the white house moves to block the publication of a book by former national security adviser john bolton which reportedly implicates donald trump at his ongoing impeachment trial. so robert you want to know just their allies my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the rush to get more medical help more foreigners out of the chinese province struck down with coronavirus. also as palestinian protesters to dance donald trump's middle east plan president mahmoud abbas says that he'll travel to new york to address the u.n. . had a healthy appetite for new food carts how argentina's fighting malnutrition amongst

low income families. the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump has added a new phase with the start of 2 days of senators questions but that's already being overshadowed by the fallout of an upcoming book by the former national security adviser john bolton which could implicate the president well leaked excerpts from the book appear to support accusations of abuse of power at the center of the president's trial the white house has moved to block the book's publication saying it contained significant amounts of classified information however on capitol hill democrats are urging republican senators to allow bolted to testify 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 till 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 vote of 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 to race all doubt welcomed me how small the debate surrounding joe bolton's fulfilling book. the latest revelation a letter that has been made public as of today put forward by the white house to 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 his 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 essential 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 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. for the very latest washington d.c. she has really what his being now discussed in the senate will sort of questions are being asked of those that need to get out. well i think it's pretty much going over ground that we've covered before but out of a shift as we as we saw is having every opportunity we're taking every opportunity to say look you got to hear from john bolton the actually since kimberly was speaking we've now seen the letter that john bolton's lawyer sent back to the white house dismissing the idea that there's anything classified at his book but also saying look the national security council has been doing this review of his book for some time now can you speed up the process in case in case john bolton has to

testify next week in the senate and apparently bolton and his lawyers have heard nothing from from the white house i mean they're always even if there is classified information a vote has to impose for him to testify in the trial it's been suggested he could do so in private behind closed doors it wouldn't be televised that particular portion having said all of that there it is now looking more and more unlikely that he will even be he will be called that it will actually come to that because although mitch mcconnell on monday rather on tuesday evening said that he he didn't have the votes to stop witnesses from from being heard from in the trial i did necessarily mean that republicans were in favor of witnesses giving the testimony of the trial it was over several republican senators who are undecided and over the course of the day we've been getting a lot of information suggesting that they have made the decision that they do not want witnesses to come forward and testify at the trial because it will just take too long about the legal challenges from the white house it may become a bit of

a circus specially when republicans then say they want to hear from joe biden until biden and so on so as things stand there this whole bolton discussion is at least as as it relates to the impeachment trial is a bit is a bit moot as things stand right now it's looking more likely than not that witnesses will not be cool. anyway so we focus on friday as such. what does that and what are we actually going to see in terms of votes and what will be the continue sions of whether the vote is for or against a trial as such and whether witnesses will come forward. so theoretically friday we'll have 4 hours of debate on this issue of whether more witnesses and documents should be entered into this impeachment trial as we said the numbers seem to be looking good for mitch mcconnell at the moment and the republicans in the in the senate have said look if they do win that argument no more witnesses no more documents then they will move immediately for a vote on the acquittal of donald trump and they are very likely to win that are

almost certainly likely to win that they're not the democrats simply will never and to go have a to 2 thirds majority to you to convict the president and take him out of office so we look it's looking that like then he will be acquitted trump will be acquitted on friday and he will be able to just i've long been the go give a state of the union address in the house of representatives in front of nancy pelosi and all the house democrats he'll be able to give his state of the union address and say i was cleared off of this terrible witch hunt from you guys indeed to see what happens for the moment she had thank you. now hundreds of people from japan to the u.s. are returning home after being evacuated from china's hubie province the region is at the center of the coronavirus break which has so far left wall the $170.00 people dead on the road 6000 others infected some commercial airliners have reduced the number of flights to china or stop flying there altogether when he has the latest from hong kong. after completing an emergency mission

a plane carrying more than 200 japanese citizens arrives in tokyo from china they're among the 1st foreign nationals to be evacuated by the government from wu han the capital of who bay province which is under lockdown because of coronavirus . he only cute when i was very worried because the situation changed very rapidly honestly i am 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 stray ians in in the who by province in one hand 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 i hope so. i will tell my family the exciting news after i come back i have 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. the united states citizens of accurate and from the chinese city at the center of the coronavirus arc break are undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring got an air base in california $195.00 americans arrived at the march reserve base wednesday but are said to be armed and imposed quarantine u.s. officials say all screen don't clear the head of the boarding of their aircrafts rob ruggles is in riverside in the u.s. state of california he says the americans who've been evacuated from china are still being checked for signs of the virus. passengers from that flight from move on who were checked when they left. checked when their plane stopped to

refuel in alaska and then checked again here upon arrival are settling into barracks they are said to be somewhat frightened obviously by the entire situation and yet quite happy to be out of han and to be receiving medical treatment or medical monitoring they're going to be here for at least 3 days they're going to send samples of the passengers blood to the centers for disease control in atlanta georgia that takes about 3 days for the sequencing to be done and they will then determine whether the passengers are free of the virus and if they are they'll then be allowed to leave but they need to be monitored and surveilled by the health authorities in whatever their local town or or city. but we can take a short break now and we'll be back with more news on the top story of school some

of the school and told preston trump's middle east plan to stay with us. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast we're here across japan we've seen quite a bit of snow over the last few days and more snow is coming here is the culprit we do have an area of low pressure that's pushing across right now and with that we have a north westerly wind coming across the sea of japan breathe a lot of snow towards a western part of japan as well as up here towards kaido now tempers are going to be dropping over the next few days so here on thursday tokyo expect to see about 16 degrees by the time we get towards friday though dropping down to about 12 degrees over here towards the soka a little bit cooler with a temperature of 10 to. yes there was heavy rain expected over the next few days across parts of indonesia mostly down here across java parts of bali maybe lombok

you'll be seeing some very heavy rain as we go towards the end of the week some of the showers could produce a little bit of localized flooding across much of the area but to the north not looking too bad for manila we are looking at a time to there of $28.00 degrees and for thailand we are going to see bangkok with clear skies in temperatures into the mid thirty's there here across parts of india it is going to be fairly quiet we are expecting some showers a little bit more over here towards the east as we go towards thursday kolkata it is going to be a cloudy day there with about $26.00 degrees but on friday we do expect to see some clearing conditions with the tempter dropping down to about $25.00 degrees for you there and dhaka at $23.00. 40 years ago the mysterious killing of the president of north yemen the nation. it's a story of deception and. one that still resonates today. al jazeera world reveals how

a banquet for your many dignitaries became the backdrop to a brutal assassination. the last launch. on al-jazeera. talk about kill watching al-jazeera with me said holroyd the reminder of our top stories u.s. democrats are stepping up calls for former national security adviser john bolton to testify that president donald trump's impeachment trial the white house has tried to block the release of bolton's upcoming book saying it contained significant amounts of classified information. the world health organization will be to get all birthday to decide whether the corona virus outbreak constitutes an international

emergency it's urgent all countries to be ready to take action against the virus that has left more than 170 people dead in china. the palestinians are putting pressure on the united nations to take action against the u.s. president's plan for the middle east palestinian president mahmoud abbas will speak at the security council in the next 2 weeks the palestinian envoy to the u.n. says he's hoping the 15 member group or back a draft resolution of the issue are diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . just moments before this meeting the palestinian ambassador met the current president of the security council the vietnamese ambassador dong ding cui they discussed plans for president abbas to address the council as part of a diplomatic offensive that will also include trips to the african union and this weekend to the arab league the aim is to defeat the trump plan to drag us to

negotiate after they steal another 40 percent of the occupied west bank and to negotiate over 40 years that the tears of the left over it is a recipe for the destruction of the national rights 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 u.n. secretary general antonio good tennis has been very guarded in his response to the trauma plan only issuing a written statement reiterating that the u.n. position is defined by existing security council and general assembly resolutions the trump plan clearly contravenes these are one but the u.n. spokesperson is careful not to make that clear publicly seen the announcement of the plan. i'm not going to get into that which will be left to the others to decide notably member states themselves. does he think this is

a peace plan or annexation i'm not going to characterize it the secretary general did in fact receive a call from mr kushner yesterday afternoon who briefed him. on the plan but i'm not going to go further than what i've said by the time president abbas comes here in the next 2 weeks i'm told the current arab member of the security council tunisia well prepared a draft resolution condemning the trump plan if it's voted on the u.s. is bound as a permanent member to use its veto however the palestinians are hoping they'll be isolated with all the other members of the security council either supporting them or abstaining jamesburg days out of the united nations. israel's army is deploying more troops the occupied west bank and near the gaza border it follows protests against the u.s. president's proposed deal dozens of palestinians have been injured by israeli army

far as they voiced their anger against the plan saying it further undermines their rights has more 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 either. 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 ans want occupied east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state and not as the trump plan proposes in eastern suburbs part europe that i'm going to grow to trample over else jerusalem tells its own story every stone has its history and it was never an israeli or an. 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

having 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 israeli. 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. 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 year think prime minister benjamin netanyahu may start the annexing off some palestinian territory sooner rather than later. the occupied west bank. syrian government forces have made a significant advance and province entering the strategically important town of. it's part of a push to retake the last rebel held region in the country tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting rhetorical reports. syrian government forces and the man in the south of italy probing. 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. with. its 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 hammer 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 play for 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 ceasefire agreement. that live there is now

a movement towards our borders and we have taken our measures since december it's estimated that more than $350000.00 people have been displaced from ethnic province the increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis in northwest syria. but the asset government seems determined to retake the spinal piece of territory still under the control of opposition fighters victoria gates and be al jazeera. the un humanitarian chief says aid reaching civilians in northwest syria is not enough across border humanitarian operations have staved off a massive humanitarian catastrophe in the northwest but let us make no mistake about it civilians are still suffering terribly. under current conditions humanitarian responders do not have the capacity to meet the level of need we are seeing we're receiving reports of tensions mounting because of the inadequate

humanitarian response the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the united kingdom from the european union the withdrawal agreement was ratified by 621 votes to 49 sealing britain's official exit from the bloc of friday the reports of brussels. for the british army peace who wanted to remain in the european union and the european colleagues it was an emotional moment as the e.u. parliament ratified the withdrawal agreement paving the way for britain to leave the e.u. on friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over berg's suit and said it was an era i want to use the words of the famous british for it george eliot she said. only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love we were always love you and we will never be far long lived

europe and i think that i can say the name of all of us. all groups i can only say we will miss you in the coming time and in the coming. but the warm goodbyes nostalgia was cut short by birth possibly to go for raj if you want to know national we're going to wave. a word in the future if you disobey the rules see that. put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you james wells he quit his job as a civil servant to campaign for president it was a moment to relish we believe in democracy and sovereignty so it's nothing to do with european peoples and european countries this is all about european union the institution these are some of the british m.p.'s who are now packing up and preparing to leave brussels of course for those who supported and wanted for example it is a moment of celebration but for those who wanted to remain part of the european

union or some say devastated british green party m.e.p. alexandra phillips spent the morning clearing her office i think the next 11 months we need to focus on ensuring that the u.k. is properly aligned as closely as possible to the e.u. and that we don't end up on a race to the bottom on all sorts of standards protections including workers' rights and environmental protections britain has been part of the e.u. for nearly half a century ending a long relationship is never easy equally challenging is working out how to get home when forced to cooperate with months of negotiations to hand over future relationship those here the hard part is just beginning with al-jazeera proselytize. u.s. president donald trump has signed into law renewed trade deal with mexico and canada it will replace the 25 year old north american free trade agreement both the u.s.

and mexico have ratified the new deal but canada has just begun the process of debating it in parliament. saying in the americas argentina's new government has begun cards to low income families in an attempt to fight well nutrition the card gives them between $50.00 and $1000.00 a month to buy certain food items countries in the midst of an economic crisis that is gearing up to restructure around $100000000000.00 worth of debt trees a bow reports of one desirous. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in some order only half an hour away from the center of one of. this is just one of the places in the country where the new government of the for a man this has not had a program to fight my nutrition. has 4 children and has been without work for a year. it's a compliment to help our past 4 years we've seen an increase in prices and it's difficult to make sure the kids eat well we buy

a lot of pastor and rice and they need meat fish and protein in the past year that 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 the 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 need. 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 to their diet the government

also holds that this cards will help reactivate argentina's economy that is already struggling with recession and nation and even though this food cart 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 now it says the program will inject almost $9000000000.00 in the economy a year from now. we're in an emergency trying to allow families to buy basic needs but the objective as the president see it 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 will generate consumption and hopefully economic prosperity argentina produces grain and protein for millions of people around the world but it has failed to fight at home only years of sustained economic growth

will guarantee better living conditions for those who depend on the government to survive. your child is there with the cell robber the wind of our top stories us democrats are stepping up calls for a form of national security adviser john bolton to testify a president donald trump's impeachment trial the white house is trying to block the release of bolton's upcoming book saying it contains significant amounts of classified information 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 till 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 cases overwhelmingly clear without john bolton but if you have any question about it. you can to race or doubt the world health organization will need to get all of those data decide whether the coronavirus are great constitutes an international emergency it's all countries to be ready and take action against the virus that has left more than 170 people dead in china the united states says citizens evacuated from the chinese city at the center of the corona virus outbreak undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring as an air base in california 195 americans arrived on the march air reserve base on wednesday but are said not to be under an imposed quarantine the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the united kingdom from the european unity of the ratification of the would draw agree with seal's britain's official exit from the block on friday parliament members stood together linking

obs and singing to mark the farewell the body's president says he's saddened by the final outcome but as to keep strong ties between britain and the european union. the us secretary of state by pompei is in london for talks with his british counterpart. the prime minister. the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese tech for a while away a limited role in its 5 g. network he said the u.s. would evaluate the u.k.'s decision and american information would only be allowed to pass through trusted networks those are the headlines back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's inside story do stay with us.

chair is and jay is is the u.s. president on vials his long awaited middle east peace plan israeli goals get support while palestinian aspirations a sideline does the proposal boost or undermined peace what does this say about america's evolving position on the conflict this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sami's i'd.