di france range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the next let's join. the. infections in every part of china and more countries imposing quarantines the world health organization is about to decide if corona virus is now a global emergency. or watching out to 0 life from headquarters and i'm dead you know brigades are also ahead of testers against india's controversial citizenship wall become the target a man opens fire at a rally in the capital. the israeli prime minister meets russia's president to discuss a u.s. proposal for the middle east this palestinian anger grows. put your shanks away

your anything and take it with you. and inglorious departure from the european parliament for some british politicians on the eve off parts of its. follow the world health organization will decide in the next few hours whether it's in the clear the coronavirus of global health emergency it's about to begin meeting in geneva the death toll in china is $170.00 with nearly 8000 confirmed infections more and more countries are now imposing restrictions on travelers in the past hour russia has announced it's closing several direct border crossings with china when he begins our coverage from hong kong. concern is growing in hong kong but the number of corona virus cases here could be about to sharply increase a shortage of face masks has resulted in long lines forming outside some shops as

people try to protect themselves as much as possible i'm sorry to hear it's yeah. this morning. so i've been waiting for all 6 to 7 hours. to get the mosse to try to control the spread of the virus the hong kong government has suspended most rail and ferry services to and from the mainland. but some border crossings are still open and flights are operating which is led to criticism from many in hong kong who want all routes between here and china closed adding to the concern it's estimated as many as 300000 hong kong residents visited the mainland during the lunar new year holiday with many still to return government medical experts say the city needs to be on alert for more infections most of the confirmed cases in hong kong are being treated at this hospital where this week several nurses went on strike for a day as part of

a wider union protest against the government's response to the outbreak of the virus that threatening more strike action next week which could coincide with an increase in the number of cases in hong kong in tokyo a 2nd flight landed carrying japanese citizens evacuated from wu han as it did the government confirm some passengers on wednesday's 1st flight tested positive for the virus who with the national institute of infectious diseases have reported to us 3 new cases of corona virus related diseases the city they left behind remains largely under lockdown most people are choosing to stay indoors but among the few signs of commerce delivery businesses of being kept busy taking medical supplies to hospitals my extravagant hope is to get some sleep as delivered. man we cannot be called great but there are many people who need medical supplies but there is a shortage of some equipment including kits needed to test patients because of that

many experts outside china believe the actual number of cases may be a lot higher than what the government is reporting wayne hey al jazeera hong kong. china says it's doing all it can to contain the virus. 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 scott heiler is joining us from beijing for an update on what are officials there most concerned about right now scott. right now it's containing the any further spread of the virus and are doing a lot of things to try and prevent that from happening but unfortunately it is

still happening and that is they've shut down transportation links obviously from the affected area that's gone into place for several days and they're here in beijing just the other day they reduced train traffic by 10 percent and this is you know a very delicate time for this country because of the virus but also this is the lunar new year today thursday was supposed to be the last day of that holiday and this would have been a very very busy travel day but because of the virus it's been extended the holiday until sunday and people here at least coming back to beijing from across the country they've been kind of trickling in over the week as they're worried they're going to be further restrictions on that so that's one thing the government is doing another thing is they're building purpose built hospitals for patients with the coronavirus down and with on the epicenter 2 hospitals are being built one is supposed to open on monday another one a few days later together they're going to have probably about 2000 plus beds for the patients of the coronavirus and then outside beijing here there was a hospital that was built 17 years ago for the sars virus purpose build as well

they are restarting that hospital they're rebuilding that hospital here now too so that should be on line in the next couple of days or probably couple of weeks and they really haven't given a timeline for that so that's another thing the government's doing and what they've really kind of emphasized then we heard it from the health official health ministry official there they're really trying to get across the message they're taking it seriously here you know it's being run by the number 2 public official here the prime minister the kuching group a special group that's organizing and fronting the the virus and they have said they put out a directive the government that central government here put out a directive that if any official is seen to be dragging their feet or not doing what this special group says needs to be done to contain the virus they'll face severe punishment so underlining just how serious this is being taken by the central government here in beijing yeah it seems not only by the central government but also by sort of the international community and we know now that the world health organization is about to decide to later today if this should be classified

as a global emergency that's quite significant. it is and what do you know we've been seeing and how seriously the international community is taking this coronavirus you know we've seen this airlift of civilians of citizens from different nations a growing list of nations leaving rouhani it's you know it's not as rapid as you think it would be you know it's a growing list every couple of hours there's a new nations saying that they're going to airlift their citizens out of all han but it takes time to organize the process so that's what we haven't seen flight just kind of going continuously the united states and japan are right now the ones that have had flights so far but in the coming days we'll see more of those flights evacuating citizens out of. scott thank you for that update from beijing. has shot of 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 its officers 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 legislation since it was. now 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 lands the united nations has rejected trump's bond saying the israeli palestinian conflict should be solved based on international law and un resolutions or russia has been pursuing a greater role as a mediator between the 2 in recent years.

he was 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 adviser john bolton which could damage the president's case how does a castro reports from washington. donald trump's defense team has a novel argument for his acquittal that the president asking ukraine for dirt on a political opponent maybe 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 a link 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 investigate. asians 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 really. really 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. at least 21 civilians have been killed by russian backed syrian government air strikes and into the province a hospital in the city of idea how as among the sites heads syria's government forces and its allies have intensified their push to retake the last rebel held region on wednesday they seized the strategically important of moderates anon victoria gate and the reports. syrian government forces and

the man in the south of italy probing. they're looking for rebel fighters from hyatt to rare all sham and armed groups with formal links to al qaida the town is largely deserted and destroyed after months of bombardment. with. its recapture marks a significant advance in president bashar assad's drive to take back all of syria. the general command of the army and the armed forces announce cleansing these villages and towns and it assures that the army will continue to carry out its constitutional national and moral duty in order to hunt down all remaining armed terrorist groups. there rattled the man sits on the m 5 highway which links the capital damascus to syria 2nd city aleppo as well as to provincial capital such as ham and before the war it was a major trade route and the main access road to the north. the latest drive by

russian backed government forces to recapture syria's last opposition on play a new exodus on monday tens of thousands of civilians fled towards turkey's border president red chip type has accused the russian government of breaking a ceasefire agreement. in the end it led there is now a movement towards our borders and we have taken our measures. since december it's estimated that more than 350000 people have been displaced from province the increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis in northwest syria. but the acid government seems determined to retake the spinal piece of territory still under the control of opposition fighters victoria gates and be al jazeera. still had a long jazeera protested cartoon a security company from the u.a.e. is accused of sending young sudanese men to fight in yemen and libya.

we've had tracked the weather in japan the last few days and this is the last of it curling out of the way through hokkaido talkies a very cold air behind which produces snow in the forecast to be more snowfall carder a little bit more for the western slopes of honshu as you can see but you jump over to the eastern side and tokyo is a total breeze kelly no snow here nor any rain so apart from the snow is a dry picture and it's far and further south and west and look for a change apart from occasional showers in the rising around the west of china. we're looking fairly fine and quiet this is what you should expect to see this time of the year in china it was quite unusual significant rain only a week ago but something into saturday still that northwesterly breeze it means it's still cold sapporo but not extraordinarily so we're back to normal in turkey

or 11 degrees beijing possibly still a little bit warmer than average quiet weather throughout india that makes a change to little to snow and rain drifting as in the far north eastern appalls who otherwise it's quite the northeast once it is not really blowing hard now so showers are fewer and far between but there were 2 in the northeast of india as you can see. this mission all blowing down through the gulf recently kept temperatures down but it has weakened and it will still be weak come friday. for. a lifetime of emulation struck by strong copying. selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more rewarding to create then to imitate. dreaming of vincent

a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all provinces in china killing 170 people and infecting nearly 8000 the world health organization will meet again shortly to decide whether to declare it global emergency and in the past hour russia has announced it's closing several direct border crossings with china. 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 says rejecting. a man has shot of demonstrators injuring one person during a protest over india's controversial citizenship while the man shouted a protestors outside a university in new delhi before opening fire. let's bring in elizabeth purana now she's joining us from new delhi because we're hearing that there has been an incident at a protest in india where you are elizabeth what are the circumstances that led to that incident. i mean we've just come back from johnny a 1000000 is to me a university where there was a heavy police presence following that incident we see mobile phone video which shows a man brandishing a gun waving it at protests and journalists and walking backwards towards a line of police officers who are simply just watching him now gentlemen has been

one of the main protest saw it's against the citizenship amendment since it was polished by the government 7 weeks ago most of not all of the rallies at john have been peaceful but there was always a police presence and. questions being asked about how a man was allowed to enter the site with a gun and why he wasn't apprehended suna the questions are also being on stiring because this is not the 1st such incident in delhi this week earlier in the week and now the man with a gun was apprehended at one of the. big protest sites in the capital bog and these incidents occur as we in a charged environment not just off of the citizenship door was possible critics say discriminates against muslims but also ahead of local elections next weekend and who've had politicians from the ruling baath party calling for protests to be shot

likening protest is to rapists to motorists so it is a it's a charged environment here in the capital so how challenging is the going to be for other protesters going forward elizabeth and where do things stand right now with citizenship and. well protesters certainly feel like authorities and the government is trying to stop them in any way they can and today's protest has had even eyes to a human chain. thousands of people were expected to take part holding hands forming the human chain the people from john the university were expected to walk to raj got a memorial to mahatma gandhi and at the last minute police did not have a mission for that to take place despite that we are not seeing the protests dying down the way the law stands now as last week the supreme court gave the government

. 4 weeks to respond to more than 100 and petitions challenging the constitutionality of this law old but the government is defiant they say that they're not going to back down so with that we are expecting the protests to continue anyway they can daryn ok elizabeth thank you for bringing us that update from new delhi the turkish president threads of tell you berta one has been accused of breaking his word over the conflict in libya the charge came from the french president someone who had my call who says turkish warships and mercenaries have arrived in the war zone in the past week despite promising to stay away turkey's foreign ministry says france should stop supporting worth $24.00 have if it wants to help bring peace to libya and the french quarter is due to decide whether or old giants woods hall is adequately addressing the human and environmental impact of an oil field in uganda several human rights groups are

accusing the firm of failing to properly compensate farmers removed from their lands and soil reports from billy's saw in western uganda. beneath this expansive land in western uganda is an estimated 6000000000 barrels woful oil. with china national offshore oil corporation and the french multinationals to tower of major operations here including there to langan 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 missing girl refused the deal and says he's land was worth more to him than the $3000.00 he was offered i was called routing my lawn my school for my children. but after. they become harder. using my money from the can come again nonprofit organization that has helped me and other families take the matter to court in france he says all projects will affect about 50000 people in the western and central regions of the country this is a 1st case and a new french flow which requires large corporations to make sure that proper care and attention is paid to the local population and vironment if these people were not for spreading the word with the party when the doctor it was between between a friend this they would not accept most of them would not have accepted position

that a leg up project lies partly in the marching song for national park some rights groups say plans to protect the environment are not clear but government officials insist . everything has been done to fully realize the environment it's important to learn is in is one of the key. and so we must we must explore this oil might explain this. while being called the center of the fire that we need to cool exist we say 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 will only make things worse catherine sawyer al-jazeera police out west in uganda. iraqi security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition antigovernment protesters in baghdad's who have been throwing stones all

thirty's or attempting to clear several protest camps in the capital and move crowds towards to have square instead police launched a crackdown after influential shot cleric. withdrew his support for the protests which began in october. maritime authorities in the united arab emirates are battling to put out a fire on a. tanker a vessel which isn't carrying oil cargo caught fire off the coast of the u.a.e. during maintenance ship's crew were rescued and taken to shore shortly after sending out a distress call. 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 managed to return home but many others are still believed to be in yemen or libya haber morgan reports from khartoum. when abbott the 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. we were taken to a military camp and given training on how to handle heavy weapons most of our supervisors were marauders it was not the type of training you'd get for a job as a security guard when i 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 us. 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 meant a 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. 90 all my son was one of the 1st to take up the offer of a job where i would then mind we have nothing besides crying in tears 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 15 back home he bargain al-jazeera had its own. president all trump has signed a new trade deal with mexico and canada that will replace the 26 year old north american free trade agreement creating a new labor laws for the 3 countries the u.s. and mexico have ratified the deal canada has just begun the process of debating it in parliament 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 $49.00 sealing britain's official exit from the block on friday that's also butler reports from brussels. for the british peace who wanted to remain in the european union and the european

colleagues it was an emotional moment as the parliament ratified the we drilled agreement paving the way for britain to be on friday earlier in a debate some european leaders expressed regret over pride suit and said it was indeed an era i want to use the words of the famous british voyage george eliot she said. only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love we will always love you and we will never be far long live europe and i think that i can say the name of all of us. all groups i can only say we will miss you in the coming time and in the coming. with a broom goodbyes nostalgia was cut short by briggs possibly to go for raj if you want to go national but 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. 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 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 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 proselytize. again the headlines on al-jazeera at this hour the corona virus outbreak has now spread to all provinces in china killing 170 people and infecting nearly 8000 the world health organization will meet again shortly to decide whether it's of the clear emergency and in the past hour russia has announced it's closing several direct border crossings with china and a cruise ship in italy is understood to be a lockdown over a feared coronavirus case

a man has shot of demonstrators injuring one person during a protest over india's controversial citizenship law demands shouted the protesters outside a university in new delhi before opening fire its esters had planned to form a human chain campaigning against the law which they say discriminates against muslims israel's prime minister is a moscow where he's briefing the russian president on a u.s. fund for the middle east donald trump's proposal allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian land the united nations has rejected trump's. at least 21 civilians have been killed by russian backed syrian government airstrikes in province a hospital in the city if i was among the sites hit syria's government forces and its allies have intensified their push to retake the last rebel held region on wednesday bases that's out of moderates and. iraqi security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition and anti-government protesters in baghdad who've been

throwing stones authorities are attempting to clear a several protest camps in the capital and move crowds towards to how do you square instead of the slums to crack down after the influential shiite cleric most of the sudden withdrew his support for the protests which began in october. the turkish president has been accused of breaking his word over the conflict in libya the charge came from the french president of mine who had michael who says surface warships and mercenaries have arrived in the worst zone in the past week despite promising to stay away turkey's foreign ministry says france and stop supporting warlords. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the bottom line coming up next thanks very much for watching.

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question will trump's deal of the century actually bring peace to the middle east or will it bring the exact opposite let's get to the bottom line. so what do we know about the so-called ultimate deal between palestinians and israelis for starters palestinians weren't part of it the leaders who made it u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are both facing legal troubles and they're both in the middle of election campaigns instead of trying to find common ground between the 2 parties it sounds more like a series of take it or leave it suggestions so is the deal of the century really the biggest debt deal of the century is it a well timed distraction for trump and netanyahu is the point even to try to make peace in the middle east fortunately we have 3 people with us who have the answers

noura erekat a human rights attorney and one of the founders of the dot.