2050 plus we're looking at 11 and how long before it turns to the man counting the cost on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian fell again this is that live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes china bans the trade in wild animals after more people die from the coronavirus there's a warning that it's gaining strength also. 5 more protesters killed in iraq during a crackdown by security forces on anti-government demonstrations. living below the poverty line in bangladesh we look at how people

a coping with rising costs and falling wages. during successfully completes the test flight of the world's largest twin engine jet its 1st certified aircraft since the 737 max crisis. and in sport ashley barty has stayed on course to win her home grand slam for the 1st time the world number one beating alison risk to move into the australian open or to find. the head of china's national health commission says he believes the virus outbreak is spreading faster authorities say the source of the virus is still unclear it has been linked to an illegal seafood market in central province commercial wildlife trade has now been banned. and based on the knowledge we now have this is an

emerging in new disease the knowledge we have is quite limited we're not very clear about the source of the disease and the infections a not under our control so based on the changes and the evolving nature of the in fictions we would continue to improve images and implement tell policy so that we would be fully prepared and that we can enhance our preparedness to respond to the possible changes of the infections so as to meet our goal of containing the disease the death toll has risen to 56 nearly 2000 people are infected in china 300 of whom are in a critical condition the government has expanded drastic travel restrictions effectively putting a number of cities in who bay province under quarantine close to 60000000 people under lockdown shanghai has banned long distance public bus services and cases of now been reported in 11 other countries these include the u.s. france australia and several asian nations the ivory coast says that it's

monitoring a suspected case of a student who's just returned from china i was there a scot highly has the latest for us from beijing. yet more measures to curb the spread of the corona virus outbreak everyone entering the beijing subway system is checked for symptoms and subway cars are disinfected every hour still concerned about infection somehow doubt any way they try i'm really afraid that the virus might infect me or my family members i'm supposed to go back to work in a few days and my son will go back to school soon well there's no more maybe i need to go to work or i have no other choice if i do need to work i will definitely stay at home keep wearing the mosque and keep washing the hands this is one of several long distance bus stations here in the capital beijing they're all closed now that's because the government is concerned because the bus system is less regulated than high speed rail and the airlines so they're concerned that they can't track people or where they travelled from but it's not just in the capital other cities

have begun to restrict long distance transportation problems will suspend all inner city and into provincial buses some neighborhoods on the outskirts of beijing are sealed off because of suspected corona virus infection all wildlife trade is now banned across china the krona virus was traced to a seafood market in will one that was illegally selling wildlife. fund we have taken preventive control measures in ruhani as our top priority and we have set up a frontline working group to guide the local authorities and 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 while the central government has elevated the control over the virus to the highest level there's a growing call for the local government in will one to be replaced because of the way it handled the outbreak and overcrowding hospitals there continue to plea for more supplies and staff scott either al-jazeera beijing health authorities and hong

kong or provide an update on the situation a day after emergency measures were declared there adrian brown is in hong kong with an updated tally of cases. but the number of suspected cases has now gone up by 77 taking it to more than 380 suspected cases and the number of confirmed cases have risen from 5 to 6 also another confirmed case in macau taking the total there to 3 the hospital 30 also say they are readying another quarantine center turning a former holiday camp into a quarantine center and we've also heard from a microbiologist who was talking yesterday he says that he believes there are number of undetected cases in hong kong now some experts are now warning the incubation period for this virus could be up to 14 days so it's possible that somebody who was in will hand 2 weeks ago is now in hong kong and could have the

virus now in response to the spreading virus the hong kong authorities have announced that a number of big tourist attractions in hong kong are going to close for the forseeable future that includes the ocean park theme park and also the big disney theme park that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year just a few days of course disney announced that they will be shutting their theme park in shanghai also for the forseeable future it all has echoes of course of the sars epidemic from 20022003 in which 800 people died so 17 years on what lessons have been learned. china's leaders appear to have learned an important lesson from sars don't try to cover it up so this time honesty has been the strategy that's what president xi jinping has been demanding from his officials especially in the city who hands with a virus 1st emerged in late november and this time china does appear better

prepared across the border in hong kong with 300 people died during the sars outbreak important lessons. also appear to have been learned all arriving airport passengers have the temperatures checked suspected virus sufferers are immediately quarantined those who refuse face jail and there's better protection for medical workers age of whom would killed by some of those beyond those 17 years ago when you are working in those normal medical was surgical was no one red mosque today wearing a face mask is standard procedure at chinese new year 17 years ago when the sars epidemic was just starting to take its toll the mood was very subdued it is today and the question then as now is this how worried should i be china's failure to be open about the sars outbreak damaged its international reputation which is why the leadership hopes to convince the international community that in some precedented

containment measures are working but some hong kong medical experts remain skeptical i don't think they have much improvement in this aspect personally i think even it may even more window dressing that before baby because of the political climate in mainland china analysts say president xi jinping is confronting a huge challenge but what is already a testing time for his leadership so people realize also that siege and pain is the top power concentrated in this and and he basically has to be responsible for all its chief mond's and setbacks experts say this new disease may be harder to control for one important reason 17 years ago few chinese travelled overseas today they fly to destinations around the world adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. on that note let's take a look at just how much travel china generates the country has become one of the

most important sources for outbound tourism in the world in 2018 there were more than 130000000 chinese who made trips abroad southeast asian. trees are among the top destinations but the u.s. has become a popular destination as well in 201733 point 2000000 chinese visitors traveled to the united states or researches of the johns hopkins university in the us a mapping the spread of the virus the bright orange dots here show the areas in china where cases have been confirmed the majority of those are in who bay province where the 1st outbreak was reported millions of people in china now face travel restrictions on the around the world have been confirmed cases in several countries . joining us here in the studio is the division chief of pathology sciences at sidra medicine council dr patrick turn good to have you with us in the studio patrick as an expert in the field how concerned are you about this virus and its potential to spread so i think as with many experts in this field right now where

we're watching very closely what happens in china with a fair degree of concern definitely it is a public health emergency in china for the rest of the world it's a moderate concern and we're definitely watching closely to make sure that it doesn't get out of china you dealt with the the song break when that happened how does this corona virus completed to the virus that was responsible for sickening so many people with saws of other similar methods you use to control something like this so from what we know so far about this novel coronavirus in china it's it's probably less lethal than sars so of the people that get infected with this virus about 3 percent of them die whereas from saw it during sars about 10 percent of the people that got infected died from the infection in terms of infective miss the the new virus is as infectious as sars if not more infectious and sars at

least based on what we know right now is that when the chinese government says that the virus is spreading fausta is that what you mean it's infectious to us it's the ease of transmission between. people is it transmissible person to person so we know now that it is transformational from person to person what we're trying to determine is how infectious is how many people are infected by every case that has the virus so right now we believe it's somewhere between $2.00 to $3.00 people will get infected from every one case that we find ok so at the moment those of us who aren't in chile don't have that much to worry about yes but it seems to influenza season anyway that. a coronavirus right there that's influenza is not a ground of ok ok but the common cold is a corona virus so there's many coronaviruses for common ones that are corona virus and they cause common colds ok so how do we protect ourselves from bugs that are in

general involve a little bugs that viruses on the so so we have to for the regular person that's not in china right now that we have to use common sense measures so things like you know washing your hands is probably the most important thing that we can do to prevent infection from this novel coronavirus or other spiritual infection and paying attention to how what we do with her hands with the retoucher eyes and rubber nose or where put her fingers in her mouth so all of these things are things that can carry different pathogens into our body what about the mosques that we see people wearing all the footage from china from home cone how how useful of those in protecting you from viruses that may be around in the air is this is this true virus transmissible through coughs and sneezes in the air or is it does it but we know that is so this novel coronavirus is spread through droplets so it's people cough or or other riskier tree secretions that emanate from them it can cause

infections in other people near them so the macit does play some role it's somewhat controversial because some experts would argue that the mass don't give you 100 percent protection from the virus and that is true but but there is a fair degree of protection and some people might argue there's about maybe 7080 percent protection and that might be good enough for the regular people and the other thing that the mass do is it raises awareness of the disease so so when people start wearing masks and more people are aware that of the disease and they take more commonsense precautions. and one more question to you as a science as you call this the novel coronavirus where did this come from it by novel we mean that. existed before did it mutate in form from another virus how did other things like this appear the environment so after sars scientists went out to find out what was the source of sars and from all the studies done in china they

they found that these coronaviruses live in bats so there are hundreds if not more different variants of sars viruses coronaviruses that live in bats and in any number of them might have mutations that allow them to causing actions in people so if we have the unfortunate juxtaposition of all these different events where you have a virus in a bat that has the right mutations and it happens to encounter a human being then you can establish a human infection on one quick question about the possibility of it mutating once once it is in its capable of infecting humans could could it could it mutate and get us yes it could so so that is what we're trying to do right now so everyone around the world both in china as well as the rest of the world we're trying to contain this virus so it doesn't have a chance to spread between human to human because every chance it spreads from one person to the next is a chance for the virus to further adapt and for the new kid to become

a virus that that because it's a human virus actually it's been great so she really thinks deeds are going to talk to patrick. running battles a broken out for a 2nd consecutive day in iraq a security forces fired tear gas and live bullets to try to clear anti-government protests the crackdown began on saturday shortly after interventional shia cleric souther withdrew his support for the demonstrations al-jazeera cimarron khan has put out the protests in baghdad with tear gas and live rounds of gunfire into the crowds. this is colonial square in central baghdad just over there you can save a tear gas being fired by anti-riot police into the crowd there are hundreds of people here well they're doing is they're coming in from chris square just behind me and they are moving towards where they gathering in their hundreds to make that point now while the iraqi security forces are trying to. clear everybody chromed

base area and push them to the risk where where they're trying to contain them will they try to do is open up all of the roads and the bridges leading in to try and. back in to central baghdad but. absolutely determined to make their point they say it's been months these protests began and they did. there is no prime minister there is a new prime minister and there's no new elections and they determined however as you can see that is very thick and heavy in the air now how long this will go on for is unknown there's a bit of a kind of cat and mouse game going on the protest is running very very wrong. and then they're beaten back by the iraqi security forces. this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program a regional vote in its 3 is being seen as a test for the former deputy prime minister's far right party. and in peru amid

a wave of political turmoil voters go to the polls to elect new members of congress . later in sports le bron james reaches yet another career milestone for our old be here with bat and the rest of the school little later. israel has announced that it signed a directive officially allowing israelis to visit saudi arabia for religious or business trips saudi arabia doesn't have diplomatic relations with israel and doesn't allow israeli passport carriers to visit except for most muslim pilgrimage the announcement comes just days before u.s. president donald trump said that he would release his much touted middle east peace plan let's go live now to west jerusalem al-jazeera is harry forsett can tell us more about this harry. well yes and in some respects this is

a formalisation of something that has been growing in recent years and especially in recent months in terms of the business ties between israel and saudi arabia the generally warming relationship palestinian israelis have gone in groups to perform the hard pilgrimage as well but all of this has been done in a pretty clandestine or at least not officially approved way this make no mistake is a very major shift in the public nature of the relationship between israel and saudi arabia now israeli citizens will be able to travel with official invitations from saudi officials not just for religious reasons but also for business visits the israeli interior ministry saying that israelis will be able to seek investment opportunities inside saudi arabia and that as long as they have a visa and an official invitation they will get exit permits from israel last thing up to 90 days so this is

a real show of the warming relationship between these 2 countries which has long been talked about but this is a very public pronouncement of it it's also something of a challenge to saudi arabia's stance when it comes to normalizing relations with israel that is of course a signatory to the arab peace initiative which allows for normalization between israel and its arab neighbors only once the palestinian issue has been settled with conditions such as israel pulling out of the occupied territories and palestinian sovereignty in east jerusalem none of those things obviously have happened and the timing of this just as both benny gantz the leader of israel's opposition of the largest party and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu are both on their way to washington d.c. for separate meetings with donald trump ahead of the rollout of the trump peace plan big event on tuesday between trump and netanyahu and all the indications from the leaks are that the. it will be a plan which really blows through all sorts of palestinian red lines in terms of

palestinian demands of what should come of any resolution to the israeli palestinian conflict this will be a test for that the saudi position and there will be a further test when it is officially unveiled as to how the saudi arabians and other arab nations react so far there's been no direct reaction to this announcement from the palestinians but the palestinian foreign minister did say that trump would not find any palestinian or arab who'd approve of the deal of the century which is likely to be unveiled as i say later this week question is how strong the disapproval might be how it will be expressed the indications from this deal between israel and saudi arabia or this announcement from israel at least is that the relationship is growing and of the time just before these very consequential events could start to get underway in washington i was there as her aforesaid reporting live from west to restore many thanks to a very italians are voting right now in regional elections the far right league

party is hoping to make gains in areas that are traditionally dominated by the left it's a crucial test for leader former deputy prime minister but they are salvini who pulled out of a coalition government last year let's go live to belong at al-jazeera sania gago so why are these local elections getting so much attention. well a.j. and really it is because if the league party managed to win here this left wing bastion it would in effect cement their dominance across the country in the local legislative assemblies with that might there salvini hopes that it would be enough pressure to pile on the national government which is a coalition between the democratic party and the 5 star movement to cause a crisis and eventually trigger off the elections that's what he is banking on so

if that were to occur it would be an absolutely enormous change this morning we the pilaster neighborhood of. where this polling station is it's the scene where. used on his campaign trail very much to almost scandalous effect and triggered off a protest in the way that he has been using social media in his campaign as my report now shows. a few months ago italy's former deputy prime minister paid a visit to tie in to museum family home to be let in the premise he said to find out if their families youngest son was a drug dealer but the humiliation of a family targeted over a rumor was live streamed of a. social media page without any evidence to support the allegation.

it is a tactic that has seemed to be part of his quest to click bait his way to popularity . there was ever a time where the league could dominate italy it would be now even some familiar faces such as former prime minister silvio berlusconi also lending his support and . historically in the euro mind has always been left wing it was a base for the resistance during fascist. italy and it's proud of that tradition but right wing parties have been trying to break out the original long live. longer live freedom long live democracy long live the league are crucial to. capturing these left wing. if they manage to win. meaning is convinced they are the way to. my minister. that would actually almost seismic change the political landscape. was strong on

slogans but little offered in the way of detail yet against the odds the league has how with through in the opinion polls part of the just behind the center left candidate but it has not gone on challenge i pushing back has been the phenomenon of the so-called sardine movement left wing activists fearful of a far right takeover have been loudly voicing their opposition at the direction it is taking. the saudi movement to the rise of salvini and his politics is in a warning from the past but. this type of populism has the same roots as fascism we were all resigned to the narrative because there wasn't an alternative but for my 1st demonstration in the know nya we managed to cause a reaction although. the saudi activists hope that they can assure in a new wave of politics that focuses on dealing with people's grievances rather than

using populist tactics if they can take on the might of a hard right party that has seen its support swell over the past 2 years easily see its power consolidated across the country. now while the saudi movement has been packing squares across the country and that flash mobs galvanized to try and counter what they see. is a threat to the political stability of italy in that sense but already so far the polls are showing that it's double the turnout to what it was in 2014 when the last local elections took place that could indicate that people certainly are certainly more inclined to vote this time around with the league going so far in the polls aged al-jazeera sort of going to go reporting live from below and yet it's the least of your many thanks dears. people in peru are also heading to the

polls today to elect new members of congress the vote comes amid a wave of political turmoil and for months after president. dissolved the legislative body parts. reports voter apathy is on the whys and that's causing concern among some candidates. a lifetime's sweeping streets has. this to run for congress in sunday's elections the previous parliament was dissolved by president in his anti-corruption fight this says it's time for a clean up. the experience that i have is what i lived through every day i understand the needs of workers how to make ends meet or what it feels like to be laid off i know. the candidates are running clearing legislators of the opposition majority in the last parliament which tried to control the judiciary and removed from office and that's what. i'm angry the idea to close congress was to

prevent any of them from running again and that is not happening they run to make business take bribes steal and protect their allies are we voting for the same thing she says she'll only vote to avoid being fined voting is mandatory but many peruvians feel the same way a recent opinion poll says more than 43 percent of peruvians will spoil their ballot or leave it blank analysts say apathy is widespread. towards the politicians and a lack of ideas and leadership voters expect much more from legislators and what they are capable of delivering the leadership has failed. candidates of $21.00 parties are running for $130.00 seats analysts say the new congress will be fragmented into small groups but unlike the last one that. took precedence this no one is likely to support person in the political and judicial reforms.

has been immersed in political turmoil for almost 3 years since the brazilian all the bridge bribing scandal broke leaving 4 former presidents involved one committed suicide dozens of politicians and businessmen are in jail but the candidate who got to be so says the new political class must show they can be different. but people are tired of the same politicians instead of consolidating an image of the previous congress opposing reforms our challenge now is to comply with the people's demands for. prove you are demanding parliamentary immunity is lifted it off from protects legislators and their allies from criminal prosecution and they want better regulation of campaign funding in the hope someday selection will not bring more of the same many innocent just. we've seen some pretty nasty flooding in parts of brazil over the last 48 hours here with more on that is

betrayal of just rock mckelway roll yeah seasonal rain but heavy in places the satellite picture behind me is a pretty typical picture but because it stayed in the same place this rain for 3 or 4 days want to air is going to get a real downpour and it's the state just just north of rio belo horizonte is the capital the scene the worst certainly did so far the rain doesn't necessarily stream to our eyes but hundreds have to meet is is the biggest down for 20 for a dime in 100 years in that city and the last 2 days were 231 where the consequence is you will know you're going to get flooding on the streets but because people live here and 10 change the environment and it's locally downpour we get landslides and that's been the problems as widespread flooding which isn't too bad but it's the concentration of course will wash away certain areas of the land and this is the result of course 1st you're so going on so the forthcoming weather is of interest in the same area with the same sort of rain pattern is going to be there

for the next 24 hours but locally of course damp will be in different places collectively in the next 3 days we could see 300 millimeters as more we've had so far somewhere in the state in fact if you look at the forecast for butler horizontally thunderstorms are forecast until wednesday but on thursday it dries up the rain is eventually moving away. rob many thanks indeed we're at the midway point in the news hour still to come on the program we're in gambia where victims of abuse of the former government still waiting for justice and. the evidence is actually really overwhelming. that the president did nothing wrong donald trump's legal team delivers the opening arguments of the u.s. president's impeachment trial and in sports a goal that helped this italian football team renew that champion's league campaign .

separate on al-jazeera. and the tension with the u.s. and protests over a plane downing iran's hanum entry election will be held on february 21st to see explores the fate of india's religious minorities on the prime minister modi's hindu move. us voters get that last chance to weigh in on the 20 twentieth's action al-jazeera will have comprehensive coverage a new series looks at how female scientists across the globe are opening doors for other women to pursue careers in science and after 5 years of civil war could be to rivals agree a peace deal to revive africa's youngest nation. february on al-jazeera. big stories just sounds headline the media angles in this story are numerous for comfort separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism the

listening post on al-jazeera. hello again this is the news from al-jazeera adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines health authorities in china say they expect the number of people infected by the corona virus to rise lockdowns and travel restrictions are now thinking some 60000000 people 56 people have died of more than 2000 infected ivory coast says it's monitoring a suspected case of corona virus 11 other countries have reported infection cases including canada the u.s. from its. security forces

a fired tear gas and live rounds to try to clear anti-government protesters the crackdown began on saturday after influential shia cleric watada al sunna withdrew his support for demonstrators in baghdad. in mali at least 18 soldiers have been killed several others are missing after an attack on their barracks it happened in the town of sokoto near the border with mauritania the attackers burned down the army camp mali and other countries in the sale region have been struggling to deal with a rise in attacks by several groups officials from libya's 2 rival governments say that fighting has broken out near the strategic western city of misrata the u.n. backed government says that its soldiers have retaken a town near misrata after heavy fighting with forces loyal to warlord califano hafta misrata is the country's 2nd largest city that is home to fierce militias who oppose. let's go live now to tripoli misrata i'm sorry tony berkeley is

there for us with the latest tony what's happening on the front lines. you know as you mention adrian that that offensive was launched the smalling by have task forces they took a little village called abu grain the forces of the joint g.n.a.t. the government national court had to retreat they regrouped reinforcements from israel for their weapons came back but they have now taken retaken that area and have moved on beyond the we are told that 3 members of the journey forces were killed and 28 injured and we're still trying to work out the strategic importance of this offensive because it's in the middle of nowhere. you know exchange hands fairly quickly it's very open area with with no strategic importance whatsoever it could be just the way that have to us forces showing they're flexing their muscles and show they're still in the game here because this is the most serious violation

of the cease fire since it was introduced on january the 12th a cease fire i hasten to add that khalifa haftar has not signed but generally has had here too apart from violations around south of tripoli you may remember that the airport there was hit a couple times by rockets and it was forced to close but that's now operating so this has been the most serious violation of the cease fire so far we're still trying to work out why today so as you see as a serious violation of the cease photo but where do we go from here is the cease fire or dead. well everyone says the ceasefire is not dead it's been holding journey as i said but there have been what this what they're calling violations it does suggest that there's a lot of talking going on behind the scenes because we're in a very desperate situation here especially considering the oil the central bank of libya based in tripoli says that they could go into deficit because they're losing so much from this oil blockade by half past forces the last count was something like $77000000.00 a day and all production has gone from $1300000.00 barrels

a day to less than $70000.00 so these have dire consequences as we go into the future but there's a lot of talking going on from various parties and i think there's going to be some pressure brought to bear on various sides here about coming together to make some kind of solution a resolution to this conflict but what that's going to be i don't know i mean misrata misrata suffered a great deal from gadhafi when he was dictator they then said never again but they think never again is repeating itself because they see khalifa haftar as a dictator in waiting they believe that he has the same sort of traits as more modern duffy and they will resist him the big question is what do you offer to someone like that for him to stop the conflict and that's an answer we don't know maybe they know in various capitals around the war around the world but at the moment that's the big question out zero's tony berkeley reporting live from misrata tony many thanks indeed turkey's president is holding talks with his algerian

counterpart over the conflict in libya on friday richard topper the one announced plans to deploy more troops to support the u.s. backed government of tripoli european and regional powers are trying to enforce an arms embargo possibly a long lasting cease fire deal. or one are also expected to discuss gas exploration of the mediterranean and other areas of mutual interests. a new documentary from the gambia is exposing cases of alleged torture by the government of the former leader gemma the film documents testimonies by dissidents families of those who were killed say they're still waiting for justice officers nicholas hock reports from neighboring dhaka. i cannot bury my father is a documentary about a young man whose father was executed during former gambian president 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 victim that's 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 inside human rights organizations say yeah jamie and his security forces tortured raped and killed dissidents some were even reportedly fed 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 ministry embargo experimented on hundreds of hiv positive men women and 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 his political party which was allowed to hold public demonstrations after johnny announced his desire to return to the gambia. democracy is messy business former president stepped 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. terry 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. i don't want us. to. deny. some of the mass graves are believed to be in jamie's farmhouse but the government has made no efforts 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. white house lawyers defending donald trump the son his impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine it's the 1st time that

his legal team addressed the trial it'll have 2 more days to get its case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress how does your caster reports now from washington 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 get potential new evidence against trump continues to emerge parness an indicted ukrainian american businessman says he shared this audio recording with investigators that are a little over a year after the or whatever they were. to go 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 i do joe castro al-jazeera washington. mobile internet access and partially restored an indian administered kashmir after it was blocked from a 6 months users will be able to access only $300.00 approved websites and internet speeds will remain low but access to some social media apps is still banned internet access was restricted after india decided to remove the region's autonomous status. bangladesh's economy is showing signs of growth but so too

is in inequality one in 5 people live below the poverty line the average wage is less than $5.00 a day. and their child reports now from one of the poorest areas of the capital dhaka to see how people are surviving. angry begum lives with her husband in a small one room shanty hard in slums their only child died recently she works in a bottling factory and struggles with her monthly expenses without her husband's income it would be hard for them to get by despite the hardship but managed to save the small amount of money each month. and it was there many problems here in this we have to buy water rent the money to use the toilet even buy food for cooking it's hard it's not a team place to live you often get sick here and there's no help from the government i decided to follow angry big them based on their daily needs and see

how far i can go on $5.00 for the next 24 hours i brought basic food item that's needed to cook in a daily mail i brought some vegetable some potatoes green chile coriander i'll call it flour and couple of fish grocers cost me $4.12 i had a simple breakfast consisting of dry cake and milk tea at a local tea stall which cost me $0.35 and i still have to buy water for drinking and cooking and pay to use the toilet and bathing facilities for a day a daily need in the slum which all together cost me around $0.40 at the end of the day i'm now left with barely $0.13 after meeting my basic daily needs in the slum ungar is daily chores don't end till late at night after she finishes work she has to clean and cook she can always afford a healthy meal some days it's just rice and lentils makes it. most of

the slums i congested overpopulated with poor drainage and vast management kids and adults live in a very unhygenic conditions parents are unaware about the importance of healthy diets for the kids nor can they afford it. to bangladesh economy has been growing recently but with the prices rising for food and other essentials it's getting increasingly more difficult for wage earners like angry to survive on the minimum wage said by the government tendered chaudhry al-jazeera dhaka bangladesh. boeing has successfully completed the 1st test flight of the world's largest twin engine jet fly about the triple 7 x. is a larger version of the triple 7 mini jumbo with room for $406.00 passengers it will be boeing's 1st major aircraft to be certified since the crisis began over its 737 max but aircraft for mains grounded off 2 fatal crashes revealed software flaws which are still being resolved bailey is an aviation analyst he's also

a former f.a.a. safety team represents to the pilot he joins us now skype from buffalo new jersey could tell you with us. so the world may just be with you the big the world's biggest twin engined airliner. how big is it out is it compared to the airbus a $350.00 for example it's actually larger than the airbus a $350.00 the a $350.00 is a competitor of the airplane and the boeing 777 x. is the largest twin engine are commercial passenger aircraft in the world right now ok why does boeing think that it will be such a success when airlines a ditching aircraft like the a $380.00 the double decker bus. you know it has a lot of improved features such as general electric engines actually it has foldable wing tips which allow it to get into tiger spaces such as gates that are at airports with a little bit of a confined space but you know that is

a very good point a lot of these airlines are opting for smaller airplanes such as the airbus 832-8321 neo or the or the long range boeing 737 series of airplanes this is no doubt going to be a problem with production issues now with the boeing 737 max does this graph that the 777 x. have any of the the software features that the grounded the 737 max is safety going to be an issue here. safety will not be an issue in the research at the cation process i think will be challenging as every the landscape perec rep recertification from the f.a.a. now has changed in light of what we saw with the 737 max. f.a.a. certification issues but it will interesting be interesting to see how certification does progress on the airplane but i think that the timeline that

boeing has i think it's already been delayed possibly there's a very good chance it will be delayed even further but to answer your question. the kind of system which was. the big problem issue on the 737 max the 777 x. one not encounter any of the issues that we saw with the 737 max all right so we've had the 1st successful test flight when is is this you to go into this you say that then they will be delays and which airlines customers are going to be the 1st to get to fly out it. well emirates actually is the big launch customer of your plane. so that they will actually take 1st delivery of the aircraft and being apply that airplane they will be the 1st customer to actually fly the airplane the majority of the customers of this airplane for the most part are the middle eastern

middle eastern carriers. really good still too many thanks for being with us on the news so much appreciate it thanks to be with you thank you. just ahead on the sport the tennis world number 2 stays on track for an 8th straight in open title we'll have all the details with our in just a moment. frank assessments. about these bushfires usage and really the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those jews don't even know what the noise all about this argument is astonishingly patronizing in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning for you iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as

a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for that is you know it's very challenging even in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. with the people who believe to tell the real story so i just meant it has to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. the old. fellow gets out of the sport his father thanks so much each rain for the 2nd day running home fans got their wish at the australian open 24 hours on from

a curious is 5 sat when ashley barty has made it through to the quarter finals the world number one lost the 2nd set in this 4th round match against alison risk the australian recovered her composure and the decider as she aims to become the 1st australian woman to win this title in more than 40 years party next place 70 patrick a bit of a. love patch of it let's hope she doesn't like my heart on tuesday not a thing on tuesday but yeah it's been you know an incredible year for me the last 12 months it's been amazing i'm just excited that i get another opportunity you know for a final grand slam you don't get those every week so i'm really excited. but fairytale run for 15 year old coco golf has come to an end the american missed the chance to clinch a spot in the quarter finals golf won the 1st set but made $48.00 unforced errors in the match giving way for fellow americans to fear cannon to level things and take the defy deciding sat and her last match the 67th ranked. going to become the

youngest player in the professional era to defeat the reigning women's champion at the australian open. and i guess was surprising news how calm i was going into all these matches i wasn't really nervous and i just was coming in pretty calm so i'm happy that i'm not letting the moment seem to be in with use. we're interrupting the sporting to take you to a lie a live press briefing by the presidents of algeria and turkey president of turkey is on a 2 day visit to algeria where they've been discussing today among other things. the conflict in libya. drilling in the mediterranean and other areas of mutual interests let's listen in. hospitality to myself and to my delegation. like to thank.

mr president. in his pursuit of lee and i'd like to extend my thanks to. his nation as well. one. when i said that it would be. the most. commercial. burnham in tact if he had his yacht alluded mr what he said though the market that manson. just didn't get it you dick then.

here i mean some e-mail kind of member for here to us to try to just. just. because i do apologize we we had translation of this press briefing for for a few moments we seem to be having a few technical technical difficulties with the translation we're trying to. get it back as we speak so that we can listen to this this preference press briefing by the other 2 leaders. in algeria following that meeting today there with. the. relationship between our countries in turkey and syria. goes back quite a 100 peers take strength from. historic ties and we.

hold the belief that we will be able to carry our relations to. better. positions. more strength. be discussed political. military topics. in addition the chance to talk about other issues such as. tourism and other economic. relations. we have a joint. will and. money for station of this joint will.

oh. what a teacher you have been you got that much to look at but of 911 mr mayor company you could really make just a few i must go up in a minute walk a block away i had to him. ration council at the highest level. many. you have seeing the ceremonies for signing. the relevant document for the formation of this council i have extended the invite on my brother president. to pay a visit to turkey in order to have the 1st joint meeting under this newly formed council the convene. i also believe that we

are working on having the 1st meeting of this joint cooperation council held in turkey. is possible time. so. you know we also discussed means. to increase. trade volumes with. which is. which is estimated to be one of the partners in africa we discussed the possibility beyond $5000000000.00 of. the turkish investment in algeria just have also exceeded $3500000000.00 these figures is that if the actions of our confidence. and its economy.

come over you know. we also. decided to hold a less joint will as discussed in this meeting and also to pave the way. any obstacles facing investors and businessmen and our respective countries. we can record. these. steps and measures in a win win situations taking into consideration the conditions of both. respective economies and beyond. for this purpose we are trying to any obstacles at the same time we encourage

businessmen and interpreter knows. to measure intensely and more heavily and older to create drop opportunities to our respective citizenship. at the same time we are all so. disgusted and decided to open our visa centers here in algeria in order to streamline visa procedures to our journey and into. recently we have cancelled. visited quire meant that. all. below the age of 15 and beyond the age of $65.00 those all algerians with ordinary passwords have are now entitled to enter turkey without visa during the

joint meeting also we discuss the means on how to deepen our cooperation and their defense in the us.