china's government takes control of the response to the corona virus his work begins on a 1000 bed hospital for victims and europe reports its 1st cases of the sickness. i'm richelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up. the search and rescue efforts are underway in eastern turkey after a powerful quake that killed at least 19 people. u.s. house democrats to clear the facts have been proven if they as they wrap up their opening arguments in the impeachment trial of the president on. the threat to food

security east africa is dealing with one of its worst locus impeaches which is being blamed on extreme weather conditions. a doctor working at a hospital in china has become the latest victim of an outbreak of corona virus brings the total number of those killed to 42 with close to 1300 other people infected cases of the illness have not been confirmed immolation appall australia and france or manley has more on the measures beijing is taking to try to contain the outbreak. it's an ambitious time scale workers have just days to flatten this land and construct a $1000.00 bed health center on this 25000 square meters site in $100.00 city it's part of china's urgent battle to control the spread of the krona virus videos

such as this one have gone viral on social media an unidentified female voice says 3 bodies covered with blankets have been lying in the packed corridors of a hospital in ruhani. as more cases are reported around the world it's still not clear how many people could be infected at 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. 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. for travelers coming back from china it's important to check oneself and come the 1st responder symptom or fever you should go to the emergency room or call a doctor in the. new year celebrations of 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. 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 controlled the disease i'm very afraid of getting infected now it's all in china and health experts around the globe to track and hoped the fast spreading infection. manly al-jazeera al-jazeera scott heide lawyer is at one of the events in beijing that has been canceled because of a virus. and there were a detail in park this is right in central beijing now this would be normally the 1st day of lunar new year this would normally be very crowded behind me actually there was a fair lunar new year's fair that was planned here and obviously that has been canceled now this is something we're seeing right across china movie theaters shot disinfecting of subway trains on an hourly basis here in the capital beijing we know in shanghai they've closed the movie theaters and festivities that would normally really be crowded this time of year this is a big big celebration here in china those have all been shut down obviously worried about some people that might be infected by this corona virus but have yet to show any symptoms also what we're hearing and will have on this is the epicenter the

city the epicenter where these 1st cases were discovered 450 military medical personnel have been sent down there to help deal with this crisis now something that was interesting just yesterday the government here has put the observation and the organization for this coronavirus epidemic into the cabin its hand the cabin of the government here that's something that kind of escalated the situation we also know that a special team has been created that's going to be led by a scientist who who tempi in the sars epidemic back in 2003 so obviously very seriously being taken here in china but right now as you can see it would normally be a very crowded park here in central beijing shut down. a powerful earthquake has struck eastern turkey killing at least 19 people buildings collapse near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake in ella's a province emergency crews are searching for dozens of people thought to be trapped in the rubble more than 500 people are reported injured and the epicenter was near

a town of about 4000 people the province is in a sparsely populated area about 700 kilometers east of the capital ankara. and this was the moment the earthquake struck this tremor as you can see is interrupting a live broadcast people ran outdoors for safety those with damaged homes are still afraid to return following a series of aftershocks hours they're cynical fellows 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 works are underway 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 cities around. have also felt the earthquake and there are there are damages in cities like muleteer for instance especially in patrol get the strict there are dozens of buildings that are damaged but we have to see the mourning for the details but i have to also underline that turkey is a moment the most suspect leap active countries in the world there are several fault lines crossing bypassing of the country and as 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. democrats have wrapped up their 3rd and final day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president ronald truong they accuse him of being the ringleader in efforts to push a crane to investigate political rival joe biden next white house lawyers will make their case beginning on saturday sure but hansei reports from washington so ordered senators adjourned on friday democratic party house managers concluded their opening arguments against donald trump over 3 sessions they meticulously presented their case the trump abuse the office of the president in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage against his democratic rival joe biden by attempting to blackmail the ukrainian president president tried to cheat he got caught

and then he worked hard to cover it up only his will goes he is a dictator this must not stand and that is why another reason he must be removed from office and that the president obstructed congress as it proved his alleged wrongdoing by withholding evidence and intimidating potential witnesses it's simple the president abuse the powers entrusted. 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 now it's up to the president's lawyers to make their case we're going to rebut and refute and we're going to put on an affirmative case tomorrow unlike the democrats the white house lawyers are not expected to use

all of their time they will be assured morning session on saturday but their arguments are expected to start in earnest on monday donald trump has made it clear that he wants his case made in weekday t.v. primetime and not during the weekend the white house will argue that it was in the national interest to ask the ukrainian president for an investigation into biden and his son and potential conflicts of interest why did hunter biden hold a lucrative position at an allegedly corrupt ukrainian energy company despite having no expertise in the area while his father was vice president why they opened up the door as wide as a double door on the. job. i guess they figured that was their way of getting ahead of it we will address it in addition they will argue that it is the democrats who are abusing their power as they seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and influence the next and violate the constitutionally mandated separation of powers between congress and the president

the sense here is that it's still very unlikely that any witnesses will be cool so the white house is still on track for an acquittal of the president before the state of the union address on february the 4th ever time 0 washington yes media say an audio recording from 2018 has emerged in which donald trump appears to demand the removal of washington's then ambassador to ukraine rave on a bitch was recalled last april that's almost a year after the recording was made in which a voice that sounds like trump says take her out if it's authentic it would support democrats' argument that trump's associates trying to because she was seen as an obstacle to investigating joe biden or now from she has how that audio could affect the trial. now we have this recording which is by left which is one of rudy giuliani the president's personal lawyer as associates and all that it's at a dinner party at the trump international hotel here in washington and you hear left palm as well 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're going to get rid of karen if. there's a surprise that we know translates. open about that and he says that he she was a very bad and of course the president 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. others in the giuliani circle are trying to manipulate the president say look this woman is going to get rid of her and then trump says ok let's just get rid of it so that's quite interesting. but. 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 or the beginning of the following week will be a question. still had on al jazeera and then after months of negotiations and takes one step closer. and we.

are still waiting for. but. once again welcome to the look at the international forecast we still got some rather disturbed weather into the middle east but not too much to speak of it has of course been some rain around jerusalem recently that's now pushing its way in sioux iraq cannot seeing across into parts of kuwait and also i western side of iran to the south of that we're going to see the winds picking up and that's something to watch out for here in cots. name get up to around 22 degrees is really as we go into sunday when. the windows freshen things up there will be some lifted dust and sad to watch out for temperatures no higher than 18 celsius at on the strength of the wind it will feel a lot colder than that surprised the self some rather chilly weather so dr

meanwhile across the whole of africa pushing down across the ethiopian highlands plenty of showers still in place across much of a staffer to southern areas of tents near some of the wet weather there as well for a time in kenya and more of the same as we go on through sunday northern parts of missouri and baker also seeing some of that rather wet weather and recently of course we've been looking at some very heavy bursts of rain across northern areas of madagascar for the showers in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days also got a few showers cosette eastern side of south africa making the way farther east. but. when a french soldier was murdered in a so-called terrorist attack. his mother retaliated with a loud. speaking out against intolerance and alienation.

she travels the world with the result of a grieving mother who lost a son but adopted a generation plenty for a witness documentary on al-jazeera. you are watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories now the death toll from an outbreak of grown a virus has jumped to 42 china says the number of confirmed cases has also increased to almost 1300 virus has now reached australia and a small france and malaysia. emergency crews in eastern turkey are searching for survivors of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that killed at least 19 people and injured 180 people

are afraid to return to their homes of all of the series of horrible no aftershock . just in the crowds have wrapped up 3 days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of the president on trial accused him of being the ringleader in efforts to push a crane into investigating his political rival joe biden. rocky security forces have stormed an anti-government sit in and burned protesters tents as they attempted to disperse demonstrators in the southern city of basra the protests broke out over frustration with the lack of government reforms $500.00 people have been killed in violence since october during demonstrations for jobs and into corruption and 2 protesters have been killed in an anti-government rally in iraq's capital baghdad police use live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators blocking a highway medical and police sources say one was shot and another hit by a tear gas canister. sudan has signed

a peace agreement with an armed group that's been fighting the government for 8 years the deal with the sudanese people's liberation movement is part of a larger regional peace plan the government is spent amending self role in the blue nile and south kordofan region which borders south sudan and the 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 the 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 as p.l.m. 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 is 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. agreement. i'm in agreement. so that. you come to a daemon with some group 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 and

al-jazeera. president says more military personnel are being sent to libya to train soldiers for the un recognized government. made comments during a news conference with german chancellor angela merkel turkey is supporting the tripoli based government and its months long battle with the warlord khalifa are as forces are trying to take the capital from the government led by the prime minister . we are giving support to the legitimate government in libya in order to reignite the political process and giving support to the government in a national court in line with the result of the year when it is not a choice but a liability. after his 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 ha time 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 to turkey for hosting a lot of refugees. or does have been held and marking $100.00 days sense anti-government demonstrations began the rally started in october over an increase in subway fare is but quickly transformed into widespread anger over the struggling economy and equality at least $26.00 people have been killed in violence during those protests olivia's interim president says she'll run in the upcoming election despite initially suggesting she would not need on you as announced her candidacy at an event in the city of la paz saying she hopes to unite the fragmented country the vote in may will serve as a rerun of october's disputed election that saw former leader if a morale is reelected that weeks of violent protests forced him to resign and flee the country on yaz took power as interim president and november bolivia has cut

diplomatic ties with cuba over a dispute over its medical program while his government says the suspension is to what it called constant hostility from cuba and comments against president cheney on yes she previously cancelled the medical services program between the 2 nations after she accused the cuban government of keeping 80 percent of payments. rangle muslims are welcoming a unanimous ruling from the highest court and has ordered me and mark to take emergency measures to prevent acts of genocide against the muslim minority but there's another community that has suffered decades of violence kareen all strapper reports. this camp in southeast myanmar is surrounded by dense jungle the thai border is closed by the people who live here from myanmar's current actually minority. groups from their communities started fighting for greater political economic and cultural rights in 1949 and many flip their homes.

j k was 5 years old when that conflicts started 70 years on she doubts she'll ever see peace her nephew was killed during what she says was a myanmar army offensive against karen fighters in a village that she tried to resettle in in 2018 and. i think the fighting will continue it's never stopped i have had to run away from the conflict all my life if there was no more conflict life would be better i wouldn't need to run anymore. an estimated 162000 internally displaced karren are living in camps in villages across southeast myanmar that's according to the internal displacement monitoring center an organization working with the united nations and international aid organizations across the border in thailand around 100000 karen are in refugee camps. but humanitarian organizations say money from international

donors that the care and depend on is being read directed to help the hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees who fled a myanmar government crackdown in 2017. close by a small post is manned by me and was army. but inside the camp karen fighters on patrol. the karen national liberation army continue to fight for greater self-determination for their more noisy. in the camps community center people gather to sing songs about the current struggle. mother of 2 nor hay has been living here for 13 years. we received a little bit of support from the donors but that was 6 months ago they came to give us rice bags they come here just once in a while to help us now. can lead

a source ok says when aid began to dry up in 2017 many people had little choice but to go back to their villages to try and restart their lives. but renewed fighting has forced them to return to the camp. some people went back to their home town they started work on the plantation or farm land when the me and my soldiers come too close to the current territory community then the shooting starts. the myanmar government says the carron are free to return to their villages. but with no political solution to the decades long conflict in sight karen like j.k. i are too scared to leave despite being creasing hardship they face. al-jazeera. the un has called for international help as locust swarm in the billions across kenya somalia and ethiopia kenya is facing its largest and asian and 7 decades the insects have a steroid thousands of kilometers of crops and u.s.

concern that this will empath insecurity in east africa its lengthy invasion to unseasonal rains last month that caused the local population to. comic honest director at the united nations food and agriculture organizations emergency and resilience division he spoke to us from the kenyan capital nairobi where he is responding to the local situation i mean locusts worms are spreading throughout africa as a matter of fact there has been a cycle on december 7th one by one that is brought very humid conditions to eastern africa creating very fertile conditions for the locusts to drop so no we have seen the development of locals there already in fact on some crops and especially on the range and bust your out of are so essential for the possibilities is that this you know are many in the region but not the problem is that these locust are getting

much worse or that they are there and they are yes facts only hopes that would be very soon and that's really where the new generation of through august which this time will come the time for the planting of the next year in the region the quilt from around march if so it means that at that time we run the risk of 3 being the crop at risk and therefore with a situation where 11900000 people who were already susu really couldn't secure in. which he their security situation further the. a year after brazil's worst ever industrial disaster families of those killed are still waiting for justice $270.00 people died when a dam collapsed sending a tide of toxic waste that part of the city from india know and travel there and sent us this report. a security camera captured what happened

exactly one year ago the collapse of the dam unleashed a torrent of toxic mud and debris which killed $270.00 people and left entire community forever scarred. volunteer rescuers such as clean up the sea searching for survivors was like being in a war zone at the reach of the corpse we found between $20.30 bodies in this area alone the helicopter was constantly going up and down taking body parts because there were only a few bodies found intact i phone only one body intact when we found the most was body parts and dead animals. for those who survived recalling the events of that day brings back traumatic memories. of the mio fit data used to work for the dams owner of brazilian mining company valley of the my sister and sister in law both died in the disaster he places the blame entirely on the mining company that washed

him into just. the ditch that it does not even have a verdict of this pipe and it was sponsibility of this scale the green and call it is because what happened here was premeditated i say this to you looking into eyes of being at all. earlier this week prosecutors in minas gerais dies charged 16 individuals with murder including valleys chief executive 5 your shorts and athletes. our investigation found that valley knew about structural inefficiencies within the dynamics far back as 2017 but did nothing to address the problems we hope the charges lead to prison time for those for sponsible. prosecutors say that not only did volley know that he catastrophic collapse was possible employees of another company to have sued of germany had previously inspected the dam saying it was stable and knowingly helped a volley hide the truth about the risks valley did not agree to al-jazeera as

request for an interview but the company did provide a statement calling the legal charges quote premature adding that valley is committed to aiding authorities with the ongoing investigation. 11 bodies were never recovered and the city of broome of the new continues to face other challenges such as an environmental disaster that hasn't fully finished playing out . muslims about the un's as eda. i'm richelle carey and these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera the death toll from an outbreak of corona virus has jumped to 42 china says the number of confirmed cases has also increased to almost 1300 a virus has now reached australia nepal france and malaysia scott heiler has more from beijing on the chinese government's response. 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've put someone who is an expert during the sars crisis here some 17 years ago he is leading the the teams that will operates across the country to deal with the corona virus an earthquake in eastern turkey has killed at least 20 people a magnitude 6.8 quake hit alice a province emergency crews are searching for dozens of people trapped in the rubble more than 500 people have been injured or his president says more military personnel are being sent to libya or to type word one made the announcement after talks with german chancellor angela merkel and istanbul. yes democrats have wrapped up 3 days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president onil trump they cuse him of being the ringleader in efforts to push the crane into investigating its political rival joe biden trump's defense team will begin laying

out its case on saturday iraqi security forces have stormed an anti-government protest and basra protest broke out over frustration with the lack of government reforms only 500 people have been killed in the violence since october during demonstrations for jobs and into corruption libya's interim presidential seal says she will run in the upcoming election the vote and may will serve as a rerun of october is disputed election that saw former leader able morale is reelected but weeks of violent protests forced him to resign. and the u.n. is calling for international help to deal with the record swarm of locusts in east africa kenya is facing its largest innovation in 7 decades somalia and ethiopia have also been affected keep it here up next on al jazeera life apps. one day i might be covering politics. what's most important to

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