as the country's global terrorist activities austin also impose sanctions on 2 people with ties to the companies the court has ordered me and more to prevent acts of genocide against the rohingya all 17 judges from the international court of justice decided to impose emergency pulmonary measures they said it's plausible genocidal violence took place in 2017 but a final verdict on whether me and mark committed genocide that could actually take years reason cox's bizarre in bangladesh where 700000 people fled the violence in

me in march 2017. the ruling by the international court of justice is very much welcomed by they're going to represent communities here now we've been discussing with many of the people after the ruling sitting here in a stall they've been waiting here for hours wanting to know what will be the outcome that when listening to a transistor radio listening to various news and the fluffing among them we talk to them see what their reaction and they said it was very welcoming they're very happy and listen to some of the reaction. thanks to the for this verdict and gumby a free initiating the legal process also thanks to bangladesh for giving a shelter finally the verdict recognized our suffering in all the atrocities we went through the feel of peace in our hearts and i ve said i we've been suffering for the last 70 years in west justice we truly believe that the well has recognised the suffering. most not this. complex legal matter what they know

that the ruling will be in favor of their own refugees and they're running a community now they know this is symbolic that may not something happen very quickly we don't know yet whether the myanmar will accept this but it's whether other countries will not put sanctions on pressure on me and what they're owing us know that they have been recognised that crime has been committed they've been telling the whole wall for the last several years that atrocities been committed against us now that been recognised it's a very symbolic it's a moral and a psychological victory for them as to what they told me and venezuela both pro and anti-government protesters have held marches in the capital opposition supporters have gathered after claiming they had been prevented from holding a planned demonstration a pro-government march has been held around the same time it has addressed a supporter saying the country has never seen any quote nonsense and reference to opposition leader want. to take over as the interim president. and

israel's opposition leader is asking political and economic leaders to help them bring change to his country on white i was speaking at the world economic forum in davos it was one year ago at this very mading that several leaders back quite i was venezuela's interim president nicolas maduro is still in power what we needed to do is create a majority we united and. we will make a difference and what we hope is that europe as well will strengthen its position that it will stand foursquare with us we've had about many meetings. and all these 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 it. is the special envoy for venezuelan migration and refugee crisis at the organization of american states is

a dollars forum was an opportunity for to lay out the scale of the crisis in venezuela. the participation of president why though doubles recently story almost 30 years venezuelan president. was the last time that participated in such an important for him. he had the opportunity to express to world leaders. and also leaders 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 people in human and in need of humanitarian assistance according to the united nations and also a criminal regime the hospital. fled the fleet of $5000000.00 venezuelans which is the 2nd largest place population after syria so i think it was important

for him 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 in the 1st accuser against hollywood film producer harvey weinstein as testified in a sexual assault trial actress in a policy or a december of raping her more than 25 years ago allegations date back too far for him to be charged but prosecutors hope it'll show weinstein was a repeat sexual predator pleaded not guilty to 2 charges of assault and says all of this encounters with a man work in central. the bottom line is the issue in this levy was there. if the jury believes. annabella. then. she said she did not think he did not want to have anything to do with a man with this one. the u.s.

government plans to limit visas for pregnant women that wants to stop a practice known as birth tourism that's on foreign nationals and or the u.s. to give birth so their children can become american citizens argument applying for visas could be required to prove they have a specific reason for travel such as a medical emergency it's estimated that in 2017 more than 9000 children were born to mothers who lived overseas the state department says it was challenging challenging to provide exact numbers but it said there were increasing reports of the practice from u.s. foreign embassies and consulates sarah pierces a policy analyst at the migration policy institute she says 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 even thinking about having a child if they really wanted to go after this industry they would pour more

resources into going into after the companies that have built up the birth tourism is industry these companies coach foreign nationals on how to get through their visa interviews how is them when they're in the united states and hook them up with medical care to assist with the births 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 foreign 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 u.s. safety and security but i like i said earlier politically this is a huge pet issue for the administration this is the same in ministration 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 of the political capital capital on immigration to pull off this regulation without significant backlash. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera china's government says 25 people are now concerned to have died following an outbreak of corona virus more than 830 people have been infected 10 cities in the central who bay province have suspended public transport. right now preventing the corona virus outbreak and city has entered a critical stage we must cope the spread of the epidemic to other places this is a major responsibility that we must take as a big city with more than 10000000 people and a major transport hub of the country has a large influx of people during the spring festival holiday posing a great risk to the spread of the epidemic as president donald trump says he will

release his long awaited plan for israel and palestine by tuesday that's ahead of a visit by israel's prime minister and his political rival binny gantz in washington d.c. next week trump says it's a great deal that will benefit the palestinians but they have already rejected the initiative after a series of pro israel moves by the trump administration. democrats in the u.s. are pressing on with the 2nd day of opening statements and president donald trump's impeachment trial focusing on what they call his dangerous abuse of power and renew calls for new documents and witnesses to be presented to the senate the national court of justice has ordered me and mars government to take emergency measures to prevent soldiers from committing acts of genocide against were hanged still living there around 3 quarters of a 1000000 fled to neighboring bangladesh during the military offensive against them 3 years ago in mars' leader on songs which he denies genocide has been committed

hundreds of central americans have crossed the guatemalan border into mexico after almost a week long standoff with mexican security forces mexico is under mounting pressure to stop people from reaching the u.s. border president has been threatening trade and other sanctions if it doesn't reduce the flow of migrants 1st accuser against hollywood film producer harvey weinstein as testified in a sexual assault trial after senate or accuses him of raping her more than 25 years ago weinstein is pleaded not guilty to 2 charges of assault and he says all of his encounters with women or consensual. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera another bolt out of the top we are at the main time people in power this next. it's been dubbed the project of this injury. is the real cost chinese mean silk road project. one o one east investigates. on al-jazeera. humanity

relies heavily on insects to pollinate crops that feed the world that have pesticides intensive farming and climate change rule to record the damage on the trishul ecosystem some ecologists of want that at least 40 percent of insect species could be facing extinction a potentially catastrophic consequences for life on earth 2 and a half journalist eric campbell has been to find out why.