al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm kevin l. 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 coronavirus as work begins on a 1000 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. donald trump breaks precedent and 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 invasions which is being blamed on extreme weather conditions. the death toll from the break of corona virus in china has risen to 41 as new cases a confirmed in other parts of the world chinese authorities say the number of infected people is now close to 1300 likes on friday health officials in france reported 3 cases of the virus making them the 1st in europe the virus which is now being reported in nepal and australia is overshadowing festivities for the new new . where china has scaled down many of events and major landmarks like beijing's

forbidden city and parts of the great wall have been closed and the outbreak of the story the impact of the outbreak is spreading russia has advised its citizens not to visit china until the situation improves laura burdon manly has more now on the measures beijing is taking to try and contain the outbreak it's now business time scale workers have just days to flatten this land and construct a 1000 bed health center on this 25000 square meter site in 100 city it's part of china's battle to control the spread of the croon a virus videos such as this one have gone viral on social media an unidentified fever voice says 3 parties covered with blankets have been lying in the packed corridors of a hospital in rouhani. as more cases are reported around the world it's still

not clear how many people could be infected 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 and markets are empty in one hand where the 1st outbreak emerged and all public transport has been shut down cases the corona virus and now confirmed in nearly every province of china. health officials in france have reported cases of the virus it makes them the 1st confirmed in europe this is i wanted to communicate about the fact that the patient who was hospitalized in bordeaux and talked about on social networks is indeed a confirmed case of the corona virus it could only wish for travelers coming back from china it's important to check oneself and come the 1st risperidone symptom or

fever you should go to the emergency room or call a doctor and live here new year's celebrations are being canceled in cities across china including the capital beijing shanghai disneyland parts of china's great wall will be closed but millions of people have been traveling both in china and brought ahead of the new year's celebrations increasing the risk that the virus may spread further judging 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 and control the disease i'm very afraid of getting infected now it's on china and health experts around the globe to track and hoped the fast spreading infection. manly al-jazeera. ok let's bring an al-jazeera scott heide leahy's that one of the

events in beijing that's been canceled because of the virus just tell us what's going on there. park now this is in central beijing and behind me it should be a festival going on but that has not gone on today as planned obviously because of the coronavirus all of it's really most events for these new years holidays lunar new year which would be over the next week or so today being one of the 1st big celebrations it's really not happening at least on the streets or in the parks or in the museums most everything has been shut down here in beijing but all across china as well know one thing that we've just gotten word in just the last hour or so we've found out that in move on the epicenter of this coronavirus one doctor has died so right now it appears that the death figure has gone up to $42.00 we just got that word in just the last hour and scott a centralized medical observation is being announced for people coming from who by

a province i believe terrorists what more can you tell us about that. yeah there is a province down in the south that doesn't border who bay it's actually an island province they have said that they're going to centralize the observation medical observation of anybody who's come in from so that is really a step further so not only are people who exhibit symptoms being pulled aside and observed even just people who went to rwanda are being observed in this province down in the south now we don't we haven't heard that happening anywhere else in china but obviously the the state of alert has been heightened you know one thing to to look at to just how seriously the government here is taking this the cabinet now is in control of the way that this nation deals with this coronavirus it was elevated to that level yesterday and one thing that they've also done is they put someone who is an expert during the sars crisis here some 17 years ago he is leading the the teams that will operate across the country to deal with the

coronavirus thanks that that sound is there in scotland hatrick peregrine is an international economist stat to add 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 of the time of crisis like this or i would think about this on the way in the same thing i mean how does a city cope with a lockdown and all its food supplies the normal day to date just ticks that we just take for granted or is that going to have to be controlled by the government will there be rationing when you want 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 about full earthquake has struck eastern turkey killing at least 18 people buildings collapse near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake in their province urgency crews are searching for people thought to be trapped in the rubble more than $500.00 people are reported and it. and this was the moment the earthquake struck the trevor interrupting this live broadcast many people ran outdoors for safety always with damaged homes are still

afraid to return after a series of aftershocks in the region are just there a sit in course year old who 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 mater for instance especially in patrol get the strict there are dozens of buildings that are damaged but we have to see the morning 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 fault lines crossing bypassing of the country and ella's the city where the 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. plenty more ahead on the news on including tens of

thousands march in iraq with a message for their government and the u.s. . as bushfires continue to burn in australia as scientists reveal the impact the places are having on the earth's atmosphere. and putting around for gemini but will it be enough to reach japan for the story of an unusual journey to tokyo and fix. us democrats have wrapped up the 3rd and final day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president donald trump accused him of being the ringleader in efforts to push ukraine to investigate political rival joe biden this hour sign democrats are convincing moderate republicans to break with their party and allow new evidence into the proceedings. this is very simple it's simple the president abuse the powers entrusted in. by the

american people in a skiing to suppress evidence. accountability and orchestrate a massive cover up. and he did so in plain sight and his obstruction remains ongoing let's go live now to she had her town say he was on capitol hill she had i can see that senate has adjourned now for the day that's the democrats don what happens next. well of 15 tomorrow and saturday we convene again tory washington time for the for the rebuttal the the opening statements from from the white house now the democrats clearly have their strategy which is to document all the evidence that they have collated through the house of choir is on the as it is

a merge since them to bolster their case that's donald trump abused and obstructed congress we're going to see a very different strategy from the white house lawyers in fact even though they have every right to use and as many hours as they want on saturday we've already been told they going to use maybe up to 3 hours in an early morning session which isn't even going to be their main case it's going to be like a preview of coming attractions one of trump's lawyers said of what they will be saying next week because. their audience isn't the sentences in the chamber whom they pretty confident that they have wrapped up they're not going to get $67.00 senators to vote against against that case it's the it's the american public and donald trump with the t.v. ratings knows that no one's really going to be watching on saturday he's called it the death valley of ratings and so they in earnest are going to begin their case on monday and it's likely to be far more pointed far more concise perhaps far more quotable the democrats rather. verbose you know

long perforations about you know justice american exceptionalism we were just hearing just then and i met with that evidence is going to something very difficult very different very pointed going off to the bidens going off to congress for what the white house says is that their abuse of power and going off to the rights of the president on the separation of powers which they say that the congress is trying to it's trying to a no she can't talk to me about this recording that has now come out so which apparently has donald trump telling his associates in very trump language to get rid of then ambassador to ukraine marie you know that how could that impact things here. it's not going to impact anything it's going to i think the democrats are going to try and you know this is another part of their argument that look when the vote comes up in the debate comes up next week about having more documents and witnesses this is another bit of evidence that more witnesses more documents should

be should become introduced should be introduced into this trial because it's out there and the constant cry from republicans is you only have secondhand witnesses you only have people who were actually to serve her and now we have this recording which is by left which is one of rudy giuliani the president's personal lawyer so suits and all that it's not a village party at the trump international hotel here in washington and you hear live panos all voices on the tape saying to trump you're out of it she's standing in the way of things she's bad mouth in you and then you had donald trump say you know we got to get rid of her get rid of her there's no surprise that we know trump hates you fond of it she's open about that and he says that he she was a very bad ambassador and of course the president's allowed to get rid of ambassadors that they serve at the pleasure of the president it is interesting in a way though because you do get more granular detail because you can hear how. and perhaps others in that giuliani circle are trying to manipulate the president saying look this woman is going to get rid of her and then trump says ok let's just get rid of her so that's quite interesting but beyond. more of

a case for the democrats to say look there's a lot of stuff out there which we should be subpoenaing please allow us to do that there's no evidence that that's going to happen it still looks like by the end of next week of the beginning of the following week that will trump will be acquitted also interesting is that trump's is he barely knew. that they actually have a town today on capitol hill thank you. well alan the baron joins us now live from washington d.c. he's a former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives thank you again for your time mr baron or the same question to you about this recording that she had was saying it caps is trump telling those around him that he wanted ambassador event of it gone does that increase the pressure on sanest and new witnesses and documents does it make any sort of difference here no i think it falls into the category of so what else is new i don't think will have any impact whatsoever you said earlier that you think that the democrats have done

a really good job laying out the democrat position in their opening arguments do you think american voters are engaged in this trial that they've been watching that they're interested i get the feeling that they are up to a point i mean they're not riveted it's not like the 7th game of the world series when you have a huge audience or the super bowl but i think from considering it's politics and. not the kind of thing that normally calls draws a big crowd i think a lot of people are interested. it's think should be i think as far as the presentations that have been put on by the democrats and i'm fraid it's one of those situations where they will have all the good songs but the republicans will win the war vote i don't see anything indicating that they're going to get more witnesses than the the ones that the democrats have presented and i don't think any republican voters when it comes to it are going to shift to go against the

president the senate has just a day and the sand of day 3 of the democrat opening arguments what stood out for you if anything from today. well schiff has emerged on the national scene as absolutely brilliant and eloquent spokesperson own behalf of the democrats and their case i work with congressman schiff 10 years ago on 2 judicial impeachments and he was impressive then and. he's gotten he's gotten better with age so that it was a real just an emerging star i think that the democrats did a very good job i mean it got somewhat repetitive but i thought overall they did a very good job on presenting the facts and if you are locked in to saying well though when the facts don't matter we don't like the process and we don't we want

to talk about joe biden and hunter biden you know none of that where it really counts for these proceedings is going to make any difference however the question is are the american people going to the great number of american people who are not utterly committed to one side or the other the great group in between are they going to be affected by this if they are then the democrats have a have done a very good job of enhancing their prospects for the election in 2020 in november time will tell november will tell thank you for that that sal and baron there from a special impeachment council to the house of representatives thank you. 2 protesters have been killed at an anti-government rally in iraq's capital baghdad police used to live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators blocking a highway medical and police sources say one was shot on the 2nd head by a tear gas canister. demonstrations in

a series that began in october against government corruption and 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 father for the closure of u.s. military bases he's also demanding that u.s. warplanes be banned from iraqi air space iran khan was at the demonstrations by. 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 goodbye to his beloved 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 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 the telethon of. the protests was joined by people from all over southern iraq. our goal is to expel old occupiers we are standing for iraq against any intervention we want dignity and we want 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 are the sons of this protest movement is this for the poorest goes. was a 1000000 now regardless of whether a 1000000 people here will know what. has brought us to send his message that he

wants the u.s. troops out of iraq and he's got this kind of support behind him growing call it out is there a baghdad. the pentagon says $34.00 u.s. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries off the iranian missile strikes on a base in iraq earlier this month half the soldiers are still being treated in germany and the united states the other 17 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. assassination of top iranian command sort of money. protests have been held in chile marking $100.00 days since anti-government demonstrations began rallying started in october over an increase in subway fizz the quickly transformed into widespread anger over the struggling economy and inequality at least 26 people have died since then. weather experts in britain the sounding the alarm about the global

effect of bushfires in a stray lia the u.k.'s national service with this is forecasting one of the largest annual increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels since records began more than 60 years ago scientists say the vast scale of the bushfires is accel aeration the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere c o 2 levels are already well past the $400.00 parts per 1000000 limit seen by climate scientists as the point of no return which 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 clones. 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 increased the city wants by 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 we're a real way of stopping the rise is to stop burning fossil fuels this acceleration of the sea to rise this year won't have any immediate effects but what it does show is that the there's potential for feedbacks in the system vicious cycles if you like we rely on natural ecosystems to soak up some of our c 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. 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 that's linked to the invitation to unseasonal rains last month that caused the locust population to . dominate both john 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 severus a clone but one that is brought 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

regions but not the problems that the slopes are sarkozy matcher saw that there are actually there are yes eggs on them they take that would be very soon and that will lead to a new generation of locusts which this time will come at a 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 the 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 was submerged in a road was cut off in the province of grona after a storm gloria brought days of heavy rain a storm has lasted for almost

a week coming by heavy when the snowfall and hail weather forecasters say the worst has passed their fares it could be further death after reports people have gone missing and ne in catalonia and the bel-air wreck islands. still ahead on al-jazeera the road to peace after months of negotiations 2 done takes it one step closer to unity. and so on a day of upsets in melbourne roger federer survived a scare at the australian open hall has the action. but. 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 right he's 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 fos out of japan so key issue maybe southern areas of honshu we'll see some rather wet weather as we go on through the next couple of days 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 said he sings in very heavy rain southern possum azza also very disturbed and the wet weather extending now across a good part of indonesia java said he sings in 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 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 fault problems temperatures still suppressed the delhi now higher than around 20 degrees celsius so similar pictures to go on through sunday which

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programs to inspire you. on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the death toll from an outbreak of crowd of virus has jumped to 42 china says the number of confirmed cases has increased to almost 1300 the illness has also reached a strayer nepal france. emergency crews in eastern turkey is searching for survivors of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds many

people are afraid to return to their homes following a series of powerful aftershocks. us democrats have wrapped up 3 days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president donald trump they accused him of being the ringleader in efforts to push a crane into investigating political rival joe biden. took his president says more military personnel are being sent to libya to train troops for the u.n. recognized government ridgetop heard one made the comments during a news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel turkey is supporting the tripoli based government its months long battle with warlord who are his forces are trying to take the capital from the government led by prime minister fires also rouse the clergy. we are giving support to the legitimate government in libya in order to reignite the political process and giving support to the government international courts 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. it's him. shortened for both parties in libya to reach a compromise and we hope the 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. in istanbul he says both leaders underscore the importance of the truce. both leaders emphasize the immediate need to ensure the fragile cease fire in libya continues and that all breaches that are being. witnessed are stopped there was a synergy between the messaging coming from president roger tehran and that of chancellor angela merkel where they both said that's how star that is the warlords

refused to sign the cease fire agreement in moscow and the berlin agreements and all vulnerable said that have to have verb really agreed to them both without a signature that's meant nothing and they couldn't trust simply his word president earlier on went 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 has 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 with regards to syria there was a lot of emphasis there for the need to do more to protect the civilians and it led

to one mentioning that over 4 and a half 1000000 civilians are under threat from bombardment from the original 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. had prevented that from happening and he said that it was high time that they changed their mind the much he worked with partners with the turks in order to establish that same song finally there was some talk about relations between turkey and the european union and a new to kick start those increase discussions once again albeit with little

optimism being expressed by the talk of presidents. thousands of anti-abortion supporters have attended 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 our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. down . breaking with tradition again together we boast 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 were doing. the march started in response to the landmark 973 supreme court ruling legalizing abortion a divisive issue in the united states troops 2016 promised to appoint supreme court

judges who might overturn that ruling help them 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 the meeting 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. limbaugh or such 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 up for conservative fans 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 your guys this rally earlier this month in miami to energize evangelicals after an article in a 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 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 to really help get al jazeera the white house. is the director of health care and reform and senior fellow at the century foundation a progressive nonpartisan think tank she joins us now live on skype from washington d.c. thanks so much for your time jimmy what do you make of trump's attendance. well clearly it was a political move to be there today you know it's no secret that we're in an election year and so i think president shrum. wanted to make a clear signal to the conservative base where he stands on the issue of abortion i think we're at a time in this country where you know the right to choose has been elevated in the

context of these elections and a lot of that has to do with the strength and the power of women that are politically engaged and in fact women will be the ones that will decide this election so i talk a little bit more about that do you think the abortionists issue reproductive rights has this become more of a pot is ition pot is an issue of a time or has always been this way i think it's part of sin in the context of elections and we have these election cycles but one thing that we need to be clear about is the fact that 55 percent of americans consider themselves pro-choice and they want abortion to remain legal that's the majority of americans in this country and so where we get into these political battles about partisanship and abortion you know identifying as pro-life versus pro-choice i think we need to keep brennan center in these conversations the fact that most americans agree that

abortion should remain faithful and these watches the house who to mock rosa swayed what is what is why this led me to use. well reverses weighed was such an important decision and the fact that it made abortion legal in this country. but i have to ground that conversation as well and the fact that even though abortion is legal there are still women in this country that have challenges in accessing abortion whether it's because they are on public sources of health insurance like medicare that do not allow coverage of abortion through their insurance or even some private sources of insurance they are also packets of this country that you know where it's really hard to access and abortion namely the south. so where we should be celebrating roe versus wade and the fact that abortion is legal in this country we also have to keep in mind the fact that it's still real

for so many and that's women in this country most of those women are women of color low income women and indigenous women and so we have to keep perspective on the issue just to bring it back to. what to try going to this to this much and kimberly space they she said this evangelical magazine denigrated trump and that he felt like he was on the file which is why he went to this to this event in the 1st place what's your take on it. why do you think. you know folks are starting to realize that you can't sort of crane your sorrow with a moral authority even in the context of considering a star. and looking at the decisions that this president has made you know his immigration policies keeping children in cages you know we also saw this week that he issued new guidance essentially trying to keep pregnant women from entering the

country and so his policies continue to show that he lacks morality when it comes to the very health and the essence of people in this country so as i mentioned earlier deciding to be at this march to be present there was really due to politics and the fact that we are in an election year and he's trying to rein in some of those folks that are looking at these issues there are more and thank you for that that's to mail a tale of the director of health care reform at the century foundation thank you for having me thousands of protesters in algeria have rallied in the capital calling for political change in the release of detained activists is the 49th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations that forced former president flicka to step down an april. table in there was elected last month to replace the veteran later the protesters say that is not enough they're calling for political

and military leaders to step down and they've rejected office of a dialogue. so don has signed a peace agreement with an armed group that's been fighting the government is the deal with a certain nice people's liberation movement as part of a larger regional peace plan the group has been demanding self rule in the blue nile and south kordofan regions which order south sudan even more 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 events of incident and spear lamb 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 saddam his 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. the. final agreement. 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 people morgan al-jazeera. we're going to go into a break said the presidents of the european council and commission have formally saw into the with a droll agreement then ursula they lay in the put this thing which is to the document in brussels it was like signed by u.k. prime minister boss 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. one of the architects of the northern ireland peace process has died at the age of $83.00 seamus mellon was a former deputy 1st minister and a nationalist who wanted irish unity but he was a critic of republican violence he was involved in the civil rights movement in northern ireland in the 960 s. . taking greece a bracing for a stand off in the eastern mediterranean owner of

a controversial new turkish plans to drill for gas in cypriot waters it comes as regional industry leaders are discussing energy plans at a conference in athens. says more from the greek capital. more tension in the eastern mediterranean as cyprus accuses turkey of using stolen data to position a drilling ship similar to this one precisely on top of the potential gas field in its waters greece 2 is bracing for the potential appearance of turkish exploration vessels in waters east of crete and it's threatening to sink them yes. you could have joined egypt israel greece and cyprus in the east made gas for him to develop gas fields but has chosen instead to be a happy transgressor of international law so the east med gas forum countries are planning to build a 2000 kilometer pipeline to sell gas to europe turkey has reacted by drilling in cypriot waters without cyprus permission and threatening to do the same in greek

waters last year turkey and libya marked out a corridor of territorial water claimed by greece raising tensions further can turkey sustain such an ambitious foreign policy that is at the same time adventurous has opportunistic. dangerous and not fully. in supported or not at all actually supported by most of the great powers i think that this will lot and very well that's my prediction for the future if you go by the book by then i think if it's not off the book that pipeline passes a turkish money time zone and they could sit down and. we have a pool full of i don't know 200 miles or 100 miles across is this like turkey is already a major transit line wise off for many pipelines. also

a major transit point for if it is built the pipeline will carry about 2 percent of the gas in europe consumes and might manage 4 percent it isn't a game changer europe will still rely on russia for about 40 percent of its gas but it would be a political statement that europe wants pipelines built by europeans that cross european territory marking out territory though is the problem turkey has not signed the international law of the sea and claims areas of the mediterranean that greece and cyprus also claim under that law europe denounces the turkish view as illegal but that doesn't seem to be deterring turkey and tension is set to rise further jumpstart ople us al jazeera athens. but libya has cut diplomatic ties with cuba after a dispute over its medical program the government says the move is due to what it called constant hostility from cuba and comments against interim president cheney

she had previously canceled a medical services program between the 2 nations after accusing the cuban government of profiting off the program on its took power in november after the former president evo morales resigned following weeks of protests. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport the world rally champion gets off to a bad start with his new team paul will have more. on counting the cost a nation representing point 3 percent of the world's population but 5 percent of carbon emissions and australia gives up its addiction to call it promises to go carbon neutral by the year 2050 plus we're looking at 11 and how long before it does turn to the other man counting the cost of on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the us his role in the world on

al-jazeera. al-jazeera words tells the story of thousands about unions forced by colombian affronts to adopt obscene family names. words this is so offensive that some contraband to say that the meet. the burden of ridicule that has been passed down through generations. the shame of my name. on al-jazeera. the all the world. it's time for sports has paul. thank you very much tennis fans at the australian

open what a state remarkable day on friday with defending champion. and 7 time want to serina williams boast knocked out in the 3rd round while roger federer survived a huge scare at the hands of a home favorite so hell 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 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. she downed a sock in straight sets to become the youngest player to beat a top 5 opponent since 991 i 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. the 23 time grand slam champion was beaten in 3 sets by china's wang came serena is now without a grand slam trial since 2017 you know it's not even about the slams about just me playing tennis and i didn't do that today and that is more disappointing so it's not even about the win or is just more about i'm better i'm better than that. it was also an emotional day for another form australian open champion caroline wozniacki the dane went down to 2 newsies. green to an end her professional career the former world number one and then sing 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. was.

there was far less drama for one of federales main rivals novak djokovic the reigning champion had no problems brushing aside japan's joshie toe in 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 roy paolo 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 gonzalez died competing in his 13th dakar rally in football the 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 involving the tournament's 2 iranian teams at 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 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 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 her status to represent the country still has to be cleared and there's a lot more learned people are going to know more than a given piece is a great challenge for every advocate 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 2020 for the return of cricket nations to pakistan is continuing with bangladesh the latest tour the country after the end of more than a decade of security restrictions it was a host see on the 1st t 20 much against the tigers in lahore on friday this is the same city where these for lanka team bus was attacked by gunmen back in 2008 recalled 37 year old show up moloch 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 the my way people have called me easy believe me there is nothing easy about today. well temeraire always said once a giant always a giant. for me it's only a giant weld rally champion 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. varying into a ditch in the icy conditions putting his car into a barrel roll his co-driver work on homes but it did put a dent in their performance or the sport for now we'll have more like that sport and that's it for me for this news hour shell kerry is here next to stay with

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on al-jazeera. china's government takes control of the response to the coronavirus has worked against saddam 1000 bed hospital for victims and europe reports its 1st case of the disease. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up search and rescue efforts are underway in eastern turkey after a powerful quake that killed at least 1000 people. u.s. house democrats to clear the facts have been proven if they are out as they wrap up their opening arguments in the impeachment trial against president onil trump. and

a threat to food security east africa's dealing with one of its worst locust invasions which is being blamed on extreme.