rushing to get more medical help in and bore foreigners out as the number of people infected by the corona virus jumps by nearly a food in china. the whole world needs to be on alert the whole 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 reportedly implicates donald trump. as palestinian protesters to the middle east plan president mahmoud abbas says he will travel to new york to address the united nations a test for french crude oil giant total be held to account for actions in which to

. the death toll from the corona virus has risen to 170 is countries rushed to evacuate citizens from the epicenter of the outbreak 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 preparing to cope with the opera. 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 efforts centers that become established well let's bring in white high dow who is in hong kong why don't you bring us up to date on what the light is with the travel restrictions and the spread of these bottles. yes well that the latest statistics coming out from the national health commission in beijing with the number of deaths rising to 170 means it's an increase stan of 38 that is the largest single increase that we've seen since this outbreak began all but one of those new fatalities is in who bay province where this outbreak began and that area is still very much in lockdown so chinese citizens who are in a province really have no choice but to stay put until the government says otherwise but there are of course many foreign nationals there as well many of whom

who want to leave we saw the 1st evacuation flights take place on wednesday from the united states and japanese governments as you mentioned 3 all of those passengers on the flight to the japanese capital tokyo have now tested positive for corona virus other governments are announcing plans that they too want to send emergency flights into city to get their nationals out who want to leave but the practicalities of that are proving to be quite difficult there was a british plane that was shed jewel to land in wuhan city on thursday and it seems that that is now not going to take place there are reports that british nationals in the capital of who by the province who want to leave have been told that they will not be departing on thursday it seems that there is some difficulty with from these governments getting permission from the chinese government to land those planes in the same situation with south korean flights there were supposed to be 2

that would to have departed from south korea already on thursday they have not left the south korean foreign ministry saying that they hope to get a flight away with permission from the chinese government late on thursday exploded as well the fear is in hong kong that a virus that is a regional using in mine led china may in fact take root and spread from the. yes there's a lot of concern in hong kong that the situation could get worse if so far the numbers are fairly low and of being stable for a few days now the number of confirmed cases has gone up by 2 to 10 but there are hundreds more who are still being tested and monitored for possible infection with coronavirus authorities are saying the next 14 days or so will be vital they believe that that is the maximum period of incubation for this virus and this of

course is coming at the end of the lunar new year holiday which officially has ended here in hong kong but the mainland china it is being extended for the rest of the week he's here believe that there are as many as 300000 hong kong residents who have traveled to mainland china for that holiday period many of them may still be in mainland china others may have come back in the last few days so of course there is a concern that that number of confirmed cases of infection here in hong kong may rise in the days ahead for you one why and how you live for us in hong kong. an al-jazeera team also traveled to the chinese region just north of the who by province where the virus broke out but with the threat of being quarantined they were forced to leave scott has that story. to get a better idea of how the corona virus is having an impact on communities closer to the epicenter in will han and province. we took the southbound train from beijing

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

stopping us here not even letting us go inside. we were not the only ones being turned away other cars were prevented from going in if they could not prove that they were from chung young. and then we were told by the official that if we did not leave one province before the end of the day it was highly likely that we would be put in quarantine. as the end of the extended holiday draws closer many people in these communities could be cut off even longer if additional transportation restrictions are put into place scott how to. the u.s. citizens to get out of the chinese city at the center of the coronavirus. undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring at an air base in california 195 americans arrived at the air reserve base on wednesday but is said to not be under an imposed quarantine u.s. officials say they were all screened and cleared ahead of boarding the aircraft's 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 han 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 that 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. here as democrats are stepping up their calls for witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of donald trump ahead of a crucial vote senate vote on friday it comes as the latest hearing was i was shadowed by fallout from an upcoming book by former national security advisor john bolton which could implicate the president castro has more from washington to say. 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 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 trumps 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 or. 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 out of knowledge 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 removed at least acquitted by peter castro al jazeera washington. now the white house has put in place obstacles to block the publication of john bolton's book and if she had the chance he explains it but you don't help the democrats after all. 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 button and his lawyers have heard nothing from them from the white house i mean they're always even if there is classified information that has to impose for him to testify at the trial it's been suggested he could do so 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 called 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 the testimony of the trial it was there were several republican senators who were 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 as things stand right now it's looking more likely than not that witnesses will not be called anyway. still ahead on al-jazeera with israel in the midst of an election campaign we look at the domestic reaction to the trial proposals and protests in khartoum after a security company from the u.a.e. is accused of sending young sudanese made to $500.00 yemen and the. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well in the coming days it is going to be quite messy here cry. parts of turkey and then pushing into parts of the middle east we're talking about a lot of snow expression the higher elevations in for turkey that could go anywhere

between $75.00 to $100.00 centimeters of snow in the next 72 hours it's going to be a messy day here on thursday a combination of rain as well as snow all the getting to about 5 degrees and friday a better day the rain the snow moving out but we do expect to see a cooler day with attempted there of about 4 degrees down towards the south though plenty of rain across much of syria and windy as well damascus we do expect to see attempted there of about 11 degrees on saturday the snow makes its way towards northern iraq and we could be seeing tehran with some snow in flurries and your forecast for the temps there of 9 degrees across much of madagascar of course we have been watching the flooding situation there more rain across much of the north in the coming days the rain will extend across mozambique as well but it is going to be quite warm and sunny down here across capetown we do expect to see a temperature on thursday of $28.00 degrees that's going to be dropping down to about $24.00 by the time we get towards friday and then plenty of sun across johannesburg we do expect to see a 28 degree reading for you but rain in the forecast for harare with

a temperature of 27 there. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that really what the . climate change informed opinion is economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the streets going to even know what the law is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly actually rising in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new countries and aware of the use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories the world health organization will meet again on thursday to decide whether the corona virus outbreak constitutes an international emergency it's of 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 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. the palestinians are putting pressure on the u.n. 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 on voyage to the u.n. says he's hoping the 15 member group will back a draft resolution on the issue diplomatic editor joins but is 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 being queen 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 that 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 words 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 jamesburg 0 of the united nations tribes middle east player 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 harry force that reports from west to wrist this is historic and this you became the 1st world leader to recognize israel's sovereignty over areas in judea and samaria that are vital to our security and central to our heritage the soaring music and off camera voiceover had all the hallmarks of a campaign video promising israeli sovereignty in the occupied west bank but for benjamin netanyahu a day after what he had 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 thing in full day difficult work he did in creating this 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 same aria. the jordan valley and the north in the dead sea the team will start working immediately. while the israeli left has rejected the plan netanyahu is 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 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

kerry force at al-jazeera west jerusalem fighting has broken out in eastern india between opposition protesters and supporters of a new citizenship law hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against the controversy or legislation since it was passed last month as reports from new delhi activists are accusing media outlets of pro-government bias in their coverage of the protests we'll have that report of little later for you the security company in the united arab emirates is being accused of deception after giving jobs to young sudanese men who say they were then sent to fight in wars dozens of managed to return home but many others are believed to still be in yemen or libya even mortgage reports from cotton. when i added the following got a letter from a recruitment company late last year about work in the united arab emirates he was delighted he would be able to send money back home to help his family he applied for a job as a security guard and was taken on by an emirates

a company called black shield but when he arrived and he was in for a shock. and you know something i want to go we were taken to a military camp and given training on how to handle heavy weapons most of our supervisors were morality is it was not the type of training you'd get for a job as a security guard when you 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 was. it is now back in sudan after a campaign by the families of those who were recruited in all about 200 sudanese men returned 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 spent 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 say 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 the the. 90 all my son was one of the 1st to take up the offer of a job where they would do one mind then had we have nothing besides crying in tears some of this is not how i usually sound because of all the crying people console me and say he's not dead and when he started messaging us i told his sister to write and say you are like 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 sonthi family back home he will morgan al-jazeera had its own french quarter jews to decide where the oil giant hotel is addressing the human and environmental impact 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 sori reports from bullies 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 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 miss siegel refused the deal and says he's land was worth more to him than the $3000.00 he was offered i was going to bring my lawn i. used to. but after. life become harder. using my money from the cans come ons are non profit 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 flow which requires large corporations to make sure

the proper care and attention is paid to the local population and vironment if these people will not frustrate in the words the fighting we're going to treat was between between a fundies they would not have accept most of them would not have accepted conversation that a land of project lies partly in the margins on force national park some rights groups a plans to protect the environment are not clear but government officials insist. everything has been done you fully realize the environment is important reason is one of the key. and so we we must we must explore this oil might explain this. while being in the center of the fire that we need to co-exist with environment back at them a sequel home state they tell us the oil project has made their family much poorer and signing a bad compensation deal makes things worse catherine al-jazeera police out west in

uganda. the u.s. boeing has suffered its 1st annual financial loss in more than 2 decades. by 24 percent amid the crisis surrounding it 737 max boeing grounded the plane last march after 346 people were killed in 2 crashes the main cause believed to be a fault in the plane's software us president donald trump has signed into law a new trade deal with mexico and canada it will replace the 25 year old north american free trade agreement both the us mexico every other 5 this new deal but canada has just begun the process of the buy to get empowered. you were secretary of state my pompei always urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese tech for 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 boris johnson insists the move will not imperil the u.k.'s relationship with the trumpet minister. i think it is absolutely vital that people in this country do have access to the best technology available but we also do absolutely nothing to imperil our relationship with the united states to do anything to compromise our critical national security infrastructure to do anything to imperil our extremely valuable corporation with 5 guys security partners thousands of indian women have set a new guinness world record for the most people dancing with saw it's. $2126.00 women time together in the western city of raj to perform the traditional sword dance of the rajput community the practice dates back to the medieval movie

area era when women welcomed their men home from a victory on the battlefield. this is our jazeera here are 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 $170.00 people dead in china the u.s. says citizens taken out of the chinese city at the center of the outbreak undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring at an 8 bison california $195.00 americans arrived at the base on wednesday but are not under an imposed quarantine us democrats are stepping up calls for former national security advisor john bolton

to testify at 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 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 un to take action against 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 u.s. president donald trump aside to laura new trade deal with mexico and canada it will replace the 25 year old north american free trade agreement but the u.s. and mexico have ratified the new deal but canada has just begun the process of the biting it in parliament. u.s. secretary of state mark pump aoe is in london for talks with his british counterpart dominic rob and the prime minister is urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese take away a limited role its 5 g. network those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after the strain. the prime minister. mission is to. make this country the greatest place old. fellow the final run into the u.k.'s departure from the e.u.

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