what's most important to you is talking to people understanding what they're going . to see or we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. al-jazeera . hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news live from doha on martine dennis coming up in the next 60 minutes hong kong halts ferry and train services to mainland china as corona virus infections double killing more than 100 people. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu withdrawals his request for immunity from prosecution on corruption charges. conflicting reports about what brought down

a u.s. military plane in a taliban controlled part of afghanistan. and tension in the air britain's about to decide whether china's while way will be allowed to help build its 5 gene mobile network. in sport roger federer reaches the australian open semifinal surviving 7 much points in a 5 set thriller against american tennis sundra. but we're starting this news hour with the corona virus outbreak in china they're showing no signs of letting up within the past hour hong kong's leader kerry lam announced a series of dramatic new measures including halting ferry and train services to the mainland holding the number of flights and the suspension of personal travel purr.

emmett's she also is all hong kong residents who were on the mainland to return home and stay there for the next 14 days. the measures will be effective in reducing the number of visitors from the mainland since transportation services are required for the commuters who will scale back our transportation services 1st of all high speed rail services to and from the mainland will be suspended in terms of air travel the number of flights from mainland to hong kong will be slashed by half in terms of sea travel or cross border ferry services will be suspended will carry lambs move appears to be an attempt to isolate further hong kong from the outbreak which is now killed $106.00 people or more than 4 and a half 1000 chinese people infected the virus has spread widely across southeast asia there are 8 confirmed cases in thailand and hong kong is also being found in taiwan in macau south korea japan singapore malaysia vietnam and cambodia elsewhere

cases have been confirmed in germany in france in the poor strayer the united states and canada or many of those countries are working to get their citizens out of the chinese city of will hand that's at the center of this outbreak or at we can talk that agent brown our correspondent who's in hong kong and adrian these are rather dramatic measures being taken by carrie lamb but one might ask whether she's closing the stable door after the horses bolted given that the virus is already in hong kong. yeah that's right i think a lot of legislators here in hong kong in the opposition camp are certainly saying it's too little too late let's put this into some sort of context this is one of the busiest from tears in the world martín $40000000.00 people crossed over it last year just $2000000.00 for instance in november and that's in spite of these ongoing

political process which have a strong anti mainland sentiment to them and that anti mainland sentiment has been you know feeding into what's been going on for the past week here in hong kong that virus is really stirring up an anti mainland mood here in hong kong the border of course is absolutely crucial so many people in hong kong work in the mainland they go over in the morning come home in the evening that's now effectively going to stop now she has stopped short of declaring a total closure of the border this is a partial closure but as you say rail and ferry links are being cut the number of flights between hong kong and the mainland are being hard and that's really going to hit airlines like cathay pacific at a time when they're already being squeezed economically because of the ongoing protests now there's also lamented the fact that there has been a lot of misinformation she says online suggesting that hong kong was having to

rely on the mainland for help and also the other way around she says that's simply not the case but i think there is a growing feeling here in hong kong martin that people are in creasing least skeptical about the reports they're getting from the mainland media here in hong kong and that's been borne out you know by comments we had from the mayor of will hand on monday when he apologized to the people of his city saying he wasn't able to give them the full picture picture sooner because he needed approval from the authorities in beijing to release important sensitive information so that again plays into that playbook we have of china occasionally at times like this. s. doing its best to cover up bad news and many people say we're seeing another example of that now right and meanwhile in the city of our own kong we can see there are people around many of them are wearing the mouse is life is business continuing almost as normal

yes it is you know there is no panic here i was in hong kong during the sars outbreak 17 years ago and i have to say back then there was a much deeper sense of fear of all of foreboding you're not really getting that now because of course hong kong has been through other virus outbreaks avian flu swine flu sars of course in 20022003 now this so the the medical authorities here are much better prepared than they were 17 years ago they were sort of delving into the unknown today they're much better prepared in their response time has been much faster but that said i was speaking to a doctor who represents 6000 doctors in the public health sector and she said she doubted hong kong's ability to be able to handle a major outbreak she says at this time of year hospital occupancy rates are about 9899 percent because this is the the high season for flu so she worries about you

know where all these people with the virus are going to be actually treated of course hong kong's opening up more and more quarantine centers in many cases these are former holiday camps but is that going to be enough at the moment we've had an increase today of 78 more cases here and suspected cases here in hong kong taking us up to 5298 confirmed cases one of those is in a critical condition but so far has to be said no deaths in hong kong all right thank you for that adrian brown in hong kong well from hong kong let's go to beijing now scott hyder is our correspondent there he's got the details on the restrictions that are being put in place on the mainland. 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 consulate 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 now that's just a couple of countries and 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 well global financial markets continue to full as investors fear. in a virus outbreak rob mcbride ripples now 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 a 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. so 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 have 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 but 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 are also on china now the situation is a little similar in the sense that you know a lot of global economy is tend to come down after a boom in 20072010 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 china's success or otherwise will have far reaching economic consequences for all its neighbors macbride al-jazeera so all right now i can speak to patrick parent green an international economist at ad macro joining us live from london thank you for talking to us and i've seen a figure of $40000000000.00 as being the cost the estimated cost of the sars outbreak in 20022003 is probably way too early to assess what kind of economic

impact the coronavirus this coronavirus is likely to have. no i mean it's very hard to quantify but let's bear in mind when we talk about how much china is bigger if you put it into hard numbers in 2003 china was a one and a half trillion dollar economy in terms of g.d.p. at the end of last year was a forward nearly a 14 and a half trillion dollar economy or is 10 times the size as a share of global g.d.p. it was around about 4 percent now 16 percent it's become an integrity market for so many companies for example mercedes sell 30 percent their cars their b.m.w. is almost the same. the likes of starbucks have over $4000.00 stores and when you have cities closing businesses for an extra week shanghai. province these are the large prosperous areas the most dynamic areas with the highest income the most part of the highest productivity. and while some of that

business will come back a lot of it won't and so i think it's when people are talking about 4 percent of g.d.p. this quarter actually it's hard to say well actually this quarter that's not an annualized basis especially realistic i think in terms of you know before this happened people were talking about a g.d.p. for china this year growth of the order of 5.75.8 percent right. that number is go all right so i mean we're obviously at the chinese economy and perhaps that of southeast asia is going to take a hit 4 percent drop has been mentioned but given that the chinese economy is far more integrated into the global economy now there is a greater a greater potential there for contagion so the global economy's going to feel it as well. absolutely in many countries in asia are ahead of very high dependence on tourism for example chinese tourism to thailand is about.

$28.00 sen ist so tourism is about 12 percent of thais t.v. pay so we're going to see that plummet australia because of its quality exports has a very very high exposures to china and then even on for the european side as i mentioned before the likes of b.m.w. mercedes. and and also the we've seen the luxury goods the the mh is of this world suffer because china again is such a large area of sales for them so as the general repercussions and we look at the european economy which is barely struggling along growing at less than one percent the u.s. economy is starting slow and so this is a big difference of 2003 when we saw a global economy it was generally in an uptrend anyway so it was largely able to brush over the stars so i think trying to quantify how much global g.d.p. could suffer by. i personally estimates shave global g.d.p. growth by least half percent but when you're talking about very low global g.d.p.

the world bank's talking anyway and 2 and a half percent growth for many countries to fall to that rate is it is an effective recession. expect to see central banks come out and cut interest rates further those who have any room left to do so and equity markets and commodity markets remain under pressure all right patrick peregrine thank you very much indeed for talking to us over. israel's prime minister is withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution benjamin netanyahu issued a statement on facebook saying proceedings in parliament would have been a circus and he didn't want to take part in what he calls a dirty game is in washington for talks about president trump's middle east peace plan netanyahu was indicted on charges of fraud breach of trust and bribery in november but he's denying all wrongdoing michel baracus c.e.o. of kievan global research

a political consultancy says the timing of netanya his announcement was strategic. this is typical nathan yeah and that he's doing and that only business as usual for what he thinks is a historic opportunity he's fly flew to washington he's met with president trump be supposed to meet with then again president chavez met with the opposition leader bendigo there was supposed to be a meeting together but they separated the fact is he's talking about has sort of activity which will change the face of israel in the middle east and you know the opposition party is worried about whether he sits on bribes or not or whether he violated the law which is supported i think in the aus. issue is always that what i'm doing is for the future state of israel for generations and therefore you know as to what he said i continue to promote this truck he's planned i next week will probably already having the speil it's from the west bank and gaza due to the trustees so he's going to be in

a whole different situation not only have the 2 weeks in a row looks like a major statement by having the world leaders here by going to washington or by next week i think the issue will be defense and protecting israelis inside of israel from the palestinians who will again be seen as not only rejecting another possibility for statehood for east between israel and in the region but also increasing violence and when they increase violence it never works in their favor and particularly now in an election with and you know that's where he's one of the and that's where the operates. we've got a lot more to come here of the al-jazeera news hour including demands grow for donald trump's from a national security adviser to testify at his impeachment trial about the president's allies say john bolton's irrelevant week of rain leaves parts of madagascar submerged beneath muddy loses more than 30 people have drowned and thousands of displaced will have another day and remembering kobe bryant the

tributes continue to one of the biggest stars in the sporting world. now an intensifying bombing campaign in syria's province in the north west of the country has led to another exodus of tens of thousands of people many of them fled north from the city of mary. which is already largely deserted recapturing it from the rebels would be a significant shift in the 9 year long war the city sits on a major highway connecting damascus to aleppo for this go live now to istanbul our correspondent there is seen them cozy early and so this as far as we understand it then this strategic city right on that vital highway between damascus and aleppo is virtually in the hands of the government. well martin it has

been very important for the syrian government to capture moderates a new man as you have also said and for the last couple of months we haue witnessed the last day of the bomb weidman stay attack so intensified over water it's a new mine and according to the civil of workers in the town this city is completely devastated and also we have been hearing from the health n.g.o.s that always the health. health centers hospitals or clinics have been directly targeted by the syrian regime and russian bombardment so this is very critical and this is actually a big crisis as turkey and russia have. a cease fire on january 12th a similar tenuous cease fire that would have been in the acted at the same time in libya and in syria but we have witnessed the russian russian defense ministry

saying that the ceasefire is there but however since then it has been violated by the syrian government is through its army its through its shia fighters in the region so the situation is very dire currently in especially the placement is on the rise there are hundreds of thousands by the border martin see them cause you live in a simple thank you. the u.s. is disputing reports that taliban fighters shot down an american military plane in afghanistan it crashed in a mountainous area of girls in the province large parts of that province are controlled by the taliban pictures posted on social media show the burning wreckage of what could be an aircraft that provides communications in remote areas a spokesman for u.s. special forces says there's no indication it was downed by enemy fire but let's talk now to our correspondent who's in the afghan capital kabul zain bears ravi

zain is an unusual situation when you've got the u.s. almost denying the taliban to credit themselves with an aggressive act. that's exactly right ever since the story broke there's been a great deal of confusion all the journalists in the capital here have been trying to piece together the details and many people are saying that the taliban indeed has claimed responsibility for this attack interpretating the statements put out by the official spokesman as a claim of responsibility however it has to be said if you look at the dari language translation if you look at specifically what was said they don't actually ever specifically claimed responsibility for the attack a longer message from the taliban leader earlier this morning in the english language has vague references to the fact that the shutdown planes helicopters in the past in several provinces but again no specific claim for this attack and really that would track with the fact that the americans seem to think that it wasn't any sort of sinister act all sort of threatening attack that brought down

this aircraft but to give you an update on that crash site what we know last night we activated our stringer on the ground in gaza a province and he reached the location earlier today and reported back what we know is happening at the crash site at the moment is that there are american aircraft in the area what we're told is from our eyewitness on the ground that there are 'd american jets and thrones in the area there have been warning flares fired to keep people away and that has cleared the area earlier we saw pictures of local people i witnesses we also heard reports of taliban presence was there at the crash site in the hours following the incident yesterday afternoon but what we are being told now is that no one is going close to the site for fear of the american aircraft in the area are stronger has told us that the jets are flying very low and that the sounds from those aircrafts are so loud that it is hurting people's ears and there is fear of american air presence in this country really the united states controls the airspace over afghanistan any time there is any sort of american military aircraft

in the skies that is frightening for the taliban that is something the taliban avoid because they know 'd that there is an imminent threat of some kind of strike and what that is led to is a clearing of the crash site. but also hamlets and villages near the crash site we got an indication of that from some of the social media footage and stills that we've been seeing coming in since yesterday those hamlets those villagers have also fled for free or of u.s. strikes now this is an active military zone there were strikes earlier this week in which 8 people died many people pointed to the united states as being responsible for that however we have not had confirmation of that but those strikes are common most civilian deaths in 2019 were results of afghan and american forces carrying out operations and just to give you a sense of what's happening here this is an active military conflict and so it is being treated as such this crash is happening in the context of ongoing talks between the taliban united states as she could peace deal but also ongoing fighting the fighting in many parts of the country have not stopped and here in kabul we've

also seen a car bombing a magnet bombing attack last week on a police vehicle and just earlier today we've been hearing reports that there was a bombing at a local market in the west of the city but there have been no casualties reported at this time they miss ravi in kabul. the un's warning that nearly $5000000.00 children will be in need of aid this year in africa region it says they're increasing lead the target of attacks abductions and even recruitment by armed groups and the saheli includes mauritania mali bikini fastenings year and chad unicef says the unrest is 467-0000 children out of their homes in the last year and has hampered access to food water and education earlier this month regional leaders known as the g 5 met the french president they announced a united military force but some fear it won't be enough to stop the violence.

well rigaud is an emergency specialist unicef's office for western central africa she's joining us from the senegalese capital dhaka on skype thank you for talking to us it's almost inevitable isn't there when there is a rise in conflict any kind of violence those most vulnerable are going to feel the impact more than others and that of course is usually the elderly women and children yes indeed thank you for this footage this talking speaking about children and. violence where always seen as conflict but the impact on children is really critical and this is why you nice if he's calling and seeing that children are under attack. and so are you saying that children are now being deliberately targeted rather than being caught in crossfire . eliminate the children.

violence because children do not access any more to 80 occasion to health facilities and to social services in general but also we have notice an increasing grave violation so getting children last year compared to the previous years and it means also children's are really high risk of violence so how does unicef and other organizations like yours how do you actually start to try to help these children in particular presumably you have to work with families with communities. yes indeed we have in the field we are present in the field with partners the national and international partners and we are delivering even last year we delivered 4 children and we did about for example water for more than 300000 people but we still need to do more and we need support for this but access remains critical but we try

to really negotiate and work because communities that if even if we are not able to deliver directly we are going through the communities and the families and we provide the support via them so if you need to do more presumably you need more funding yes indeed unicef is quoting from 208 $1000000.00 for which is if we want to support more than $1000000.00 children we are targeting to $22000000.00 children overall but we want to do more in even ization in water in sanitation and in education also because we have also to ensure that all children can go back to school or the rigor of unicef thank you very much indeed for joining us from the senegalese capital dhaka. thank you right it's time for the weather now jenny is here and to wrenshaw rains imposible straight is no less and they will tell you when you say trench will let me show you what i mean we

are talking really heavy rains let me just stop washing the satellite you see all this massive across the queensland and the northern territory this is where we have seen the really heavy amounts but look at this this is ad this is actually down the coast in queensland just as south of townsville 424 millimeters in 24 hours the average for january is about 170 millimeters that you think that is a lot have a look at this 15 kilometers away reach the island overhaul for a meter of rain so of course there has been flooding and the has been reports of some flash floods and there is more of this in the 4 columns this is a continue through wednesday the rain actually work its way as well through the interior of the northern tired she said alice springs you'll see if you thunderstorms in the next few days but the rain to the old is one story the other story of course is the heat across the south is continuing to work its way eastwards these a current time bridges is what nearly half past 9 at night local time no real rain in the forecast but that is actually some rain coming but look at this before then in adelaide look at these temperatures soaring up to 42 celsius on thursday the

average by the way is about 29 degrees for this particular month and then also in melbourne it's a day later so friday then humid with the chance of thunderstorms later in the week but then to the north let me just take you about there again more rain in the forecast and it's going to continue to accumulate and some areas martine maybe picking up another $300.00 millimeters of rain. thank you very much jenny lots more to come here on the outside their news hour including a year after a brazilian sent a wave of toxic through villages people are still getting sick and in sport find out why this tennis tracey presentation has divided opinion at the australian open . plain. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries

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are it is obvious take a look at the top stories here on the algerian news. hong kong leader harry lamb has ordered the shutdown of all rail and other services to mainland china this is also holding the number of flights as part of its effort against the corona virus outbreak israel's prime minister is withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution on charges of fraud breach of trust and bribery lesson yahoos denied any wrongdoing but says proceedings in parliament would have been a circus. and intensifying bombing campaign in syria's italy province it led to another exodus of tens of thousands of people many fled from the city of mari tell

new man which is encircled by syrian government forces. iran's parliament is considering whether it will withdraw from the 1970 nonproliferation of nuclear weapons treaty emissions been introduced with it's not clear when it will be voted on this comes as iran has been scaling back commitments under the separate 2050 nuclear deal after the us withdrew in 2018 now iran's foreign ministry has criticised european powers for failing to salvage that agreement. the president is due to reveal his plan for peace in the middle east later on tuesday the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader benny gantz were invited to washington to discuss the plan which arms funds already being rejected by palestinians and they're calling for an emergency arab league summit is our white house correspondent kimberly how could it. be 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 trunk 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 tribes plan will deny palestinian refugees the right of return palestinian leaders have declared trost proposal dead on arrival given there's been no consultation this is actually the fraud of the century the fraud of the century.

cancelling everything get into international law and international. discussions broke down when trouble of 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. that the people of structure. the opportunity of 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 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 at al-jazeera the white house. that pressure is growing from u.s. democrats for a key witness to testify at donald trump's impeachment trial they want the president's former national security adviser john bolton to appear before the senate now this follows reported revelations that trump ordered both into 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 of military aid to investigations in

bastrop bolden 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. that republican senator ted cruz has dismissed and he needs to hear from jumble. i don't believe the testimony is necessary the house managers have a burden of proof a burglar proof to prove their case they have fall in woefully stopped short the standard on the can 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 well now from our correspondent in washington castro just 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 describe until a former employee who wants to sell more books i haven't seen him at this group but

i can tell you nothing was ever said to john bolton but i have not seen a baby. i guess he's writing a book i haven't seen but several moderate republican senators appear to have been moved by bolton's revelations but 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 should we move trump from

office castro al-jazeera washington post the british government is due to decide in the coming hours whether to allow the chinese tech giant huawei to be part of its 5 g. mobile network prime minister boris yeltsin's under pressure from washington to ban the company from its 5 g. rollout the u.s. and other countries see it as a threat to national security as catherine stansell now reports. 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 fans 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 does north in any way compromise. critical national infrastructure of security or jeopardize our ability to work together with other intelligence powers around the

us of the the 5 voice 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 wait 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 5. and there are not unreasonable worries about under your control is that the company non-story trying to diffuse a very tense time to the chinese government especially its time when john it's becoming more sort of terri. could be used when she 1st in our.

way has always denied allegations of spying and hacking and the british government has such any security concerns the company may pose are manageable and stansell al jazeera. all right let's go live to london though our correspondent there is in the debugger in the team it seems very much as are the governments in between a rock and a place given the quad ways already deeply embedded in british telecoms infrastructure what are they likely to do. that's exactly right you know the britain is in a loan usual situation compared to the u.s. and some other european union members in that way is already involved in britain's 4 g. network constructing mobile masts and the like and so if the governments under boris johnson were to actually say we're going to exclude while away in the future

that would mean getting rid of existing infrastructure that would bring large costs to the operators that people use for their mobile phones and so on it would also delay the rollout of 'd the increase connectivity that boris yeltsin's government has been trumpeting now trees i'm a previous prime minister before boris johnson did decide to allow hallway in under restricted access to non core elements of the fire e.g. rollout we're hearing in the u.k. press that that's the expected decision at the national security council meeting which is under way right now but on monday we heard very angry voices from senior members of boris johnson's own party saying that it would be letting the fox into the hen house if the decision even were to allow restricted access to the choir way there is talk of making of putting a couple it's market share for example some people say it's much more serious than

that there are fears in some circles that while we could be told by the chinese government to carry out espionage the company has always rubbished such claims but the balance then is security measures and criticism from the us versus britain's economic interests and if indeed the british government comes up with some sort of limited involvement of huawei in its 5 g. network will that be enough do you think to satisfy the remaining members of the 2nd 5 eyes of course there those are the countries that share they collaborate say much to the in terms of comms and intelligence sharing. certainly going to carry on causing friction with the alliance that you were hearing about in catherine's report might pompei a u.s. secretary of state will be in london later this week he's called this a momentous choice but his administration has made it clear that they are very

worried about this they've hinted that they could own fact review if not suspend intelligence sharing with the u.k. if the decision were to be a green light some people here say that the u.s. might be bluffing britain though needs a trade deal with the u.s. after breaks it so it's very complicated indeed her right for now the team thank you very much for the madagascar has seen a week of floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains at least 30 people have died in large parts of the northwestern town of modern voy is submerged forcing thousands of people out of their houses priyanka gupta has more. 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 thanks 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 to slumber no 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 then just over the net 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. all 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 now we have 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 while 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 is here coming up next paul will have the sports news

including n.b.a. players pay their respects to kobe bryant in words and deeds the moment with a look or.

all. other 29000 my name down collapse in bottom a day in your brazil claimed the lives of 270 people it sent a wall of toxic mud and debris into the surrounding area and now a year after that event environmental activists say the effects of the contamination a far from over and people are still getting sick man well the apollo reports are

from but already knew. 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 have found a shot to the moon to properly hammer 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 at. valley 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 maine as it is' 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 dam disaster. environmentalist's like catalina the more 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 exists at the same geological depth and if we keep mining we will destroy the

awkward 1st 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. right it's time to dispose she is now with paul watson thank you very much the n.b.a. has postponed choose days game between the l.a. lakers on the l.a. clippers in the wake of the death of lake has legend kobe bryant the 41 year old was killed in a helicopter crash in california along with his 13 year old daughter giana and 7 other people just hours after the news broke this mural appeared in los angeles us people all over the world continue to pay their respects to one of the sport's greatest icons like

a stolid bron james said on instagram he was heartbroken and vowed to continue bryant's legacy. the minnesota timberwolves on a kobe by winning the tipoff against the sacramento kings and then putting the ball down on the exact spot where bryant passed michael jordan on the scoring charts i can 2014 it was then a moment of which kobe himself would have been proud. for to keep the kings the aaron fox bouncing his free throw off the basket to convert it into a 2 point to untie the game late in the 4th kings going on to win 133-2120 9 and exhilarating and at times bizarre much so roger federer march into the australia a strain the unopened semi finals surviving 7 match points against american tennis some grand son grand is the world number 100 but has been living up to his 1st name at this tournament and went to set one up as federer struggled with injury but then

it was the american who got injured when a ball girl ran into his leg during the 4th set tiebreaker what could have been the greatest moment of his career kept eluding him federer saving matchpoint number 5. the swiss breaking sunburns resistance in the 5th set to reach his 46 grand slam 75 i was i world number one asleep barty was pushed hard by the czech republic's patrick fits right in the quarter final party did go on to take the 1st set on a tie break and the 2nd set was a breeze she plays americans fair ken and next hope to be the 1st australian win it since 1978 was australian open organizers have sparked controversy by giving a special trophy to margaret court marking 50 years since she won all 4 grand slams in the same year many have condemned the tributes because of her outspoken views on social issues under thomas explains. she won 24 grand slam singles

titles more than any other player in history in 1970 margaret call won all 4 grand slams the australian french and u.s. opens and wimbledon. i often look back and think i wonder if i did that play tennis . if i had lived across the road travel 24 question or scored 50 years on her cheap months were marked by tennis australia with this special tribute video and the presentation of a trophy at the australian open but marking courts achievements has been controversial because of what she has said since retiring as a player l.g.b. tree in the schools that the devil let's not have got caught now was a christian minister who preaches against homosexuality and gay marriage the decision of 7 or 8 years of age a trying they said no just read the 1st 2 chapters of genesis that's all i say my male and female court once praised the apartheid policies of south africa she's

complained that modern tennis is full of lesbians the values that she is spouses are at odds with diversity inclusion equality all the things that most societies would would consider to be very important and what we hear from margaret is not along those lines little tennis australia came under pressure to ignore the anniversary of court historic grand slam victory year instead it issued a statement saying it was recognising cts achievements but not celebrating her former player john mcenroe was one of those who criticized the compromise tribute well it doesn't work that way you can't separate the person from or achievements look at me if you recognise the fact i won 7 grand slam guess what then you got to celebrate the fact that the loudest mouth in the history of the tennis store but fans in melbourne are divided i certainly would respect are having their own opinions you know it's bad what she's doing and she shouldn't be celebrated.

they're probably celebrating her tennis career not so much for some price that so yeah it's a celebrated and i agree with him. a lot has changed in tennis in the last half century but a lot more has changed in society this is just the latest example of how difficult it's become to separate a sports person. from their views and whether it's right or necessary to do so andrew thomas mallon. muhammad ali's win over george foreman in the rumble in the jungle is boxing's most famous fight and soon we might see another heavyweight bout in the same stadium the promoter of current champ anthony joshua says meetings have been held about him fighting in kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo which was a year when ali one in 1974 joshua 4th in saudi arabia last year and is considering new locations for about against either dion's a wilder or tyson fury. the sport. thank you very much indeed cole do stay with us there's a lot on yours coming up in just

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