this is al jazeera. hello you're watching algis there as news hour with me as a whole rather live and coming up in the next 60 minutes rushing to get more medical help in the more foreigners out as the number of people infected by the coronavirus jumps by nearly a 3rd in china. the world health organization is urging all countries to take action. the whole world needs to be on alert the whole world needs to take action and be ready. in other news the white house moves to block the publication of a book by former national security advisor john bolton which reportedly implicates donald trump. does palestinian protesters denounce trump's middle east plan

president mahmoud abbas says he'll travel to new york to address the united nations . welcome to the news of the death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 170 countries rushed to evacuate citizens from the epicenter of the outbreak china's hubie province japan's health minister says 3 nationals who were on the 1st evacuation flight from china have tested positive for the new strain of the virus more than 7000 people have so far been infected in china and it appears to be spreading internationally the world health organization says some countries need help preparing to cope with the outbreak. countries who have imported cases they have to stop transmission some of them are doing that extremely well all of them

are actually taking good action but some need some help and assistance with lab and other expertise and we're doing that from the behavioral but the whole world needs to be on alert now the whole world needs to take action and be ready for for any cases that come either from the original every center or from from other epicenters to become established let's bring in our cause but wait hey who's in a hole for a way every day we come to our correspondents like your good self and we ask what is the latest because this issue and this virus it's affects changing by the minute and by the hour. yes certainly is the chinese premier league chang has labeled this complicated and grave referring to the situation in mainland china the latest death toll as you mentioned now $170.00 so that's an increase according to the national health commission with its

latest figures coming out on thursday morning of 38 and that would mark the largest single leap in that death toll that we have seen since this outbreak began all but one of the deaths has been in who had a province where the outbreak started the other one was to the west of who bay in situ on our province who bay province and its capital city were still very much in lockdown the people there simply cannot leave many of them choosing to quarantine themselves in their homes many foreign nationals there as well and we're starting to see governments get flights into hand city to evacuate some of their city citizens from that area japan did that on wednesday taking more than 200 of its nationals back to the capital city tokyo and as you mentioned confirmation now coming through that 3 of those passengers on that flight have now tested positive for corona virus. 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 and. i was very worried because the situation changed very rapidly honestly i am quite relieved that they brought his him swiftly with a chartered plane. 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 the decision the smalling to prepare. plan for an operation to provide some assisted departures for isolated and vulnerable stray ians in harm in the who by province in woo 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 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 terry 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. and when we've been able to follow really developments in terms of how the whole forty's are trying to contain the virus so to speak where they are mean what's the latest situation is a real concern isn't. yes there is an atmosphere of concern in hong kong there's no doubt because of the obvious connections between this city and mainland china the overall number of confirmed cases is fairly stable it is risen by 2 according to the latest statistics from the government to 10 but there are hundreds more people who are suspected to have the case they're still going through testing and monitoring and one of the reasons the authorities are concerned here they say about the next 14 days or so because that's what they think is the maximum incubation period for this virus is because in mainland china we're still in the lunar new year holiday period it was extended because of the virus

it's come to an end officially in hong kong even though people are being urged to still work from home but it's estimated that around 300 or as many as 300000 hong kong residents went to mainland china for the lunar new year holiday period many of those people may still be there so those people have come back or still to come back so a lot of concern that the number of confirmed infections in hong kong may rise soon in the days ahead will for the update wane thank you. the united states citizens evacuated from the chinese city at the center of the corona virus outbreak undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring at an air base in california 195 americans arrived at the march reserve base on wednesday but are said to not be under any imposed quarantine u.s. officials say all were screened and cleared herd of boarding craft rob reynolds 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 on the 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 on and to be receiving medical treatment or medical monitoring and 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. yes democrats all stepping up the coals for witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of double trump ahead of a crucial senate vote on friday and it comes as the latest hearing was overshadowed by for lunch from the upcoming book by the foeman national security adviser john bolton which could implicate the president hi joe castro has more from washington d.c. . donald trump's defense team has a novel argument for his acquittal that the president asked in ukraine for dirt on a political opponent maybe in his personal interest and also in the interest of the united states making him immune if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the

public interest that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo. that results in impeachment democrats prosecuting trump say his intent was purely for political gain so all could prose are not the same some are legitimate and some are corrupt and you don't need to be a mind reader to figure out which is which for one thing you can ask john bolton john bolton trump's former national security advisor reportedly claims in an upcoming book that trump directly tied his hold on security a.j. ukraine to his demand for investigations into joe biden in a letter obtained by al-jazeera the white house warns bolton not to publish his book without deleting classified information on twitter wednesday trump said the book was nasty untrue and all classified democrats want to call bolton as a witness they'll need support from 4 republican senators to make that happen they vote no they're saying this is

a sham they're saying we don't want to hear the truth what does that say to america about this body. meanwhile someone else was all but begging for senators to call him to testify. from donor left parness says he was dispatched to ukraine by trump's attorney to stir up dirt useful for trump's reelection parness is under federal indictment for campaign fraud and says he came to the capitol wearing an ankle monitor to make amends democrats have acknowledged getting republicans to agree to witnesses is an uphill battle that question will be put to a vote friday if the answer is no trump could be immediately acquitted by peter castro al jazeera washington. both have written c. joins us now from washington d.c. in the role focal point really is john bolton and the issue of willy always be a witness. right and just some of us are as regards an e-mail we we

saw an e-mail from john bolton's lawyer which he sent to the national security council in the white house or vetting his book disagreeing that anything in his book is classified but saying look there's this possibility that bolton may testify as early as next week in the senate can you at least complete your review of the book tell us what you think is confidential we can work something out you know we need to know what what you're alleging is classified information and they haven't received any answer any answer yet this is their perhaps all all moot i mean even if there is classified information and in the book i mean john bolton could still testify behind closed doors and so on but it's all looking less and less likely as the day goes on it's true that on tuesday mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader said he didn't have the votes to prevent witnesses from appearing at the impeachment trial but i didn't mean that there were lots of republican senators who wanted witnesses just when there were lots of republicans who are undecided and everything we've been hearing over the last several hours here is that more and

more republican senators have been making up their mind and they are beginning to agree with with the white house lawyers that one it would take too long if if witnesses do start appearing at this trial because the white house is very likely to legally challenge those witnesses in court this project months and months and months and secondly even if what john bolton apparently says in his book and what the house managers say is true that there was a quid pro quo. an investigation to the bidens so what it doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense it does seem that more and more republicans appear to be agreeing with the white house's defense fulfullment she had thanks for the update. well plenty more ahead here on the news hour including trump's middle east plan is already having an impact on israel's election campaign just a day after it was unveiled. and while these politicians are scolded breaks it is cleared

a major hurdle in the european parliament. and install there's an upset for rafael nadal in melbourne peter as action from the australian open. now the palestinians are putting pressure on the un to take action against the u.s. president's plan for the middle east 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 will back a draft resolution of the issue or diplomatic editor james bays has bought 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 james 0 of the united nations trans middle east plan is already having an impact on the final weeks of israel's election campaign benjamin

netanyahu is presenting it as a vindication of his leadership his main rival benny gantz is promising to bring the entire deal to a vote in the israeli parliament hurry force it has more from west jerusalem this is a 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 termed 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 thanked him

for the difficult work he did it in creating this lead so you know he's 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 sumaiya today or the george. in valley and the north in the dead sea the team will start working immediately. while the israeli left has rejected the plan netanyahu as main centrist challenger benny gantz has endorsed it but it does risk shifting his campaign away from its previous focus on netanyahu indictment in 3 corruption cases this plan coming just after the official

announcement is indictments are being filed with the jerusalem district court means that he will he now has hold 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 ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. you'll see 1000000000 is a former israeli minister of justice and was a negotiator during the oslo accords and joins me now from new york could have you with us on the program note you know full well being a senior advisor negotiator and part of the team that put the oslo accords together how complicated the issues of israeli palestinian peace is and what is or is not

required to fulfill sort of the long term peace that so many desire in the region so really we need to know what your reaction is to what was presented at the white house just over 24 hours ago i must say that them and watching this scene and it is really unbelievable i don't understand what does it mean the americans up with something which is in their view a very pro israeli not in my view. they're not all do not want to negotiate seriously with the palestinians it is kind of a peace between israel and the united states of america between attorney hour and. a while there the palestinians are watching. from outside the whole process and people are referring to it seriously it's a basis for negotiations we would like to read carefully i mean they know all the

points they know that it is an impossible plan i mean head the palestinians come to me today and say this is the plan that we want i must say that i would have signed it but i don't think that it is realistic i don't think that it serves the interests of the region both but his genius and israel is the last thing that we need now is to annex the jordan valley against whom are we creating a barrier against the jordanians or whoever they are i see that it is just a game for the americans for the right in israel and not for the benefit of the people of this region mahmoud abbas is heading to new york to speak to the u.n. in some shape or form ost likely to the security council what do you expect him to say and do you expect his visit to have any impact on the security council should they find or be able to formulate

a resolution that i think we can assume will be vetoed by the u.s. . as you said right now i mean any decision will be vetoed by the u.s. and. it's a pity it's a pity that mahmoud abbas the president abbas has no little goal and to beg the world to stop this process it will not happen and i believe that at the end of the day it is up to us israelis and palestinians to negotiate as we did in law and in other places i think that we know the solutions for all of the aegis on their agenda it's a pity that we missed opportunities when they sent their lives in israel and was in power to have an agreement then but we have to look at the future and to hope that the trumpet player peace plan or plan or whatever they

call e. it will be in the footnote in history and not more than that indeed i mean the palestinians are saying that this this plan will dip in the garbage bin of history but then at the end of the day as you say it took a leftist government in israel to perhaps get to a position where there was an opportunity a missed opportunity as you say for long term peace is it going to take a shift in israeli politics for israel to come to that position again where the palestinians feel comfortable to be able to talk to you and also at this moment in time we we're getting a very new to international response that doesn't seem to be anyone besides the americans taking the lead on this are you disappointed with the international response at this level i don't understand it do you really don't understand my apologies do you where to the international community stand at this moment should they be taking a much more forthright position. in terms of where the americans the israelis stand

and nobody really backing up the palestinians. well president. spoke yesterday about 80 pages apparently he didn't read them because it is 180 pages but deplane is really not a serious plan i mean who ever prepared it knew that there is no chance in the world that the palestinians called this except something like that with all the promises for $50000000000.00 and whatever and they i think that people in the world including those who are mentioned in your on your program could have been more. i would say open and seen sealed about their reactions they are very diplomatic it worth the americans i can understand that and they say we will they

really did kill fully will see will and try to understand there may be is a basis for something it's not a basis for anything for anything and i believe that the world at least should speak up about it and say will do and people should say leaders will say what do you really think about. this plane which is not the real plan but we shall see what is in the coming days for the moment you'll see bill and thank you so much for joining us from new york. the reaction to trump so-called deal of the century has of course created a global conversation online lee harvey has more. hash tag deal of the century is trending in israel in both english and arabic but the sentiment behind it is mostly pro palestinian free palestine is also trending the deal was met with strong criticism online people are asking if trump is the president of the united states or israel saying the united states should just give israel land instead there's

also anger over the land palestinians have already lost this map circulating online shows just how much has been taken from them over the decades one user writing without respective 2 sides there is no agreement hash tag apartheid is also trending in israel the cartoonist carlos law to have says this is not the deal of the century it's israel's apartheid in disguise and this photo was released by the trumpet ministration on tuesday but is now being compared to a map of south africa during apartheid diana buttu is a palestinian canadian lawyer and a former spokeswoman for the palestine liberation organization she tweeted saying that there are 13000000 palestinians worldwide trump and his crew couldn't find one to sign on to his plan but many in the american jewish community are embracing trump steele the c.e.o. of the american jewish committee david harris said there are important provisions and yes painful concessions for both sides well donald trump and benjamin netanyahu

are both up for reelection later this year and people haven't been slow to describe this as an early bid for votes one user posting this picture saying indicted netanyahu and impeached trump to create peace in the middle east the irony. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a healthy appetite for a new suit cards how argentina's fighting malnutrition among slowing some families and the tassel french role could only giant a town be held to account for actions in the west in uganda. and in sport why it's only long as the u.s. circuit is banking on plenty of drama peter we'll have that story on the other side of the break stay with us here on the news hour. hello again welcome back to you in

a national weather forecast or here across japan we've seen quite a bit of snow of 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 bring you a lot of snow towards a western part of japan as well as up here towards a cairo 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 a sucka a little bit cooler with a temperature of 10 degrees 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 degrees for you there and dhaka at 23. when was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system we do want to each and every love will work later for the further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you and attention or you incarcerate this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so for the united states that's a part of our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on out is iraq. and.

al jazeera. and. i. pulled back you want to be able to use our with me said the reminder of all top stories the world health organization will meet again on thursday to decide whether they coronavirus operate calls to some international emergency it's urging all countries to be ready to take action against the virus that has left more than

$170.00 people dead in china also u.s. democrats are stepping up calls for full but national security adviser john bolton to testify up president trump's impeachment trial the white house is trying to block the release of bolton's upcoming book saying it could take significant amounts. of classified information. and the palestinians are putting pressure on the un to take action against transplant for the middle east palestinian president mahmoud abbas will speak to the security council in the next to this. is to talk top story now of that several commercial airlines have reduced the number of flights to china will stop flying out altogether because of the corona virus outbreak british airways says it's priority is the safety of passengers and crew. is the editor of asian aviation he joins me now from single pole via skype good to have you with us of the program mr driscoll could we just start with why some lines are taking precautions when respective governments have not really being emphatic

what they need to do or not do. well i hate to sound so cynical but i'm a journalist so i am cynical a lot of it is business demand it's that simple united are alone and flies from san francisco to beijing and shanghai flights cathay pacific has cut yesterday. that it's going to cut at least 50 percent of its flights and it's interesting cathay statement i have a copy of it here in front of me on the. 28th of january they put out a statement and say that in light of the government response plan to the noble drona virus and in view of market demand so it's about business demand they're not going to fly planes that are empty you're not going to fly it 16 hours from san francisco to beijing if it's an empty flight so a lot of it is it's a simple business decision. disguised as sort of a public health measure of course that something airlines like cathay as you mentioned were quite resistant to you might say precautions dare i say in-flight

stuff wearing masks is that the issue of blankets and wet wipes i mean that is part of an issue that even for example stuff a push back of a not. definitely i was reading some stories out of hong kong i used to live in ongoing actually i lived there for 10 years very familiar with the city masks are not unusual i mean even when there is no virus around or the you know during the winter time you see lots of people who are mass all the time in the airline industry and to service industries airlines normally they want their staff to present a friendly face and it's hard to present a friendly face when you're covered up with a mask so there was some initial push by the airline on flight crews for example wearing masks but i think given the seriousness of the situation the airline quickly backed out on that and rightfully so one of the many international airlines are going to be watching various health and safety videos regarding got the crowd

of virus one particular national i was talking about the molten fleets that they use the ethyl trace in system board is that to keep passages say to me just talk us through your impression of a line filtration when passengers are really you know you might be sitting down into it a tube flying from one location to another. the filtration systems on the newer airplanes yes they're greatly improved but you're still research relating a lot of the air and no matter how good the filtration system is. you know it's made up be able to filter out something as small as a virus i mean it's a virus is really really small and secondly the filtration system doesn't do any good when somebody in the seat behind you sneezes and doesn't cover their face doesn't cover their mouth when they stays and that gets spread out over 2 or 3 rows

i mean the droplets travel it's amazing if you if you go 'd on you tube and you look at some of the signs videos it's amazing how far these droplets can travel so the air filtration system doesn't matter of in that case at all. many people that we've spoken to as there are these past few days of this crises have sort of tried to. quantify this particular outbreak to the solids outbreak did he what 20 years ago how would you evaluate soul or decide how these 2 come pat. i'm not a scientist so i can't so that is innocent and that's what you decide to say when it has the impact in sort of public psyche or the way that allies a business is a reacting to it. well i think they're i think they're reacting properly this is something that is serious and should be taken seriously so i don't want to. i don't

want to criticize anybody for you know taking urgent steps to do to constrain the virus and quarantine the virus the spread of the virus but i would like to give a little bit of perspective we've had so far i just got my twitter feed here we got from a.f.p. 170 s. in china confirmed cases in china over 7000 or so a 170 deaths that's a very serious thing last year according to the center for disease control in atlanta in the u.s. 50000 people died from the flu so we need to have a little bit of perspective in this. you know and people need to get flu shots so you know 170 versus 50000 for the flu it is serious people need to take precautions but also let's have some perspective on it and well thank you very much feel inside of course we'll continue to monitor the situation with you driscoll live for a said singapore thank you thank you. now 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 14 knowing sealing britain's official exit from the block on friday the. from brussels. for the british police who wanted to remain in the european union and the european colleagues it was an emotional moment as the parliament ratified the withdrawal agreement paving the way for britain to leave the on friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over pride suit and said it was the end of 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. with the broom goodbyes nostalgia was cut short by birth possibly for raj if you want to go national we're going to wave. a word in the future so that if you disobey the rules you get. put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you james while secret is 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 the european union and 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 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 natasha al-jazeera is. here. secretary of state mike pompei was urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese tech firm holloway a limited role in its 5 g.

network compares arrived in london for talks with his british counterpart the prime minister he said the u.s. would evaluate the u.k.'s decision that the american information would only be allowed to pass through trusted networks boris johnson insists the move will not imperil the u.k.'s relationship with the trump ministration i think it is absolutely vital that people in this country do have access to the best technology available but that we also do absolutely nothing to imperil our relationship with the united states to do anything to compromise our critical national security infrastructure or to do anything to imperil our extremely valuable corporation with 5 guys security partners the us president signed into law review 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 for the 1st time in american history we have replaced a disastrous trade deal that rewarded outsourcing with a truly fair and reciprocal trade deal that will keep jobs wealth and growth right here in america it's also a partnership with mexico and canada and ourselves against the world it's really a trade partnership if you look at it that way and it's a day of great celebration in all 3 countries the us aviation giant boeing has suffered its 1st annual financial loss and more than 2 decades sales of slump by 24 percent amid the crisis surrounding its 737 max airliner boeing grounded the plane last march after 346 people were killed in 2 crashes the main calls was believed to be a fault in the plane's software. staying in the americas argentina's new government has begun issuing food cards to low income families they did attempt to fight well

nutrition the card gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month to buy certain food items but the country is in the midst of an economic crisis and is gearing up to restructure around $100000000000.00 worth of debt trees about how small from buenos aires. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in. only half an hour away from the center of one of us. this is just one of the places in the country where the new government of the for a man this 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. 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 and. 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. with telling people what they should buy once they get the cart 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 are trying to educate them that they shouldn't buy sugary drinks that do not add to that diet the government also hope 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's endemic incapacity to generate jobs now would i long source 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 say it is to change the economic structure in the country to be able to generate jobs that is what the country nates 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 back home only years of sustained economic growth will guarantee better living conditions for those who depend on the government to survive. a security company in the united arab emirates is being

accused of deception to giving jobs to young sudanese men who say they were sent to fight in walls of a mortgage. when abbott the 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 up with he was in for a shock. you know a month ago months ago we were taken to a military camp and given training on how to handle heavy weapons most of our supervisors were marauders 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 amerada installation us abbott 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 to tune to stage a protest outside they say hundreds of their fellow sudanese are still either in the emirates at 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 sudan's ministry of information says it's aware of the issue and is working to ensure the safety of all of those who are 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 then mind we have nothing besides crying in tears this is not how i usually sound because of all the crying people console me and say he's not good and when he started messaging us i told his sister to write and say if you are in libya come back a sentiment shared by many of the mothers who say no amount of money is worth more than having their son safely back home he will morgan al-jazeera the tomb at least 30 people have been killed following the time called a village in the democratic republic of congo rebels with the allied democratic forces targeted bidu in the eastern city of bendy early on wednesday officials say the a.d.f. is responsible for a string of killings. so all the calls for the french court is due to decide whether tom is addressing the human or did vironment lebrecht of an oil field in

uganda the case was brought by several human rights groups who accuse the firm of failing to properly compensate farmers removed from their land catherine so reports now former bully isa in western uganda. beneath this expanse of land in western uganda there is an estimated 6000000000 barrels worth of oil. which china national offshore oil corporation and the french mortie national to tower of major operations here including there to langley megaproject which is expected to produce $190000.00 barrels a day. but there is a problem thousands of people who have been moved from their villages to make way for the development say they were forced to accept compensation of just a $1000.00 an acre and that's not enough most of the people who took a cash compensation could not even afford to buy land elsewhere so now they stay in rental houses in village centers like this one and rely on casual jobs to make

a living fred missing girl refused the deal and says he's land was worth more to him than the $3000.00 he was offered i was called routing my lawn my school and my children and they are used to. but after. they become hardened. using my money and from deacon's come again nonprofit organization that has helped me and other families take the matter to court in france he says the oil projects will affect about 50000 people in the western and central regions of the country this is a 1st case and the new french low which requires large corporations to make sure the proper care and attention is paid to the local population. and vironment if these people were not for a split in the what's the body where would the street was between between they find

this they would look at what's the most of them would not have accepted. the project lies partly in the marching song forts national park some rights groups say plans to protect the environment. but government officials insist everything has been fully realize the environment is important to our resume is one of the key. and so we we must we must explore this oil much exploit this oil and gas resources while being called in the center of the fire that we need to co-exist with environment back at them a sequel home state they tell us to oil project has made their family much poorer and signing a bad compensation deal will only make things worse catherine sawyer al-jazeera police out west in uganda. the wimbledon champion waste no time with reaching the australian open semifinals peter all the sports section of the

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by the time sport is peter. thank you very much the upcoming world into athletics championships in china is the latest sporting event to be postponed by the coronavirus outbreak a 3 day competition that was due to take place in nanjing in march and will now be held in 2021 the city is about 500 kilometers from the center of the outbreak in wu han 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 now before it's too late at the head going as you and i need to do with any 177 days to go and our preparations are accelerating we must tackle the need 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 the dummy team produced the big shock on wednesday at the australian open by knocking out world number one rafa nadal in the quarter finals it sets up a semifinal against another man also chasing his 1st grand slam title elizondo verite 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 doll was hoping to draw level with roger federer's 20 grand slams this week and fought hard the spaniard will reach the setback 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 to the dow he saved the 2nd austrian to reach the australian open semi's after thomas muster he did it back in 19899097 i had religious feeling lucky 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's very 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 roy yes it is just so true let's be. 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 simona halep to dispatch come to fight in the quarters and their flawless display by the wimbledon champion saw her take the opening set 6 games to one i took the 2nd set by the same margin and romania's 4th seed had it all wrapped up in just 53 minutes leaving a plenty of time for some retail therapy. i will do some shopping like every day because my debates me and i said the last time. 10 then the more i was thinking about the match up next to how. his former world number one. 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 jane david stokes al-jazeera.

liverpool's march towards a 1st title in the english premier league received another boost on wednesday to no victory at west ham with goals from most and alex oxley chamberlain gives them a 19 point lead at the top of the table all the teams now have 14 matches left to play the season. and in the english league cup manchester city were beaten one nil by manchester united in the 2nd leg of a semifinal but got through the tie a 321 aggregate pneumonia mattered scored and were same top at the etihad city 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 could be the last of the he's team announced on wednesday he'll be replacing 2021 the 7 time champion will lose these rides to upcoming frenchman fab you know he's the most successful yamaha rider of all time rossi turns 41 next month and is here to confirm if you retire at the end

of the season when the strawberry makes its long awaited return to formula one this season there will be a big surprise awaiting 'd 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 entering that. part of the track side by side and then you will see who is the man and who is the boy you know. to go in there so a lot of exciting racing i'm absolutely convinced ok more sports news coming up again later we'll see you then. thanks peter that's the news from base the whole robert strang grants up next rugby team here thanks for time.

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