doubt but releases off his ancestors and why is it getting one. showing me artificial costs here on my journey in search of india's so. coming soon on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. television is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. senators submit written questions in president trump's impeachment trial can the white house batter away the fallout from john bolton's revelations. the whole world needs to be on alert. to take action a warning from the world health organization on the spread of the new coronavirus but a global emergency has not yet been declared. marching

on land they face losing under donald trump's proposed middle east plan palestinians react with dismay. in doha with all the school the upcoming world indoor championships in china are postponed due to the corona virus outbreak at the australian open and upset for reform a girl who has the world number one is knocked out in the quarter finals but don't . begin in washington d.c. where the impeachment trial is heating up in the senate as republicans struggle to contain the backlash from john bolton's revelations which in the last few hours it's emerged that the white house has formally threatened him not to publish the national security council has sent a letter to bolton's attorney saying the manuscript appears to contain quote

significant amounts of classified information and cannot be printed in its current form excerpts of the book by the former national security adviser were leaked to the new york times in the midst of president trump's impeachment trial and if you have any question about it at all. you need to hear from his former national security advisor don't wait for the book don't wait to march 17th when it is in black and white. to find out the answer to your question was it all the motive some of the motive or none of the motive and we think as i mentioned the case is overwhelmingly clear without john bolton but if you have any question about it. you can a race all down let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly how could so tell us more about these efforts by the white house to essentially silence bolton yeah there is quite

a concerted effort to do just that the latest revelation a letter that has been made public as of today put forward by the white house john bolton's attorneys essentially making the argument that the book that he is planning to release next month that it cannot be released because it would put national security at risk the letter saying that this was caused exceptionally grave harm to national security that the conversations between the u.s. president is former national security advisor are classified at the top secret level so essentially what the effort is is to try and avoid what we already know has been leaked in the form of the book that john bolton all but confirms that the president abused his presidential powers for political purposes by leveraging the office of withholding military aid in order to pick up an investigation on political rival former vice president joe biden so this effort to try and stop the

book is also an effort to try and stop the testimony on capitol hill that we know many democratic senators are pressing very hard to have made public in the senate trial to remove the president from office so what are the means of the white house using to prevent him testifying. well certainly there's this effort warning in arguing national security to prevent the leak of the book which we also know that the president a standard playbook for him is to use the courts as well this is something that the president has done whether it is trying to keep his tax returns from being made public knowing that once things get into the courts the wheels of justice move very very slowly and that buys the president time hopefully a decision in the court saying the calculation is by the white house will come after the u.s. election so this would not hurt the president's chances of reelection but the president's also discrediting the testimony he tweeted very early today that

reacting to this bolton bombshell as it's called that he fired the former national security adviser because it would be world war 6 by now that when he did then the for the president says that john bolton immediately went out and wrote a nasty and untrue book so essentially the president has sort of put forward this attack on many fronts whether it be setting executive privilege that the former national security adviser can't testify whether it be national security whether it be in the courts or even just discrediting the testimony before it's even heard there is a very big effort by this white house and by this president to prevent john bolton from testifying can really help it thank you very much indeed. let's get a sense of what's happening in the senate with heidi castro who's live on capitol hill and to the president's defense has introduced a novel argument for acquittal of a small. that's why lauren and you know we were wondering how the president's

council may be updating their defense given the revelations that kimberly was just telling us about from john bolton will today we may have an answer alan dershowitz one of the president's celebrity attorneys argued just moments ago that in the case of the president asking for help with his reelection from ukraine that that would be not an impeachable offense in the thinking goes that the president yes he may have known that that would be in his personal interest but that a president has a right to believe that winning reelection would also be in the national interests so that the rationale there seeming to say to these senators who are weighing whether or not to convict and remove him from office in a sense saying that even if everything that john bolton says is true even if the evidence the democrats have provided prove that trump indeed did what he's accused of which is trying to leverage u.s.

security aid for dirt on his political opponents from ukraine even if he did so so goes the rationale of the president's attorneys he could still not be removed from office because his motives may still be in the public's interest so at that is what people are discussing at this moment we also heard from moderate republican senators those who may be in the middle about this question of whether or not to not only convict or acquit the president but whether to open this trial to potential more witnesses like john bolton and they seem to have also zeroed in on this question of the president's motives asking the 2 legal sides today what if trump had mixed motives what. he did want to gain personally from this request but he also had public interest in mind so the way things are shaping up it certainly seems that the defense team of the president is making some headway if you if you

read into these questions from those moderate republicans who may be the ones to really decide the remaining program matters of this trial then of course bigger picture it would take 2 thirds of the senators to remove the president from office which is certainly a very high hurdle to overcome i did you pass or thank you very much michael isikoff is a chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news he joins us live from washington thanks for being with us how much you use it now do you think in the end that we will hear from john bolton and or any other witnesses. that is the question of the hour the question of the week what's going on now with the question and answer session is really just a warm up to what is going to be those critical votes on friday on witnesses mcconnell told his caucus last night that he didn't

have the votes to prevent witnesses but there's but he's still trying and he's got a lot of power as anybody follows the senate knows so we don't know it's really coming down to just these handful of moderates who could end this trial this week or push it into a whole new level where it goes on for weeks and weeks and if it does go on for weeks and weeks who has the most to lose or do you think. well you know it's really hard to say and this sort of new curveball on this was the disclosure today that the white house and sent john bolton's lawyer a letter last week saying that if the book manuscript contains classified information and he may not publish it that ratcheted this thing up quite a bit and it's interesting to follow the timeline here that letter which we just

saw today january 25th was january 23rd that's when the white house informs bolton that the manuscript that he had submitted back in at the end of december december 30 contains classified information and can't be disclosed to the public it's just a few days later that the contents of bolton's book. is leaked to the new york times and we get that bombshell story on sunday so clearly that was bolton and his team striking back at the white house saying oh you think you're going to muzzle me read this and voila there it was in the new york times so bolton is a pretty savvy bureaucratic player he's got a top shot top notch lawyer i think it's going to be really interesting to see how they respond to this white house attempts to muzzle him and want someone to voters make of all this whole potential that is. kind of great to the list. or will they

if they sort of you wanting into the. you know i think that there's a bit of both depending on which segment of the electorate you're looking at look the polls indicate that the country is pretty much split on the issue of impeachment although more and more they do show that a rather sizable majority of the public thinks that the president acted improperly and that witness. as should be called in this trial so far though it's still pretty much $5050.00 as to whether or not the public thinks that the conduct rises to the level of removal from office and that's really maybe the strongest argument the president's lawyers have which is it's an election year we're going to have an election later this year let's let the voters decide what to make of this

conduct by president trump michael isikoff thank you very much indeed jeff your nuts and thank you. now still to come here on out is there. a major town falls to pro-government forces in the battle over syria's last rebel stronghold. the. wrestler's signs the bricks that divorce deal with an overwhelming vote approving britain's departure. and the olympic village is unveiled in 10 kids but organizers called for immediate action to protect the games from the spread of the corona virus. the world health organization has warned that governments across the globe need to be on alert to prevent the spread of the deadly new coronavirus the body has

praised china for its efforts to halt the disease but says it will reconvene on thursday on whether to declare a global emergency the whole world needs to be on alert the whole world needs to take action and be ready for for any case to come either from the original at the center or from from other it for centers that's become established. major airlines are slashing flights to china while several countries evacuate their citizens from the epicenter of the virus outbreak at least 133 people have died all in mainland china nearly 6000 cases have now been reported in the mainland but it's breaching borders at least $97.00 cases have been reported in 16 countries along with the territories of hong kong macau and taiwan that's causing worries over its spread 7 air carriers including british airways lufthansa and air india are halting all flights to mainland china the u.s.

and japan have been the 1st to airlift their citizens from the epicenter of the outbreak the u.k. e.u. france and india are also planning evacuations many of those returning home will be placed in isolation or in a report. after completing an emergency mission a plane carrying more than $200.00 japanese citizens arrives in tokyo from china they're among the 1st foreign nationals to be evacuated by the government from the capital of who bay province which is under lockdown because of coronavirus. curie q so when i was very worried because the situation changed very rapidly honestly i have quite relieved that they brought his home swiftly with the chartered plane. upon arrival 4 of the passengers suffering flu like symptoms were taken to hospital . as the crisis deepens more countries are looking to follow the lead of japan and the united states and begin airlifting their nationals out we have taken

a decision the smalling to prepare a plan for an operation to provide some assisted departures for isolated and vulnerable astride the ns in in the who by province in wu han where the outbreak started medical staff and hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of cases which grows by the day to do so 2 completely new makeshift hospitals are being built to treat coronavirus patients with construction workers operating around the clock. and the government is sending thousands of extra doctors and nurses to a province from other parts of china well you hope so. i will tell my family the exciting news after i come back i've not dared to tell them now for fear that they would be worried about me. in hong kong where there are several confirmed cases of the virus the government has been criticised for being too slow to react it's now

suspended ferry and train services to and from mainland china indefinitely the hong kong government has been coming under increasing pressure with many calling for the border crossings between here and mainland china to be closed completely which hasn't happened the partial closure is being welcomed by the resorts so a sense that it has come too late and isn't enough. the transport restrictions will heap more pressure on the economy of the city which is already struggling after months of anti-government protests wayne hay al jazeera hong kong. now under their team is travel to the city of hunan province which is just north of and is known as china's medical capital they tried to enter a manufacturing plant where more than 50 percent of china's facemasks and produced they were forced to leave the province and officials warned that they would quarantine them if they didn't stop hiding reports. to get a better idea of how the coronavirus is having an impact on communities closer to

the epicenter in will han and who'd a province. we took the south down train from beijing we got off and central one province its southern border with who they covers more than 400 kilometers the longest of any other province and the spreading of the virus is a big and sensitive concern as we are about to exit the station we were met by a local government official he knew we were coming and told the local police our plan this to try to go to china and i told them they composite a checkpoint they have to go back to beijing. but they said they wouldn't stop us instead they would follow us until we reached a checkpoint to the community we wanted to visit the sign says hold the car stop a check for about an hour away from the train station the town you on exit from the freeway this is described as the medical supply capital of china so we wanted to go in because the face masks are manufactured there more than 50 percent for china are manufactured inside and we've heard that they have brought the staff back from

their holiday early to manufacture more face mask but it's so sensitive they're stopping us they're not even letting us go inside. we were not the only ones being turned away other cars were prevented from going in if they could not prove that they were from chung young. and then we were told by the official that if we did not leave one province before the end of the day it was highly likely that we would be put in quarantine as the end of the extended holiday draws closer many people in these communities could be cut off even longer if additional transportation restrictions are put into place scott had a chunk on. but to mark perishes the regional medical director of northern europe at international s.o.s. which is a medical and travel security for me joins me now in the studio thanks for coming in so so far how well do you think this outbreak has been handled globally very well i think if we go back and we just think now we've got 6000 cases around the world the majority of those in china the chinese health authorities identified the

virus very quickly once this outbreak had been a been found they sequenced the virus so we know the molecular structure of it which helps us then make diagnostic tests force and then they have instigated this extraordinary quarantine you know will hon and many other places in stocks transport things all of which helps to stop the spread of the virus which is good what about the global reaction there i mean have people other governments in other countries been a bit sickly once been we want to go to another country then you got the same issues there will presumably not in the same scale. probably not on the same scale there's about 100 cases outside china so far and the rest are within china the global reaction has varied some countries have instigated quite strong rules on what they will do with people coming back from china from will han chinese the australian authorities i see are asking people to spend 2 weeks in christmas island

other countries maybe not so much so now it's a combination of a medical issue health care issue and then there's some geo political decisions on that and then the some transport and business decisions you know we have british airways stopping flights now and other things so that's going to affect individuals if they want to or if they're in china how do you know our effective of the various measures that people are taking out of independently to people you see people wandering around a face mask is that going to make a difference not hugely these surgical face masks that we do see increasing numbers of people using our slightly affected but not much gets in the science of them and it doesn't protect the eyes in the virus gets into these things called mucus. membranes which is the eyes they are helpful and they stop you touching your mouth which is quite useful but i wouldn't rely on them there are other respirators those sort of the more formal mask which are which are better but you need to fit those properly sorry so so what what actually are the methods that are help from is it does it boil down to washing your hands properly yes simple hygiene measures are still remarkably effective keep your hands washed regularly are in soap and water

or one of those alcoholic hand washes if you can get soap and water practice good hygiene don't touch your face stay away from areas where there are people that have coughs and colds particularly if you're in china be aware don't touch live animals or even or dead animals in china don't go to the live animal markets they've closed all those those make sure that you eat food as well cooked and just in terms of the talked about the the the the travel side of it if you are repatriating in the number countries decide to bring home people who are stuck in areas of china is going to should you have been on the plane with that i mean what's the how would you manage a situation like that when you bring people back and on planes out there you'd want to 1st of all screen the individual before they get on that plane see if any of them have any symptoms and then when they're returning to the u.k. this pretty people from say come people coming from will harm the question that you have to answer and i think the answer that is made maybe by different governments

in different ways is are these individuals likely to have coronavirus new current virus therefore should we isolate them quarantine them for 14 days which is the length of time that the virus seems to take to incubate or should we let them go home with some advice just to stay at home if they have any symptoms see the health care for officials we're seeing quite a lot of governments take the 1st option and increasingly quarantine people when they come home which it's a belt and braces approach it's another measure to try to stop this virus spreading thank you very much indeed dr parrish thank you for coming to us pleasure. that least 10 civilians have been killed in russian air strikes targeting a village in syria's problems russia's supporting syrian president bashar al assad's push to retake the rebel stronghold pro-government forces have now retaken a strategic town in a province f.n.c. has displaced hundreds of thousands of people as victoria getting reports. the.

syrian government forces and the man in the south of italy province. they're looking for rebel fighters from hyatt to reroll sham and armed groups with formal links to al qaida the town is largely deserted and destroyed after months of bombardment. but. it's recapture marks a significant advance in president bashar assad's drive to take back all of syria. the general command of the army and the armed forces announce cleansing these villages and towns and it is sure that the army will continue to carry out its constitutional national and moral duty in order to hunt down all remaining armed terrorist groups. there rattled the man sits on the m 5 highway which links the capital damascus to syria 2nd city aleppo as well as to provincial capital such as ham and lip before the war it was

a major trade route and the main access road to the north. the latest drive by russian backed government forces to recapture syria's last opposition on plate has sparked a new exodus on monday tens of thousands of civilians fled towards turkey's border turkish president red chip type has accused the russian government of breaking a cease fire agreement. that there is now a movement towards our borders and we have taken our measures. since december it's estimated that more than 350000 people have been displaced from edley province the increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis in northwest syria. but the acid government seems determined to retake this final piece of territory still under the control of opposition fighters victoria gates and be al jazeera. more still to come on down to their news hour including israel's prime minister releases

a slick video thanking donald trump to his controversial plan to end conflict with palestine just weeks ahead of the israeli election. argentina's ambitious project to feed millions of people and end poverty. and spoke with peter why for me i want to see a new stack it is banking on plenty of drama. hello again welcome back to you in a national weather forecast here across turkey of the next few days we are looking at a wintry mix coming into play we're talking about a lot of rain and snow for the lower elevations but in the higher elevations it is going to be some very heavy snow we're talking anywhere between $50.00 to $100.00 centimeters of snow in some locations by the time we go through the next 72 hours

so we go watching this very very carefully as you can see her you could be getting a little bit better you can be clearing out by the time we get towards friday it's going to be eastern turkey that sees the majority of the snow by the time we go into the weekend well for the rest of europe the temperatures are on the way up we could be seeing temperatures coming out of the high single digits going into the teens by the time we get towards friday well above average for this time of year in paris you are one of those cities but in $48.00 is going to be rainy as well 13 degrees and rain here on thursday a little bit of a break in terms of the rain on friday but by the time we get towards saturday it is going to be rainy tempers about 6 degrees above average there here across northern africa we are looking at fairly decent conditions across much of the region and terms of temps are though it is going to be 18 degrees here in benghazi maybe some clouds rolling into parts of cairo as we go towards friday with a temperature of $21.00 degrees.

gives you a deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances it is very true when they think you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human calling the issues join me in the hot sun as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking to go debate here on al-jazeera. big storms generate sounds like maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things are going to really bring relief. to the reward even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the judge is so clear and sounds to see and hear it with the listening are noxious 0.

you. are going to reminder the top stories here now jazeera the white house has warned former national security adviser john bolton that he can publish a book where he's reportedly made explosive revelations about president donald trump alternate legibly wrote that trump told him he wanted to freeze $391000000.00 in security aid to ukraine unless he have investigated the democrats. those claims are at the center of trump's impeachment trial which has moved on to its next stage in the senate president's defense team and democratic representatives on string written questions about trump's charges. the world health organization is warning

that governments across the globe need to be on alert for the new coronavirus that's killed 132 people in china the u.s. and japan have been the 1st to evacuate their citizens from the epicenter of the outbreak. israel's army is deploying more troops in the occupied west bank and near the gaza border for those protests against u.s. president donald trump's proposed deal to end the israeli palestinian conflict thousands of palestinians have been injured by israeli army for. as they voiced their anger against the plan saying it further undermines their rights what abraham reports from ramallah. palestinians say the proposed middle east plan put forward by the u.s. president changes nothing and actually makes things worse there are still under israeli military occupation and gearing up for more restrictions. there was a small protest in the jordan valley on wednesday an area that makes up nearly one 3rd of the occupied west bank

a territory that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised to annex. the israeli army beefed up its presence in the area and close the fruits preventing many activists from getting there i don't i. there's really army has put up checkpoints in several areas in the jordan valley we had to walk a lot but we found another checkpoint their main point is to prevent us from reaching the areas we agreed to meet and. listen. to those who did manage to reach the area we're involved in scuffles with israeli soldiers. protesters also took to the streets in a number of west bank cities including bethlehem there these radio army used tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets to disperse the crowds. the anger among palestinians has been increasing especially after the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capital in 2017. stinney ns want occupied east

jerusalem to be the capital of their future state and not as the trump plan proposes in eastern suburbs are here or there are people that are going to trample all over else jerusalem tells its own story every stone has its history and it was never an israeli or an american it is palestinian islamic and arab. the turnout has been some of the people we spoke to say it's the palestinian authority that need to be. those protests but there is also a great sense of apathy here people do not expect much to change and say that the plan is being implemented on the ground anyway going into the streets against the. israeli soldiers is a risk and people are waiting to see how far we go in facing the. american menace. and i think this is not going to be

a short term thing going to be a long term. leaders of hamas in gaza have also condemned the proposed plan and norman. our message was clear we object to the so-called deal of the century this is why we must stand united and work hand in hand in order to confront this conspiracy against our people we must have a unified national strategy to restore our people's rights to end the division once and for all. with israeli elections only a few weeks away many years think prime minister benjamin netanyahu may start the annexing off some palestinian territory sooner rather than later. the occupied west bank. a trance middle east plan is already have an impact on the final weeks of israel's election campaign benjamin netanyahu is presenting it as a victory for his premiership is main rival benny gantz is promising to bring the entire deal to

a vote in the israeli parliament very forsett reports from west jerusalem this is historic and this you became the 1st world leader to recognize israel's sovereignty over areas in judea and samaria that are vital to our security and central to our heritage the soaring music and off camera voiceover had all the hallmarks of a campaign video promising israeli sovereignty in the occupied west bank but for benjamin netanyahu a day after what he had turned a history making event in washington the breaks have been at least momentarily applied he had promised to hold a vote in cabinet on sunday on an exciting the jordan valley and illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank but the united states is now making it clear that it wants further coordination before the process begins so does this hamper netanyahu election campaign one former israeli diplomat thinks not one thinking full day difficult work he did in creating the split so you know what is behind it

so if there is another move with which they can help him be quiet let my government do it. with it we'll have an overwhelming majority of americans would not stop him but netanyahu isn't the only one trying to make electoral capital out of the announcement his defense minister the head of a rival right wing grouping of parties said annexation had to happen now not after the election although. i've ordered the formation of a special team to implement the application of israeli law and sovereignty on all jewish settlements in the same area judea and jordan valley and the northern dead sea the team will start working immediately. while the israeli left has rejected the plan netanyahu his main centrist challenger benny gantz is in dog. stick but it does risk shifting his campaign away from its previous focus on the indictment in 3 corruption cases this plan coming just after the official announcement is indictments are being filed with the true slim district court means that he will he

now has hold of the of the agenda of the narrative and it's certainly something that they want to continue to push the consequences of this deal with its provisions for israeli annexation for the literal walling off of any future palestinian state from the heart of east jerusalem could be felt for years but here in the midst of yet another israeli election campaign the timeline being focused on is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again very force at al-jazeera west jerusalem the palestinians are putting pressure on the u.n. to take action against trump's plan for the middle east palestinian president mahmoud abbas will speak in the security council in the next 2 weeks and the palestinian envoy says he hopes the 15 member group will back a draft resolution on the issue to drag us to negotiate after they steal another 40 percent of the occupied west bank and to negotiate over 4 years

that the tears of that left over in which is the ill has the upper hand and security issues in the hands of. are paramount is not a recipe for peace or justice it is a recipe for the destruction of the national interests of the palestinian people and it will not fly it is not acceptable and those who think that the palestinian people will evaporate they will not those who think that the palestinian people will pack up and leave there will not was to have a secretary general of the palestinian national political party joins me now via skype from ramallah thanks for being with us so aside from the moves at the u.n. is it your impression that actually this plan is stoppable. to tell you of course this plan of course it can be unilaterally implemented by israel which is there is doing already but that doesn't mean there is a deal that doesn't mean that without

a palestinian up over this means nothing it to me is that an occupying power supported by an american administration is committing coalition of international actually what can be described as a war crime in violation of international law and you are his solutions but palestinians will do everything they can to stop it not only a bird rejecting that but also by resolving the internal division trained to create only fire leadership trained up to a new identity of strategy to what has failed which are the negotiations with the israeli side and most important through popular resistance just nighttime is just another just a don't don't ask one quick quick question that was why not though negotiate because at the moment there's been no negotiations with the u.s. from the passenger side since 2017 does that not mean that you've got put yourselves in a worse position because you're not at the table or trying to block these kind of programs can renegotiate about a plan that is determined before we start negotiations the american plan is i was

as is has established certain parameters that cannot be negotiated like it is universal and has to remain unified on the capital of israel that means we have to accept an extension of these genes and before we start negotiating they also confirmed that israel has the right to an external list them 40 percent that was back and we cannot negotiate that they have transformed if you look at graham's plan and map they have transformed occupied today it is into clusters of ghettos and done to stands and we have to accept that it's more than we negotiate or not so they say well gee 'd it's not only as a tribal areas without any it without negotiating with them how do you negotiate with an. allegation when you count can you know anything. not negotiate ins can be productive as long as the united states is the only supervisor of such. a simple fact which is that the united states is not only biased. this administration is in

complete alliance with the most extreme right wing people in the government of israel so who would you know with we would we would negotiate once there is a sort of a it was fit for negotiations with a framework of international confidence when the international community would be present and on the basis of international law and on the basis of you under solutions but if you want my frank opinion no negotiations will be productive unless we change 1st the balance of power between us understood and that's what i mean by popular nonviolent resistance which is very important by inhance into the boycott divestment sanctions against the system of apartheid under conviction and what about than when heard from the hamas leader saying that tennis to be a unified national strategy to end the divisions and you also talked about ending the divisions between palestinians what progress a you making on that and my opinion is that there was a very special day because for the 1st time we had

a meeting that included not only people in the palestinian authority but us who are democratic opposition or other opposition parties in palestine we were all unified we were all there we all agreed on logic to this horrible plan by mr trump and. we all decided to initiate immediately up losses that hopefully will end this internal division their internal division has been. very serious cause of weakness on our side and we must end it and there is no reason why this division should continue tell me about you all regional situation how concerned are you about the countries in the region which in the past have been very supportive is do you feel that they're not as supportive these days of the palestinian cause. well there were no comments that were upset about the fact that sitting on a bus at the clinician of this deal. we don't we think

this was wrong good should not have happened and it created a very big negative image about these countries but in general regardless of the fact that some countries welcomed that they all ended up saying they will not accept anything the palestinians will not accept i don't think there is a major change here because eventually everybody knows every government knows that the arab peoples are on the palestinian side and there is a limit to how far governments can go you know posing the opinion of their own people most of about who she thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to her thank you thank you. vessel is caught fire off the coast of the united arab emirates all the crew have been rescued after sending out a distress signal are flying to tanker was undergoing maintenance when the fire broke out and was not carrying any oil amorality authorities are still trying to distinguish the flames the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved breaks

it the withdrawal agreement has been ratified by 621 votes to 49 sealing the u.k.'s official exit from the block on friday arment members stood together linking arms and singing to mark the farewell bodies president says he's saddened by the final outcome but has vowed to keep strong ties between britain and. i mean this interesting a day on behalf of the european parliament i'd like to say to those colleagues who will be leaving us because this is the last plane reseating that we are very grateful i'd like to say that we truly appreciate all the work you have done over the last few years to our friends from the u.k. your being here has only made the e.u. richer. your success in my pump air has continued to urge the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award the chinese tech firm a limited role in its 5 g. network or payers arrived in london for talks with his british counterpart dominic robb and the prime minister he said the us would evaluate the u.k.'s decision and

that american information would only be allowed to pass through trusted networks and these 30 people have been killed in overnight attacks in eastern democratic republic of congo 4 villages in the territory of beni were raided by a rebel group called the allied democratic forces region has seen a surge in violence since october when the army launched an offensive against the rebels argentina's new government has begun issuing food cards to low income families in an attempt to fight malnutrition the card gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month to buy certain food items the country is in the midst of an economic crisis and is gearing up to restructure around $100000000000.00 in debt to risible reports from what is ours. long lines of people waiting to get government help and this is happening in some order only half an hour away from the center of when our societies. this is just one of the places in the country where the new government

of a lot of the fatah members has not got a program to fight my nutrition. has 4 children and has been without work for a year. it's a compliment to help. for years we have seen an increase in prices and it's difficult to make sure the kids eat well we bought lots of pasta and rice and they need meat fish and protein in the past year the devaluation of the peso currency has had a strong impact on the price of food many of those coming here are already receiving government help this card gives them between $50.90 extra dollars a month to buy only certain food items. my husband has some temporary work but i don't and this helps a lot with some basic items the government hopes to distribute over 560000 cards to help cope with rising my nutrition in the province on site children can get vaccinated. and there is

a nutrition expert that teaches people how to eat smart. we're telling people what they should buy once they get the card we talk to them about what type of food that children eat we ask them to buy fruit vegetables meat and milk we see children who are not big enough and others who are overweight we're trying to educate them that they shouldn't buy sugary drinks that do not add that are at. the government also that this carts will help reactivate argentina's economy that is already struggling with recession and nation and even though this food carts will certainly help lots of families here that are currently struggling with the economic crisis most analysts say that the program to help solve argentina is endemic in capacity to generate jobs says the program will inject almost $9000000000.00 in the economy a year. from now. an emergency trying to allow families to buy basic needs but the objective as the president said. is to change the economic structure in the

country to be able to generate jobs that is what the country needs by activating the economy we would generate consumption and hopefully economic prosperity argentina produces grain and protein for millions of people around the world but it has failed to fight my new richmond at home only years of sustained economic growth will guarantee better living conditions for those who depend on the government to survive. this indonesia has terminated its 25 year conservation agreement with the world wildlife fund for nature indonesian environment and forestry ministry has accused the charity of allowing a forest where it operated to burn the government has also condemned a social media campaign by the agency which criticised how it handled forest fires w w f denies the accusations and says the term a nation in the agreement will put endangered wildlife at risk. the security

company in the united arab emirates is being accused of deception after giving jobs to young sudanese men who say they were then sent to fight in wars dozens of managed to return home but many others are still believed to be in yemen or libya even more good reports from khartoum when i added the following got a letter from a recruitment company late last year about work in the united arab emirates he was delighted he would be able to send money back home to help his family he applied for a job as a security guard and was taken on by an iraqi company called black shield but when he arrived in abu dhabi he was in for a shock. you know months ago want to go. we were taken to a military camp and given training on how to handle heavy weapons most of our supervisors were marauder yes it was not the type of training you'd get for a job as a security guard when i asked why we were being trained on heavy weapons if we were supposed to work as security guards they said we could be sent to libya or yemen to protect amorality installation was. it is now back in sudan after

a campaign by the families of those who were recruited in all about 200 sudanese member turned on tuesday and immediately went to the u.a.e. embassy how tuned to stage a protest outside they say hundreds of their fellow sudanese are still either in the emirates a training camps or in libya their crews meant a company in sudan has refused to comment hundreds of young sudanese men thought they were going to be security guards in the way when they were taken on by black shield their families see they quickly discovered they were expected to fight as mercenaries in the wars in libya and yemen they're now appealing to the sudanese government to use its influence with the united arab emirates and bring all their sons home so dan's ministry of information says it's aware of the issue and is working to ensure the safety of all of those who were recruited but. communication is ongoing some of us who are in the camps in the u.a.e. have come back our operations unit is working to gather information we were in

touch with the families and embassies of sudan and the amorality authorities who have been cooperative and with the company in a few days this issue may be over 90 all my son was one of the 1st to take up the offer of a job where they would the mind we have nothing besides crying and this is not how i usually sound because of all the crying people console me and say he's not dead and when he saw it must i told his sister to write and say if you're in libya a comeback. a sentiment shared by many of the mothers who say no amount of money is worth more than having their sonthi family back home he. had its own. still ahead on the program in sports the wimbledon champion wastes no time in reaching the australian open semifinals peter.

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time to support his peter and. lauren thank you so much the upcoming world indoor with a 6 championships in china is the latest sporting event to be postponed by the corona virus outbreak the 3 day competition was due to take place in nanjing in march and will now be held in 2021 the city is about 500 kilometers from the same to of the outbreak in. the virus has also sparked concerns in japan where tokyo is hosting the olympics in less than 6 months the city's governor says that precautions need to be taken mel before it's too late at the head going as you and i need to do with only $177.00 days to go and our preparations are accelerating we must tackle the

new coronavirus to contain it or we're going to regret it i will do the utmost to contain this new problem as we cooperate closely with all of you china's women's football team have been quarantined for 7 days in a brisbane hotel because of fears of the coronavirus 32 members of the squad and support staff left who had a week ago if any of these footballers who are all perfectly well at this point and have their own taint doctor with them if any of these footballers develop any symptoms well of course be taken then made it play to one of our hospitals to be made the safest and tested and isolated in one of thighs hospitals i can assure you this there's no risk to anyone in that hotel. dami team produced the big shock on wednesday at the australian open by knocking out will number one in the quarter finals it sets up a semifinal against another man also chasing his 1st grand slam title. david stokes

reports. rafa nadal the top seed and world number one had only lost one set in the tournament heading into this match but he dropped the 1st 2 against team both on a tie break. the dow was hoping to draw level with roger federer's 20 grand slams this week and fought hard the spaniard already set back in the 3rd the 4th was very close to and could have gone either way but again on another tiebreaker it was the team who came out on top to take the weight avenging his back to back the french open final defeat today down he said the 2nd austrian to reach the australian open semi's after thomas muster we did it back in 19899097 i had religious feeling the horse's luck in the right situation cordle's was really on my side but. it's necessary because he is obviously one of the greatest of all time biggest legends this sports ever had so you need some luck to to beat him. team will now face

germany's alexander is very he's into his 1st ever grand slam semifinal to get there the world number 7 had to fight from a set down to beat 3 time major winner stand by. 22 year olds perry has plenty of crap support in australia having earlier in the tournament pledged to donate all of his prize money to push for relief efforts if he wins the tournament that would work out to $2800000.00. easy to say in a 1st round oh 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. in the women's draw it didn't take long for simona halep to dispatch and come to fight in the quarters and there flawless display by the wimbledon champion saw her take. the opening set 6 games to one. g. took the 2nd set by the same margin and remaining as 4th seed had it all wrapped up in just 53 minutes leaving her plenty of time disagree tell therapy.

i will do some shopping like every day because motivates me and i said the last time. and then the moral i was think about the match up next to how it was former world number one gabi move. she's unseated at this tournament but beat anastasia puppy a change in straight sets. the spanish venezuelan player is into our 1st grand slam semifinal since the french open in 28 david stokes al-jazeera. liverpool's march toward the 1st time in the english premier league received another boost on wednesday to no victory at west ham with goals from most solid hand alex oxalate chamberlain give them a 19 point lead at the top of the table all the teams now have 14 matches live to play this season and in the english league cup manchester city were beaten 10 by manchester united in the 2nd leg of their semifinal then

medal though they still go 3 go through $32.00 on aggregate pneumonia matter if scored and were same 2 for the it here at the same time says he will play aston villa in the final on the 1st of march the upcoming 25th season in grand prix racing for the great valentino rossi who could be his last after he's team yamaha announced on wednesday he'll be replacing 2021 the 7 time moto g.p. champion will lose these rides to upcoming frenchman fab you thought oh he's the most successful yamaha rider of all time rossi turns 41 next month and is here to confirm if you will retire at the end of the season. when the dust strawberry makes its long awaited return to form a new one this season there will be a big surprise awaiting the drivers the organizers showed off the new circuit layout on wednesday at the seaside track in some food it contains banked corners which should allow for plenty of overtaking and dramatic racing the track is having

a $70000000.00 upgrade as it returns to the f one calendar in may after a 35 year absence very exciting very fast cars could be just entering that part of the track side by side and then you will see who is the man who is the boy you know the longest breath to go in there so a lot of exciting racing i'm absolutely convinced that's all the sport for now lauren back soon in london peter thank you very much indeed now thousands of indian women have set a new guinness world record for the most people dancing with swords and. $2126.00 women came together in the western city of raj quote to perform the traditional sword dance of the regiment community practice states back to medieval era when branch put women welcomed their men home from victory on the battlefield. that's it for me for this news out i'll be back in a minute with more news. frank

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