the way the q. kell the story is what can make a difference. to . 0. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up emergency measures in china millions in lock down transport links suspended in the race to contain a deadly new virus president she warns the situation is grave the president did absolutely nothing wrong. donald trump's lawyers defend their boss at the u.s. president's historic impeachment trial. rescued from the rubble the hunt for survivors in eastern turkey off to

a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake. and in school one of the tennis shoes rivalries will resume at the australian open. carry all speech encouraged to set up a fall from match. hello our top story this hour president xi jinping says 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 ing the new strain of corona virus it can cause flu like symptoms and in extreme cases lead to shortness of breath and pneumonia more than 1300 people have now been infected on the chinese mainland with hospital struggling to deal with the outbreak around 50000000 people are affectively in lockdown after transport links were suspended to

and from the city of 100 the epicenter of the outbreak and then also to surrounding cities as well where the virus has already crossed borders 38 cases have been reported in 11 other countries along with the chinese territories of hong kong and macau. scott has our. point now 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 will han moved to china 25 years ago we spoke to him on 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 want to. so i just read the. first. well we don't go out. on. this or

it's 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 a girl out i wear a mask back inside this time we didn't realize all serious to situation was but we've learned in doing much more actively now in the government to 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 and this is in addition to the more than 1000 civilian medical staff who have already been sent in from around china will 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 that's the situation on the mainland meanwhile hong kong's chief executive has declared an emergency closing schools for 2 weeks and heightening screening measures for those arriving from mainland china when. 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 adrian brown in hong kong now explains what these emergency measures are and more are going to 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 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 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 in other developments the french order to make a p.s.a. group says its repatriating employees and their families from a city of $100.00 where the virus was 1st found where it's thought of of originated from be quarantined in another chinese city before they are brought back france is the only european country to report cases of the virus with 3 patients confirmed sarsi say that the 2 of them did not exhibit any symptoms when they arrived government has now established

a hotline for people who have returned from china and have symptoms. we can now speak to adele jr he is a senior scholar at john hopkins university center for health security and asking about these measures being taken by the chinese government 1st of all how effective are they likely to be in stopping contagion of this disease or at least slowing its spread it's unlikely that what's going on in rwanda right now with the very severe lockdown with basically a military quarantine holding people in place is going to do much but actually make things worse because what they're going to do is deprive that outbreak zone our precious resources there is already shortages there they're going to isolate those people it's going to make them much more distrustful of public health authorities so i don't know that those measures that are being done now in this in voluntary basis would kind of draconian in forstmann is going to make things make things

better because travel restrictions usually do not work for any type of outbreak when they're imposed in this manner tell me more about how it's going to make things worse. so when you isolate a city or country or one or region with an outbreak what ends up happening is not only can't people go out you can't get resources in and that makes it very difficult we're already hearing reports of hospitals being inundated with patients that their doctors are overworked that there are shortages of doctors and there are shortages of testing kit shortages of masks all of that will get worse if you isolate a place in what it will do is make more panic in that area and that's going to force that's going to allow that virus this and more and more easily when people are panic when people are trying to escape from the quarantine zone and when people are distrustful of public health authorities in any messaging so you have to be very careful when you use those types of restrictions so that you don't make things worse in the this virus is spreading and it's going to continue to spread i think that these measures that are going on in the operator only will not make much of

a difference what would really matter is getting resources in there identifying cases and treating those cases have been reports of a hospital or a 1000 bed hospital i think they quickly constructed to deal with patients all the outbreak because hospitals have been overwhelmed in the country what can you tell us about china's capacity to handle something like this but we know that china can build hospitals very quickly they did this in the midst of sars as well china this is a big city in the operate zone with multiple different hospitals in china is very different in 2003 to me were in 2020 so they are able to take a lot more than they could and sars it inhibits a lot better however i think it's really important to know that we want to make sure that we're identifying all the cases in that those cases are being linked to treatment some of those cases may be very mild they may not even need to be admitted to the hospital. so there's a lot of open questions about how are they going to deal with the number of

patients that have mild illness and if those mildest patients are going to be forcibly hospitalized. is it becoming more dangerous the further it spreads the the more it mutates well all viruses mutate and there's no evidence that this is new taking it to make it some more nefarious type of virus what i think the danger is a lot is going to happen as more cases occur occur there are going to be much more panic there is going to be much more concern and that can cause people to make bad decisions i think it's really important we answer these unanswered questions yet about this outbreak we still don't have a full understanding of how transmission is occurring we know it's happening from person to person but we haven't seen sustained human to human transmission outside of family clusters you know outside of our outside of health care settings so it's really interesting to a phenomenon here that we've got this widespread we don't quite understand the epidemiology and we don't even really have a handle on the incubation period so there's many basic questions you need to be

answered and i think as those get answered this becomes an easier problem to solve but there's a lot of science and medicine that needs to be done and we need to be able to do that in the outbreak zone in order to actually bring this under control there is a great deal of information we don't have about the severity of the disease but for now thank you very much a mish dahlia joining us there with your perspective thanks for your thoughts well other stories we're following today syria russian warplanes have launched more air strikes against rebel held territory in edler province and also in neighboring aleppo the latest strikes come a day after government forces captured 2 strategic villages about $350000.00 syrians have been displaced since early december. well now to iraq 5 more anti-government protests have been killed in the country as police moved in on protest camps security forces clashed with protesters as they cleared the main camp and tahrir square in the heart of the capital baghdad which had been occupied since october comes off the populace current total solder said he no longer endorsed the

protests heating thousands of his followers to vacate the camps will some avenge of aids in the capital baghdad with more on the reaction from protest as to government efforts to end the assistant. this is when the flashpoint of school of saturday's protest where protesters have been trying to stop the government forces opening up the offer a ridge this is the bridge that leaves 2 to how do you square and we've been reaching people and talking to people who feel that they've been betrayed by the sudras who left. they're saying they're going to continue their protests there have been multiple reports of injuries and some are saying that people have been wounded by not just live fire but also by tear gas canisters that the government forces are aiming towards their head. we are protesting against that corrupt government the iranian government sucks speak they doesn't represent us we didn't vote for them the militias they are. they are iranian they are iranian cocked militias we called

on the united nations to intervene and help us from them so if you see they are assassinating us could not be on the killing. of a lot of our activists political activists are disappearing every day we want their health of our of that world for the. very heart of their is the. song to the word erection over the cut of the. many. other places around the globe since right in the security forces have been opening up the roads and bridges this is one of the. learned by the.

in the words star you square those are the allegations by the by the protesters here who say that they will continue their protests they're going to stay there until their demands are met. meanwhile the protests in lebanon have hit $100.00 day mark protesters also rising up against the government demanding an end to corruption and aspiring economic crisis in the country and there's no sign of the unrest coming to an end in the last few hours or chances of trying to storm the government's headquarters in the capital but they have been pushed back by take gas and of course accounting that's coming as an avenue have been struggling to contain the uprising but to protests is accuse the entire political process of being deeply corrupt and a holder has more now from outside government had forces in beirut was a clear operation is on the way. another night of unrest anti-establishment protesters at this time tried to storm a government palace 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 really 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 cannons so they managed to disperse protesters . quickly in fact they've deployed hundreds of anti-riot police and the lebanese army you can really see feel the change in tactics so this new administration the seems a more militarized 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 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. so hard for you on this news hour from london we look at a new documentary detailing his story cases of abuse under the former regime in gambia why victims still waiting for justice. we also visit the german town with a visible reminder of the country's anti semitic past. and then later in sport find out which culture is set the standards act to bike as a classic under story. white

house lawyers defending donald trump at 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 has addressed the trial where they will have 3 days to argue their case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. castra a small the opening argument of president trumps attorney saturday focused on 2 main points that trump did nothing wrong when he asked ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden a potential rival in the upcoming u.s. elections and that it's the democrats who wish to steal back the white house by hurting trouble politically 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. polling this week shows trump's approval rating is the highest it's been since he took office 44 percent of americans say he's doing a good job higher than when the ukraine allegations 1st surfaced and most instances when there had been political crises of course the president's popularity is a numbers go down in this case i think the president will actually be strengthened by this and especially after his acquittal acquittal is likely given most members of the senate jury are republicans and it takes a 2 thirds majority to convict get potential new evidence against trump continues to emerge harness and indicted ukrainian american businessman says he shared this audio recording with investigators that are a little bit of all of the way. to go ok that's the way it appears to be trump's voice ordering the firing of the u.s.

ambassador to kiev democrats say corrupt ukrainian officials had wanted her gone those same officials then began smearing biden if you really want the truth you want witnesses you want documents we hope our republican colleagues will agree with that democrats hope to convince at least 4 republican senators to agree to open the trial to new witnesses including some of president trump's closest advisers who have not yet testified the senate is expected to vote on that question next week if their answer is no then president trump could be acquitted within days time i do joe castro al-jazeera washington. i'm now joined by scott anderson he's a fellow and governance studies at the brookings institute in washington so as we were hearing that we had to opening arguments from president trump's lawyers today attacking the credibility of the rationale that was used for impeachment saying

that the evidence just doesn't exist to support this case. you did hear that that's a big part of their case they're really approaching this the way you see defense attorneys often approach criminal cases they are saying look at the very high burden of evidence and we're going to try and poke holes in various elements of the case that the house has brought forward they are trying to bring into question the credibility of certain witnesses they are trying to say well we don't have any clear evidence of president himself saying i am holding the security assistance as a condition for these investigations although we have heard mcveigh and other people come forward the challenge of this is that a lot of the evidence that they say is missing is evidence that some of the witnesses that they are resisting calling would presumably be able to provide one way or the other other but tory or something that supports the president's guilt so there's a little bit of tension between some of the arguments that are made today and their

position the no further witnesses should be called no further evidence should be considered right because we know that the republicans are pushing for this happen as quickly as possible and really the suggestion is that there shouldn't be any witnesses but the most significant development in the next few days will be that vote on calling up witnesses and then that will be additional measures which mailman may not compel them to testify. that's correct the question then becomes well are they going to be able to invoke executive privilege we've heard the trump administration indicate that they will try to but it's really a legal question as to whether executive privilege is something that the senate has to respect in the impeachment context kind of i think the mainstream view is that it doesn't most privileges that apply in litigation contexts don't automatically imply in the senate context and so it's possible the senate might overrule that the white house could then sue in federal courts over that question they threaten to do so they said they're going to try and drag this out but if the kind of mainstream

view is right it's not clear that that litigation would drag on as long as it might in other contexts as we've seen in regards to certain subpoenas on the house side so there's a little ambiguity there but long story short it seems like the senate is likely to have a lot of control over what sort of testimony is brought forward is compelled from these witnesses if they decide to call them the real question is whether they decide to call them at all how are they going to exercise that control should the scenario arise well presumably they'll issue a subpoena people will be compelled to arrive if they do not come forward and answer questions they want they'll have to pursue contempt measures they can try and pursue through the justice department trying to prove there are some historical cases of pursuing contempt directly through congress and congressional mechanisms all of those haven't been used in a very long time and then there may be a legal fight over that if it really comes to the point of having to compel these people to testify but if you have

a judicial ruling that says no executive privilege doesn't apply these people really need to testify you know if the executive branch refused to comply with that refused that the justice department force that ruling that would be a real crisis and rule of law of a scale that we haven't seen so far and i'm at least optimistic i don't think it'll go quite that far at the point we have a judicial ruling there's going to be a lot of pressure to comply with it. the democrats completely united would say on i think going to be completely united on that procedural vote to call witnesses next week we don't know a 100 percent but i think the odds are good we've seen a few senators such as joe manchin from west virginia who are more moderate have certain relationships with the trump administration have at times said things where there are a little more reserved than their colleagues on impeachment related questions and generally have a close relationship with the trump administration but today we did hear senator manchin say i found what some of the lawyers president's lawyers compelling it's

interesting but it made me think hey we really need to hear from mick mulvaney john bolton and these other witnesses so he seems to have doubled down publicly on the position of supporting additional witnesses and i support i suspect many other democrats in a similar position to him will feel the same way they may ultimately not vote to convict the president in the end but on this more procedural call to say we need additional witnesses i think that there you'll see more democratic unity and i do think there's still a possibility some republican senators may lean that way as well in the end thanks very much appreciate it scott anderson from the brookings institution. now some of the stories we're tracking a rescue charity says that in 6 distress calls from vessels carrying migrants across central mediterranean with 72 people safe from an overcrowded boat in the latest operation 59 people rescued by the chinese rescue ship the ocean viking. they were attempting the dangerous crossing from libya to italy talks about borders

is saying that there are now $223.00 survivors on board that vessel meanwhile the death of a teenager from eritrea in a libyan detention camp this week has highlighted the plight of more than 40000 africans living in makeshift centers i said and detained while attempting to cross to europe in this special report tony but we this is one detention center near the libyan capital tripoli. driven by poverty or 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 there's no here is because i came here to make money and 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 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 make money if the people are 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 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 debrett's yawn escaped 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 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 a lot of risk they are going through crises. going through they risk all this see they are going through. the ups makes i'm not proud of myself i'm ashamed of myself cause i kept on asking myself why are by brought them to this award. for the migrants have learned to cope with hardship and limited choices they've had to the so-called crossing season with karma sees in the mediterranean is approaching a 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 . libya's national oil company is saying that it's lost more than $250000000.00 in revenue in less than a week after many of its major facilities were seized tribal groups loyal to rebel military commander who for hafter took control of several coastal export terminals and southern oil fields earlier this month that calls production to 4 by more than 70 percent after has been attempting to take control of the capital tripoli from the un backed government for almost 10 months now meanwhile the french newspaper le monde is reporting new claims of saudi and russian influence in the libyan civil war in december officials from the un recognized government accused moscow of deploying russian mercenaries to fight alongside after according to le monde these mercenaries work for a private russian security firm called whacking a group and according to the newspaper says. well says has received funding from

saudi arabia that month has been a group of boys anywhere between $302000.00 people it was created the beginning of the conflict in 2014 and has reportedly sent messages to syria see don and central africa trace impact as an on resident fellow at the middle east institute and the founder of the consultancy libya analysis he says if the story is consistent with russian policy well there's every reason to believe that the story in the moment is is accurate it follows in a chain of such stories and the russians are willing to use whatever leavers they have so they use some diplomatic lever's they give drones when that gives them influence they've used training to help us forces before and this use over the past 9 months of mercenaries is only a continuation of the reconnaissance and training that they had given previously i think the wrinkle in the lamont story that's worth pointing out to your viewers is the question of saudi payment because we've known about both 300 or

a 1000 but the idea that there are multiple huffed are backers working together and even ones that don't traditionally coordinate like the saudis and immoralities coordinate about libya matters all the time but the idea that saudi and russia are coordinating in such a direct manner that's a very interesting wrinkle to look at how they're influencing the conflict. also ahead on this news hour from london pain and grief in brazil as it marks a year since one of the world's worst mining disasters and then in sports a famous face witnesses a memorable moment in history in skiing history. hello

there tend 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 63 degrees in moscow about 5 to 6 degrees above the average for this time of year now by monday the temperatures 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 this 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. a healthy environment depends on a healthy insect population but across the world. numbers are

dwindling. countless creatures are declining as a result of human activity. people in power investigates the extent of the crisis and asks what can be done to abate it. insect to get in on al-jazeera. to. welcome back you're watching the news our look at headlines president xi jinping says china is facing a grave situation in trying to contain a deadly new strain of the coronavirus that's killed 41 people and spread beyond china's borders protesters in the lebanese capital beirut have been pushed back by

take gas and water cannon off to trying to storm government forces and the white house lawyers defending donald trump at the senate's impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine. now to brazil flooding and landslides there in the southeast of the country of killed at least 11 people 2 days of tarantula rain in belo horizonte have left 16 people missing more than 2 and a half 1000 homeless more rain is also expected in the region as well as all the parts of brazil including rio de janeiro and sao paolo meanwhile brazil is also marking the 1st anniversary of the country's worst ever industrial disaster at least 259 people were killed when a dam collapsed sending a tide of toxic waste in this into the city of goma denia breve relatives attended memorial ceremonies and released balloons to commemorate those who died on monday

rapido joins us now from broome a dino so obviously a very difficult day for the relatives of those who died in this toxic collapse tell us more about the mood there and what people are saying about it. certainly so maryam it is a somber day it is a sad day in brazil as you mentioned not only is this today commemorating the one year anniversary of one of the worst industrial tragedies in the country's history there is also widespread flooding and and for rental rains that continue to to fall here with more in the forecast in fact i want to give you a sense of where we are right now if i can ask our camera man to to pan a little to my right here you'll see the extent of the flooding there are houses that are underwater this is the river that goes through the middle of the town. that we can confirm you mentioned some of the casualties already in the state of maine as you guys are already 30 confirmed deaths from the ongoing flooding here in

the state of maine as it is' and into my the but again what we saw today in the somber atmosphere that were marches lot of sadness a lot of tears you mentioned the balloons that were released to commemorate the one year anniversary of the boom of the you know disaster but there's also a lot of anger a lot of animosity against the mining company itself responsible for the collapse dam that company being volley even though i'm a huge a majority of residents of boom of the new depend on the mining industry for their livelihoods those attitudes are shifting those attitudes are shifting we know that there's a lot of anger a lot of animosity against this company but there's also a lot of fear knowing that this is the rainy season that there is more rain coming that there are other dams that are categorized that be as being at risk dams similar to one that collapsed last year people are afraid that it's not a question of if this type of disaster could happen again but a question of of when it will happen again mary i'm. right because it's been one

year since that dam collapse and as you say it destroyed this community now people are worried that the same thing could happen again is the government taking measures to reinforce or to strengthen these structures that contingency plans in place to prevent something like this from occurring. well miriam interesting we enough the disaster that happened in burma do you know it happened within. the very beginning of now does it ministration here in brazil and we know that president wilson otto has has actually ease restrictions on mining now the company itself vialli has said has vowed to close 10 of their dams that are similar to the one that was that collapse last year that's progress we also know from prosecutors that we spoke to earlier this week that criminal charges homicide charges have been filed against individuals with the valley company including the c.e.o. . as well as employees with a nother company a german company to have sued for helping vali hide the fact that they knew that

this that this dam was out risk whether or not the government is taking any measures to prevent this type of disaster from happening again we don't know for sure if anything concrete is being put in place but those charges against the executives against employees of ali is a good 1st step after all with the people of burma do you want the people of maine as you guys and the people of brazil want is accountability so that this type of disaster never happens again merriam thank you from burma to brazil monita. the leader of israel's blue and white party benny gantz is heading to the united states on monday to join prime minister benjamin netanyahu for discussions with president donald trump gantz leads the largest single party in the israeli parliament but neither he nor his political rival netanyahu have been able to form a ruling coalition this despite 2 elections last year and a 3rd scheduled for among the 3 men are expected to discuss a trial it's a long awaited middle east peace plan meanwhile

a senior palestinian diplomat has dismissed that peace plan as fraud this from the chief negotiator erekat it says the deal preaches international law this is actually the fraud of the century the fraud of the century but it's the. they speaking about jerusalem being israel's capital no palestinian state no 96 of them borders the next station of the jordan valley and the dead sea shores and extension of the settlements legal system israeli settlements that that means. destroying all the terms of her francis provided for to achieve peace between palestinians israelis dropping the 2 state solution of the radar screens and above all cancelling everything relating to international law and international committee . well now to turkey rescuers there are searching for survivors from friday's earthquake that killed 29 people and injured more than a 1000 though it's fear that the figures will rise as rescue teams continue to

search through the rubble of buildings that have collapsed it was a 6.8 magnitude quake centered near the town of said reach in southeastern turkey blue is a nearby ellis hill. this man is happy and relieved as his relative is pulled out alive from the straw poll she has 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 emergency teams and security forces have been mobilized to provide aid and assistance. and the onlookers some of them are all mecurio 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 structures risk areas have been working here looking for and the survivors buildings that have collapsed like this one were either badly constructed or older the damaged or the problem for history of earthquakes meant to say turkey used to do more now to ensure building safety turkey is among the world's most suspect reactive countries and sits on several active full lines dozens of minor earthquakes and aftershocks up here nearly every day. quakes themselves don't kill. know when they're going to happen but it's the engineers and construct a duty to build compatible buildings for now on the 5 buildings have collapsed but there is no record of the damaged buildings in eleazer yet that's why many people are afraid to go inside their homes and live in the freezing temperatures it will be difficult to seek shelter in sports halls or other large places so you know i'm

close although el to syria and turkey. and a documentary from gambia aims to shed light on historic cases of torture and murder under the regime for many. it details allegations of torture right and the killing of dissidents but the victims saying they are still waiting for justice. reports. i cannot bury my father is a documentary about a young man whose father was executed during former gambian president he's 22 year rule without the body he's unable to give his father a proper funeral it was erected by another who also lost her father hundreds of bodies are believed to be buried in mass graves yet to be discovered the gambia has put in place a truth and reconciliation commission only 3 people were prosecuted all of those who admitted to torture rape and murder have so far been set free much the surprise of the victims have been made to feel on reasonable when they're asking for justice

when talking about crimes against humanity. as a victims are coming out of it to say we are here and there's so much power as i think i use it now because for so long. human rights organizations say jummy and his security forces tortured raped and killed dissidents some were even reportedly fed to his pet crocodiles in 2007 he made a claim to al-jazeera saying he could cure patients dying of aids hiv aids and his health minister and both experimented on hundreds of hiv positive men and women. in children nearly all of them have since died. but. the. 3 years since jimmy fled into exile the survivors say justice is too slow to come with the government showing a willingness towards justice political party which was allowed to hold public demonstrations after jamie announced his desire to return to pick gambia. democracy

is a messy business president stepped foot into this country he would be arrested and then of course i mean. since the. last month the gambia took me and more to the international criminal court of justice accusing its military of committing genocide against the muslim minority but the crimes committed by gambian security services during the previous government against its own people are still not being prosecuted worse some perpetrators are still in charge of security in our close allies of president adam a barrow for those who have survived there's a sense that the process of justice is being intentionally obstructed every time i want. to. see. some of the mass graves are believed to be in

jamie's farmhouse but the government has made no effort to recover the remains so far stalling the process of grief and healing that so many need to move forward. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. world will commemorate international holocaust day on monday but in germany there's going concern at the rising levels of anti-semitism one example is the presence of historical works of art that reflect a country's anti jewish past ticket a one sculpture in the eastern town a vision which is at the center of a court battle now on a cane reports from essential me. that i'm back 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 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 old self is a terrible fortification of judaism been for a binnacle judaism and a defamation of the jews falsified cation of judaism defamation insulting the jews the jewish people of israel with the 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 is 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 or with 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 motives of anti-semitism that are occurring let's name it so respect it was speaking of the so-called new right across europe for us or 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 britain back a plaque lies under the you wouldn't zone 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 cain al-jazeera in eastern germany i have news from dark area protesters some of them dressed in sheepskins and cowbells have gathered outside gary's parliament to demand action over water shortages demonstrators or residents of the city affair neck suspect bribery and corruption of behind the problem which they are now describing as a looming humanitarian crisis president to say alex only water source this today in a down will be empty in 2 weeks. so lad is probably rivals are set for a repeat performance in the english f.a. cup but the disc heads. land. trust is fundamental to all our relationships we trust banks with our money doctors without

really personal protection got what happens to trust in a world driven by our us as more want to stations are made for us by these complex piece of code the question that comes up is inevitable can we trust algorithms in the 1st of a 5 part series hourly rate questions the neutrality of digital deductions trust me i'm an algorithm on a jersey of india a nation of 1300000000 people deeply religious desperately divided i think goodness you know the action which is potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity human who is making up to get back out but releases of his ancestors and why is it getting was joining me are pushed us here on my journey in search of india's soul coming soon on al-jazeera.

sport now but andy. thank you so much merriment one of tennis's faces rivalries is set to resume in the australian open home favorite nick kiryas setting up a 4th round encounter with top seed rafael nadal so hell malik reports. it's the grudge match tennis fans have been waiting for vs rivals nick curious than rafi on the dollar will face off in the 4th round of the australian open. the darl is looking an ominous former head of the showdown comfortably beating public or in a booster in straight sets in the last 32. the world number one says this was his best performance of the tournament so far and finding his form couldn't have

come at a better time. with the spaniards set to take on a man that mocked him earlier in the competition and who nadar has accused of having no respect for other players serious ones the method to intentionally hitting a dog with a shot during a match. is clear that of course when he does stuff that in my opinion is not good i don't like the players who are made to be important for the tour when he is ready to play his best tennis player with passion. he's one of these guys. when he's doing the other stuff of course i like. curious is shown he has what it takes to deliver a big performance and to advance he had to be the highest he did care and catch you know i the australian shot to fame by upsetting the dark wimbledon in 2014 and at times against caution of he died that form back in.

but after blowing a 2 set lead he needed to get through a final set tie break against his russian opponent. and as it crept towards midnight in melbourne the crowd finally got what they wanted i hear us winning the longest match obvious korea and setting up a face off against the dollar what about the trainers is an amazing foil you know he's a you know a good with a gross under some other thing about iran obviously but my legs going to not bother going to shoot so i seriously have to be at his best to be hopes to be done so well molly al-jazeera i number 2 seed carolina prisca is the latest top ranked women's piet's be knocks out pliska who is the semifinalist in melbourne last year stunned in the 3rd round here by $38.00 c. anastasio of a chunk of the russian base in particular in straight sets 7676 comes just a day after defeats for serena williams and also for defending champion miami i say

i also gone 5th seed alina's fitz alina ukrainian well beaten by former french open in wimbledon champion gabino mcgorry said the spaniard losing just 3 games in this straight sets with. no problems tied for number 4 seed simona halep the reigning wimbledon champion beating yulia potential in straight sets to reach around for the remaining suits on grandson champion has yet to drop a set in the title it's. now a late goal from morocco he saw from the far end southampton a replay against tottenham in the english f.a. cup carries a marina staying. so the lead in this 4th round size saw him in with the opener in the 2nd half before equalizing for the hunt with just 3 minutes to go 11 the final school. chelsea are through its around 5 machine bash why with the opener against hole that was his 1st goal for the club since october. somewhere added the 2nd in a 21 win. second say west brom not south west ham of the premier league

a goal from qana townsend deciding this one a winning return to london stated for west ham west brom manager sorry 7 village he was fired by west ham in 27 saying and leicester held off a spirited challenge from 2nd tier brant fit not sure scoring the only goal of this game after just 4 minutes i did have some chances to equalise but it finished one mail to the league's. boss alone as the new manager k.k. said suffered his 1st defeat since taking charge of the spanish champions beaten to neil away of valencia there was some fighting between the 2 sets of fans outside the mistah stadium before kickoff lanceolata issuing a statement saying those involved had nothing to do with the values of their club australia's men's football team of qualified for the olympic games for the 1st time since 2008 the australians beating defending champions is back a stand in the 3rd place player for the under $23.00 asian championships the only

goal of the game coming from nick the augustine are strongly joint host japan saudi arabia and south korea as the continent's representatives. this is close to being the greatest achievement of my coaching period because again this wasn't part of my my job. my job was to coach as socceroos but i just felt that i needed to step in and help these kids because. you want to give these kids a great journey and lot. pakistan of beats in bangladesh in the 2nd t 20 of their series in la whole passing 1st bangladesh were strictly to a score of 136 to 6 that same by playing international cricket in pakistan for the 1st time in 12 years pakistan counts in barbarism and how to face both it are centuries is the hunting east and 9 when with more than 3 hours to spare pakistan more states hope of the world rankings if they complete a 3 mail series sweep on monday. austria's masses meyer has triumphed on homes not

one of skiing's most prestigious events austrian born almost swardson ago one of the thousands of fans out so watch the world cup downhill race on the field strive course in kit's buel to tom let me jump in my becoming the 1st home winner in 6 years. and have a look at this for a shot from china's action we would golds dubai desert classic we're holding out for an eagle on the 1st hole of his final round for birdies followed for the 34 year old as he carded a 67 will go into sunday's final round one shot clear of that sort of belief. ok that is all the sport for now let's get back to mary in london andy thanks so much well that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news before but isn't coming up around of all the day's top stories including all the latest on measures being taken by the government in beijing to contain the deadly coronavirus.

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artist. a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more rewarding to create than to imitate. dreaming of vincent a witness documentary on al-jazeera. gives you a visual dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances given very free when they fail you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me mary huff and i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take a al-jazeera bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you.

down to 0. the in the. the. emergency measures in china millions in lock down and transport links suspended in the race to contain a deadly new virus present she will the situation is grave. i'm mary i'm watching al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program lebanese protesters attempt to storm the government's headquarters in beirut that pushed back quite tear gas and water cannons. in iraq at least 5 demonstrates is there a shot dead as security forces move in.