and talk about the stories that matter just 000-0000. china says the corona virus has spread to all 31 mainland provinces the death toll jumps to 170. was around just 0 life from headquarters in doha and also ahead the white house moves to block and new book by former national security advisor john bolton which reportedly implicates donald trump. put your flags away your leaving and take it with you british politicians are scolded as europe's parliament clears the last major hurdle to breakfast. and a healthy appetite for a new food cards how argentina is fighting malnutrition among low income families.

hello the corona virus outbreak which has killed a 170 people so far and in fact that thousands across mainland china has now spread to every one of the country's 31 provinces this comes as the world health organization prepares to hold another urgent meeting later on thursday to decide whether the outbreak should be considered a global emergency. 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 to be a tool for 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 efforts centers that become established. indonesia singapore and new zealand have joined the growing number of countries working to evacuated their citizens from the worst affected will be a province and 3 of the 200 japanese nationals flown out of one han have tested positive for the virus while $195.00 evacuated americans are being monitored at a military base in california so one area taking extra precautions is hong kong which had nearly $300.00 deaths during the sars epidemic in 2003 crowds of people have gathered outside pharmacies they're hoping to snap up the last remaining stocks of facemasks high speed rail on cross border ferry services to the mainland have been suspended but with hundreds of thousands of people set to return from chinese new year celebrations trade unions are threatening to go on strike that's unless the border is shut completely wayne hay has more from hong kong there's

a lot of concern in hong kong that the situation could get worse is 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 these 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 travelled 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. let's get a live update now from china on the coronavirus where all thorny is are making a statement let's listen in but in the. your bank. will other countries and the hong kong. taiwan region where timely reported and a circulated epidemic op dates and shared the whole genome sequencing of the knot will kill another virus as soon as it became available when president. dr tatar as president she has expressed to china's willingness to work along with the hill and the international community to safeguard regional and global public health previous night that the show had convened to e.c. member meetings and our members on the emergency committee have consulted

and made their scientific and objective judgment on the epidemic also they said that china has close and some cooperation with the united states in the health sector in particular ng because so far institutional arrangements in the prevention of control of the emerging and a rate emerging coming up froggies eases we have kept a close contact and the time they shared information c.d.c.'s between the 2 countries have collaborated on technical fronts as well the night of the 27th of january many a way of national health commission made a telephone call with that addicks secretary of the department of health and human services means that our staff has appreciated china's transparency in the prevention and the control and that he has also expressed to him optimism

china's close collaboration with the chill national health commission of china has told united states that way well come at us communication was never chill and china has expressed a willingness to join. trying to export as team. some countries have expressed their willingness to help china appreciates such help china is confident and capable of winning this critical battle and we will maximize our efforts to control the ever gonna make minimises pressman nation transmission will continue to collaborate to with other countries and how come across and taiwan region in particular the epidemic information communication and the sharing of monitoring surveillance investigation prevention control and a recent event. second there are questions on the shortage in medical supplies and transportation in face of the shortage of negative pressure hospital wards

and a negative pressure ambulances national health commission has been collaborating with n d r c m i. to satisfy their needs in particular the most urgent needs. current today there are still shortages in protective commons and the p.p. for medical workers at the forefront that's production is being restored and medical supplies are supplied and provided over the days. there has been donation from the cross the society to thank everyone for their donation there are also questions about his ovation time of drivers who have transported supplies to obey province and the. base that. so dep

told consultation way believe there must be safe. so chinese health authority is speaking right now out of beijing where very we've been saying the. virus outbreak has so far. killed a $170.00 people and they've also said that they will continue to collaborate with the world health organization to work towards prevention control of the virus let's bring in scott heiler he's joining us from beijing and scott i suppose authorities there must be really concerned now that it's spread to all of the mainland provinces in china. yeah absolutely the concern is really really high you know when you talk about you know the way that government has dealt with it you know it created a special group right all the way to the 2nd most powerful government official here the prime minister the kuching he is leading this group he actually went down

through one earlier in the week and he's leading the special group that is working as and it's been referred to as a battle several times we heard it again in that press conference it's going on right now we heard the present xi jinping call it a battle the other day so they really kind of looking at this as a battle that they're going to win they said today but obviously there's there's really a tough road ahead and one interesting thing that they mentioned in this press conference the big concern and that is medical supplies you know we've been hearing and move on and the problems there are there's a shortage of medical supplies they say they've been working quickly to get things down there that's needed one thing they say that still needed protective garments masks and protective suits obviously that's a very critical thing yes for the medical workers but also to help prevent the further spread of this one thing that's interesting too you know so you look at medical supplies a shortage of that you know a lot of people thought that there'd be food shortages and supply shortages for people but we have been talking to some people in move on and they are saying that the stores are still stocked it's just difficult to go and get things or have

things delivered but it seems like the supplies for. personal supplies are still ok and food is just the medical supplies are the critical issue right now and talk us through the evacuation and some of the security measures that have been in place on the ground in china. the growing there's a growing list of nations who are airlifting their citizens out of students who want to leave out of will han and we know that indonesia is also going to partake in that the united kingdom is going to fly out some of its citizens today thursday this is after we saw the united states and japan and list of other nations are in the process of doing that as well one thing that's interesting yes there's a very strict transportation shut down when it comes to those affected areas but also that that's kind of across this nation of 1400000000 people as you mentioned all provinces there were promises now have cases of this coronavirus you know today

was supposed to be the last day of the lunar new year so today would have been a very very busy travel day holiday has been extended until sunday but a lot of those people aren't going to be able to travel because of this lockdown one thing the chinese government said that they will do those in will han province who are tested and cleared of the virus they're going to start to have charter aircraft take them out of the area and we're not sure exactly when that's going to happen that's something that's probably going to take some time but right now because all air traffic out of one has shut down other than these charters evacuation charters so the chinese government's going to do something for those chinese citizens there who want to get back home ok hyla thank you for that update from beijing. u.s. democrats are stepping up their calls for witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of president donald trump ahead of a crucial senate vote on friday it comes as the latest hearing was overshadowed by

fallout from an upcoming book by the former national security adviser john bolton which could implicate the president to 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 elected in the public interest 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 adviser 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. 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 the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to meet the russian president vladimir putin in a few hours to brief him on the u.s. plan for the middle east donald trump's proposal gives israel sovereignty over its illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and the jordan valley palestinians have rejected the plan there urging the u.n. to take action our diplomatic editor james bays has more. 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 one but the u.n. spokesperson is careful not to make that clear publicly 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 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 pays out 0 at the united nations still ahead on al-jazeera protests and cartoon security company from the u.n.

is accused of sending young sudanese men to fight in yemen and libya. with donald trump still trying to get his border want to stop migrants entering the u.s. find out why mexico could be coming could be becoming the next best thing. hello again or welcome back to you in a national weather forecast here across turkey of the next few days we are looking at a wintry mix coming into play we're talking about a lot of rain and snow for the lower elevations but in the higher elevations it is going to be some very heavy snow we're talking anywhere between $50.00 to $100.00 centimeters of snow in some locations by the time we go through the next 72 hours so we go watching this very very carefully as you can see her you could be getting

a little bit better you can be clearing out by the time we get towards friday it's going to be eastern turkey that sees the majority of the snow by the time we go into the weekend well for the rest of the year but temperatures are on the way up we could be seeing temperatures coming out of the high single digits going into the teens by the time we get towards friday well above average for this time of year and paris you are one of those cities but in $48.00 is going to be rainy as well 13 degrees and rain here on thursday a little bit of a break in terms of the rain on friday but by the time we get towards saturday it is going to be rainy tempters about 6 degrees above average there here across northern africa we are looking at fairly decent conditions across much of the region and terms of temperatures though it is going to be 18 degrees here in benghazi maybe some clouds rolling into parts of cairo as we go towards friday with a temperature of $21.00 degrees. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really well going

to the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping damo truck afloat right now critical debate sequel on posters going to even know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. the more. good. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all provinces and china killing a 170 people and infecting over 7000 chinese health officials say they'll work

closely with the world health organization to manage the very. crowds of people have gathered outside pharmacies of hong kong hoping to snap up last remaining stocks of face masks to people returning from the chinese new year celebrations trade unions are threatening to go on strike unless the border is shut completely. u.s. democrats are stepping up their calls for witnesses in the impeachment trial of president donald trump they claim a new book by the former security advisor john bolton would support their case and the white house says the book has classified material and shouldn't be released. while the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the u.k. from the e.u. the withdrawal agreement was ratified by 621 votes to 49 sealing britain's official exit from the block on friday natasha butler reports from brussels. for the british m.p.

peace who wanted to remain in the european union and the european colleagues it was an emotional moment as the parliament ratified the big trade agreement paving the way for britain to meet the on friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over played suit and said it was even era i want to use the words of the famous british for which 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 birth possibly to nigel for raj if you want to go national we're going to wave. 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 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 a war. words has broken out between france and turkey over the conflict in libya french president has accused his turkish counterpart. of breaking his promise to stay out of emmanuel calls the turkish warships mercenaries had arrived in the war zone over the last week turkey's foreign ministry has responded saying france should stop supporting warlords. if it wants to help bring peace to the country a 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 have managed to return home but many others are believed to still be in yemen or libya have a morgan reports from khartoum when abbott 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 in up with he was in for a shock. and i don't know if you know i'm going to go on to go we were taken to a military camp and given training on how to handle heavy weapons most of our supervisors were marauder yes 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 amorality installation was. abbott 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 tuned 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 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 were 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 are in talks with the families and embassies of sudan and the emirate of your thirty's 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 and 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 son safely back home he bought morgan on just how to him sudan's government that will be phasing out fuel subsidies and replacing it with direct cash payments to the poor a year and a half long process will start in march fuel subsidies account for 36 percent of the budget if we reform the subsidies especially the. gasoline subsidies.

maybe only the top quintile and only that the 5 percent of the population will be affected that everybody else will benefit because this will be actually replaced with a day to customers fair that we actually go to the 65 or 60 percent of the population who are in need of support. the united states says it sent more than 62000 migrants back to mexico over the last year under tougher migration policies now trump's government is piling pressure on mexican authorities to stop them getting there in the 1st place and mexico is being accused of using excessive force to do so john heilemann reports from mexico city. thank you this was a border caravan of thousands of honduras expected when they entered mexico you know 2 you know right now they are big gas to us from where parents are here with their children. but this kind of crackdown on migrants is what president trump's

come to rely on his southern neighbor to do this may not have his will yet but much courage become the next best thing where the checkpoints cover the south and president will preserve produce even deploy the new national guard to stop those from honduras guatemala and el salvador getting into the u.s. if makes could become trumps will the question is why this all comes from june 2019 when donald trump basically said that unless we mexicans contain the flow of people from the border he was going to impose a specific tax a fee of up to 10 percent to every single expert in mexico's from mexico that turned for it was serious 80 percent of its exports go to the us a lot and so it clamped down and effectively last month preventions on the u.s. border were down 2 thirds from the month before president trump's ultimatum but

some argue that it's a short term solution and the root causes need to be addressed that part of the problem is also happening inside central america both countries when the u.s. and its about there are one of the most unequal countries in that region this is about time for us to come to terms and try to understand why the mistake elites in these countries are not doing enough to raise. resources to their people. rooting out corruption providing opportunities so that central americans don't leave hasn't been president trump's focus it has been part of president lopez obrador he's pushed for investment in the southern neighbors he's also said that mexico could absorb those forced to flee didn't. we have more than 4000 jobs in the southern border area available this shelters medical care and work in our country. but those promises turned out to be largely empty the majority of those in

this caravan were quickly deported. and they are now the message at least seems clear if you fleeing your home and don't expect. passage through mexico john home and. mexico city. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all 31 provinces in china killing 117 people and infecting nearly 8000 more it comes as the world health organization prepares to hold another urgent meeting later on thursday to decide whether the outbreak should be considered a global emergency crowds of people have gathered outside pharmacies in hong kong hoping to snap up the last remaining staff of face masks with hundreds of thousands of people set to return from chinese new year celebrations trade unions are threatening to go on strike unless the border is shut completely scott heiler has

more from beijing. and move on and the province there are there's a shortage of medical supplies they say they've been there working quickly to get things down there that's needed one thing they say that still needed are protective garments masks and protective suits i obviously that's a very critical thing yes for the medical workers but also to help prevent the further spread of this one thing that's interesting too you know so you look at medical supplies a shortage of that you know a lot of people thought that there'd be food shortages and supply shortages for people but we've been talking to some people in will han and they are saying that the stores are still stocked it's just difficult to go and get things or have things delivered crops are stepping up their calls for witnesses in the impeachment trial of president donald trump they claim a new book by former security advisor john bolton could support their case the white house says the book cost a 5 material. or urging the u.n. to take action over a u.s. plan to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict with sides with israel on many

issues the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to meet the russian president in the coming hours to discuss the plot the french president has accused his turkish counterpart roger tabor do on of breaking his promise to stay out of libya in money when my call said turkish warships and mercenaries how to ride in the war zone over the last week turkey's foreign ministry has responded saying fronts should stop supporting warlord 24 have to if it wants to help bring peace to the country those are the headlines on al jazeera inside story is coming up next thanks very much for watching but i for now. india a nation of 1300000000. divided i think you. just go. back.

getting. on my journey. coming on al-jazeera. and the us president. palestinian aspirations a sideline. about america's evolving position on the conflict this story. hello welcome to the show.