their choice to save people and america's debt to the black people today some of us so scott even scared to speak out because a soprano. al jazeera correspondent a moral debt. rushing to get more medical help in and more foreigners out is the number of people infected by the corona virus jumps by a newbie a 3rd in china. the whole world needs to be on alert the world needs to take action and be ready. i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the white house moves to block the publication of a book by former national security advisor john bolton which reported the implicates donald trump. as palestinian protesters denounce donald trump's middle

east plan president mahmoud abbas says he will travel to new york to address the united nations had a healthy appetite for new food. chain is fighting malnutrition among low income families. the death toll from the corona virus has risen to 170 as countries rushed to evacuate citizens from the epicenter of the bright china's who by province japan's health minister says 3 nationals who were on the 1st evacuation flight from china have tested positive for a new strain of the virus more than 7000 people have so far been infected in china and it appears to be spreading abroad the world health organization says some countries need help for appearing to cope with the outbreak. countries who have important 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 epi center or from from other epicenters that become established well let's bring in white high now who is standing by in hong kong why bring us up to date on the evacuations in the lightest restrictions. yes well the latest comments coming from the very top of the government in beijing from the premier league chang he has labeled the situation a grave and complicated you mention the death toll now from the latest statistics that have come out from the national health commission being $170.00 that's an increase of $38.00 so that's the largest single leap in the death toll that we've

seen since this outbreak started although one of those new fatalities is in who bay province where the outbreak started the other one further to the west in sichuan province so certainly the situation there in mainland china with the number of cases increasing rapidly is getting worse and the virus seemingly spreading further around the world as well we saw governments begin those evacuation flights on wednesday with the united states and japanese government sending planes to city to get some of this citizens out and as you mentioned confirmation now that 3 of the passengers that were on the japanese flight back to the capital tokyo have tested positive for corona virus other governments are hoping to do the same in fact there were some sched jewel to take place on thursday including one from the united kingdom which seemingly is now not happening because governments are now having trouble getting permission for whatever reason from the chinese government to lend

their planes in according to media reports around $200.00 u.k. citizens in city of now being told that they will not be leaving on thursday 2 other flights from south korea were shed to have left already they have not done so and it seems according to reports coming from seoul that at least one of those planes it is hoped will depart from south korea too late on thursday but it remains to be seen of course whether that will be possible all eyes on geneva as well later on thursday an urgent meeting happening at the world health organization with the possibility that they made to clear this now a global health emergency. why and how he's joining us live there from hong kong well the u.s. is citizens taken out of the chinese city at the center of the corona virus outbreak are undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring at a nearby scene california $195.00 americans arrived at the macho reserve base on

wednesday but is said to not be under an imposed quarantine us officials say or were screened and cleared ahead of boarding their aircrafts rob reynolds is in riverside in california he says the americans 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 law 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 the 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 matthew driscoll is the editor of asian aviation he says airplane if you will to his systems will be unlikely to prevent the spread of the virus. 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's no virus around or the you know during the winter time you see lots of people wearing mass all the time in the airline industry into service industries airlines normally they want their of 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 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 and you know the virus is really really small. 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 see and that gets spread out over 2 or 3 rows i mean the droplets travel it's amazing if you if you you know 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. u.s. democrats are stepping up their calls for witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of donald trump head of a crucial senate vote on friday it comes as the latest hearing was obvious shadowed by fallout from an upcoming book by former national security advisor john bolton which could implicate the president i did george castro reports from washington. donald trump's defense team has a novel argument for his acquittal that the president asking ukraine for dirt on a political opponent may be 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 away in the public interest that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an 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. bring it 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. castro al-jazeera washington. for more on the impeachment he had for tansy in washington 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 in 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 them 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 in private behind closed doors it wouldn't be televised that 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 cool that it will actually come to that because although mitch mcconnell on monday all 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 this early mean that republicans were in favor of witnesses giving their testimony in the trial it was there were 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 now made the decision that they do not want witnesses to come forward and testify at the trial because it would just take too long they might be legal challenges from the white house it may become a bit of a circus as things stand right now it's looking more likely than not that witnesses

will not be called anyway. well still ahead on al-jazeera why these politicians were scolded is bricks appeared a major hurdle in the european parliament at a stand off in guinea as security forces that at a government protesters battle in the capital. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well in the coming days here across the western part of canada as well as the united states we're going to be seeing a series of storms coming in off the pacific well one is already making its way here across much of canada and with that we're going to sing some very heavy rain windy conditions and it's also going to be the snow in the higher elevations that is going to really bring up the risk of avalanches as well down towards the south though it's going to be the risk of floods here across parts of washington as well

as oregon as we go from friday as well as into the weekend down towards the south though in southern california it's going to be those temperatures on the rise and that means the risk of fire weather is also increasing its los angeles expect or tensions to come up over the next few days thursday is going to be about 24 degrees by the time we get toward saturday though we do expect to see about 28 degrees of well above average for this time of year here across the bahamas it is going to be wet on thursday heavy showers across much of the northern part of the bahamas and that means freeport you can we see some thunderstorms pushing through as well better conditions by the time we get towards friday but it's really here across the gulf going to be seeing some increasing rain across much of the area and that's going to affect parts of the yucatan if a cocoon expect to see some rain in the forecast and a temper of about 28 degrees. al-jazeera

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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 u.s. democrats are stepping up calls for former national security adviser john bolton to testify at president. the white house is trying to block the release of bolton's upcoming book saying it contains significant amounts of classified information. the palestinians are putting pressure on the u.n. to take action against the u.s. president's plan for middle east peace 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 on the issue. has more from the united nations. 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 want but the u.n. spokesperson is careful not to make that clear publicly we've seen the announcement

of the plan and 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. at the united nations israel's army is deploying more

troops in the occupied west bank and near the gaza border it follows protests against the us president's proposed deal dozens of palestinians have been injured by israeli army fire as they voiced their anger against the plan saying it further undermines their rights as more from ramallah. palestinians see 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 closed the fruits preventing many activists from getting there i don't think. 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 part europe that i'm going to get along to trample 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 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 menace and 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 wants and to roll. with israeli elections only a few weeks away many year think prime minister benjamin netanyahu may start the annexing of some palestinian territory sooner rather than later. the occupied west bank. at least 30 people have been killed following an attack on a village in the democratic republic of congo report rebels with the allied democratic forces targeted the the eastern city of beni early on wednesday officials say the i.d.f. is responsible for a string of killings and he government protests have turned violent in the guinea and capital free after with 2 people killed by security forces in as many days at least $22.00 people have died since demonstrations began. reports.

a standoff in guinea's capital tear gas filled the streets as another round of mass anti-government protests turned violent. police used slingshots with stones as they tried to disperse the crowds and protesters forced back arrests were made by security forces and. my mother told me to go to the garage to work i told her there's a strike on today she wanted me to go anyway but i went outside the police arrested me i was just trying to get to work. this building was set alight in the demonstrations it was a local business a coalition of opposition groups calling itself the national front for the defense of the constitution has been spearheading the protests it called for a national strike on wednesday which saw many shops close one since last night police have been deployed in the area to secure cannot create against these

authorized protests but we are sure in the community that we have this under control the west african country has been hit by rolling protests since mid october or the concerns president alpha condé will seek a 3rd term in office he 1st came to power in 2010 and his 2nd and final 5 year term in office is coming to an end this year the opposition claims he plans to use a new constitution to extend his 2 term limits until this is rolled out it's unclear when the unrest will end weekly gauge al-jazeera. u.s. secretary of state mark pompei was urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese take firm weiwei a limited role in its 5 g. network has 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 or is

johnson insists the move will not imperil the u.k.'s relationship with the trump administration the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the u.k. from the e.u. withdrawal agreement was ratified by 621 votes to 49 sealing britain's official exit from the block on friday that has about the reports from brussels who. the british p.c. 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 meet the friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over and said it was an era if 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 will always love you and we will never be far long live 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 a broom goodbyes nostalgia was cut short by briggs possibly to nigel for raj if you want to go national we're going to wave. a word in the future so if you disobey the rules see that. 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 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 natasha al-jazeera rossum is. having. causing more destruction in southeast brazil at least 60 people

have died and 30000 others have been displaced since the deluge began last week floods and landslides have destroyed towns in minutes littering streets with debris some areas of experience there for since records began more than 100 years ago. argentina's new government has begun issuing food to low income families in an attempt to now nutrition gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month. the country is in the midst of an economic crisis that is gearing up to restructure around $100000000000.00 in debt to raise about as more from. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in. 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. has not 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. 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 $50.00 and $90.00 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 they should buy one sick at 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 their diet the government also very good cards will help reactivate argentina. economy that is already struggling with recession and nation and even though these cards will certainly help families here that are apparently struggling with the economic crisis most analysts say that the program helps. in capacity to generate jobs. the program will inject almost $9000000000.00 in the economy a year. 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 nates 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 home only years of sustained economic growth will guarantee better living conditions for those who depend on the government to survive. this is the top stories the world health organization will meet again on thursday to decide whether the corona virus outbreak constitutes an international emergency it's all countries to be ready to take action against the virus that has left more than 170 people did in china. the u.s. citizens taken out of the chinese city at the center of the outbreak undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring. for $195.00 americans arrived at the reserve base on wednesday but are not under an imposed quarantine. democrats are stepping

up calls for former national security adviser john bolton to testify 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 now 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 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 the

palestinian envoy to the u.n. says he's hoping the 15 member group will back a draft resolution on the issue he. was in london for talks with his british counterpart dominic robb and the prime minister. to reconsider its decision to award chinese take away a limited role in its 5 g. network the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the u.k. from the e.u. the ratification of the withdrawal agreement seals britain's official exit from the block on friday parliament members to together linking arms and singing about the farewell the bodies president says he's saddened by the. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after the bottom line. there's a wave of sentiment around the world where people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are

not heard because this is not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover the big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my that's you never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what i'm hearing does he ask the questions to people who should be accountable and get people to give their view of what's going on. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question will trump's deal of the century actually bring peace to the middle east or will it bring the exact opposite let's get to the bottom line. so what do we know about this so-called ultimate deal between palestinians and israelis for starters the palestinians weren't part of it the leaders who made it u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are both facing legal troubles and they're both in the middle of election campaigns instead of trying to find common ground between the 2 parties it sounds more like a series of taking or leave it suggestions so is the deal of the century really the

biggest debt deal of the century is it a well timed distraction for trump and netanyahu.