county for that matter to you. al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news life and i'm martine that is coming up in the next 60 minutes it's day 3 of the impeachment trial of president trump is about to get under way and will be live in washington. trying to contain the spread of a new virus china restricts the movement of 40000000 people and orders a new hospital to be built in a week. i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including a great upturn burke takes her weekly climate march to big business leaders in the mountains and it sounds like some of them might be least. turkey's president says

he'll never abandon the libyans and reiterate his support for the internationally recognized government. and in sports a huge day of upsets at the australian open defending champion now i mean i soccer knocked out by 15 year old golf a straight a williams also might react well to. stay 3 of the democrats opening arguments in president trump's impeachment trial and it's just about to begin now as i say this is their final day this is when the republicans and their lawyers well i have the same amount of time 3 days we think in order to rebut the accusations that have been made by the democrats. including

withholding military aid to force ukraine to dig up dirt on his rival the former vice president joe biden president trump denies any wrong doing without more ado let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett who is there at the white house so day 3 then of the democrats and the prosecution if you like do we have any idea as to what the strategy might be will they just continue with what many people have said has been a fairly sort of repetitive and monotonous diatribe that has sent many of the senators to sleep. well they will because that's what they're mandated to do in the final day of arguments the house managers meticulously making their case which at times has been very scathing and damning for the president the problem is often when you're building a legal case that's not particularly riveting television and that has been a challenge not just to keep the attention of the senators who act as the jurors in

this trial but also the american public as you know many in their own in the chamber are hoping to influence the outcome of the 20 sara rather 2020 u.s. election you have to remember that some of those senators sitting in that chamber also running for president to replace donald trump so that has even opened them up to some sort of criticism about just how objective they can really be i think it's safe to assume this is been a partisan exercise from the beginning in many respects and the president continuing to try and weigh in where he can as well in the last hour he's been tweeting the do nothing democrats just keep repeating and repeating over and over the same old stuff on the impeachment hoax the president continues to try to discredit these proceedings and continues to maintain that he committed no wrongdoing says that he has not in any way as the democrats accuse leverage his political and presidential powers in order to try to win reelection and what about

the 3rd every senator to the stuff says this. this process that's what rules to be an impartial juror and yet it seems very much as many of the republicans and the democrats have already made up their minds as to which way they would vote. you're absolutely right it doesn't seem i think that that dynamic could change if in fact in this is something that could happen next week with the not only the arguments in terms of the defense aspect of it those lawyers who will be arguing the case on the part of president trump but also if we do have a bit of drama in terms of witnesses that is still yet to be decided but if for example someone like the former national security adviser john bolton were to testify something that this u.s. president has certainly pushed back on citing executive privilege that could

certainly change the dynamic that could not only make them more engaged but you could see potentially some republicans some moderate republicans who control that chamber crossing over with democrats but right now none of that has happened so you're absolutely true and stating that most of them went in with their minds made up and they haven't changed in any way they have not been swayed that has been the challenge for jeb democrats trying to make that case but as we've heard from our own reporters who have been inside the chamber observing as the producers as well they you know there have been some that have fallen asleep others have been playing with little fidget spinners so far this is not been particularly engaging and that is a problem for democrats who are ultimately seeking to remove president trump from office after being impeached in the house of representatives late last year right and so today as we've said kimberly's day 3 of the allotted time for the

house manages to mount the case and and then that will be followed by the republicans though you are telling me i can believe that you thought the republicans might not even take up the full 3 days that they're entitled to. absolutely right and a couple of clues as to why we're thinking that number one i went into the white house yesterday and said it was going to use your full 3 days they have 24 hours stretched over 3 days to make their case and while they wouldn't fully answer the question the source i was talking to said you know maybe not we further heard from the president's own attorney longtime personal attorney jay sekulow who spoke very publicly saying that we will use as much time as is needed that's another signal of washington speak that they're not going to use the full amount of time having said that martin the source i spoke to inside the white house also told me that if they

can make a plan and this has been the case from day one and done in terms presidency and then that plan is literally just thrown into the garbage the 2nd donald sort of changes his mind so if he doesn't see this going the way he would like and he certainly wants his opportunity to defend himself they have said repeatedly from the white house side that they don't believe the president had due process or the opportunity to cross-examine or make the president's case he's very much as thin skinned president he doesn't like this stain that's on him the tarnish of impeachment the goes into the history books so he's looking to clear his name and he's a master at manipulating the media in terms of getting across his message so expect that from the white house he will be producing this very much in order to try and make his case to the american people if he needs more time there's that possibility that he couldn't fact take it all right kimberly thanks for that i think is probably time now that we can go over to the chamber and listen to. your no

objections to the ward the sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. there you hear you hear ye all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the senate of the united states is sitting in a trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against donald john trump president of the united states just as the majority leader is recognized for all of our colleagues. information about scheduling. today will plan to take short breaks every 2 to 3 hours and will accommodate a 30 minute recess for dinner assuming it is needed until the house managers have finished their opening presentation with scheduling purposes we've organized tomorrow's session to convene a 10 am and run for several hours as the president's council begins

their approach. pursuant to the provisions of senate resolution 483 the managers for the house of representatives have 7 hours and 53 minutes remaining to make the presentation of their case the senate will now hear you. mr chief justice senators distinguished counsel of the president i keep want to say good morning but good afternoon. i just wanted to give a very brief orientation to the argument you'll hear today. we will begin with jason crowe who was talking about the conditionality of the military assistance this is the latter part although not the end of the argumentation on the application of the constitution of the law. as it respects article one the

abuse of power. i'll have a presentation after mr crowe and soon thereafter we will conclude the presentation on article one will then begin the presentation on article 2 once again applying the constitution and law to the facts on the president's obstruction of congress we will then have some concluding thoughts and then turn it over to the president's counsel and that is what you should expect for the day and with that i will now yield to mr crow of colorado good afternoon i woke up this morning and walked to my local coffee shop where unlike my esteemed colleague mr jeffries from new york nobody complained to me about colorado baseball so i could only conclude that this is only

a new york yankees problem as mr schiff mentioned we talked last night about the july 25th call in the multiple officials who have confirmed the intent of the president in withholding the aides and i would like to turn to what happened around the time that the aid was lifted and we know that the aid was lifted alternately on september 11th but it wasn't lifted for any legitimate reason it was only lifted because president trump had gotten caught now let's go through how we know that. on august 26th the whistleblower complaint had been sent to the director of national intelligence and public reports indicate that president trump was told about the complaint by white house counsel pats. on some some temper fit though the scheme became public and editorial in the washington post on that

day for the 1st time publicly explicitly linked the military who ate hold an investigation is that president trump won it. but keep in mind that public scrutiny of the president's hold increased exponentially after this became public and this is where things start moving really fast a few days later on september 9th the house investigative committee has publicly announced their investigation of president's conduct in ukraine. lieutenant colonel bedman testified the national security council and others at the white house learned about the investigation when it was announced and a colleague of his said that it might have the effect of releasing the 8 and on that same day the house intelligence committee learned that the administration had withheld the whistleblower complaint from congress the scheme was unraveling and what happens 2 days later president trump released the military aid he only

released that after he got caught but there's another reason we know the president lifted the ada only because he got caught because there's no other explanation the testimony of all of the witnesses confirms that both lieutenant colonel of admin and ms williams testify that they were not provided any reason for lifting the hold then men testified that nothing on the ground had changed in the 2 months of the hold and mark zandi of the o.m.b. also confirmed that an ambassador taylor to testify that quote i was not told the reason why the hold had been lifted now let me take a moment to address another defense side expect you will hear that the aide was released and investigations were never announced so therefore no harm no foul right

well this defense would be laughable if this issue wasn't so serious 1st i've spoken over the past 3 days about the real consequences of inserting politics in a matters of war real people real lives are at stake every day every hour matters so no the delay wasn't meaningless. just ask the ukrainians sitting in trenches right now and to this day they are still waiting on $18000000.00 of aid that hasn't reached them jennifer williams who attended the warsaw meeting with vice president prince described president zelinsky he's focused during this time and you testified in your deposition in that conversation president selenski emphasized that the military assistance the security assistance was not just important to assist ukraine in fighting a war against russia but that it was also symbolic in nature what did you what did

you understand him to mean by that president's lenski explained that more than just equally with the financial and physical value of the assistance that it was the symbolic nature of that assistance that really was the show of u.s. support for ukraine and for ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and i think he was he would even stressing that to the vice president to really underscore the need for the security assistance to be released and that if the united states was holding the security assistance is it also true then that russia could see that as a sign of weakening u.s. support for ukraine and take advantage of the i believe that's what the present president once he was was indicating that any signal or sign that u.s. support was wavering would be construed by russia as potentially an opportunity for them to strengthen their own hand and ukraine this is an important point

particularly when the president and his attorneys try to argue no harm no foul the financial assistance itself was really important to ukraine no question about it but the aid was equally important as a signal to russia of our support for ukraine. and regardless of whether the aid was alternately released the fact that the hold became public sin of very clear signal to russia that our support for ukraine was wavering and russia was watching very closely for any sign of weakness the damage was done now any possible doubt about whether the aid was linked to the investigations has been erased by the president's own chief of staff and we've seen this video before during the trial but there's a really good reason for this it's a complete admission on national t.v. that the military aid was conditioned on ukraine helping the president's political campaign here once again is what mulvaney said that he also mentioned to me in past

the corruption related to the d.n.c. server absolutely no question about that but that's it that's why we held up the money and when pressed that he had just confessed to the very quit pro quo that president trump had been denying mulvaney double down and to be clear you describe is a quid pro quo it is funding will not flow it was the investigation into the incident with a server. in this well we we do we do that all the time with foreign policy and if you read the news reports and you believe that what mckinney say yesterday mckinney said yesterday that he was really upset with the political influence in foreign policy that was one of the reasons he was so upset about this and i have news for everybody get over it there's going to be political influence in foreign policy and foreign minister i'm talking to every member at the time he made these statements ball mulvaney was both the head of o.m.b.

and the acting chief of staff of the white house he knew about all the legal concerns he also knew about the president's so-called drug deal as ambassador bolton called it he knew exactly what was going on in the oval office and how and be implemented the president's illegal order to hold the 8. mulvaney confirmed why the president ordered the whole there was not to develop further policy to counter russian aggression it was not to convince the ukrainians to implement additional anti-corruption reforms and it was not the pressure our allies to give more to ukraine now since he won't have an opportunity to respond to the president's presentation i want to take a minute to respond to some of the arguments that i expect them to make you will notice i'm sure they will ignore significant portions of the evidence while trying to cherry pick individual statements here and there to manufacture defenses but don't be fool one defense you may hear is that the aide was held up to allow for

a policy review this is what the administration told the g.a.o. at one point but the evidence shows the opposite the evidence shows that the administration didn't conduct a review at any time after the president ordered the whole laura cooper was not aware of any review of the funding conducted by d.o.t. in july august or september and similarily george can't testify that the state department did not conduct and was never asked to conduct a review of funding administrate by the state department and fact on may 23rd they anti-corruption review was complete and d.o.d. certified to congress that ukraine and complied with all of the conditions and that the remaining half of the age should be released this was confirmed by the june 18th press release announcing the release or announcing the funding and do you remember the fit to the fictitious quote enter agency review process well that was

made up to so no review was necessary because it had already been done next the president's counsel keeps saying this was about corruption in ukraine president trump was not concerned with fighting corruption it's difficult to even say that with a straight face the president never mention corruption on either call with president zelinsky. but let's go through the evidence as we just discussed d.o.d. had already completed a review and concluded that ukraine had quote made sufficient progress in meeting defense reform and anti-corruption goals consistent with the national defense authorization act in order to receive the funds and in fact mark zandi who was not at that meeting but who was initially responsible for approving the hold said he had never heard corruption as a reason for the hold in all of the discussions he had about it similar to the

anti-corruption argument there is simply no evidence to support the president's after the fact argument that he was concerned about burden sharing that's other countries also contributing to ukraine i imagine the president may cite the emails in june about what other countries provided to you crane the reference to other countries contributions in the july 25th call and testimony from sandy about a request for information about what other european countries give ukraine but there is simply no evidence that ties the concern to his decision to hold the funding. 1st let's actually look at the contributions of european countries to ukraine where are they going to leave the republican senator jason crow colorado as he meticulously outlines his case giving a can textual account of the geopolitics and of the consequences if you like of the of the withholding of the aid this is just maybe

the 1st 15 minutes also of the 7 hours and 53 minutes that remain for the democrats to make their case there a mccall's to persuade some of those republicans enough of those republicans to reconsider their support for president trump so we'll leave that and move on to some other news. there on the main story of course is china which is taking drastic measures to try to contain the outbreak of a deadly new virus is tens of millions of people prepare to travel for the lunar new year public transport being shut down so a key landmarks rob matheson reports as china battles to control the spread of the coronavirus videos such as this one are going viral on social media an unidentified female voice says 3 bodies covered with blankets have been lying in the packed

called the doors of a hospital in the chinese city of homs she says there's little the medical staff can do as more cases are reported around the world it's still not clear how many people could be affected by 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. many streets are empty in the capital of china's province this is where the outbreak emerged all public transport has been shut down other cities in the province have done the same thing around 40000000 people are affected cases of the coronavirus are now confirmed in nearly every province of china new year celebrations are being canceled in cities including the capital beijing shanghai disneyland will be shut from saturday and part of china's great wall will be closed but millions of people

have been traveling both in china and abroad ahead of the new year celebrations increasing the risk that the virus may spread further your digital i don't think this virus has been properly controlled i just came back to china i read a lot of news i'm to net i'm not very satisfied with how the government prevented in control of the disease i'm very afraid of getting infected i am really afraid of those people all relieved and left but i do hope the situation you can be improved so this video was deleted after it appeared on china's way both social media site china now has to control the virus and prevent the spread of panic rob matheson al-jazeera and then there the authorities in hong kong who are saying that they're looking at more than $200.00 suspected cases thousands of people have been turning off of the city's hospitals. yesterday we have more than 5000. and 10

this. medical that occupancy rate is 97 percent actually it's quite full but not as full as the peak of the when the search so right now is slightly better but we often we perceive that after the chinese new year long holiday usually there will be a further search in the amount of the amount not just from the isolation that but from the other things like the flu symptoms. other kinds of the season but our correspondent adrian brown is in hong kong and he told us that many residents are simply staying at home. 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 of 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 authority of hong kong outlining the challenges they face in trying to ensure they have enough beds to cope with demand if indeed this fire 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 well

scientists are working really hard to find out more about this new virus mohammad takes a look at what we know says. viruses are everywhere in plants birds animals and in humans but most don't stand a chance of adapting and spreading the natural world's defense systems fight them off and vaccines help as well but every now and then a virus gets through jumping the species barrier from say a pig or a bird to target instead a human coronaviruses are a large family of viruses common in animals until the end of last year just 6 were known to infect people the ruhani corona virus is number 7 now 4 of these strains cause illnesses like the common cold unpleasant but for most of us not life threatening but the others are killers the highly contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome all saaz broke out in china over 2002 into 2003 and it killed

almost 10 percent of those who became infected it's thought to have spread from the civet cat to humans since the middle east respiratory syndrome mers was identified in saudi arabia in 2012 more than 850 people have died it's thought to have come from the camel now both have caused panic both killed but both have been contained this new strain is a killer too and can be passed from human to human but are though it seems at this stage to be less contagious panic is rising as it spreads within tayana and across time as borders to the threat of a global health emergency looms right now we can speak to dr jonathan readers an epidemiologist at lancaster university in the u.k. and he specializes in the transmission of infectious diseases thank you very much indeed for talking to us. what do we need to learn about this particular strain of

the coronavirus 1st and foremost what is most important for us to discover about this. i think that the most important thing is to determine what we call the case from tallahassee right or any or depending on how you define it which is essentially if if you become infected what's your chances or risk of having a serious such a serious reaction to maurice and the infection that you actually die ok so is this very much the worse case in our if you if you get infected and at the moment we've seen a number of deaths in china about 26 deaths i think this morning i know more but more than 800 confirmed cases. across the whole of china so that kind of represents a relatively relatively worrying case of jealousy right if we believe that there's only $800.00 confirmed cases there right now difficult so sorry to interrupt is it

safe to assume that their deaths have occurred unfortunately of course all deaths are incredibly unfortunate but in those who are perhaps more vulnerable that the infirm the elderly and those who are pretty well to begin with. that seems to be the suggestion the main difficulty in estimating how serious this disease is is understanding how many people actually being become infected and we've done some modeling work here at lancaster to try and fit a mathematical models of the epidemic and try to understand some of the key properties of the disease if you like under way that the health care has responded to it and so at the moment we're estimating that about 18 percent of people are being identified 80 percent of people who become infected are actually been identified as a case and so there's a relatively large number lot a larger number of people who may be infected out in the community than we

currently know about and of course the level of infectious this is very important in terms of absolute in working out how to deal with it. that's right the more infectious something diseases or we have a term in epidemiology called are not the higher they are not number the harder essentially it is to control the disease and at the moment a lot of teams including were here are trying to estimate this for this new virus it's very difficult at this early stage with relatively little data to go on but we're not worse sort of estimating that the somewhere between sort of 1.5 until you reach 22.5 which kind of suggests that it's it's certainly capable of causing epidemic which is clearly what was saying but also made the point hard relatively hard to actually control all right thank you very much for that dr jonathan freed from legacy university thank you thank you. still to come here on the al-jazeera

news hour brazil moxy yes it's the west industrial disaster in its history. and on a day of upsets in mound and roger federer survives a scare at the australian open hole we'll have the details. of. how we got yet more unsettled weather into the middle east at the moment the latest batch of cloud right now in the process of moving out to syria spreading across iraq going to gradually making its way over towards iraq just bits and pieces of rain here possibly with some snow as it moves over the high ground south of that quote stiff wind here in costs that way and setting in 20 celsius in

the heat of the dial sas day here in doha make the most of that sunday's even colder a bracing 17 degrees of the same lifted dust and sand that cane wind blowing away that are going to feel quite fresh in the process some showers a which will southern parts of iran pushing across into afghanistan as they move over the high ground the will of course turn a wintry when all the possible africa will not say many showers in the full cost here we go want to see showers some of the wintry over the high ground of the fall north all morocco but by and large is dry and sunny across much of the reason you might just catch one of 2 showers over towards kenya maybe into uganda as we go on over the next couple of days for the south we've seen some very heavy rain into madagascar recently with some flooding those heavy downpours a set to continue over the next couple of days. india a nation of 1300000000 people deeply religious desperately divided i think good

you know day which is potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity is making up to get back up but polices off his ancestors and why is it getting worse. joining me ah to see you on my journey in search of india's soul coming soon on al-jazeera. the 21st century began with extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america. but since this halted in 2008 has been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism on strive to. politician goes on a journey to me leading leftwing ficus to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. in latin america a giant in turmoil on al-jazeera. time

for us to take a look at the main stories here and there president trumps impeachment trial has just resumed in the senate this is the final day for the democrats to make their opening arguments then the president's lawyers will have 3 days for rebuttal. china's government's brought in more emergency 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 and that's usually when tens of millions of people travel. all right let's talk a little bit more then about the resumption of the impeachment process in

washington of a cd impeachment to get president trump elizabeth is an associate professor at george washington university she's joining us live from there now thank you very much for talking to us is it possible to say at this particular juncture whether or not the democrats are succeeding in persuading. some of the republican senators in particular. i think it depends on what we mean by whether success they're trying to convince republicans of a couple things 1st is for the republicans to actually vote to have witnesses and evidence as part of this trial and there is a chance that they might be able to convince 3 or 4 republicans which is all they need to actually have witnesses there are pressing against the claim that you can even have a fair trial without bringing in witnesses and having witness testimony and of vailable documents that are needed it's generally the democrats generally will not

be able to be successful in actually having president trump convicted for impeachment and being removed from office but part of their game is also to speak to republican voters who are more moderates and independent voters so it's not only their colleagues in the senate but also the broader public to have people question whether what trump did was so problematic that he should be convicted and removed for it and what they will do in a few months if they see that the republicans have stymied this fair trial and that they won't vote to convict right and so it's generally assumed the president trump will be acquitted. and so there are the those accusations in washington and beyond against the democrats that they're using no misusing the tool of impeachment really for their own electoral game because of course we do have an election in november. i think they're playing this in 2 ways number one i do think they're taking the

impeachment and conviction very seriously you know they're making very clear both the specifics of the of the charges of trump of you know where he has broken the law and abused power and obstructed their own inquiry and i also think they're asking the public about the broader implications about this the american governing system is based on a balance of powers on nobody being above the law they're very concerned about the way in which trump is challenging both of those claims they are however pivoting not only for this impeachment trial but also to having them think about what does it mean to have a president in power you know for another 4 years who will continue on a path of you know either obstructing justice or taking more power at the expense of other branches so they're playing it 2 ways but i'm not sure that that means that they should not go forward with impeachment or with conviction elizabeth thank you very much indeed for joining us live from washington thank you.

that's the protests as have been killed as an anti-government rally in iraq's capital baghdad police use live ammunition and take us to disperse the demonstrators who been blocking a highway and also in baghdad at a different demonstration tens of thousands of people marched to demand american forces get out protest has responded to a call by the influential shia cleric. the closure of u.s. military bases and the banning of u.s. warplanes from iraq he has faced in one column ripples from baghdad. the cool was for a 1000000 person march and many in baghdad he did the appeal from influential shia muslim cleric so that his message is simple all americans out the march was also backed by other shia groups including his beloved whose leader. was killed alongside iranian general qassam so 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 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 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 the songs on this protest

movement is this the poor. goes on a what a 1000000 now regardless of whether a 1000000 people are here or not the bugs out of thought are as a bonus to send his message that he wants the u.s. troops out of iraq and he's got this kind of support behind him embark on al-jazeera. the other teenage climate campaign grettir talking bird has calls quite a stir at this week's world economic forum with more on that let's go over now to barbara sarah 2 who is in our european news center over to you barbara 1902 yes the teenager led hundreds of people on one of her fridays for future marches through the streets of the swiss resort where the meeting is being held and as general reports now from davos it appears that her environmental message may finally be getting through to at least some of the world's big business leaders

according to the world economic forum the most talked about people at this year's meeting with gratitude berg and donald trump how old is she now 7800 yes that's true but what is your response to. this one from and totenberg offices 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 of 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 john sales force marc benioff the prayer in capitalism that this obsession that we have with maximizing profits for shareholders alone.

those low do incredible inequality in a planetary emergency but among the banking giants some like citibank and goldman sachs pushed back against calls by climate activists 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 doubles 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 a whole al-jazeera in the swiss alps. 6 people are dead after a shooting in germany police are describing it as a domestic incident a 26 year old man shot that his parents and 4 other family members at a house southwestern germany before calling the police and waiting to be arrested 2 more people are in a critical condition in hospital while 2 children were threatened but left unharmed a lorry driver wanted in connection with the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container in the u.k. can be extradited to the country a man harrison from northern ireland which is in the u.k. appeared at the high court in neighboring ireland in relation to

a european arrest warrant he is wanted for his alleged role in transporting the trailer which contained the bodies of the 8 women and $31.00 men all vietnamese nationals they were found in an industrial park in essex just outside london in october last year. demonstrations have once again been held in france against proposed pension reforms tens of thousands of people have been marching in paris and thousands of other city and thousands of others in cities across the country the government says that reforms a necessary to make the system more sustainable but union leaders say employees will lose out working longer hours to get a full pension it's the longest period of strikes in france in more than 4 decades . and the week ahead of break said the president of the european council and commission have formally signed the withdrawal agreement along with the u.k. prime minister boris johnson child michel and or 7 in their lane put their signatures in the document in brussels it was to london for johnson's

a signature the european parliament is expected to vote to approve the agreement next wednesday starting an 11 months transition period to the sky a trade deal. i have more from london in the next bulletin now let's go back to martine in doha. thank you very much now a year after brazil's worse ever industrial disaster of families of those killed the still waiting for justice 270 people were killed when the dam collapsed sent a tide of toxic waste which flooded the city of ramadi a new man correspondent he's been there and said does this report. a security camera captured what happened exactly one year ago. the collapse of the dam unleashed a torrent of toxic mud and debris which killed $270.00 people and left entire community forever scarred. volunteer rescuers such as. say searching for

survivors was like being in a war zone at the ridge at the corpse we found between $20.30 bodies in this area alone the helicopter was constantly going up and down taken body parts because there were only a few bodies found intact i phone only one body intact what we found the most was body parts and dead animals. for those who survived recalling the events of that day brings back traumatic memories. of the mio fit data used to work for the dams owner of brazilian mining company valley of the my sister and sister in law both died in the disaster. he places the blame entirely on the mining company that washed him into. the ditch that it does not even have a verb to display it a sponsibility of this scale the green and call it is because what happened here. i say this to you looking into eyes of being at all. earlier this

week prosecutors in minas gerais dies charged 16 individuals with murder including valley's chief executive 5 your shorts and athletes. are investigation found that valley knew about structural inefficiencies within the damask far back as 2017 but did nothing to address the problems we hope the charges lead to prison time for those for sponsible. prosecutors say that not only did volley know that he catastrophic collapse was possible employees of another company to have sued of germany had previously inspected the dam saying it was stable and knowingly helped a volley hide the truth about the risks valley did not agree to al-jazeera as requests for an interview but the company did provide a statement calling the legal charges quote premature adding that valley is committed to aiding authorities with the ongoing investigation. 11 bodies were

never recovered and the city of broome of the continues to face other challenges such as an environmental disaster that hasn't fully finished playing out. moments about below and as eda. sudan's government has signed a peace deal with the s p l m n the rebel group the phones part of a larger peace deal for blue nile and south kordofan regions this is in these people's liberation movements been fighting the government ever since 2011 and that was just before south sudan gained independence from sudan tolls between the rebels in the transitional government began last november almost 400000 people have been displaced by the conflict. the pentagon has given update on service members injured in iranian missile strikes on a base in iraq earlier this month and says $34.00 u.s. personnel have now been diagnosed with concussion or traumatic brain injuries initially the u.s. said there were no casualties it's not clear yet how severe those injuries are.

still to come here and they are jazeera news out in sport the world rally champion gets off to a bad start with his new team for the team to. join africa's largest trade and investment in the wonder i.e.t.f. gives you access to more than 1100 exhibitors and 10000 visitors and baez and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals with $40000000000.00 u.s. dollars as business and government come together to explore business and networking opportunities at the international exhibit which will include a creative africa exchange by the african export import bank and the premium falkner speak an e.t.f. 2020 transforming africa. or joining. discovery. which is the copy of a letter c.

germany addressed to my ground. 0. traces of family links to the regime. which is fascism returned to italian poultry fresh in the family it makes me sick this letter. i found. on al-jazeera. time to dispose use now with paul martin thank you so much tennis fans at the australian open when a state remarkable day on friday when defending champion naomi osaka and 7 time champion serina williams both knocked out in the 3rd round on roger federer

survived a huge scare at the hands of a home favorites so how has the action it's been a day packed with drama and surprises in melbourne there were 2 huge upsets in the women's draw the 1st thought 15 year old american coco golf pull off the unthinkable against defending champion naomi osaka. osaka didn't look like a player ranked 63 places above gough who produced performance of historical proportions i was she downed a sock in straight sets to become the youngest player to beat a top 5 opponent since 991 was my life like oh my gosh i couldn't if i like last year you know 2 years ago i lost 1st round in june years and now i'm here like this is crazy if serena williams was on the receiving end of the all the major shot was the $23.00 time grand slam champion was beaten in 3 sets

by china's wang came serena is now without a grand slam trial since 2017 you know it's not even about the slams about just me playing tennis and i didn't do that today and that is more disappointing so it's not even about the win or is just more about i'm better i'm better than that. it was also an emotional day for another form australian open champion caroline wozniacki the dane went down to 2 newsies. green to an end her professional career the former world number one and now nothing after the match that she'll be retiring . there was very nearly a shocking result in the men's draw 20 time grand slam winner roger federer was pushed hard by home player john milner was. a final set super tight break was needed but eventually this with superman prevailed. with was. there was far less drama for one of federales main rivals novak

djokovic the reigning champion had no problems brushing aside japan's joshie toe in straight sets. this win taking djokovic just step closer to an 8th australian open title so he'll malik al-jazeera. a 2nd rider has died following a crash at the dakar rally a week after the incident happened dutch motorbike rider edwin strother had an accident on the penultimate stage in saudi arabia after emergency treatment he was flown to the netherlands but has now succumbed to his injuries portuguese rider paolo gonsalves was also killed in an earlier stage of the rally. iran's only female olympic medalist kenya elisa day hopes to compete for germany at this year's games in tokyo the 2016 taekwondo bronze medalist defected from iran earlier this month she said her success was being used as a propaganda tool elisa day is the 3rd top iranian athlete to quit the country in

recent months a selection for the german team isn't guaranteed and her status to represent the country still has to be cleared and there's a lot more learned people than we do know more zora here the only piece is a great challenge for every adult i want to give my best but he's still not clear whether i'll be able to compete at the next one but i will try if that is not possible then i hope to compete in 2024. basketball star le bron james was at his dominant best on thursday as he reached a major landmark for the season the 3 time n.b.a. champion scored his 10th triple double of the campaign for the western conference leading l.a. lakers james getting 27 points 12 rebounds and 10 assists helping his team beat the brooklyn nets 128113. his efforts seem to have impressed one fund in particular james getting some love from former u.s. president bill clinton. the return of cricket nations to pakistan is continuing with bangladesh the latest tour the country after the end of more than

a decade of security restrictions it was a host see on the 1st t 20 match against the tigers in lahore on friday is the same city where these for lanka team bus was attacked by gunmen back in 2008 recalled 37 year old show up malik with an unbeaten half century as pakistan chased down a target with 3 balls to spare. mckayla shifrin is breathing a sigh of relief after finally securing her 1st win of 2020 american had failed in all 5 races so far this year but was on form and both carry on friday it was also shifrin 1st victory at a world cup downhill event since 2017 his 65th when for career at this level she chases a 4th straight world cup season title. noise 2014 olympic champion care to young's road scrape to his 1st victory in more than a year he won the world cup super g. in kitzbuhel austria by north point 16 seconds. the only bit of news was when

retired u.s. ski legend lindsey vonn hugged him so hard she broke his sunglasses. world rally champion 10 not committed his debut with his new team high on di on friday and it was once remember for all the wrong reasons the estonian got off to a roaring start early in the morning at monte carlo but daybreak brought a different story. to mark varing into a ditch in the icy conditions putting his car into a barrel roll his co-driver were unharmed but it did put a dent in their performance britain's evans topping the overall classification. oh i that is all a sport and i'll be back but later on bought say oh thank you very much indeed and that's it for me i'm from paul for an hour at least but let's go live now to london and barbara starr.

from the family of a still navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart through the time we finished our scares to the fish and dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go by conflict my family needs the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. but you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and certainly risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation i've used the

term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique elopement is this in terms of modern american history when it comes to racism you have the makings of a nail fascist moment international filmmakers and world class journalists bringing programs to inspire you. on al-jazeera. on counting the cost a nation representing point 3 percent of the world's population but 5 percent of carbon emissions in australia give up its addiction to call it promises to go carbon neutral by the year 2050 plus we're looking at lebanon how long before it turned to be and they're counting the cost on al-jazeera. the minister. mission is to deliver british and making this country the greatest place to. follow the final run into the u.k.'s departure from the e.u.

on al-jazeera. china's central government takes control of the response to the coronavirus as work begins on a 1000 bed hospital for victims. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up mass protests in iraq's capital demonstrators the man the expulsion of the united states military u.s. house democrats present their final arguments in president dock tribes impeachment trial and this bush fires continue to burn and also.