much the rapidly changing the world we live in to what extent we're trying to be a drag on the global economy 20 trips counting the cost on al-jazeera. think. al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine dennis coming up in the next 60 minutes. the palestinian leaders reject donald trump's proposed middle east plan is utter nonsense and a conspiracy they can't accept the plan would see palestinian territory unexpired israel and jerusalem declared the undivided capital of israel. hundreds of

foreigners are evacuated from the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak is the number of confirmed cases passes 6000. opening arguments conclude in donald trump's impeachment trial senate republicans say they don't have enough votes to block additional witnesses. and sport alexander vera of reaches his 1st grand slam summer final the german with plenty of support at the australian open after renewing a pledge to write all his winnings to bushfire relief. but 1st israel's prime minister is now on his way to moscow to preflight image on the u.s. proposal to end the palestinian israeli conflict benjamin netanyahu wants his cabinet to approve plans to add next the strategic jordan valley and all israeli

settlements in occupied land as soon as possible the palestinian leaders have already rejected the plan put forward by. saying it will be thrown into history is garbage i watch house correspondent kimberly how. killing it is a deal to bring peace to israelis and prosperity for palestinians u.s. president donald trump presented his long awaited middle east proposal at the white house alongside israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu we have an obligation to humanity to get it this is a. top us proposed a 4 year freeze on new jewish settlements on palestinian land the plan also proposes a tunnel connecting the west bank and gaza and a doubling of palestinian territory to include a capital in what it calls al could the arabic name for jerusalem with the united

states would open an embassy but in a contradictory statement trump declared jerusalem israel's capital where a u.s. embassy already exists under this vision jerusalem will remain. undivided very important undivided capital. sites holy to muslims christians and jews would also remain under israel's control these ancient lend should not be symbols of conflict but eternal symbols of peace and does expected trumps 80 page plan also calls for israeli sovereignty over the jordan valley that israel's prime minister argues is necessary for security israel must have sovereignty in places that an israel to defend itself barred. but absent from the white house announcement palestinian leaders discussions on trucks middle east proposal broke down in 2017 following the move of the us embassy

from tel aviv trump announced he sent a letter to palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. lining a 4 year timeline for recognition and implementation of his plan president abbas i want you to know that if you choose the path to peace america and many other countries will leave we will be there we will be there to help you in so many different ways and we will be there every step of the way i wanted to ask you about something but in an exclusive interview with al jazeera trump son in law jared cushier said what isn't helpful to the palestinians future is the palestinian authority would rather go in and complain as opposed to come to the table and negotiate which quite frankly shows that they're not ready to have a state if you're ready to have a state and you don't call for days of rage the white house says acknowledge the dire economic conditions of palestinians a new plan builds on

a previously announced 50000000000 dollar economic proposal with additional grants and loans implemented over the next decade but only if reconciliation is achieved the timing of the white house plan announcement was overshadowed by president trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate still the plan is likely to be a key talking point in donald trump's reelection campaign can really help at al-jazeera the white house. well the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas called the deal the slap of the century and says theresa land is not for sale as soon as the proposal was revealed protests broke out across the occupied west bank and gaza strip palestinians say the united states has adopted the israeli position in full and that their rights are even more threatened now than before. but i'm not sure. that the gun in the announcement we did not find anything new compared to

what we heard 2 years ago it is sufficient to say that 2 years ago we heard the jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel as claimed by them we cannot wait and wait and keep on waiting our position has not changed and after we heard this other nonsense we say no no and the big no to the deal of the century. well let's have a quick look then to how it's being received in the international community the arab league says it's a 1st reading indicates a great waste of palestinian rights but it says it's studying the american vision carefully and remains open to serious peace efforts egypt has called for a careful and thorough consideration of the plan egypt of course was the 1st country to sign a peace deal with israel in 1989 saudi arabia says it appreciates trumps efforts and supports peace negotiations under us all spaces but it stressed it remains committed to palestinian rights the e.u. is also assessing the proposal it says its commitment to

a 2 state solution which takes into account the legitimate aspirations of both sides remains. all right let's go live now to ramallah in the occupied west bank our correspondent there needed abraham so the palestinian authority have been pretty quick swift to condemn and to reject this out of hand of course this is the place where the the plan under the plan the settlements that are now they're considered illegal will be an extent by the israeli government. yes indeed and that's why palestinians have been saying that they're rejecting the plan out of hand because israel has been creating facts on the ground building these settlements which are illegal under international law and then asking palestinians to accept them as part of a plan that acknowledges their existence we've heard president trump yesterday talking about that no israelis or palestinians will be uprooted from where they are

and palestinians have been saying that they warned for years they went to the international community they have had even a united nations security council resolution condemning these settlements and calling them illegal under international law so they feel like they have been not just left out but now they're being asked to accept reality on the ground as part of bringing peace many palestinians have took to the streets to protest that this morning some of them managed to get to the jordan valley even though the israeli army has closed many roads leading to that area to protest the decisions also the decision by prime minister benjamin netanyahu to annex these areas so what palestinians have been saying for the past year since they've heard about the plan is that it's already being implemented on the ground what's new here is just a piece of paper proving it all right thank you very much indeed now we can go to

occupy these troops of the mohammed jem jhoom our correspondent there and of course this is where the palestinians had hoped to create their capital in a palestinian state but that prospects now seems dimmer under the plan put forward by president. yeah that's right martine and all the palestinians that we've spoken with in occupied east jerusalem today have said that really they were not surprised in any way by what they heard yesterday from prime minister of his minutes yahoo or u.s. president donald trump they said that it was clear that this was going to be a nonstarter that they didn't ever believe there was going to be any kind of pathway forward progress or negotiations or otherwise i should mention one interesting thing that's happened today is yesterday it was announced by the office of prime minister benjamin netanyahu that the prime minister was going to take the issue of anik saying the jordan valley and israeli settlements in the occupied west bank to his cabinet for a vote on that on sunday well today it's emerged the last few hours in several israeli media outlets quoting the khud officials that in fact it's not going to

take place on sunday unclear at this stage why exactly there is that delay some people speculating that it's for technical reasons not really elaborating beyond that but really why exactly is there this delay because it was clear coming out of that press conference yesterday between mr trump and mr netanyahu that mr netanyahu wanted to get this done as quickly as possible or sunday that's about a month to the day from when the israeli problem in 3 elections are going to take place and clearly delivering the idea of an exceeding israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as well as the jordan valley is something that mr netanyahu wants to become a reality before the next election cycle and now there are complications for mr netanyahu even though it's expected that his cabinet would approve these measures in fact the matter is that members of the right wing including defense minister enough dolly bennett well he came out right after that press conference yesterday and rejected the plan outright he said that the idea of having a palestinian state that's not something that is going to happen and that they

would never agree to that so it's the right wing where mr netanyahu right now would have a lot of problems as far as going forward with this potential proposal for peace beyond that also how much of a mandate exactly does mr netanyahu have at this moment he is the head of a caretaker government. you have elections coming up so how much of this exactly would be binding and what other complications could arise in the next several weeks so a lot more questions right now than answers of course we're here just outside of damascus in the old city occupied east jerusalem and of course this area would fall under israeli sovereignty in this proposal mr trump's plan the holy sites there including on the compound which is known as the temple mount to jews that would fall under jordanian sovereignty or to ok i mean jordanian stewardship sorry about that more ok. with the view from occupied east jerusalem now let's go to correspondent is stephanie deca under the proposed plan stephanie israel would continue to have

control of the sea of course gaza has a long. that's right. into the plan when it comes to gaza it wants to see hamas to militarized and the entire gaza strip demilitarized you have various factions here who are martine and they see that as legitimate resistance to israel's occupation of palestinian land i can tell you though even though there was a call for a general strike yesterday from the factions it's business as usual here the ministries are open schools are open people going about their daily lives no one's protesting this shows you just the expectations no one expected it ready to be any different than what it is which is what they see totally one sided on the side of israel there is a parliamentary session going on right now between the factions to figure out a way for but certainly the people we've been speaking to will tell you that it's not a surprise it's nothing new in this is what someone earlier had to say. you know this is our land and this is our capital we will not accept any alternative we will not

accept any part of it drew soon as i was trying to copy and we don't care about trump. churches or luxor mosque and all the sacred sites. tell donald trump and the submit destruction that we reject this plan the plan of shame that has nothing to offer palestinians. we also spoke to a senior hamas official mahmoud zahar who said that also again rejecting the plan saying that what he wanted was what he called the hands of the resistance to be released particularly in the west bank and in jerusalem i think certainly everyone we've been spoken speaking to will tell you that they're not expecting major escalations on the ground i think also important to remind people there has been attractive negotiations going on when it comes to gaza certainly separate from the west bank between israel hamas negotiated by egypt and the united nations which is something that is made the president quite unhappy yes you now have talk about

potential palestinian unity but that's proven extremely difficult in the past whether this is going to change or i think we're going to have to wait and see but certainly yes no big surprise here amongst the people that this is going to give them no improvements nothing new and certainly nothing in their benefit all right steph thanks you stephanie decker there live in gaza now we can speak to his a political analyst in palestine policy fellow for. the palestinian policy network she's joining us from ramallah. us is called this is something that will be thrown into the garbage of history is there anything that can be salvaged from it the palestinians can work for we can work with. no i think absolutely no i mean this plan is basically a continuation of trump policy since the day that he took office. and there's absolutely nothing in it that gives palestinians any hope indeed it doesn't talk

about palestinian rights it doesn't even use the parameters of international law and what it basically is is it is a document of palestinian surrender or you know to use its words a palestinian side so i don't think there's anything for hope what there is in this document are a couple of interesting points that sort of really reveal where the u.s. and israel are i think namely that they want to create a new world order not based on international law but based on on power based on might right it seems very much as though this plan is concretize ing is solidifying the changing situation the changing scenario on the ground it's also giving the palestinians a 4 year window of consideration do you think that within 4 years anything will change that will help the palestinians towards their cause their objective of

having an independent state. i mean i think this plan needs to be continuously rejected by any palestinian leadership and by palestinians in general and i think anyone who is interested in supporting the palestinians in choosing their internationally enshrined rights and aspirations sovereignty also need to reject this plan outright and they need to use the tools at their disposal 'd i mean something very interesting in the plan was a point on the i.c.c. that the peer lho would not be allowed to to pursue any i.c.c. international international criminal court complaints against israel and so i think that's something that palestinians could focus on and. so at this point there is so much rejection so much negativity attached to this is from a palestinian point of view is it palestinian future and its. objective and it's working towards an independent state is completely contingent upon an unambiguous

and emphatic support of the arab block or you see do you see that you're getting there or do you get a sense that arab support might be crumbling or might be less than emphatic i mean i think it's very clear that the palestinian people have been abandoned by most of the arab regimes and we saw that. with trump and it's in your home thanking certain arab states now but does not mean that the palestinian people have lost the support of the arab people i think they're still popular mass popular support of the palestinian struggle in the region and the program is lies with their regimes so i think the palestinians have you know a huge road ahead of them to sort of regain the support of these of other regimes around the world not just the arab states or you are a whole worry too you just live from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you very much. we got

a lot more to come this hour jazeera news hour including we head for the front lines of libya's civil war as government forces battle against those of the warlord talisa hafter. in support of backlash in europe as israel folau is welcomed back to the rugby pitch despite the contentious remarks that saw him banned by australia's national team. and the number of people infected by the korean a virus outbreak in mainland china has now surpassed levels reached during the sars epidemic of 2003 and this comes as british airways and indonesia's lion air stop services to china while other airlines are reducing the number of flights and a number of countries are using planes to evacuate their citizens who are stuck in will hand of course which is the center of this outbreak china has cut access to

a number of cities where the virus has left 132 people dead and 6000 infected let's go live to hong kong now our correspondent there is wayne hey wayne how does the situation this evolving situation appear to you given that hong kong took rather drastic action just yesterday of of closing many of the transport links to the mainland. well certainly here in hong kong there has been a lot of criticism of the government for what has been perceived to be a slow response to this virus and there have been allegations that in fact the government led by chief executive kerry lamb has been far from transparent in the way it has been dealing with it of course the government rejects that saying that is it is dealing with it in a transparent manner but the suggestion is the accusation including from some pro

establishment pro beijing politicians and political parties is that the government should have acted quickly to secure the borders in fact many people have called for the border crossings there are several of them between hong kong and mainland china to be closed completely indefinitely that hasn't happened but as you mentioned the chief executive kerry lam did announce stricter controls that include the suspension of all rail and ferry services between hong kong and the mainland effective midnight tonight so that's in around 6 hours from now just under 6 hours travel and bus services will continue but they will be reduced and from the mainland side they're going to stop giving out individual visas passes for mainland chinese citizens traveling to hong kong so certainly steps are being taken at they will be welcomed but again i don't think they will stop the criticism of the

government that their response has been too slow in the last few hours we have had an update about the actual situation here in hong kong from the government health authorities for the past few days the number of confirmed cases here in hong kong has stood at 8 that is unchanged but they have said that 2 more people have tested positive for corona virus they're awaiting the results of a 2nd retest at one person is in a critical condition but perhaps what will be alarming to people. living in the city as that there are 585 suspected cases so if the number of confirmed cases does rise sharply in hong kong that will certainly yad to the criticism of the government i'm sure right and way we're looking at pictures as we're talking to you we're looking at pictures of many people with wearing the mask which are now obligatory and we know that this virus disrupted new year's celebrations but how is it impacting daily life now is business functioning as

usual. well certainly i think hong kong is still very quiet as are of course many parts of mainland china there isn't an official extension to the lunar new year holiday here in hong kong but certainly civil servants have been told to stay at home for the rest of this week to work from home and many private businesses corporates as well have advised their employees to stay home but certainly from the mainland side as you mention the situation is certainly worsening there the death toll now more than 130 and we're starting to see governments take action now the united states was the 1st to fly into the capital of who've a province to evacuate some of its nationals from that city the japanese followed suit lifting more than 200 people from back to tokyo when they arrived in the japanese capital 4 of those passengers were taken immediately to hospital because

they had flu like symptoms you mention the airlines as well british airways issuing that statement that effective immediately they're going to stop flying in and out of the mainland chinese cities that it operates into and out of and lion air from february 1st while it flies to 15 chinese cities that will come to an end as of february 1st certainly you start to see more governments more private businesses as well take this situation a lot more seriously all right wayne thanks for that the very latest there from hong kong one other we can speak to nicholas thomas is a specialist in health security in asia he's also in hong kong and joins us live thank you for talking to us wayne was just mentioning some of the countries now theirs are sending in planes to to airlift their citizens out of war han the australians we understand putting them on to an island in quarantine an island that's something like 2000 miles off the coast of the main that is this the right

approach to trying to contain the virus. thanks for having me i mean yes at this stage short of a medical intervention there he really is and yes we can do our own quarantining now go back to history with the plague going to europe in the 1300s we started to see the advent quarantine at that point that really still is the best way of stopping spread if there isn't any other medical intervention in the modern sense we see in hospitals in terms of intensive care units during sars resort was home quarantine being initiated in singapore and hong kong 2009 with swine flu outbreak we also saw it then with a group quarantine and the national park. it's now out of the sorry sorry to interrupt but the chinese. national health commission the n.a.c. they have anticipated that this virus is going to peak in about 10 days so that you

know the number of cases is going to increase i mean do you agree with that and is this inevitable really. look it's absolutely no in fact i think you worry too much we're still going to see numbers rising sporadically in different places and this is where the quarantine starts to play a role of course in china these days to tens of millions of people under quarantine it's unprecedented scale and scope and it's going to be imperfectly implemented there's just too many connections but i think what's interesting is when you look at the numbers of confirmed people who are infected as well as those who died from the virus they are still contrite around the major epicenter of. what we're seeing elsewhere around china knows well a much smaller number so although there's no direct correlation to control you can actually say it has at least helped to stop the spread and this is where for example british airways and lioness their decisions also start to play

a more useful role in stem international spread of the arts nicholas thomas thank you very much indeed talking to us live from hong kong very interesting thank you thank you. what could be a major turning point in donald trump's impeachment trial u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has privately told republicans that he no longer has the votes he needs which would block witnesses now for republicans need to side with the democrats in order to allow for a new testimony to be heard at the trial. has more 3 days of arguments for president trumps acquittal can be summarized as he did trump didn't do what democrats accuse his lawyers say but even if he did he should not be removed from office the bar for impeachment cannot be set this low.

danger danger danger trump's lawyers downplayed recent revelations from john bolton the former national security adviser who reportedly writes in his upcoming book that trump withheld security aid to ukraine in order to get investigations into democrats including joe biden responding to an unpublished manuscript that maybe some reporters have an idea of maybe what it says and that's what i'm that's what the evidence if you want to call that evidence i don't know what you called it i call it inadmissible but democrats want to call bolton to testify who haven't done so yet under the president's orders but says he will appear if subpoenaed their whole argument is diversion. if you don't believe the newspaper report called the witnesses democrats must convince at least 4 republicans to go along with that idea senator mitt romney

a moderate republican says he'll be one i like to hear from john bolton and i think the idea that's been expressed in the media about having each side be able to choose a witness or maybe more than what was witness paired basis has some merit republicans want to call joe biden and his son hunter to testify trump accuses them of being involved in ukrainian corruption the basis for wanting their investigation in new jersey enthusiasm for trump's innocence was on display as supporters camped out for days to attend his campaign rally polls show about half of americans believe trump should remain in office and half want him gone. castro al-jazeera washington. it is time for the weather not everton is here with us and snow in japan at this time of year not really unusual everton. say that's fair enough when she weather in winter i know what you're thinking but this is well it's a song goes been big in japan should we say we've had a good 20 centimeters of snow or more in one or 2 spots here it's that sea effect

snow that you get cold air coming across the sea of japan running over towards the land and it's a bit like running a hot bath in a cold bathroom where you get the steam comes up and it evaporates eventually and then as it moves over the land it dumps a lot of snow for so $20.00 to $30.00 centimeters of snow there's a little more to come as we go through the next 24 hours or so will the parts of honshu seeing some of that snow into carter there's that cold more the wind running across the relatively warm waters of the sea of japan push on into thursday and we will see more of the same this go further south where the seasons are reversed into australia very different story here of course and here it is about the hates we've got some very hot weather coming in across south australia at the moment further north lots of very heavy rain continuing into queensland now pushing across to central possible straight here through northern territory so we're looking at 42

celsius in adelaide this would go on into thursday but he transfers across into melbourne this would go on into friday and it has wetter and a little cooler for the weekend party. evident thank you very much indeed still to come on this al-jazeera news hour activists accuse media outlets in india of being biased in their coverage of a controversial citizenship. in the town initially where kobe bryant grew up remembers a basketball star in the making hole will have the details in school. india a nation of 1300000000 people religious desperately divided i think good you know the action which is potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity is making up to get back up but polices off his insistence and why is it

getting what's joining me are pushed us here on my journey in search of india's soul coming soon on al-jazeera. on presents on donald trump jr was promised a damaging information about hillary clinton allegation like to see an investigation to the troops did the trump campaign collude with russia did you at any time bridge the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the closer to back down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera.

let's have a look at the top stories here in the hour jazeera news now israel's prime minister is on his way to moscow to brief ladysmith putin on a proposal to end the palestinian israeli conflict benjamin netanyahu wants to addicts large parts of palestinian territory in line with the plan that's been put forward by president trump hundreds of japanese have been evacuated from the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak in china almost 6000 people have now been infected by the virus in china more than 130 have died british airways says it's suspending flights to china. republican leaders in the u.s. senate saying if they don't have enough states to stop this is appearing at president trump's impeachment trial democrats accuse the president of abusing his power and they want witnesses to be allowed to testify. a syrian government forces of pushback rebel fighters and entered no man in it live province this is

a city which has been attacked for months now and it lies on a key highway tens of thousands of people have fled as the fighting has got worse a most of those have been heading north towards the turkish border since december an estimated 350000 people have been displaced and when announcing government forces had taken the city syria's army general command said their operations will continue. and that they're usually the general command of the army and the armed forces and downs claims english villages and towns and it is sure that the army will continue to carry out its constitutional national and liberal duties in order to hunt down all remaining armed terrorist groups. or send them because he is in a stumble with the implications the seizure could have on the region for the last couple of days we are receiving footage as videos from inside it lip that because

of this influx there is there is too much traffic inside the center of course people believe that turkish border side is much safer that's why they are moving up to the north on the diplomatic side it is a critical time because a yes changing hands of m. 4 m. 5 highways was kind of unwillingly acceptable for all sides but what is going to do it what is the syrian government going to do next this is what is important for turkey for russia syria and iran because if the syrian government continues its its advancement towards to the north it means there are going to be more people more civilians stuck by the turkish border are they going to attack it lips at the center as they have attacked monitor nomen and other places these are the questions that have to be raised because in terms of diplomacy that is this is totally a violation of our sun and such agrement so yesterday turkish defense ministry had

an announcement when a syrian government an ounce that they were inside water turkish defense minister said if turkey's 13 observation posts and if those military observation posts are in then gerena ways turkey is going to retaliate so it is a question that needs an answer right now is it going to go that far will turkey and syria come across each other. 3 children have been killed in a rocket attack in libya's capital tripoli the attack was on a neighborhood near the city center the un recognized government has blamed forces loyal to cali for hafter almost 300 civilians have been killed by rockets or airstrikes since hafter began his campaign to take this is in april well meanwhile libya's u.n. recognize government says its allies have shot down an ember arcee supply drone

which is being used by have to us forces the aircraft came down near misrata turkey's been sending reinforcements to the tripoli based government including air defense systems. and libyan government troops are making further advances into territory that was controlled by the warlord hell if i have to and have halted an operation by his forces to take misrata tony badly reports from the frontline in the town of. driving to the frontline through territory that just 3 days ago was held by warlord khalifa haftar anse forces. this government soldiers passing on intelligence about a possible air attack he tells everyone to be vigilant the threats from the air is always present heavy artillery and air power unable to have to as units to overrun government forces and take the town of abu grain 80 kilometers east of misrata on

sunday but in the face of a massive counter offensive they could only hold it for less than 2 hours soldiers and civilians answered the call. put up the families of misrata are all together united of one voice of one hour print he found him came from misrata grain with ammunition and weapons. this is the new frontline after retaking abu graine units then pushed have to ask forces back 20 kilometers they may be wounded but they are not beaten they are a well equipped and heavily armed enemy which can attack at any moment but only. it's dangerous they're using drones every artillery rockets but god willing it will protect us we are taking our precautions. they lost 11 men in the weekend attack and 100 were injured including some civilians this is the funeral of a little girl who died of natural causes the people have remained here living with danger every day and they are suffering by 3 o'clock in the ocean is that your

heart then you are facing life shooting it's the biggest danger from all sides it's indiscriminate it's difficult because in wars you can't predict what will happen. this medical facility in nearby zam zam is the only community health care center for 100 kilometers the administrators said have to us fighters ransacked the place and sold ambulances and all the equipment it only adds to the misery and increases the anger. why assume that no love that's what this young wounded fighter has lost comrades he's calling half the dog he like many others may find reconciliation difficult when police eventually comes out but many are growing weary of fighting near worked for the local police in a ceasefire we are all libyans and we want to stop the bloodshed but if these old man at halftime announces every day that he wants to take them all land and kill more living and young man then we will continue to fight until our last man. it's

a wild rugged land where little grows but so much blood is being spilled to control it even though there is a notional ceasefire in place no one yet everything fired dad but what happened here and in the sporadic attacks in tripoli shows just how volatile the situation is and how quickly car can turn to bloodshed tony berkeley out of there added grain to misrata. the u.s. pentagon is now saying that 50 of its troops in iraq have now been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the iranian missile strikes earlier this month on the military facility where they were based the u.s. originally said that nobody had been hurt in the strikes that were in retaliation for the u.s. assassination of top iranian commander money but last week the pentagon said 34 people have been injured in that song but still receiving treatment. that many of iraq's protestors have been driven by worries about the economy and high levels

of unemployment but months of demonstrations along with a weak government have now pushed already struggling economy to the brink on top of all that there's a threat of direct sanctions coming from the u.s. if american forces are ordered out of iraq a solid binge of aid reports now from the iraqi capital baghdad. hussein really can't afford to retire he worked all his life at a local hospital and now collects use items to sell in the street but no one buys anything these days. though all of the main player on the market here is dead there's nothing to sell it's been almost a month now since i have sold anything. that's a reflection of iraq's declining economy which is being made worse by months of protest in baghdad and the southern provinces and increased tension between the united states and iran but there's also a caretaker government doesn't even have the power to pass the budget and we have

issues with the budget security economy we have plenty of complicated issues all that needs a strong government and a strong state. uncertainty makes people want to spend less and that's bad news for daily earners like barker and his helper. he's already quit his job as a taxi driver because of traffic jams and security issues now he's struggling to sell vegetables. the problem is that nothing has changed it has gone from bad to worse life is becoming harder every day. we do not have work everyone is suffering suffering. analysts say any embargo on trade and energy from iran will add to the suffering of the people the unilateral sanctions imposed in the 1990 s. only ended up creating hunger and deprivation among iraqis the u.s. president's warning of sanctioning iran if it goes ahead with plans to force out u.s. troops coupled with additional sanctions on iran has business on this concern 2015

the united states temporarily suspended sentence banks account in new york because of concerns that the money was going to iran. in february a special provision which allows iraq to circumvent u.s. sanctions and iran will expire almost a 3rd of our supply is imported from iran is electricity and gas iran is also a major trade partner with more than $30000000000.00 worth of imports every year but iraq's government is optimistic about its relationship with the u.s. and says washington cannot afford to sever baghdad and. iraq is strong relations with the u.s. government on financial political economic and military levels i don't think the u.s. will risk those the us cannot lose iraq the budget for 2020 k. with high rises deficit but after intervention by the pm himself the deficit was lowered down to less than $20000000000.00. but for almost 40000000 iraqis the claims of reforms with no concrete actions yet taken do not bring relief or any

certainty to say nearly has heard it all before promises of improvement made and broken for decades. down to 0 by god. the u.s. president expected to sign into law a new trade deal with mexico and canada which would replace the north american free change agreement president trump blamed that deal for encouraging u.s. manufacturers to move operations abroad but the new agreement still faces long delays before it comes into effect as you have a chance the ripples from washington this will help stop auto jobs from going overseas bipartisan congressional approval of the united states mexico canada agreement or u.s. m.c.a. was an important victory for donald trump but he will tell it in his reelection campaign but faced with a democratically controlled house of representatives had to amend the original us m.c.a. signed in the vendor of 2018 if he wanted a deal like it or not there were changes ultimately were forced that actually

despise and that was the price to pass. the u.s. m.c.a. differs in some key ways to the north american free trade agreement or nafta that came into existence in january of 1904 under the revised agreement of the us and canada will be able to increase dairy and other agricultural exports to each other to avoid tariffs 75 percent of components in vehicles must be manufactured in mexico canada or the us from 62.5 percent and 40 to 45 percent of auto parts must be made by workers who are $16.00 an hour by 2023 mexico's worker protections are required to be strengthened and barriers to unionize ation removed inspectors will check compliance if labor standards and wages increase in mexico the thinking goes there will be less incentive for companies to outsource from the us and canada there is skepticism that assembly plants will not relocate back to the u.s. they're in fact since the deal was passed in congress forward on the g.m. have announced they're expanding production in mexico but the agreement did receive

support from the n.f.l. cia or the u.s. is largest federation of trade unions this is the bill. well he lifted up its $250.00 pages but it wasn't endorsed by bernie sanders the left wing sounds are running for the democratic presidential nomination he says the agreement fails to deal with the planet's most pressing issue here you have a trade agreement which will make it easier. to walk the log or. destroy the planet. and there are other concerns too also some bad things were added so for instance there are new rights for the on line giants not to be regulated that could raise serious consumer privacy and monopoly issues as well remains to be seen what happens with the bad food safety rules that didn't get fixed that require imports of food that doesn't meet u.s. safety standards even off the doldrums signs the treaty into law on wednesday the

u.s. m.c.a. still has some way to go before it goes into effect canada isn't expected to ratify the deal until april and mexico needs to pass new legislation to conform to the u.s. and in addition the deal only goes into effect today each side is satisfied that all the requirements have been met and that might not be before the 2020 presidential election here in the u.s. . washington. that tens of thousands of people have been protesting against india's controversial citizenship florida since it was proposed last month and some activists are accusing some nader outlets of pro-government bias in their coverage of those demonstrations and are reports now from new delhi. a reporter for a hindi language news channel one from students at a press conference protesting against a proposed b. hike in a top new delhi university. 2 days later the channel's editor in chief and reporters

are filmed weaving sots in support of her when she says critics say that's just one example of how some news channels in india have been critical of protestors and hesitant to challenge the government during recent protests in india. for more than a month hundreds of thousands of people across the country have been protesting against the new citizenship law which many say discriminates against muslims. the views of the editor in chief of subversion news channel match those of the government whether on protesters fighting fee hikes all those opposing the new law . but he insists he is an independent journalist who supports the new law all those. see in india and protests that are going on they are supporting muslims of pakistan and bangladesh they warn muslims of pakistan afghanistan and bangladesh to come to india all the don't warn the hindus on these countries to come to india

because that's what the laws. but critics and how the founding editor of all news a fact checking website says many news networks are shielding their pro-government bias. accuses the government of controlling the narrative whether it is controlling what i would get by controlling that would isis or there's also a pro government can in in the journalism. in terms of media organizations that is also how they control the narrative as far as you know what information goes on. news laundry of website that publishes news and media critique says coverage of the protests has by far been in favor of the government there are several who are muted and will not hit the government like one expects news to and those who are very go at the government i would say there are probably. none would have the

confidence or the money would $1.00 during the protests journalists have been physically hit heckled and trolled but as the split in the media i didn't it seems it's the viewers who stand to lose out. al-jazeera new delhi. coming up in just a little while this will use with pool including the town in italy where kobe bryant girl up tremendous a basketball star in the making. it

is time for the school she is now with poll thank you so much rafael nadal is trailing dominic tame right now in the quarterfinals of the australian open the one that will play germany's alexander. earlier reached a grand slam semifinal for the very 1st time they would start. he's been threatening to do it for a few years now finally an accent is through to the last fool of a major tournament to get there the world number 7 had to fight from a set down to beat 3 time major winner at stand by brink i 22 year old is one of 11 titles including the world tour finals but so far the majors have eluded him he's got plenty of crown support in australia having earlier in the tournament pledged to debate all of his prize money to push by relief efforts if he wins the tournament that would work out $2800000.00. easy to say in the 1st round yes it is just so true let's i hope i can

make it happen i made the people of australia promise i will keep that promise if it happens. for the women sure it didn't take long for samoa how much to dispatch come to fight in the quarters and if flawless display by the wimbledon champion saw her take the opening set 6 games to one i she took the 2nd set by the same margin and romania's 4th seed had it all wrapped up in just 53 minutes leaving her plenty of time for some retail therapy. i will do some shopping like every day because motivates me as i said the last time. and then the more i was thinking about the match up next the how of his former world number one. she's unseated at this tournament but beat anastasia a puppy a change in straight sets the spanish tennis way the player is into a 1st grand slam semifinal since the french open in 28 they did stokes al-jazeera.

europe's rugby league bosses say they were powerless to stop israel folau signing for super league team dragons allow a conservative christian was sacked by australian rugby union last year posting homophobic comments on social media rival clubs has protested his arrival in super league including 28. who announced measures to support the gay community. sports correspondent lee wellings joins us from london. taking a bit of a risque assigning fellow what's the justification or consequence dragons not exactly what they're doing with this in the control of a c. it will cause it's a calculated risk designed for them to win move rugby matches whether it's one way or another sport is a hard nosed business and this is not for them about offering full out some kind of redemption this is about getting a player that still has possibly some years of one ahead of him into that. scoring

tries winning matches that chairman bernard go sure they don't support or agree with what fellow previously expressed and don't share or condone those views which are of course homophobic but many people who say well they are condoning the views by employing him the other side of it is that does he have a right to earn a living as a rugby player that's what he does well no criminal offense has been committed so castle and dragons are within their rights to put him on the pitch they just know that there will be a lot of controversy about this and of course a backlash of already saying oh yes les there's there's really been such a backlash in any sport really about the signing of a player tell us about that that move from wigan. we have because it's a cross the board all of the english clubs is not just english clubs of course for instance to run 2 of our in the english league as well as catalan struck and they've come together to condemn this really but wiccan you thought that when they

came out and said it's on 22nd of march they'll be a proud day for their match against catalans at the stadium he thought it might be for a moment coincidental and then of course it became clear that done this exactly for that date to make a stand to show they don't approve they don't want in the league and others will also find their own way to protest fines will find their way to protest players have come out already on social media with twitter or other forms to say they don't agree with this and it's clear whenever father walks onto the pitch there's going to be a bit of a because around him but it's very interesting to say how quickly that stand was my and it's going to not be the last case i think we see like this where the mole maze of sport does someone have the right to earn a living after they have done something that has been condemned now the super

league season is about to start laying how how do you think we can expect to see this develop just briefly. well i think that obviously that's round 6 i mentioned with the match between we're going to catalans dragons so i think right from the start when it gets underway we're going to see a lot of attention around for allowing of course you know somewhat is the story of things like this can bring good attention for a sport that wants it but i think this is probably on the whole long wanted late thank you very much will come back to you as this story develops over the season. in the n.b.a. on tuesday the boston celtics pegged back the miami heat in the race for the playoffs boston had an early lead but jimmy but stole the thunder to keep miami within 3 points the home side couldn't keep the momentum though boston's marcus smart setting up gordon hayward for 2 of his 29 points is celtic's win 104296 their

4th in the east one spots behind miami. while the dallas mavericks were 2nd in the west a few weeks ago but their slide continued on tuesday dallas bateson under 33 to 104 by the phoenix suns the mavs now in 6 with that playoff hopes sinking while with less than 6 months to go until the elim picks we've got our 1st main look at the athletes' village it's made largely of sustainable source tender from around japan after the olympics the world will be returned to the communities who donated it so we would when you cut huge could go i would like people to recycle these donated timbers in their hometowns and tell the local children that this wood was used by people all over the world during the tokyo 2020 games all right that is oil sports and i will have more of it lighter paul thank you very much indeed that's all for me for this al-jazeera news hour but don't go away gerri will be in the chair in

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