humankind the as you join me mary huff and as i put up from questions to my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes president trump's impeachment trial resumes with republicans under growing pressure for john bolton to testify after reports he has undercut trumps the fence in a new book plus the deal of the century is the opportunity of the century and we're going to close with. israel's prime minister praises trump's middle east peace plan

which is due to be unveiled on tuesday but has already been rejected by the palestinians china's prime minister visits rouhani the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak which has now killed 81 people. and in doha with your sports stories from the basketball world and beyond remember kobe bryant also the n.b.a. star and these 2 killed along with 7 others in a helicopter crash. we begin in the u.s. where president donald trump's impeachment trial has resumed in the senate with republicans on the growing pressure to allow witnesses to testify lawyers representing trumper into their 2nd day of arguments in his defense but there's been no mention of the revelations surrounding former national security adviser john bolton which has led to renewed calls for witnesses and more documents to be allowed at the trial in a leaked

a draft of his book both and reportedly claims the president told them to tie a ukrainian military aide to an investigation into his political rival joe biden trump has the night as these claims i don't have any of it i have no idea what who leaked it and why but it sure is damning. and we are 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 trumps lawyer ken starr did not address the bolton claims but insists that the trial seems like an election stunt by the democrats courts consider prevent chill factors and there is

a huge potential factor that this trial is occurring and an election year when we the people in a matter of months will go to the polls. right let's get more now from additional castro's following developments on the capitol hill side of proceeding so far a sort of seem more interesting from what for what we haven't heard rather than what we actually have heard. that's right not only has the president's defense team not brought up john bolton or his allegations thus far but in fact a direct quote from jay sekulow another trump defense attorney he said that not a single witness has been testifying that they heard trump link this security aide to the investigations that he was demanding from ukraine into joe biden well of course if john bolton more to testify going along with the democrats thinking he could be that single witness who according to this manuscript that was leaked in

portions to the new york times it says very clearly that that is exactly what bolton would testify to he said in this manuscript that he had a conversation with president trump in august in which trump said he was going to continue withholding u.s. security aid to ukraine until officials in ukraine and now the investigations into joe biden who of course is a potential presidential rival in this upcoming u.s. election so it's interesting that that has not been addressed yet by the president's defense team there's been some reporting that they might still bring that up later today instead so far they've been defaulting to their more wide argument that trump did nothing wrong in their eyes when he asked for an investigation into joe biden they've also taken on the issue of drums of trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani who democrats say was carrying out

a personal political mission in ukraine that really was risking national security interests will trump attorneys say that giuliani was not on a political mission at all but rather was defending his client the press. from false accusations made by the democrats so what this all boils down to is we have a lot of new evidence that democrats say should be part of the trial record should be taken into consideration by the 100 senators who are deciding whether or not to remove trump from office and by the end of this week we expect those senators to have the opportunity to vote on whether or not they want to call john bolton as well as other witnesses wanted by democrats to have them come forward and share their testimonies now only 4 moderate republicans only 4 republicans are needed in order to side with democrats to make that happen and there are 4 moderates who have indicated that they are open to the idea with several saying today that given this

new bolton information that is even more reason for them to vote yes on opening this trial to more witnesses so it will be up to the senators to decide whether they do want to hear directly from john bolton but trip him self is spoken about the bolton revelations would be say. that's right he has been on twitter and he has spoken directly with reporters saying that he never had this conversation with john bolton he characterizes bolton as a described old former employee who was fired from the white house in september he used to be the president's national security adviser who left under a bad terms according to the president and the president accusing bolton of coming out with this information now publicly in order to bolster his upcoming books sales barbara but as you cast her with the latest from capitol hill heidi for the moment thank you i'm joined by michael isikoff who is the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera

we're just hearing a correspondent there saying that the president has accused john bolton of being at the scrum the old former employee what do you make of that if you like that john bolton sort of says he's not going to testify willingly but he must have known when he put the details in his manuscript that all of this was going to happen. sure and that's most likely why john bolton just a few weeks ago said he would be willing to testify if subpoenaed he clearly knew he was in an awkward situation with this book where he was laying out details of conversations with the president and that if it came out after a senate trial in which he was not called to testify it was going to look pretty bad let's just remember back at the end of october the house committees asked bolton to voluntarily testify and his lawyer wrote back an e-mail which we

just got a copy of today saying he was not he would not be willing to voluntarily testify in other words bolton was saying through his lawyer take me to court subpoena him at the very same time he's writing a book laying out. his own conversations with the president that are exactly what the house wanted to ask him about so it was going to look pretty bad for bolton to make money on a book in which he dishes on his talks with the president about ukraine dealings when he refused to voluntarily testify before the house you know that said he did the white house has had the manuscript since december 30 and it is now a document that contains evidence that's central to this trial and that's why these the disclosure of the existence of that book manuscript is such

a giant bombshell in this in this senate trial because it has become a giant bombshell and obviously has had a lot of media coverage and this is obviously an election year how bad would it make republican senators look if they didn't call john bolton. well pretty bad and certainly democrats will be hammering them on on that from now through election day i think a lot of replies i don't think i know a lot of republican senators are very nervous right now they're all they also feel blindsided they weren't told about this the white house after all we now know has had this boat manuscript for nearly a month. they had the ability to find out what's in it you would have thought that that would have been 1st and foremost as they were planning their defense find out what evidence is out there find out what could come back to to

haunt us or contradict what we're going to tell the senate and either they didn't do so or they did and concealed it and making things worse michel poor poor the deputy white house counsel gave what many people thought was the most effective presentation on saturday for the president's defense in which he hammered the point which he repeated today that there was no direct testimony linking the withholding of military aid to the president's request for investigations. he chose to even play clips from gordon somnolence saying that's just a presumption he didn't know for sure well guess what we now have a witness john bolton who's mike baird to say exactly that michael forgive me we're running out of time but i just want to ask you one last question do you think that any of this could actually change the outcome of the impeachment trial which because of numbers in the senate has kind of seemed like

a done deal from the start. i can say probably not but if you asked me on friday or even on saturday if i thought there was going to be witnesses at this trial i would have said no the case seemed headed to a quick resolution no witnesses and an acquittal of the president by friday right now that is very much in doubt and while it's clearly unlikely still that you're going to get 20 republicans senators voting for conviction we do have to wait to see what those witnesses will say if they're called to testify and hearing exactly what john bolton has to say about his conversations days with definitely interesting at the say the least michael isikoff chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news thank you. now u.s. president donald trump says meanwhile that he will announce his long delayed middle east peace plan on tuesday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader benny gantz are in washington to discuss the deal which trump

says he believes the palestinians will eventually go along with but they've rejected it as a plot to liquidate the palestinian calls our white house correspondent kimberly how kit reports. that president alongside israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu u.s. president donald trump announced he is releasing his long awaited middle east peace plan many of the arab nations have agreed to it they like it they think it's great it's a big start trump didn't say which arab nations supposedly liked the plan only that he'll unveil it on tuesday after white house consultations with the israeli leader and his political opponent blue and white chairman benny gantz gats was invited to the white house and met separately with trump amidst an intense election campaign back in israel. but missing from any announcement are the palestinians there are

concerns tribe's plan will deny palestinian refugees the right of return palestinian leaders have declared trust proposal dead on arrival given there's been no consultation this is actually the front of the century the fraud of the century . cancelling everything relating to international law and international. discussions broke down when the us embassy to disputed jerusalem from tel aviv in december 27th team the white house also cut off aid to the palestinians closed the palestine liberation organization offices in washington and recognized israel sovereignty over the golan heights seem to support netanyahu especially as he attempts to win reelection amid corruption allegations 1st. the deal of the century is the opportunity the israeli elections are in march trump denies he's interfering instead trump is touting this plan as an economic opportunity for palestinians.

months ago his son in law jared christian or proposed a peace to prosperity plan to raise $50000000000.00 to improve the lives of palestinians in the west bank and gaza 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 the unveiling of president trump's middle east peace plan has been delayed repeatedly initially the white house said it was waiting until after the israeli elections given israel is now preparing for its 3rd vote in under 12 months the white house now says it's moving ahead with the plans release can really help at al-jazeera the white house the u.s. military has confirmed that a plane that crashed in afghanistan was one of its aircraft the plane went down in ghastly province a mountainous area partly controlled by the taliban in a statement the taliban said high ranking u.s. security personnel were on board the plane and everyone was killed saying bus

driving is in kabul and says it's not clear who has control of the plane wreckage. 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 tollygunge controlled space in afghanistan taliban controlled territory is that they forced cell phone providers to turn off their services after dark sort of 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 when 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 gaza a province the taliban also putting out an image of an insignia did read air combat command certainly a u.s.

insignia and it really begs the question who controls the wreckage who controls the bodies at that plane earlier in the day we heard from the governor of gaza a province a 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 message and 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 keep teacup robyn's now 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 time has the taliban claimed responsibility for this crash and they haven't specifically named any of the victims on board the plane. u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has expressed outrage in a phone call with iraq's prime minister over the continued attacks on u.s. facilities by armed groups backed by iran this is a day after the u.s. embassy was hit by rockets in the 1st direct strike after months of near misses 3 rockets landed inside the compound located inside the heavily fortified green zone injuring one person one struck near a dining area during meal time the u.s. has called on iraq to ensure its diplomatic facilities are protected. all ambassadors of 16 countries in baghdad have condemned the use of live fire against iraqi protesters and called on the government to guarantee credible investigations into the hundreds of deaths since october clashes have resumed in central baghdad

with police firing tear gas at anti-government demonstrators it's the 3rd day of a push by security forces to end the months of them astray sions against the ruling elite 16 people have been killed in the last 3 days in the southern city of nasiriyah at least 3 protesters have been killed in the last 24 hours after a gunman set fire to demonstrators tents protesters are calling for an end to the crackdown. thought the revolution is peaceful the security forces use various kinds of fire against us they use live ammunition and tear gas canisters. placed i cannot remove the mask because they chase and kill activists. are demands that should be met by the government everyone who's come out protesting the government demand all politicians resign and get out. coming out on this news hour from london balancing lebanon's books parliament passes a budget seeking to lift the country out of economic crisis protesters though say

it sound constitutional. auschwitz survivors warn of rising anti semitism as they mark the 75th anniversary of the death camps liberation. and a good day for the men's world number one in melbourne peter has action from the australian. the head of the world health organization has arrived in china for talks with officials on how to contain the growing outbreak of coronavirus he's usually china's prime minister who's just been in war that's the epicenter of the outbreak the number of people now confirmed to have died in china has risen to 81 and the capital beijing has reported its 1st death china as a state media says there's almost 3000 confirmed cases in the country with the authorities monitoring another 6000 suspected cases so far there are 44 confirmed

cases of the virus outside china and almost all had recently been to one or being close contact with someone who had scott heiler 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 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 marketing 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 the will heart and visited the construction site of a hospital that's been purpose built for the virus that we should build this hospital 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 in 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 well with cities right across asia on high alert over the coronavirus outbreak supplies of face masks are running out in south korea where

a 4th case of the disease has been confirmed pharmacies are making huge profits from chinese visitors and as bright explained from so someone chinese visitors are temporarily banned from the country. with facemasks selling out in many mainland chinese cities and in places like neighboring hong kong then pharmacies here in seoul have been doing a roaring trade catering for some of the 10s of thousands of mainland chinese visitors who are reckoned to be in south korea at the moment for the lunar new year we've been watching at this one pharmacy and this is a scene that's repeated at pharmacies throughout seoul where a steady stream of mainland visitors have been coming up and snapping up literally armfuls face masks filling up the bags and in some instances the cases that they're going to be returning to china with at the end of their holiday as this corona virus continues to spread in hong kong and that's

a huge shock tahj i cannot buy in everywhere in fact it's difficult to buy mass in mainland china right now there is a shortage so we have to take some back from overseas the increasing numbers of chinese visitors to south korea have certainly been good for business in recent years but it has led to a certain resentment building on the age old animosities that have existed between the koreans and the chinese and it's something which has been made worse with this coronavirus in fact a petition on the official presidential a website calling for a complete ban on chinese visitors during this lunar new year period has gained hundreds of thousands of signatures a ban would seem to be a drastic measure but in fact the main doctors association here has said that if things continue to get worse as a last resort that may be the way forward. january 27th 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz concentration camp and poland survivors

return to the former nazi site for a special ceremony where some shared emotional testimony also calls for greater efforts to fight anti semitism more than a 1000000 people mainly jews were killed at auschwitz alone between 194-1945 jonah hall has more now from the sound any. facing the entrance to auschwitz birkenau seated alongside the railway line that delivered multitudes mostly jews in cattle trucks to their deaths survivors shared their stories. i remember. him in trucks from the barracks. i can hear them screaming i could hear it in my subconscious when i remember those events. well bleeders royalty and religious leaders

listened this was not a moment for them. and there was this dream. within my heart it was still alive maybe tomorrow will come one day and tomorrow did come indeed memories remain. 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz scene of some of the worst atrocities of the holocaust the deaths of more than a 1000000 people this was an occasion vivid with memory and resonant with emotion the pain of those who lived through it and heartache for those who did not but above all another opportunity for some perhaps the last to repeat the mantra of a lifetime never again. blurs the lines between good and evil. to that. there must be.

between nations. for all those present here to. act me and such a way. that's nothing like that ever happens again. this may be the last major on a verse or it which survivors turn up in significant numbers some have come here they say to refresh their own memories of what they lived through others to say goodbye to family and friends whose ashes were scattered across the fields as fertilizer most know when they speak to offer the hope that even when they are gone the world does not forget joel al-jazeera at auschwitz birkenau death camp in poland investigators in the united states are trying to find the cause of the helicopter crash that killed basketball legend kobe bryant his 13 year old daughter and 7 other people 3 bodies have now been recovered from the crash site bryant's

private helicopter came down on a hillside north of malibu in california on sunday heavy fog at the time had grounded other aircraft including police helicopters brian stepha the age of just 41 has shot sports fans all over the world all supporters are gathered at the staples center in los angeles the home of the basketball team the l.a. lakers were bryant spent the whole of his illustrious 20 year career for reynolds is also there is so overall how are people there paying tribute. well there are many hundreds of people here in this square that was once a scene to celebrate the many victories that kobe bryant led his team to over his 20 year career now it's a place of mourning many people expressing their disbelief that his life could have been so suddenly taken away i'll show you some of the scenes here these people are

are laying flowers and wreaths many candles balloons a lot of people are writing with sharpie pens on the ground you know making their sort of farewell sentiments on the ground and it's just quite a quite a scene a lot of grief here a lot of sore a lot of disbelief. and also a lot of people celebrating kobe bryant in the the joy he brought to fans here as well as around the world. and of we are now hearing that only now 3 bodies have been recovered from the helicopters wreckage what else do we know about what actually led to the crash scene investigation into a. well of course that there were 9 people on board none of them survived i was there yesterday it's rugged terrain

a steep hillside and of course the investigators from the coroner's office the police and other agencies had to keep the site sort of. preserved while they removed and identify the remains so that process is like this one for some time the national transportation safety board that's a federal agency that studies crashes and other types of transport problems is on the scene they will be looking certainly at the weather conditions at the time it was very foggy people there yesterday told us they could barely see anything up in the hills and also the pilots decision to request and to receive permission to fly by special visual flight rules could that have had something to do with the accident we don't know that's what the investigators i think are going to be focusing on rob reynolds with the latest that from los angeles thank you.

also more still to come in this news hour including pleas for help in madagascar amid fears that severe flooding will lead to food shortages going against the tide why italy's far right leader didn't do as well as he'd hoped to in kenya regional elections plus why liverpool will be giving their 3rd tier opponents every chance in their cup replay. the weather in what has been a quiet part of europe which is most of europe is about to change drastically charging in from the west was the baby this line of catherine stretches a long way west and that's indicating not just clouds but increasing wind and rain so the picture for france germany in particular will be a windy one the next 24 hours a culmination of stove the out and drifting eastwards through austria rain at low

levels vienna temps up to about 7 degrees that it has been the case throughout the winter the temps she's in much of you have been above where they should be no muskets and the minus 2 this represents his in the warming trend heading in that direction it does mean the weather in the mediterranean has lost the impetus to be stormy his dark quiet nice change i'm sure of that doesn't apply to northwest and parts of spain where the rain of course will be for time quite heavy so given a lot for north africa there are no shells in the coast of morocco but there is cloud running through libya and that is the last of the proper active trough systems i think which might bring a shower to the next day otherwise it remains quite right it's quiet for tuesday and really for wednesday with the hamas and blowing particularly strong across the sharon chad and temps is in senegal particular court high.

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the we. come back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera donald trump's legal team has begun their 2nd day of arguments and defense of the president at a senate impeachment trial the republican majority is and the renewed pressure to allow witnesses following revelations by former national security adviser john bolton in a leak that copy of his book meanwhile donald trump has met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house to discuss his long awaited pat plan for peace in the middle east the u.s. president says he will reveal his so-called deal of the sentry on tuesday and

ambassadors of 16 countries in baghdad have condemned the use of live fire against iraqi protesters at least 16 people have been killed in the past 3 days. lebanon's parliament has passed this year's budget as it tries to lift the country out of a deepening economic crisis protesters tried to block politicians from getting to the vote calling it unconstitutional many rejected the budget because it was drafted by the previous administration said a higher up reports there from beirut. it's all happened so quickly but off to months of delays and protests the 2020 budget drafted last year by former prime minister's side government has finally been ratified the biggest challenges facing liberal governments is a need to me it says it's priority is to introduce a financial rescue plan and i walk the walk and this is now these are exceptional circumstances nothing is normal in lebanon today and the complexities dictate we

act with logic and urgency while the bill was adopted by a majority of 49 votes some m.p.'s didn't attend with a number of opposition members calling the vote unconstitutional examination of the army general. if it's a necessity to top the budget then it can be a priority to return all perspire minutes until the government receives a vote of confidence on the new cabinet 1st rather than the last the other wasn't even. the budget usually ends at the end of general so i insisted the vote must be held now but this doesn't mean parliament doesn't have the right to legislate even if there is no government. i was outside parliament several people were injured in protests against the vote security forces used to gas in response to some history rocks at them with security set up protesters failed to stop politicians from entering parliament to vote on

this controversial budget always meant to take c. days to just a few hours with m.p.'s eager to bring in these economic reforms as soon as possible but some are calling it a sham many argue the budget isn't a true reflection of the current state of the economy which is deteriorated further since nationwide protests started in october against corruption in the mismanagement of public funds the new government will be going into the new year with the board of the budget of the old government so it's really very absurd and surrealistic and we are definitely against it but unfortunately because of the forceful way that the protesters were treated we couldn't stop the session from happening last week newly appointed finance minister wisely said that $4.00 to $5000000000.00 of foreign loans are urgently needed to buy basics such as weak medicine and fuel for the coming year this year's budget includes further cuts to government spending but it's not clear if this among other economic changes will be

enough to meet the demands of millions of lebanese sort of. al-jazeera. and i think minority leader in pakistan who has led protests against the powerful military has been arrested runs overpressure even heads the pashtun protection movement which accuses armed forces of rights abuses in the tribal areas along the border with afghanistan the army has a crackdown along groups there including the pakistani taliban in faces charges including sedition and inciting violence that's according to local police come out either in islamabad explains the significance of arrest. he was arrested an overnight raid by the police in the city of pretrial wall which is also the capital of 5 a book to acquire province as a ques dulls denouncing the pakistani constitution of using and started taking and

threatening language data according to the complaint filed in the police station against him and of course he was also addicted along with other people who will read them added time so engage a big move by the government at the moment because prishtina has been at their stage a trick been ordered for the 1st time since he started his movement and gathered some support and did it. this is an area which is focused on formerly projects on tribal areas along the afghan border at one time it was also terror central in pakistan with several outfits operating out of that region which led the budgets on the military then to going to the military had of course their role had been a long day even by the international community of restoring their military of course on the other hand adulterate made a that they did make mistakes. 26 people have died in madagascar from flooding and

landslides after almost a week of heavy rain the northwestern town of i was left submerged forcing thousands of people to leave their homes 15 people are still missing sections of some roads have been swept away making access to the affected areas the fickle officials say that there is the risk of hunger and soaring food prices as rice fields in several districts have been turned into swamps them too often other than that i am begging you to help us everything we have has been destroyed even our house is being destroyed a house made of bricks which we only recently built we are begging you to come and help us turkey has called off rescue operations in areas hit by a powerful earthquake on friday this after emergency workers recovered the body of a final person that they were searching for in a collapsed building bringing the total best toll to $41.00 the magnitude $6.00

quake centered in the town of cv chain province on friday tremors were also felt in neighboring syria lebanon and iran dozens of people were pulled alive from ruined buildings during the rescue effort. italy's rightwing leader met their son vini has admitted the feat after his party failed to win the northern region over. so they had hoped to overturn decades of leftist rule in the region and bring down the national coalition government but the incumbent democratic party governor stiffened of when the cine won with 51.4 percent of the vote compared to 43.7 percent for the leak scandal. at all. but. it was he who tried to turn this election into a referendum for or against the national government i'm talking about. and i have to say i consider his behavior inappropriate and he's coming out as the big loser

in the competition the reality is the citizens and the local communities took it as a referendum on him and so he comes out. all responding to the result so vini was came to highlight how the 5 star movement did in both the regions that voted on sunday i think and i believe she was still in on in time and i think it was huge and the 5 star movement hasn't even made it to the regional assembly in calabria we're talking about the main party in parliament which was everywhere in the last 2 elections and still 6 or 7 weeks ago had the most votes they also barely made it in the media. it's clear there's been a shift to the left and we can't wait to confront each other on a national level with our proposals for the economy society and family well let's talk more about this with stephan of it james an investigative journalist and the co-author of the black book of the league which looks into the league party stefan of there jeff thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera does some v.b. have a point in the sense that yes the league didn't secure it. but it was always

a bit of a high end bishan because it is a solidly and historically left wing party or virtually so is it really had the feet for him. well the fact of the incumbent democratic party candidate stiffened when she won the elections in emilia-romagna is definitely a big defeat for soviet who made every effort to give the election national relevance and he probably made it too personal however if you look at the numbers we see that salvini and are still very popular you know many of them on your salinas party increases its votes from 1000 percent to 32 percent compared to 2014 last the regional elections and basically got the same amount of votes as in 200-1000 european elections this means that the message of leg of the

n.t. immigrant the n.t. european union rethought rate is still very fascinating for a number of italians so i guess the coalition government is heaving a sigh of relief because of this defeating the enemy but as you mentioned then as oppose what we called the far right the the nationalist parties like league like the brothers of italy you say that they are still on an increase. well yes. i think if the current government to one be able to grow the economy somehow more people will likely look for other options perhaps ready call and 2 european union parties that are in the opposition of the moment it might be or other far right politicians such as as you mention georgia maloney neither of the brothers will be chile which is a small party that is also on the rise and spread the same and immigrant and messages so many and so i mean focusing on the government because it is often we

can combine governments that almost allow for the spread and the growth of some far right policies so how strong is a sleaze coalition government right now. it is not very strong especially because. the 5 star movement which form the alliance for the democratic party is by far the biggest loser in sunday's regionals ballot the party's candidate only got 3.5 percent of the votes compared to 2014 elections the 5 star movement which is an anti establishment party lost more than 2 thirds of its vote in a 1000000 or mine your. enemy or money it was also. 5 star movement stronghold from the time of the party's foundation back in 2009. it's a met it's a fact that the 5 star movement popularity started to drop after 2018 when we 1st

entered into government do we believe. so now the balance between the democratic party and the fast the 5 star movement might change after these elections stephan a virgin investigative journalist and co-author of the black book of the league thank you so much for sharing your analysis with us i think if you. go to slovenia now with the prime minister has resigned then is urging the country to hold an early general election martin savidge says he's stepping down because of the crumbling support for his minority government his center left party has been unable to pass key legislation in a parliament dominated by the right wing opposition the government has faced the several scandals and high profile resignations since taking power in september 2018 the president of catalonia is regional parliament has been stripped of his seat the announcement comes a month after quitting torah was found guilty of violating spain's rules on election propaganda he refused to remove banners in support of jailed separatist

leaders from public buildings there in spain's general election last year the move has let the tension on the streets of barcelona with protesters setting a number of bins on fire. u.s. prosecutors involved in the jeffrey epstein sex trafficking inquiry want to interview britain's prince andrew but new york attorney general geoffrey berman says the prince has provided quote 0 cooperation he said prosecutors and the f.b.i. investigating the epstein case had contacted the buke of york's lawyers and asked interview him but there had been no response. still ahead this news hour on how these micro factories designed in australia could help solve the big problem of unstick waste and why pakistan's cricketers are still on top of the world in 20 peter as the details.

when china stopped taking foreign recyclables over 2 years ago it sparked the need for greater innovation to deal with the world's plastic problem now engineers in australia have developed the technology to reduce plastic they can fit into a small room they say the micro factory ends the need for waste products to be transported far away and could lead to much more rubbish being recycled andrew thomas has the story from sydney. but plastic to be recycled it has to be collected and transported 1st to

a sorting center. then to a recycling plant but often these big plants are a long way from where the plastic was disposed of sometimes in other countries but at the start of 28 c. china banned most of its importation of plastic waste and that's forced to rethink . in australia engineers have developed a potential solution a micro recycling factory but what we're actually showing here is that the micro scale you can set up these decentralized facilities where it's not one big mega facility or transporting a lot of waste russia will take that factory on site on the occasion and safely convert that into a high value product all the machinery fits into a single room mixed plastic waste like this that used to be parts of a computer printer it's crushed and fed into a machine. on the high temperature and pressure the mixed plastics turned into

a single long filament that can be used in 3 d. printing to create nearly any product the scientists say 0 waste and no need to transport this machinery is within a university but the idea is this whole micro recycling factory is small enough to be put inside any business that has ways to recycle or any business that wants to manufacture products from recycled materials. this technology is in its infancy and has not yet been tested in a commercial setting but that should happen soon those behind the technology also think it can be moved around your mobile unit could actually be travelling on the back of a truck and going across to very small towns now imagine these communities could suddenly start recycling and be forming materials you can imagine

a future where every town actually has a micro factory that's taking milk at the available end of life products and reforming those into valuable materials and becoming part of this global supply chain there inventors hope these micro factories will become a compact solution to a very big problem andrew thomas al-jazeera city it's going to peter now with the sport. barbara thank you very much fan se and celebrities are paying tribute to pass the ball agent kobe bryant's former l.a. lakers star was killed in a helicopter crash on sunday along with these daughter and 7 others david stokes reports. the l.a. lakers fans chanting the name of 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 you feel like you wake up from something like oh i can't believe it i

won't believe it but i guess as well everybody has respect for this man and his family and his daughter. it's painful we really lost somebody legendary today while bryant's fans 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 to win it 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 lakers the man known as the black mamba still managing to score 61 points on his farewell by 5 thanks. for the he's been putting in

performances like that for years i his will to win unmatched i bryant won 5 n.b.a. championships to him picked gold medals and even an oscar for an animated short film called did basketball oh 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 plays to honor the man that wore the number 24 on his jersey was going to. me. so. i wouldn't. the here i would have loved one out of. just have seen it is. 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 best the loss was felt

beyond basketball to tennis star nick carry us were like 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. i mean 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 too not many players did more to grow basketball around the world on the day he died this quarter the philippines was named house of coby and just like in l.a. fans there were 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 game. in

italy where he grew up the country's basketball federation is all that a minute's silence in every game at every level over the next week remembering one of sports greatest icons david stokes al-jazeera. at the australian open rafa nadal got past the kiryas in the match of the day in melbourne it's been plenty over needle between these 2 in the past but not on this occasion an adult coming through to win in force it's. stand produced a great performance in reaching the courses the 24 team champion seems to have shaken off his injury woes coming through 56 against russians 4th seed and you made that i. in the women's draw former champion angele kerber was knocked out by rushes and a stylus probably a chunk of are also into the last 8 or so man halep and. tournament

organizers also made their presentation to margaret court on monday but it didn't pass without controversy or comments the australian want to record $24.00 grand slam titles and was being honored on the 50th anniversary of her winning all 4 in the same calendar year but in more recent times the 77 year old has been criticized for her outspoken views forward john mcenroe described court as the sport's crazy aunt adding the only thing longer than her list of tennis achievements is her list of offensive and homophobic statements. liverpool have given manager you can clap their full backing for his plans and not to use 1st team players in the f.a. cup replay with 3rd tier shrewsbury liverpool blew a 2 goal lead and were held to a draw and of the return match at anfield foods in the premier league's new 2 week winter break the top names will be left out top says he promises key players

a rest and even he will not be in the dug out for that match. england's cricketers beat their figure by $191.00 runs to win the final test in johannesburg on monday completes a $31.00 series victory for the tourists only their 2nd overseas test series win in 4 years elsewhere pakistan remain top of the world t 20 rankings despite their final match with bangladesh being washed out in the long haul it gives them a 2 no series victory ok that's where we'll leave it for now i'll be back again a little bit later with more sports news but for now i'll hand you back to barbering lander. peter thank you and that is it for this news hour remember you can get a lot more in all the stories that we've been covering on our website it's on your screens right now the address al jazeera dot com stay with us and back with more news in just a few minutes. the at

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