followed the final run into the u.k.'s departure for me. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the chinese government steps up efforts to contain the corona virus but the death toll at infection rights are still rising. iraqi security forces fired tear gas and bullets at hundreds of protesters in central baghdad. turkey's president is in algeria for talks on the conflict in neighboring libya and

boeing completes the test flight of the world's largest twin engine commercial jetliner its 1st since the 737 max crisis. has stayed on course to win her home grand slam for the 1st time the world number one alison risk even still strong you know also from. the head of china's national health commission says he believes the corona virus outbreak is now spreading more quickly with already still aren't sure where the new virus came from but it has been linked to a sea food and animal marketing china has now banned the commercial tried in wildlife. based on the knowledge we now have this is an emerging and new disease and the knowledge we have is quite limited we're not very clear about the source of the disease and the infections are not under our control so based on

the changes and the evolving nature of the infections we would continue to improve 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 now the number of people who died from the virus has risen to 56 nearly 2000 people are infected in china with 300 in a critical condition the government has brought in dress to travel travel restrictions effectively putting a number of cities in who by province under quarantine close to 60000000 people are now on the lockdown and cases have been reported in 11 other states these include the u.s. france australia and several countries ivory coast now says it's monitoring a suspected case of a student who has just returned from china well the chinese government says public safety is its top priority scott hardly has more 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 had out any way i may 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 didn't 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 there are close 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 prevent show 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 corona virus was traced to a seafood market in will haunt that was illegally selling wildlife young farmer 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 and 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 hunt 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 have provided an update on the situation. in the city brown is there 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 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 running battles have broken out for a 2nd consecutive day in iraq security forces fire tear gas and bullets to clear government protesters the crackdown began on saturday shortly after influential shiite cleric. withdrew his support for the demonstrations imran khan has been in central baghdad and has this update on the protests and the security forces response. this is colony 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 the hundreds to make that point now while the iraqi security forces are trying to. clear everybody from the base area and push them to the south korea square where they're trying to contain them while they're trying to do is open up all of the roads and the bridges leading in to try and. back in to central baghdad but the. 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 a 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 protesters running they throw rocks they throw. and then they're beaten back by the iraqi security forces. was putting more head on the news hour including the worst violation of libya's truce will be live in misrata with more data. and pain and grief in brazil we're back at the site of one of the world's worst mining disasters. in sport le bron james passes yet another cool stuff and you can hear that story. visit saudi arabia for religious or business trips under a new directive from the government does not have diplomatic relations with israel and doesn't allow is right of the past board holders to. that saudi arabia.

pilgrimage the announcement comes as u.s. president donald trump is expected to release his much touted middle east peace plan kerry force that is standing by for us in west jerusalem and harry tell us more details about the lifting of the travel arrangements but also no response yet from saudi. well yes this is so far entirely an israeli announcement and it is one that really formalizes to some extent what already takes place as you say palestinian israeli muslims do travel to saudi arabia for religious reasons that have obviously been growing business ties in the recent past but this formalizes all of it and it really makes it very public it's a very public announcement and pronouncement of the warming relationship between saudi arabia and israel and what it does is that it allows anyone with an invitation from a saudi arabian official and

a visa to exit israel to go to saudi arabia to pursue business interests seek investment opportunities for a period of up to 90 days now this is a a very major change in the public relationship between these 2 countries and it comes at a very interesting time just ahead of the expected unveiling of the trump plan in washington d.c. we believe an event with benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister on tuesday before that on monday president trump will be speaking to both netanyahu and the israeli opposition leader benny gantz and this normalization of relations which this is an increment of between saudi and israel really put saudi arabia at least in tension with its own initiative the arab peace initiative of 2002 which says that normalization can only come about after the palestinian issue is settled including a withdrawal of israel from your keypad territories including palestinian sovereignty

over east jerusalem and all of the indications all of the leaks that we've seen so far of the trump plan suggest that it blows through all of those sorts of palestinian red lines about what they would require and expect from a future state so if this is an indication of the current state of the relationship between israel and saudi arabia it was very interesting at least. to see how saudi reacts to that announcement and other arab neighbors of israel later this week as far as the palestinians are concerned the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is being quoted as saying that that he may well withdraw from the oslo peace accords that's something that has been threatened in the past and it's similar to the language that's being used over the last couple of days in terms of israel having to take full responsibility for the occupation and the palestinian foreign minister has said that trump would find any palestinian or arab who would approve of the deal of the century the test of that will come in just

a couple of days harry thank you for that hairy force of there from west jerusalem officials from libya's 2 rival governments fighting has broken out in the western city of misrata the un backed government in tripoli says its soldiers have retaken the town of abu grain misrata is libya's 2nd largest city and is home to groups who oppose the war lord only 4 have to take control of the city is an important part of the government's defense of the capital after have to launch his offensive in april last year tony burke 3 is in misrata live for us with the latest on that fire and what more can you tell us john. or stanley as you said the government forces have retaken graeme and they've gone beyond that we understand into previously controlled have to our territory they've moved on and they are at the moment consolidating the feeling is that they will we retire back to where they were which is where they were the smaller before this whole offensive started but

this is actually about 80 kilometers away from misrata to the east this area to give you a picture is very open land it's almost desert like very few settlements and not much to teach it importance so the question is why did have to us forces launch if it could be there just flexing their muscles and showing they can strike at will but also the german air show that they can regroup they can we take territory and they can inflict a bloody nose also we don't know yet if this is part of an ongoing offensive or this is just a one day wonder because there has been a cease fire in place it's joined with the 12 that generally has been holding although there have been so-called violations and we've seen that in tripoli in the south of tripoli the airport has been hit a couple of times and the airport was closed so it's difficult to get a clear picture but you know anything can happen here and i think most of the action is going on in european and western capitals about how to get this conflict resolved and also you know the libyan government is hurting very much from the oil blockade by half task forces they're losing at least 77 $1000000.00

a day and the central bank says they're in risk of actually going into deficit soon so there's a very serious situation here that's developing economically which will have a knock on effect for all the people. and tony you mentioned there the international discussions of course around this battle now inside libya has drawn in regional players and also russia the u.n. has been criticizing what it sees as flagrant violations of an arms embargo as well what impact is that happening having. seeing one verily very heavily armed side in terms of half his forces they've got the remnants of what was the libyan air force they have tanks they have artillery pieces and they're backed up by a number of countries including the united arab emirates and egypt and russia we understand that russia has advisors so-called advisors on the half hour side on the

government side the jna they have advisors from turkey so lots of other countries involved in this and i think that's one of the big things that came out of the berlin conference has to come to a situation where all these outside countries have to start fighting their proxy wars on libyan territory and allow them to sort it out everybody says this is a situation that cannot be resolved militarily it has to be done around the negotiating table and the big question is what will give and what will each side except for that peace to be achieved tony thank you tony burke the joining us live there from misrata at least 19 soldiers have been killed in mali in an attack on the army barracks 5 others injured it happened in the town of sick old near the border with mauritania the attackers burned down the army mali and other countries to west africa's so hill region have been fighting back against the rise in attacks by several groups the gambian army has been deployed in the capital to help

police disperse crowds who are demanding the resignation of president adama barrow security forces fired tear gas thousands of people rallying in banjul they're angry at barrow's decision to police his 5 year presidential term when he got off as he had promised to stand down after 3 years. boeing has successfully completed the 1st test flight of its wills la just twin engine jet liner the triple 7 x. is the logic version of the triple 7 mini jumbo with enough room for $406.00 passengers it would be boeing's 1st major crofton certified since a grounded 737 max fleet that decision time off to $25.00 crashes within months and revealed a critical software. we spoke to an ivy ice an analyst and

former. representative and pilot he says the new across one have the same problems as the 737 max safety will not be an issue in the research if occasion 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 interest to be interesting to see how sort of creation does progress on the airplane but i would think that the timeline that boeing has i think it's already been delayed and it possibly there's a very good chance it will be delayed even further the caste 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 77 max a lot of these airlines are opting for smaller airplanes such as the air bus

832-8320 when you go where the or the the long range boeing 737 series of airplanes by bit this is no doubt going to be a problem with the production issues now with the boeing 737 max. turkey's president has accused the international community of failing the libyan people. by the comments during a news conference analogy is where he is meeting president. now turkey is set to deploy board troops to support the un backed government in tripoli european and regional powers are trying to broker a cease fire. the developments unfolding in libya are having a direct impact on algeria is a neighboring country we have always emphasized and we now reiterate that a military solution is not the right appropriate solution to the crisis in libya and currently we are conducting intense communications with the neighboring countries to libya together with other international players in order to put an end

to the bloodbath and in order to maintain a permanent lasting cease fire and bring the warring parties to the negotiating table. peruvians are also heading to the polls to elect new members of congress on sunday the vote comes amid a wave of political turmoil and for months after president. dissolve the legislative body. voter apathy is on the rise causing concern among some candidates. a lifetime 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 live through every day i understand the needs of workers how to make ends meet 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 radically took precedence this no one is likely to support personal political and judicial reforms. has been immersed in political turmoil for almost 3 years since the brazilian or the bridge bribing scandal broke leaving 4 former presidents involved one committed suicide dozens of politicians and businessmen are in jail the candidate who got to be so says the new political class must show they can be different. 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. proof 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. just. went back to our earlier story now in gambia the army has been deployed in the capital to help police disperse crowds who demanding the resignation of president adama baron our security forces the fired tear gas and thousands of people rallying in banjul they angry at barras decision to complete his 5 year presidential term when he's with office he had promised to stand down after 3 years nicholas hawke is standing by for us now to bring us the latest. in neighboring senegal nicholas there's so much anger isn't there not just about trying to study for the 5 year term but the failure to deliver on the economic reforms that he promised. exactly there was a lot of expectation when adam adam a barrel came to power almost 3 years ago not just about political freedom and

democracy but about the economy about reform in the security sector that was one of the big issues that people had taken up the street taken on to the streets and that supported him that they wanted to see some changes in that regard and that did not take place and to that this failed promise that people are seeing here adam a barrel promise that after 3 years he would stand down and why well when he was elected most political leaders you know ponens were in prison under his rule so they weren't allowed to take place during that election to adam barrow to play so he was a coalition figure and then they were seeing some of the critics say that they're seeing some of the. that adam about is is taking some of the stance that. he's even dressing the same in december adamant barrow even said that he was welcome to come back to the gambia a normal citizen but of course we spoke to the information minister who said that

if it was that was to come back in the country then he would face the law but what happened today took many people by surprise because the protests hadn't even started when cheer guests were fired on to protesters down these are scenes that were reminiscent of the time of when he was in power and his security forces took such a brutal stance against dissent several people have been injured there in the hospital we're hearing that some radio stations local radio stations have been shut down for broadcasting what took place this afternoon in fact we were supposed to cover this protest but the government wouldn't allow us to have the cretaceous needed on time to cover this event and it comes on the heel of another protests that took place yesterday down of the victims of who. accusing the government of being too slow deliberate delivering just things so there's a lot of pressure under barrow to deliver on this promise that i can sum up as best

as i can as this promise for democracy for the people and so people here despite the these violent protests that we've seen this afternoon afternoon are determined to still keep at it and take to the street sam nichols thank you for that nicholas talk there from dhaka now we'll go back to another story from earlier turkey's president or one. we can bring in our correspondent margaret up there wired in tripoli we've heard from president very critical of what he sees as a lack of commitment from the international community letting down the people of libya he says tell us more of what he's had to say and how this factors into if it's to try to bring about a political solution in the country. will stand the president said it during the press he just held in algeria that he believes that. is a key leading. in

a stalling to peace in libya which is completely it's true because as you know that has been all that was against the war and the worst of libya and several. stated before that they cannot allow the war to be switching on its borders as you know that has a very long borders with libya and it has been all was supporting the internationally recognized government of national accord now as the president the 2 presidents mentioned that they are stressing on the believe in. recommendations. that came out from the middle income france a week ago and prison seems to be very keen to have algeria not all. not only on his camp against the other camp including egypt and

cyprus and greece and when it comes to the am vestment in the mediterranean basin but also as a key leading. or the key player in that is talking peace in libya but with thank you. in tripoli. still ahead on al-jazeera why a regional vote in each of these being seen is a test for the. far right party and. celebration for some of the morning robison reports sydney on the occasion that's dividing us from. its poured a day of frustration for you to milan. with the italian luke time. however there's

a cold wind blowing out of iraq on the gulf which is fairly standard for this time of the year the result is it gets fairly cold at night and stays very cold through the day i know these things are relative to 19 would be hard to get to in doha riyadh at 16 even the sunshine won't feel particularly warm and were of course cooler still on the coast the mediterranean back in lebanon for example or syria where the tide is increasing but there's no real forecast or does it want to shatter possibility but not very likely that's happening in turkey the breeze is still blowing with slightly lighter during tuesday the prof not is of course a quiet peninsula the rain is taxed at the equator and in africa it stretches in life from angola through d.r. congo towards tanzania been some big showers around lake victoria recently there in the forecast as well south of that you from the rift valley done it more is dries out when you get to zimbabwe and although we have seen flooding recently in northern madagascar in the forecast for just one or 2 showers in the north and in

the capital nothing at all in south africa temperate johannesburg approaching the 30 degrees where you'll see a scattering a shower but to be honest for most places in south africa it's still a dry story. for . india a nation of 1300000000 people deeply religious desperately divided i think bill hurtling in a day which potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity is making the gap that one place is off his insistence and why is it getting. joining me are you on my journey in search of india's soul coming soon on al-jazeera. a journey of personal discovery. which is the copy of a letter not seen germany addressed to rank ground. 0 as barbara 0 traces of

family links back to the regime of benito mussolini the nonspecific is fascism returned to italian post fresh in the family it makes me sick this letter alone and i found it. on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera his reminder of our top stories this hour both authorities in china say they expect the number of people infected by the corona virus to rise on call has just announced a batch of people from the province with the operator originated entering the city

that will come into effect on monday. security forces have fired tear gas and live bullets to try to clear government protesters in the iraqi capital baghdad the crackdown began on saturday after influential shia cleric worked other withdrew support for the demonstrations officials from libya's 2 rival government saif fighting has broken out you the western city of misrata the u.n. backed government in tripoli says its soldiers have retaken the town of abu ghraib . let's get more now on our top story the coronavirus in china and take a look just at how much travel china generates every year become free has become one of the most important sources for outbound to resume in the world in 2018 there were more than 130000000 chinese who made trips abroad southeast asian countries are among their top destinations but the u.s. has become a popular destination as well in 20173 point $2000000.00 chinese visitors travel to

the united states carriages are of which is the spokesman for the world health organization he joins us on skype from geneva it's nice to have you with us is the world health organization now revisiting the idea of declaring these a global health emergency has it reached that point. well obviously. as director general of the also there is a chanst. this is already an emergency china and there is a high risk of spread to other countries now we can't recall alina hearts it could be a very short notice and we are obviously considering the. situation but what is really important to say is that. clearing schools that works or not does not mean that there are no activities being done for the day one of the it sure is in contact daily caught the chinese authorities trying to understand this situation trying to

understand the virus together with the chinese cult officials so so the appropriate measures can be recommended but let me be clear on this this is something that is under consideration is that of actually declaring it a global health emergency because that would then would it not make a difference to the way the international community is able to respond. well 1st of all at the recommendation to declare a lot of hearts and not these done by the marks a committee that is independent body in support of independent experts and there is a general kurds different opinions from different members and decided at this point he will not declare that however it sure has issued guidance on january 10th to a constantly updating the guidance for health facilities for health authorities for people who fall through missions in the like took information i'm getting you are still things we don't understand about this virus and it's critical to get this information one of the same time how systems around the world there are right

information young rice their level of preparedness to the wanted to quickly detect treats. people who are sick how much concern is it to you that in spite of the emergency measures that have been put in place that the restrictions on travel within china we are seeing this growing very quickly indeed would coming out of china or is it is spreading even more quickly than perhaps but anticipated how much more concerning is that for you. well the obviously every new virus that is a spreading in the human population is a frequent service we really trying to get the facts very fast and it is so important that we understand the virus correctly so we know it's a corona virus a caress usually is b. interest me to human to human by droplets means that the editors were to have seen

so far it's deer are close to them or close contacts so there is a human to human transmission but it's just too close contacts most of the cases are from that there are cases in other prison china as road to. countries but they were all related to the wire which shows that the transmissibility is really a mom to a mom to contacts we need to understand really disability for the time being the same symptoms are after the floor like a respiratory illness like and also we have noticed that a lot of people who fall severely sick up older people underlying health conditions so we have to understand all of these things that we have to try to understand what is the source of this virus at the same doctor we really want that people get the right message but it doesn't mean we were going to ever want to follow up precautionary measures that are morally commended for respiratory illnesses such as hand hygiene such as covering mild trance knees scenes such as of who would in

contact with people who may have a few like symptoms and especially people who are having fever and who are coughing and who are having problems with breathing should immediately look for medical care not only supportive care will be good for them but also that it will not be infected turkish garbage thank you so much for giving a shit on. relatives of those murdered or missing in mexico are calling on the government to do more to stop the rise in violence a caravan for peace which left the city of on thursday it has arrived in mexico city more than 35000 people were murdered last year and more than 16000 of that aged since 2006 when the current war on drugs again. john homa now joins us live from the bots in mexico city tell us what you are seeing there the numbers of people involved in this much john

i thought the numbers are comparatively small we're talking about a 1000 people that you can see going past as they're going past most of them in silence actually because the stories that they're telling are many of the wards that they're bringing with them the photos we just talked to a lady who said that her brother had disabled brother and her parents were stabbed to death during a robbery just in the past year 2019 we spoke to another lady that said her daughter has been kidnapped and she's been searching for her ever since and trying to find out exactly what happened to her what was in the center what was in the north of the country so this is really something that's affecting different regions of mexico the numbers you mentioned 35000 people that's 95 people almost killed a day in 2019 in mexico is the biggest number of people that been killed since records were kept in mexico so this is

a huge problem big statistics but there are those personal stories behind them those people families trying to deal with people that being killed others trying to deal with people that have simply disappeared and who spent years trying to find john how much of this is directed specifically at president lopez obrador and what they see as a lack of of action from the government. what president will preside over authority has now been in power for just over a year so he can't say that this is a problem really that just been given to him by past governments for the last 3 governments including him it's been a problem here but a lot of people say that his security strategy that he's trying to put in place to resolve this hasn't really worked he's put in place a national guard that's this sort of militarized police force that he's from scratch to try and deal with the problem in some of the country's hotspots instead

of trying to reform the police that mexico ready has in a lot of people have said that that's what he should have done that he should have dealt with the police already in place in the country he actually set out to about this march in particular he said that he's not going to receive them in the presidential palace because he doesn't want to make a show and that's been really criticize especially since just last week he actually announced in his televised morning press conference that he was going to wrap up to sell the presidential plane so i think a lot of people are saying this show what happened with the presidential plane the raffle was a show. john heilemann live there for us mexico city thank you. italians are voting in regional elections the far right party is hoping to make gains in areas traditionally dominated by it is a crucial leader former deputy prime minister but those are very few pulled out of a probably should government last year let's cross. below and you tell us why this

is getting so much attention on. the stand it really is because of the fact that if the lead party managed to win the region of a 1000000 romagna left wing stronghold since the end of the 2nd world war it would in effect consolidate the lead parties dominance in the local assemblies the legislative local legislative assemblies that with that in mind that would put further pressure on the coalition government made up of the 5 star movement in the democratic party and with that might there still remain hopes that it would trigger some kind of political crisis and therefore having to trigger some elections because as it stands now the league party is the most popular party when it comes to polls across the nation nevertheless this has been a very contentious campaign for the party as well we're currently in the

neighborhood of the last straw in which is a scene for one of their seventies most controversial starts as it were when he decided to go to a home a family home and ring the doorbell and ask some very controversial questions as my report shows. a few minutes ago italy's former deputy prime minister paid a visit to talent in 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. targeted over a rumor was live streamed of a tale salvini social media page without any evidence to support the allegation. it is a tactic that has seemed to believe part of his quest to click bait his way to popularity there was ever a time where the leak could dominate italy it would be now even some familiar faces

such as from a prime minister silvio berlusconi also lending his support. historically 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. long live. long live freedom long live democracy long live the league crucial to. capturing these left wing. if they manage to win. is convinced. by minister. that would actually. seismic change the political landscape. was strong on slogans but little offered in the way of detail it against the odds the league have powered 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 the rise of salvini and his politics is in a warning from the past. in this type of populism has the same roots as fascism we've all resigned to the narrative because there wasn't an alternative but for my 1st demonstration in well known. you 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 says rather than using populist tactics if they can take all 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 this has been a campaign in which the lead have really been putting out very strongly that social media tactics as well it's also interesting to note that so far the latest turnout polls are double than what they were back in 2014 the last time there were regional elections now back possibly means that way all the all the people have been galvanized to take part and vote in this election certainly from those in the so-called solid d. movement they are concerned that not a foothold would in effect change the politics of it really for a long time to come you know there are quite a few people that we've spoken to here that say that they're voting for change make about what you will. show you thank you for that live for us are blown your.

white house lawyers defending donald trump at the senate impeachment trial so the us president has done nothing wrong if he's dealings with ukraine it's the 1st time he's legal to address the trial it will have 2 more days to argue its case drop its accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress castro has moved from washington d.c. . the opening argument of president trump's attorneys 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 from the 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 harness and 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 castro al-jazeera washington. want to bring you some pictures now that are just coming in and we're getting reports of at least 7 people have been killed in

a car bomb in northern syria the truck exploded in the city of us in a liquid province injuring several hours no one has claimed responsibility will bring you more on that as a cost. india is celebrating the 71st anniversary of its founding as a republic. a. brazilian president jaya bows and arrows sat alongside prime minister narendra modi as guest of honor and 15 deals to increase trade about the 2 g. 20 countries the occasion marks the day the constitution came into effect after india gained independence from british rule. protests are being held in australia calling for the national day to be changed all scrapped altogether. demonstrators say the anniversary represents the start of colonial oppression a strike today marks the arrival of the 1st fleet of convicts ships from britain in

7988 the calls for change have been growing louder over the pastika but as andrew thomas explains from sydney australia his government is unlikely to take action. a growing number of people here and many thousands of them took the monster the center of sydney earlier on sunday say january the 26th the last day to celebrate but as one to commemorate gender the 26788 was the day when british explorer space 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 well the launches 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. is actually the genocide. but. a long time ago and. what we do he easiest way to taking risk for stranded on we can't stop every reconciliation with 1st nations people if we have

a date that celebrates on nation on the day that cause saw a much destruction and basically decimated their entire contract that those 2 things done by parallel you could see the timing right and wrong and right now it's oh yeah great weight messages but showing up in person is nothing it comes the same so solidarity is that there are events like this one going on in cities right across australia on sunday i was attending them with the lights almost ready they didn't change the one when i was writing on the ambiguously celebrates australia's broader sense a guy who doesn't see it that way they say no change is going to happen momentum does seem to be these side. still ahead on al-jazeera in sport we'll hear from the team digest it in the end of the livelihood latest graeme sledge adventure.

frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is really wiping out the whole climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on both through school even though we're always going to focus on him and is astonishing me patronize ing in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware views about still against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. week. long. last. hour jews iraq. and you. write. that. or.

oh. oh. i was talking sport where he's already hey thanks so much dan for the 2nd by running home friends got their wish at the australian open 24 hours on from that curiosity's 5 set when ashley barty has made it through to the quarter finals the world number one did lose the 2nd set in this 4th round match against america's allison risk of the australian recovered her composure in the decider to become the 1st australian woman to win this title in moving 14 years for next place check 7th seed triple bit of. love patch over the top she doesn't break my heart on tuesday night i think all 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 and you know quarter final grand slam you don't get those every week so i'm really excited well 15 year old american coco golf just missed out on her 1st grand slam quarter final after beating defending champion i mean i was struck in her last match golf won the 1st set here against a compassionate sophiatown in cannon are heading back to win the next 2 sets for the loss of just 3 games despite the defeats cough will move into the world's top 50 for the 1st time next week i was doing well right now at 15 and i still have so much i feel like i can get better on in even my parents my team they all believe i can can get better like this is it really i don't even think this is close to a peak creamy. and if history made in melbourne to his years on the job or becoming the 1st arab woman siri chair grandslam quarter final with this straight sets victory over one trial. in the men's draw 20

time grand slam winner roger federer remains on course for his 7th title in melbourne the swiss player through to lower states the world number 3 after a pretty shaky start again he dropped the opening set in this fall from much against him guerin martin savidge 38 rolled back to win in 4 sets. federer will face american tennis center and in the 4th story he was not going to be a baseball player that's for sure. but that name. isn't real actually . now i'm looking forward to playing every against him i've never played against tennis and. played a lot of tennis or my life and never against tennis so i'm looking. for the. defending champ another joke of it all so through the seventy's when of beating argentina's do you gosh what's going in straight sets primus ryan in.

the defending champions manchester city a through surround 5 of the english f.a. cup pretty easy day out for them again 2nd to follow but i silver here putting 6 and see what i was goal from brazil struck the capital has this followed in the 2nd half for nail to city finals i missed a chance to move within a point of it's holly and league leaders eventis inside help a 11 draw at home park county pretty mixed a fair in says last time not seen as school the opener there then after kerry's equaliser he was sent off after a little disagreement with the referee in the final seconds of the game these events as they play napoli a little later on. now basketball star lebron james has passed yet another career milestone le bron has moved past l.a. lakers legend kobe bryant to go 3rd on the all signed scoring list so malik reports kobe bryant look on the who's better love bron james or kobe bryant discussion has

gone on for years while both of them are lympics having joined forces to lead the usa to gold in 20082012 kobe found often point to the fact that le bron trailed in the n.b.a. championships column 3 to 5. on saturday however with the lakers taking on the philadelphia 76 of them. known as king james had the chance to steal a mansion on his illustrious prita. and he did just that le bron moved into 3rd in the n.b.a.'s all time scoring list kobe himself was quick to pay tribute to the achievements. he tweeted continuing to move the game forward king james much respect my brother this season le bron has pulled the full medical partnership with anthony davis and it looks like the l.a. franchise has a real shot to the 1st championship since 2010 when kobe got them to the title and the brawn clearly respects the form a lake of accomplishment i got drafted i still just admire him you know seen what

he was able to accomplish when a championships haven't you know be early in his career were you know he learned from miss is that he had a series against you tall and he just used that as motivation and got better and better and better to him when a multiple championships and continue to him aren't you at my school right le bron's lakers may have lost on saturday but this was clearly a night to cherish for him he now has 33655 points 12 more than the legend he used to look up to so he'll malicous algis it out. and legacy is just one goal state by desert classic becoming the 1st australian winner of the events in more than 2 decades he beat south africa's christian base at night sunday's 2nd hole of the playoffs close to 24 year olds 1st ever title when only europeans. ok most sport from a tour of the night stand so thank you andy that's it for me for this news hour be back though in

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