on al-jazeera. the u.s. military says it's investigating after a plane with u.s. markings crashed in afghanistan's girls need province. hello again i'm martin that is your without is there live from doha also coming up lebanon's parliament passes its budget for the year ahead but protesters say it doesn't do enough to end the economic crisis. rockets hit the u.s. embassy inside iraq's high security green zone. china's prime minister visits the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak has now killed at least 81 people . and the horrors of the past overwhelm auschwitz survivors return to the nazi

concentration camp 75 years after it was liberated. by the u.s. military says it's investigating reports of a plane crash in afghanistan's girls the province the plane crashed in mountainous terrain which is partly controlled by the taliban the authorities in afghanistan say it was not an afghan aircraft and everyone on board is believed to have died let's go live to the same bizarrely our correspondent who is in the afghan capital kabul this is very mysterious indeed what more information if you managed to find out. well martin we've reached out to u.s. forces here in kabul we are still waiting for

a response from officials here in the us. ken capital but if this is true if this is the case that a u.s. operated aircraft has crashed in taliban controlled areas in the central gaza province that certainly is a nightmare scenario for the americans operating in the conflict here here's what we know so far social media video user generated content from witnesses on the ground at the crash site at least that's what it appears to be. seems to show the tail section of an aircraft with u.s. markings on the tail section of the wreckage that video appeared a few hours ago and in the last hour a security source has confirmed to journalists here in kabul that this aircraft is and eat 118 now this model is a modified passenger plane it's a modified bomb but your global express used by the u.s. military and this specific plane is being. said is said to be

a communications and intelligence gathering plane now if it does appear to be the aircraft which many people here think that it is then this is most likely an aircraft that is designed to provide communications and logistics support to ground troops during operations in of god the stun if it turns out to be the plane that many think it is or that intelligence and social media commentary suggests it is that it may be a battlefield airborne communications node aircraft that is operated out of the khandahar airfield by the united states but again if this turns out to be the case that it has crashed in taliban held area then it certainly is a nightmare scenario for the americans we know that afghan security forces are on the scene and we're expecting to hear more detail about recovery if that's possible in the coming hours all right jane thank you for that they measure all the live the very latest on that plane that crashed in eastern afghanistan. now

lebanon's parliament has passed its 2020 budget as it tries to lift the country out of a deepening economic crisis protesters and try to block politicians from getting into a vote many rejected the budgeters it had been discussed and amended by the previous administration riot police with the even physically remove some of the demonstrators from parliament let's go live to our correspondent sara she's outside outside parliament so this new government didn't have any problem then approving a budget that had been basically devised by a previous administration. that's correct sir they've actually finally ratified this much delayed budget which was put in by the government they had made some amendments to it in december this new government was quite seemed to quick keen rather to get it through soon as possible it was meant to be it's to day session and everyone out here the protesters have been quite surprised at how

quickly they managed to ratify in fact the speaker of parliament earlier had said that it was it was important for everyone to remain in parliament and get this done as soon as possible because of the lights and security situation there actually now i don't know if you can see just behind me removing these barriers. because they were worried that the protesters were going to once again try and stop the m.p.'s from getting into parliament of course most people here are not happy about the budget going through they say it's actually unconstitutional because they say that the new cabinet should have been given a very it's a cop to get in on the new cabinet before they can go ahead and make any major to see especially with regards to the budget so therefore are there's no sign that these protests that have. been on the streets of beirut beyond since october there's no sign that these are going to solve. absolutely and we've

just spoken to some protesters post the ratification of this budget and they said that is so bam is just a big sham it's a representation of the old government and its new faces are very concerned they said that the budget that had been approved is of the pre protest time which meant that the economy was not so good at the time but it's gotten so much worse since then a few last month last week the finance minister had put out an appeal saying that they need $4.00 to $5000000000.00 of foreign soft loans just supplying basics for the next year and that includes wheat we're talking about fuel we're talking medicine people salaries that we've been speaking to say that the value of the near has much to be dropped they've lost about 30 to 40 percent of their income so the protesters that we've been speaking to today have said that they're not going to be going anywhere but they are also concerned they said how the security forces are

tightening in on them and there have been some clashes in fact a few people ended up in hospital earlier today all right sara thanks for that live in the lebanese capital. let's go to the iraqi capital now and the u.s. embassy in baghdad been hit by rockets the 1st direct strike after months of near misses 3 rockets landed inside the compound one struck close to a dining area a dinner time well the embassy is located inside the heavily fortified green zone that's in the central part of baghdad the u.s. state department described the situation is tense and says its forces remain vigilant is called on iraq to ensure diplomatic facilities are protected but meanwhile iraqi security forces have been using tear gas to clear antigovernment protesters from their camps in the capital the crackdown began after the influential shia cleric mokhtar al sabah withdrew his support for the demonstrators

are some of invaders our correspondent in baghdad where he says there's been no claim of responsibility for the rocket attacks. we did hear from our sources inside the fortified green zone confirming that 3 of the 5 rockets which landed in the green zone in fact landed inside the u.s. embassy compound and one of them penetrated the dining hall around dinner time this would mark the 1st direct hit on a building inside the u.s. embassy compound and it was dramatic events last night because although many of the employees here in baghdad of one of the largest u.s. diplomatic missions in the world have been on alert but they were not expecting that it will they will be facing a direct hit and we've been speaking to people who were in disbelief and shock there has been no indication of whether people have been injured in this attack but we heard from iraqi security forces saying that there were no casualties the u.s.

embassy has been tight lipped about this and they haven't confirmed whether what happened but our security sources inside the coalition have confirmed that one of these rocket actually did hit the hit the dining area so 'd in the in the wake of the assassination of pass until a minute and generally the 3rd we've seen multiple walis being fired at the green zone the last time rockets hit close to the u.s. embassy compound they were fired from a nearby area of safir near nobody has claimed responsibility so far and we've heard from have been. saying they have nothing to do with the attack and militias in iraq are saying they are going to abide by the government's decision to force u.s. and other foreign troops out diplomatically. that china's prime minister has been to will hand that sea epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak the number of people killed has risen to 81 thousands of people are infected beijing says it's extending the lunar new year holiday and putting aside $9000000000.00 to fight the virus it's

got hired law has more from beijing. the streets. in the capital beijing are almost empty and the most likely stay that way until next monday now that the lunar new year holiday has been extended to help curb the spread of the corona virus more countries and territories have increased restrictions on people from a province or even banned their entry in some cases as the chinese government continues with its plan on containing and treating those who have the virus but i have to keep wearing the same mask if i throw this away no mask then i'm asking the government to sell more masks so i found out that everything sold out to buy food and vegetables now i hope the situation can get better after the chinese new year holiday china's 2nd most powerful government official premier league has been put in charge of the coronavirus situation he travelled down to will hutton visited the

construction site of a hospital that's been purpose built for the virus. we should build this sauce patrol as soon as possible we set the date this february 2nd we bringing all the medical resources from all over the country will bring thousands of medical stuff to other hospitals in here he then spoke with medical workers on the front lines of the virus outbreak. throughout the day safe and save lives because what you're doing now is to save lives yoel nation is relying on you while the people of china might be relying on those medical workers the entire world watches as the number of dead and infected continues to rise it's got al-jazeera beijing's. leading for all interests in hong kong and warning that the outbreak is actually much worse than what the chinese government is saying adrian brown has more from their. we've been hearing the softer noone from gabrial long he's a leading epidemiologist he is the head and he's the dean of hong kong university's

medical medical faculty and he basically says based on commuter computer modeling that they've been using as other experts are around the world right now he estimates that in fact 44000 people have been infected by this virus in who hand and he also says that the rate of infection will double every 6 to 7 days so again this is based on computer modeling it doesn't mean it's necessarily going to happen but he said it is their forecast they're sort of worst case scenario you might say so these are alarming words coming from hong kong and they appear to in a sense contradict what the world health organization has been saying because the world health organization so far hasn't felt compelled to declare an international public health alert the experts in hong kong are saying that draconian measures will be needed not just by hong kong's government and china's government but by

other governments around the world in the case of hong kong for instance you know when one has to give out things like food imports it everything it eats just about is imported much of it coming from the mainland so his message was you know unless there is good planning unless we heed the warnings then you know we could be facing a global pandemic epidemic and in his words. not all to come here without including china has grown to become the world's 2nd biggest producer of military weapons. i'm basketball fans gathered to pay their respects to kobe bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash. but. there are a few more days ahead with the violence of the weather conditions across much of

japan look at this massive cloud in the last year as moving pretty swiftly this rain with the mountain snow but even so it's going to linger raiders ago through choose say on into wednesday but what it does do is clear the rainy way throughout much of the central and southern areas of china even some sunshine in the forecast by wednesday up to double figures who had 9 celsius in shanghai and then look at this is system just sits there in the city of japan bringing a lot of moisture into northern one shoot across into guider mountain in full or is a say in terms of snow but not a cold and sapporo high that a 4 degrees celsius plain just got a shot and thunderstorms across much of indonesia becoming quite heavy at times across northern areas of borneo and then also fairly extensive throughout much of sumatra and once again across into these western and central areas of java but to the north of them that i. got a chance mostly care throughout much of thailand and also use the sections of vietnam some rain showers in the forecast across northern areas of utah pradesh for the next few days it will take the time which is down

a bit in new delhi will see 19 degrees on cheese day and this moisture is a lot of it pushing into northern pakistan and some very heavy snow developing across the himalayas for the next 2 days and keeping those temperatures at about 80 in you jenny. talk to al jazeera we us let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and the gang we listen so if you reprint place china as an enemy of a couple of the words and that's really daniels we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges era. award winning documentaries from around the world ah ah. on al-jazeera.

office take a look at the top stories here and out of there the u.s. military says it's investigating reports of a plane crash in afghanistan's carsley province the plane crashed in mountainous terrain which is partly controlled by the taliban everyone on board is believed to have died. lebanon has passed its 2020 budget despite attempts by protesters to block politicians from going into parliament for the vote many rejects the budget as it had been discussed in amended by the previous administration. the us embassy in baghdad has been struck by rockets the 1st direct after months of near misses one here to dining hall at meal times. new

research suggests that china is now the world's 2nd biggest producer of weapons the stockholm international peace research institute looked into 4 companies and found a clear shift from a decade ago when china relied on arms made elsewhere alexy o'brien reports. china's military might on show at a parade last year with some weapon seen for the 1st time in october analysts said china's technological advances were almost unprecedented and new research is revealing just how many of these weapons are being produced by beijing and a dramatic shift from a decade ago when it had to buy most of its munitions i think it's very important information for us in the world because we know that of course china used to rely on importing weapons from russia but we see now that it can almost completely cold and produce its weapons for its own military and we also see that the industry is at a point where other countries are demanding its weapons. the stockholm international

peace research institute. china is now the 2nd biggest arms manufacturer in the world behind the u.s. and with russia and 3rd place there have been a number of shifts in military policy within china 1st off they reduced over that period 600000 troops but they put more money into modern rising the army the 2 aircraft carriers are in production one they had bought those are big ticket items the size of china's industry has been largely a mystery with beijing keeping reliable secret but the institute has now been able to look into 4 major chinese companies and says 3 of them would be in the top 10 global produces remember although china may be rising in the ranks of manufacturers in terms of arms exports it's a very very small amount compared to the u.s.

russia and e.u. beijing's production prowess is in demand it's estimated to be selling billions of dollars worth of munitions every year largely to pakistan bangladesh and man a lot of the body is of chinese weapons are very much more friendly towards the chinese government is also the case that they cannot. attain weapons from weston produces such as the u.k. or chairman e.u. or the us as such rely on china to produce or to provide. less sophisticated and sometimes less expensive weapons to be used for their specific purposes in $2181.00 trillion dollars was spent on weapons across the globe the highest since the end of the cold war with the research pointing to increased spending from washington and beijing and excedrin al-jazeera. donald trump has criticised his woman national

security adviser who appears to be undercutting the u.s. president's impeachment defense he reportedly. over it that told him to tie ukrainian military aid to an investigation into a political rival of frank a go to report this allegation is at the center of efforts to remove the president from office is highly respected by everybody in this room and john i want to thank you very much as john bolton wants donald trump's national security adviser now a potential witness who could expose the u.s. president a new york times to pour details excerpts from a draft of bolton's upcoming book the report says the book reveals how trump wanted to hold back nearly $400000000.00 in military assistance to ukraine until its officials aided investigations into his democratic rival former vice president joe biden his son and other democrats for the democrats these revelations from

a former white house insider seem to directly contradict tom's defense in the senate impeachment trial and have both stood they demands to call bolton as a witness in the house speaker nancy pelosi saying excluding him is now indefensible and calling it a choice between the constitution or a cover up until now the democrats have been struggling against a republican majority senate to seek testimonies if they were really interested in the american people knowing all the facts they wouldn't be fighting to make sure that this is the 1st trial in history without witnesses. i can promise you this mick mulvaney knows a lot more about this than any whistleblower. and john bolton knows more about this than the whistleblower trump has denied bolton's claims saying he never told him that the aid to ukraine was tight investigations into democrats including the

bidens and that if bolton said this it was only to sell a book trump has issued a blanket order barring his aides from corporate inc in the investigation particularly bolton i would rather interview bolton i would rather interview a lot of people the problem with john is that it's a national security problem but analysts believe that's just an excuse so many presidents have used the national security card 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 you need to be exposed so we can actually clean up our democracy and abide by the rule of law that will not be easy democrats need at least 4 republicans to vote with them to have witnesses included in the trial and in a deeply divided washington it's unclear if republicans will rise above partisan interests and be swayed by these new revelations priyanka gupta al-jazeera.

and president trump is preparing for back to back meetings with israel's political rivals prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader of any girls are in washington and their visits come ahead of what has promised to be the unveiling of the american administration so-called deal of the century which is already being rejected by the palestinians that's in yahoo and girls will face voters again in march for israel's 3rd election in less than a year and this all comes against the backdrop of president trump's impeachment trial which resumes in a few hours our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more now from washington she says the meeting could prove a convenient distraction for both mr trump and mr netanyahu. there is that accusation not only against president trump that he may be trying to manipulate the headlines to try and show that he is working on something of significance and great importance even as the u.s. senate is debating whether or not to remove him from office there's no question

about that but there's also that accusation with regard to the israeli leader benjamin netanyahu as well given the fact that this is the 1st time he has visited the white house in advance of israeli elections we know we have those coming up in early march and so there seems to be that concern perhaps for both leaders whether or not they're doing this in an effort to try and manipulate the outcome for their domestic agendas now when it comes to that mideast plan there is a lot of skepticism about it the palestinians have been literally shut out of the process many are saying that this is going to be dead on arrival further the policies of this it ministration the trumpet ministration have been so decidedly one sided in favor of the israelis that there is equally remorse look at this ism that this is going to work now the white house tends to say that this is going to be sort of bold and revolutionary but not many in washington are feeling that way

if you please right wing opposition leader. has failed to win an important regional election before going to have the prime minister was hoping to swing the traditionally left this region or the media over mamma and full snap elections. turn out driven in part by an anti populist movement so the center left democratic party with. well most $200.00 holocaust survivors are at a ceremony in the auschwitz birkenau camp in poland 75 years after it was liberated there laying wreaths at the execution wall of what was nazi germany is biggest death site more than a 1000000 people most of them jews were killed there between 940 and 945 jonah hill is there where he's been talking to some of the survivors this is not an event focused on high level representatives v.i.p.'s world leaders as has been the case

in the past rather it's much more focused on survivors those who are still alive still fit enough to make the journey no doubt harrowing back to this place as you said some 200 or so of them are here for as long as they do remain to survive they are still a living connection to those events that took place here some of the most extraordinary horrors of the holocaust 75 years ago and in the presence of those living witnesses you realize that it really wasn't that long ago there are a reminder of the horrors they implore the world to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again and as often as they can these people when they speak they offer the hope that the world will never forget basketball fans around the world are mourning the loss of superstar n.b.a. player kobe bryant has been killed in a helicopter crash in california is teenage daughter and 7 others on board also died our correspondent rob reynolds reports from calabasas just outside of los angeles. kobe bryant's helicopter crashed and disintegrated on this hillside

in calabasas outside los angeles. witnesses said there was heavy fog and poor visibility in the area at the time of the accident. resident paula dolan heard multiple explosions before the helicopter went down wired one banged one and was in the air and the last 2nd their 2nd bang as it was just sunday and then i heard a huge crash on board with a 41 year old retired superstar and his 13 year old daughter giana as well as 7 others including the pilot police have not released their names there was a white speculation as to their dinner these are however it is being entirely inappropriate right now to identify anyone by name until the coroner has made the identification through their very deliberative process and they've made made the revocations the next of kin. the cause of the crash is on known the helicopter

a sikorsky $76.00 b. has a robust safety record federal crash investigators will search the wreckage and more our team will be looking at the history of the pilots and whatever crew was on board will be looking at maintenance records of the helicopter bryant's prowess thrilled fans in l.a. and beyond for 2 decades. a crowd has gathered here below the crash site many people are wearing lakers colors purple and gold some people say it's as if a piece of their lives have been ripped apart even more than you can imagine and you can put in words just the passion and the grit in the sweat and blood east given to los angeles for the basketball family is i can say of young words see them with an eye at all everyone loved l.a.

is very sad right now he is just human he was not great player that's a reason why i got into baseball kind of and that's why i haven't changed and it's still like unbelievable for me to say that kobe bryant is not here with us anymore it's just tragedy it's just it i'm no words honestly. president donald trump tweeted bryant was one of the truly great basketball players of all time the loss of his beautiful daughter giana makes this moment even more devastating president barack obama an avid basketball fan said koby was a legend on the court and was just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a 2nd act amid an outpouring of sorrow from players from across the spectrum of sports players from the euston rockets and the denver nuggets held a moment of silence before their game on sunday players looked down shaking their heads he leaves behind a sport that is grieving

a city in mourning and a legacy of greatness that will be remembered as long as basketball is played robert oulds al-jazeera calabasas california. all right have reza take a look at the top stories here it out is there the u.s. military says it is investigating reports of a plane crash in afghanistan's girls need profits the plane crashed in mountainous terrain which is partly controlled by the taliban in a statement the taliban said high ranking u.s. security personnel were on board and that everyone was killed same preserve the is following developments from the afghan capital kabul if it turns out to be the plane that many think it is or that intelligence. and social media commentary suggests it is that it may be a battlefield airball communications know they are craft that is operated out of

the kandahar air field by the united states but again if this turns out to be the case that has crashed in tal afar held area 'd that certainly is a nightmare scenario for the americans we know that afghan security forces are on the scene and we're expecting to hear more detail about recovery if that's possible in the coming hours. lebanon has pulses 2020 budget despite attempts by protests is to block politicians from entering parliament for the vote many reject the budget as it had been discussed and amended by the previous administration the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been struck by rockets the 1st direct hit after months of near misses one hit a dining hall during mill time and president trump is set to have back to back meetings with israel's political rivals prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader benny gantz are in washington where they are expected to head

details of trump's long delayed middle east peace plan. nearly $200.00 holocaust survivors at a ceremony in auschwitz birkenau. 75 years after it was liberated there laying wreaths at the execution wall of what was nazi germany's biggest site when a 1000000 people may need jews were killed there between 949451 of basketball's greatest players kobe bryant's being killed in a helicopter crash the former los angeles lakers player and his daughter were among the 9 people who died just today those other lines. next americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble 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 u.s.

politics and policy is a matter of fact on the world. see. it was the 1st black republic in the 1900 centuries created by a revolution that overthrew slavery maintained by french colonial rule. but independence came at a cost and haiti had to be billions in compensation that left the country bankrupt since its creation high levels of inequality and poverty have persisted over the years and political attempts to fight it have not ended well. for him intervention led by france and the united states have always preserve the status quo and those who once tried to implement some type of change did not end well.