region we know how to get to places that others and the fires are still ongoing i believe you tell that story is what make a difference. china counts a 106 coronavirus deaths as the us and others move to fly their citizens out of the outbreaks of the sensor. or the observer of life from headquarters in doha i'm 30 now the gates are also heads demands grow for donald trump's former national security chief to testify at the impeachment trial but the president's allies say john bolton is irrelevant it's a week of rain leaves parts of madagascar are submerged beneath muddy waters more

than 30 people have drowned thousands are displaced and tension in the air waves britain is about to decide whether china's weiwei will be allowed to help build its 5 g. mobile network. hello the u.s. japan britain and others are working to get their citizens out of the chinese city that's a big the epicenter of an outbreak of corona virus china has now confirmed 106 deaths while infections have doubled to more than 4500 the government has lockdown rouhani and other cities in the surrounding province and it's urging everyone to delay foreign travel to help slow the virus is spread beyond china shores researchers at johns hopkins university over in the u.s. are mapping the outbreak so the big red dots you see. the highest number of

infections mainly and they said over province elsewhere in the world cases have been confirmed in southeast asia australia the us and europe thailand's just reported 6 more new infections while 2 more have emerged in canada. adrian brown will join us from hong kong in a moment where measures have been put in place to prevent infections we'll speak to right after scott heiler who give us an update from beijing scott and you'll just bring us up to speed about what you know on the current restrictions that beijing has put in place as well as the international evacuations. yeah the restrictions continue to strengthen and being you know where we're looking at almost $50000000.00 people on a lockdown in central china we're hearing too that some of the train service here into beijing is going to start to be limited even further now this is a concern because we're looking at you know an extended lunar new year but it's coming to an end toward the end of the week and when you look at the train stations

here a lot of people are coming back early even though that holiday has been extended because they're worried that there's going to be even more restrictions on the train service here into the capital so that's a concern to the what's becoming to look like an airlift by some nations of their citizens out of the epicenter of this coronavirus and will han we know that the united states is evacuating its consulates in the coming hours by aircraft they're also going to let citizens get and he says that they can fit in what to leave on that aircraft as well in the coming hours japan is also going to have an aircraft to leave. with any citizens that they want to get out now that's just a couple of countries now we know that in the works those are the ones we know about taking place over the next couple of hours we know that there are other nations also putting in plans into place france for one is very interesting because they're taking it a step further those citizens who are evacuated will face a 4 and 14 day quarantine once they make their way back to france so taking even

a step further that's the incubation period for this virus that scientists have so far been able to tell all right thank you for that update from beijing let's get an update on his joining us from hong kong and that's where even more measures adrian have been put in place to contain the virus tell us what you know. yeah that's right in a bid to try to prevent this virus spreading even further the hong kong government has announced that all civil servants will be able to basically stay at home until monday they're currently on lunar new year leave that ends tonight but now the government saying. it wants to extend that leave until february the 3rd it's also asking private business owners to do the same now here in hong kong there's the pony's over reports from the mainland that up to 7000 people left for hong kong in the days immediately before the lockdown there 11000 others actually went to

thailand and around about 10000 to singapore because of course as we now know is a major transport hub not just domestically but also internationally there is here you know growing skepticism about the official information hong kong is getting from the mainland that stems in part i think from comments we heard from the mayor of new han on monday he admitted that the government had been slow in passing on official information about the virus because he said he had to get approval from beijing before that information could be released and that of course took several days so it's interesting because what he was affectively doing i think was pointing the finger at the leadership i think he knows that potentially he's going to be a political scapegoat but i don't he i didn't you want to go down alone ok thank you for that update from hong kong now global financial markets have continued to

fall as investors fear worsening outbreak bribe reports on the growing economic impact as china reels from the impact of the virus some of the worst predictions suggest that economic growth could slow by as much as 4 percentage points in this 1st quarter. transport connections have been brought to a standstill theme parks and cinemas are closed with hotels restaurants and stores all taking big losses. for neighboring hong kong already in recession after months of anti-government protests the virus has delivered what might be described as the perfect economic storm. the gloom has been reflected in stock markets reopening after the lunar new year break in south korea ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss not only the health implications of the virus but its impact on the

economic health of the country. the government will make all their efforts to safeguard citizens safety and minimize impact on the economy as long as this new infection poses a threat comparisons of been made with the sars virus in 2003 that had far reaching economic impact beyond china. the difference between then and now with the size of the chinese economy and its relationship with the global economy more trade more travel china is so much more interconnected with the rest of the world that 17 years on damage to its economy is so much more consequential. and today the world economy is more vulnerable facing a global downturn as it did in 2003 generally global economy was was very bad and that has affected korea that has affected also china now the situation is a little similar in the sense that you know. global economy is tend to come down

after a boon to thousands of didn't 2010 what's different it seems is the way china has learned from past epidemics scientifically institutionally i think china is more prepared to to control the discussion of epidemic china's success or otherwise will have far reaching economic consequences for all its neighbors mcbride al-jazeera so. pressure is growing from us democrats for a key witness to testify donald trump's impeachment trial they want the president's former national security adviser john bolton to appear before the senate so it follows reports of revelations that trump ordered bolton to keep military aid to ukraine frozen until it investigated a political rival. we now have

a 3rd witness who is apparently a direct witness to the president's timing a military aide to investigations of master 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 but the republican senator ted cruz dismissed any need to hear from bolton saying the democrats had already failed to prove their case i don't believe the testimony is necessary the house managers have a burden of proof a burden of proof to prove their case they have fallen woefully still short the

standard on the under the constitution is high crimes and misdemeanors they have not demonstrated any law was violated and the president was entirely justified in asking for an investigation of corruption concerning ukraine and potentially hundreds biden and joe biden had so castro reports from washington democrats say the new information from john bolton that trump directly linked to u.s. security aide 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 describe until the 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 have to answer 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 the republicans will will join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton inside the senate chambers the president's legal team ignored the bolton development completely not a single witness testified 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. will get a check on the weather next and then a year after a brazilian dam sent a wave of toxic mud through villages we'll look at how people are still getting sick and frustration grows among broking a refugees in bangladesh about fences being built around them details coming up. 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's case 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 a story of the alps and drifting eastward 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 europe 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 is not 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 giving a lot for north africa there are no showers the coast of morocco but there is cloud running through libya and that's the last of the proper active trough systems i think which might bring a shower to the next day otherwise it remains quiet rains quiet for tuesday and really thought wednesday with the hamas and blowing particularly strong across chad

and temperatures in senegal particular quite high. but. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that it's really the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the streets don't even know what the noise all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. the.

fellow down the top stories just there this hour u.s. japan britain and others are working to get their citizens out of the chinese city that's at the center if and it's at the epicenter rather a fake corona virus outbreak china has confirmed 106 that swallow infections have doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000. u.s. democrats are pushing for the former white house advisor john bolton to appear as a witness in donald trump's impeachment trial he's reportedly written dot trump ordered him to freeze military aid to ukraine until it investigated a political life for. syria's government and its allies could be on the verge of a significant step towards their aim of winning back the last chunk of rebel territory the bombardments of provinces intensifying but it's triggering another

exodus of civilians towards the north mykola gauge reports. families pack everything they are in and head for safety forced from their homes unsure where they're going for a fellow ever return many have already fled other parts of the country during syria's 9 years civil war. my daughter is about to give birth and i don't know what is going to happen to her i don't know where we are going to live where you are going to go. this is what they're running from syria and russia are attacking rebel held from the air on the ground fighting has intensified with reports of heavy battles between rebels and government forces. or a new drive by president bashar al assad to recapture the country's last opposition enclave in the northwest has sparked a new exodus on monday tens of thousands of civilians fled towards turkey's border

. since december it's estimated that more than 350000 people have been displaced from the region but then the people can no longer handle the shelling many have been very patient and waited for today they offload because of the regime's advancement. syrian regime forces are raging closer tomorrow tell no man it's now largely deserted and destroyed after months of bond meant but it sits on the m 5 highway which links to mask is to syria's 2nd city aleppo the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says government forces have reached the cities east in northern and southern outskirts it's capture would mark a significant advance in al assad's drive to take back all of syria. because fighting escalates the human cost is also rising above i'm going to.

totally powerless that's why we are calling on the u.n. and other international associations to intervene in turkey which backs some rebel groups opposed to al assad's regime already hosts more than 3500000 syrian refugees this latest from bottom and could potentially lead to more soon crossing the border . gauge al-jazeera the u.s. is disputing assertions from the taliban that its fighters shot down and merican military plane in afghanistan it crashed in a mountainous area of the province large parts of which are taliban controlled pictures posted on social media show the burning records of what could be an 11 a aircraft which provides communications in remote areas and a spokesman for the u.s. special forces says there's no indication it was down by enemy fire. a soldier has

been killed in a general room did as a mexican military patrol try to intercept a cartel drug plane that had landed on a roadway traffickers were unloading as much as a 1000 kilograms of cocaine from the aircraft into a van in the southern states and soldiers tracked the plane by radar when the military intervened they say the traffickers opened fire 2 suspects were detained. the 29000 mining dam collapse and denio brazil claimed the lives of 270 people it sent a wall of toxic mud and debris into the surrounding lands as well and now one year after the accidents and our mental activists say the effects of the contamination are far from over people are getting sick when you are up on the reports. it's the rainy season in boomer the new brazil. says she's worried the river will

soon flood. last year a dam operated by the brazilian mining company valley collapsed contaminating the pave a river with high concentrations of iron ore waste such as aluminum and mercury. living downstream from the mining accident means that fish are no longer safe to eat the water isn't safe to drink and anything that grows in the soil is now tainted. i'm sad and what hurts me the most is to see my banana trees because i love bananas and my sister who is handicapped loves to eat them and i have to try to explain to her that we can't eat them because they're toxic. the collapse of the dam produced nearly 12000000 cubic meters of toxic mud many people here say they now suffer from depression there's been a reported increase in suicides and many appear to be developing strange illnesses from shock to the moon to probably have a we have many problems with skin disease we're all covered in red bombs our

animals are dying my son in law has rashes all over his body my neighbor says well all this began after the mining accident. but really the company responsible for the collapsed dam is the world's largest iron ore producer it has also been involved in at least 2 other mining accidents since 2014 there are $36.00 mining dams in the state of the brazilian government has categorized as at risk. for many here the worry is that it's only a matter of time before the next mining disaster. environmentalist's like catalina they warned the problems associated with iron mining could become worse yes i thought you know if you're in our region the iron ore and the water exist at the same geological depth and if we keep mining we will destroy the awkward for so this is a matter of choice we can either take the water and awkward for or allow the mining companies to operate. since the latest accident bali has agreed to shut down 10

dams similar to the one that collapsed in burma the environmental activists however see that's not enough and are demanding stronger regulation of brazil's mining industry. boom of the new brazil. frustration is growing among rohingya refugees and cox's bazar over restrictions placed on them by bangladesh as army rallies and protests and refugee camps are banned a new fences are being belts summarizing us say the situation reminds them of conditions they fled in me and maher 10 very chowdhry reports from caucus is bizarre. more than 2 years after 700000 rohingya fled a military crackdown in myanmar they're still can go home and continue to live in what is the world's largest refugee camp but cox's bazar in bangladesh far from being a refuge for growing up from death and destruction they experienced in myanmar is now to many nothing more than a prison camp graphic

a big one was tortured and abused by me and more security forces she still has nightmares about the violence she suffered but as a member of woman's advocacy group now helps others at the camp however she fears for their future might have been my see what i don't like there are a lot of restrictions on us in myanmar now i'm afraid we will be kept under similar restrictions here in bangladesh many of us now want to leave and head to another country rallies and protests are no longer allowed at cox's bizarre but that didn't stop some elderly rowing a woman expressing their views about the new fencing. despite protests by the rights group bangladesh army is building fences around our owing a refugee camp together with restaurants and recently imposed on their movement and communication blackout refugees said increasingly frustrated and anxious the government say it wants to stop the flow of drugs into the camps stop human trafficking and prevent crime but the rights groups say the fencing and guard towers violate refuges right to freedom of movement i want. the bald wire fencing

around us reminds me of myanmar it now appears that the authorities here want to keep us under confinement and restrictions as well. restoration has been growing in bangladesh about hosting the refugees particularly since the last 2 attempts to repatriate them to me and my failed the sympathy and compassion too as they're going on in bangladesh seems to be slowly fading and for the refugees as the prospect of returning home to me on my looks even more distant then i fear they're no longer wanted in bangladesh either. cox's bazar bangladesh a portrait he says he's released data revealing the details the dealings rather of africa's richest woman in angola lawyers for rubin so say he handed over a hard drive detailing is about the santos his fortune to a whistleblower group and $28.00 team. is being investigated as part of an eruption

case relating to her role as chair of a state owned oil company and to himself is facing 90 charges in portugal heavy flooding and landslides in madagascar have killed more than 30 people following a week of heavy rain in the northwestern town of mara voice submerged forcing thousands to leave their homes priyanka group to reports. this is what a week of torrential rain has done to the people of marta way. their homes swept away paddy fields and rice stalls destroyed. the few belongings people like lisa have disappeared in the flood waters now she just wants to survive. i need food for my children and for me my children don't have any clothes. we have nothing to wear. i've had to bar this.

at least 16000 people have been displaced by floods across 7 regions of madagascar in recent days roads linking northwestern parts of the island to the rest of the country have been washed away and that's making it difficult to get aid into the area with most of the quene and cattle gone people are trying to salvage what little they can some a survivor and fish swimming on flooded streets them softer than ever i am begging you to help past everything we have has been destroyed even our house has been destroyed a house made of bricks we had only recently built it. the government has declared a state of national emergency and there are fears the flooding in madagascar mainly why scoring areas may lead to shortage of food and malnutrition. for reasonable the problem is food there isn't enough because their houses have

been damaged the food and everything else is in the water they left everything behind the main thing is to survive and now we've launched an appeal on television and with donors. madagascar is one of the poorest nations in the world 3 quarters of its population live on less than $2.00 a day it's in the middle of a 6 month rainy season tropical storms are common at this time. and so are cyclons which usually peak during february and march for these isolated communities already battered by rains and floods the coming weeks are expected to bring more uncertainty priyanka gupta al-jazeera. u.s. investigators are trying to work out what caused the helicopter crash that killed 9 people including the basketball star kobe bryant and his teenage daughter it came down on a hillside in california on sunday brunell's 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 so one of the greats in basketball and just a great human being in general. the mood was some burr and tinge with disbelief just stunned is the outcome of the blackhawks larger than having it worse than just a try we're still all trying to process this he was well loved as you can see all these people here if he was not love 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 colby was my idol he really made it like men 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. is 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. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. japan britain and others are working to get their citizens out of the chinese city that's at the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak china has confirmed 106 deaths while infections have doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000 scott heiler has more from beijing what's becoming to look like an

airlift by some nations of their citizens out of the epicenter of this corona virus and will han we know that the united states is evacuating its consulates in the coming hours by aircraft they're also going to let citizens and he says that they can fit in what to leave on that aircraft as well in the coming hours japan is also going to have an aircraft to leave. with any citizens that they want to get out. us democrats want former national security adviser john bolton to appear as a witness in donald trump's impeachment trial bolton has reportedly written trump ordered him to freeze military aid to ukraine until it investigated a trump rifle that allegation is at the center of the case against the president's fighting has been reported in an area east of the libyan city of misrata where forces loyal to the warlords khalifa have launched an offensive on sunday but these

the 11 government soldiers were killed on the 100 others injured the u.s. says the feuding assertions from the taliban that its fighters shot down an american military plane in i'm gonna stunned and crashed in a mountainous area of the province large parts of which are taliban controlled a spokesman for the u.s. special forces says there's no indication it was down by enemy fire. one soldier has been killed general injured during a drug plane raid in mexico traffic urns were unloading around the 1000 kilograms of cocaine from the aircraft with than in the states in the south of the country and soldiers tracked the plane by radar when the military intervened they say the traffickers opened fire. we have today for the headlines inside story is coming up next thanks for watching. across the united states indigenous families are searching for their loved ones for relatives of people who go missing finding

closure is often impossible people are meeting here to raise money for the search efforts of the young woman advocates and family members have started to raise awareness about the high rates of violence that disproportionately impact indigenous communities most tribal police departments are understaffed and under resourced another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non-native americans for all crimes there but a lot of concerns of the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously a lack of evidence is the main reason federal officials give for declining to prosecute crimes on reservations that should be the end of the discussion. there should be then a ok let's see what went wrong in this case why the is no evidence or why the evidence isn't good enough and make sure that doesn't happen again. tribute for a legend on the north of boston. branch to new heights became

a global superstar how will his death be remembered and what legacy does he leave behind this is insightful. and welcome to the program i'm not pluck the world is mourning the death of one of basketball's biggest of a star kobe bryant was killed in a helicopter crash near los angeles along with his daughter and 7 other people the 41 year old's appeal went far beyond the basketball court. to the scene in 1996 as a talented teenager with patients to become the best by the time he retired 20 years late to get done.