a new year long down in china fear of the coronavirus colorful celebrations replaced by empty streets. i'm sad to say this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. at least 20 people die is a powerful earthquake strikes eastern turkey we'll have an update from the rescue organizers. on the death of a young man highlights the conditions of migrants held in detention camps in libya plus. i am really proud to stand with you i.

become the 1st u.s. president to attend an annual antiabortion march on washington d.c. . we'll begin with the growing corona virus outbreak that's casting a shadow over the chinese new year celebrations doctor treating patients in china has become the latest victim of the virus he died in a province where the virus 1st surfaced last month. doctor's death brings the total number of those killed to 42 with close to 1300 others infected in china malaysia is the latest country to report the virus infections of also reached europe with 3 patients confirmed in france in an effort to contain that spread the chinese government has expanded its travel restrictions they now affect more than 40000000

people scott hylas in beijing he explains the latest steps being taken by china to stop the spreading of the virus. and there were a detail in part 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 that's the big big celebration here in china those have all been shut down obviously worried about some people that might be infected by this corner virus but have yet to show any symptoms there's one problems down in the south closed it's an island problem close to where the epicenter is but not bordering it they are taking the protective measure of putting

anyone aside who's been that who will han in observation medical observation for 15 days that's a step we haven't seen in other provinces 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. adrian brown is live for us now from hong kong and we're seeing adrian more deaths all countries being

impacted is this virus spreading. yes it is spreading we now have it in a handful of other countries bill asia being one of the latest countries to report the outbreak but of course japan has also been reporting another case we have this virus also in thailand korea so yes slowly it is spreading and of course the real concern as i was mentioning i think a day or 2 ago is what happens if this were to spread to a developing country like me and i was in me in march actually over the christmas holidays and there were thousands of chinese tourists there at the time and of course there are direct flights from china to me in march so the worry for the world health organization would be what would happen if we were to get an outbreak in one of those developing countries here in hong kong the mood very much like it is in the mainland very flat very subdued there is a dark irony of it in all of this of course because we are marking the year of the

rat which of course is a creature synonymous with you know plague and pestilence but that is sort of dark humor that people are here aren't really sort of dwelling on everyone is wearing face masks wherever you look that wasn't the case of a few days ago and we've also been hearing today from one of the leading microbiologists in hong kong who is urging the government to basically instruct everyone to wear face masks when they go out in public he's also saying that he wants to see the government extend the current lunar new year holidays for students and pupils till february the 10th and he's also been talking more about the virus he says it has an attack rate of 83 percent now the reason why his words matter is that he played a very very prominent role in the efforts to contain the sars virus 17 years ago i was also talking. on today to dr joseph chang a very prominent political commentator who has studied politics in china for many

many years and he said that actually this crisis is going to pose a severe challenge for president xi jinping because his leadership is already facing a very testing time at the moment the elections in taiwan didn't go his way the protests in hong kong are not over the situation in chin john with thousands of ethnic muslim wiggers of being held in castrated him in so-called labor camps or trying to call them vocational training centers that continues to draw international condemnation and of course he was forced to make a number of concessions in the trade negotiations with the united states now he has to convince an increasingly number of skeptical people in china that he can contain this fire us. all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much adrian brown laura birdman lee has more 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 meters site in 100 city it's part of china's urgent battle to control the spread of the crooner virus videos such as this one have gone viral on social media an unidentified female voice says 3 parties covered with blankets have been lying in the packed car doors of the hospital in her heart. 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 that 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. poorly with 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 and hear 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 can't back up 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 on china and health experts around the globe to track and hoped the fast spreading infection . manly al-jazeera. well search and rescue efforts are underway in turkey after a powerful earthquake struck in the east late on friday at least 21 people have been killed and more than 1000 are injured buildings collapse near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 tremor and allows it province emergency crews are searching for people feared trapped in the rubble of the epicenter was in a town of about 4000 people in the sparsely populated province of a lousy that's about 700 kilometers east of the capital ankara.

thank you. this was the moment the earthquake struck interrupting live broadcasts many people ran outdoors for safety those with damaged homes are still afraid to return well it does the mirror is the u.n. coordinator for the acute search and rescue association he praised the quick response to the earthquake by emergency services. the biggest challenge here is the temperature conditions as it is over night with the chill filth that chill factor it gets to about minus 10 or more degrees celsius and people who are trapped in the rubbles or fire facing quite low temperatures other than that most buildings in the area are made of concrete and mud brick the mud brick buildings obviously collapse much sooner and. the likelihood of reaching lives victims or reaching confirmed

live victims under a mud brick buildings is is a little bit lower than that of concrete buildings which will tend to collapse added some voids with where through which the victims can breathe through so the building structures and the temperature low temperatures are the 2 biggest challenges faced by all the teams on the ground 2 provinces were hit by the earthquake and as a mulatto both have fully functional airports i believe both going to have host wide body aircraft so that deployment of search and rescue efforts were not a problem mobile communications were up or running if not the they were not even the destructor for a little bit as far as i recall and so for a earthquake scenario their response and the coordination in communication has been pretty much text but in this case. well still ahead on al-jazeera a dispute over drilling rights in the eastern mediterranean is heating up have the details. of final day of arguments by the prosecution of been heard in trump's impeachment trial bring you the highlights.

have of the winter weather in europe remains as it has been for a long time all the frontal system straight to long in the north stormy systems in the south in particular in spain and portugal that amount of rain in malaga which is now of course southwestern spain is more than you might expect on average january 2nd a month's worth in 24 hours the worse the weather has been on the eastern side of spain has gone that is cleanup operation for that participate in southern france these blue dots here are the showers from it it was once called gloria it's now in italy and will produce increasingly heavy showers on the adriatic coast say for albania montenegro and treasure the next couple of days where the most of europe is just quiet sometimes cloudy disappointingly great but not especially cold

temperatures this time the it should be subzero for example in moscow and then not and we go forward also for example in the next belt of rain right against through the british isles to western france that's frontal stuff is don't slow moving stuff which is still seen all mccoist of argyria morocco with a streak of cloud coming up here into libya those 2 get together i think maybe not such a day but on sunday we'll see showers scattered serve out doors now geria and into libya but leaving rabbet in the sunshine that 15 degrees. the. big stories generated thousands of headlines maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives thing has never really been believed the pray muddying the water even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the judge was on the set

was clear and sounds to me and here distinctly with the listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now well asia has become the latest country to report cases of the coronavirus the outbreak has also reached europe french health ministry says 3 infected people are being closely monitored. a doctor treating patients in china as a province is died from the corona virus and the death toll is now climbed 42 since the outbreak began last month. search and rescue efforts are underway in turkey

after a powerful earthquake struck in the east late on friday the magnitude 6.8 tremor killed at least 21 people injured 1000. the death of an eritrean teenager in a tripoli detention camp this week has highlighted the plies of more than 40000 africans living in makeshift centers in libya most have been detained while attempting to cross into europe aid agencies say conditions are appalling tony berthing visited one detention center in the libyan capital. driven by poverty or pushed by fear and persecution either way most migrants escaping their homeland mostly in sub-saharan africa and up here on the coast of north africa libya can be the start of a bright new life for the beginning of a nightmare in the capital tripoli thousands wait each day for the chance of manual

work the money they earn is used on a mediterranean crossing to europe sent back to their families all to buy food they come with a dream but the reality of life here is far from a dalit and doesn't i came here to make money and it's better than staying in your own country because here your mind is more free but now there isn't work like before you sometimes don't even have enough to eat. they won't openly say they want to go to europe that would provoke arrest but most not all want to joshua made that crossing in spent 6 years in europe before being deported from austria last year his dream was to become a rap artist but he found only hardship and difficulty in europe i can midmorning evil better than the people living abroad so i decided to work my morning and my computer and go back to my country and establish my talent because i'm a good musician. but you can tell from the drain faces that optimism among many african migrants is in short supply these africa workers do their jobs that they

don't want to do they earn just a few dollars a day but it's still more than they can earn in their own countries they often live in basic deprived conditions but even so in some respects they are the lucky ones these migrants are some of the estimated 40000 detained in libya most were arrested trying to cross the mediterranean sea to europe at this center in zawiya west of tripoli there are almost 500 detainees some of whom have been held for 4 years many of applied for political asylum or settlement in europe it's a place of bad living conditions and broken dreams 16 year old adel de brett see on a skate political persecution in eritrea with a dream of a new life his life ended in a detention center in tripoli when he died in mysterious circumstances aid organizations say that getting explanations and access to migrant centers isn't easy it is a sovereign state and where we can advocate to. improve the conditions close the

centers and find alternatives to this approach but. in the state that the country is in right now. it's very very difficult undertaking. the cash strapped internationally recognized libyan government says it's doing its best under the circumstances but can't adequately help its own people who've been displaced in the conflict let alone migrants that's no comfort to a large who is from nigeria she's been in detention for nearly 4 years 3 of her 5 children have been born in centers and she's being caught trying to reach europe 4 times my kids are going through a lot of going through crises. strikes going through their roots go on to see they are gone. and that's makes i'm not proud of my. own. my some cause i kept on asking myself why am i brought them to this award. for

the migrants have learned to cope with hardship in limited choices they've had to the so-called crossing season with karma sees in the mediterranean is approaching and many will be making the choice of either sticking with what they have or gambling on a dangerous voyage and the unknown prospects in a europe which is not as welcoming as it once was tony berkeley al-jazeera tripoli . u.s. democrats have wrapped up the final day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president donald trump they accuse him of being the ringleader in efforts to push ukraine to investigate political rival joe biden later on saturday white house lawyers will get their say to argue in trump's defense she had reports from washington d.c. so ordered senators adjourned. on friday democratic party house managers concluded their opening arguments against donald trump over 3 sessions very 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 for 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 a probe his alleged wrongdoing by withholding evidence and intimidating potential witnesses it's simple the president abused the powers entrusted. the american people in a skiing to suppress evidence. escape accountability and orchestrate a massive cover up any did sell 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. joe biden. i guess they figure that was it 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 called so the white house is still on track for an acquittal of the president before the state of the union address on february 4th see al-jazeera washington. u.s. media say an audiotape cording from 2018 has emerged in which don't trump appears to demand the removal of washington's then ambassador to ukraine the evanovich 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 it trumps associates trying to remove evanovich because she was seen as an obstacle to investigating joe biden. donald trump has become the 1st

sitting u.s. president to join an anti abortion rally in washington d.c. a white house correspondent can believe how could now be chary down to breaking with tradition again together we boast protect cherish and defend that they did in the sanctity of every human life donald trump descended on 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 doing 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 help them win the white house with the help

of these supporters for many the issue is personal the unborn do not have a voice and we are their voices we are their voices their be killed by them and in but the president also needs many of these people who consider themselves even jellicoe voters to show up in this november's presidential election and they need him to kneel and for such the u.s. president kept his 2016 promise to evangelical voters naming conservative justices neil gorsuch and later brett kavanaugh to america's highest court altering its ballots to make it a more conservative fence with democratic appointees justice ruth bader ginsburg's health in decline trumps anti-abortion supporters are eyeing a possible 3rd conservative court appointment trump wins reelection it's critical right the country if you really study it you study or constitute. 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 us election campaign gains momentum expect even more appeals by president trump to his religious base as he continues to make the case he is the only candidate who will defend their faith can really

help get al jazeera the white house. turkey and greece are bracing for a standoff in the eastern mediterranean over a turkish plan to drill for gas in cypriot waters it comes as regional industry leaders are discussing energy plans at a conference in athens johnson office has 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. he 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 habit you'll transgress out of international law the east med gas foreign

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 waters claimed by greece raising tensions further can trick sustain such an ambitious foreign policy that at the same time adventure 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 not 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 it to the turkish maritime 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 land wise off for many pipelines is also a major transit point offshore 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. bolivia's interim president says show

iran in the upcoming election despite initially suggesting she wouldn't janine and there's confirmed her candidacy in a speech in la saying she hopes to unite the divided country the vote in may will be a rerun of october's disputed election saw former leader even morales reacted he resigned and fled to mexico after weeks of violent protests and took power in november. and bolivia's government has announced it's cutting diplomatic ties with cuba the interim administration says it's a result of what it calls 'd constant hostility from cuba and comments against theirs by its foreign minister earlier this week gillian accused the cuban government of withholding 80 percent of payments bolivia sent to the country under a now canceled medical initiative at least 13 people have now been confirmed dead after a violent storm that's battered parts of eastern and southern spain strong gloria

has brought torrential rain heavy winds no fall and hail since sunday flooding farmland and damaging cities meteorologists say the worst of the storm has passed but there are fears more people may have been killed after reports people have gone missing in northeastern catalonia and there be allergic islands. thank you. thank you. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now malaysia has become the latest country to report cases of the coronavirus the outbreak has also reached europe the french health ministry says 3 infected people are being closely monitored a doctor treating patients in china as a way province has died from the corona virus the outbreak 1st began in the city there last month the local government in one city is now banned all non-essential

vehicles from the downtown area death toll has climbed to 42 adrian brown is in hong kong he has more on how the territory is coping with the outbreak . everyone is wearing face masks wherever you look that wasn't the case of a few days ago and we've also been hearing today from one of the leading microbiologist in hong kong who is urging the government to basically instruct everyone to wear face masks when they go out in public he's also saying that he wants to see the government extend the current lunar new year holidays for students and pupils to february the 10th and he's also been talking more about the virus he says it has an attack rate of 83 percent search and rescue efforts are underway in turkey after a powerful earthquake struck in the east late on friday the magnitude 6.8 tremor killed at least 21 people and injured a 1000. and this

was the moment the earthquake struck interrupting live broadcasts many people ran outdoors for safety those with damaged homes are still afraid to return u.s. media say in order from 2018 there's a merged in which don't trump appears to demand the removal of washington's then ambassador to ukraine marie of all of it was recalled last april that's almost a year after the recording was there which a voice that sounds like trump says take her out. it's listening posts the news continues stay with us you know it is era for talk to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption and the gang we listen so if you replace china's enemy of the with and that's really the news we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to

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