we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. in the in. the on. a day before unveiling his long awaited mideast peace plan donald trump meets israeli prime minister benyamin netanyahu at the white house. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to people also coming up the u.s. military says it's investigating after a plane with u.s. markings crashes in afghanistan's gosney province. china's prime minister visits the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak that's now killed at least $81.00 people . and the horrors of the past overwhelmed all switched survivors who have returned to the nazi concentration camp 75 years after he was liberated.

donald trump has announced he will reveal his much awaited middle east peace plan on tuesday but this already being criticized israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling it an historic opportunity but in a tweet iran's foreign minister labeled it delusional trump is meeting this now in the white house right now he insists that while the palestinians probably won't want the deal initially that the plan is good for them well i think he's here for a reason and hopefully that will reverse and peace in the militias the long sought for many many many years and decades and centuries and this is an opportunity we'll see what happens whether it is it is for it easier for a reason. and i look forward to reading this through tomorrow or we will talk about

4 o'clock o'clock before who's really believes which is he or those of you who are more. and in the last hour iran's foreign minister has weighed in saying instead of a delusional deal of the century which will be deal way self described champions of democracy would do better to accept iran's democratic solution proposed by a to ayatollah ali harmony and that is a referendum whereby all palestinians muslims jew or christian decide their future that speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hockett to joins us now live kimberly president meeting with netanyahu right now inside the white house it's a busy day for him is also due to meet benny gantz the israeli opposition leader. yes and we now know that the long awaited often very secretive mideast plan by this administration is set to be unveiled we're told by the president 17 g.m.t. on tuesday now the u.s.

president is already touting it as being something that could be potentially very successful he says the has always been a tough deal to try and make it even though we know in advance that palestinians say they're likely to reject this given the fact they have not been consulted in any way the u.s. president speaking very optimistically saying in fact that he believes that initially it may be rejected but ultimately they will like it and if they don't well in his words donald trump's words life goes on so that's probably not going to sit very well with many who are concerned that what's not in this plan is palestinian refugees right to return compensation and also the feeling that the submit astray she has been so lopsided in favor of israel whether it's the moving of the embassy to jerusalem whether it's the recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights or the shutting down of the palestinian liberation organization office in washington there's a lot of skepticism not just about this plan but about this meeting with the israeli leader that this is nothing more than

a photo opportunity and write little stunt to try to track not only from the upcoming elections in israel to give a boost to the israeli leader but also to help donald trump with impeachment follow certainly a distraction for donald trump and those impeachment proceedings in the senate which are continuing today with the president's defense team laying out their case but the bolton bombshell as it's being described is likely to to overshadow the proceeding later today. and democrats are saying this is exactly why they want witnesses to be called that they believe john bolton has not only contradicted the denials of the president the a db used his presidential powers for political purposes but this is the 1st time we've had this leaking out this testimony in the form of a book which is upcoming for sale in march by john bolton the former national security advisor because he is from the inner circle and would have firsthand knowledge so as democrats have been making the case all along they are once again

doubling down that this is just underscoring why they need to have witnesses called in the senate trial i don't have any of it i have no idea what who leaked it and why but it sure is damning and we ought to find out from the person who made the comments and wrote the book under oath the eyes of america are upon the republicans in the senate they have been before and now what mr bolton evidently wrote in his book puts puts even more. increases the desire of the american people to have a fair trial with witnesses and documents. now republicans control the chamber they need to have the support democrats of 4 of those republicans in order to win the vote to get the witnesses we do know there are 2 republican senators thinking they

may side with the democrats in order to hear these witnesses but again there is a need for for republicans it's uncertain if that will happen the white house for its part is hoping for a swift acquittal if witnesses are called the trial would be extended much longer thank you for that kimberly how good life or a scent the white house in other world news u.s. officials say a plane that crashed in afghanistan's gascony province was a small american military plane that's according to the reuters news agency it happened 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 will be speaking to patty cohan in washington for more on the u.s. reaction but 1st to zain in kabul zain what more are we hearing about this crash. well finally we've been getting a steady flow of information from the province from even the crash site from the

areas around it up until a few hours ago and the reason for that might be because what's unique to tell the bun controlled space in afghanistan taliban controlled territory is that they forced cell phone providers to turn off their services after dark 6 pm cell phone services go down so information that we were getting in a steady stream has gone to a slow trickle to almost nothing now what we heard earlier before that happened was that certainly there was video showing a plane crash showing an american air force symbol on the tail section of the wreckage of that plane crash in guys need province the taliban also putting out an image of an insignia that read air combat command certainly less insignia and it really begs the question who controls the wreckage who controls the buddies at that plane earlier in the day we heard from the governor of gaza the provinces spokesman saying that afghan forces had arrived at the scene however it seems that the taliban was in some way at the scene at some point who controls the wreckage who

controls the space right there right now we actually don't know the answer to that question we're waiting to hear from afghan security forces we're waiting to hear from the americans who we've reached out to here in kabul but we have been hearing from the spokesman for the talabani who's been taking the lead on messaging he said that the plane crash was of a cia plane he said those aboard were members of the u.s. intelligence community and just a few hours ago following tweets regarding that plane crash he said that another helicopter of the afghan government crashed in neighboring picked a teacup province and we're still waiting for confirmation from the government with regards to that but the taliban certainly taking the lead with regards to messaging on this crash now it must be said that no no time has the taliban claimed responsibility for this crash and they haven't specifically named any of the victims on board the plane zain thank you for that same best ravi night for us in kabul let's go to patty kohei now in washington patty what's the word from the u.s.

military. absolutely no word at all secretary of defense mark esper was just given a press briefing with his french counterpart and he just simply said we're aware of the situation i have no further information for you at this time we know a little bit about the plane that you see in that video because if you look at it it doesn't look like an american military plane and quite frankly it really isn't we believe it is an 11 there's only about 4 of these planes in the entire air force inventory and they're all based in kandahar what it is carrying it's a break it looks like a private jet and it's designed that way but it's carrying what's called to be a c. and the battlefield airborne communications node so what they found in afghanistan and it was deployed to afghanistan in 2008 where they found as with all the different communication systems that the air force the navy and all the different can commands use they weren't able to talk to each other specifically because the mountain mountainous terrain made that difficult so what these 4 planes in kandahar

do is they fly around and sort of described as a wi-fi in the sky they make it so that people who are on the ground what they call forward air controllers those are basically spotters can tell the pilots where to buy or where to shoot and it allows them to communicate so it's unlikely that it was is the taliban is claiming intelligence although of course there could be classified systems on the plane there usually are but it's an air force plane and it wouldn't have been necessarily transporting high ranking officials it would have had a crew onboard but i haven't been able to determine just how many people americans or other were onboard that plane but again for now the pentagon stay mum all right patty thank you for that particular force in washington. lebanon spawn a mentos past its 2020 budget as it tries to lift the country out of a deepening economic crisis protesters are tried to block politicians from getting to the vote many rejected the budget as it had been discussed and amended by the

previous administration the riot police were deployed and some demonstrators were physically removed from the parliament priests' it. is in beirut she says protesters didn't expect the budget to be approved so quickly. they've actually finally ratified this much debate budget which was put in by the government they had made some amendments to it in december this new government was quite seemed to keen rather to get it through a soon as possible it was meant to be a 2 day session and everyone out here the protesters have been quite surprised at how quickly they managed to ratify and find the speaker of parliament earlier had said that it was it was important to everyone to remain in parliament and get this done as soon as possible because the heights and security situation we've just spoken to some protests is once the ratification of this budget and they said that it's too damn is just a big shot is a representation of the old government and it's just new faces a very very concern they said that the budget 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 than a few last month a similar story last week the finance minister had put out an appeal saying that they need 4 to $5000000000.00 of foreign soft loans just to buy the basics for the next year and that includes weeks 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 to be dropped to be 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 spit at how the security forces are tightening in on them. there have been some clashes in fact a few people ended up in hospital and yesterday. the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been hit by rockets the 1st direct strike after months of near misses 3 rockets landed inside the compound one struck near

a dining area during meal time the embassy is located inside the heavily fortified green zone in central baghdad the u.s. state department has described the situation as $0.10 says its forces remain vigilant it's called on iraq to ensure diplomatic facilities are protected meanwhile for protests as of been killed in iraq's southern city of nasiriyah gunmen wearing military uniforms attacks the main city in protest camp site 16 people have been killed throughout iraq during protests in the last 3 days the crackdown began after influential shiite cleric matar sondra with to his support for the protesters on saturday. still ahead on al-jazeera italy is right wing leader. fails to win an important regional election and mourning a legend basketball fans pay their respects to kobe bryant out to eat his daughter and 7 august killed in a helicopter. and

oh there is a fairly quiet picture throughout much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula however it is fairly pretty cold has been strong for the last few days it will stay strong it's coming down to the north it's cold and there's plenty of cloud at the same time being being pushed down so these timers as a $21.00 and horan choose day $21.00 and dubai and miscast it will likely fail a little bit cooler than that but on choosing what we will see is rain and snow working its way into will central areas of turkey continue weeks john east was on wednesday and that will also keep time which is a bit lower but just a most academy unka 9 degrees is your high on a wednesday then down into southern africa particular crawls into madagascar we have of course had some very heavy rains here and they will continue in the forecast as well but this is to say we have going. to warsaw now it is typical for

this time of year that we have these very heavy amounts of rain and unfortunately every year we do see scenes like this there is a say there is more rain in the forecast not as heavy as it has been very heavy amounts of rain into areas of mozambique over the next couple of days but still we could have some very strong thunderstorms developing slightly off the noon hours across the demotic aska but it's based on a dry throughout much of south africa for the next few days and feeling very pleasant in capetown with a high of 24 celsius. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demand as a global power developing to the basement companies power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the state we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and in farming to the shelf energy solutions

for future generation the brush fire nearing future. the. player watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories israel's prime minister says u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace in the middle east could be the opportunity of the center of the century the 2 leaders are meeting right now in washington at the white house a day ahead of the unveiling of the mideast peace plan trump will also meet israeli opposition leader benny gantz the palestinians are already rejected the plan. u.s. officials say a plane that crashed in afghanistan's ghastly province was

a small u.s. military aircraft that's according to the reuters news agency in a statement the taliban said that everyone on board was kids and 11 on has passed its 2020 by jet despite attempts by protesters to block politicians from entering comment for the vote many rejects the budget as it had been discussed and amended by the previous administration. now the head of the world health organization has arrived in china for talks with officials on how to contain the growing. outbreak of the corona virus so far 81 people have died including one person in the capital beijing nearly 3000 more are infected the visit comes as china's prime minister visited was high on the epicenter of the outbreak scott heide live reports 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 who they profit 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 market 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 traveled down to will haunt and visited the construction site of a hospital that's been purpose built for the virus that 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 you'll 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. pakistani security forces have arrested the leader of an ethnic minority rights school man's overpass chain was detained along with 6 others in a raid in the city of fish our is known for his criticism of pakistan's armed forces accusing them of committing abuses against pashtun minority teen faces charges including sedition and inciting violence according to local police come on hyder is a nice lama bought any explains the significant flash scenes arrest. he was arrested in an overnight raid by the police in the city of bridge draw which is also the capital of high book to acquire. used of denouncing the pakistani constitution of

using insulting and threatening language that they're guarding to the complaint filed in the police station against him and of course they were those sort of actors along with other people who will read them that time. a big move by the government the moment because. we know they should be noted for the 1st time since he started his movement and the bald and the what did. this is an area just done formerly project on dr berlin along the border at one time it was all sorted or central and are just on several outskirts operating out of the region which led the bugs on the military to going to die the military has of caught dead roll has been a good on days even by the international community of restoring the military of

course on the other 100 volts or admit that they did make mistakes. who the rebels have killed at least 3 people in shelling in southwest yemen local sources say the group fired artillery rounds into a popular market near the city of tides 9 other people are reportedly injured this comes a day after hoofy spied on several districts in ties. some of the last living survivors of the holocaust have shared their emotional testimony as they marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the osce which camp in poland during a ceremony at the former nazi country concentration camp polish president undried pay tribute to them and the millions who perished more than 1000000 people mainly jews were killed and off switch alone between 198-1945 john howard was at the ceremony in our suasion he says the memorial was focused on the survivors who will likely want to see another major anniversary of the camp's liberation. survivors

giving testimony to v.i.p.'s and world leaders dignitaries other survivors and their families as well under an enormous white tent erected over what were known as the gates of death the entrance to the camp where railway tracks brought people on cattle trucks 1100000 of them of course to their deaths the survivors giving their testimony the few who remain fewer and fewer of them of course with the passing of the years some 200 here and of course this is an event focused not on those world leaders and dignitaries but on the survivors themselves in the knowledge i think that this is probably the last major anniversary at which they will be any significant number of these people left to tell their stories many of them in their ninety's and other events memorial events taking place elsewhere on what is not just the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz birkenau death camp but

also international holocaust remembrance day in berlin in paris in one you will macron the french president urging the world to fight against the resurgence of anti semitic thought and speech the rise of hate crimes against jews the rise of the far right in various countries in europe but of course he's here on the site of this camp where some of the worst atrocities of the holocaust took place the survivors are recounting what happened and urging the world above all things to remember what happened to ensure that it can never happen again to never forget. slovenia's from minister has announced his resignation as the minority government there struggles with a political deadlock and sorry china's call for early elections his center left party has been unable to pass legislation that coalition shared between 5 audi's the government has faced several scandals and 6 resignations since taking power in september 28th. in italy the far right league party has lost a regional election that its leader my tail salvini campaign relentlessly to win

the former deputy prime minister hoped victory would help propel him back into national politics al-jazeera sonia gago has more from below. he campaigned hard trying to turn this left wing heartland far right but mateo salvini his 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. but 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 and spite of it all it didn't quite happen

this time while the league may not have gained a victory here in a 1000000 all manya 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 red belt. get your supporters of the incumbent regional president is that what i thought she may be relieved at the outcome he himself acknowledges support led to him by the liberal anti populous flashmob group known as the sardines c of a league party when pushed many of them to pack the squares here and across the country nevertheless it is a shock to the system that so many in this leftwing bastion voted for the far right league. can celebrate the personal success.

because in this campaign year hole the. candidate to be. the. very good the result. he may not have won. but all eyes are still on matteo salvini watching his next attempt to gain power in italy's fractious political scene. al-jazeera. fans athletes and celebrities paying tribute to basketball legend kobe bryant the former l.a. lakers star was killed in a helicopter crash on sunday along with his daughter and 7 other people david so reports. the. l.a. lakers friends chanting the name of a greatest ever player outside the staples center in los angeles the arena the kobe bryant satellite so many times during his career his supporters still in a state of shock is this like you know like a bad dream where you feel like you're from something like oh i can't believe it

but i guess is where everybody has respect for this man and his family and his daughter it's painful we really lost somebody legendary today while bryant's friends congregated outside inside there was no basketball game but instead the grammy music awards and testament to how much he transcended sport his loss was still felt heavily more often than crazy sadness right now heartbroken. in the house that colby bryant built you when he was just 3 and a half years ago that bryant played his final game in the n.b.a. after joining at 17 he played all 20 years of his career with the like has the man known as the black mamba still managing to score 61 points on his farewell thanks he'd been putting in performances like that for years i his will to win unmatched

bryant won 5 n.b.a. championships to him picked gold medals and even an oscar for an animated short film called did basketball for the current crop of n.b.a. stars growing up bryant would have been there michael jordan those he took to the court on sunday night paid tribute with a minute's silence and also by letting the shot clock run out 24 seconds and there are in plays to honor the man that wore the number $24.00 on his jersey was talking . to me because. i wouldn't. the here i would have loved one out of. i used to have seen the way. the news is just devastating the lakers themselves while on their way back from a game in philadelphia when the news broke that players embraced on the tarmac on arrival back in los angeles including a bron james who only a few days ago passed bryant in the old time point scoring missed the loss was felt

beyond basketball to tennis star nick carey also were laid his jersey at the australian open the world's most expensive footballer neymar pointed to the skies after scoring to paris century managed france and tiger woods was told about bryant's death at a tournament in california when his caddy broke the news just after walking off the 18th green. to me i didn't really understand why. the people in galleries were saying do it for mama. but now understand bryant not only crossed sports he crossed countries to not many players did multigrade basketball around the world on the day he died this cult in the philippines was named house of coby and just like in l.a. fans there was struggling to come to terms with his passing tributes continue to pour in for bryant and his daughter giana who shared his passion for the guy. it's

only where he grew up the country's basketball federation is called it a minute's silence in every game at every level over the next week remembering one of sports greatest icons david stokes al-jazeera. well this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines israel's prime minister says u.s. president donald trump's plan for the middle east peace could be the opportunity of the century the 2 leaders are meeting in the white house right now discussing the proposal idea head of its unveiling also meeting israeli opposition leader benny gantz the palestinians have already rejected the peace plan. it's something they should want they probably won't want it initially but i think in the end they will i think in the end they're going to want it it's very good for them in fact it's overly good to them so we'll see what happens now without them we don't do the deal and that's ok they're not living well as you know we cut off aid to palestinians

and something i don't like to do but we did that and we think that is a very good chance that they're going to want this that the deal of the century is the opportunity of the century and we're not going to pass a bar. and we'll talk about that tomorrow today i repeat i just want to say thank you for everything you've done for the state of israel. u.s. officials say a plane that crashed in afghanistan's gosney province was a small u.s. military plane that's according to the voices news agency it happened in mountainous terrain which is party controlled by the taliban in a statement the taliban said that everyone on board was killed it's lebanon has passed its 2020 budget despite attempts by protesters to block politicians from entering pawn in for the vote many rejects the budget as it had been discussed in amended by the previous administration the head of the world health organisation has arrived in china for talks with officials on how to contain the growing

outbreak of the corona virus so far 81 people have died including one person in beijing nearly 3000 more are infected. and some of the last living survivors of the holocaust have shared their emotional testimony as they marched the 75th anniversary of the liberation of os which in poland more than a 1000000 people mainly jews were killed across which birkenau alone between 194-1945 finally one of basketball's greatest players kobe bryant has been killed in a helicopter crash the former l.a. lakers player and his daughter were among the 9 people who died those are the headlines the inside story is next stay with us.

tribute for a legend on the north of boston. to new heights became. how will his death be remembered and what the legacy behind this is insightful. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg the world is mourning the death of one of basketball's biggest ever styles kobe bryant was killed in a helicopter crash near los angeles along with his daughter and 7 other people the 41 year old's appeal went far beyond the basketball court.