separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism the listening post on al-jazeera. the old. china reports the 1st 2 deaths outside the epicenter of a new virus as it struggles to stop it spreading. the next couple of weeks will be really important to making an assessment of what the real risk is. hello i'm sami say that this is al jazeera live from also coming up. thousands answer a call to protest in the iraqi capital against the u.s. military presence plus. this president must be removed from office

especially before he continues his effort to corrupt our necks the. democrats push the case that donald trump flagrantly abused his power during presidential in. 10 newborns die in one south african hospital in just 2 months their mothers one. china is taking drastic measures to try and contain the outbreak of a deadly new virus this tens of millions for a pair to travel for the lunar new year short time ago the 1st 2 deaths were announced outside who by a province the epicenter of the virus one person died near beijing the other in the far north death toll is now 26 more than 830 people are confirmed to have been

affected the city of one hand shut down its public transport services on thursday several other major cities in the way province of done the same but health officials are worried more people could become ill as many and set off to celebrate the lunar new year that starts on saturday they jim brown joins us live from hong kong adrian we hear that hospitals are almost at full capacity there in hong kong right. here that's actually write something let me just set the scene for you right now i am at the flower market in causeway bay in central hong kong this is a traditional lunar new year event in hong kong but as you can see behind me a lot of empty spaces normally would have crowds here at this time of year but not now the mood is actually quite subdued not just because of this. it also of course because hong kong has been rocked by almost 8 months of protests and political unrest but yes we still have to confirm the cases here in hong kong from the virus

but we have more than 200 suspected cases of people in hospital suspected of having this virus now hospitals coping but we've been hearing from the director of hong kong's hospital corridor who says they've been very busy indeed. yesterday we have more than 5000. and 10 this. medical that occupancy rate is 97 percent and she is quite full but not for the peak of the winter so right now is slightly better but we are we perceive that the. wrong holiday usually there will be for this in the amount of the amount not just from the isolation that but from the other things like the flu symptoms. are the kind of the season. there's still people behind you even if it's not as busy as

usual are officials bracing for perhaps. after the new year. yes i mean i was just thinking earlier on something i was actually in this park 17 years ago during chinese new year then when the sars epidemic was starting to take its toll and you know the big question then as now was this how worried should i be i think people are still in a sense in the dark medical experts are still in the dark because we still don't know just how easily this fire is can transmit from person to person we also still don't know the source the exact source of this virus but one thing i think is clear is that hong kong is much better prepared this time that it was 17 years ago and of course since then the world has been dealing with a number of other epidemics including a bonus so there's much better screening of people entering hong kong now they get

instant body checks and of course hospitals understand now the need to put people into immediate isolation and of course is better protection now for medical workers frontline medical workers there simply wasn't in 2017 across in the mainland we are getting reports from move hand of quite desperate scenes in in that city of course that is the epicenter of this virus food is beginning to run out we are told and there are virtually no facemask to be had in that city the streets are eerily quiet and of course there is a complete ban on all forms of public transport but taxis and other private cars are still operating but effectively along with 6 other towns and city those towns and cities remain effectively cut off and i think the danger for china's leadership is this what will happen to those people are still confined to that city 34 weeks from now. you could have what the chinese leadership fears most on occasions like

this which is you know political social instability. all right thanks so much avian brown there from hong kong. where the world health organization says the corona virus is an emergency in china but it's too early to declare it a global one but the barber has more on the international response. but few mitchie know where ported road they're taking no chances for good reason the people being monitored with heat 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 come to the graves 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 most 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 a. 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 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 the al-jazeera now thousands are rallying in iraq's capital against the u.s. military presence this is baghdad right now people are responding to a call by cleric that assad that he controls the largest bloc in the house of parliament earlier this month m.p.'s passed a bill asking foreign forces to leave that was in reaction to the killing of the top iranian general carson so many in a u.s. drone strike near baghdad's airport iran can joins us now live from baghdad so

how is the turnout shaping up now in iran. all right i was having some issues there with him our trying to bring him back up let me just talk you through though what we're looking at and that is essentially the result so far of the 1000000 man march which was called by mark salter definitely looks like a crowd sizes are swelling up now can build say how many people are out. let's see . if we can get him wrong back on the line we lost him ron if you can hear me so it does look like the crowd size is picking up right. that's absolutely right but it almost doesn't matter whether this is a 1000000 people or less. than the vocal most of the crowd has made sure that the

message has been sent out southern had a meeting with various other very key political leaders in iran where he was studying like he they discussed the idea of doing a march like this to send a message to the americans that they weren't welcome now the americans have actually said that they are in iraq at the invitation of the prime minister the prime minister i'd love a man who is under a tremendous amount of pressure not only is this protest putting pressure on him but he also has pressure coming from a protest movement that's being on going since october now he's actually a caretaker prime minister right now but there was a vote in poland to discuss the idea of american troops staying in the country that was taking place with his only taken place by the shia political blocs the kurdish political books and the sunni political blocs didn't actually take and

a resolution was passed to us the very concerning but that hasn't happened heads we have these huge crowds on the streets of baghdad today this is a real show of strength by saying that you need to listen to us now so i mean i have actually lost you so i'm going to head back to you now. but like i say this crowd will be here for a while and we'll keep updating all right thanks so much among con there. the muslims are welcoming a unanimous ruling by the un's highest court ordering men mark to take all possible measures to prevent genocide against rangar remaining in the country the international court of justice also ordered the government to preserve all evidence for a possible trial meanwhile says it's taken note of the ruling in parker reports from the hague jamar stands accused of one of the world's worst crimes the genocide of its own people the case was brought by the gambia on behalf of dozens of muslim

countries their very. creamy at serious 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 myanmar must also preserve all evidence ahead of a very complicated genocide trial. the judgments binding cannell be appealed. prove it's following the order reporting back to the court in 4 months time and every 6 months after the court has ordered these periodic reports and that is definitely a way for to continue to get information on what's happening on the ground on another order that they that you shoot 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 caught to remove the case from it's the case she also denied genocide has been committed and accused refugees of exaggerating abuses. says the raids on range of ellipses 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 i believe was and is trying to wipe out an entire ethnic group. from different parts of

a new war of the present in different cultures and values. in the genocide. cannot be tolerated by anyone in new all. amid what diction our top priority is just today that justice is up 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 barkha al-jazeera the hague. well 10 dear child rejoins us live from cox's bazar in bangladesh home to hundreds of thousands of rango refugees could have you with us when we are so as you know the hague has called on me and my authority is to take certain measures now when you're chatting

with people in cox's bazaar what do they tell you about what they're hearing from their relatives still inside me and mark are they seeing any change in tactics from the government. not so much response from the other side but what the know whatever the ruling was it's favorable for them i mean many of them don't know the intricate process of legality and that this is not an enforceable thing it's legally binding but it's not enforceable all this details of they don't know but what they know that this is a step forward for making their situation better that very happy that time this is a moral victory as well as a psychological victory for bangladesh government itself the foreign minister made a statement saying this is a victory for the humanity it's a milestone for human rights activist around the world he also went to say that hopefully good sense prevailing me and. they would make a move to take back the their own people back to me and mark would know that

myanmar as vehemently rejected this they said that this is a distorted picture of the situation and they rejected the whole thing we can see the fences that on down so this is their anger comes behind most of their own have a sense of hopelessness there and far more restrictions situation now than before the bang with us government imposed movement there is a mobile communication blackout there's no internet and that there's a sense of frustration there is more than nearly 50 percent rather of the children among the population are you know they don't have education they have only access to some limited learning center so whole generation going to be lost without education they want this to be resolved very quickly this is a breath of fresh air when the hard that this court ruled in favor of them they think this will facilitate it will use as a catalyst to form their cause and effect but the reality on the ground is that it hasn't been much movement this 2 failed attempt repatriation meon maher is

continuously saying that issue national very thick asian carp which is nothing more than saying that there are a bengali muslims that's all that said where is the myanmar room. here saying that we want recognition we want security we want to be color and that we should be given citizenship we have documents from our generations and that we should be provided security there and more and more a louder call for justice this is one of the key demand that's now a lot of the ruling are saying that before we decide to go back so this judgment actually gave them a sense of hope there's something there the international community and i now recognize that there is a sense of their suffering has been recognized by the coach. right from those tender child. still ahead of al jazeera but as well as opposition leader issues an appeal to the international community at the world economic forum. and set to announce his plans for the middle east next week. is unlikely to be in

washington when that happens. i still got plenty of triumph i'm either in central parts of year of high pressure . sunshine calming 3 little multilaterally push up towards the baltic states at english and old impossibles this weather system will gresham a case where we'll see some wet weather coming into the northwest of europe over the next few days but it steps towards the southwest where it stays very disturbed from what remains of tropical storm gloria secularizing away lots of cloud him more weather coming to southern parts of portugal will see that re also affecting the spanish play but it was weather that we've seen before so there was a france that is slowly but surely making its way for the race was it will push

across into northern parts of italy as we go on through saturday 20 to snow over the higher ground see things clearing up there across southern parts of france the by sas day little more rain there across spy easing out hold portugal temp just about getting into double figures there we go with a fine weather into central postle little more clout up towards sea both 6 days further north still mall in moscow temperatures touching 2 degrees celsius across all the piles of africa dry but that west of weather that we do have just around spain and portugal will introduce a little bit of wet weather into the far north america. but. when was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every level or layer further further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you're in detention or you're incarcerated this is

a dialogue everyone has a voice recording artist a 6 o'clock rush coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq. route. welcome back you're watching out just the right time to recap our headlines china has reported the 1st deaths outside the center of the corona virus outbreak health officials are worried more people could become infected as millions travel to celebrate the new new year which starts saturday. thousands are rallying in iraq

against the u.s. military presence shia cleric motorcycle called on his supporters to demand old foreign forces withdraw earlier this month when peace passed a resolution asking foreign troops to leave. rangar muslims are welcoming a unanimous ruling from the un's highest court ordering me and must take all possible measure to prevent genocide the gates were fingers remaining in the country in ma says it's taken out of the room. president trumps impeachment trial as seen another marathon day in the u.s. capitol democrats have made their case for the 1st article of impeachment of what they call trance dangerous abuse of power i did jocasta reports from 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 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 you still 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. meanwhile trump says he'll release is long awaited peace plan for israel and palestine by tuesday the announcement is expected to come just ahead of

a visit to washington by israel's prime minister trump says it's a great deal that will benefit the palestinians but they've rejected the so-called deal of the century after a series of pro israel moves by trump kristen salome's in washington d.c. she looks back at those decisions. 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 recognized 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 and axing 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 it that may be what the palestinians were warning against. the u.s.

has impose new sanctions on 6 business is accused of helping iran's national oil company it's the latest step in washington so-called maximum pressure campaign to curb iran's nuclear program the firms are based in asia and the middle east they're allegedly violating existing sanctions by helping transfer millions of dollars worth of oil exports for iran or the u.s. says iran's oil industry funds what it calls global terrorist activities grieving parents in south africa's largest city are accusing hospital managers of hiding information about the deaths of their newborn babies the hospital in johannesburg blames drug resistant bacteria government critics say the maternity deaths highlights underfunding in the public health care system how to tassel reports. yes tenby is not her real name and she doesn't want to show her face

because she's afraid she'll get into trouble for complaining reading this newspaper article has made her angry because it could explain why a new born baby died at least 10 babies have died in the same hospital into bisa township in johannesburg in the past 2 months the government blames drug resistant bacteria i think that's small unst scientists in the. information just say. they're heading information from us. davis only only thing that there is a 6. the cause of the infection is unclear doctors say it could lead to pneumonia and meningitis some south africans blame hospital overcrowding understaffing and poor hygiene health department managers admit employing more nurses and doctors could help prevent more deaths but there are other issues the problems that we're dealing with these issues related to the standstill and by the tubes because when

we use antibiotics when finished the force we used i do politics that are not prescribed for doctors prescribe antibiotics for any other group isn't it. our our our our our budgetary are not being able to this point to these doctor politics which is if you prefer. africa's most industrialized economy is struggling to provide affordable quality health care for the majority who are poor in some neighborhoods private clinics try to ease the burden it patients can afford to pay to avoid the long queues but there aren't enough private clinics to substitute overstretched and early quipped state run hospitals the government wants to introduce a national health insurance scheme to try and close the gap between the rich and the poor at the moment only a privileged few new world price to pay a private little while millions of mainly poor black south africans have to rely on understaffed. an overcrowded public health facility. with the proposed insurance

scheme bill still needs to be debated in parliament if it becomes law the state will control how much private health facilities charge make it more affordable for the poll tax rises will be needed to pay for the scheme but some economists say the country struggling economy can't afford it the ruling african national congress says universal health insurance is the solution but the mothers who recently lost a baby say it's too late for them. to tory. rival rallies of been held in venezuela by both pro and anti-government supporters some opposition supporters gathered in caracas saying they've been prevented from holding a larger demonstration at the same time president nicolas maduro told supporters opposition leader one guy though was a clown and his overthrow attempt last year was nonsense. when speaking at the world economic forum in switzerland appealing for help to

change venezuela it's 12 months since several leaders in davos back quite as interim president maduro remains 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 mali meetings last for. 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 there is a way to exercise pressure against them. and let's take you through some headlines here on al-jazeera now china has reported the 1st deaths outside the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak doctors are

worried more people could become infected as millions travel to celebrate the lunar new year that started on that starts rather on saturday 26 people have died more than 830 people have been confirmed to have been infected thousands are rallying in iraq against the u.s. military presence shia cleric knocked out our southern called on his supporters to demand all foreign forces withdraw earlier this month m.p.'s passed a resolution asking foreign troops to leave our correspondent in run can see in what's happening there are thousands of people out on the streets people are coming from all over the south from various different provinces they've come in they've been bussed in to join this march and even in the early hours of this morning when it was still dark people were gathering here but it almost doesn't matter whether

saddam has got that 1000000 or not the message has been said he want the u.s. troops out of iraq rohingya muslims are welcoming a unanimous ruling from the un's highest court ordering me and man to take all possible measures to prevent genocide against remaining in the country u.s. democrats have made their case for they called president trumps dangerous abuse of power they'll argue for the 2nd article of impeachment obstruction of congress when the trial reconvenes later on friday meanwhile trump says he'll release his peace plan for israel and palestine by tuesday there's your headlines the news continues after the stream. my name is amir. aka time half american and my mom so the family

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impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump is underway what would it mean for the administration and the upcoming election i am ok and you are in the stream there is so much to talk about today and we want to hear from you you can share your thoughts with us in a live chat and when your comments into the shot now donald trump faces 2 charges a piece of power for his role in withholding military aid to ukraine in order to pressure kiev into investigating his political rival joe biden democrats are laying out their case on that charge on thursday and the 2nd challenge obstruction of congress which refers to the trumpet ministrations efforts to not cooperate with the house of representatives impeachment inquiry last year have a listen to 2 very different views why this trial is taking place the framers of the constitution worried then as we worried today that a leader might come to power not.