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in the air britain is about to decide whether china's why way will be allowed to help build its 5 jean-paul network. hello we begin with the corona virus outbreak in china it's showing no signs of letting up so in the past few hours hong kong's leader kerry announced a series of drastic new measures including holding ferry and train services to the mainland having the number of flights on suspension of personal travel permits lamas also were doing all hong kong residents to remain at home 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 and we 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 all across border ferry services will be suspended later in brown has more on the impact of those new measures i think a lot of legislators here in hong kong in the opposition camp or 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 40000000 people crossed over it last year just 2000000 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 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 kerry has 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. well carrie lamb's move appears to be an attempt to further out insulate hong kong from the outbreak which has now killed $106.00 people while more than 4 and a half 1000 chinese are infected and the virus has spread widely right across southeast asia there are 14 firm cases in thailand and 8 in hong kong it's also been found in taiwan macau south korea japan singapore malaysia vietnam and

cambodia and elsewhere in the world cases have been confirmed in germany and france in nepal australia the us as well as canada and many of those countries are working to get their citizens out of the chinese city of who han that's at the epicenter of the outbreak but the world health organization has warned of the risks off evacuation evacuating staff or any anybody from an area always bears to slight possibility that they carry the virus with them or especially if there's a possibility of asymptomatic or very small symptoms. at the same time i understand that countries who have been already talking about bringing their nationals back which is of course of the full sovereignty in the interest of those member states have been taking measures to have announced measures to either contain these people on the on the way back or contain for

a certain amount of time. china's capital beijing has recorded its 1st death from the virus the city has imposed further transportation restrictions leaving nearly 60000000 people under lockdown scott had no reports from beijing. a 50 year old man was the 1st person in beijing to die from the corona virus he had returned from the epicenter in mohan on january 15th just 5 days before he died he texted a friend saying that he was sure that he'd get better some of the capital are not surprised by the 1st death. i am not to worry it's it is a serious disease it's normal to have some i don't think we have seen the peak of. the beijing government has last train service 10 percent even though the holiday has been extended until sunday many people here are coming back early they're worried they'll be more restrictions on transportation lays out danger of my train stopped for a few minutes nobody got on the tray but i was still scared and

a few very uncomfortable the united states is evacuating its will haunt consulate and some civilians still in the city who are on lockdown japan is also dispatching a plane to pull its citizens out and deliver supplies for. the 1st plane to the airport tonight we also deliver a mosque protected you know and the other relief supplies to chinese and japanese people in the kind of kooky way. among other countries south korea is planning a series of flights over the coming days to evacuate their citizens and once they arrive home they'll face days of quarantine the director of the world health organization was quoted by chinese state run media saying that he does not agree with the evacuations and the people need to remain calm and not overreact but with the city of 11000000 bunkered in their homes and more than 50000000 people on a transportation lockdown it's far from clear how long a plea for calm will last god or al jazeera beijing let's discuss the virus and

these measures. i've been taken with mark ecclestone turner who's a lecturer of global health law at the university of keele in the u.k. and that is in fact where he's joining us from thanks very much for your time with us on al jazeera and i know that you are most probably keeping an eye out on the situation over in china and hong kong so 1st address these measures that hong kong has taken to enforce a sort of parcel closer on its borders in china as a restructuring transportation do these measures work or are they too little too late that they typically don't work no they they tend to to not provide any real public health benefit. border closures tend to happen to ring during any sort of novel outbreak like this that we see in bury and the evidence that they may actually have any benefit on the public health response is very very limited there is an old adage in. public out that diseases don't respect boulders and it's very much true. because of the internet that nature of the world.

it's unsurprising to see case does pop up in new countries away from away from china and away from. people who wish to cross orders and people who wish to lead called on senate like we're seeing in which is in place in we'll find the means to do so the other issue is as you write you suggest that the horse is already. spread has occurred it's probably already occurred and these measures are quite restrictive but regressive and they usually serve to. create fear in community rather than rather than actually provide any real concrete public so what sort of measures then would you be recommending. so some things which which there is an evidence base for which which provide which are effective are a lot of call social distancing measures so these can slow down the spread of virus

of the you know not stop bits of things like suspending school suspending mass gatherings in some instances suspending a couple of transport but the main the main thing which which will work is public health preparedness is having strong and robust health systems which are able to respond to novel outbreaks as and when they that is the only thing which really works and it is not possible to prevent viruses from moving around the globe what the only thing which is possible is being able to quickly respond to them when they when they do so so that means having in place rapid diagnostic testing to actually identify whether people do have coronavirus or not so at this time of year in the in the northern hemisphere. lots of people have the sort of symptoms which could appear to be coronavirus but it's almost certainly not it's almost certainly caused by something else so things like influenza the common cold give very similar symptoms to to the coronavirus so knowing whether people actually have this corona

virus or something else is the 1st thing that we need to do the 2nd thing we need to do is be able to treat those people and in isolation when they do when they are symptomatic when they do have the virus to ensure that there is a limited don't spread ok we'll have to leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from the u.k. . thank you. now 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 and he's in washington right now for talks about the us president donald trump's middle east peace plan netanyahu was indicted on charges of fraud breach of trust then bribery in november he's denied any wrongdoing michel baracoa is the c.e.o. of global research that's a political consultancy and he says the timing if that's any of his announcement was strategic. this is typical netanya out in 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 from the supposed to meet with then again for the job is met with the opposition leader benny got us there was supposed to be a meeting together but they separated the fact is he's talking about us sort of activity which will change the pace 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 a word i think in the hours. issue is always that what i'm doing is for the future of the state of israel for generations and therefore you know just what he's going to continue to promote this trip he's planned by 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 statesman or by having the world leaders here by going to washington but by

next week i think the issue will be to fester 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 the out that's where he's one of the and that's where the operates. and intensifying bombing campaign and serious and in the provinces led to another exodus of tens of thousands of people many fled north from the city of modern phenomenon which was already largely deserted and recapturing it from rebels would be a significant shift in the 9 year long war in the city sets on a major highway connecting damascus and aleppo. coming up in just a moment right here on al-jazeera caught in the crossfire unicef warns of the devastating effects of conflict on children in africa region and conflicting

explanations about what brought down a u.s. military plane and it's all about control part of. that has been some very unsettled weather across central and northern areas of japan still around and still more rain showers and also mountain snow touches though a pretty mild as we go through wednesday 17 celsius in tokyo cooler to the north 8 in sendai but these how much is in some part also a few degrees above freezing we've got. much of central and eastern china we've had a good caring out of the last couple of days so temperatures on the rise in the sunshine 12 degrees celsius and also pretty nice into that to south coast 18 celsius in hong kong but this flow of unsettled weather these strong winds coming

down from the north with the rain and the snow it will continue throughout much of japan and then across into india to the north again here we have seen some rain showers in the last couple of days temperatures haven't been too bad some very heavy snow beginning to really accumulate across the line of the himalayas that's wednesday then by thursday a lot of that just a really moving for the tools east some patches of what it does mean by thursday and really through the end of the week to the north of india is a great fall back in place for new delhi 18 is the high temperature elsewhere mostly drawing on a cool side to the south so 33 across in colombo i'm 33 up into chennai. a journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera is james garner and expose his family's legacy of slave ownership down like my family's status and wealth as benefited from

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any wrongdoing but says proceedings in parliament would have been a circus. and intensifying bombing campaign in syria's in the province has led to another exodus of tens of thousands of people many fled from the city of modern phenomenon which is encircled by syrian government forces. scuffles have broken out between iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters in baghdad's live ammunition and tear gas have been fired on crowds of demonstrators who are resisting attempts by the security forces to clear their camps from the capital amman khan is among the protesters this is khiladi square where protesters have been beaten back by security forces you can see the tear gas canisters just over there what's happening is there's a cat and mouse guard going on the protesters run that way and they use rocks and they throw sticks at the police and then they fire back we've heard

a lot and as you can see all of. the protesters a very determined they say they will the message that this is been going on since october other protesters say they want a new prime minister and you elections. u.s. is disputing reports that taliban fighters shot down and american military plane in afghanistan it crashed in a mountainous area of the province large parts of which are controlled by the taliban and pictures posted on social media so the burning wreckage of what could be an aircraft that provides communications in remote areas spokesman for the u.s. special forces says there's no indication it was downed by enemy fire same bus ravi is in couple and he says there's still confusion surrounding the details of the cross. 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 interpreted in 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 'd leader earlier this morning in the english language has vague references to the fact that the shutdown planes and 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 or a 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 eyewitnesses 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 the un is warning that nearly 5000000 children will need aid this year in africa region it says they're increasingly the target of attacks abductions and recruitment by armed groups so the includes mauritania mali birkenau faso the share and chads and unicef says the unrest for $670000.00 children from their homes last year and also hampered access to food water and to educate. now earlier this month regional leaders known as the g 5 met the french president they've announced a united military force but some fear won't be enough to stop the violence the

rigaud is an emergency specialist unicef's office for western central africa and she says the situation is critical the children. violence because children do not have access anymore to 80 cation to health facilities and to social services in general but also we have notice an increasing rate violations against children last year compared to the previous years and it means also chariots are really high risk of violence we are present in the field we sell partners the national and international partners and we are delivering even last year we delivered 4 children and we delivered for example water for more than $300000.00 people but we still need to do more and we need support for this unicef is calling for $208000000.00. if we want to support

more than 1000000 children we are targeting to 2w2w children overall but we want to do more in immunization in water in sanitation and in education also because we have also to ensure that all children can go back to school iran's parliament is considering whether it will withdraw from the 1970 nonproliferation of nuclear weapons treaty the motion has been introduced but it's not clear when it will be taken to a vote this comes as iran has been scaling back commitments under the separate 2050 nuclear deal after the us withdrew from that in 28. u.s. president donald trump will reveal his plan for peace in the middle east later on tuesday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader benny gantz were invited to washington to discuss the proposal trus plan has already been rejected by palestinians and they're calling for an emergency arab league meeting kimberly halkett reports. the 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 tribes 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 of the century. cancelling

everything get into international law and international. discussions broke down when the us 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 structures the opportunity of truth. these reilley 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 cushier 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 to do this with 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 the u.k. governments will decide in the coming hours whether to allow the chinese tech giants weiwei to be part of its 5 g. mobile network as members of the country's national security council arrived in downing street earlier where they'll help the prime minister reach a verdict but boris johnson is under pressure from washington to ban the company from its 5 g. rollouts the u.s. and other countries see it as a threat to national security stansell 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 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 it does nor 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 a while 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 your company non-story trucks disputed very turns to the chinese government especially as time when john is becoming more sort area. could be used to be 1st in our shores that. while way has always denied allegations of spying and hacking and the british government has such any security concerns the company may pose a manageable cafe stansell al-jazeera. madagascar has seen a week of floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains at least 30 people have died large parts of the northwestern side of mara voice submerged forcing thousands to leave their homes. as the subject. 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 say. 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 is 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 now we have launched an appeal on television and with their owners. 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 and tropical storms are common at this time and saw cyclons

which usually peak during february and march with these isolated communities already battered by rains and floods the coming weeks are expected to bring the uncertainty. to 0. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong's leader harry lamas ordered the shutdown of all rail and other services to mainland china the city is also having the number of flights as part of its efforts to contain the coronavirus out very. high. the measures will be effective in reducing the number of visitors from the mainland since transportation services are required for the commuters we 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 all cross

border ferry services will be suspended israel's prime minister is withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution on charges of fraud a breach of trust and bribery that's a denies any wrongdoing but says proceedings in parliament would have been a circus. iran's parliament is considering whether it will withdraw from the 1970 non proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty the motion has been introduced but it's not clear when it will be taken to a vote this comes as iran has been scaling back commitments under the separate 2015 nuclear deal after the u.s. withdrew from that 2 years ago iran's foreign ministry has criticized european powers for failing to salvage the new green mints. an intensifying bombing campaign in syria's provinces led to another exodus of tens of thousands of people many fled from the city which is encircled by syrian government forces the u.s.

is disputing reports that taliban fighters shot down and american military plane in afghanistan it crashed in a mountainous area of the province large parts of which are controlled by the taliban and a spokesman for the u.s. special forces says there's no indication it was downed by enemy fire the u.k. government will decide in the coming hours whether to allow the chinese tech giants weiwei to be a part of its 5 g. mobile network members of the country's national security council arrived in downing street earlier where they'll help the prime minister reach a verdict or is johnson is under pressure from washington to ban the company from. the u.s. other countries see it says a threat to national security those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thanks for watching by.

tribute for a legend on the north of boston. branch took his sport to new heights and became a global superstar how will his death be remembered and what legacy does he leave behind this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg the world is mourning the death of one of basketball's biggest evista 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 beyond the.