al-jazeera. after. the. china says the corona virus has spread to all 31 mainline provinces as the death toll jumps to 170. all just 0 life from a headquarters in doha into you know bill gates also ahead the israeli prime minister meets russia's president to discuss the u.s. proposal for the middle east as there is growing anger amongst palestinians against the by. the white house threatens a new book by former national security advisor john bolton as the calls grow to

call him as an impeachment witness. put your shots away your leaving and take them with you. british politicians are scolded as europe's parliament clears the last major hurdle to bret's its. follow the corona virus outbreak which has killed 170 people and infected nearly 8000 across mainland china has now spread to every one of the country's 31 provinces the world health organization is preparing to hold another urgent meeting later on thursday to decide whether the outbreak should be considered a global emergency chinese health officials gave out more details in the last hour . after the outcry china has been in close communication with the world health organization other countries as well as the regions of hong kong and macau and

taiwan we have reported and circulated epidemic updates and shared the genome sequencing of the coronaviruses soon as it became available president xi jinping has expressed china's willingness to work alongside the w.h.o. and its national community to safeguard regional and global public health let's bring in scott highlight his joining us from beijing so what more have health authorities had to say scott. well we know that you know we'll hear from the w.h.o. in the coming hours and what the local health officials have been saying if you look at down and one the big concern for them right now obviously containing this virus figure out what this virus is how it spread but right now they have a bit of a shortage of supplies the protective suits that the medical personnel need to treat those who are infected the patients so that's something that's a direct and immediate need we know that the central chinese government is working to get more supplies down there state run television is actually even just showing a report inside one of the factories that have started back up to manufacture the

the suits that the medical professionals will wear when they they treat patients so that's something that's immediate now you know when you look as you mentioned all 31 provinces in mainland china now have cases of the coronavirus so there's a very big concern obviously now moving forward where does it go from here you know the chinese government has elevated control over dealing with the coronavirus situation to the very top level the prime minister the could chang is in charge he went down to one earlier in the week he actually went to one of the sites of a new hospitals that are being hastily built down to move on there to hospitals being built down there and then there's one outside here in beijing that was very quickly built during the sars crisis that is being worked on now again up here in beijing so those are what those are the mechanisms that the government here is putting into place something else that's interesting that they've announced that they're going to have charter aircraft you know the airport has been closed for days now they'll have charter aircraft for chinese citizens who are in one but not

from one who are down there as tourists so they can get out obvious about to go through the testing and verification that they don't have the virus so they can get out of the city on lockdown and go back to their homes elsewhere in china so that's something the government's going to be doing soon and what about other countries and then sort of the global evacuations that we're seeing being implemented by countries around the world. the international air lift out of will han is continuing you know we saw aircraft land in the united states and in japan and in both cases those if they're tested and they're cleared then the be able to pass on into the countries but a lot of people i think initially in the united states going to be kept on a military base for a couple of days at least a couple days possibly as long as 14 days so that they can verify that they don't have the virus that's one of the you know concerns right now because they're ranging from their statistics ranging from to day incubation to 14 day patient so

obviously being very protective with that other nations there's a growing list of nations who are working to get their citizens out it's becoming a bit of a challenge logistical challenge absolutely but also governmental challenge because to get the permissions and the procedures done with the chinese government is proving to be a little bit difficult because you've got all these nations who are trying to get their citizens out of a shutdown airport and you've got a city in crisis mode really so they're trying to get them out there's quickly as possible so far the united states and japan have many other countries are trying to ok scott thank you very much. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in moscow where he's briefing the russian president on a u.s. plan for the middle east donald trump's proposal allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian land the united nations has rejected trump's plan saying the israeli palestinian conflict should be solved based on international law and un resolutions

russia has been pursuing a greater role as a mediator between the 2 in recent years benjamin netanyahu has presented that plan as a vindication of his leadership and it is expected to boost his election campaign ahead of a march vote harry fawcett reports from west jerusalem this is historic on 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 voice had all the hallmarks of a campaign video promising israeli sovereignty in the occupied west bank but to benjamin netanyahu a day after what he had turned 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 trump thanked him for the difficult work he did in creating this plan so that 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 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 an extension had to happen now not after the election. i've ordered the formation of a special team to implement the application of israeli law and sovereignty on all jewish settlements in the sumaiya today or the jordan valley and the northern dead sea the team will start working immediately. while the israeli left has rejected the plan netanyahu the 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 herefore said out west jerusalem. well over in gaza palestinian journalists there are protesting against spire let's find out why and bring in stephanie decker she's joining us from just outside a u.n. office toughening. that's right that no protests more

than anything. special called for the middle east peace process there's a lot of tears in this made. so many resolutions in the. longest rights in 67 lines i know you know as they absolutely were jack. has portrayed this raises the. pockets of. the capital has and it's certainly not clear what's going to happen i don't recall is it because it needs to happen just on this is this you're having to miniaturize. not very difficult because the guy who was here is you there are the president called for the just. so you have. these protests charging someone small on friday but i do have that you're not seeing tens of thousands a little republicans are these are people who are far more concerned about their

day to day life. ok that god. is very committed they didn't expect anything different they didn't expect it to change but if you know a blanket rejection of that last year and stephanie what are they telling you about the reaction of the international community when it comes to this plan because some people describe it as being somewhat muted including the reaction from arab countries so our people over in gaza do they feel like they've been abandoned by the international community what would they like them to do. or a long time. for them. feel like that. and particularly the leaders are no longer letting any pressure on these are all the rage the facts are out to be i think this is a significant earning point around and i don't think it's surprising that the trump administration just very much in line with this rate among all the seasonality gave

this one sided class i think what is incredibly significant is that you have begun to be our leaders in the years that you had that will usually do you know as a rallying cry saying that you know needs to be united and i have been incredibly milk and damnation at the bottom of this 500 takes away. what people will tell you their dignity it's a humiliating. to those who have again you nothing new for the people here but i think certain political process to analyze it is a part that you have high ground 0 condemnation from any of the middle eastern countries you know national television even the u.n. is being very cautious when it comes to scribe in their reaction to the plaque on the ok stephanie thank you for that update from gaza. still ahead on al-jazeera 3 in a moment there are protests and khartoum that's a security company from the u.a.e. is accused of sending young sudanese men to fight in yemen and libya. with donald

trump still trying to get his border wall to stop migrants entering the u.s. find out why mexico could be the next best thing. had of the heaviest showers in indonesia very much rainy season move around from east to west and back again i think mostly begin to see them in borneo and soon the ways in central java are next from the forest so we're talking friday really rather few are further west they're still there in sumatra i mean my varnish hour or 2 in singapore mostly we're talking about the heaviest stuff a little bit further east than of late so so the ways he is at risk central a may be west and java which does of course include jakarta you know straight here well the heavy share of the heavy rain has been around in queensland it doesn't look very much from

a satellite picture for from the forecasts you can see the development around the gulf of carpentaria and streaks of cloud of potential showers all way down through north and terrified to south australia this is a frontal system it's moved away from most of queens about all of queens and now it's got a halt for the south melbourne's 40 three's approaching record values so we're back into these things we don't want to dry easily if fans the flames of the far as that are still burning now we will see that trough line moves slowly east was melbourne does cooler and that is substantial rain running through south australia into victorian eventually new south wales and we'll probably get some video of guru of the red who falls. in russia many cuddy's migrant. grazing. going in increasingly for many

a global trade. mchale yes labor force left to exploitation by the. people in power investigate. little pakistan. and then we got the headlines on al-jazeera. the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all provinces and china killing $170.00 people and infecting nearly $8000.00 the world health organization will meet again in a few hours to decide whether to declare a global emergency. israel's prime minister is in moscow where he's briefing the

russian president on the u.s. for the middle east donald trump's proposal allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian lands the united nations has rejected trump's plan. iraqi security forces have fired tear gas and live on unison at anti-government protesters in baghdad's demonstrators have been throwing rocks and trying to move towards wyatt police all thora to use or attempting to clear several protest camps in the capital a move crowds through to how do you square instead of the crackdown began after the influential shah cleric most of the southern withdrew his support for the protests which began in october iran is in baghdad. that's what the square just down there where cusses have been ongoing for days now you can see the protesters they move forward i do already in the last 5 or 6 minutes we've seen tear gas being fired 2 we've also heard life going on now the baghdad operations

come on has urged the protesters to go back to talk or a square where they say they are allowed to protest what they doing is they don't want them moving any further away from it now just a few days ago we were told that while the police were trying to do was to push the protesters back into various square however the protesters have moved forward they've been here for days now where these have been this things going now the protesters say their demands haven't been listened to there's still no new prime minister i know you other actions so they want to try and keep up the pressure and that's exactly what they do. at least 21 civilians have been killed by russian backed syrian government airstrikes in the province a hospital in the city if i was among the sites hits syria's government forces and its allies have intensified their push to retake the last rebel held region on

wednesday they seize these strategically important town of moderates an online and well the u.n. humanitarian chief says aid reaching civilians in northwest syria is not enough. to cross border humanitarian operations have staved off a massive humanitarian catastrophe in the northwest but let us make no mistake about it civilians still suffering terribly on the current conditions humanitarian responders do not have the capacity to meet the level of need we are seeing. we are receiving reports of tensions mounting because of the inadequate humanitarian response. 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 the latest day of the hearing was dominated by

arguments over a still to be released book by former national security advisor john bolton which could implicate the president's hardy's ocasio 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 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 adviser reportedly claims in an

upcoming book that trump directly tied his hold on security agent 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. saying we don't want to hear the truth what does that say to america about this body. meanwhile someone else was all but begging for senators to call him to testify. from donor left parness says he was dispatched to ukraine by trump's attorney to stir up dirt useful for trump's reelection parness is under federal indictment for campaign fraud and says he came to the capitol

wearing an ankle monitor to make amends democrats have acknowledged getting republicans to agree to witnesses is an uphill battle that question will be put to a vote friday if the answer is no trump could be immediately acquitted by peter castro al jazeera washington the european parliament has overwhelmingly approved the departure of the u.k. from you there would drawl 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.'s who wanted to remain in the european union and the european colleagues it was an emotional moment as the whole image ratified the jewel agreement paving the way for britain to meet the on friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over but suit and said it was the into the new era if 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 gun. with the 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 if you disobey the rules see that how tough 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 coming out 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 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 in the 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 blossom as fran. in dispute over the conflict in libya french president has accused turkey's president to one of breaking his promise to stay out of libya and money when my falls the turkish warships on mercenaries had arrived in the war zone over the last week and turkey's foreign ministry says france should stop supporting warlords for the for have if it wants to help bring peace to the country earlier this month world leaders pledged not to interfere in libya's civil conflicts and vow to uphold a u.n. arms embargo meanwhile 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 have returned home but many are believed to still be in yemen or libya about morgan reports from khartoum when abbott 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 m.r.i. to a company called black shield but when he arrived in up with he was in for a shock. and i want to you know i don't want 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 us. abbott is now back in sudan after a campaign by the families of those who were recruited in all about 200 sudanese member turned on tuesday and immediately went to the u.a.e. embassy how to tune to stage a protest outside they say hundreds of their fellow sudanese are still either in

the emirates at training camps or in libya their crews meant company in sudan has refused to comment. hundreds of young sudanese men thought they were going to be security guards in the way when they were taken on by black shield their families see they quickly discovered they were expected to fight as mercenaries in the wars in libya and yemen they're now appealing to the sudanese government to use its influence with the united arab emirates and bring all their sons home sudan's ministry of information says it's aware of the issue and is working to ensure the safety of all of those who are recruited. communication is ongoing so we'll use who are in the camps in the u.a.e. have come back our operations unit is working to gather information we were in touch with the families and embassies of sudan and the amorality authorities who have been cooperative and with the company in a few days this issue may be over. 90 all my son was one of the 1st to take up the offer of a job where they would then mind that 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 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 the tomb well the government in sudan says it will be phasing out fuel subsidies and replacing them with direct cash payments to the poor a year and a half long process will start in march fuel subsidies accounts for 36 percent of the national budgets a man has shot at demonstrators injuring one person during a protest over india's controversial citizenship law the man shouted at protesters outside a university in new delhi before opening fire testers had to form a human chain campaigning against the law which they say this criminal acts against muslims hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against

a controversial legislation since it was. the u.s. president donald trump has signed a new trade deal with mexico and canada it will replace the 26 year old north american free trade agreement creating new labor laws for the 3 countries both the u.s. and mexico have now ratified the deal but canada has just begun the process of debating it in parliament. and mexico has been preventing central american migrants from reaching the u.s. border since the middle of last year and with the mexican government facing ongoing threats from the u.s. president that's leading some to call the country donald trump's all john holy reports from mexico city. this was aboard a caravan of thousands of honduras expected when they entered mexico you know 2 you know right now the big gas starts 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. may not have his will yet but much courage become the next best thing a web of checkpoints cover the south and president move his or produce even deployed the new national guard to stop those from whom do this what mona del salvador did getting to the u.s. if makes could become trumps will the question is why this all comes from the june 2019 when donald trump basically said that unless we mexicans contain the flow of people from the border he was going to impose specific tatts a fee of up to 10 percent to every single expert in mexico's from mexico that term for it was serious 80 percent of its exports go to the us a lot and so we clamp down and effectively last month preventions on the u.s. border were down 2 thirds from the month before president trumps ultimatum but some

argue that it's a short term solution and the root causes need to be addressed that part of the upper limits 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 at 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 really stupid resources to their people. rooting out corruption providing opportunities so that central americans don't leave hasn't been president trumps focus it has been part of president lopez obrador says 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 there are now the message at least seems clear if you're fleeing your homeland don't expect free passage through mexico john home and. mexico city. you can find much more information by heading to our web site al sira. the headlines are just there at this hour the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all provinces in china killing 170 people and infecting nearly 8000 and the world health organization will meet again in a few hours to decide whether it's a declare a global emergency schuyler has more from beijing. something that came out that's quite interesting that any government official local government official any government official who is not following the rules the mandates of this

organization by the special group to combat the coronavirus they will be severely punished is the wording they used so obviously they're taking it very seriously they're telling everyone but me at the very top all the way well down to the bottom of the government to take this very seriously or face severe punishment israel's prime minister is in moscow where his briefing the russian president's on a u.s. plan for the middle east donald trump's proposal allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian lands the united nations has rejected trump's plan saying the israeli palestinian conflict should be solved based on international law and u.n. resolutions iraqi security forces have fired tear gas on live ammunition at anti-government protesters in baghdad demonstrators have been throwing rocks and tried to move towards riot police authorities are attempting to clear several protest camps in the capital a move crowds to to how do you square instead. at least 21 civilians have been

killed by russian backed syrian government airstrikes in the province a hospital in the city of anyhow was among the sites hit syria's government forces and its allies have intensified their push to retake the last rebel held region and on wednesday they seize the strategically important town of monitoring. the 10s of thousands of people have been displaced. a man has shot at demonstrators injuring one person during a protest over india's controversial citizenship law the non shouted the protesters outside a university in new delhi before opening fire protestors had planned to form a human chain campaigning against the law which they say discriminates against muslims hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against the law since it was passed last month. those are the headlines on al-jazeera people an hour is up next thanks for watching. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 8 percent we'll bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly

changing the world living for example china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. migration whether for safety and freedom from conflict and repression or for economic benefits has become one of the dominant things of our time but this huge flow of people isn't only aimed at europe but the united states many from central asia and to russia instead so what faces them on a ride from. moscow

russia has come.