and talk about the stories that matter just 0. china bans the trade in wild animals for food as the coronavirus claims more victims will have a live update on the crisis from china's national health commission. hello i'm sam is a dime this is al jazeera live from doha so coming up. 5 more protesters killed in iraq as security forces crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. rescue teams refuse to give up hope of finding more survivors in the rubble of a powerful earthquake in turkey plus. that you have an instruction overwhelming.

that the president did nothing wrong. donald trump's legal team deliver the case in defense of the u.s. president the trial. now china is ramping up containment measures as the outbreak of the coronavirus accelerates in a few moments we'll be hearing from the country's health ministry just under an hour ago china banned all trade in wildlife sold for food the virus originated in an animal market in the city of one hand on saturday president xi jinping warned the country is facing a grave situation where the death toll has gone up to 56 people another 2000 people are infected 300 of whom are in critical condition and china has expand.

drastic travel restrictions effectively putting a number of cities in hawaii province under quarantine close to 60000000 people are on the lockdown and cases have now been reported in 11 other countries these include the us france australia and several asian countries canada now has become the latest country to report a case toronto public health launched extensive case and contact management to prevent and control for the spread of the infection. to be clear health officials are actively working to ensure that we gentrify everyone this person was in contact with in order to contain this virus al-jazeera is adrian brown is in hong kong he's standing outside a theme park that's now been closed but 1st let's speak to scott heiler in beijing cannot they do what's going on in mainland china scott another day more

restrictions this time on wildlife tell us about that. yes you know this ban just announced as you said some in the last hour on wildlife trade and those establishments that previously conducted trade in wildlife are going to be isolated and disinfected so a big move here in china just in the last hour and as you mentioned we're going to be hearing from the health ministry very soon a press conference to be held this is something they did just a couple of days ago so i think right now what we're going to hear is probably an update on exactly what happened what is happening here in china when it comes to dealing with this coronavirus obviously what's what's been going on in will han and who province but one thing to note here you know even in the capital beijing there are some travel restrictions new travel restrictions being put into place long distance bus stations here in the city have been shut down the concern is because the. entire province bus system is less regulated than say speed trains at high

speed trains in the airlines so there is concern that people could be on these long distance bus trips without really being tracked in other words they don't always have to show they are d. so they can't really track where they came from or where they've traveled from so that's something they've done here and also the subway system here we were just at a subway stop nearby just a couple of hours ago everybody who was going to join the telecoms view is to a press conference being given now by the chinese national health commission let's listen in to what they're saying just when we know we have been able to. identify the. crew and. we have formulated talking to cook plans including a case of prevention prevention control. a logical observation we have also conducted surgical vision and provides the medical

cases to the medical emergencies we have a hans to the incapability of the timely disease capabilities who have guided they were hired to provide the prevention measures we have taken this as a top priority in prague our priority i've set 8 to working group we have also closed relative markers in speedy magnetite in control of the legal breeding and transportation trading and the consumption of wildlife and wild animals we have closed on a temporary basis airports train stations and other channels from or how to prevent the spread of virus or have all caught also coordinated the rises and for central medical reserve to distribute relevant to the tourist 200 and we have to support it prepare prepare to suit gloves and goggles to hide the central government has embarked a 1000000000 yuan for funds for such

a project for to support the prevention and treating in whole the problem is rough have several teams of 100 doctors in hope. some doctors are ready for departure the military also sent 550 military doctors i remember workers we have also 8 teams reserve teams of over 1000 people to ready for departure and thirdly we have streisand a nationwide disease you prevention control a total of 30 provinces have initiated a level one response to public emergencies and formulated a community based plans for prevention contro. we have introduced great priest copyist our management tracked the health conditions of people leaving well and also people that have traveled to how we have promoted good practices and her

baby in the prevention no control of the disease we have provided a free ticket to can return services for air flights trains. and also an expressway is an altruist suspended tour groups. and post control large scale activities to reduce to concentration of personnel we have also the suit public prevention and precaution guides. and in 6 aspects and. imposed a strict measures ventilation temporary screen temperature screening and sterilization of the key supports and a close transport isn't vehicles force efforts to treat patient we have probably had it as a mandated treatment plans published the list of does nation's hospitals and fever clinics about country level we have combined traditional chinese medicine and burst

a medicine and introduce individualized treatment plan as for patients in critical conditions we have also implemented. just ensure that the treatment fees will be subsidized for the patients to make sure that no patients will. needs to worry about medical expenses 50 intensify scientific research you have set up a nationwide group to seek breakthrough in passenger trees inc critical infection treatment of virus research and traditional chinese medicine progression 6 public education every day at 8 o'clock national health conditions will publish national data. infection cases. midnight previous stay out of provide interpretations of the relevant policy measures there's a better knowledge of knowledge of d.c.'s prevention to the public servants to the

prince corporation we have managed permission about this. profession to go oh we have shared for 2 normal sequence of the. virus can strings and letter x. gen they was house organizing have sold. sold their precious into the got chinese government to demonstrate to the chinese leadership in global house we have to have gathered expert in was going in the car to work together and after evaluation this. will be. stablished is not a public house emergency over age national country's not such a concern we believe that week long spring festival occasion is the best window for isolation allistair our stair eyes are on a grand scale and critical period for prevention disappeared with disease of outside of going forward under the leadership of santa leading group prevention and

control will provide guidance and target imagist to an a stance and the stress in the work according to law. 53 will be will be working. on a whole new problems to. enforce our measures according to law to make sure that people are close contact will be reduced at the concentration level and to work in together to terribly and fashion to make it a disease control disease into. ridges and lex next will be strengthening our planning and certainly improve prevent prevention control and all personnel's. to other parts of the part of what we in the last 15 days will make would.

be communities and to track a person. no patients will be left to worry about medical expenses some of the comments being made there by the way the director of the chinese national health commission outlining several points and several steps which the government is taking to try and get a handle on the coronavirus which is. emerged from the. region let's go over now to scott haile he's in beijing scott listening in to this very clear message to underline i guess all of this is that the government is aware and is in control of what's happening. absolutely it's kind of a list going down the list of what they have done and what they need to do and as you highlighted their semi one of the things is that you know people are concerned about what kind of care they're going to be getting and they're saying that the government is saying that no expenses will be paid by any of the civilians the

citizens who are impacted by this virus one thing it says thing is they click down you know something that was emphasized and that is the resources that have gone down to one and to the affected areas. that they have doing as much as they possibly can because there has been a lot of criticism on social media particularly in han because of lack of medical staff lack of supplies that are needed in those areas and is as we heard they have sent down some military medics some military personnel and other civilian medical personnel down there but from what we're hearing there still is a lack of staff and a lack of supplies one thing that's interesting that they're trying to do to to combat that there are 2 hospitals being built right now for the coronavirus we know that one they started a couple of days ago they say that should be done in a couple of days the 2nd one they're saying is probably the take another couple of weeks they're looking at possibly 2000 plus beds again this is specifically to deal

with this coronavirus situation this is something we saw 17 years ago during the sars outbreak there was a hospital built very hastily just outside here in beijing but again it's just you know this is kind of a list a laundry list if you will kind of a reassurance of what the government is doing for this coronavirus you know it was interesting she didn't being the president coming out yesterday saying that this is a great situation and they're dealing with it and they're communicating again that something they said in this press conference the ministry of health national health that they're working with w.h.o. they're sharing information with w.h.o. because that's something they're very much criticized about 17 years ago. all right thanks got there and now we're going to speak david brown he's outside a theme park it's been shut down clearly despite all perhaps because of all the containment measures it's really sucking the life out of what would usually be some lively new year's celebration days.

absolutely sammy i mean in what is another body blow to hong kong's tourism industry already reeling from months of protests ocean park one of the most popular tourist attractions in hong kong has announced it's going to be closed until further notice the same goes for the disney theme park on land near here that's also going to close until further notice both places extremely popular with tourists from the mainland and as i say it's another nail in the coffin of hong kong's ailing economy tourism arrivals here in hong kong have dropped by more than 50 percent in the past 6 months and of course tourism is the lifeblood of the hong kong economy but these places are going to remain shut until further notice because the authorities here are anxious to try to further contain the spread of this virus so far there are 5 confirmed infections here in hong kong but also several 100

suspected cases now of course this all has echoes of the sars virus 17 years ago almost 300 people died then so what lessons if any have been learned since that time i've been finding out. all right thanks so much adrian brown there. security forces in iraq have killed 5 protesters during a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations police in the capital moved into streets near to where you square firing tear gas and burning tents the area became a focal point for the protests ever since they began in october saturday's crackdown came shortly after the influential shelled cleric knocked out a southerner with drew is support for the demonstrations. so i'm a binge of a this in the capsule way despite efforts in the end the sit in to end the season rather some protesters say they won't give up this is when the flashpoint of school

saturday's protests where protesters have been trying to stop the government forces opening up the offer a bridge this is the bridge that leads to the square and we've been meeting people and talking to people who feel that they've been betrayed by the sudras who left. they are 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 life fire but also by tear gas canisters that the government forces are aiming towards their head. we are protesting against a 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 militias we called on the united nations to intervene and help us from them so if you see they are assassinating could not be. killing. on the

marks of our activists political activists are disappearing every day we want the health of our of that world please help the. song say. the word reaction to the many. other places around the since friday night security forces have been opening up the roads and bridges this is one of the cans with allegedly heard by the security forces here in the word star you square those are the allegations by. it's by the protesters here who say that they will continue their protests they're going to stay until their demands are met. police in lebanon have fought with protesters who

tried to storm the government headquarters in the capital security forces used tear gas and water cannon to push back demonstrators saturday marked 100 days of the protest began people are demanding an end to corruption and the government to tackle the economic crisis a new cabinet was announced on tuesday but protesters have rejected it. rescuers in southeast turkey are searching for survivors after friday's earthquake in which $31.00 people were killed and more than $1000.00 injured people are still being found alive in the rubble this 5 year old girl and her mother were pulled from under a collapsed building on saturday it was feared the number of dead will rise the magnitude 6.8 quake was centered near the town of streets which sunoco solo records were led by city of allows. this man is happy and relieved as his relative is pulled out alive from this rubble she had been stuck under the rock

and debra's of a collapsed building for nearly 20 hours after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit turkey's ison province of. it is my mother the son rushes back through the rubble there are still 4 more people stuck 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 on macarius while others hope to hear from loved ones and. i think all buildings have to be replaced by new ones we need structures risk areas have been working here looking for any survivors buildings that have collapsed like this one were either badly constructed. or older the damaged without power for history of earthquakes menace a turkey needs to do more now to ensure building safety turkey is among the world's

most suspect reactive countries and sits on several active full vines dozens of minor earthquakes and aftershocks up here nearly every day. earth quakes themselves don't kill geologists 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 cars or other large places see now because although al-jazeera and turkey. fighting has flared up again in libya this vies a recent surge of diplomatic activity conferences were held in berlin algiers last week to end the conflict but rockets have now been 5 in the capital the internationally recognized government blames forces loyal to warlords khalifa haftar mahmud up there one has more from tripoli. one moroccan man was killed by

a random rocket that landed in the vicinity of m 80 get airport the only operation an airport in the libyan capital tripoli the only witness the government says that half the us forces landed the attack that tripoli based health ministry meanwhile says that civil other civilians were injured by random rockets that landed in densely populated areas and will launch it by after forces many of these rockets launched by have those forces landed in neighborhoods a densely populated area in the city center other rockets landed in our other neighborhood near the city center now the tripoli based government is accusing hafter the forces of committing war crimes by targeting these residential areas it also says that these attacks are violations of the truce or the peace talks and the cease fire accord that was proposed by both turkey and russia it also says that

these violations by half their forces are dealing deal a ling the peace talks that are the youth to be held in february engineer for now the latest report by the united nations secretary general until you get turkish revealed that nearly $300.00 civilians were killed since the beginning of the military offensive long said by half that its forces to take control of the capital tripoli back in april and nearly 400 civilians were wanted now the same report also revealed that about 140000 people left their homes because of the fighting or rescue charity ship her safe 78 in the mediterranean off the libyan coast earlier 59 others were rescued as they attempted the dangerous journey to european shores hundreds of people have died trying to cross the mediterranean sea in recent months. flooding and landslides in southeast brazil of killed at least 30

people it's been 2 days of torrential rain in belo horizonte the capital of maine that's going to state 17 people are missing more than 2 and off 1000 dollars now homeless more rain is expected in the region as well as other parts of brazil and the memorials being held to mark a year since brazil's worst industrial design at least $259.00 people were killed in that of it others went missing when a dam collapsed sending toxic waste into the city of ramadi no relatives attended ceremonies and released balloons to commemorate those who died. and there are high low was that memorial in burma do you know. apart from the sadness in the morning from the residents of brazil there's also a lot of fear a lot of trepidation given the ongoing rains in the heavy flooding that's taking place in the state of minas is it ice we unfortunately can confirm that at least 30

people have died within the context of these floods and you if you see behind me if you can see behind me this is the river that flows through downtown through my the you know you can see that it's already spilled it's spilled it's its banks here some houses are already flooded here and not only that there's there's a concern given that there are other dams this disaster that took place in 2019 reminds people that there are other dams that are categorized as at risk by the brazilian government so many people here fear that the question of of if there could be another disaster like the one that took place in 200-1000 many people here fear that it's only a matter of time before another disaster can take place and that's something that's very much on the minds of residents of broome idea and something that people here in the state of maine as it is' and the people of brazil very much want to avoid. a u.s. senator is accusing the white house of refusing to release information about the murder of saudi journalist jim moussa shoji the director of national intelligence

was supposed to hand over the report earlier this month but missed the deadline senator ron wyden says if it's not produced by the end of president trumps pietschmann trial he'll trigger a process allowing congress to release the document without going through the white house jay was killed in 2018 that the saudi consulates in istanbul. white house lawyers defending donald trump of the senate's impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine it's the 1st time his legal team is address the trial will have 2 more days to argue trump's case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress high ditto castro reports from washington d.c. the opening argument of president trump's 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 trump 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 specially after his acquittal acquittal is likely given most members of

the senate jury are republicans and it takes a 2 thirds majority to convict yet potential new evidence against trump continues to emerge harness and indicted ukrainian american businessman says he shared this audio recording with investigators they were a little over a year after the or whatever they were to figure out 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 castro al-jazeera washington. protests are being held in australia calling for the national day to be changed or scrapped altogether. ah demonstrators say the anniversary represents the start of colonial oppression and shouldn't be a day of celebration australia day marks the arrival of the 1st fleet of convicts ships from britain in 1788. calls for change have been growing louder over the past decade with sandy thomas explains straightly as current government is unlikely to take action. a growing number of people here and many thousands of them took part in a march to the center of sydney earlier on sunday say january the 26th biggest day to celebrate but as one to come emirates gender the 26788 was the day when british

explorer settled in sydney but many indigenous australians see that as the beginning of an invasion and increasingly it's not just indigenous australians who want the dates to change while the marches ended up here in a park in the central city and i spoke to some of them about why they've come out to protest. what happened was actually a genocide in fact. a long time ago and. what we do you keep easy way to taking risk for stranded on we can't stop every reconciliation when 1st nations people maybe have the day that celebrates on nation on the day that cause saw a much destruction and they see the decimated their entire country that they see things done in parallel you can see the timing right right right now it's oh yeah. messages in person there's nothing it comes the same so solidarity is that there are events like this one going on in cities runs across australia on sunday those

attending them both but takes almost any day to change the one when whom australians come on the ambiguously celebrates australians brought us into government doesn't see it that way they say no change is going to happen momentum does seem to me and these people inside. let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now china has banned commercial wildlife trade in markets supermarkets and restaurants because the corona virus outbreak all areas that breed wildlife are being isolated the transportation of wildlife is now banned the death toll has gone up to 56 people with almost 60000000 under lockdown. young farmer we have taken preventative control measures into han as our top priority and we have set up a frontline working group to guide the local authorities in relevant efforts we

have closed relevant markets in speedy manners to tighten control of illegal breeding transportation trading and consumption of wildlife or wild animals we have close on a temporary basis airports train stations and other exit channels from hard to prevent the spread of the virus we have also coordinated the mobilization of central medical researchers to distribute the relevant medical material to hone. canada has become the latest country to report a case of corona virus at least 11 other countries already have patients with the disease the u.s. france and russia are planning transportation to help their citizens leave city yet the center of the outbreak security forces in iraq have killed 5 protesters during a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations police in the capital baghdad moved into streets near to where you square firing tear gas and burning tents the area became a focal point for the protests ever since they began in october. police in lebanon

of fault with protesters who tried to storm the government headquarters in the capital security forces used tear gas and water cannon to push back demonstrators people are demanding an end to corruption and want the government to tackle the helmet crisis. rescuers in southeast turkey are searching for survivors after friday's earthquake which $31.00 people were killed and more than $1000.00 injured people are still being found alive in the rubble and it's fear the number of dead will rise. there's a headline for the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story so stay with us. the whole d.n.a. of al-jazeera is to deliver news of people who are subject to the decisions made by the pound or is simply no way to put all these people they're all individuals with children the lowlifes and the bookstores this place has become a complete trash you have to feel or to treat the listen to this in respects

mohamed bin solomon and jeff phase all stupid man now linked by a scandal the saudi crown prince is accused of hacking the phone of the american billionaire mother came to denies the allegations an investigation has begun and put it main for bin solomon and how vulnerable might anyone else speak to such cyber attacks this is inside story. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria so we have the world's richest man we have one of the middle east's most influential leaders and a message between the 2 which will most.