amount to 0. emergency measures in china millions in lockdown and transport links suspended in a race to contain a deadly new virus president she wants the spread is accelerating. low i am ozzy and on and you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program lebanese protest as attempt to storm a government headquarters in beirut but a push back by take gas and water cannon. the president did absolutely nothing wrong. donald trump's lawyers defend their boss at the u.s. president's historic impeachment trial and rescued from the rubble the hunt for some 5 years in eastern turkey after

a deadly $6.00 magnitude earthquake. welcome to the program our top story president xi jinping is saying china is facing a grave situation as the world's most populous country scrambles to contain a deadly new virus at least 41 people have died after contract in the new strain of corona virus it can cause flu like symptoms and in extreme cases need to shortness of breath and pneumonia more than 1300 people have been infected on the chinese mainland and some hospitals are becoming overwhelmed around $50000000.00 people are effectively in lockdown now off to china cost of transport links to the city of han the epicenter of the outbreak and also surrounding cities but the virus has already crossed borders 38 cases have been reported now in 11 other countries along with the chinese territories of hong kong and macau scott hyder reports to us from

beijing. like the past several 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 move on move to china 25 years ago we spoke to him in skype are you worried even further down the line that this quarantine could last a month 6 weeks so this is like a war you don't and you worry. so why don't you just read the. first. of all we don't go out. on line and. there is already all these concern is shared by people here in beijing and they're worried about the disease i always wash hands before and after me use 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 now and 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 daytime 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 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 and hospitals are overcrowded and some who've been treating patients 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 on the chinese new year ahead scott either al-jazeera beijing meanwhile hong kong's chief executive has declared an emergency they're closing schools for 2 weeks and heightening screening measures for those arriving from the mainland china. our response has reached emergency level personally into department to meetings and we have a command center so we can get the views from the experts and come up with strategies and 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 there is adrian brown is in hong kong for us and explains what these emergency measures will look like. carrie 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 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 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 who hanna and hong kong will remain suspended and of course all official lunar new year celebrations have been cancelled meanwhile authorities in france are saying that 2 or 3 cases there arrived without showing any symptoms france's director general of health says all 3 patients are doing very well they are the 1st confirmed diagnoses of the new coronavirus in here at the authority has established a hotline for people who have returned from china and are showing symptoms. it's been $100.00 days since lebanese protesters robots rose up against a government demanding an end to corruption and a spiraling economic crisis there's no sign of the unrest coming to an end in the last few hours protesters have tried to storm the government's headquarters in the

capital beirut they've been pushed back by gas and water cannon leaders have been struggling to contain the unrest the protesters accuse the entire political process of being corrupt let's go to the holder she joins us from beirut and we've seen some very dramatic images of protesters approaching the parliament and then being pushed back by anti riot police just tell us what's been happening there in the lebanese capital today. another night of unrest anti-establishment protesters that at this time tried to storm a government policy over recent days they tried to storm a parliament building they managed to briefly breach the security behind us they moved a metal fence and now as you can see security forces are trying to heighten security reinforced security around government how those people are and

a few 100 protesters were involved in the confrontation security forces that were very careful this time around they did not use rubber bullets they have been criticized by international human rights groups for using excessive force for firing rubber bullets at close range but this time around they did use excessive amounts of tear gas as well as water cannon so they managed to disperse protesters quite quickly in fact they deployed hundreds of anti-riot police and the lebanese army you can really see feel the change in tactics by this new administration. it seems the more militarised let me just show you what they've done around the parliament square they have set up concrete a place concrete slabs a barbed wire a closing really every road leading to parliament square in a really a message of defiance we are staying in power but this is and this is causing a lot of anger

a lot of protesters say you cannot hide behind those walls we will continue our struggle. and so as the protests that 100 day mark zandi is speaking about that being a change in tactics and his start has always been a fragile security situation in lebanon are there fears that they could be further 1 violence or was violence. quote definitely because people are angry people are becoming poorer they're losing their jobs a lot of them will tell you we don't have another choice we have been peacefully protesting in the street for over 3 months our voices are not heard but what they're doing in this building was there is a new government but this new government is only a reflection of the previous government yes there are specialists have been appointed but they have been appointed by political parties which means that they are loyal to these political parties and what the people want is for the new

administration to fight corruption so the question they ask if they are loyal to the political parties how are they going to open investigations how are they going to retrieve stolen public funds on monday 11 on a parliament is expected to meet to ratify the 2020 budget a lot of questions are being asked how are you going to raise the revenues when your expenditures as this is just so high and when your finance minister is requesting $45000000000.00 just to buy basic supplies wheat medicine fuel there aren't there aren't any dollars or for. and currency for the government to purchase these basic supplies so this government is reaching out to the international community but so far the international community has not expressed any support to the government and instead is could this an aid to reforms and this is what's giving the anti-establishment protesters really support and strength they feel that the international community is on their side thank you with the latest from the

lebanese capital beirut zain a harder. now for other top story today white house lawyers defending donald trump a senate impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine the 1st time trump's legal team have addressed the trial whether they'll have 3 days to argue that case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress in relation to allegations he used u.s. military aid to ukraine as a bargaining chip for his own gain or trumps legal counsel also accuse the democrats of using the hearing to interfere with the upcoming election they're asking you. not only to overturn the results of the last election but as i've said before they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot in an election that's occurring in approximately 9 months they're

asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative take that decision away from the american people. is following developments for us from capitol hill president tom sawyer is on the attack today tell us more about the arguments in defense of the president. sure marion they kept their arguments very close and concise today focusing on 2 main points 1st they say the evidence and they're picking pieces from the trial of the from the inquiry evidence they showed that exculpatory parts of that evidence show that the president did nothing wrong when he asked ukraine to investigate joe biden who could be a potential presidential calendar in a few months time and the other point of the president's defense they say is that they are pointing the finger right back at democrats accusing democrats of

conducting in their words the most massive election interference campaign in u.s. history by trying to smear the president with this impeachment proceeding and hurt his chances of winning reelection in november of course the democratic impeachment managers have pushed back on that they say there is compelling evidence that the president did have the corrupt motive of wanting to gain an unfair advantage over his potential political rival in the upcoming election and using u.s. security aides to ukraine as leverage to compel the ukraine's president to announce investigation into joe biden now as far as new evidence though there's still new stuff coming out every day and in fact just yesterday par nobs who is a business associate of president trump's personal attorney he released some audio that appears to show the president's voice ordering the firing of former u.s.

ambassador to ukraine maria avantage how that factors into everything is that it was corrupt ukrainian officials according to the impeachment investigators who had wanted that ambassador out of the way and soon after she was fired by trump that is when those same officials started planting these investing it's planting these accusations against joe biden into the u.s. . media so so many unanswered questions and many leads that democrats say still have to be explored and that's why they say that this trial cannot come to a swift conclusion with just these arguments alone that they should open it to even more witnesses and outside of the washington bubble how closely are americans watching this is it is there a sense of inertial apathy in the country or could it possibly galvanize people before the election will certainly be playing out on us television screens as far as how people are responding to it while there was

a poll out just yesterday by the washington post a.b.c. that found that the president has the highest approval rating he has ever had while he's held office that's at 44 percent of americans responding that he is doing a good job in office on the question of whether or not he should be removed though there's still about an even split with americans heavily divided down partisan lines whether or not this president should remain in office thank you. with the latest from capitol hill. still ahead on the program in iraq at least 4 demonstrators are shot dead at security forces moving on protests sites and we visit the china town with a visible reminder of the country's anti-semitic cost. hello

their pen to work their way across central areas of the mediterranean this is all the remains of what was that storm gloria meanwhile still clearing up in 2 areas of the spain this is barcelona all of this debris on the beaches further inland we have got areas of land like this on the water and then into southern france it is a very similar story it is going to take a few days before these flood waters begin to recede these rivers of their banks and of course really inundated many towns and villages but it is carrying out of the way southern france this is another system it's working its way eastwards meanwhile through sunday another system another front working its way in across much of the northwest bringing rain across the u.k. heavy at times not cold though meanwhile central areas of europe we've got to areas of cloud as well as some bring to spells but temperatures a very mild 6 stockholm 3 degrees in moscow about 5 to 6 degrees above the average for this time of year now by monday the temperature is no real change that system

across the west of the work its way again this time it will central and western areas of france and again it could be pretty heavy it will turn over to snow so it could well actually affect some of these areas where we have seen those heavy amounts of rain the winds are also pretty strong particularly through the channel 10 celsius in paris with those strong winds and about 3 celsius across in moscow. al-jazeera world tells the story of thousands of algerians forced by colombian affronts to adopt obscene family names. words that are so offensive that some can't bear to say that. the burden of ridiculous that has been passed down for generations. the shame of my name. on al-jazeera.

to. welcome back a look at the headlines now president xi jinping says china is facing a grave situation in efforts to contain a deadly new strain of corona virus that's killed 41 people and has spread to other countries. protesters in the lebanese capital beirut have been repelled by gas and water cannon after trying to storm government headquarters and in washington white house lawyers are defending the president donald trump of the senate impeachment trial arguing that the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in the eighty's dealings with ukraine.

now syrian and russian warplanes have launched more air strikes against rebel held territory in province and in neighboring aleppo the latest strikes come a day off to government forces captured 2 key strategic villages about 350000 syrians have been displaced since early december by a renewed russian backed offensive against the last regions held by the opposition well now we go to iraq because formal anti-government protests have been killed there as police moved in on protest camps we can by the withdrawal of many of that support his security forces clashed with protesters as they cleared the main camp in tahrir square in the heart of the capital baghdad which had been occupied since october comes after a populist party were taught all sides are said he no longer back to the protest eating thousands of his followers to leave the camps was all a binge of aid is in baghdad and joins us now 1st of all a summer tell us more about what we told our souther has been saying today and the significance of his remarks about withdrawing any interventional support for these

protests. well marian the bulk of protesters here at the here square in baghdad have come from other cities one of the most marginalized areas here in baghdad. a commanding leading figure in the city he was thought happy with the low turnout many of the people in the how do you square according to him did not join his protest call on friday and as he told his followers to leave in the late i was on friday he came out with a tweet saying he was disappointed and subject to leave and not was exactly what happened sub just left those towns dismantle their tents that have been set up since october and said should be leaving the military square just as without the numbers that they had in the few hours after that the security forces moved in cleared out a number of bridges moved all of the t. walls and barricades that it set up using cranes and according to protesters came

to words to how do you square in some tense as well this is been a very tense standoff between security forces throughout the day not just how do you square but across iraq in syria in karbala in basra protests have been the protesters have been camping out for months and they came face to face with the police the police opening up roads we heard the prime minister last week saying that rocking roads is not part of peaceful protests but protesters have been saying that is the only way that they can tell the people in power that they must it's 3 months they've forced out the prime minister yet he clings on to power and they're no closer to forming a government which would address the demands of amending the constitution making sure that better public services are given to the people and most for most people who come to public should be on the table and not be part of the corrupt elite so you have this important announcement from the same time you have the government

moving in to clamp protest sites and not just by god but different parts of the country how how vulnerable protest is now to any sort of government crackdown could this be the end of. the now. what is that how do you square people angry people were disappointed but they were undeterred they said young men and boys will be spoke to kept going back to words where the clashes were happening with more tires 'd saying that they will dow's all of the tear gas that is thrown at them and accusing the police of news using live ammunition and tear gas canisters aimed to where there is towards their heads not to disperse them but to maim them but they said that they will continue to do it they said many people who we spoke to know were not just from baghdad summit come from karbala and they were saying that they are here to make a point $500.00 plus of their comrades have died more than $25000.00 people have been wounded so much blood has been spilled that even if the government removes

them with force it will not be able to kill them all and this is the message that seems to be coming out of paris or that of defiance saying that the government could come in with force its try to meet them with force and it has killed them before it might do that again but they are adamant that they are going to continue to protest not just in baghdad and this is something that we are hearing from the southern provinces as well that people who have been moved from various sites have come back in force and many of them are spending the night in the cold saying that they will not move until their demands are met thank you from baghdad some of them just right. and other stories are following 59 people have been rescued from a boat in the mediterranean an operation by the charity rescue ship the ocean viking migrants refugees on board were attempting the dangerous crossing from libya to italy ocean viking intercepted the wooden boat which they say was in distress at around 4 in the morning some 50 kilometers off the coast of libya we were rescuers

in turkey is searching for survivors there from friday's earthquake that killed 29 people and injured more than a 1000 it's feared the figures will rise though as rescue teams continue to search through the rubble of collapsed buildings the 6.8 magnitude quake centered near the town is to reach a in southeastern turkey seneca sooner is a nearby aliceville. this man is happy and relieved as his relative is pulled out alive from the straw poll she had been stuck on or the rock and debra's of a collapsed building for nearly 20 hours after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake if turkey is is some province of. it is my mother the son rushes back through the rubble there are still 4 more people start down there. there have been more than 400 aftershocks in the region hundreds of emergence of teams and security forces have been mobilized to provide aid and assistance. and the onlookers some of them are all macarius while others hope to

hear from loved ones and. i think old buildings have to be replaced by new ones we need to tell each group she has risk areas have been working here looking for and survivors buildings that have collapsed like this one were either badly constructed or older the damaged would have probably for history of earthquakes men to say turkey used to do more now to ensure building safety turkey is among the world's most suspect react to come through and sits on several active full lines dozens of minor earthquakes and aftershocks up here nearly every day. of course themselves don't kill we know when they're going to happen but it's the engineers and construct a duty to build risk compatible buildings for now on the 5 building for collapse but there is no record of damaged buildings in the yet that's why many people are afraid to go inside their homes and given the freezing temperatures it will be

difficult to seek shelter in sports halls or other large places. el to syria and turkey. at least 2 people have been killed after artillery shells hit a range of village in me and my 7 others were injured in the attack on can tongue village in western iraq and state the victims were all civilians internet access has been partially restored in indian minister kashmir after it was blog for almost 6 months users will be able to access just 300 white listed websites calling them an internet speeds will remain low but access to some social media apps is still banned with comes just days after india's supremum court ordered the communications lock down be reversed now the world will commemorate international holocaust day on monday but in germany there is growing concern at the rising levels of anti semitism one example is the presence of historical sculptures and

works of art that reflect the country's anti jewish past but to kill the one in the eastern town of which in berg that now finds itself at the center of a court battle dominic kane reports from east in germany. that makes much of its link with the mediæval 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 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 binnacle to their ism and the defamation of the

jews false of the 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 but says the sculpture should stay as a warning from history successive court rulings of up held that view we're not happy about it ourselves it's a dilemma and we've got to to reconcile with history and thereby try to reach reconciliation between 2 days into it in christianity of 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 one 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 to the jewish

community leverage leaders are particularly pointing to those new groups new lot of stuff anti-semitism that are occurring let's name it so wispy it was speaking of the so-called new right across europe or so a sort of a new nationalism. or monday the world will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz nazi death camp a moment to remember those murdered by mechanized anti semitism back in vision 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 have been desecrated the century less dominant cane al-jazeera in eastern germany. protesters some of them dressed up in sheepskins and cowbells have gathered outside bulgaria's parliament to demand action over water shortages demonstrators who are residents of the city of paramedic suspected bribery and corruption are behind the

situation which they are now describing as a looming humanitarian crisis residents a paradox only water source least today in a dam will be empty in 2 weeks. but update the headlines now president xi jinping says china is facing a grave situation in efforts to contain a deadly new strain of the corona virus that's killed 41 people around 50000000 are in lockdown after china cost of transporting to several cities to contain the virus 38 cases have also been reported in 11 other countries meanwhile hong kong's chief executive has declared an emergency closing schools and heightening screening measures for those coming from the mainland. our response has reached emergency level ole personally into department to meetings and we have

a command center so we can get the views from the experts and come up with strategies and 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. now to lebanon protesters in the capital beirut have been repelled by tear gas and water cannon after trying to storm government headquarters this despite the announcement of a new cabinet this week aimed at ending months of unrest but demonstrators is a saying that that is not enough they want an overhaul of the entire ruling class. white house lawyers defending donald trump at the senate impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine it's the 1st time trump's legal team of address the trial where they'll have 3 days to argue their case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. syrian and russian warplanes have launched more air strikes against rebel held territory in the province and also in neighboring aleppo the latest strikes follow government

forces capturing 2 strategic villages a day ago about 350000 syrians have been displaced since early december and for more antigovernment protests have been killed in iraq where police have moved in on demonstration camps that security forces clashed with the protesters as they cleared the main camp in baghdad square which have been occupied since october but it comes after the shiite cleric total souther said that he no longer backed the protests and would withdraw his support of the headlines more from london later now it's the listening post.

talk starts now you. see i'm falling across the sky on a change caused by general climate change i'll. talk directly to a history of my cottage there is such a thing as just one quick hello i'm richard gere's bird and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week australia is where rupert murdoch's media empire was born his news outlets there have got climate change denial down to a science malta and the journalistic legacy of the late daphne kind of want to believe her story is far from complete the balsa not all government in brazil it's corruption exposed by journalism wants to shoot the messenger and. poetic justice on the tory saudi operative clear in the murder of john.