this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for the artist those that support or cover art will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the call over the conversation on out to 0. 0. hello and welcome to this hour jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine dennis coming up the next 60 minutes hong kong leader announces drastic cuts to cross border travel with mainland china hoping it'll stop the spread of coronavirus. britain's prime minister says chinese tech giant huawei will have a limited role in building the u.k.'s 5 g. network despite u.s.

objections. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu withdrawals his requests for immunity from prosecution in 3 corruption cases. a week of rain leaves parts of madagascar submerged beneath muddy waters more than 30 people have drowned thousands are displaced. and sports winning a tennis match against a man called tennis roger federer reaches the australian open sammy finals surviving 7 match points against american tennis sundra. the hong kong leaders appeared before the cameras wearing a mask to announce extraordinary measures aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus says ferry and train services to mainland china will be halted flight.

will be health and personal travel permits suspended she's urging people from hong kong who are living elsewhere in china to return home and quarantine themselves for 2 weeks. lloyd a young girl 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 across border ferry services will be suspended. for those here live to hong kong now our correspondent there is a german brown adrian you know china and hong kong very well indeed have you ever seen anything like this before. this is unprecedented martina and for carolan to have taken such a decision he would have had to have had the approval of the leadership in beijing

because this is a major major decision but the view of many people here on the streets of hong kong is that it's basically too little too late they wanted the borders shut down several days ago and indeed many legislators have been calling for the same thing but carolan has said that that would be impractical but she hasn't ruled out shutting down the border eventually for the moment it's going to be a partial closure and it's going to severely disrupt you know travel between hong kong and the mainland you know flights between china and hong kong are being hard that's going to hit airlines like cafe pacific the main carrier here in hong kong and of course all rail and ferry links are also being severed and this is going to remain in force we don't know how long for the foreseeable future says kerry but here in hong kong there are also signs not of panic but of a deepening arnie's over what is happening the way this fire is managing to spread

so quickly facemasks are really at a premium their prices have gone up by between 20 and 30 percent in the past couple of days that's a measure of the deepening concern here and of course we don't know for sure how many people who've beaten move who've been in who pay province and now in hong kong because mainland media reported earlier today martine the before the locked down of who hand took effect some 7000 people had left that city and come to hong kong it's a reminder that is not just you know a major transport hub in central china it's also a major international transport hub all right adrian thank you for that age and brown there live in hong kong. well china's government says 106 people have now died from the virus while infections exceed 4 and a half 1000 elsewhere in southeast asia there are 14 confirmed cases in thailand

and 8 in the hong kong taiwan macau south korea japan singapore malaysia the et them and cambodia they have also confirmed infections people have also fallen ill in germany in france nepal australia the us and canada now many of those countries are working to get their citizens out of that city the chinese city who had that's of calls where the outbreak began the w.h.o. the world health organization that was cautious about that approach 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 a symptomatic or very small lights sometimes. at the same time i understand that countries who have been already talking about bringing their nationals back which is of course a little servants in the interest of those member states have been taking measures who have announced measures to either contain these people on the on the way back

or contain for a certain amount of time. well the chinese president xi jinping has told the visiting. that he's confident of defeating what he described as a devil virus reports now from beijing on the restrictions being imposed and the effect they're having. 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 if you there i'll comfortable 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 airport tonight we also deliver mosque protective and the other relief supplies to chinese and japanese people in the kind of group. 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 it's got harder al-jazeera beijing. the british prime minister boris johnson has decided that chinese tech giant huawei will be granted a limited role in building the u.k.'s 5 g. mobile network in doing so however he risks the r. of u.s. president donald trump who had pressured him to keep quiet way out the u.s. suspects china's government could use war ways roll in next generation communications to steal secrets as go live to london now our correspondent there is the dean barber say it sounds like a bit of a fudge really says the british government allowing huawei in but not to everything you could call it a fudge it was definitely predicted in the last 24 hours this restricted access for huawei something along the lines of what the previous prime minister to resign may actually decided on before she was ousted from power. the british government have

in the last week or so come under pressure particularly from the us but from critics within their own governing conservative party as well over the security worries about huawei but a crucial feature of the u.k. is that huawei is already significantly involved in the existing 4 g. network and advocates of what the government has just announced say that this means that it will be cheaper to progress to 5 g. using existing infrastructure that while way has already built in britain while maintaining safeguards on security and national sovereignty now the the decision at that meeting involving cabinet ministers and intelligence officials recommend will recommends to the network operators here in the u.k. that they exclude what they call high risk vendors such as while away from safety

related networks in national infrastructure from security critical core functions in other words sensitive parts of the 5 g. network to do with how it actually works and exclude them from sensitive geographical locations such as name military bases ministers in the last hour have put out statements saying that this will guarantee that britain can move ahead with the rollout of higher connectivity allowing people to download films more quickly but more importantly things like health applications help health devices that can be remotely accessed self driving cars and so on while keeping hold of national safety but that skit that still a moot point a lot among people who are highly critical of china's human rights record but not just that china's reported involvement in espionage over the last few years lighton said the americans are not going to be particularly happy are they given this kind

of compromise deal that johnson's governments come up with. it's going to be fascinating the next few days might pump them up the secretary of state will be in london on wednesday now he has warned he and his a administration have warned the british government that if weiwei were given the go ahead to take part in 5 g. 5 g. rollout then the u.s. could actually review its intelligence sharing operations with the united kingdom there are both members of something called the 5 days alliance taking in the u.s. canada britain australia and new zealand now that could just be hyperbole but britain is already angling for a good trade deal after brics it which is happening at the end of this month some people say that they will be very much concerned about u.s.

pressure particularly with the u.s. china trade war in the background but they've gone ahead with this as you are calling it a fire this restricted access for huawei insisting that it's always been treated as a high risk when that vendor anyway and so all of the security risks have been if you like ring fence but it probably won't be enough to allay all of their critics fears the crucial point will be how does the u.s. react thanks for that as in barbara a correspondent live in london there right now i can speak to simon lacy is a former vice president while in technology is in shenzhen now he's a lecturer in international trade at the university of adelaide in australia he's joining us live from there thank you for talking to us are the united states australia where you are the new zealanders the canadians and the brits are they right to be concerned about the possibility of their surveillance or even sadder

sabotage by installing huawei systems. well look i think there i think scientists security experts the world out grow gray that the risks. are very inherent to the country of origin of the vendor. but brother. different points of being and also funds from the device level actually. and from the user level the risks are much gracious and i think um i think that the johnson government has really taken a sensible decision because the security experts in new canaan nationalists here are the experts have have affirmed a multiple occasions that they believed that that potential risks. posed as can be mitigated by a technique that's right so you believe that that was what i was going to ask you but you do believe that technically that's really possible is it to to allow qua

way a suspicious contract if you like into your system and to keep them out of those parts of the system that you deem to be hyper sensitive that's possible. look i think that's a that's sort of a political compromise that was necessary. but remember that far away i mean allow an apology to the radio access network. and not the core is is a compromise it's perfectly well and. deafening the most valuable part of the network the radio access network i mean all these mobile base stations. and also it's where huawei is by far way ahead of its competitors and. also has the greatest competitive advantage and so do you think that the addition of huawei then to the british system is likely to compromise if you like this collaboration between the u.k.

and the 4 other weston organizations the 4 other western governments in terms of their intelligence sharing and collaboration. well i think we're in a chair as your 1st one to mention we need to see how this plays out of the next year. i mean if you remember back to the edward snowden case. the the us were as dependent on the u.k. as. same terms of intelligence sharing and the u.s. the u.s. actually like to rely on account of the n.s.a. counterpart in the u.k. to do some of the intelligence gathering for them because they want to constrain by by constitutional constraints you now in the u.s. climate runs that is so so i think the u.s. might actually be hobbling itself it chooses not to share intelligence u.k. so i think that might end up being rather empty threats all right simon lacy thank you very much indeed for talking to us live via skype from adelaide in australia

thank you. we got a lot more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including caught in the crossfire unicef warns of the devastating effects of conflict on children in africa held region and remembering kobe bryant the tributes continue for one of the biggest stars in the sporting world. for israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been formally indicted after withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution israel's attorney general filed the charges it of course in west jerusalem and that effectively launched trial proceedings lessen your he was charged with fraud breach of trust and bribery in november he's denied any wrongdoing but says immunity proceedings in palm it would have been a circus but we've been speaking to a key eldar and he's

a columnist at monitor that's a news and media website he says netanyahu use immunity bid was only ever a tactic to buy time. he doesn't have the majority in the knesset to get the immunity so it was just you know a cheap shot at trying to was very transparent to gain few more weeks and it didn't look very presidential so to speak to go through the knesset the you merely ation and every day again until the elections to catch the headlines with the corruption at 1st so i think that now his looking at the elections he is hoping that the deal of the century will hijack the headlines and instead of the immunity process in the knesset and here he can lead with his slogans that you know this is a one time opportunity it's and historical move and blah blah blah and people some

people i think the people on the floating boats that the guns wants to move to his side will probably make many of them will buy this. and just a few hours from now benjamin netanyahu will stand beside donald trump as the u.s. president reveals his long awaited middle east peace frank palestinians have already rejected it and they're calling for an emergency arab league summit is i want house correspondent kimberly how could. 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 katz 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 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 move seem to support netanyahu especially as he attempts to win reelection amid corruption allegations 1st. the deal of the french is the

opportunity the israeli elections are in march trump denies he's interfering instead trump is touting this plan as an economic opportunity for palestinians. months ago his son in law jared cushion 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 where people have already been out in the palestinian territories protesting against the peace from around 2000 people

currently on the streets of gaza they're burning ties and they're waving palestinian flags and they're accusing president trample putting together a deal that will only benefit the israelis and in the occupied west bank israeli troops and then numbers closer ramallah small protests have already begun the larger crowds are expected later extra soldiers have also been said to the jordan valley an area netanyahu has pledged to partly. the u.s. is disputing reports that taliban fighters shot down an american military plane in afghanistan it crashed in a mountainous part of girls in the province large parts of which are controlled by the taliban there these are exclusive pictures that have been attained by al-jazeera and they show the 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 zain bazarov

the as our correspondent in kabul he says is still confusion surrounding the details of the crash. 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 they've shot down planes or 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 sort of threatening attack that brought down this aircraft but to give you an update on the crash site what we know last

night we activated our stringer on the ground in 'd 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 american jets and drones 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're being told now is that no one is going close to the site for fear of the american aircraft in the area. iran's parliament is considering whether it will withdraw from the 1970 treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons summations been introduced but it's not clear when the vote will be taken and iran has been scaling back its commitments to the separate 2015 nuclear deal after the u.s.

withdrew from that in 2018. the 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 for his reported revelations that trump ordered both sen to keep military aid to ukraine friends and until kiev investigated president trump's political rival we now have a 3rd witness who is apparently a direct witness to the president's timing a military aide to investigations about 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. the republican senator ted cruz dismissed any need from john 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. is correspondent in washington and

she has more. 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 disgruntled 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 boehner 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 only for 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 right we're going to look at the weather now jan is here and australia had bush was that it had to rush to rain in the janet

scott flooding that everything is in and you know it's not done yet high the monte let me show you the satellite 1st of all this is a cool salacious image on israel to do with the north this is where we are seeing the rainfall flash floods have been reported and not surprising just look at this amount of rainfall this is added. is actually down there on the coast in queens and not that far south from townsville 42421 millimeters in 24 as you think that's a lot look at this over half a meter to recently which is about 15 kilometers away so the rains are going to continue these rains have come down in some just torrential downpours within some thunderstorms but there's also a little disturbance to sitting in the gulf of carpentaria and that's misspent the rain right the way down into most southern and central areas of the northern territory but whilst all that is going on we're dealing with the heat across the south once again it's been building these all the current time which is 18 in melbourne right now we've got 20 celsius in camera not much really here in the way of rain showers but look at the temperatures over the next couple days now it will

reach a peak and we're getting pretty close as well adelaide it'll be thursday 42 degrees celsius but the average is about 29 this time of year and then by sunday the temperature dips actually well below the average similar story in melbourne it's just all pushed on a day for the those showers actually should be the 4 caused by sunday but meanwhile the rains continuing to the north and the northeast a multi macusi another $360.00 millimeters of rain added to the totals already that have come down with this me thanks very much jenny. we've got a lot more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including a year after brazilian down sent a wave of toxic mob through villages people a still getting sick. and in sport find out why this tennis trophy presentation is really divided opinion of the australian open. plan. separate on al-jazeera. and the tension with the u.s.

and protests over a plane downing iran's hanum entry election will be held on february 21st partition of syria explores the fate of india's religious minorities on the prime minister modi's hindu move. us voters get that past chance to weigh in on the 20 twentieth's action al-jazeera will have comprehensive coverage a new series looks at how female scientists across the globe are opening doors for other women to pursue careers in science and up to 5 years of civil war could bitter rivals agree a peace deal to revive africa's youngest nation. february on al-jazeera. informed opinions the economy is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now and in-depth analysis of the day's headlines occultist movement is only getting stronger the more people he killed the more resilient the resistant they will become the inside story on al-jazeera.

home. recycle the top stories here in new york sirrah news out of hong kong's leader kerry line is about trust it cuts across border travel with mainland china in the hope of stopping the spread of currying a virus or ferry and train services will be stopped flights will be hard personal travel permits suspended. the british prime minister boris johnson's decided the chinese tech giant always will be granted a limited role in building the u.k.'s 5 team obama network donald trump and pressured him to keep quiet way out because of security concerns. hours before is to be announced protests have begun in the palestinian territories

against president trump's middle east peace plan people of it out in gaza and in ramallah denouncing a deal they say will only benefit the israelis. for this get back to our main story today that of course of the corona virus outbreak we can now speak to jennifer rowe news of or all of this at the university college in london thanks for joining us how alarming or otherwise is the the development of there being human to human contact and transmission of this fire as the cases in japan and in germany what i'm referring to are clearly it is of concern that the virus has spread off of china and it's now infected person to person in other countries i mean it was possible that this wouldn't happen because some viruses when i enter humans they don't go any further but that's clearly not the case for this virus it's quite capable of spreading from person to person and

therefore the methods of containment all they adequate at the moment the w.h.o. has expressed some reservations about this policy of evacuation of moving people out of the epicenter and repatriating them do you think that's a good idea. well clearly there's a risk if you remove the people from the epicenter and bring them back to countries that don't have a problem having said that you need to balance this with a human humanitarian issue you've got your citizens stranded in a place that is really quite dangerous at the moment so provided that they take the appropriate precautions when these people are repatriated it should be alright right now because a better idea of the nature of this virus we know is one of the a member of a group of the corona virus is. but there is no kewl there is no vaccine is there how will people who are infected because we expect that number to go up how will they be treated well just as with sars and with

other viruses where we don't have a cure the best course of treatment will be simply keeping people safe and hospital hydrated looked after monitored there's really nothing else we can do and there are some experimental medicines coming down the pipeline quite quickly but it's going to be a while before they can be deployed so yeah it's just look after these people keep them hydrated and keep them stable right and we're talking about. 4 and a half 1000 people infected we think at the moment but we're only talking about a just over 100 deaths i mean the fact that many of those 100 people who died says sad as it is where perhaps elderly were in 3rd. suffering from preen preexisting conditions i mean does that offer you a certain amount of optimism as to the severity of the virus. yes absolutely i mean this is clearly somewhat less variant than sars however it's

more infectious and it is early days for us we don't know the full scope of who is getting sometimes based on who is infected the other issue that we need to worry about is whenever an animal virus jumps to a human you have the chance that this might mutate within the humans and become more pathogenic more dangerous so early days it looks as if it's going to be a containable and not a huge problem but you never know with viruses ok all right jennifer gray thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al-jazeera. right let's go to the sea the democratic republic of congo now because hundreds of people have been forced to flee fighting in the region of it turi and now this follows increased attacks by armed groups on several villages as many as 700 people have been killed tens of thousands have been displaced since the fighting got worse 2 years ago catherine sawyer reports now from a refugee reception center over the border in western uganda.

these are difficult times for age all my pains she's only 7 months old but has already witnessed the last of a conflict she knows nothing about the most recent losses her home in the democratic republic of congo's to region burned down by a tribal militia group has just arrived at this refugee reception center in western uganda with her mother deborah imani and 5 year old sister francine. we went back to our village of june last december to bury my father it was attacked last week we left my husband behind and i'm not sure if it's common. also fled from the shore with her children and a few belongings she says many people there want to believe but have no money to hire boots to bring them across li called put. so on my view there is no

security at all the militias come armed with machetes to kill people or loot hiding in the forest doesn't help us we are not safe there. at least $60000.00 people from the tory have fled to uganda since 2017 just over 1000 this month alone many more are entirely displaced it's a conflict of a land and grazing rights that has gone on for decades militias are allied with warring tribes attack villages at will some of the refugees here say this time attackers linked to the land to farming community are there grasses and the violence has been politicized on average up to be arriving at this refugee reception every day most are coming from an area called all of us. back home are intent on. the united nations is investigating human rights abuses and possibly genocide in the tory in uganda officials with the un

refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. say they're preparing for even more a few more of a spike and then previously last year say like october from october till now there has been a monthly increase so we are seeing an increase in the inflow of the refugees coming in the. back of the reception center maybe angel and have family see the skids the only food there get until they're moved to a transit camp where they'll have a hot meal. the refugee settlement areas our father in law and father away from their homes from a conflict that has refused to go away catherine soy al jazeera western uganda. and not have again f.s.a. were at least 40 civilians have been confirmed dead after an attack they were killed by an armed group in the northern city assume that. as on saturday so far

though it's unclear as to who was responsible for the attack but this is part of the world known as africa and it's facing a staggering level of violence the un's warning that almost 5000000 children will need aid in this region this year it says they are increasingly the target of attacks abductions and forced recruitment by armed groups well the includes mauritania mali bikini. and chad unicef says the armrests for $670000.00 children from their homes last year and of course that's hampering access to food water and education. earlier this month regional leaders there known as the g 5 group fame met the french president and they announced a united military force but unfortunately not everyone is convinced that this will be enough alexia o'brien reports across large parts of west and central africa these scenes are all too familiar

a village burned in an attack and families on the run carrying whatever they can. see even months ago we had to flee our village because armed groups arrived they killed and took away some of the villages we got scared so we flee it and took refuge here and kyra. is among $5000000.00 children the u.n. says will need aid in the region this year the most vulnerable now increasingly at risk 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 noticed an increase in grave violation so getting children last year compared to the previous years. unicef says hundreds of thousands of children have lived through trauma or been sexually abused kidnapped or forced to fight for armed groups the u.n. secretary general has warned the world is losing the war in the sahara fighters

affiliated with al-qaeda and i so have increased their presence in the region they've also stoked ethnic violence. thousands of troops have been deployed to the area from the sahara countries but also france and the us the french minister for the armed forces was in washington on monday she says expected katz by the paint again to its africa mission would severely limit counter-terror operations our friends in the us so are in a situation where our assistance is critical and i have expressed the hope that both the united states and france will keep on supporting them but the impact of the conflict goes beyond violence there's hunger too and not enough water 670000 children have been forced from their homes into camps like this say shop in what used to be a school. this little boy maybe in a classroom but there's no math or science here just tough life lessons taught to

soon brian al jazeera. now madagascar 3 in a week of floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain at least 30 people have died in large parts of the northwestern town of void is submerge and that's forcing thousands of people to leave their homes priyanka gupta 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 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 is mainly why scoring areas may lead to shortage of food and malnutrition. will receive all 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'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 our cycle ends which usually peak to february and march for these isolated communities already battered by rains and floods the coming weeks are expected to bring more uncertainty gupta is here now a portuguese hacker claims that he's responsible for releasing data that revealed the dealings of africa's richest woman in angola lawyers for routine pintos say he handed over a hard drive detailing isabel dos santos his fortune to a whistleblower group in 2 of the 18 the standoff is being investigated as part of

a corruption case relating to a role as chair of a state owned oil company into himself is facing 90 charges in portugal for allegations that he had an investment fund and tried to blackmail the firm. police in france have begun dismantling a camp and removing migrants in the north of paris they say the callous illegal and people will be relocated to temporary facilities $1400.00 people were moved including $93.00 children many awaiting the decisions to be made on their asylum cases the french government has promised to clear all migrant camps from the city by the end of the year. now when a mining dam collapse in south eastern brazil is centered toxic wall of mud cascading through villages and farms at least $270.00 people died a year later environmentalist say locals are still becoming sick from the

contamination that hasn't been contained nor is it being cleaned up man maura reports now from roma de niro. 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 a shot to the moon to property damage that we have many problems with skin decisions 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 a mining accident. but 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 warn 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. zita boom of the new brazil. the us prosecutors involved in the jeffrey have seen sex trafficking inquiry and accuse britain's prince andrew of being uncooperative with investigators neil's chief federal prosecutor says the f.b.i. has attempted to contact prince andrew but he hasn't responded the juke of your close known to socialize or that scene and in november he said he'd be willing to help with the investigation if necessary there's been no comment so far from

buckingham palace. coming out next in the school's news with paula after paying tribute to kobe bryant sacramento's de hour in forks pulls off a move one of the of the lakers legend paul will have all the details in just a little while. business later this vote to buy no bra spot.

for. business leaders his vote to buy no bra spot. for. it's time for this forces them out with paul martin thank you very much roger federer overcame injury and survived 7 much points to reach the semifinals of the australian open he was up against tennis son grant the american ranked 100 in the

world has been living up to his 1st name at this tournament tennis went to set one up as federer struggled with a growing injury but then it was the american who got injured when a ball go run into his leg during the 4th set tie break what could have been the greatest moment of his career kept eluding him federer saving point number 5 here the swiss breaking some groans resistance in the 5th set to reach his 46 grand slam semi for i federer now faces a race to recover for his semifinal against the defending champion novak djokovic the serve out a much easier much against canada's north wind it winning in straight sets jock which has already won his grandson this grand slam record 7 times. women's number one ashley barty was pushed hard by the czech republic's patrick returned in the quarter finals but he did go on to take the 1st set on a tie break the 2nd set was a breeze she's hoping to be the 1st australian winner since 1978 i the

1st arab woman to reach the quarter finals of a grand slam has seen her tournament ended on the brink of the last 4 chan is in losing to american sphere saffir kennon despite jabber pulling out some football skills there coming faces bartie for a place in the final. well australian open organizers have sparked controversy by giving a special trophy to margaret court marking 50 years since she want all 4 grand slams in the same year many of the condemned the tributes because of her outspoken views on social issues andrew thomas explains she won 24 grand slam singles titles more than any other player in history in 1970 margaret paul won all pool 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 or bertram $24.00 prestigious school 50 years on her

cheap month by tennis australia with this special tribute video and the presentation of a trophy at the australian open but marking costs 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 gone cold now was a christian minister who preaches against homosexuality and gay marriage the decision of 7 or 8 years of age a trying they say no just read the 1st 2 chapters of genesis that's all i say my my only thing now caught 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 course the story 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 are achievements not in me if you recognise the fact i won 7 grand slam guess what then you got to celebrate the fact that i had 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 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 i don't agree with him. a lot has changed in tennis in the last half century but a lot more has changed in society this controversy is just the latest example of how difficult it's become to separate a sports person's achievements from their view and whether it's right or necessary

to do so andrew thomas meldon. well very much linking to that story another controversial australian sporting figure israel folau is making a return to rugby he's been signed by french rugby league side catalans dragons fly was sacked by australia rigby union for making homophobic comments on social media rival super league team wigan has responded by shuffling their much against kathleen's on pride day in support of the gay community the n.b.a. has postponed tuesday's game between the l.a. lakers and the l.a. clippers in the wake of the death of lakers legend kobe bryant the 41 year old was killed in a helicopter crash in california along with his 13 year old daughter jana and 7 of the people just hours after the news broke this mural appeared in los angeles as people all over the world continue to pay their respects to one of sports greatest icons if you thought that mural was impressive look at this one on

a court in the philippines where basketball is one of the most popular sports these funds miller started painting it on monday and completed it over night. the minnesota timberwolves on it kobe by winning the tipoff against the sacramento kings and then putting the ball down on the exact spot where bryant crossed michael jordan on the scoring charts back in 24th saying it was then a moment of which kobe himself would have been proud. to see. the kings the alan fox bouncing his free throw off the basket to convert it into a 2 point from tie the game late in the 4th kings going on when 153 to 129. well bronze was also on the minds of n.f.l. players in miami ahead of sunday's super bowl 54. 1 of the biggest spectacles in sports sees the san francisco $49.00 ers up against the kansas city chiefs the players what paraded out the miami marlins baseball ground

$49.00 is cornerback richard sherman was friends with kobe bryant. i was kind of down i was i was in adults and i just thought about what he would tell me you know to me they would tell me stop being a baby and man up and play it and do it in his honor and when his game for him you know and as we were trying to do you know we go and we go out there and try to outrun a plate play some dominating ball or just like he wanted you know the mom the mentality still lives on. the corona virus outbreak continues to impact sports in china plays send up and face masks in shanghai is that same token thailand's buri ram in the asian champions league there are funds in the stadium either. boxing could be about to see another heavyweight fight at the venue of the famous rumble in the jungle the promoter of current joshua says meetings have been held about some fights in kinshasa and that the aussie which was when mohammed ali won there in 1974. sport thank you very much indeed poland thank you for watching do stay with us i'll

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