the. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm kim but al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes china's government takes control of the response to the corona virus as work begins 181000 bed hospital for victims and europe reports its 1st cases of the disease. search and rescue efforts are underway in eastern turkey after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people. really just with you. donald trump breaks precedent to becomes the 1st u.s. president to attend the annual antiabortion march in washington d.c.

. and a threat to food security east africa is dealing with one of its worst locust invasion which is being blamed on extreme weather conditions. efforts to contain a deadly outbreak of corona virus around being up around the walt new cases a confirmed outside the epicenter in china so far $26.00 people have died and more than $800.00 have been infected and i don't friday health officials and france reported 3 cases of the virus making them the 1st in europe. google plus you can use of a new play we have the 1st european cases it might be because we set up the test in a very short time that we detected the 1st positive cases and the territory what matters now is to contain the situation as quickly as possible that's why we need to know the patients history find the people that the patient was in contact with to speak to them and give them the instructions to 1st of all stay at home and

avoid any contact and the virus is overshadowing festivities for the lunar new year with many events scaled down major landmarks like beijing's forbidden city and parts of the great wall that closed and the impact of the outbreak is also spreading russia has advised its citizens not to visit china until the situation improves and the outbreak 1st emerged in who pays a provincial capital will harm its in a transport lockdown and a number of other cities in the province have also been forced restrictions affecting around 40000000 people the 1st deaths outside of who have now been confirmed one person has died in which borders beijing and the other in hey long as young cases of the krona virus are not confirmed in nearly every province of china right medicine has more now on the measures beijing is taking to try and contain the outbreak as china battles to control the spread of the corona virus 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 parked car the 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 you know affected by the beginning of any other 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 have been

cancelled 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 travelling both in china and abroad ahead of the new year's 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 too ned 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. patrick peregrine is an international economist said to add macro he says

the outbreak could impact the global economy. 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 new lunar new year which is like christmas it's a big spending period and you've got to think and work w.h.o. believes this is going to last for months so economic activity will be curtailed and the world will suffer 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 or not 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 day just sticks that we just take for granted why 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 is a real possibility that china could just tipis into an ineffective recession. scientists are working to find out how the new coronavirus spread and its threat for him hard takes a look at what we know so far. 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 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'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 and other news a powerful earthquake has struck in eastern turkey killing at least 18 people buildings collapsed near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake hit in the laws of province urgency crews are searching for people thought to be trapped in the rubble more than $500.00 people are reported injured. this was the moment the earthquake struck the tremor interrupting this live broadcast many people ran outdoors for safety those are the damaged homes are still afraid to return after a series of aftershocks in the region al-jazeera assume caution all lou is monitoring developments from istanbul. following the earthquake there were also 60 aftershocks which were a ball 4.0 a current day according to the office shows and disaster management agency search and rescue workers are on the way we know that we know that there are lots of

buildings that were damaged and some of them already collapsed and they are still trying to figure out which buildings are damaged but of course we have to see the light to have proper idea i'm told by the disaster management agency but the airport in is operating there is no cut for the electricity or natural gas but i have to say that this is when terry the weather conditions are bad and people are not able to get inside their homes their buildings they have to stay outside that's why the n.g.o.s turkish red crescent and disaster management agency have dispatched 490 search and rescue personnel and some tents and. blank and blankets to the area i have to also say that the immediate city is around. have also felt the earthquake and there are there are damages in cities like malata for

instance especially in particular district there are dozens of buildings that are damaged and we have to see the mourning for the details but i have to also underline that turkey is a moment the most suspect clee active countries in the world there are several full clients. crossing bypassing of the country and there's a city where the where the earthquake happen is all it sits also on the eastern anatolian fault line which is the 2nd major fault line for turkey and turkey has suffered a lot from the earthquakes. plenty more ahead on the news on including tens of thousands march in iraq with a message for their government and for the u.s. . as bushfires continue to burn in australia's. scientists reveal the impact the blazes are having on the earth's atmosphere. and coursing around for germany but will it be enough to reach japan at all has a story of an unusual journey to the tokyo to fix.

the final day of arguments by u.s. congressional democrats in the impeachment trial of president donald trump democratic prosecutors are focusing their allegations on abuse of power and on obstruction of congress the u.s. president is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for investigations into his political rival joe biden. but it's go now to hide your castro who's standing by on capitol hill in washington d.c. heidi we're nearing the end of day 3 for the democrats their last day to lay out their arguments what's been happening. to him so on today the impeachment managers the democratic prosecutors really in this case have focused on trying to convince senators that president obstructed congress this is of course the 2nd article of impeachment that he's facing and democrats say he did this by

withholding documents and witnesses from congress during the investigative period of this impeachment process and they say for the witnesses who defied the president's orders and showed up to testify before congress anyway they say the president intimidated them some of them while they were on the stand witnesses like mario vonnegut share with the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine to testify that she was the target of a smear campaign directed by the president's private attorney and that she was sacked from her position unjustifiably while she was speaking on the stand president trump was on twitter disparaging her and this question of witnesses is really crucial here for both sides because the president's defenders and republicans say that if democrats really want to get all of these witnesses they could have taken them to court earlier the democrats didn't do that they say that's because they knew any court battle here in this country can take months if not more

than a year for its of the to see a conclusion and so they said by then in their words the president could have cheated his way into winning reelection with the help of ukraine which of course is the very allegation that he's accused of in this impeachment and so what we're left with is democrats now going for a 2nd opportunity they hope to call these witnesses to testify as part of this trial of this a question that could be answered as early as next week when that comes to a vote but then again the president could assert executive privilege not allowing those test of those witnesses to show up and we could be back in the courts back at square one kim think that that's how is your castro. now alan baron joins us live from washington d.c. he was a former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives thank you so much for your time mr baron really good to have you on the program what if anything

has stood out for you during these days of democrat opening arguments. well i think the star of the proceedings for the democrats has been adam schiff i worked with congressman schiff i guess it was 10 years ago go on to judicial impeachments and i found him to be a very smart very capable very dedicated guy and he has really become a a superstar in his presentation is with regard to president trump i think also that the democrats as a group. have been been extremely well organized extremely well prepared they've made very powerful arguments. that they will fall on deaf republican ears is something they do not think can overcome but they have certainly done their homework they presented their case extraordinarily well and i think an awful lot of what they're doing is ultimately being presented to the american public and in

particular. voters in november who may now be disenchanted with trump. who are the sort of on affiliated voters who are looking for somewhere to. pledge their their allegiance so to speak and i think that that's really what's going on here in terms of substance everything else is pretty much pre-cooked the republicans are not going to break ranks interesting they say this is all you know optics for vote 1 could this be backfiring for the democrats because according to a recent poll of washington post poll present trends approval rating has climbed to the highest of his presidency. if all of this is a gamble everything is going to be up in the air right up to the last minute. trump's poll numbers have always been low him even if it's the highest they've always been sort of in the mid forty's which is not good. and in any event the

democrats have to put on this if only because history demands it. that what happened here in my view and i've studied impeachment as part of my work this is the worst conduct of misconduct by a president in our history it makes bill clinton's bill clinton's misconduct look trivial by comparison i am interested given your experience and your other 2 sides do you think fighting on different battlefields will finding different things given trunks defense argues there's no crime therefore they can be no impeachment but if you can't democrats say well hang on that's not what this is about this is not a criminal trial well it's absolutely clear that impeachment historically has not never required that an actual criminal act occur before it's an impeachable offense it's just not true and you know it's the last

refuge to argue well it's got to be a technical crime indeed at the time that the. constitution was adopted there was no u.s. criminal code they hadn't got into that for another i think decades so no it does not have to be a crime it needs to be big conduct which may or may not rise to the level of criminality finally let's talk a little bit about the witness issue after we've heard from trump's defense and then we've had questions and answers there's going to be this discussion again about taking witnesses or allowing new witnesses and new evidence how do you think that's going to go. well everything i'm hearing says that they are not going to get the 4 republicans to break ranks and join the democrats in requiring witnesses it's unfortunate i think it says an awful lot about what the republicans are afraid of that is that the truth will come out about how bad

trump's behavior really was which we can see even by the amount that has been on earth and the fact that the republicans are fighting tooth and nail to keep the american people from hearing from witnesses and seeing documents. that speaks volumes in and of itself as to the nature and severity of mr trump's misconduct i think that will have to leave it there that cell and bear in their former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives. to protest as have been killed as an anti-government rally and iraq's capital baghdad as police used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrate is blocking a highway medical and police sources say one was shot and the 2nd was hit by a take as canister is that the latest demonstrations in a series that began in october against alleged government corruption. on a separate protest also in baghdad tens of thousands marched to demand american

forces leave the country protest has responded to a call by influential shia cleric. for the closure of u.s. military bases he's also demanding that u.s. warplanes be banned from iraqi airspace and one can was at the demonstrations by. the cool was for a 1000000 person march and many in baghdad who 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 qassam so the money in last month's u.s. missile attack other to john martin if you thought on all this gathering you see today are heading there 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

a telethon of the other nadar the protests was joined by people from all over southern iraq. and our goal is to expel old occupiers we are standing for iraq against any intervention we want dignity and we want sovereignty. the government's divided i mean terrible but should find it difficult to ignore such a large protest anti-government protests since october have already forced prime minister i'd loved the 10 ounces resignation he remains as caretaker pending a replacement leader a new elections. the americans have said they're determined to stay in iraq and at the invitation of the iraqi prime minister one of the criticisms of this protest movement is this for the poorest goes. was a 1000000 now regardless of where the real people are here will know the daughter also other as brothers to send his message that he wants the u.s. troops out of iraq and he's got this kind of support behind him go and call it out

is there a baghdad. the pentagon says $34.00 u.s. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries to iranian missile strikes on a base in iraq earlier this month off the soldiers are still being treated in germany and the united states the other 17 have returned to duty in iraq and the washington said there were no casualties from the strikes on the banks the attack was in retaliation for the u.s. assess a nation of top iranian commander concepts sort of money. and government protests are being held in chile's capital sense jago demonstrations started in october over an increase in subway fares that quickly transformed into widespread anger of the struggling economy and inequality at least $26.00 people have died since the protests began a weather experts in britain a sounding the alarm about the global a fictive bushfires in australia u.k.'s national media are logical service is

forecasting one of the largest annual increases an atmospheric greenhouse gas levels since records began more than 60 years ago the meter all adjusts rather say the vast scale of the bush fisons accelerating the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere c o 2 devils are already well past the 400 parts per 1000000 limit seen by climate scientists as the point of no return. well richard bits is the head of climate impact research at the british mit office he says while the bushfires are adding carbon dioxide directly to the atmosphere the biggest impact will come from the loss of plants the horrors in the 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 increased the sooty was about 2

percent than they would have been without so noticeable contribution so ecosystems need to be protected to help reduce c o 2 but the only really way real way of stopping the rise is to stop burning fossil fuels this accelerations is c. 2 are is 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 2 emissions if they get weaker then the rise in sea 2 in the future could be faster and therefore that could accelerate climate change in the future locusts have been swarming in their billions across kenya somalia and ethiopia causing so much havoc that the un has called for international help to avert a crisis kenya is facing its largest invasion in 7 decades the grasshoppers have destroyed thousands of kilometers of crops and the u.n. is concerned that this will impact food security in east africa its links at the

invasion to unseasonal rains last month that caused the locust population to. dominate version is the director of the united nations food and agriculture organization emergency and resilience division he spoke to us from the kenyan capital nairobi where he's responding to the locust situation. i mean the locust worms are spreading throughout africa as a matter of fact there is being a say clone december say clone by one that has brought a very humid conditions to the eastern africa creating very fertile conditions for the locusts to erupt so now we have seen the development of locusts they already impact on some crops and especially on rates bustard are so essential for the past already that it's you know many in the region but not the problem is that locust

are getting matcher saw that there are there actually they are yes eggs on them they have a case that would be very soon and that will lead to a new generation of locusts which this time will come the time for the planting of the next in the region that will come around march april so it means that at that time we run the risk of really having the crop at risk and therefore to have a situation where the 11900000 people are worried severely food insecure in kenya formerly in georgia will see their security situation further deteriorate. the number of people killed by a violent storm that battered parts of eastern and southern spain has risen to 13 fields were submerged in a road was cast off in the province of gov after strong doria brought days of heavy rain the storm is lasted for 5 days accompanied by heavy winds so for the tale of the weather forecasters say the worst has passed their affairs there could be

further deaths south reports people have gone missing in northeastern catalonia and the bali eric islands. still ahead on al-jazeera as tech announces more troops for libya to support the un recognized government german chancellor angela merkel opposition forces forces to join the ceasefire. they don't have to do anything because they are not being held accountable. climate activist aggressive slabs of global leaders at the world economic forum we'll tell you why. and on a day of outfits in melbourne roger federer survived the scare at the australian open hall has the action. but. we have weather warnings in force across many central and eastern parts of the

united states of money carlos cloud here well as for you some rather disturbed weather just around the appalachians we're looking at snow around the midwest the rainfall just around the middle antic states pushing up across d.c. pushing up towards new york and that will drive its way up into new england it's eastern parts of canada behind that generally dry we have got some decent spells of sunshine for southern areas along in the deep south pushing into texas we will see some wet weather as we go on into west saturday somewhat weather to the pacific northwest all the way down actually into northern parts of california and that's going to drive its way further eastward so we will see significant snow fall piling in across the cascades north of the border through b.c. into. the rockies will see some wintry weather over the next couple days and still some wintry weather just around the east and lakes around lake erie for example and into the canadian a maritimes temperatures that the new york and the day say getting up to read 8

degrees celsius over the next couple of days not see bad across the caribbean as well the sunshine will to pull sunshine for the most part you might just catch the old shower. just around the leeward islands as we go through saturday often in. india a nation of 1300000000 people deeply religious desperately divided i think good you know they should which is potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity is making them to get back the places off his ancestors and why is it getting was join me here on my journey in search of india so. coming soon on al-jazeera. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history

steve jobs for much better marketeers land bill gates 1st apple is going to reinvent the phone bill made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired a digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. why. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder about top stories this hour the 1st cases of corona virus have been confirmed in europe with 3 people being treated and faults it comes as cities and major landmarks across china go into virtual lockdown ahead of the new year festivities to stop the virus from spreading. a powerful earthquake has struck

eastern turkey killing at least 18 people buildings collapse near the epicenter and it involves the province more than 500 people are reported to be injured submergence the crews are searching for survivors. 2 protesters have been killed at an anti-government rally in iraq's capital baghdad as a separate protest in the city supporters of shiite cleric matata sought out of mosques to demand american forces leave the country. thousands of anti abortion supporters are attending a rally in washington d.c. and for the 1st time since the march began almost 50 years ago the u.s. president has attended a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. down to breaking with tradition again the gather weavers protect cherish and defend the day to day of 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 where. the march started in response to the landmark 973 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 their be killed by them and him but the president also has many of these people who consider themselves even jellicoe voters to show up in this november's presidential election and they need

him to i feel him for such as the us president kept his 2016 promise to evangelical voters naming conservative justices neil gorsuch and later brett kavanaugh to america's highest court altering its ballots to make it a more conservative fence with democratic appointees justice ruth bader ginsburg's health in decline trumps anti-abortion supporters are eyeing a possible 3rd conservative court appointment trump wins reelection it's critical right 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 the organizers 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. what 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. victoria robinson is the director of external relations for save the stalks a pro-life organization she joins us live on skype from nashville tennessee thank you for your time how significant is it that trump attended this much in person you must be pretty happy about that well 1st of all thank you for having me i always

appreciate the opportunity to share what we're doing is famous for its and freshly not what the problem. well why is it significant when you think about how significant it really is i mean the leader of the free world and the most pro-life president we have ever had coming to use of course a march like the march for life he's just showing i believe that we can you know find no matter what side of the aisle that you're on and so it means a lot to us that he would come out and let us know i support you and i see what you're doing in companies report there we had that trump has been under fire from the evangelical bloc and evangelicals are often put in the same group as pro-life is if you like which is the reason that he went along to fire up that base what do you think. i don't know the man personally i don't know his heart but what i know is that he's done more for the pro-life movement and for the pro-life. issue than

any other president in the history of our country so whatever reasons he has and doesn't have which i am not privy to does it matter to me as long as things change he is as i have been saying the faster us president to actually attend one of these rallies and said all previous presidents have been reticent to do so some of them have gone along video something like that can you understand why a president might be reticent to go along to something like this. i can but i also appreciate the fact that president trump had to go through a lot to come to an event with the magnitude of people that would be there and no telling what kind of protesters would show up we all know that there are a lot of people that that are against him so i take my hats off to the guy that he actually took time to go through that who knows what kind of hassle to show up so i just know that we really appreciate the support from them many analysts saying that

abortion has become a pot is an issue what do you think i think that that's not true i think that abortion is a human rights issue just last night at our save the storks ball in washington we had 2 speakers senator katrina jackson out of new orleans who is a pro-life democrat and sarah huckabee sanders who is a pro-life republican and to watch these women converse with each other very friendly to take pictures with one another and even exchange phone numbers because no matter that they have probably many many differences politically the one thing they agree on is pro-life and so i think that it can be done i think it is being done and i think that's a false statement ok we'll have later they have a try robinson there thank you. turkey's president says more military personnel are being sent to libya to train troops for the un recognized government or the top earner one made the comments during

a news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel turkey is supporting the aaa based government in its months long battle with warlords only for half that his forces are trying to take the capital from the government led by prime minister fayyad is also wrong. 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 e.u. when it is not a choice but a liability couponing haftar is increased his attacks in the last few days which is a clear sign he has no intention of reconciliation. but i think part of it's important for both parties in libya to reach a compromise and we hope hard time will take positive steps to reach a cease fire we have dealt with many geopolitical issues that are of mutual concern to both their countries the meetings and the talks that have been held are important because we have managed to express our appreciation to turkey for hosting

a lot of refugees. tomorrow a child has more now from istanbul. both leaders emphasize the immediate need to ensure the fragile cease fire in libya continues and that all breaches that are being. witnessed are stopped there was a synergy between the messaging coming from president roger of tehran and that of chancellor angela merkel where they both said that's how star that is the warlords refused to sign the cease fire agreement in moscow and the berlin agreements and although americal 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 no one went further by saying that the international community and specifically named egypt and the united arab emirates and some european countries had to stop supporting the run again general essentially because that's is what was making the

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

the international community particularly the usa and such an european cunt. he's. prevented that from happening and he said that it was high time that they changed their mind she worked as partners with the turks in order to establish that saves on finally there was some talk about relations between turkey and the european union a new to kick start those. discussions once again albeit with little optimism being expressed by the talk of presidents thousands of protesters and algeria have rallied in the capital algiers calling for political change in the release of detained activists it's the 49th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations that forced former president someday lizzie's bootlicker to step down in april. was elected last month to replace the veteran leader that protesters say that is not enough a calling for algeria's political and military leaders to step down and they've

rejected office of a dialogue israeli police several stand investigation into the possible abduction of a palestinian child protesters gathered outside a settlement to look for the 8 year old israeli security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the group many believe that. who went missing in baton ina east of jerusalem was kidnapped by settlers at least 19 people were injured in the protests. surrounds government has signed a peace agreement with the sudanese people's liberation movement group as part of a larger regional peace plan the group has been fighting the government since south sudan gained independence in 2011 they've been demanding self rule in the blue nile and south kordofan region ordering south sudan here morgan reports. a breakthrough after more than 3 months of talks sudan's government signing a peace deal with the sudan people's liberation movement north or s.p.l.

and led by america it's part of a bed by the sudanese transitional administration to end years of conflict in various parts of the country. the deal that we have signed addressed a number of issues it addressed the issue of legislation in the 2 areas south kordofan and the blue nile it also addresses the issue of land and wealth and power distribution as well as security arrangements we will lead our country forward b s p l m n started fighting the sudanese government in 2011 after accusing it of marginalization and impeding democracy a remnant of the event southern sudan a spare limb it's made up of sudanese who supported the movement and stayed behind following south sudan's independence in 2011 mostly in south kordofan and blue nile states the 2 states were supposed to have the chance to decide whether they wanted to be part of sudan or join south sudan the s.p.l. and itself is split into 2 with the other led by abdul aziz and hello who is it to

start negotiating with the government the war has killed tens of thousands and displaced 400000 more than 20 rounds of talks between the s.p.l. m n and the former sudanese government overthrown in april last year failed to produce results. in a minute by signing this deal it confirms our determination to reach a peace deal that will change the lives of people and establish an era free of marginalization and violence under the previous regime people in sudan generally and areas of conflict in particular have paid the price as a result of injustice and lack of political stability now is the time to end the misery and bring the prosperity the people of sudan deserve the peace talks are mediated by neighboring south sudan which is also mediating between sudan's government and other groups such as rebel movements from the western region of darfur.

so that. you. come. with some groups still in talks and others yet to even start negotiating sudan's road to peace remains long but friday's signing offers a glimmer of hope for those who've suffered from years of war he will mourn al-jazeera. where the week to go until the presidents of the european council and commission have formally signed the withdrawal agreement. sort of on the way and put their signatures to the document in brussels signed by u.k. prime minister abbas johnson and their pain paula meant is expected to vote to approve the agreement next wednesday saucing and levon month transition period to discuss a trade deal. 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 are necessary to make this ystem 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 and fronts and more than 4 decades. a man in germany has shot and killed his parents and 4 other family members while police are describing as a domestic incident the 26 year old man called police to a house in the south west in town after the shooting with he was arrested 2 more people are in a critical condition in hospital while 2 children were threatened but when lift on harmed. a climate activist to dominate is the final day of the world economic forum without making it official the parents the teenager that hundreds of people long want to friday's future marches through the streets of this with resort and as john howell 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 gretta tom berg and donald trump how old is she now 17 that's what is your response to. this one point from and totenberg polar opposite of the new wave of discourse that seems to have come into its own here this week about climate change about the environment even about the old ways of capitalist thinking that have always seemed so at home here in davos we must remember that as long as we do not treat this crisis as a crisis and as long as the facts and the signs are being left completely ignored then we will not be able to solve this crisis world leaders and c e o's many of them are responding with one in particular the billionaire founder of cloud computing giant sales force marc benioff declaring capitalism dead this

obsession that we have with maximizing profits for shareholders along. has led to 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 davos has witnessed a confrontation between the decision makers and the young who will have to live with those decisions oh. they may not be winning yet but their impact is growing the whole culture 0 in the swiss alps. one of the architects of the northern ireland peace process seamus mellon has died at the age of $83.00 was a former deputy 1st minister and a nationalist who desired irish unity but he was a critic of republican violence it was involved in the civil rights movement in northern ireland in the 1960 s. still to come on al-jazeera and sports the world rally championship gets off to a bad start with his new team paul will have more of that.

al-jazeera runs tells the story of thousands about unions forced by colombian front's to adopt obscene family names. words this is so offensive that some contraband to say that the meat of. the pageant was ridiculous this has been passed down through generations. the shame of my name . on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for which is you know it's very challenging the body but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to deliver in-depth journalism we

don't feel inferior to the audiences across the globe. to move. the world a little. 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 migrants from and placed for me the youngest passenger was a 6 month old baby for most of the survivors originally came from west africa. a lorry driver wanted in connection with the discovery of $39.00 bodies found in a refrigerated contained in the u.k. can be extradited to the country harrison appeared at the high court in relation to

a european arrest warrant is wanted for his alleged role in transporting the trailer which contained the bodies of vietnamese nationals they were found in an industrial park in essex just outside of london in october last year. the united nations is concerned about mexico's policy on migrants criticizing the new hard line at the southern border and its effect on children vulnerable people around 800 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 and hunger we're hoping to head north to the united states the u.n. says mexico has a right to protect its borders but not use excessive force it's time for sports here's paul thank you very much tennis fans at the australian open witness state remarkable day on friday with defending champion. and 7 time winner serina williams both knocked out in the 3rd round while roger federer survived

a huge scare at the hands of a home favorite so he'll mark 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 news is. bringing 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 i. 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 ride to 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 roy paolo gone solvers was also killed in an earlier stage of the rally his funeral took place in his hometown of g m a s s on friday gonzalez died competing in his 13th dakar rally in football the iranian side as 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

sporting club in dubai the a.f.c. are staging all games involving the tournament to iranian seems that neutral venue's jews who security concerns as to go out as coach believes they'll suffer without a usual supports. there is no difference for them to play here because their 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 to let us play in our own country. iran's only female olympic medalist kenya elisa hopes to compete the 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 elisa dess 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 are people on the internet. 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 possible then i hope to compete in 2024. 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 39 year old chose to quit and spend more time with his family rather than move to

a new team for most of my way people have called me easy believe me there is nothing easy about today. well the mare always said once a giant always a giant for me it's only a giant world rally champion made his debut with his new team high on di on friday i want to 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. not varying into a ditch in the icy conditions putting his car into a barrel roll his co-driver were unharmed but he did put a dent in their performance. or that's his oil spill for now we'll have more like that. and that is the odds there at news hour stay with us thought on the back very shortly with more of the day's.

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china's government takes control of the response to the corona virus as work begins on a 1000 bed hospital for victims and europe reports its 1st cases of the disease. i'm keeping now this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the search and rescue efforts are underway in eastern turkey after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people. i truly just with. donald trump breaks precedent to becomes the 1st u.s. president to attend the annual antiabortion march in washington d.c. .