2 hours any obstacles at the same time we encourage businessmen and interpreter knows to measure intensely and more heavily and older ship to create drop opportunities to our respective us citizens at the same time we also. discussed 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 algerians 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 to these in order to cater to that it was immense of our security and military. at the same time and during this visit i will be meeting with this of the parliament. in algeria. expect that bilateral relations and concerted efforts to word this defending the means of gold parisian and boosting. these means are very vital to both. our countries.

as turkey is presiding this side. of the organization of islamic conference which was taken under shit if from syria as the solution was handed down by the un security council meeting with respect to providing protection to the palestinian people and this resolution is that reflection of the unity of purpose and solidarity between our respective countries and the international arena of. media representatives. let me say that we have also discussed other domestic issues with my fellow president mr algeria has always been

a linchpin to stability and security in the region especially at this critical moment. however the developments unfolding in libya are having a direct impact on algeria as a neighboring country. and we have always emphasized and we. reiterate that a military solution is not the right appropriate solution to the crisis in libya. and currently we're are conducting intense communications with the neighboring countries to leave. together with other international players in order to

put an end to the blood bath in orders still maintain thurmon and lasting cease fire and bring the warring parties to the negotiating tables and within this context we have emphasized and focused on our joint measures. that could be taken in this respect. so. we assess that both believe that the necessary elements to stability is dialogue and collectiveness. just. delighted that algeria was part of the berlin and diverse. there is no doubt that. it will have

a positive and constructive contributions. to the measures intended for restoring stability in libya on our part we will do all what we can in order to put an end to the bloodbath in libya. but. you know a lot of the past. needs turkey has been bearing the brunt as a result of the civil war taking place in syria. and we cannot allow our to the tories to be a battlefield for brock's the wars within the region. the approach taken by the international community by. the agri soon

to be a party and punishing the victims will have catastrophic results on the peace process unfortunately the international community has utterly failed both in syria and in libya. of. the failure to act as if that. is part of the reason. the ongoing crisis in libya and the stands are blocked it by certain european estate and as we speak and in order to follow up with and implemented there is allusions at each in berlin are of great significance what. turkey will

continue to stand by the side of our brothers in libya with all the means and our hand. with these very faults glued my words on you once again extend all thanks and appreciation to the president government and people for the warm reception and generous hospitality and i pray to god almighty that our meeting and the discussions we had will. do better future. president speaking after his meeting with algeria's president in algiers we one of the take up because we wanted to hear what president one that had to say particularly on libya. following

his talks with syria's president with me in the studio as our correspondent who's covered libya libya extensively he was listening in to what the president. as well i'm not sure but i should that we actually learned anything new there what's what's president one doing in algeria right now what's the point of his mission so he's basically trying to. cooperate with the algerians when it comes to dealing with libya and there was a reason for this over the past few weeks the algerian government made it clear that it would jets any foreign interference in libya and there was one of the main reasons why the turkish foreign minister flew to algeria right after that statement from the algerian government i think to explain to the algerian government why turkey has decided to send military advisers into libya and why turkey is now determined to take part in the conflict by providing significant assistance to the

government of national accord based in tripoli algeria remains one of the key players in north africa is a very rich country he has deployed troops along the border with libya and the new president of the visitor to board said that live tripoli is a red line for the for the algerian government it was widely interpreted as an indication that the algerian government might interfere if the situation further degenerates into chaos because their biggest concern is that the virus if it continues is because spillover to algeria and i think. after the berlin conference the turkish government has done in particular is trying to build bridges with many key players as far as the base concerned to build some sort of consensus now that the international community and europe in particular are very critical of the turkish involvement turkey one out as they are over they are on the same page as far as libya is concerned no they're not they're not because i was here on 100 trying to maintain a balanced relationship with with both phases in tripoli and haifa have to in as

far as a serious concern there are 2 key players vying for the biggest say in in libya and they would like to mediate as far as turkey is concerned they are siding with assad as criticizing her for trying to undermine democracy we're talking about 2 different agendas here will turkey be able to reconcile those differences with the algerian government and come up with a unified says i think this is going to be a critical challenge for them have to also remind our viewers that the relationship between turkey and algeria have gone through ups and downs over the last few years and this explains why turkey is determined to reach are so they are serious build bridges set aside those differences and try to. deal together with the libyan conflict. many thanks indeed well officials from libya's 2 rival governments say that fighting is broken out to the western city of misrata the u.n.

backed government in tripoli says that its soldiers have retaken the town of grain the structure is libya's 2nd largest city and it's home to groups who oppose the war mode khalifa haftar taking control of that city as an important part of the government's defense of the capital after after launched his offense or offensive to take the capital in april last year we go live out of misrata. attorney berkeley attorney what's the latest. well as you said adrian the government is forces have retail. and what they lost this morning in this surprise offensive by half past forces in fact we've heard the going even further beyond that into have to us territory and they've taken an area called. whether or not they're going to hold this whether or not this is a whole sort of new offensive or this is just a one day wonder we have to wait and see but this is the most serious violation of this cease fire that we've seen since the cease fire was introduced on january the 12th or have been what's called violations around tripoli the airport has been

closed wise but this is the be the most major one the jna forces here in being attacked they lost 3 men and 28 wounded we've heard nothing about casualties from the have to our side but the jna forces have taken vehicles and have taken territory i have to say it's quite easy in this area to take charity it's very open expanse of land and you can exchange be exchanged very quickly and very easily the feeling is that the jna forces will retire will retreat back to where they were in this morning and that's in the green so we're trying to work out the significance of this maybe this is just a way of have task forces saying we're still here we're still capable but in so doing so the jury forces are showing that they're more than capable and they've given the have to our forces a bloody nose so tit for tat what this means we'll have to wait and see tony when he thinks of zeros tony berkeley there live in this russell. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then the chinese government steps up earth

to contain the corona virus but the death toll and infection rates are still rising . and iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live bullets hundreds of protesters in central baghdad. how the rains about stopped now in china the active season rain that is if you pick a spot where this cloud was showing rain that is about twice the january average or virtually anywhere and the same story is going to continue through japan and to some degree it's here at least to south to south korea temperature wise you look about right at the moment when the rain goes through in the wind direction changed as soccer gets remarkably warm we're probably about 7 or 8 degrees above the average isn't

a temporary thing but the rains unusual anyway once the rain is gone the back to clear skies more or less to some cloud forming 17 hong kong on the low side disappointing but it's reason be ok and this dry in the sun is largely anything in the sky the showers for the south showing up again in the southern part of the philippines across borneo but they're concentrating as they have the last hour or so in sumatra central and southern somalia and a good part of java if you see orange in the tops of these clouds that suggest is a proper thunderstorm mostly over the water not entirely the drifting back towards central sumatra there for india the story is normally this time the odds are in the north or nowhere and is certainly increasing rain potentially no impact on northern india with snow of course for the hills. but the big stories generally sounds like the media angles in this story are

too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives thing has never really been believed the face money the war to even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism is so clear and stands to. hear. the listening on al-jazeera. hello again they head of china's national health commission says he believes the corona virus outbreak is spreading faster authorities say the source of the virus

is still unclear that has been linked to a seafood lockets in central 100 profits commercial wildlife trade has now been banned. it a geisha based on the knowledge we now have this is an emerging and new disease the knowledge we have is quite limited we're not very clear about the source of the disease and infections are not under our control so based on the changes and the evolving nature of the in fictions we would continue to improve the measures 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 and who bay province under quarantine close to 60000000 people around the lockdown shanghai is banned long distance public bus services and cases have now been reported in 11 other countries including the u.s.

france a strain and several asian nations the ivory coast says that it's monitoring a suspected case of a student who's just returned from china. scott heide lab reports now 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 some head out 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 whether from or 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 their 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 traveled 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 mohan 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 to be replaced because of the way it handled the outbreak and overcrowding hospitals there continue to plea for more supplies

and staff. al-jazeera beijing health authorities in hong kong are provided an update on the situation a day after emergency measures would have cleared in the city adrian brown is there and has an updated tally of cases. that 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 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. well here's 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 countries are among

the top destinations but the u.s. has become a popular destination as well in 20173200000 chinese visitors travel to the united states talk to patrick tang is the division chief of pathology science isn't sidra medicine it casa that explains how the outbreak compares to that of the sars outbreak 17 years ago. 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 so after sars scientists went out to find out what was the source of sars and from all

the studies done in china they've they found that these coronaviruses live in bats so there are probably 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 cause infections in people everywhere and 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 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 respect to infection and paying attention to how what we do with her hands with a retoucher eyes or a 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. talked to patrick tang running battles a broken down for a 2nd consecutive day in iraq as security forces fired tear gas and live bullets to try to clear anti-government protesters a crackdown began on saturday shortly after the influential cleric shia cleric. withdrew his support for the demonstrations in iran calmed the speed of the protests where tear gassed blood from it's been fired into the crowd. this is colonial square in central baghdad just over there you can save a tear gas being fired by anti-riot police into the crowds there are hundreds of people here well they're doing is they're coming in from takrit square just behind me and they're 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 push them towards south korea square where they're trying to contain them

while they try to do is open up all of the roads and the bridges leading in to try and i allow traffic back in to central baghdad but the. absolutely determined to make their point they say it's been months these protests began on friday but 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 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. in regional elections in italy in one northern region the far right league party is hoping that it can reverse decades of left wing dominance it's a crucial test for former deputy prime minister matteo some of these populist movement let's go live now to belong via an 0 on the guy a go why is this

a local election so important for solving it. well agent it really comes down to the fact that if. he can win this region of the media at all manya left wing strongholds since the 2nd world war it would in effect consolidate the lead parties dominance in local legislative assemblies and what he's hoping could happen is that it would pressure the national government and cause some kind of political crisis that would eventually lead to a general election the lead party in itself now is currently polling the highest out of all the political parties in italy the intention from the need to try and cause that was exactly what he tried to do back in august when he walked out of the

coalition to try and force a political crisis and again leading to a general election that failed this is another tactic that he's hoping will try and gain his party's dominance in the country he has in fact been campaigning here very hard almost really on a nonstop basis he has been touting products from the region a region known for parmesan cheese ferrari sports cars it's one of the richest regions in italy as well with half of the unemployment scene the rest of the country so he has been seen here to be really a promoter of the goods of the region and also to try and reverse what he says is what is in fact the the left wing politics of this region whether he will be able to do that or not is another thing because invariably what this is cause is the fear of the league taking control over the immediate him around your region has been at these flash mobs

a so-called saudi movement who has not just in the region but across the country to try and urge people to sort of get them out of of a slumber as it were. this is certainly those opposed to the leg it's a real danger for them. to be able to grab power hair and if their opponents do not do something about it then it could be eventually a reality hit in a. agent of his era sonny go reporting live for many thanks indeed. in mali $22.00 soldiers have been killed 6 wounded after an attack on the army barracks it happened in the town of sokoto the border with mauritania attackers burned down the camp mali and other countries in the sahara region of been struggling to deal with a rise in attacks by several groups israel has announced that it signed a directive officially allowing israelis to visit saudi arabia for just so business trips saudi arabia doesn't have diplomatic relations with israel and doesn't allow

israeli passport holders to visit except for 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 to serious curry forces in west jerusalem says that even without a saudi response this marks a major shift in the country's public relations. 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 the hardship 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 lost in 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 rescuers in southeastern turkey continue to search for survivors after friday's earthquake in which $35.00 people are known to have died aboard than

a 1000 were 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 but it's feared the number of dead will rise the magnitude 6.8 quake was centered near the town of civic chair. take a look at the website sometime al-jazeera don't call me. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's president has accused the libyan war khalifa haftar of violating a truce accept the one made the comments in algiers where he's holding talks with his counterparts to stop the violence in libya algeria hosted libya's neighbors last week while world powers met in bilin to find a political solution to the conflict the un backed government based in the capital tripoli says its repeated attempts by half to advance on the key city of misrata on

the ground officials from libya's 2 rival government say that fighting has broken out near misrata the un backed government in tripoli says its soldiers have retaken the town of a brain misrata is libya's 2nd largest city in his home to groups who oppose the war old khalifa often. charges health ministry says the corona virus is spreading fast $56.00 people of now died nearly 2000 are infected china has banned all wildlife trade the source of the virus is believed to be a seafood market in central china almost 60000000 people are under lockdown. really to tell you jacques 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 the measures and implement tell policy so

that we would be fully prepared and that we can enhance hope for pianists to respond to the possible changes of the infections so as to meet our goal of containing the disease at least 11 other countries have reported individuals with the virus there's one new suspected case in the in west africa and ivory coast canada has become the latest countries record an infection japan the u.s. funds russia are working to help their citizens leave the epicenter of the outbreak hot. running battles a broken out for a 2nd consecutive day in iraq as security forces fired tear gas and live bullets to try to clear anti-government protests as the crackdown began on saturday shortly after influential cleric. withdrew his support for demonstrations the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listing post next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trump parts of america are getting trump there is

a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world. are on us the study climate change. 500. 20 history cottage there is such a thing as just one with hello i'm richard gives birth and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week australia is where rupert murdoch's media empire was born his news outlets there have got climate change denial down to a science malta and the journalistic legacy of the late affleck i don't want to believe her story is far from complete the balsa not all government in brazil it's corruption exposed by journalism wants to shoot the messenger and.

poetic justice and the tory saudi are pretty clear in the murder of. sneers at his critics in australia soaring temperatures extended droughts and persistent winds have resulted in a wildfire season like no other yet as so much of the country burns most of the australian media outlets owned by rupert murdoch refused to call this story what scientists say it really is a disaster exacerbated by the climate crisis millions of acres have been burned out dozens of people have died wildlife is on the run and papers like the astray and networks like sky news astray are not just dismissing the scientific consensus they're trafficking in some false debunked narratives instead rupert. murdoch's media empire has long held a disproportionate influence over politics in australia he and prime minister scott

morrison are united on this issue throw in murdoch's close ties to a stray as powerful fossil fuel lobby and all 'd of the elements are there for a can.