to get on al-jazeera. holding to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. trying to contain the spread of a new virus china restricts the movement of 40000000 people and orders a new hospital to be ready in a week. hello again i'm a scene dennis your with al-jazeera life and also coming up in the program turkey's president says he will never abandon the libyans and reiterate his support for the internationally recognized. huge crowds protest in iraq's capital demanding u.s.

troops leave their country. they don't have to do anything because they are not being held accountable. and gratitude takes a climate school strikes to world leaders in davos. there on the eve of its biggest annual holiday china has stepped up efforts to contain the spread of a new virus the central government's taken over the management of the crisis bringing in measures including closing the great wall and implementing travel restrictions the new strain of corona virus is killed at least $26.00 people across china almost $850.00 are infected and doctors fear that infection rate could saw during what is normally the busiest time of the year for travel as hundreds of millions of people celebrate the lunar new year. well now the u.s.

centers for disease control has reported that 2 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have emerged there 63 patients in the u.s. are under investigation and in thailand a 5th case is now being confirmed well the outbreak 1st emerged in who bay's provincial capital will hand it's in a transport lockdown and a number of other cities in the province have also been forced restrictions and that's affecting around 40000000 people but the virus still spreading the 1st deaths outside of who bay have now been confirmed one person has died in hobday which borders beijing and the other in the hay long junk cases in the corona virus are now confirmed in nearly every province of the country new year's celebrations are being canceled in many cities including beijing shanghai disneyland is due to shut down from saturday that the world health organization says it's not yet clear

how many people actually infected it's still too early to draw the conclusions on how severe the viruses because at the beginning of any old break you would focus more on a severe cases and you have more of those and then maybe we are missing some mild cases because people will just be a little bit sick and will not be ever tested and they will recover so as you know we may see more mild cases as surveillance intensifies so there is not so much really on the numbers that we know that will will will go up. but china says it will take stricter a more targeted measures to curb the spread our correspondent in beijing is caught high and. parts of the great wall have been closed now to tourists and visitors because of concerns of passing along this virus from people that that really aren't showing symptoms but might be carrying the virus other news coming out of the

capital here beijing today the government has now put the cabinet the government's cabinet in charge of dealing with this crisis they've also appointed the head a sars expert who led the reaction and the organisation for the combating the sars back in 2003 he is now in charge of a new group that they're putting for here again that will be controlled by the cabinet here we know that you know there are more than then a dozen cities who are in complete lockdown we know that we're getting word that reports that that even mcdonald's restaurants in 3 of these cities are on lockdown and have closed also what's very interesting is a hospital is being built in this is the epicenter of the virus now that's going to be built officials say within 6 days they broke ground late thursday night and they say that will be done early next week now this is something they did during the sars crisis as well just outside here beijing they built a hospital just to deal with cases this hospital is going to have about

a 1000 beds they say but many things going on across china as are many developments on the day and this is how it unfolded. rushing to catch the last trains before the lunar new year many of these passengers at the beijing west railway station i thinking of the coronavirus you know i don't think this has been properly controlled i just came back to china i read a lot of news i'm too met i'm not very satisfied with how the government prevented the disease they're afraid of getting infected i am really afraid of those people who are relieved and left but i do hope the situation to be proved. and those inside the city of han are becoming more frustrated because medical supplies are running short. and hospitals are short staffed many festivals for the lunar new year holiday have been canceled across china and not just in the central who bay province the epicenter of the virus in

a rare move the government has closed the forbidden city here in beijing over health concerns related to the coronavirus something they didn't do some 17 years ago during the sars crisis. the chinese government was criticized for the way it handled the sars virus back in 2003 mainly for its lack of transparency the world health organization has decided not to declare the current outbreak a global health emergency but there's growing concern over the coming week when the millions of people who have traveled for the holiday return again raising the risk the virus may be spread further by people who are contaminated but have yet to show symptoms scott hodler al-jazeera beijing and the authorities in hong kong say they're investigating more than 200 suspected cases thousands of people that have been turning up at the city's hospitals yesterday we have found more than 5000. and 10 this. medical that's been see rate is 97 percent and she is

quite full but not as full as the peak of the wind the surge so right now it's like the thought of but we are we perceive that. the long holiday usually there will be for this. not just from the isolation that but from the other things like the flu symptoms. other cough the season more now from our correspondent in hong kong adrian brown. i am at a flower market in causeway bay in central hong kong this is an annual lunar new year event but as you can see far fewer people here this year various reasons is that the virus of course and also the ongoing political protests here in hong kong now we do have more than 200 suspected virus cases here in hong kong we have 2 people confirmed with the virus and we've been hearing today from the hospital authorities of hong kong outlining the challenges they face in trying to ensure

they have enough beds to cope with demand if indeed this virus spreads and continues to spread here they have been speaking to a doctor who represents 6000 doctors working in the public sector here in hong kong and she says you know in a good month occupancy rate in hospitals is about 9899 percent so she questions actually whether hong kong is capable of actually handling a major outbreak we have to remember that you know the hong kong china border is one of the busiest in the world hundreds of thousands cross backwards and forwards every day and in fact we learned tonight that more than 2002 groups from hong kong and china have now been canceled because of that as well as a number of carnivals and lunar new year festivals here in hong kong. and the turkish president rather have type it on his you have more details about his country's support for the libyan government and its months long battle with forces under the command of the warlord after have to as l.n.h.

trying to take the capital tripoli from the internationally recognized government that's led by prime minister fires out. but mr adam one says turkey is sending military personnel to train libyan forces and he made the comments in a press conference held with the german chancellor angela merkel in istanbul did. you conclude we are giving support to the legitimate government in libya in order to reignite the political process in giving support to the guy. i'm an international court in line with the resolution of the e.u. when it is not a choice but a liability. after has increased his attacks in the last few days which is a clear sign he has no intention of reconciliation but i think it's important for both parties in libya to reach a compromise and we hope hostile will take positive steps to reach a cease fire we have dealt with many due political issues that are of mutual concern to both their countries the meetings and the talks that have been held are

important because we have managed to express our appreciation to turkey for hosting a lot of refugees one hour from our correspondent in istanbul jamal. both leaders emphasize the immediate need to ensure the fragile cease fire in libya continues and that all breaches that are being. witnessed are stopped there was a synergy between the messaging coming from president roger tehran and that of chancellor angela merkel where they both said that's how star that is the warlords refused to sign the cease fire agreement in moscow and the berlin agreements and although merkel said that they have to have verbal e agreed to them both without a signature that's meant nothing and they couldn't trust simply his word president are the one went further by saying that the international community and specifically named egypt and the united arab emirates and some european countries

had to stop supporting the run again general essentially because that's is what was making the situation even more volatile he said that his country had indeed sent a military personnel to train the libyan army and that this was an internationally recognized agreement because it was done between the turkish government and the un recognized. government in tripoli with regards to syria there was a lot of emphasis there for the need to do more to protect the civilians and it lives on mentioning that over 4 and a half 1000000 civilians are under threat from bombardment from the regina of president bashar assad merkel said that a lot more needed to be done in terms of housing the refugees particularly with the bitter winter that they are experiencing now but there was frustration expressed by the turkish president that despite his country putting forward this proposal for the safe zone to be built within the syrian side of the border with turkey and the

need to establish and build schools and hospitals and other institutions there that the international community particularly the usa and such an european come. he's. prevented that from happening and he said that it was high time that they changed their mind and actually worked as partners with the turks in order to establish that saves on finally there was some talk about relations between turkey and the european union and a new to kick start those. discussions once again albeit with little optimism being expressed by the talk of presidents. that's a dance government signed a peace deal with the s p l m n rebel group the phones part of a larger peace plan for blue nile and south kordofan regions this is unease people's liberation movements been fighting the government since 2011 just before south sudan gained independence from sudan talks between the rebels and the transitional government began last november well most 400000 people have been

displaced by the conflict and as has been morgan reports the new government says it's determined to reach deals with other rebel groups in the country. the peace deal that has been signed today in the south sudanese capital juba mediated by the south sudan is between the sudanese government and the armed groups advance people liberation movement north led by america let's not forget that the espaillat north has 2 factions one that is led by god who has forces in blue nile area in the southern part of sudan as well as a faction led by abdul aziz and hill who controls areas in south kordofan and blue nile and the deal that has been signed today between mallika gars group and the government includes security arrangements which means where will my cars forces go now that a deal has been signed between him and the government and includes their integration the deal also includes humanitarian access to those who have been displaced affected by the war that started in 2011 just before sausage and gained its

independence but the government is also engaged in other peace talks and that is yet to produce results the government is right now engaged in talks between it and the rebel groups from darfur and it says that it wants to achieve comprehensive peace in various armed zones in sudan before february and right now as they are holding talks there are other factions that are holding out and not ready to hold it with that in sudan's government so while this is significant a lot remains to be done for the sudanese government to achieve that aim of a comprehensive peace that they have been talking about. not want to come hear it out there including grieving mothers in south africa try to find out why at least 10 new born babies die in the hospital within weeks experts say australia's bushfires are contributing to one of the largest increases in greenhouse gas levels in decades.

how the heavy rain continues into central parts of china the maya by a front straight staffs across the central areas toward shanghai easing out into the east china sea and they'll be a few showers for good measure into the fosse out of japan so q she could see some wet weather this is the main pulse of heavy rain really wet weather heavy downpours there over toward shanghai on saturday in stepping a little further south which as we go on through the weekend could see some flooding on this band of wet weather noches some snow up towards the north with a top temperature of around 3 degrees celsius to the west of that is generate dry to the south of that a lot of dry weather want to see showers just creeping into central parts of the philippines but the majority of showers across southeast asia are going to be across malaysia borneo seeing some very heavy rain over the next day or 2 the

likelihood of some flooding smart are also seeing some big downpours here as well the funny thing they will pack up further as we go on through sunday add of course the showers also facing a good part of indonesia and then not too many showers across india at the moment perhaps some wintry flurries up towards the far more of the country with a much of india it is largely dry that's the case too into pakistan still cold in new delhi at 20 degrees. mobile technology. leading the way in the digital revolution. making a difference in the on line b. s. to places. this week tackling sexual health in south africa and then engineering social change in london inspiring young people to come to do so because how can they so they're using menthol to shift the final episode of life perhaps the world

of bathurst on al-jazeera. all right let's have a look at the headlines here it out there china's governments brought in more measures to try to stop the spread of a new virus transport restrictions are now affecting 40000000 people on the eve of the lunar new year when tens of millions travel the turkish president says his country's military personnel will be sent to libya to support the internationally recognized government he made the comments at a press conference held with the german chancellor angela merkel in istanbul.

sudan's government signed a peace deal with the s p l m n the rebel group the forms part of a larger peace deal for blue nile and south kordofan regions the sudanese people's liberation movements we've seen the governments of 2011 and that was when south sudan gained independence from sudan. the iraqis have turned out in large numbers in the capital baghdad to demand the expulsion of american forces protest has responded to a coal made by the country's most influential religious figure the share cleric. that he's calling for the u.s. military the bases to be closed for u.s. warplanes to be banned from iraqi airspace imran khan reports. the cool was for a 1000000 person march and many in baghdad he did the appeal from influential shia muslim cleric mctaggart or so that his message is simple all americans out the march was also backed by other groups including his beloved whose leader. was

killed alongside iranian general cause most of the money in last month's us missile attack. this gathering you see today are. the forces that will expel the occupiers the resistance groups today showing the american occupiers we are united as. one body and it is real and despite some differences in point of views we unite as one with the telethon of. the protests was joined by people from all over southern iraq. our goal is to expel old occupiers we are standing for iraq against any intervention we want dignity and we want. the governments divided i mean terrible but should find it difficult to ignore such a large protest and protests since october have already forced prime minister the 10 ounces resignation he remains as caretaker pending a replacement leader a new elections the americans have said they're determined to stay in iraq and at

the invitation of the iraqi prime minister one of them for the songs of this protest movement is this the chorus goes some way leon it was a 1000000 now regardless of whether a 1000000 people here will know. as bothers to send his message that he wants the u.s. troops out of iraq and he's got this kind of support behind him back on al-jazeera baghdad. but that wasn't the any demonstration in the iraqi capital correspondent osama bin job vade was at another one held in tough risk which has become the center of antigovernment protests for months now and despite a crackdown people say they're not going away. these are some of the 600 people which amnesty international says have been killed in clashes between security forces and protesters the do movie bridge at tahrir square remains blocked and this is the site where the protests began in october people have been coming here in

numbers to protest against corruption a lack of governance and they want to be governed by people who days they are not tainted by corruption after the protests and other areas where many people went from here as well to that protest saying that they want to show whoever is against the system whoever is saying calling for change they are with them but they want change according to what their demands are they do not want a continuation off the same system they do not want to see the same faces and that's what we've been hearing from people and protesters in tahrir square they do not want political parties and political blocs to hijack their protest they say they will continue to come out until the government hears their demands or either kills them off the there is no other way that this protest is going to end. and public anger in france over pension reform that's continuing in what's become the country's longest period of strikes for 40 years tens of thousands of people have

been marching in paris thousands of others have been doing exactly the same across the country the government says the reforms to the pension system are necessary to make it more sustainable but the unions argue that workers will lose out if they ask you this question. she says is the in that action of world leaders on climate change of course one agenda hall has more now from the world economic forum in davos. according to the world economic forum the most talked about people at this year's meeting were gretta tom berg and donald trump how old is she now 17 yes that's true but what is your response to. this one point from and totenberg the polar opposite of the new wave of discourse that seems to have come into its own here this week about climate change about the environment even about the old ways of capitalist thinking that have always seemed so at home here in davos we must remember that as long as we do not treat this crisis as

a crisis and as long as the facts and the signs are being left completely ignored then we will not be able to solve this crisis world leaders and c e o's many of them are responding with one in particular the billionaire founder of cloud computing giant sales force marc benioff declaring capitalism dead. this accession that we have with maximizing profits for shareholders alone. has led to the incredible inequality in a planetary emergency but among the banking giants some like citibank and goldman sachs pushed back against calls by climate activist to stop funding the biggest polluters that after greenpeace called out a number of banks represented at davos for having lent $1.00 trillion dollars to fossil fuel producers since the paris climate accord was signed in 2015 so how much of it is hypocrisy

a green cloak of virtue behind which old fashioned deals are still being done on climate there are meaningful moves by some private sector leaders that will actually make a difference not only in terms of what they do but will actually force others competitors in their sectors to not be left behind so yes i find that meaningful but if you ask me is the deal making changing is capitalism dead frankly in a world where the economy is getting a little softer they're focusing more on their bottom lines this year's davos has witnessed a confrontation between the decision makers and the young who will have to live with those decisions. they may not be winning yet but their impact is growing so how al-jazeera in the swiss alps. the british weather experts are sounding the alarm about the global effect of bushfires in australia the u.k.'s met office has forecast one of the largest annual increases in the atmosphere or greenhouse gas levels since records

began more than 60 years ago the meteorologists say the vast scale of the bushfires is accelerating the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere c o 2 levels are already well past the 400 parts per 1000000 limit seen by climate scientists as a point of no return but we've been speaking to richard betts is head of the climate impact research unit at the british met office and he says the bushfires are adding carbon dioxide directly to the atmosphere but the biggest impact will come from the loss of vegetation. the rise in city every year is driven by human emissions normally some of it would be soaked up by natural ecosystems but that's weaker this year because of particular weather patterns and part of that is the australian bushfires and the bushfires we estimate that's increased the c.t.y. is about 2 percent than they would have been without so noticeable contribution so . ecosystems need to be protected to help reduce c

o 2 but the only really way real way of stopping the rise is to stop burning fossil fuels this acceleration of the sea to rise this year won't have any immediate effects but what it does show is that the there's potential for feedbacks in the system vicious cycles if you like we rely on natural ecosystems to soak up some of our c o 2 emissions if they get weaker then the rise of c o 2 in the future could be faster and therefore that could accelerate climate change in the future. the 1st woman to accuse the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein of sexual assault or has testified at his trial the actress annabella sure accuses him of rape more than 25 years ago to her allegations date too far back for him to be charged but prosecutors hope it will show weinstein has a repeat sexual predator he's pleaded not guilty to 2 charges of assault and says

all his sexual encounters with consensual. at least 2 people have been killed in an explosion over an industrial complex in the united states that these are scenes in houston texas the blast was so strong that deborah was scattered a kilometer from the site several homes were damaged a criminal investigation is now underway. grieving parents in south africa's largest city are accusing the 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 highlight underfunding in the public health care system reports. 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 the newborn baby died at least 10 babies that died in the same hospital

into bisa township in johannesburg in the past 2 months the government blames drug resistant bacteria i think. if they're hiding information from. the only only thing that. the cause of the infection is unclear doctors say it could lead to pneumonia and meningitis some south africans blame hospital overcrowding and are starting. 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 will lead to a standstill and buy the tickets because when we use antibiotics when finished the force we used i did not prescribe or prescribe antibiotics for any other group isn't it. our our our our by not being able to this one and

to this and to politics which is that the president. 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 ellie clipped statewide 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 receive world class care at private little while millions of mainly poor black south africans have to rely on understaffed and overcrowded public health facilities in the uk the proposed insurance scheme bills 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 poor 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 to solution but the mothers who recently lost a baby say it's too late for them. after. al-jazeera the tory. toughest take a look at the top stories here it out as they are on the eve of its biggest annual holiday china has stepped up efforts to try to contain the spread of a new virus the central government's taken over managing the crisis bringing in measures including closing the great war and imposing travel restrictions the new strain of corona virus has killed at least 26 people across china and infected almost 850. it's still too early to draw the conclusions on how severe the viruses because at the beginning of any olbrich you would focus more on

a severe cases and you have more of those and then maybe we are missing some mild cases because people will just be a little bit sick and will not be ever tested and they will recover so as you know we may see more mild cases as surveillance intensify so there is not so much really on the numbers that that we know that will will will go up president right up to a better one says his country is sending military troops to libya to support prime minister fires al surat warlow to leave for half the started in the fence of in april to seize the capital tripoli from the un recognized government he made the announcement at a press conference held with the german chancellor angela merkel in istanbul so dan's government has signed a peace agreement with the s.p. l m n rebel group that forms part of

a larger peace plan for blue nile and south kordofan regions the sudanese people's liberation movement has been fighting the government since 2011 after south sudan gained independence from sudan iraqis have turned out in large numbers in baghdad to demand that of american forces protesters responded to a call by the country's most influential religious figure the shia cleric who. public anger in france over pension reform continues in what's become the country's longest period of strikes in 40 years tens of thousands of people have been marching in paris thousands of others have been doing exactly the same across the country the government says the reforms are necessary to make the system more sustainable right those are the latest headlines coming up next life at.

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