witness on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. cell robin you're watching the al-jazeera news our life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes health officials in china say the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has jumped to more than 100 also. i have no idea what who leaked it and why but it sure is damning. a new book by john bolton undermined donald trump's impeachment defends. the deal of the century of the opportunity. and we're not going to pass of. benjamin netanyahu praises the u.s.

middle east peace plan a day ahead of its unveiling but the palestinians reject it. also mourning the dead in the libyan city of misrata but they vow to keep fighting the forces of warlord khalifa haftar. and south africa considers nationalizing one of the world's few privately owned central banks. hello welcome to the news our china says the number of deaths from the corona virus outbreak has risen to 106 the number of people have factored by the illness has also risen to more than 4000 comes as the head of the world health organization visits the country for talks on the outbreak 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 hospital as soon as possible we set a 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 your 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 and scott joins me now from beijing scott just bring us up to speed now what we know about the death toll those infected and of course the restrictions that the chinese authorities are putting into place in terms of the movement of people. yet the number of dead so hill is now 106 and more than 4000 have been infected now you know when we see these restrictions obviously in the epicenter will be a province and the city where it all started yes the restrictions there are very tight and there is increasing around the world as well other countries and

territories within china are restricting people who have even just been to to the province to the areas not allowing them to come in this is going to really become a major factor in the coming days to help because that's when this lunar new year holiday now extended holiday comes to an end at the end of the week it actually will is has been extended until sunday but most likely people will travel starting on friday and saturday so that's what we're really going to see this massive movement of people and there are all these restrictions in place it's going to be very difficult because what's going to happen in a lot of places like high speed rail way stations at airports they have to screen these people to find out where they're from and to find out where they've been so that's going to really kind of snarl things we know that that high speed rail line here in beijing they're already starting to see big numbers coming back people kind of getting in front of this big way we're expecting later in the week of course transparency for the chinese always be the point of contention they've obviously

been criticized in the past about the sort of previous outbreaks how do you assess the way that getting the facts across and the information across to their own population and into really to the to the international community from where you are in beijing. well it's interesting the way the numbers are released in the something's that's going to happen in about an hour's time the national health commission is going to have a press conference they had one yesterday and this is something they say they're going to do on a daily basis and that is to combat the criticism of the numbers have kind of been all over the place you've got you know a province releasing numbers a dead end infected you've got other provinces doing it there really hasn't been essential eyes clearing house of these numbers so that is led to a lot of confusion and a lot of anxiety so i would imagine that this national health commission having a press conference every morning is part to. ease the tension about what the numbers are and kind of that lack of transparency one thing that's interesting too

you know we saw in that story that chang the prime minister went down to one and you know visited those sites where the building these new hospitals this is something that the central government is trying to assure the people that they're on top of that that they're there you know they're doing things to make sure that they're there that this is going to be contained it's very interesting because it's yeah they're containing the virus but they're also trying to contain the anger here that's something that the central government is always very worried about when the public is not happy with the way things are going well of course will continue to monitor events certainly in china with you through the day scott hyla thank you well the curl of break has also said the jitters through global financial markets asian shares slipped again early on choose day as china took drastic steps to control the virus to see in the u.k. france and germany also dipped on fears about the potential economic empowerment meanwhile china's along with slid to the lowest level this year affecting commodity

linked currencies like the australian dollar was all secret is asia business editor for al-jazeera online joins me now from kuala lumpur nice said not so just explain to us perhaps why we're seeing this reaction in the markets and what seems to be the driving force behind it. well so what you have to remember as always is there are 2 forces that drive financial markets and that's greed and fear and right now with all the uncertainty surrounding the virus and the impact the potential impact that it's going to have it is that fear element that is driving the markets so viciously when market traders are faced with such a scenario what they switch to is a default risk off. the fall mode as it were so what that means in practical terms is that they're going to be selling off things like stocks commodities like oil for example so what that money goes into is

what they consider to be safe haven assets like the japanese yen us treasury bonds gold for example gold prices have surged to their highest level since about 2013. in the markets over here in asia we've seen a big sell off in places like korea remember a lot of markets are still closed for the chinese new year including china and hong kong. but when these markets open up chances are they're going to see a big sell off just like you pointed out in europe in america we've had big sell off so overnight on all 3 of the big major indices in the u.s. and that is once again feeding through into the markets over here in terms of what you just said about those that maybe you feel the worst of the economic fallout the traders the stock brokers the banks how far down does this filter to the public at all or is it just really the higher echelons you might say of the economic barket

those that really we don't really have the hands of. approach to. you're right there is still a lot of uncertainty as to how this impact the virus is going to feed through into the broader economy but what we can say for sure already is that industries like tourism like airlines like hotels restaurants all of these sorts of things across asia and possibly beyond are definitely going to feel an impact one place in particular possibly going to feel feel a disproportionately large impact is hong kong right on the edge of of hong of mainland china still very much a gateway between china and the rest of the world and don't forget china hong kong is already in a recession because of months of the anti-government protests for example.

hotel occupancy rates restaurants they've all crumbled in hong kong this is going to be an additional impact on hong kong for the places facing practically a perfect storm of economic events but the impact is going to be much more widely spread as well for example a stray or. one of the biggest contingent of tourists into us trade it is mainland chinese tourists and if these people can't travel they're not going to be going to places like australia which is already facing a slowdown. was considerable to be what's going on in asia pacific in the days ahead for the moment as a thank you. the pressure is growing from us democrats for a key witness to be allowed to testify at the impeachment trial of president all

trump by calling for trump's full but national security advisor john bolton to appear before the senate following his claims that trump ordered him to tie military aid for ukraine with an investigation into rival joe biden we now have a 3rd witness who is apparently a direct witness to the president's timing a military aide to investigations of master but bolton we could not have made a more powerful case for calling him than the case the president's lawyers just did in trying to contest that link between military aid investigations so once again they underscored the importance of john bolton as a as a witness who would corroborate exactly what the uncontested evidence that the house put on shows that president trump used hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to coerce an ally to conduct these political sham investigations. there was hired to castro house will all the coals that bolton to testify democrats

say the new information from john bolton that trump directly linked to u.s. security aid to his demand that ukraine announced investigations into joe biden could significantly bolster the impeachment case this is stunning it goes right to the heart of the charges against the president. ambassador bolton essentially confirms the president committed the offenses charged in the 1st article of impeachment that article is abuse of power for allegedly putting his personal interests above that of the united states trump denies the allegation he's characterized bolton once his national security adviser as a disk run toward former employee who wants to sell more books i haven't seen a major script but i can tell you nothing was ever said to john but i have not seen a baby. i guess he's writing a book i haven't but several moderate republican senators appear to have been moved by bolton's revelations only 4 republicans would need to side with democrats to

cold bolton to testify i think it's increasingly likely that other republicans will will join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton inside the senate chambers the president's legal team ignore the bolton development completely not a single witness testify that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance a presidential meeting or anything else by the end of the week the u.s. senators will likely vote on whether to call bolton and other witnesses but with or without witnesses the odds remain squarely in the president's favor it would take a 2 thirds majority of the republican controlled chamber to remove trump from office castro al-jazeera washington well its conduct is being debated on capitol hill at the white house to will trump is preparing to reveal his long awaited middle east peace proposal israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition

leader benny guns are in washington to discuss the deal which the palestinians have already rejected a white house correspondent complete how could reports. thank you 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 proposal dead on arrival given there's been no consultation this is actually the front of the century the fraud or the century. cancelling everything to. an international. discussions broke down when the u.s. embassy to disputed jerusalem from tel aviv in december 2017 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 moved seem to support netanyahu especially as he attempts to win reelection amid corruption allegations 1st. the deal of the century is the opportunity of the century 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 sudden large yard kirshner 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 at 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 get al-jazeera the white house fighting has been reported in the area east of libya's misrata where forces loyal to the ward cleaver have to launch an offensive to take the city on sunday at least 11 government soldiers were killed and 100 others injured after us forces are accused of bombarding civilians in the capital tripoli as well tony berkeley has more from misrata mourners killing

in their hundreds to pay respects to one of the government soldiers killed in an attack by forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar 11 men died and nearly $100.00 were wounded on sunday as they defended the small town of abu ghraib 80 kilometers east of misrata they included mohammed abu sage 23 year old son abdul aziz who volunteer to help repel have to attack. and i get the impression if you stand and behave i have another 12 sons and i would sacrifice them all in this struggle against a man who wants to be a dictator. these images were put on social media it's thought that at least 12 have to as men were killed in the fighting the attack took everyone by surprise. as there was a ceasefire and we weren't expecting an attack there was a lot of firepower. he suffered shrapnel wounds to the head i chest and hand the museum on tripoli street tells the story of misrata as previous battles in the 2011

revolution and more recently against i saw in libya the fighters of misrata are known for their bravery it's what say the city 9 years ago and was a key factor and the downfall of moammar gadhafi but the people here also know what a cost can be when you oppose a dictator. in the 2011 revolution give up his forces occupied the city for 3 months 2800 people were killed more than 13000 were wounded but it was the men from his rod who captured the libyan leader in sirte and brought the war against him to a close here they believe the warlord khalifa haftar is just like a daffy. limit you know learning it and as an american he wants to roll libya the same way as gadhafi we fought against a dictatorship which controlled us for 40 years and we want to allow that to happen again if you here thought the sacrifices of the revolution would have to be made again and few here are willing to predict when the day will come when misrata no

longer has to mourn the death of this young man tony berkeley al jazeera is rather . well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including morning a legend basketball fans pay their respects to kobe bryant after he his daughter and 7 others were killed in a helicopter crash. a good day for the world number one a melbourne peter has all the sports section from will strain. south africa's governing african national congress is moving to nationalize the central bank but many are concerned that that could scare away foreign investment her tassel house more from johannesburg. kitty body says everything is getting increasingly expensive in south africa and even basic goods are now a luxury she has never had a job and has 2 boys to feed clothe and sent to school all of them sleep in this

wondrous shack on the same bed sometimes i don't have money to thank you. in. opening i don't have a kid so for uniform you know. more than 25 years since apartheid ended in south africa government's affirmative action plans and black economic empowerment policies have failed to stop growing inequality and poverty now some politicians are proposing land mines and the country's central bank be nationalized and like most central banks in the world so that it is privately owned the ruling african national congress and says nationalizing the banks is the only way to ensure wealth is redistributed more fair and. nationalization is a sensitive topic in south africa some people feel nationalizing the central bank will scare away investors and further weaken the country's already struggling economy what nationalisation would allow the a.n.c.

to do is to print money for. and cause a hyperinflation of the kind that we've seen in zimbabwe have the kind that we saw between the wars in the weimar republic and various other european countries that we've seen across history and the reasons that they might want to do that are that the country is basically running out of money. at the moment some state owned companies essential to the economy are in trouble so that rick in a ways is in financial crisis and has had to sustain some domestic and international flights and power company is khan is $30000000000.00 in debt and struggling to maintain electricity supplies mining companies are warning that crisis could push the country into recession we need to orderly to be fair here not everything in this country is dysfunctional. and we can pinpoint to the reasons why this is why some of these have actually imploded and collapsed we do have a bit of the problem of corruption we do have. and the only way to deal with

corruption is not to say that the state should never own anything. is not a south african phenomenon is a global phenomenon president obama is under pressure to buy investor confidence and least economic growth but he has to balance 2 sides those who favor encouraging the growth the private businesses and many politicians in the reading agency party who are calling for more black economic empowerment policies including take the land for redistribution without compensating the owners. johannesburg. the u.s. says one of its military planes as crash in afghanistan the jet came down in a mountainous area in the eastern province of gosney the military is denying claims by the taliban that it shot down the plane the bombardier built her craft is used to provide communication capabilities in remote locations the taliban says high ranking u.s. officers were on board and everyone was killed. investigators in the united states are trying to find out what cools the helicopter crash that killed 9 people

including basketball legend kobe bryant bryant's private helicopter came down on a hillside north of malibu in california on sunday rob reynolds reports. near the arena where kobe bryant thrilled so many l.a. laker fans and led his team to so many victories for 20 years hundreds gathered to mourn flowers candles balloons and basketballs filled the square many people came wearing the l.a. lakers team colors or jersey with bryant's number i just wanted to pay my respects to one of the greats in basketball and just a great human being in general. the mood was some burr and tinge with disbelief this time is one of the down the blackhawks marja they have been working with rob we're still all trying to process this he was well loved as you can see all these people here if he was not loved none of us will be here for many bryant was more than a mere sports star he did a lot for kids and he did

a lot for the world is not just in the united states but globally he inspired so many men and women all over the world bryant was 12 year old jayden jackson's hero and an inspiration oh he was my idol he really made like meant a lot to los angeles and like he just pushed hard and really inspired all of us here he you affected california usa all over the world. it's kind of hard to just imagine that such a legend was gone at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed bryant his daughter and 7 others several bodies were recovered the search continues for more remains federal crash investigators combed through the wreckage scattered across a hillside we take a broad look. at everything around an investigation around an accident we look at

man machine and the environment and weather is just a small portion of that the national transportation safety board says determining the cause of the accident could take weeks or more weather conditions at the time of the accident which included heavy fog and low visibility as well as the pilot's decision to use what's known as special visual flight rules could be key areas of the investigation on monday the national basketball association postponed a game scheduled for tuesday between the l.a. lakers and the l.a. clippers that contest would have been the 1st lakers game since the death of kobe bryant it will be rescheduled rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles well still ahead here all the news picking proposed to decide whether chinese tech giant holloway will have a stake in developing its 5 chain network plus. i'm andrew thomas inside

a micro recycling factory in sydney that could revolutionize the way although plastics at times into new materials. and wind of a pool will be giving that terror opponents a free chance and that if they come replace peter explain. helo's is right on his way through japan now the same stuff that was unusually wet in china but it's going out of the way now so sunder storms and significant rain most of it i think on the pacific coast of honshu once it's gone through the air is remarkably warm 14 degrees in a socket that's above the average by quite a few degrees tokyo joins in by the time we get to wednesday it's going to be rain rather than stay for the most part i think of a whole corridor but you get some snow at least 1st of all i'd be hard towards not

gone quiet and not cold beijing's 7 degrees were hans' 11 hong kong right about 18 mark in the sunshine of course but shanghai has gone up to 9 but a breeze but not resorts same big showers are forming once again in borneo or typically at she's right into the sea which is where you might expect to be but they have been showing themselves quite big over java recently including jakarta and especially in sumatra and that's where the forecast shows for tuesday and wednesday they were both pretty tend to grow of course during the day when the sun is out the temperatures rise and humidity goes up in the air as clouds and increasingly so that's the case in borneo whereas for india we're talking really about looking to the north where that cloud is coming in rain or snow with height for india and pakistan. for. al-jazeera tells the story of thousands of algerians forced by coming

fronts to adopt obscene family names. words this is so offensive that some contraband to say that. the bajan afraid to kill this has been passed down through generations. this shame of mining . on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working proud is here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else with it which is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. root. of all or.

welcome back you're watching the observer news are with me sell robin a reminder of our top stories health officials in china say the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has jumped to 106 the number of people infected has also gone up but it comes as the head of the world health organization visits the country for talks of the outbreak. republicans are under growing pressure to ally with this is to testify of u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial. excuse me it followed of a book draft by a former advisor john bolton in which he claims the president told him to tie military aid for ukraine to an investigation into his political rival joe biden.

meanwhile doll trump has been talking up his long delayed middle east peace proposal which is due to release on shoes day israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition leader benny council in washington to discuss the deal which the palestinians have already rejected. let's get more now on one of our top stories of course president tom's impeachment trial of the political fallout from it richard goldstein joins me now live from washington d.c. he's a democratic strategist and former outside adviser to the clinton white house during the 1999 in pietschmann trial good have you with us on the program sir how much of a gain changer are john bolton's revelations if they are what they are supposed to be for both political camps. well by rights they should be a game changer because the complaint from republicans has been well we haven't heard firsthand from anybody who actually spoke directly with the president hearing

him say that he was predicating the delivery of this military aid on political favors by presidents alinsky well john bolton is that person and he's written about it. but i will tell you this just so people watching don't get their hopes up i think most of the republicans have set their mind that there will not be witnesses no matter what i mean it's an odd argument on one hand they claim well we haven't heard firsthand but they don't actually want to call the people that have 1st hand experience and i think it's a simple political calculus which is that donald trump knows the senate republicans know that if they're witnesses they will not reflect well on president trump and therefore if there are witnesses they will make him weaker and by results make the senate republican candidates weaker well if you're one of those you don't want that to happen to you so people come up with all sorts of convoluted explanations i'm sure but here the day i'm fearful that there will not be witnesses and this trial

will be over relatively soon by the end of this week saturday sunday something like very briefly that how would you rate the fact that you have the likes of mitt romney sort of suggesting that he's going to vote in a way that would suit the democrats. well let's here if there are 4 mitt romney is right we me is a funny duck in the sense that his state utah was the state that voted least for donald trump a very state that he carried don't trump is not very popular because. the residents of utah tend to be fairly moral people and they don't like the immortality that they associate with donald trump and mitt romney knows that so he doesn't suffer a political damage to himself to his brand by virtue of staking out the position he does other senators susan collins is a classic case who is a moderate republican senator from maine who's up for reelection this year she's

a real spot because her state is generally considered something that's more of a democratic than a republican state and she's a republican and she has to appeal to democrats but the more that she does if she votes to have what this is something that's against donald trump the trump supporters in maine could say hey listen good luck we're not going to vote for you so and she knows that so it's a tough call for her ok well so while the drama plays out in washington d.c. the road ready to the white house begins in earnest you might say in 2020 with the iowa caucuses next week i mean how much of an impact. proceedings in the senate going to have of the way people vote in these caucuses in iowa. well as you know every senator who is running for president has to be in his or her chair during this whole impeachment trial so as a simple matter of retail politics people down the stretch in iowa. running in these caucuses like to press the flesh have as many events per day in the run up to

the caucuses next monday that's obviously not going to happen until maybe next sunday. so that's a problem joe biden's out there mayor people are judges out there they obviously don't have jobs are tying him to washington if you look at the polls bernie sanders is having a little bit of a boomlet and yet in some of the polls joe biden's doing pretty well as well remember 345 months ago people considered joe biden a dead man walking that somehow or other they thought he was just you know like a little puff of air and he was going to collapse well that hasn't happened there was a poll that fox news put out yesterday that had biden beating trump nationally by 9 that's about as big a lead as as biden has had over trump so somehow or other with all this talk of the republican to spend a lot of today in this impeachment trial talking about biden and his son and they think it's going to damage him i think a lot of democratic voters view is if trump doesn't like him maybe there's

something. some reason for me to support him so i actually don't think at the end of the day the impeachment trial is going to affect all that many people in iowa fact is i will voters tend to be much more liberal therefore bernie sanders supporters than more moderate which are biden's. new hampshire is the next state that the neighboring states as sanders then we move into states that are more friendly to biden so i think this contest is not going to be over all that with all of the political shenanigans that are going on a couple hild to you at the moment assessing your own way the american public during anywhere closer to dare i say it's a vote to the tea political for tea impeachment for tea basically fatigue. so again i would say the answer if you look at the polls is as follows. after the house finished its impeachment the public was about split whether they thought donald trump should be impeached which he was and removed now if you look at the

polls if you kind of assess them the numbers are like 50.7 for pietschmann and remove all 45 for 4 quid him to let him off the hook that means there are more there are people who actually voted for trump for president who won him removed and if you look at the number of people who say they want witnesses at this trial that number has gone up it's now anywhere from 2 thirds to 70 percent of the public is saying they want witnesses so i know republicans are hoping there is fatigue but i would say if the polls are any indication the public is tuning in enough to have a sense that yeah if if the republicans vote down the idea of witnesses that won't sit well that won't be consistent with a sense of fairness and therefore we'll see if there's any long term political consequence but right now i would say the polls are not trending in the republican favor certainly interesting times richard goldstein thank you very much for your

time and your insight thanks for having me good talk now the british government to set to decide whether to allow equipment from chinese tech giant weiwei to be used in its 5 g. mobile network catherine stansell has more. it's the largest producer of telecommunications equipment in the world but despite its technological prowess china's way is seen as the enemy in the eyes of some global powers the united states has spent the last year convincing its allies to ban while away from their networks citing security concerns over chinese intelligence potentially infiltrating the system the u.s. as well as australia new zealand have already banned the installation of while away equipment in their 5 g. system and with britain preparing to roll out its own 5 g. network has been facing increasing pressure to do the same last week prime minister porus johnson faced heavy lobbying from the us 1st in

a phone call from donald trump and then a meeting between the chancellor of the exchequer and us treasury secretary stephen munition what's clear is for the role of government for the role of national security issues for the role of the firms we want to make sure our infrastructures are protected the way forward for us clearly is to have a system that delivers for all people in this country the kind of consumer benefits they won't. fight you technology or whatever but there's naught in any way compromise is. critical national infrastructure of security or jeopardize our ability to work together with other intelligence powers around the us of the the 5 by security relationships we have we've got to keep them strong and say u.s. officials have suggested they would reassess their intelligence sharing relationship with the u.k. if weiwei was involved in building britain's 5 g.

network. the equipment needed to build such a network is at the core of worthwhile weight does creating the facilities that control where and how all data is sent over the internet. while way is accused of being partly funded by china's military and intelligence and security analysts are concerned about giving so much access to a company with such close ties to the government. structure and there are not unreasonable worries around your control of your company nonstory troops disputed very turns to the chinese government especially its time when china is becoming more solitary and. could be used to be 1st in our. weiwei has always denied allegations of spying and hacking and the british government has said any security concerns the company may pose are manageable

caffein stansell al jazeera italy's right wing leader salvini has admitted defeat after his party failed to win the northern region of emilio money or salvini had hoped to overturn decades of leftist rule in the region and bring down the nationalist coalition government but the sitting democratic party governess the foreigner umballa seen one with 51.4 percent of the vote compared to 43.7 percent for the leaks candidate. hundreds of people in the democratic republic of congo have been forced to flee fighting in the it to the region it follows increased attacks by bill issues on several villages as many as 700 people are being killed and tens of thousands of displaced since fighting intensified 2 years ago catherine sawyer reports from a refugee reception center in western uganda. these are difficult times for pansy she's only 7 months old but has already witnessed the last of a conflict she knows nothing about. the most recent loss is her home in the democratic

republic of congo's region barns down by a tribal militia group she's just arrived at this refugee reception center in western uganda with her mother deborah imani and 5 year old sister francine. we went back to our village of july last december to bury my father it was attacked last week we left my husband behind and i'm not sure if it's common. also fled from usual with her children and a few belongings she says many people there want to believe but have no money to hire boats to bring them across but. so on my view there is no security so the militias come armed with machetes to kill people or loot hiding in the forest of and help us we are not saved. at least $60000.00 people from

a tory have fled to uganda since 2017 just over 1000 this month alone many more are entirely displaced it's a conflict of a land and grazing rights that has gone on for decades militias are allied with warring tribes attack villages up will some of the refugees here say this time attackers linked to the land a farming community are the aggressors and the violence has been politicized on average up to be arriving at this refugee reception every day most are coming from an area called all of us. back home are intensifying. the united nations is investigating human rights abuses and possibly genocide in the tory in uganda officials with the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. say they're preparing for even more a few g.'s more of a spike then and then previously last year say like october from october till now

there has been a monthly increase so we are seeing an increase in the inflow of the refugees coming in the. back of the reception center baby angel and have family receive the kids the only food they don't get until they're moved to a transit camp where they'll have a hot meal. the refugee settlement areas a father in law and father away from their homes from a conflict that has refused to go away catherine soy al jazeera western uganda. turkey has called off rescue operations in areas hit by a powerful earthquake on friday emergency workers have recovered the body of the final person they were searching for in a collapsed building bringing the death total to 41 the magnitude $6.00 quake centered on the town of research in province tremors were also felt in neighboring syria lebanon and iran. lebanon's parliament has passed this year's budget as it

tries to lift the country out of a deepening economic crisis for testers try to block politicians from getting to the vote calling it unconstitutional reports from beirut. it's all happened so quickly but after months of delays and protests the 2020 budget drafted last year by former prime minister saad heavies government has finally been ratified the biggest challenges facing lebanon's new government is a new collapsing economy it says its priority is to introduce a financial rescue plan well and iraq is this now these are exceptional circumstances nothing is normal in lebanon today and the complexity 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 boat unconstitutional examination of the will. if it's a necessity to adopt 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 in the matter must be available that was only because the the budget usually ends at the end of general so i insist that 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. was outside parliament several people were injured in protests against the vote security forces used to gas in response to some who threw rocks at them the security setup protests failed to stop politicians from entering parliament to vote on this controversial budget was 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 ferguson's nationwide protests started in october against corruption in the mismanagement of public funds the new government will be going into the new year it was the boss 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 protestors were treated we couldn't stop the session from happening last week newly appointed finance minister said that $4.00 to $5000000000.00 of foreign loans are urgently needed to buy basics such as wheat 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 side. al-jazeera fatal. when china stopped taking foreign recyclables over 2 years ago innovation was

needed to deal with the world's plastic problem the engineers in australia say they've developed a technology to help reduce plastic waste and to thomas explains city. thanks. 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 we're actually showing here is that a micro scale you can set up these these centralized facilities where it's not one

big mega facility or transporting a lot of waste you actually take that factory on site on the location 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 there's 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 a 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. well still ahead in sports why because those cricketers all still on top of the world in t.v. 20 pizza we'll have those details straight after the break.

or. talk about tom has his pizza. thank you very much fans athletes and celebrities are 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 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 like you know like a bad dream you feel like you. are. 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 while bryant's friends congregate 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 be when 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 like has the man known as the black mamba still managing to score 61 points on his farewell thanks. thanks

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 in plays to honor the man that wore the number 24 on his jersey was going to be . i mean. i wouldn't. the here i would have loved one out of to at least have seen the. good news is just devastating the lakers themselves were 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 last 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 man of 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 the 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 caught in 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 and seen plenty of 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 seconds 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 in for the last 8 or so man hell if and. tournament

organizers also made their presentation to margaret court on monday but it didn't pass without controversy or comment 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 men do 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 prop says he promised his key players a rest and even he will not be in the dug out for that match. england's cricketers beat serve africa by 191 runs to win the final test in johannesburg on monday completes a 31 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 we'll leave it there for now we'll see you again later for more support. thanks very much peace while you have been watching al jazeera new south on the ground somewhat of a full off hour in follow all of the stories of course on our web site at all just talk call for me cell robin i'm going to use our team thanks for your time and your complete.

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painters and the government is so frightened of the damage to the church that the full excavation would do that it is resisting it's so they're threatening court action i think the only way in which this will be resolved this through an order of the spirit courts of this country i can't see any other way because there is no will there's no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libel reigns influenced the course of history. it was the human revolution communist the way feel castro is a feudal eastern not a communist or castro wanted his country che wanted international revolution there came a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face on al-jazeera

. the desperation to contain coronavirus increases in china as the death toll jumps to more than $100.00. this is al jazeera live also coming up the pressure builds for donald trump's former national security adviser to give evidence at the u.s. president's impeachment trial. morning they did in the libyan city of misrata but they vow to keep fighting the fight of forces of warlords are they for half the. head remembering the horrors of war survivors share.