to do it again. 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 kim but 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. truly just with. donald trump breaks president to becomes the 1st u.s. president to attend the annual antiabortion march in washington d.c. . and the threats to food security east africa is dealing with one of its worst

locust invasions which is being blamed on extreme weather conditions. efforts to contain a deadly outbreak of corona virus are ramping up around the world as new cases a confirmed outside the epicenter in china so far 26 people have died and more than 800 have been infected like on friday health officials in france reported 3 cases of the virus 2 in paris and one and bordeaux makes them the 1st cases in europe. you can use a whole new player 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 in our 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 with the ball also confirmed its 1st case on friday while the virus has been found in the u.s. on kong thailand south korea and singapore china meantime is fast tracking the construction of a 1000 bed hospital to help treat patients comes as authorities shut down major tourist attractions ahead of the lunar new year holiday celebrations. rob bassett has more on the measures beijing is trying to take to contain the outbreak 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 parked car doors of a hospital in the chinese city of will han 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 old break you would focus more on a severe cases and you have more of those and then maybe we are missing some mild cases because people will just be a little bit sick and will not be ever tested and they will recover. many streets are empty in han the capital of china's kobe 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 to net i'm not very satisfied with how the government prevented in control of the disease i'm very afraid of getting infected i am really afraid of those people all relieved and left but i do hope the situation you can be improved so this video was deleted after it appeared on china's way both social media site china now has to control the virus and prevent the spread of panic rob matheson al-jazeera and just an update the chinese government is now reporting that the death toll from the virus has jumped to $41.00 patrick parrot green is an international economist at the ad 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 world 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 the time of crisis like this or not is 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 logistics that we just take for granted or 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 there are that 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 were 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 more about how the new chrono virus spreads and its threat for him her and 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 tarna and across time as borders to the threat of a global health emergency looms. about a full earthquake has struck eastern turkey killing at least 18 people buildings collapse near the epicenter of the mag richard 6.8 quake in the province emergency

crews are searching for people thought to be trapped in the rubble well then 500 people are reported injured. and this was the moment the earthquake struck the tremor interrupting this live broadcast many people ran on tools for safety those with damaged homes are still afraid to return after a series of aftershocks in the region al-jazeera sudan crucial lou is monitoring developments from istanbul. following the earthquake there were also 6 e 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. blankets blankets to the area i have to also say that the immediate cities 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 is where the earthquake happen is all is it's 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. the final day of augments by u.s. congressional democrats in the impeachment trial of president donald trump democratic prosecutors a 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 an investigation into his political rival joe biden this is very simple it's simple the president abuse the powers entrusted in. by the american people in a skiing to suppress evidence escape accountability and

orchestrate a massive cover up and he did so in plain sight and his obstruction remains ongoing. let's get out terry she had pretends he's standing by on capitol hill she have the dems are wrapping up their case what are we expecting from the white house lawyers. a very different strategy i'd say over the last few days we've seen the democrats have the primary audience of the senators in the chamber that's where they've gone meticulously through all the evidence they've collated in the hope that senses may see something that they've not heard before that they are still holding out hope that some of them does may say you know what we do need small witnesses' documents democrats also want to get this all on the record the republicans however the white house or the white house lawyers have made it pretty clear from the that main audience is going to be public opinion and the t.v. audience or the radio audience so they're going to make a much more concise pointed perhaps exclusive argument which just gets straight

down to to to the defense in fact saturday morning they've decided they've got have a truncated session which is the 1st day off of the white house defense going to be a few hours long because donald trump has made it quite clear he doesn't want his defense to be made on a weekend when no one's watching so this is going to be a coming attractions thing the white house lawyer says a tease of what's to come on monday and we can expect a relatively short amount of time taken by the white house lawyers as they make their case one that by and the by didn't a corrupt and so it was in the national interest for donald trump to ask for an investigation into them that the whole business of foreign interference in elections or the outrage of the democrats is hypocritical because it was the democrats and 2016 who had who are paying for my 6 agents to try and get dirt on donald trump from russian officials and thirdly the point will be. the separation of powers and if donald trump were $200.00 or more documents and now

more witnesses than that would mean future presidents will never know whether their private deliberations on foreign policy will be safe but as far as we know the saturday is going to be rather cursory the real defense will begin on monday when the white house hopes america will be watching thanks for that she had her tansey there on capitol hill. well alan that baron is a former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives he says that while of course it's expected the democrats case is strong and could influence votes is in november. the democrats as a group. 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. or the sort of an affiliated voters who are looking for somewhere to. pledge 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 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 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. still ahead on al-jazeera tens of thousands march in iraq with

a message for their government and the u.s. . hopes of a solution in libya as germany's chancellor visits istanbul. we got the rain clouds gathering across central parts of china at the moment as we head towards the new year hit we've got a lot of wet weather in place as well some wintry weather to the north of that cloud of rain is actually sinking a little further south which you'll see some of that pushing down towards hong kong shanghai staying just for that cloud and right over towards the far south of japan so accused maybe southern areas of honshu will see some rather wet weather as we go on through the next couple days and as we go on through the way candy to see into the southeast it turns rather unsettled here as well with some lively downpours

sunshine in showers as per usual across southeast asia the heaviest of which look to be across malaysia i suspect borneo he sings in very heavy rain southern parts of somalia also very disturbed and the wet weather extending now across a good part of indonesia java certainly seeing some very heavy rain i wouldn't be surprised if we do catch some localized flooding in places like jakarta for example most of the route and flooding in sioux or india at the moment again there's lots of sunshine coming through cool enough further north and where we do have the low cloud and the folk problems temperatures still suppressed the delhi no higher than around 20 degrees celsius so similar pictures to go on through sunday charles i want to to shallots in sri lanka. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influence the course of the. steve jobs is the much better marketeers than bill

gates was apple is going to reinvent bill made software what it is today. to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired a digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder about top stories this hour the chinese government says 41 people have been killed by an outbreak of corona virus 13 cities have shut down transports and closed public spaces ahead of the lunar new year holiday the 1st cases have also been confirmed in europe with 3 people being treated from. emergency crews in

eastern turkey is searching for survivors of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds more . u.s. democrats are wrapping up 3 days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president donald trump they accuse him of being the ringleader in efforts to push ukraine into investigating political rival joe biden trucks defense team will begin laying out its case on saturday. thousands of antiabortion supporters are attending a rally in washington d.c. 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 detroit down to breaking with tradition again that gather weavers protect cherish and defend the dignity 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 trumps 2016 promise 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 26 team 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 if 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 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. and i think what we're seeing with this prison is recognizing without them there he has no shot of actually getting real life as the u.s. 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 can really help get al jazeera the white house. antigovernment protests are being held in chile's capital santiago demonstrations started in october over an increase in subway fears but quickly transformed into widespread anger over the struggling economy and inequality at least $26.00 people have died

since the protests began 2 protesters have been killed to add an anti-government rally in iraq's capital baghdad police you used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were blocking a highway medical and police sources say one was shot in the 2nd hit by a tear gas canister these are the latest demonstrations in a series that began in october against alleged government corruption osama bin laden was at the protests the latest in a series as i said that began in october against alleged government corruption. it was very tense protesters tried to block the roads they had lot of cocktails in their hand they were burning tires in the streets as news broke of these 2 groups 2 protesters being killed on the mall a moment to fasten the highway this is the main freeway which links to east with links to the eastern and western parts 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 have been clashes with the government forces they come out in in numbers during the day blocked the highway and burned tires and the police force has been coming in hitting them with bullets as well as hamsters amnesty international saying that these callista's is not being used for gas canisters not being used for just dispersal of the crowds but are being aimed at the protesters head so it will being used to to kill them. now in a separate protest also in baghdad as tens of thousands marched to demand american forces leave the country protesters responded to a call by influential share cleric there for the closure of u.s. military bases it's also demanding that u.s. warplanes be banned from iraqi aspects around come was at the demonstrations. the cool was for a 1000000 person march and many in baghdad he did the appeal from influential shia

muslim cleric mactire also that his message is simple all americans out the march was also backed by other shia groups including could die because bulla whose leader . was killed alongside iranian general cost him 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. 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 peloton of. 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 love to be 10 ounces resignation he remains as caretaker pending a replacement leader a new elections the americans have said they're determined to stay in iraq and at the invitation of the iraqi prime minister one of them for the songs of this protest movement is this the chorus goes some way leon it was a 1000000 now regardless of whether a 1000000 people are here or no. as bothers to send his message that he wants us. groups out of iraq i just got this done is a board. member go to 0. the pentagon says $34.00 troops suffered traumatic brain injuries caused by iranian missile strikes on a base in iraq earlier this month off of the soldiers are still being treated in germany and the united states the other 17 troops have returned to duty in iraq initially washington said there were no casualties from the strikes on the banks

the attack was in retaliation for the u.s.'s a nation of top iranian commander of your money thousands of protesters in algeria have rallied in the capital algiers calling for political change and for the release of detained activists it's the 49th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations that forced former president flicka to step down in april. to whom was elected last month to replace the veteran media that protesters say that is not enough. i was ready police have launched an investigation into the possible abduction of a palestinian child protesters gathered outside a settlement in occupied east jerusalem to look for the 8 year old boy israeli security forces used pepper spray to disperse the group at least 19 people were injured at the protests. turkey's the president says more military personnel are being sent to libya to train troops for the un recognized government which made the

comment during a meeting with german chancellor angela merkel turkey is supporting the tripoli based government against ward who for half that its forces are trying to take the capital from the government led by prime minister fires also are. we 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 half true is increased his attacks in the last few days which is a clear sign he has no intention of reconciliation. but i think it's important for both parties in libya to reach a compromise and we hope will take positive steps to reach a ceasefire we have dealt with many do political issues that are of mutual concern to both their countries the meetings and the talks that have been held are important because we have managed to express our appreciation to turkey for hosting

a lot of refugees and with a week to go until breaks that the presidents of the european council and commission have formally signed to the withdrawal agreement charles michel and live on the way and put their signatures to the document in brussels was later signed by u.k. prime minister abbas johnson in london the european parliament is expected to vote to approve the agreement next wednesday starting and 11 months transition period to discuss a trade deal. 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 in 6 have destroyed thousands of kilometers of crops and the u.n. is concerned that this will impact food security in east africa. dominique version is the director of the united nations food and agriculture organizations emergency and resilience division he spoke to us from the kenyan capital nairobi where he's

responding to the local situations. i mean the locus squirms us pretty well intro out on a 5 figure is a matter of fact that there has been a clone decemberists a clone by one that is brought very humid conditions to go to eastern africa creating very forward conditions for the locusts to drop so no we have seen the development of locusts they already impact on some crops and especially on the range on us to europe are so essential for the past what is communities that is you know are many in the region but not the problem is that east locust are getting much worse or that they are there actually there are yes eggs on a lake that would be very soon and that will lead to a new generation of 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 therefore to have a situation where 11900000 people who were already susu really couldn't secure in. which he their food security situation sure that it. has al-jazeera and these are the top stories the chinese government says 41 people think killed by an outbreak of chronic virus 13 cities have shut down transporting close public spaces ahead of the learning new year holiday outside of china france and nepal have recorded their 1st cases it follows confirmation of the virus in the u.s. hong kong thailand south korea and singapore. it's still too early to draw to conclusions

on how severe the viruses because they're beginning are fairly old brick you would focus more on a severe cases and you have more of those and then maybe we only see some mild cases because people will just be a little bit sick and will not be ever tested and they will recover so as you know we may see more mild cases as surveillance intensify so there is not so much really on the numbers that we know that it will will will go up and earthquake in eastern turkey has killed 18 people the bag richard 6.8 quake hit province emergency crews are searching for people thought to be trapped in the rubble us democrats are wrapping up 3 days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president donald trump accused him of leading efforts to push ukraine into investigating political rival joe biden. israeli police have launched an

investigation into the possible abduction of a palestinian child protesters gathered outside a settlement in occupied east jerusalem to look for the 8 year old boy 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 insects have destroyed thousands of kilometers of crops the u.n. is concerned that this will impact food security across east africa. as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story.

china is stepping up efforts to contain a new corona virus outbreak but people abroad have already been affected so are these efforts enough or is the world witnessing the start of a global epidemic this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm. trying is reporting people with coronavirus outside the epicenter of the outbreak have now died this as health authorities fear around the world the infection rate could increase during what's usually china's busiest travel period of the year hundreds of millions of.