to feel the need to cheat the c.d.c. respects. shock is the basketball world remembers one of its superstars toby bryant among 9 people killed in a helicopter crash in the u.s. . i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live also coming up i'm some of the. top u.s. democrats to man donald trump's former national security adviser testify in the president's impeachment trial after reports of damaging information in his new book . and an italian right wing party appears to have failed in its bid to overturn decades of left leaning rule in regional elections.

one of basketball's greatest players kobe bryant has been killed in a helicopter crash in the u.s. state of california the former los angeles like his player was one of 9 people who died he was 41 bra and 13 year old daughter who was among the victims the helicopter went down just outside l.a. . a large crowds have gathered to pay respects at the staples center in los angeles which is home to the l.a. like as the n.b.a. is calling brides one of the boss couples most extraordinary plies former u.s. president barack obama described the loss as hop right rob reynolds joins us from near the scene of the crash in what are we hearing from the l.a. county sheriff's office about what's happening here with the investigation.

stand we are waiting to hear from the l.a. county sheriff. at this hour they have scheduled a press briefing at a fire station that is not far from where we're standing and we are learning new information about the fateful flight that ended in tragedy and disaster and about who was on board that helicopter we the. in addition to kobe bryant and his daughter giana i was 13 years old. the aircraft also carried a coach from orange coast college in costa mesa a long time bass baseball coach from that college john also belly died in the accident according to an official statement from the college the author belly family also confirms that all to billy's 13 year old daughter alyssa

and all to billy's wife were also on board the aircraft another horrible family tragedy no alyssa all to billy played on a basketball team with kobe bryant's daughter giana of course was another victim of this crash and we've found now would be. perhaps the destination and the origin of the flight the flight took off at john wayne airport in orange county. south of los angeles mr bryant lived in orange county and the plane was headed apparently to 1000 oaks where he has his. a cademy. that's a sports academy that. teaches young people of writing of sports especially basketball the 1000 oaks area is to the north of here so the plane took all the helicopter took off from john wayne airport

a little less than an hour before crashing in the hills which are shrouded in darkness behind me the academy the mamba cademy that mr bryant founded and coached at was holding a tournaments for boys and girls on sunday the case the causes of course is still a mystery the national transportation safety board is sending an 18 person team to investigate the cause the f.b.i. is assisting in in this effort that is part of the ordinary standard procedure it is of course dark now but the once the n.t.s.b. investigators are able to get. to work at 1st light they will be looking at the wreckage for any clues as to what might have gone wrong with the aircraft and also of course look at the. records of the pilots the safety record of the sikorsky

aircraft its maintenance schedule and number of other things it's likely to be a lengthy investigation stan rob thank you rob reynolds joining us live with tributes are pouring in from around the sporting world for tybee brides looks at the korea of one of the bulls right and supplies. for 2 decades kobe bryant throws at them. every challenge that came his way in boston bulls in the t.v. the n.b.a. one of the game's all time greats he spent his entire career with the los angeles lakers winning the n.b.a. championship in 5 occasions bryant also won to him to gold medals for the united states. is a giant in the sports world it goes far beyond the n.b.a. 'd goals for far beyond basketball he is a world wide giant in sports. it's hard for us to fly anymore and it

doesn't know kobe he was bigger than life he is a one of the biggest most well know in the 8 players of all time after michael jordan he is one of the players that made the n.b.a. into a global sport and to get into this 'd next century. after excel ing on the court at high school in philadelphia bryant opted to skip college and find his 1st n.b.a. contract 8 just 17 at the time of peace that view in the 19962990 7 season he was the youngest player ever to appear in an n.b.a. game. he more than lived up to that early promise famously teaming up with shaquille o'neal to win 3 consecutive championships with the lakers in the early 2000. bryant retired in 2016 and his

post basketball korea had only just begun. he won an oscar for the animated short film their bucket ball. when he scored his final n.b.a. points in 2016 he was 3rd on the old time scoring list. only on saturday was his mock cost by a present day great the bron james bryant's final social media post congratulated james on continuing to move the game forward. something bryant had done throughout his own career. mark speed is is a senior n.b.a. writer for e.s.p.n. has the undefeated he described bryant as a person he cared about people i remember him like blown out as a killie's tendon in a game and shooting

a free throw before he had to come out. he was very tough minded. talked a lot of trash and earned it earned the respect of everybody from michael jordan a magic johnson secure on nearly the bron james when he walked into the room even when the bron james is planned for the lakers there was roti it was amazing to see him sitting courtside at games in recent years and he's just so beloved in los angeles that even with the brand on the floor they're not paying attention to the lakers they're paying attention to him he just had that much of a presence in or in perhaps as the greatest most popular figure in los angeles history when he had to go meet people he would scout the people you is going to meet the same way he was scout his opponent you want to know where they were from what they did what made him special and when you met him he would ask you a question about yourself which would you know take people off guard is the

legendary kobe bryant he doesn't why should he care about me and by the time you were done with that conversation you just felt like you just talked to just the average joe on the street and not just the greatest basketball player of his time so he just had a way of connecting with people in the community in los angeles worldwide. the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been targeted by rockets in a red direct hit 3 landed in the compound with one hitting an embassy dining area previous attacks landed near the facility 3 weeks ago protesters stormed the embassy days before the u.s. killed the iranian general tells some sum of money some of it just i did baghdad says the iraqi prime minister has condemned the attacks so far we have not had any claim of responsibility as there has been no claim of responsibility in the previous attacks is this these attacks have intensified when the assassination ice

incident monday and of many in on this to place in general. and there's been multiple volleys which would be to fight in the green zone and aimed at the u.s. embassy compound spent the last time we heard from iraqi security forces was in the saffron area i traced the launch pads of these rockets which were fired inside the green zone in iraq the prime minister has commented saying that this is something that you beacons iraq something that brings iraq's refuge into question and the safety of diplomatic missions is the router sponsibility it continues to maintain that we've also heard from the iraqi security forces who have so far not been fun anyone has been wounded in this attack but we are already hearing reports of some aerial traffic multiple helicopters and other aerial assets in the air after this attack we also heard the sirens going off at the u.s. embassy after this attack took place and the sources of confirmed to us there is

something significant it's taken place mark kimmitt is a retired brigadier general in the u.s. army he says it's a significant attack and it could lead to retell the ocean from washington. if it's a large number of american citizens were killed in there i think it's one level of response of it was a small number i think it's another level of response but it's clear that after the killing of so money and the response that our last side that what many were saying that deterrence had been reestablished with the iranians but if the iranians are backing a proxy that conducted this kind of attack on us as territory to my mind it is clear that deterrence has not been reestablished of the united states would have to send a message perhaps even stronger the next time to make it very clear that the united states is prepared to take actions in response to these kind of attacks on sovereign u.s. territories and american civilians earlier in the day iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live bullets as antigovernment protests turned violent in baghdad the

crackdown began after influential see it clearly. withdrew his support for the protesters on saturday dozens were injured in baghdad and in the southern city of nasiriyah as police tried to clear city towns former u.s. national security advisor john bolton appears to have on the body president trump's defense at his impeachment trial the new york times has obtained a draft copy of a book written by bolton it says trump told him to tie ukrainian military to an investigation into joe biden bolton says he's willing to testify at the trial but senate republicans are resisting attempts to include him the news prompted this tweet from lead democratic impeachment manager adam schiff he says the president blocked our request for bolton system and a now we see why bolton directly contradicts the heart of the president's defense if the trial is to be fair sentences must insist that mr bolton be called as

a witness and provide he's notes and the documents peter mathews is a professor of political science at cypress college he says the president out resort to arguments about national security concerns to prevent bolton from testified. so many presidents have used the national security come of age to actually hide the truth which was not a national security issue in this case on the usenet is not a national security issue if it's what bolton saying is true we need to be exposed so we can actually clean up our democracy and abide by the rule of law it's all about the rule of law is the president of the law or easy not under the law like everyone else i believe the 2nd is true and this bolton session will make a big difference i think they should go forward with it i think this is a lightning bolt this very well could be the smoking gun that we'll see if we get bolton bolton can actually testify and if the senate will vote to bring him because he wants to be subpoenaed so he can testify but i think there's a good chance if this comes out even more and discuss more in the news as it's being done that the american people will say look we want to have witnesses

especially john bolton now that he's such a person who is very close to the center of all this action and we want to know what the evidence is and we can have evidence on this you have witness so i think there's a good chance that a few republicans might bolt change their position and vote with democrats to require a subpoena or bolton. still ahead on al-jazeera the number of dead from china's coronavirus rises again as the government warns it's getting contagious. for a controversy or decision by the president. hello there we have a quiet couple of days across northern sections of the middle east well into bits and pieces of really nothing coming in with them as a sigh certainly not through monday it is quiet throughout much of turkey and

elsewhere as you can see even very little clouds some good sunshine however it is failing a little bit cooler got a very strong is coming down the gulf is taking the top of these temperatures so 98 in doha but actually feeling a lot cooler than that and in fact if anything but choose day that wind is getting even stronger 21 is the 4 cars type it is a say it will likely feel cool in that 21 across into dubai and will scout. pushing again into western and central as a turkey and they will turn over to a mix of sleet and snow into the high ground we've had some deadly floods of course into madagascar we've had several days of very heavy amounts of rain many villages and towns have been cut off the rains are so heavy they have literally swept away the roads and thousands of people have been displaced because of these floodwaters now we have golson dry conditions over the next few days but this is typically the rainy season so we will see more showers and thunderstorms monday they'll generally pop up again in the off the noon hour as and of course a wise fight out towards the west and go to particularly for the next couple of days so choose says it's in the story. is dry bright and sunny at $23.00.

big storms generally sounds a lot maybe angles in this story are too numerous for. with different angles from different perspectives this thing has never really been believed. to be the war to even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the judge is so clear and tends to. clear. the listening on al-jazeera.

to what ya'll just 0 his remarks of our top stories this hour one of basketball's greatest players kobe bryant is being killed in a helicopter crash in the us state of california the former los angeles lakers player was one of 9 people who died he was 41. the us embassy in baghdad has been targeted by rockets in a rare direct hit no casualties have been reported 3 weeks ago protesters stormed the embassy days before the u.s. killed iranian general customs or the money. former u.s. national security advisor john bolton appears to have undermined president trump's defense at his impeachment trial the new york times has obtained a copy of his book it says trump bolton told bolton's across ukraine into investigating joe biden. well the results suggest italy's right wing leader bhutto salvini has failed to win an important regional election the former deputy

prime minister was hoping to cause an upset in a traditionally leftist region and topple the counters governing coalition but turned out spoiled on by the populist movement appears to have tipped the balance against his lead party so there has more from below. he campaigned hard trying to turn this left wing heartland far right but my knees hopes of victory in the red belt region of immediate online faded almost as soon as the voting had ended the exit polls indicated that his opponent for the democratic party was ahead of the. the media but for me it's very emotional but after more than 70 years of a left us government at least this time we were serious contenders. he put himself front and center of the regional campaign turning it into a nationwide battle for the likud party in

a bid to consolidate the party's victory across the country spreading his presence far and wide on social media platforms spite of it all it didn't quite happen this time while the league may not have gained a victory here in a 1000000 romagna however the fact that they are the 2nd largest party here really comes down to the fact that they have made enormous gain here in this region which is part of italy's redbelt. supporters of the incumbent regional president is that what i thought she may be relieved at the outcome he himself acknowledged the support led to him by the liberal anti populist flashmob group known as the sardines 3 of a leak party when pushed many of them to pack the squares here and across the country never the. yes it is a shock to the system that so many in this left wing bastion voted for the far right league. salvini can celebrate

a personal success. because in this campaign you hold the shout. candidate to the chair but it was only in the draw of his coalition to a very good result. he may not have won amy at all man yeah but all eyes are still on michaele salvini election his next attempt to gain power in italy's fractious political scene sunny al-jazeera along at. the world health organization is sending its top official to china to figure out how to stop the spread of coronavirus china's government says the number of people killed has risen to 80 with nearly 3000 infections health officials say it can spread between people before symptoms show which take up to 14 days let's go live now to hong kong bring you an idea of brown for the latest it is moving so quickly i.b.m. what are you hearing there about efforts to try to contain this.

well i can tell you that the chinese premier league chung has now arrived in will hand he is the most senior chinese government official to visit that city since the crisis began really to deepen more than a week ago premier li will be seen from so of what efforts officials are making to try to prevent this tyrus from spreading as you pointed out in the introduction this is a virus that spreading while showing no symptoms now we know that it can be infectious jaring the patient period that in cube ation period by the way can range from a few days say officials to 14 days now we know from the mare. that in the days prior to the lockdown almost $5000000.00 people left that city now woohoo. is a major transport hub for a move and you can fly to 40 international destinations australia new zealand the

united states europe and of course most major centers in asia and of course it's a major rail hub as well that is why hong kong has now started to impose restrictions on people from who buy a province entering hong kong it says no one from who by province will be allowed to come into hong kong but of course that requires the honesty of of the passenger because it would be possible for someone to leave who hand an end to hong kong. another city we have 8 confirmed cases here in hong kong stan 382 suspected cases one of them a 5 month old baby that said there is no real panic here i think there is you know a deepening sense of concern most people are heeding the advice to wear face masks when they go out in public and across the border in guangdong province it's now mandatory to wear your face mask in public if you don't you face a possible possibility of being fined or even sent to jail. no sense of panic but

is there is skepticism there about the information they're receiving from the mainland. absolutely and of course there is a very good reason for that china exercises very strict censorship and strict censorship is not what you need i guess during a public health emergency like this so people don't know what to believe because the trouble with censorship is that it does breed skepticism so certainly medical officials i've been speaking to here in hong kong don't necessarily buy all that they are being told they point out for instance that they believe this taurus actually 1st started to appear and there's evidence of this at the end of november but it wasn't until the end of december december 31st that medical officials. actually notified the world health organization we also know stan that between the

7th of january and the 17th of january there was a meeting of senior local party officials in wu hand so is it possible they wanted to avoid any embarrassing news during that time these are the sorts of questions that are being asked here in hong kong thank you adrian brown live for us in hong kong. in the be a police to live in soldiers in the un backed government have been killed the misrata forces loyal to the warlord who leave for half that were trying to advance on the town of abu graeme misrata is the beares 2nd largest city and is home to groups who oppose after after launched his offensive to seize tripoli in april last year a spokesman for half the us says there is no political solution to this conflict however the low of the had they went to moscow and berlin and before that we went to several other countries we were not searching for a solution we know that the solution is in the gun the solution is in the ammunition and in the hearts of our men still we always try to listen to the

international community and the mediators until the world is fully convinced that we are fighting criminal and terrorist groups. in the gambia police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of protesters calling for president barrow to step down when barrow time to power he promised to step down after 3 years but now he wants to stay on to complete the 5 year presidential term nicolas hart has more. it ended before it started after multiple requests to protest against president adam a barrow were checked and the government gave demonstrators a short 3 hour window for what was supposed to be a peaceful protest but minutes before it began the police fired tear gas into the crowds who were rewarded for president. if he wants or couldn't get him on to power we will not go in we are not going to accept that so this is what or do and we will not relent we are 100 troops and we were not some told by one of the. of the

presidency for the not. thousands fled some were beaten many were left injured others killed. let me holding come back as the injured were taken to hospital gambia the military deployed back in the security forces organizers of the march and several local journalists were arrested al jazeera was not granted a critic taishan to cover this demonstration in democracy this is a democratic in all government and we are committed to ensuring that those democratic mandates. protesters accused of breaking intellectual promise he made to the people of gambia who brought him to power in 2017 shortly after being sworn in barrow told al-jazeera at the time he would only leave the country to its transition to democracy organizing elections in which he would not take part but 3 years into his presidency he says he will instead complete his mandate until 2021.

for protestors it seems barrow is tightening his grip on power just like his predecessor john me and so for many the fight to protect democracy in the gambia is not over it's just the beginning it was hard al jazeera. the prime minister of the netherlands has made the 1st apology on behalf of the dutch government for the wartime persecution of jews who were speaking at commemorations ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the aspirins birkenau camp on monday some survivors attended the event in amsterdam. more than a 1000000 people mainly jews were murdered at the asteroids birkenau camp in poland about 200 survivors will take part in monday's commemorations one of them spoke to our dizzier about the horror he endured and still lives with the current member my name is menachem hard on i was born in czechoslovakia in 1927 i come from

a religious jewish home we lived in a city called cats we don't warm home and we were happy we had a big family in march 944 the germans entered our part of the country and within a week the established to get to my c.n.n. cuts. shop in may 944 they took us to the railway station s.s. men came with their dogs they ordered us to leave the house we didn't know where we were being taken they told us they were transferring us to another place to work we arrived at auschwitz they ordered us to get off the train that they started the selection right left my sister and me on the right side my mother and siblings on the left side i didn't know where they went i found out the next day. but that they are says to roll up our sleeves there were 5 prisoners each with a needle they filled it with the boiling ink he injected us forcefully until the needle reached the nerve from that moment i stopped being me with my name and my

family name i became a man with a number 10111 good bye looked at me it's we received our numbers they took us to the baths they shaved our heads they stripped us they took us to purifying water with chlorine and other chemicals we left red like blood the 1st day of work was clearing out the ash from the crumb of tory m we were given a long home when they brought lorries laden with us in the evening next to me there was an older person i asked him what was that work he said yes i see you when you you arrived yesterday with your family i said yes he. said yesterday afternoon to your family your mother and the children are there i came here to the river i'm not you know we walked old they almost naked in minus 22 degree weather they put 450 people in one room lying on top of each other and the morning 30 to 40 never

would walk up and they rushed us about i've not been released from auschwitz every day i look at the number every day every night i am in auschwitz for me there is no liberation of auschwitz i think only when i die would i be released from auschwitz . this is al jazeera these are the top stories one of basketball's greatest players kobe bryant has been killed in a helicopter crash in the u.s. state of california the former los angeles like his player was one of 9 people who died he was 41 rob reynolds is near the scene of the crash in calabasas with more details on the aircraft was a sikorsky 76 helicopter a an aircraft that has actually a robust safety record so the cause of this crash is not known there is

a team from the national transportation safety board that's the federal agency that is on its way to california now to go over the debris and try to figure out whether this was caused by mechanical failure pilot error or some other cause it is known that there was some heavy fog and a low cloud cover in this particular area called calabasas to the north and west of los angeles proper at the time of the crash. the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been targeted by rockets in a rare direct hits 3 landed in the compound with one hitting an embassy dining area previous attacks landed near the facility 3 weeks ago protesters stormed the embassy days before the u.s. killed iranian general custom so the money former u.s. national security adviser john bolton appears to have undermined president trump's defense that he's impeachment trial the new york times has of time and a copy of his book it says told bolton to prissie ukraine into investigation joe

biden china's government says the number of people killed by the corona virus has risen to 80 with nearly 3000 infections health officials say can spread between people before symptoms show which takes up to 14 days though the results suggest italy's right wing leader salvini has failed to win an important regional election votes are still being counted in the traditionally left is the media among the region but projections for solving these league parties several points behind the center left democratic party well those are the headlines and news continues here on our jazeera after listening posts. well the prime minister's. mission is to deliberately and making this country the greatest place to. follow the final run into the u.k.'s departure from the e.u.

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