al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes china's central government takes control of the response to the coronavirus as work begins on a 1000 band hospital for victims. governments boost their surveillance of the virus as it spreads around the globe france confirms 2 cases the 1st in europe. mass protests in iraq's capital demonstrators them and the expulsion of the united states military democrats present their final arguments in u.s. president trump's impeachment trial. and this bush fires continue to burn in

australia scientists reveal the impact of the blazes are having on the earth's atmosphere. in sports a huge day of upsets at the australian open defending champion osaka knocked out by 15 year old coco goff ice arena williams also makes it yet. china is taking drastic measures to try to contain the outbreak of a deadly new virus as tens of millions of people prepare to travel for the lunar new year public transport has been shut down as are key landmarks and the government says 26 people have now died airports around the world are screening passengers as the number of international cases increases robaxin has the details.

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 cargo doors of a hospital in the chinese city of hama 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 infected at the beginning of any outbreak you would focus more on a severe cases and you will 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's celebrations increasing the risk that the virus may spread further. 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 they're afraid of getting infected i am really afraid of those people all relieved and left but i do hope the situation 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 well doctors in hong kong have treated more than 200 patients suspected of having the virus thousands of people have presented themselves to hospital emergency departments. yesterday we have found more than $5000.00. and 10 this. hope that occupancy rate is 97 percent and sure it's quite full but not as full as the peak of the window so right now is slightly better but we are 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. are the cause of the season and the 1st cases of corona virus have been discovered in europe france says health minister confirmed the diagnoses in bordeaux and paris in the paul also confirmed its 1st case on friday while the virus has been found in the u.s.

hong kong as we were saying thailand south korea and singapore airports around the world have stepped up screening of travelers arriving from affected regions. we can confirm a case of corona virus in the city of border the patient is 48 years old he just returned from china where he passed through the city of he came back to france on generator 22nd and saw a doctor for his symptoms on january 28th today we got confirmation his samples are positive he is staying in an isolated room so that he has no contact with the outside world we also have a new confirmed cases in paris but we don't have the history of this patient yes already of mohamed explains that how the corona virus has spread. 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 dumping 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 saws 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 sorts 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 china and across time as borders to the threat of a global health emergency looms well for more on the economic impact of the outbreak we can speak now to patrick peregrine is an international economist at ad macro and joins me now in the studio thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we're just seeing how it really is spreading globally we've just had 2 cases confirmed in france in europe what do you think the global impact might be of this and i guess a lot of people often compare it to the sars outbreak how were the 2 comparable or not. well they're both very tragic that then economically they're not i mean we go back to 2003 china was a very small economy it was one and a half trillion dollars now it's a 14 trillion dollar giant it's the 2nd largest economy in the world it's gone from

being free of 4 percent of global g.d.p. to 16 percent of the the world's largest importer of oil one of the biggest markets apple sell 20 percent of their products in china and the economic repercussions when you have 16 cities now as far as i know under lockdown 46000000 people and you think about logistical challenges it's chinese new year only lunar new year which is like christmas it's a big spending period and you've got to think and work w.h.o. believe this is going to last for months so economic activity will be curtailed and the world will suffer is so critical of mainly because the cities on lock down because i guess travel will be discouraged or travel internationally in which specific will all of those aspects are in china's if china's going slower or need let less oil it will be buying fewer consumer goods because of the time of crisis like this are i would think about this on the way in the saving i mean how does

a city cope with a lockdown and all its food supplies the normal day to date just sticks that we just take for granted is that going to have to be controlled by the government will there be rationing when you sort of you spot but in terms of people we're not we are going out shopping and they're out there and that activity won't come suddenly come back they won't say oh it's all over i'm going to go spend money now and you have a big fits already of big hit to already faltering consumer confidence and you we got a slowing global economy so when you have the world bank talking about global growth being it is weakest since the financial crisis there's a real possibility that china could just tipis into an effective recession and which parts of the world would be most vulnerable to that then well. there are the countries that have the greatest exposure to china so those of joes with the greater share of g.d.p. depend on china or are the likes of south korea or strayer. south africa chile

big commodity exporters people who produce sino and then but just overall it's it's sort of it's the last one we're just at the point where we think well we might be getting past the worst we're getting signs of global recovery or stabilization you something get this blow to the solar plexus and it's difficult to know how governments bit the chinese governor or other governments who have to cope with it and i suppose there's an issue of transparency as well and we have some numbers of the dead in china there's many who suspected it could be you know certainly people affected could be more how do you think of the way that china's been handling the whole thing and what impact could that have on it and the global crisis well i think it was sort of delicate territory here because everyone's being very complimentary about china but they would say that really wouldn't. they want to upset china but when we look at the handling of it with them like we have and where it was a week just

a week ago it was 49 cases and here we are with over $900.00 confirmed in china alone and internationally and it's very clear that the bit like as with african swine fever the authorities were slow to react so. they're obviously reacting great speed now but the problem is it's already spread so a level which is we don't we don't we just can't say how it's going to brief you can i mean obviously there's a human angle to this is people that are dying and that is in itself obviously a tragedy when it comes to the economic angle do you think that enough is being spoken about do you think it's being spoken about enough or even acknowledged in the markets for example are you seeing reaction in what we have we are today. but it seems to over this week we've had a global equity markets hitting record highs despite force to go in china so often . be interesting to see how it develops patrick peregrine international economist at adfa thank you so much for sharing with us thank you. now in other news at least

14 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck eastern turkey the magnitude 6.8 quake in a province that at the head of that of 10 kilometers well as it is about 550 kilometers east of the capital ankara many buildings have been damaged near the epicenter the tremor was also felt in neighboring countries including iran syria and lebanon turkish aid organizations to say that they've sent teams to the affected areas coming up on al jazeera this news hour as turkey announces more troops for libya to support the u.n. recognize government german chancellor angela merkel urges opposition forces to join the cease fire 200000000000 locusts consume crops in east africa u.n. experts warn food security is under threat and putting iran for germany but will it be enough to reach japan paul has the story of an unusual journey to the tokyo olympics.

and it's the final day of arguments by u.s. congressional democrats in the senate impeachment trial of president donald trump he's accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden democratic prosecutors are focusing their allegations of abuse of power and the obstruction of congress why did you cast or is live for us from capitol hill side the what are the democrats trying to achieve today. well today one of their major focuses of the dummy democrats arguments is that trump continues to be a constant danger to the integrity of. u.s. elections going forward saying that because he has shown no remorse for these accusations that he had invited ukraine to sensually in the democrats who help and cheat to boost his chances of winning reelection and because he has said that that behavior was perfect that he sees no reason to stop and that in fact according to

the democrats trump still wants foreign interference to investigate joe biden who may be his presidential opponent coming up in the general elections and as further evidence of that democrats showed what they call a pattern of behavior they play to the senators video clips of president trump's own voice from a video clip that he was actually a candidate trump back then in 2016 when he infamously said at a press conference russia if you're listening and then went on to invite russia to hack into into hillary clinton's e-mails and we know from intelligence reports later that that is exactly what russia did just hours later over lead impeachment manager and shift said simply that this is a man that you cannot allow to remain in office his colleague fellow peter manager . took that argument further take a listen. the office of legal counsel opine that the whistleblower complaint did

not qualify. as an urgent concern and therefore did not have to be turned over what can be more urgent than a sitting president trying to cheat in an american election by soliciting foreign interference what can be more. that's a constitutional crime in progress. so the big question is not only whether these senators are listening to these arguments but whether the american public is and we have a poll that was just out today by the washington post a.b.c. that shows in fact the president's approval rating is now at 44 percent which is the highest it has been during his presidency now on the question of whether or not americans think trump should be removed from office this poll results show that

there is a 47 percent of americans say he should be removed 49 percent say that he shouldn't over the next few days we expect to hear the defense arguments from the president's lawyers it will be their turn to address the senate and offering a preview of what those arguments will be his one of his attorneys addressed the press just a few minutes ago saying that they will be arguing likely some of these right wing theories that it was really the democrats who had interfered in the 2016 elections pointing the finger at the other direction. that is your custer with the latest from capitol hill heidi thank you. 2 protesters have been killed in the latest antigovernment demonstration in the iraqi capital baghdad medical and police sources say that one bush and the 2nd hit by a tear gas canister some of binge of eid was at the protest the latest in a series against alleged government corruption which began in october and have

often turned violent. we were there a couple of hours ago at the area square it was it was very tense protesters tried to block the roads they had knowledge of cocktails in their hand they were burning tires in the streets as news broke of these 2 approach to protesters being killed on the mama mama to fasten the highway this is the main freeway which links to east with links to the eastern and western part of baghdad and the key are tree which people use for their daily commute something that the protesters since saturday since monday have been trying to block off and there has been clashes with the government forces they come out in numbers during the day blocked the highway burned tires and the police force has been coming in hitting them with bullets as well as canisters amnesty international saying that these canisters not being used for gas canisters not being used for just dispersal of the crowd but are being aimed at the protesters had so it'll be used to kill them. well earlier in

a separate demonstration in baghdad the rockies turned out in large numbers to the man the expulsion of the u.s. military from their country protesters responded to a call by the country's most influential from the just figure that's the shia cleric that he's calling for u.s. military bases to be closed and u.s. warplanes to be banned from iraqi airspace imran khan reports from the demonstration. the cool was for a 1000000 person march and many in baghdad he did the appeal from influential shia muslim cleric who looked at all 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 cost him so the money in last month's u.s. 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 protest 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 them for the songs of this protest movement is this the chorus goes some really on it was a 1000000 now regardless of whether i'm really happy people are here. 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 going to 0. turkey's president says more military personnel are being sent to libya to train troops for the u.n. recognize government there ratchet type of the hun made the comments during a news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel turkey is supporting the tripoli based government in its months long battle with the warlord holly for half that his forces are trying to take the capital from the government led by the prime minister by as. we are giving support to the legitimate government in libya in order to reignite the political process in giving support to the government of national court in line with the resolution of the year when it is not a choice but a liability. has increased his attacks in the last few days which is a clear sign he has no intention of reconciliation jamila show you alison is the

ball he says there are the gunmen markel expressed concern over the stability of the libyan ceasefire. both leaders emphasized 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 warlord refused to sign the cease fire agreement in moscow and the berlin agreements and all vulnerable said that have to have verbal e agreed to them both without a signature that's meant nothing and they couldn't trust simply his word presidents are 2 on one further by saying that the international community and specifically named egypt and the united arab emirates and some european countries have to stop supporting the running a 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 u.n. recognized. government in tripoli. go back now to the story of the earthquake in the east of turkey seen in cafe live joins us live now from istanbul for them what more can you tell us what do we know. well the 1st quake came around 9 pm circle local time and it was a magnitude 6.8 which was which is actually a very high magnitude for turkey. which covers a turkey is then city and the surrounding neighborhood cities then according to what we have heard from the local people the earthquake was felt by many other cities even from syria and lebanon as well this is what we heard from the people

who who just gave us a call about the earthquake as soon after this initial earthquake the city enters and malachy was shaken further by a series of aftershocks between magnitude of 5.23.3 and the latest the latest figures that are there 14 people who got killed during this earthquake and at least 250 people injured in a lot the cities of turkey's isn't part of the old quick happened on the east an honest holy unfold by which is the 2nd biggest for mind for turkey after northern anatole if all fine but according to the expert geological experts who are speaking on turkish national team is right now they're saying that this is the highest magnitude so the full mine is broken there won't be any further high magnitude

earthquake except from those aftershocks which are also currently happening so far between 5.4 and 3.3 but of course i have to tell that the weather condition is bad because it's winter it's very cold and many buildings are damaged according to the initial reports i spoke to turkey's is that their management agency to ask about the numbers numbers or the damaged buildings and they told me the. they are still investigating they're still doing the searches still current the real not but number but from 3 malasia. there are lots of buildings that are damaged and that have collapsed so we're going to have proper figures by the morning when we have this when we have the light of course but of course given the circumstances the number and the number for the injured might increase but we're following the situation from a stumble for now absolutely cinnamon and as you mentioned you will be following

all developments for the moment seen in kosik thank you. now weather experts from the u.k.'s meteorological office are sounding the alarm about the global effect of bushfires in australia they're forecasting one of the largest annual increases in atmospheric a greenhouse gas levels since records began more than 60 years ago now the meteorologists say that 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 seen by climate scientists as the point of no return richard betts is the head of climate impact research at the british met office he says the bushfires are adding c o 2 directly into the atmosphere but the biggest impact comes from that the struction of vegetation. the rise in city every year is driven by human emissions normally some of it will 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 actually so 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. well the same extreme weather patterns that cause the devastating drought in australia are also causing havoc in africa the un's food and agriculture organization is warning that locusts swarming through the east of the

continent could actually prove catastrophic for the region dense clouds of around 200000000000 of the ravenous insects of spread from ethiopia and somalia in now into kenya last year the region suffered a severe drought followed by a very wet rainy season the worst in decades providing perfect conditions for the insect to thrive one club of locusts was estimated to cover 2400 square kilometers each insect consumes their own waiting food every day that devastates crops and pasture the un is warning that if left unchecked locust numbers could grow 500 times by june spreading to uganda south sudan leading to a major food security problem well joining us now is dominic version of the director of the united nations food and agriculture organization is emergency and resilience to vision he's in the kenyan capital nairobi in response to the locust

situation which just sort of outlined some of the i guess some of the impact that that could come from this how worried are you and what are you doing to try to i guess control the impact. no we are of course very worried it was the situation as you rightly said i mean the locusts worms are spreading throughout the on of africa as a matter of fact but there is being. drawn by one that this brought a very humid condition to the 2 in eastern africa creating very foer conditions for the locusts to erupt so now we have seen the development of law because they already impact on some crop and especially on the range on a bus tour that are so essential for the bus or these communities that is you know are many in the region but not the problem is that these locust are getting much yours or that they are there actually there are yes eggs on the name tags that

would be very soon and that will lead to a new generation of for august which this time will come at a time for the planting of the next season in the region that will come around march april so it means that at that time we run the risk of 3 in the crop at risk and thus far to have a situation where the 11900000 people who were each city severely who can secure in kenya in georgia would see their security situation sure that the late so as you rightly said i mean these insects there wait for humans that if you only look at the. form that he's one square metre it eat as much as 35000 people that's why you refer to 202400 square kilometers it's probably as much as 80000000 people it's very intimate and forgive me a friend and i mean as you mentioned it's the reproduction pattern as well so now

we've seen how perhaps the weather caused more locus but once you start to reproduce obviously would be exponential is so what would you say the solution would be and how are you supporting communities right. now or how will you. know it's an excellent question for the moment i mean our priority in supporting the government of the region in the control of lookups i mean what we want is so full in terms of capacity for. spraying of locusts i mean but the worms treat them as rain but then in the meantime we are taking action to support the life you with the communities that are being affected by these forms and that when it comes to these communities i mean is this live these levels anyway unprecedented . no definitely i think it's important to keep in mind that the cease 3 arrear especially in this region i mean it's ok and so much we haven't seen such an

event for the last 25 years while for kenya this is really exceptional because we saw such last big skid widespread outbreak only 70 years ago so this is really exceptional event and therefore i mean even if the government really are at the forefront of providing support to communities bring their feel this is exceptional they want and their capacities out there who will get the or won't and they require our support and this is what today we have issued in a period for 70000000 dollars and that view that we will be far more in the coming weeks to revised upwards and call which we are going to provide support for the control as well as in terms of of livelihood so oxfam got we are at a number of agencies so such as 'd the office for correlation of humanitarian affairs to there are some color emergency response one don't really provide retards these to enable us to respond but we need much more the many closure on the rector

of the united nations food and agriculture organization is emergency and resilience division thank you. now still to come on al-jazeera at this news hour on our last a day and that also a great october demands action on climate warning that the 9 years are damaging the world myanmar says it has complied with an order from the un's top court to stop the genocide of last against a huge of muslims and on a day of upsets in melbourne roger federer survives the scare of your spirit or has all the action. how i was still got some rather disturbed weather pushing into the southwest off here a little kind of cloud here that says what remains of the storm gloria the showers

longest by the winds are starting to waste out they say the rain not quite as intense we will see some pretty intense rainfall and some rather strong winds grassy pushing in from this system out in the atlantic that will bring some rather wet weather into western parts of the british isles as we go on through the next couple of days pushing further south you go with those showers easing out to push go back into spain mainly of rain see temperatures in madrid around 10 degrees celsius to the east of that jimmy fine and dry although there will still be a few showers you know just easing across into italy i'm also into the box as we go on into sunday some showers once again affecting southern parts of france by sunday that wet weather that we've got pushing into western parts of the british isles will slot across well scotland and a good part of england through the course of the day for other races generally dry staying mild in moscow temps just once again getting about phrasing highs of around 2 degrees celsius meanwhile across northern parts of africa generally try here that

wessel weather that we do have around the iberian peninsula will once again bring some lively showers into the funnels on iraq this weekend. but. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is it really wiping out the. climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the street is going to even know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about stood up against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. child joy bringing my neighbors from my neighbor's children so they can see and get more comfortable 5 years children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons back at the varo sominex to require electricity and therefore need to shoot and it's fun but

a new generation is fighting fire with the reason we are fighting for voices to be heard because you don't want to see and you just didn't get to see never again part of the radicalized youth series on al-jazeera. back as a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera china has taken grass the measures to contain the spread of a new strain of corona virus public transport has been shut down in a number of provinces along with key landmarks as the death toll rises to 26 at least 14 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck eastern turkey the magnitude 6.8 quake hit and as it

province out of there 10 kilometers. and it was them across in the senate impeachment trial of president donald trump have focused their arguments on abuse of power and on obstruction of congress trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden . thousands of antiabortion supporters are attending a rally in washington d.c. president donald trump was also there he's the 1st u.s. leader to attend the rally since it began 47 years ago the annual event that marks the anniversary of the u.s. supreme court decision back in 1983 which legalized abortion our white house correspondent kimberly halkett reports. breaking with tradition again to gather we vote for tax cherish or defend the sanctity of every human life donald trump descended of washington's national mall to personally address an

anti-abortion rally making him the 1st sitting u.s. president to do so again affirming his support for their cause unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the white house. the march started in response to the landmark $973.00 supreme court ruling legalizing abortion a divisive issue in the united states' trucks. 2016 promised to appoint supreme court judges who might overturn that ruling helped him win the white house with the help of these supporters for many the issue is personal but the unborn do not have a voice and we are their voices we are their voices they're being killed by them and him but the president also needs many of these people who consider themselves even jellicoe voters to show up in this november's presidential election and they

need him to be a limb for such the u.s. president kept his $26.00 team promise to evangelical voters naming conservative justices neil gorsuch and later brett kavanaugh 2 of erica's highest court altered its ballots to make it work conservative with democratic appointees justice ruth bader ginsburg's healthy decline trucks anti-abortion supporters are eyeing a possible 3rd conservative court appointment trump wins reelection it's critical for the country if you really study it you study our constitution the founding of the country it was founded on judeo christian beliefs and we need to return to that we have so many judges and so many things are changing and we need to have that pro-life person placed in there so that we can continue what we're doing we come before you lord but trucks have to work to keep socially conservative voters on his side your guys this rally earlier this month in miami to energize evangelicals

after an article in magazine christianity today published an editorial calling for his removal from office citing trump's grossly immoral character. is going into reelection in a weakened state right now and what he needs more than anything is his base and i think what we're seeing with this president is recognizing without them there he has no shot of actually getting reelected as the us election campaign gains momentum expect even more appeals by president trump to his religious base as he continues to make the case he is the only candidate who will defend their faith to really help get al jazeera the white house. close to $100.00 migrants including pregnant women have been rescued off the coast of libya the humanitarian ship ocean viking picked up $92.00 mind from an inflatable dingey there were 5 pregnant women in the group the youngest passenger was a 6 month old baby it's thought that most of the survivors overage only came from

west africa. the united nations is concerned about mexico's policy of migrants putting out a tweet criticizing the new hard line at the southern border and its effect on children and the vulnerable around $800.00 people in a so-called migrant caravan from central america have been detained as they attempted to cross the border from guatemala the caravan is mainly people fleeing violence and poverty in honduras or hoping to head north into the u.s. the u.n. says mexico has a right to protect its borders but not to use excessive force a year after brazil's worst ever industrial disaster families of those killed are still waiting for justice 270 people were killed when that dam collapsed sending a tide of toxic waste which flooded the city of broome with the man who has more. a security camera captured would happen 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 reach of the corpse we found between $20.30 bodies in this area alone the helicopter was constantly going up and down taking 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 mio sister and sister in law both died in the disaster he places the blame entirely on the mining company that washed him into just sort of the ditch that it does not even have

a verdict of this type and it was sponsibility off this scale the green and call it is because what happened here was the minute did i say this to you looking into our eyes or being at all. earlier this week prosecutors in minas gerais dies charged 16 individuals with murder including values chief executive 5 your shorts and athletes may have to solve our 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 responsible. 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 seeing 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 in the city of broome of the new york continues to face other challenges such as an environmental disaster that hasn't fully finished playing out . moments about the low and zita of the new. man maher says it has put in place measures to protect range of muslims following thursday's order from the international court of justice to stop genocidal acts against the ethnic minority ranges welcomed a unanimous ruling from the un's highest court for around 3 quarters of a 1000000 ranger who fled to safety in bangladesh it is an encouraging development have your child reports now from cox is bizarre. the news from neverland is welcome in the world's largest refugee camp zafir ahmed and his friends gathered around community really hard and to stall to hear what is happening at the

international court of justice. who would like to thank. you legal process and bangladesh for giving us shelter and now finally a new verdict recognizes our suffering and they are trying we feel at peace you know. chicken far to say she was pregnant during the me and my army clear out campaign state and knows the pain of living with trauma and depression she runs a woman's advocacy group in the camp helping others to overcome their sorrows and. at the. very happy after so long finally we get some sort of justice they have sized our documents and tonight is our rights and citizenship all they have to do now is reinstate and give us our identity and rights back we also want to know that we'll be safe that. the bangladeshi government is hoping it gets more help to cope with caring for their languishing in bangladesh camps. my mother's.

we hope this verdict should make good sense prevail in me and i'm hopeful that mean my will take back the people which they have repeatedly along with this they also promised that they will provide them with safety and security the verdict of the court also demands the same this verdict is a victory for their own hang up the. government leaders in myanmar have denied a genocide of campaign against their own the unsubstantiated condemnation they say presents a distorted picture of the situation. but for one of the world's most persecuted people the ruling has given them a sense of hope for a better future the legal process may take years but for the wrong a refugee the ruling by the international court of justice is that less recognition for their suffering there it got the ruling as a moral as well as a psychological victory for their community child very. bizarre in bangladesh. a

week ahead of breck's in the presidents of the european council and commission have formally signed the withdrawal agreement along with u.k. prime minister boris johnson. and then or so level in their lane put their signatures to the document in brussels it was then sent to london for johnson's signature the european parliament is expected to vote to approve the agreement next wednesday starting at 11 months transition period to discuss a trade deal now 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 others in cities across the country the government says the 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 . climate activists great at tilburg dominated the final day of the world economic

forum without making an official appearance the teenager led hundreds of people on one of her fridays for future marches through the streets of the swiss resort and has done a whole reports from davos it appears 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 were grettir tom berg and donald trump how old is the senate seat that's good but what is your response to believe we haven't earned this one point from and totenberg polar opposites of a 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 giant sales force marc benioff the prayer in capitalism that this obsession that we have with maximizing profits for shareholders alone. has led to incredible inequality 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 needing 4 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 as 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. i. they may not be winning yet but their impact is growing on i'll just in the swiss alps. still ahead on. the world. bad start with this new ball. game.

ok now let's go to paula in doha for the sport barbara thank you very much tennis fans at the australian open witnessed a remarkable day on friday with defending champion. and 7 time when it's arena williams both knocked out in the 3rd round while roger federer survived a huge scare at the hands of a home favorite so helmick 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 saw 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 goff who produced a performance of historical proportions i she downed a sock in straight sets to become the youngest player to beat a top 5 opponent since 991 i was my like oh my gosh i could 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. the 23 time grand slam champion was beaten in 3 sets by china's wang came serena is now without a grand slam triumph 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. a final set super tight break with needed but eventually this with superman prevailed. 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 straights that. 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 motor bike 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 right apollo gone salvos was also killed in an earlier stage of the rally his funeral took place in his hometown of g m s s on friday consol has died competing in his 13th dakar rally in football iranian side s. to appeal to asian football chiefs to let them play their champions league matches at home the team are preparing for saturday's preliminary round with q 8 sporting club in dubai the a.f. say are staging all games involved in the tournament to iranian seems that neutral venue stoop to security concerns as to coach believes they'll suffer without a usual support. there is no difference for them to play here because there stadiums are empty but if we play in iran at least $50000.00 supporters will come

to the stadium other teams players and coaches always have had good memories of playing in azadi stadium at full capacity i honestly i have see to respect us and let us play in our own country. iran's only female olympic medalist kenya elisa hopes to compete for germany at the skiis 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 elise that as the 3rd top arabian athlete to quit the country in recent months selection for the german team isn't guaranteed and has status to represent the country still has to be cleared and there's a lot more land people in london and was only given the only piece is a great challenge for every outlet 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 perceived on when i hope to compete in 2024 when 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 the host see when the 1st t 20 much 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 with an unbeaten half century as pakistan chased down the target with 3 balls to spare. the new york giants said farewell to one of their all time greats on friday quarterback eli manning announced his retirement after 16 seasons which included 2 super bowl victories the 37 year old 39 year old sorry chose to quit and spend more time with his family rather than move to a new team for most of my white people have called me easy believe me there is nothing easy about today. well temeraire always said once a giant always a joy for me it's only a giant. weld rally champion tana made his debut with his new team high on di on

friday i want to remember for all the wrong reasons there stony and got off to a roaring start early in the morning up monte carlo but daybreak brought a different story. to tell not varying into a ditch in the icy conditions putting his car into a barrel roll his co-driver were in homs but it did put a dent in that performance. that is all the sport for now i'll send you out said barbara and one of the thank you so much for that remember you can get much more never thing that we have been covering on our website there it is the latest on the phone a virus and also to read back in just a few minutes to bring you the latest on that earthquake in eastern turkey stay with us thanks for watching by.

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