that. rushing to get more medical help in more 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 here 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 denounce donald trump's middle east plan president mahmoud abbas says he will travel to new york to address the united nations at a healthy appetite for new food. and teenagers fighting about 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 outbreak 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 10 trees need help for pairing 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 to be here joel but the whole

world needs to be on alert now the whole world needs to take action and be ready for for any cases to come either from the original every center or from from other referee centers to become established why brings us the latest from hong kong there's a lot of concern in hong kong that the situation could get worse here so far the numbers are fairly low and have been 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. the u.s. says citizens taken out of the chinese city at the center of the corona virus outbreak undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring at a nearby sing california $195.00 americans arrived at the boche in a reserve base on wednesday but is said to not be on the an imposed quarantine us officials or was screened and cleared ahead of boarding the aircraft 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 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 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 matthew driscoll is the editor

of asian ideation he says a plane if it is 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 masseur 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 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 sneeze 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 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 in that case at all . it was democrats are stepping up their calls for witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of donald trump ahead of a crucial 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 hadi joint task reports from washington d.c.

for. donald trump's defense team has a. full 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 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 so 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 bruce fudge is the former u.s. associate deputy attorney general he explains what the legal requirements offer those who write accounts in the white house what is required and i had to sign one when i was in the government as you submit in a contract to pre-publication review of your manuscript before it's published but still the courts have held the executive doesn't have willy nilly authority to declassify information that really is more political or discloses lawlessness and otherwise and when cases have gone to court where the author of a book is challenge the cia or the security established for improperly trying to redact information they've generally speaking prevailed remember the standards for classification are very very wobbly in vague and the abuse is rampant with regard

to bob woodward for example he's written countless books there's classified information on virtually every page which is true of his book about the trump administration called fear and yet there was never attempt to go to court but also undermines the trump administration is that he did permit ambassador sanyal in to testify about communication with the president and never and vote classification as a reason for for censorship or suppression so it looks as though it's a political rather than a national security issue that troubles the white house. a war of words has broken out between france and turkey over the conflict in libya with french president emmanuel bakr on accusing his turkish counterpart of breaking his promise to stay out of the country he said turkish warships have been spotted arriving on libyan soil turkey's foreign minister has responded saying france should stop supporting warlord holy for half the if it wants to help bring peace earlier this month world leaders pledged not to interfere in the conflict and vowed to uphold a u.n.

arms embargo. still ahead on al-jazeera the standoff in guinea as security forces and protesters battle in the streets of the capital as britain prepares to leave the european union its members make their exit from the european powers and. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well in the coming days it is going to be quite messy here across 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 in your forecast with a temper 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 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 $28.00 degree reading for you but rate in the forecast for harare with a temperature of 27 there. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of the lives. of the

stories. providing the clicks into someone else's work. the one do the 4. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera his ramada about top stories this hour the world health organization will meet again on thursday to decide whether the corona virus outbreak constitutes an 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 shot $195.00 u.s. citizens a bit evacuated out of the chinese city at the center of the outbreak and they're now at the march a reserve base in california with i will undergo 3 days of testing and none of. us democrats are stepping up calls for former national security adviser john bolton to testify as president donald trump's impeachment trial white house is trying to block the release of bolton's upcoming book saying it contained significant abouts of classified information. 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 on the issue diplomatic editor 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 u.s. president's proposed deal dozens of palestinians have been injured by israel. as they voiced their anger against the plan saying it further their rights need to bring him as more from the. palestinians say the proposed middle east plan put forward by the u.s. president changes nothing and actually makes things worse there are still under israeli military occupation and gearing up for more restrictions. there was a small protest in the jordan valley on wednesday an area that makes up nearly one 3rd of the occupied west bank a territory that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised to annex.

the israeli army beefed up its presence in the area and close the fruits preventing many activists from getting there i don't 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 ans want occupied east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state and not. as the trump plan

proposes in eastern suburbs part here of the amber alert of 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. and i think this is not going to be a short term thing going to be a long term. leaders of hamas in gaza have also condemned the proposed plan

and norman. our message was clear we object to the so-called deal of the century this is why we must stand united and work hand in hand in order to confront this conspiracy against our people we must have a unified national strategy to restore our people's rights to end the division once and for all. with israeli elections only a few weeks away many years think prime minister benjamin netanyahu may start the annexing off some palestinian territory sooner rather than later. the occupied west bank at least 30 people have been killed following an attack on a village in the democratic republic of congo rebels with the democratic forces targeted the eastern city of beni early on wednesday officials say the i.d.f. is responsible for a string of killings. government protests have turned violent in the guinea and

capital with 2 people killed by security forces in his many days at least 22 people have died since demonstrations began in october making the guy. 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. 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 marc pompei always urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese take firm huawei

a limited role in its 5 j. network from pio 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 trump administration the european parliament is 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. for the british police he 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 be in friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over it and said it was an era i

want to use the words of the famous british for it george eliot she said. only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love we will 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 briggs possibly to nigel for raj if you want to go national were going to wave. in the future 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 devastates and 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 hang on a race to the bottom on all sorts of standards and 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. us president donald trump aside into lore a new trade deal with mexico and canada it will replace the 25 year old north american free trade agreement with the u.s. and mexico ratified the new deal canada has just begun the process of the biting 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 to sense 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 heavy rains of causing more destruction in southeast brazil at least 62 people have died and 30000 others have

been displaced since the deluge began last week floods and landslides have destroyed towns in middle school or a state littering streets with debris argentina's new government has been issuing food cards to low income families in an attempt to fight malnutrition the card gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month to buy certain food items the country's in the midst of an economic crisis and it's gearing up to restructure about $100000000000.00 in debt to raise about reports from borders are. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in. only half an hour away from the center of when. this is just one of the places in the country where the new government of the for a man this 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 we bought lots of pasta and rice and they need meat and protein in the past year the devaluation of the peso currency has had a strong impact on the price of food many of those coming here are already receiving government help this card gives them between $50.90 extra dollars a month to buy only certain food items. my husband has some temporary work but i don't and this helps a lot with some basic items the government hopes to distribute over 560000 cards to help cope with rising my nutrition in the province on site children can get vaccinated. and there is a nutrition expert that teaches people how to eat smart. we're telling people what they should buy once they get the cot 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 hold 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 in capacity to generate jobs now would i long for 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. 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 these are the top stories the world health organization will meet again on thursday to decide whether the coronavirus upright constitutes an international emergency or countries to be ready to take action against the virus that has left more than 170 people dead in china the u.s. citizens take it out of the chinese city at the center of the undergoing 3 days of testing and monitoring in california 195 americans arrived at the reserve base on wednesday but are not under an imposed quarantine us 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 un 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 u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always in london for talks with britain's foreign secretary dominic robb and the prime minister pompei always urging the u.k. to reconsider its decision to award chinese take huawei a limited role in its 5 g. network the european parliament is overwhelmingly approved the departure of the u.k. from the e.u. ratification of the withdrawal agreement seals britain's official exit from the block on friday parliament members to together linking arms and singing to the farewell well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after witness. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs a much better marketer you and bill gates was apple is going to reinvent stuff on the wall made software what it is today will change the world to high tech

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