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g.'s so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up there and businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. food. china's president says his country is facing a grave situation over the coronavirus his travel restrictions to tighten father. responses level in hong kong as leader declares a health emergency over the outbreak. hello i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 22 people are killed in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey hundreds are seriously injured. the death
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of a young man in libya highlights the harsh conditions of migrants held in detention camps. at a church sculpture in eastern germany has found itself at the center of an anti semitism. china's president says his country is facing a grave situation over the outbreak of the corona virus xi jinping has warned that the virus is now accel or racing the military has been deployed to the epicenter of who bay province the local government is urgently appealing for more supplies including masks and protective suits one city where the outbreak began will ban all non-essential vehicles from monday a doctor treating patients in the province has become the latest victim of the virus well the doctors death brings the total number of those killed to $42.00 with close to $1300.00 others infected in china malaysia is the latest country to report
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cases of the virus infections have also reached europe with 3 patients confirmed in france in an effort to contain its spread the chinese government has expanded its travel restrictions now affect more than 40000000 people out as a risk on hyla reports from beijing. like the past several days. days the people of china again woke up to news that the corona virus has claimed more lives and more people have become infected. living with his family and will han moved to china 25 years ago we spoke to him on skype are you worried even further down the line that this this quarantine could last a month 6 weeks so this is like for you and you were. so yes. ok well we don't go out. on monday right so there's already all these concern is shared by people here in beijing and
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they're worried about the disease i always wash hands before and after me and every time i go out i wear a mask back inside this time we didn't realize all serious to situation was but we've learned and doing much more actively knowing the government of responding quickly and we fully support them 17 years ago the chinese government was criticized for acting too slowly when the sars virus killed nearly 800 people well most of whom province the epicenter of the corona virus is now under lockdown there is concern about the people who traveled before restrictions were put into place this as there's growing evidence that people might be carrying the virus without showing symptoms unwillingly passing it on to others the detail in park here in central beijing would normally be teeming with people out celebrating the 1st day of lunar new year but like right across china the festivities here have been canceled over concern of spreading the virus nationwide measures are being put into
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place on airplanes trains and buses to detect infected people the people of all han are being told that starting sunday no cars will be allowed on the streets of the city center. hundreds of military medical personnel have been sent to han to help with the growing number of cases this is in addition to the more than 1000 civilian medical staff who have already been sent in from around china to hospitals are overcrowded and some have been treating patients who have been infected so as the people of china have a muted celebration it's still far from clear what impact the coronavirus will have in the chinese new year ahead scott either al-jazeera beijing and hong kong at least 5 cases of the virus a been confirmed in a news conference on saturday its leader kerry land raised the threat level on the territory as a result of the outbreak. our response has reached emergency level i will personally have into department to meetings and we have a command center so we can get the views from the experts and come up with
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strategies and initiatives when we deal with this public health event i think you'll understand that we need to be quick in making decisions when we can make decisions for the society of hong kong i'll just say dream brown is in hong kong that explains what these emergency measures will look like. hong kong's chief executive has decided this health crisis is serious enough to raise it to the emergency category now that followed a meeting with her key advisors including some of hong kong's top medical experts that meeting was convened just after kerry arrived back from davos in switzerland where she'd been attending the world economic forum now in addition to the various measures announced today carol lam didn't decide to impose a temporary closure of the border between hong kong and china even if she had wanted to it's doubtful that her political masters in beijing would have allowed it instead she's decided to embark on other measures including requiring all visitors
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from the mainland to sign and fill in health declaration forms this will apply to people entering hong kong by rail train plane and boat she's also going to extend the school holidays for universities kindergartens and schools until the middle of february also flights and train services between blue hand and hong kong will remain suspended and of course all official lunar new year celebrations have been cancelled. the u.s. says that it's working to help american citizens leave the city of one hand the french consulate is doing the same but in france itself new cases have been reported let's go live now to paris about zeros latasha butler what's the situation in france and russia. well the french health minister and yes prison has confirmed that there are 3 cases of patients with current virus in the country now we've learned a little bit more about those cases there's one couple a man and
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a woman who came from china they are tourists we understand who came on holiday to paris when they fell ill they had flown in from harm and in fact they've now been hospitalized we understand that their case isn't too serious but of course they are remaining under strict surveillance there's also a man of 48 year old who also had come from china he had visited will hard recently he fell ill and he is in the southwestern city of bordeaux we believe he works in the wine industry now the mayor of bordeaux has said that he had about 10 to 12 people have come forward to say that they have been in contact with this man who works in the wine industry they also work in the wine industry and of course they will have their health checked by the relevant authorities the mare bordeaux is said in fact the chinese new year celebrations in the city in southwestern france have been canceled as this health scare continues now the french health minister says that these cases and france are the 1st in europe that doesn't mean that there
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aren't any elsewhere she expects other cases to be found but she believes that these 1st cases have been confirmed in france because french authorities have been very quick to test the patients in very quick to announce that they had this virus and in terms of preparations to work to prevent the spread of the virus what were french authorities doing. well french authorities are saying that people of course have to be vigilant but they shouldn't be alarmed in any way they have reminded people that of course regular flu in france is far more dangerous at the moment however they are urging anyone that has traveled from from nearby if they are feeling any of these symptoms these flu like symptoms and of course they should go in and have them checked in terms of what's happening elsewhere in france well again it is just a sense of vigilance and people the public being very aware of the situation now in
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china itself in one hand we understand the french authorities have offered $250.00 french nationals that live in one city to the epicenter of this virus where it all began they have offered those french nationals to be bussed away to another city about 300 kilometers away for their own safety to be kept in quarantine but as of yet we don't know how many people have taken up that offer. in terms of buckley reporting live from paris natasha many thanks indeed. such and rescue efforts are underway in turkey for a powerful earthquake struck in the east on friday evening at least 22 people were killed and more than a 1000 injured buildings collapsed near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 trauma emergency crews are searching for people feared trapped in the rubble we have a center was in a town of nearly 4000 people in the spacek populated province of ella's inc which is about 700 kilometers east of the capital ankara let's go live now to asic out 07
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course meal who is there so what's the latest on the search and rescue operation. as i mean currently turkey is present reza as on and leading members of his cabinet are here you know just to make a survey in the street where we are where we have 2 buildings that have collapsed and under which there are still some people stuck under the wreckage prison guards on came here in the late afternoon and joined in financials in some funerals and sent his condolences to the people he just gave a speech to the press which we missed because we were standing by in front of the camera about t.e.a. he saw solidarity it's all his people then he said during the funeral he said turkey in turkish government will do its best in order to cover. the losses here we are seeing the n.g.o.s the living blankets and some other things of
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people who are in need because some of the buildings are dumb and still some people are afraid to get inside their buildings and we are hearing that mostly the kids are very afraid by the way so rescue workers are on their way right behind us they are vehicles trying to trying to move the wreckage and just how that now to go at me and one more person was pulled from the wreckage and sure if that person was a lie and the person was. it was taken to the hospital by the ambulance so right now there are exactly 40 people who were pulled. from the wreckage and the rescue teams say that they believe there are 19 more people remaining on the wreckage in 5 buildings. that have collapsed last night. on december 7th reporting 7 many thanks indeed
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a weather update next here on al-jazeera then the final day of opening arguments by the prosecution of been heard in president trump's impeachment trial now white house lawyers prepared to respond. one year on families of those killed in brazil's worst mining disaster still wait for justice. but. how do i know how much rain would you expect in china in january generally speaking not much but this doesn't look like not much and you'd be right to think that it isn't not much there's been more than the average already and there's more to come this blue turning dark suggests slow moving fairly heavy stuff running through central southern china towards shanghai including hong kong for a while this is sunday's forecast plaited is more action out of the waters it hits
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taiwan it hit southern japan and that's the direction it's going leaving china has a dryer picture by monday shanghai's normally breeze i work feel that good at 9 degrees however beijing 6 is above where it should be was fairly still there still but the amount of rain i think is the thing that's on seasonal at the moment sounds that bit more normal in indonesia it's the rainy season and here with satellite picture you can see where the biggest shows have been they will be repeated in that area sumatra west and java all of a borneo a little less so insular ways here but it's not going to be dry this is what you expect after what it is called the rainy season we have the got a couple of fairly quiet days right in the year in pakistan then to shower stuff in the knolls even snow the more active weather is blowing down the gulf a cold shower mild is blowing the and through. the. time the family harvest is navigating dangerous rapids from the
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time we depart to the time we finish we're scared to the fish and dicing with death . i'm afraid of paul and i'm afraid of dying vilify don't go a coffee klatch family need the men who go to the extreme just to make a living god you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise it's safe i'm risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour china's president says his country is facing a grave situation over the outbreak of the coronavirus xi jinping as one of the
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virus is now accelerating the military has been deployed to the epicenter of the outbreak of the so far killed 42 people. on kong's leader kerry lam has raised the territory's alert level to emergency in response to the corona virus outbreak and on mainland china there been 5 confirmed cases of the virus in. and search and rescue efforts are underway in turkey after a powerful earthquake struck in the east on friday evening magnitude 6.8 trauma killed at least 22 people. the death of an eritrean teenager in a tripoli detention camp this week has highlighted the plight of more than 40000 africans who are living in makeshift centers in libya most have been detained while attempting to cross to europe aid agencies say the conditions are appalling zeros 20 berkeley has visited one detention center near libya's capital. driven by
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public pushed by fear and persecution by the way most migrants escaping their homeland mostly in sub-saharan africa end 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 or to buy food they come with a dream but the reality of life here is far from a dalit and theirs doesn't i came here to make money it's better than staying in your own country because here your mind is more free and 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 and spent 6 years in europe before being deported from austria last year his dream was to become
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a rap artist but he found only hardship and difficulty in europe i can make money it all better than the people living abroad so i decided to work my morning. 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
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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 a 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 been caught trying to reach europe 4 times my kids are going through
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a lot of going through crises. going through they risk all this the constant pressure and that's makes i'm not proud of my. own. myself cause i kept on asking myself why am i brought them to this award. but 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 . iraqi security forces of raided the main protest camp in the capital baghdad they fired live rounds and tear gas at demonstrators who gathered in tahrir square violence began after protesters reacted to police bulldozing makeshift barricades the square has been the focal point of iraq's months long demonstrations against
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corruption unemployment and poor public services. at least 2 people have been killed in myanmar after troops fired shells into a range of village 7 others injured in the blast it happened in western rakhine state a correspondent on the a child is in dhaka and says the attack comes just 2 days after the un's highest court ordered to protect its majority minority at least 2 people killed and 7 injured among them were 2 woman one was pregnant all of them were growing up village or town in western rakhine now this comes after me and my army fired artillery shells in their own hangout villages now this is an area lot of rowing as lieve there are still around $600000.00 growing as living in right kind state this is an area also prone to insurgency the myanmar military has been fighting northern alliance as well as kind rebel groups in these areas now at least from witness
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reports and other reports we're getting there wasn't any clash on the insurgency engagement today this happened totally in a peaceful time there has been reports of previous clashes but not today now more importantly this comes just 2 days after the u.n. stopped called approve the perpetration no measure which comes me on march to protect ethnic minorities prevent rape killing and destroying on villages and home this is a very important double up and considering this comes just a couple of days after the u.n. talks court's decision in hague. white house lawyers will soon begin that offensive u.s. president on the trumpet his impeachment trial in the senate on friday democrats finished their final day of opening arguments they accused him of being the ringleader in efforts to push ukraine to investigate his political life and job by
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. 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 abused the powers. by the american people
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in a skiing to suppress evidence and skate accountability and orchestrate a massive cover up any 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 a short 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
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having no expertise in the area while his father was vice president why they opened up the door. why does a double door on the. job. i guess they figure that was it their way of getting ahead of it we will address that 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 forever times the al-jazeera washington. ceremonies will begin shortly to mark a year since brazil's worst ever industrial disaster at least 259 people were killed when a dam collapsed sending a tide of toxic waste into the city of promote denio this week brazilian
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prosecutors filed charges against the mining company that owns the dam and some former executives the charges include environmental crimes and. many of the families of the victims say they're still waiting the justice al-jazeera manuel are pollo is in burma denio where he says people are very emotional. it's a very somber day here in broome of the you know there are many activities taking place a lot of emotions playing out on the streets of the city as a march is taking place for actually just behind that march you can see behind me the people that are moving from one end of the city to another they're heading to a church to hold a ceremony to remember the lives lost again 270 people that were killed in that disaster exactly one year ago here in the city of ramallah and this isn't the only ceremony this isn't the only event that's taking place over the last few days there have been marches that have taken place in the city of bellotti so all share with people moving in caravans that was planned march but because of the heavy rains of
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the flooding here in here in the region people have taken automobiles to arrive and grandmother you know to pay their respects to the fallen now we're talking about those rains even now we're having a little bit more rain coming down right now this is adding to to the trepidation that people feel this is adding to the anxiety that people feel because not only are they remembering this tragedy this disaster that happened exactly one year ago it brings up fears that another disaster could could take place once again given the heavy flooding that's taking place at the new is no stranger to the heavy rains and flooding but the amount of rain that's fallen this year is very very much present on people's minds there have already been at least 5 casualties over the last 5 days due to the flooding and there is fears that the existing mining dams around the city of ramadi you could that are in fact at risk could could at any moment collapse once again and government protests have been held in chile marking
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$100.00 days of social unrest police used was a can of then tear gas to break up a demonstration in the capital santiago of the ghetto as a protest over rising metro fares has transformed into widespread anger over the struggling economy and social inequality. bolivia's interim president says that show run in the upcoming election despite initially suggesting that she wouldn't geneva nervous says that she hopes to unite the divided country the vote in may will be a rerun of october's disputed election that saw former leader everyone alice reelected he resigned and fled to mexico after weeks of violent protests the world will commemorate international holocaust day on monday but in germany there's growing concern about rising levels of anti semitism dominic came reports from the east of the country. that embark makes much of its link with the mediæval
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protestant martin luther from here he would preach to the faithful but it's what he and this church said about another faith which remains controversial for in the 14th century this sculpture was placed on the outside of the building it's called the you wouldn't know or jewish south considered by most people to be a deliberately derogatory depiction of jews and judaism michael dillman is so incensed by it he's repeatedly gone to court to have it removed the humans are there by the side of the humans out self is a terrible fortification of judaism rubbin ical judaism and the defamation of the jews falsified cation of judaism defamation insulting the jews the jewish people of israel with a terrible effect up to this day the church shares his distaste with sense the sculpture should stay as a warning from history successive court rulings of up held that view as i remember
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and india were not happy about. its dilemma and we've got to do reconcile with history and thereby try to reach reconciliation between today's and christianity. the debate about this culture really matters because it's not just in this city that such historical anti semitism is on show in fact there are similar so-called new wouldn't zone in and on churches right across this country and how modern germans deal with anti semitism is perhaps best symbolized here at the holocaust memorial in berlin where one leading academic told me of the dangers anti semitism still poses today the jewish community leverage leaders are particularly pointing to those new groups new motives of anti-semitism that are occurring let's name it so wispy it was speaking of the so-called new right across europe so a sort of a new nationalism on monday the world will mark the 75th anniversary of the
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liberation of the auschwitz nazi death camp a moment to remember those murdered by mechanized anti semitism back in britain back a plaque lies under the you wouldn't dedicated to the many millions whose only crime was to have a different face one which depictions like the one above the plaque has been desecrated the centuries dominate cane al-jazeera in eastern germany. it's good to have you with us hello everyone from going to hear the headlines and i was there a china's president says that his country is facing a grave situation over the outbreak of the corona virus xi jinping warns that the virus is now accelerating the military has been deployed to the epicenter of the outbreak that has so far killed $42.00 people in hong kong at least 5 cases of the
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virus have been confirmed in a news conference on saturday leader kerry lam raised the threat level in the territory as a result of the outbreak. all responses reached imagine sea level. department 2 meetings and we have a command center so we can get the views from the experts and come up with strategies initiatives when we deal with this public health of and i think you'll understand that we need to be quick in making decisions when we can make decisions for the society of hong kong search and rescue efforts continue in turkey after a powerful earthquake struck in the east on friday evening at least 22 people have been killed more than a 1000 injured buildings collapse near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 trauma emergency crews are searching for people who feel trapped in the rubble iraqi security forces have rated the main protest camp in the capital baghdad a focal point for the ongoing anti-government protests they fired live rounds and tear gas at demonstrators in tahrir square the violence began after protesters
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reacted to police bulldozing makeshift barricades that a face 2 people have been killed in myanmar after troops fired shells into iraq hinge a village 7 others were injured in the blast that happened in the west and a kind state people started to gather for a ceremony marking the 1st out of verse 3 since brazil's worst ever industrial disaster at least 259 people were killed when a dam collapsed sending a tide of toxic waste into the city of broady neo this week brazilian prosecutors filed charges against the mining company that owns the dam and some former executives the charges include environmental crimes and. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the risking it all vietnam next . to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing they all the endemic corruption. we listen so if you put place china as an
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