speak from the facts the misinformation from. the set was clear and sounds to me and here. we are listening sed 0. infections in every part of china and more countries imposing quarantine the world health organization means to decide if corona virus is now a global emergency. hello again i'm on scene there with al jazeera live from doha also coming out the u.s. says 700000 people are now fleeing towards the turkish border following almost 200 airstrikes by syrian and russian warplanes in just 3 days. protests against india's

controversial citizenship law become the target a manikins fire at a rally in the capital new delhi. and a new plan in argentina to help fight mountain tradition among low income families . and the world health organization is holding an urgent meeting to decide whether to declare the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency in china the death toll stands at $170.00 with almost $8000.00 confirmed infections the virus has now been identified in all provinces. after the outbreak 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 travellers are facing growing restrictions russia has close several of its direct border crossings with china and not long ago the czech republic announced it will please it will stop issuing visas for chinese citizens and there's a cruise ship carrying more than 6000 passengers currently in not there not a port near rome a chinese couple on board is suspected of having the virus we'll have more on the situation in europe shortly with sonia. at one area taking extra precautions as you can imagine is hong kong where almost 300 people died in the sols epidemic of 2003 with around 300000 people now coming back to hong kong off the lunar new year celebrations on the mainland trade unions are threatening to strike unless the borders completely shut correspondent wayne hey if it's 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 starting here to yeah. this morning. so i'd be waiting for all 6 to 7 hours. to get the mosque 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 han as it did the government confirmed some passages on wednesday's 1st flight tested positive for the virus who'd gone since you're going. the national institute of infectious diseases have reported to us 3 new cases of coronavirus 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 business is a being kept busy taking medical supplies to hospitals my extravagant hope is to

get some sleep as delivery man we cannot be called great but there are many people out there 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. let's hear more now from our correspondent in london. being quarantined there while the health authorities are carrying out tests on a chinese couple this couple allegedly entered the country reporting into the country into milan airport on the 25th of january the wife appeared to have come down with symptoms she had a high fever difficulties breathe thing her husband seemed to have been spared those symptoms so far as we can understand from the italian healthful foreign teas

but certainly they are being taken to a different part about ship and the woman suffering. symptoms was then put in isolation while those tests were carried out of course there are also other fears the fact that even london is coming into the top 20 cities in which the corona virus could become a crisis even though there have been no cases there been cases in france and germany. it's thought that the makeup of the city in the fact that it is such it's hard for people traveling all over the world it makes it more likely to be ric's now in the meantime there are 2 planes that are going out french planes which are going to hand to pick up repatriate european citizens and taking them back to brussels where there will be

a coordinated effort with the european union bodies to try and understand if there is any threat of a risk from anyone who may have been infected while they were there as well. the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 air strikes have hit the province in the last 3 days james jeffries estimates around $700000.00 people are now fleeing towards the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed by russian backed syrian government as strikes in the area a hospital in the city of rio was among the sites hit victoria. this is what's left of al shami hospital in the province. we were at home with their kids when a russian warplane carried out an aerial raid against a hospital and also a residential area people are fed up with life here we don't know where to go no one can help no one can protect us from these attacks. many of the patients here

have been injured and evacuated to other hospitals dozens of medical facilities have been destroyed in airstrikes in recent months say these facilities were attacked deliberately. i work in the rehab hospital it was directly targeted the hospital is not operating now it is completely destroyed due to the direct shelling so many were killed in dozens wounded. the syrian civil defense group notice the white helmets and say planes russians warplanes school the attack. the russian warplanes targeted a hospital hunder surrounding residential areas in a rear in 3 air raids civil defense units rushed to the scene and were trying to evacuate a woman and a boy under the rubble. rusher is supporting syrian government forces and has denied bombing a real hospital moscow insists it avoids attacking civilian targets turkey's president red chip type 2 and says both russia and syria have violated

a ceasefire in it lip brokered by turkey and russia earlier this month the territories the last that's controlled by rebel groups in syria's northwest region thousands of. civilians a coup topping the violence the u.n. says more than 350000 have been forced to leave their homes since the beginning of december many families are now packing my belongings and leaving the city over rear but they don't know where they can go that safe victoria gates in the. protests is in police in new delhi are locked in a standoff as activists campaign against the country's citizenship law is the latest in a wave of angry protests over the law which they say discriminates against muslims earlier a man shot at demonstrations injuring one person the man shouted at protests outside the university in new delhi before the main fire they had planned to form a human chain campaigning against them though which they say discriminates against

muslims elizabeth per annum was at the protests. when your job is to me a university where a man shot at a protest is injuring one person has been taken away to hospital now mobile phone video of the incident shows the man brandishing a gun waving it at protestors and lists walking backwards to a line of police officers before being apprehended by police john media has been one of the center of protest since the citizenship amendment act was passed by the indian government 7 weeks ago most of the rallies here have been peaceful and people are already are asking how a man was allowed to enter with a gun and why he wasn't apprehended. now this is not the 1st such incident in the capital earlier in the week and not the models that are headed at a number of one of these major protests sites. he. has

a gun and these incidents occurred as members of the ruling lot of. the posse all the b j p having making statements saying that. not likely the 1st. was. murder is a and break. the. election. protests have broken out in the occupied west bank against the u.s. plan for the middle east which sides with israel in many contentious issues a small crowd of demonstrators has been burning tires near the illegal israeli settlement of beit arrow which lies close to the palestinian city of ramallah under donald trump's proposal settlements including beit al would be our next by israel the un's rejected transplant it says solutions to the israeli palestinian conflict

should be based on international law and un resolutions. well than 2000000 palestinians live in jordan many of them a voice their anger over president transplant about the reaction from jordan's king and the government has been rather muted that's a good name reports now from the capital amman. mahmood monsoor is part of a dwindling palestinian generation born before 948 and what's called the nothing for disaster when the israelis seize tomes and separated families for 53 years he's been forced to live in this refugee camp longing to breathe in the air of his homeland. every day i think of my old neighborhood and my family even the soil i walked on i remember if i had the opportunity to leave all that i have here and go home to palestine i would go back. even before president trump began announcing his middle east plan on tuesday protesters gathered in the jordanian capital of our men

in front of the american embassy jordan which has traditionally played a role in previous peace plans had been studied line from discussions on sunday king abella voiced his opposition we have to rally support from the. international community to. handle this and look for genuine peace according to the international law but the country is forced to tread a delicate balancing act between the competing interests of the united states and israel jordan has security ties with the united states and receives much needed economic aid with israel it has a peace treaty and beginning this year a controversial gas deal jordan is also home to more than $2000000.00 palestinians the largest population outside the occupied territories i am afraid.

it. is a very good. photo. to have. because if you keep dressed. the arab countries will not have the opportunity to develop months or continues to work at the carpentry business he opened as a young man and once thought would only be temporary he says palestinians must resist and make sure that this american president does not determine their destinies natasha going to aim at al-jazeera a man still to come here a doubt is there the white house threatens a new book by former national security advisor john bolton as the calls grow to summon him as an impeachment rick this as messick a prevent central american migrants from reaching the u.s. find out why some are calling the country don't look transcoder war.

hello it may well be snowing where you are if you're watching in her car because that's quite a good winter storm tale and showers around the pacific but the backwash cold air that bringing snow is still have a whole current friday and these showers that build over the sea of japan and hit this coast of honshu will produce fair amount of snow here too but is not snow is probably dry turkey looks fairly dry 12 degrees below the showers keep carry on to be honest on saturday the snow again for the high ground turkey remains dry and haves about the same beijing's warmed up 6 degrees as a little bit of rain in some parts of china it's a much much drier picture than it was and it's how you would expect it to be because this time here this is where the rain is down indonesia and now i think the

focus will shift a little bit to the east system away see bits of board here and still central java but jakarta is never far away from the potential of big showers and that's true of central and southern sumatra as well for the next couple days the next couple weeks to be honest. little is going on now in india and pakistan nepal the last chance disappeared to north korea there's not much of a push in the northeast monsoons are very few showers in sri lanka but they are developing in some parts of northeastern india but not many. but it. was the last time you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every level or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on sand creek entry has to start from day one whether again you and attention or you incarcerate this is a dialogue everyone has

a voice for there are studies that support rush coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq. by this have a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak that's killed 170 people a global emergency and a cruise ship is in the town near rome you can see passengers from china are suspected of having the virus a man is shot at demonstrators injuring one during a protest over india's controversial citizenship law demand shouted at protesters

outside a university in new delhi before opening fire. the u.s. says 700000 people are now fleeing towards the turkish border following almost 200 airstrikes by syrian and russia warplanes in just 3 days at least 21 civilians have been killed in italy province a hospital in the city of idea with among the sites hit. the protests is in sudan have turned up again in the capital khartoum to call for officials to keep the promises made after the river move all of the country's former president they say the government still doesn't have proper civilian representation of former president omar al bashir was years removed last year after a nationwide protest movement and charges of corruption demonstrators say since then officials have failed to deliver a civil government. iraqi security forces a fire tear gas and live ammunition at anti-government protests is in the capital

baghdad demonstrators had been throwing rocks trying to move towards the riot police the authorities are trying to clear several protest camps in the capital a move the crowds towards tahrir square instead the crackdown began after the influential shia cleric multilateral sutter withdrew his support from the protests which began in october imran khan is there. that's what the square just says have been on going for days now you can see the protesters they move forward i don't already in the last 5 or 6 minutes we're seeing tear gas being fired we've also heard law is going on now the baghdad operations come on has urged the protesters to go back to for a square where they say they owe allowed to protest what they doing is they don't want to move any further away from it now just a few days ago we were told the what the police were trying to do was to push the

protesters bought into for a square however the protesters have moved forward they've been here for days now where these have been the scenes on going now the protesters say their demands haven't been listened to there's still no new prime minister unknown to you other actions so they want to try and keep up the pressure and that's exactly what they're doing. here is democrats is stepping up their cool so witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of president ahead of a crucial senate vote on friday the latest day only the hearing was dominated by arguments over a soon to be released book by the former national security adviser john both which could damage the president's case. 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 the 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 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. 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. and president trump has signed a new trade deal with mexico and canada replacing the 26 year old north american free trade agreement and creating new labor laws for the 3 countries the u.s. and mexico have already ratified the deal but canada has only just begun the process of debasing is impala meant. 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 $0.02 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. so mexico has been preventing central american migrants from getting to the u.s. border ever since the middle of last year but the mexican government facing old

growing threats from president john that's leading some to call the country the president of the us is john home and reports are from mexico city. that. this was aboard a caravan of thousands of hondurans expected when the into admits occurred there you 2 know right there you began start somewhere parents were 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. it may not have his will yet but miscarries become the next best thing where both checkpoints cover the south and president will preserve produce even deploy the new national guard to stop those from whom what mona del salvador getting from the u.s. if makes chris 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 specific tax at feet of up to 10 percent to every single expert in mexico for mexico that turned for it was serious 80 percent of its exports go to the u.s. a lot and so it clamped down and effectively last month preventions on the us. they 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 upper limits also happening inside central america both countries when u.s. and other are one of the most unequal countries in the region this is about time for us to come to terms and try to understand why the mistake elites in this country are not doing enough to ready resources to their people. rooting out corruption providing opportunity so that central americans don't leave hasn't been president trump focus it has been part of president lopez obrador says he's pushed

for investment in his southern neighbors he's also said that mexico could absorb those forced to flee then you must. must. 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. or many are now the message at least seems clear if you're fleeing your home and don't expect free passage through mexico john homan al-jazeera mexico city. the u.s. secretary of state might pompei is in the u.k. just a day before it leaves the european union we're missing his counterpart dominic robb in london pump air said the u.k. has taken a risk by allowing chinese tech firm huawei a limited role in its 5 g. network the u.s. is concerned well ways links to the chinese government could put their intelligence

cooperation at risk. maintain the relationship between the u.s. and u.k. still strong that a free trade deal with the u.s. is a top priority. argentina as you government has begun issuing food cards to low income families in an attempt to fight. the card gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month to buy certain food items the country is in the middle of an economic crisis and is preparing to restructure around $100000000000.00 worth of debt today as a bow reports now from one beside us. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in. only half an hour away from the center of one of us. 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 fish and protein in the past year that 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. with telling people what they should buy once they get the cart 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 that diet the government also holds that very 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 source 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 seed is to change the economic structure and the country to be able to generate jobs that is what the country needs by activating the economy we would generate consumption and hopefully economic prosperity argentina produces grain and protein for millions of people around the

world but it has failed to fight my new richmond at home all the years of sustained economic growth will guarantee better living conditions for those who depend on the government to survive. when our scientists. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak that's killed 170 people a global emergency is now spread to all provinces in china and around 8000 people are infected a cruise ship carrying 6000 people is in lockdown near rome because 2 passengers from china are suspected of having the virus so new has more from london. this couple allegedly entered the country reporting into the country into milan airport

on the 25th of january the wife appeared to have come down with symptoms she had a high fever difficulties breathing her husband seemed to have been spared those symptoms so far as we can understand from the italian health or already is bartz certainly they are being taken to a different part of that ship and the woman suffering. symptoms was then put in isolation while those tests were carried out the u.s. says 700000 people are now fleeing tools the turkish border following almost 200 airstrikes by syrian and russian warplanes in just 3 days at least 21 civilians have been killed the province a hospital in the city of here was among the sites that protesters and police in new delhi a locked in a standoff as activists campaign against the country's citizenship law is the

latest in a wave of angry protests over the law which they say discriminates against muslims . earlier a man shot at demonstrators injuring one person during the protests the man shouted at 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 u.s. secretary of state might compares in the united kingdom a day before it leaves the european union we're meeting his counterpart dominic rob in london from paris said the u.k. has taken a risk by allowing chinese text way a limited role in its 5 g. network the u.s. is concerned while these links to the chinese government could put their intelligence cooperation at risk those are the headlines coming up next here it is there is a story. it's a tough time for the afghan security forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s.

forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for patchy arctic reasons for others it's the only way to get a job despite the risks midway's curry b. was an army bomb disposal engineer in helmand province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it i was aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an arm or a leg is to sacrifice we have to make to serve this country. by and i mean ok and your in the stream today camera new coronavirus be stopped as global panic rises we ask what's being done to prevent a pandemic if you have comments or questions you can tweet us and you can jump in al you as well as you say may well be in the string treat us as a resource today. at

least 130000 people have died in china and nearly 6000 infected worldwide as a new coronavirus extends beyond the country's border health authorities say the outbreak originated in the city of hahn while some people have been evacuated many residents there are under lockdown while officials try and contain the virus many of those under that quarantine off fearful including foreign college students. the government is not allowing the students are the message designs of the china that they cannot travel to the other side be out front the whole bag there is an authentic card in there with you is attack and we are nor see it here like this in close to our government to start a government pakistan bessie and the local government of china now please do something for us please we want to go back to our countries we want and need our

families and they are really well aired they are just good at guy and all that being.