why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. china is rapidly building a hospital in the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak as the w.h.o. debates whether to call it a global imagine sea. play watching al-jazeera live from doha would be fully back to old still coming out the u.s. says 700000 people a faint or psyches border with syria following a surge in syrian government s strikes on profits protesters against india's controversial citizenship law become the target a man opens fire at a rally in the capital new delhi. and a new plan in argentina to help fight on attrition among low income top it's.

the world health organization is holding an agent's meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak a global health emergency in china the virus has now been identified in old provinces in the at the center where it continues on an emergency hospital being built specifically to treat the virus so far the death toll stands at 170 with nearly 8000 confirmed infections. 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 it's national community to safeguard regional and global public health

travelers are facing growing restrictions russia is closing several direct border crossings with china and the czech creep public has become the latest country to announce temporary visa restrictions for chinese citizens meanwhile a cruise ship carrying more than 6000 passengers has been knocked down at a port me every home after a chinese couple on board were suspected of having the virus will have more on the situation in europe very shortly but 1st one area taking extra precautions is hong kong where nearly 300 people died during the saas epidemic in 2003 with iran 300000 people returning from lunar new year celebrations in mainland china trade unions are threatening to strike unless the border is completely shut when he has this report from hong kong. concern is growing in hong kong but the number of coronavirus cases here could be about to shop an 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 tomorrow and yeah. this morning. so i'd be waiting for all 6 to 6 hours. to get to a 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 wu han as it did the government confirm some passengers on wednesday's 1st flight tested positive for the virus over 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 delivery men 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. sony egle is in london and has more on the coast that is under knocked down. it's 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 breathing 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 of that ship and the woman suffering. symptoms was

then put in isolation while those tests were carried out of course there are also other affairs the fact that even london is coming into the top 20 cities in which the coronavirus 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 hard for people traveling all over the world it makes it more likely to be at grex 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 now

certainly is one of the many countries trying to evacuate citizens out of work on the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak but there's been criticism of a plan to quarantine return he's on a remote island that was formerly used to detain a sign and seekers so far 9 cases have been confirmed in australia the. home affairs minister says the government wants to strike a balance between helping australians stranded in china and protecting the mainland from the virus the reality is that people need to be accommodated somewhere for up to 14 dies or can't clear at a hospital in sydney or melbourne or respond or don't have a facility otherwise that we can quickly accommodate what might be many hundreds of people and christmas island is purpose built for exactly this area so one message very clear message to people in christmas island is that we won't be using the medical central health facilities on christmas island we want butyl as ing other areas. in other world news u.s.

special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 airstrikes have hit the last rebel have province of syria in the last 3 days james jeffrey estimates around $700000.00 people in it now flying towards the border with turkey at least $21.00 civilians have been killed by russian backed syrian government asked strikes in the last 24 hours a hospital in the city of every have was among the sights hits the tory gates and the reports. 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 to 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 russian warplanes full the attack. the russian warplanes targeted a hospital hunder surrounding residential areas in a real 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 wretched type 2 and says both russia and syria have violated a ceasefire in it live 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 of caught up in 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 their belongings and leaving the city over a year but they don't know where they can go that say that jury gayton be out is in . and a turkish baths a rebel force has been sending in reinforcements or countryside west of aleppo the opposition group called the zend key force wants to stop a government offensive that. from the city of aleppo knife to simple will force a sin and some $700000.00 civilians are said to be on the move towards the border with turkey and we know that turkey of course has said it couldn't take in any more refugees so what are they going to do about this. well foley turkey is trying to accommodate those refugees right in iraq by it's born or border inside syria and

some of the some of those internal of the space people are traveling to are moving to the areas that are under the control of the turkish backed free syrian army which is the syrian national army right now so the situation is very dire and i have was there like in late 2019 it was it was bad that time and it's even much worse people the people don't have any place to stay back at that time people are staying under all the trees but right now the weather conditions is not allowing those people to stay somewhere so it is it is very difficult because most of the health centers hospitals are being targeted that's why turkish prison don made a call also talked with german chancellor angela merkel that this the situation must be sold there must be some temporary shelters for those internally displaced people

but of course it's an immense pressure via the turkish border also yesterday just because of those strikes circus presence are down south that turkey's patience is coming to an end our son and such a peace deal is about to end it has to be revived and he also said that syria and russia are not abiding the cease fire by the way the latest cease fire that was dealt. gena where to a general where 12 just a couple of weeks ago lasted only 7 to 2 hours so everything happened since last april the spite of sun and such a peace deal and assist cease fires that have been brokered then by the way since the syrian regime has advanced up to the north and they have regained some territory and 3 of the 12 turkish military ports are currently surrounded by the syrian syrian army this is also a risk and today's. they go one of the turkish convoys were attacked by the syrian army and the shia militia so that's why turkish ministry of defense and prisons are

gone sad that if something happens that would put those military posts in then your turkey will retaliate but of course what is next is an important question some able argue that there must be a safe zone inside it that which is 15 to 20 kilometers deep. thank you for that sin and see them go so far as any sample. still ahead on al-jazeera the white house threatens to block i new book by former national security advisor john bolton as cost grow to summon him as a witness in the president's impeachment trial process mexico prevents central american migrants from reaching the u.s. find out why some are calling a country donald trump's border wall. but . 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 brings snow is still a hot car this friday and these showers that build over the sea of japan and hit the coast of honshu will produce fair amount of snow here too there 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 have about the same beijing has warmed up 6 degrees as the bit of rain out 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 says sort of way 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 next couple weeks to be honest little is going on now india and pakistan the pole the last

chance to dissipate the northeast corner 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. all is lost are you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every leg with or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on saying retention has to start from day one whether again you're in detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so why there are just 3 fifths o'clock rushed over it will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on now to 0. the move to.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak that killed 170 people a global health emergency a 170 people have died and around 8000 infected passengers on board a cruise ship on the italian coast near rome aren't being allowed to disembark because a few years some are infected by the virus are around 7000 people onboard including the crew medical staff have boarded the ship to take samples from 2 people. and the u.s. says 700000 people are now fleeing towards turkey's border with syria following almost 200 as strikes by syrian and russian aircraft in 3 days on a daily province at least 21 civilians have been killed

a hospital was among the sites hit. now switzerland is trying a human a humanitarian channel to supply iran with food and medicine amid shortages due to u.s. sanctions the so-called swiss humanitarian trade arrangement will allow companies who supply goods to receive payments from tehran without breaching sanctions and latest round of u.s. sanctions were imposed after iran attacked american military targets in iraq any of this month in iraq security forces are fired tear gas and knives ammunition at anti-government protesters in baghdad demonstrators have been throwing rocks and trying to move towards riot police authorities are attempting to clear several protest camps in the capital and move crowds to tahrir square the crackdown began after influential shiite cleric. with to his support for the protests which began in october imran khan is among the protesters in baghdad that's what was.

curses have been ongoing for days though you can see the protesters very loose full of i do already in the last 5 or 6 minutes we're seeing tear gas being fired 2 we've also heard life going on now the baghdad operations come on. the protesters to go back to or a square where they say they allow to protest what they're doing is they don't want to move any further away from now just a few days ago we were told what the police were trying to do was to push the protesters but in truth. however the protesters held forward they've been here for days now where these are been. going now protests a 3rd of all government listened to those still no new prime minister no new elections so they want to try and keep up the pressure and that's exactly what they do. in sudan protesters have turned out again in the capital calling on the

government to keep the promises made after the removal of former president oh ma bashir they say it still doesn't contain enough civilians that is the government former president bashir was removed last year after nationwide protests and charges of corruption demonstrators say officials have since failed to deliver stability. in india protesters and police in new delhi are knocked in a standoff as activists campaign against a new citizenship law as an aid to similar wave of angry protests over the knowledge they say discriminates against muslims earlier a man shot at demonstrates is injuring one person a man shouted at protesters outside a university in new delhi before opening fire on demonstrators have planned to form a human chain is it random was at the protests early in the day. when your job is to me a university where a man shot at protesters injuring one person has been taken away to hospital now

mobile phone video of the incident shows the man brandishing a gun and waving it at protesters and to the lists walking backwards to a line of police officers before being apprehended by police jummy a has been one of the center of protests since the citizenship amendment act was passed by the indian government 7 weeks ago did most of the rallies here have been peaceful and people outweigh the all seeing how a man is 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 madness that headed at another of one of these major protests sidestepping he also has a gun and these incidents occurred as members of the ruling body of the job of the posse all the b.j. he has been making statements say that cases should be shot like killing the

justice that said he was too. murderous and great to see it is. headed. next. he was democrat says stepping up their calls for witnesses to testify at the at the impeachment trial of president donald trump ahead of a crucial senate vote on friday that ages a of the hearing was dominated by augments over a yet to be released book by former national security advisor john bolton 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

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 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 out of knowledge 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. 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 sound to call the country donald trump's wall john home and reports. that. this was aboard a caravan of thousands of home during as expected when the into mexico here you know 2 you know what i carry a big gas guzzler my 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. and may not have his will yet the miscarriage become the next best thing a web of 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 elise 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 u.s. in very a long answer it clamped 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. yes and it's a rather are one of the most unequal countries in the region at 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 register with resources to their people. rooting out corruption providing opportunities 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 didn't we. must. we have more than 4000 jobs in the southern border area available this shelters medical care and work in our country every hour but those promises turned out to be largely empty the majority of those in this caravan were quickly deported. from the they are now the message at least seems clear if you fleeing your home and don't expect help free passage through mexico john home an al-jazeera mexico city. u.s. secretary of state my phone peo has made british prime minister boris johnson to discuss their country's ties after breck's set including a free trade deal and johnson that london is at the front line in trade negotiations that comment came after he earlier said the u.k. had taken a risk by allowing chinese tech firm huawei a limited role in its 5 g.

network the u.s. is concerned while raise links to the chinese government could put their intelligence corp at risk. argentina's new government has begun issuing food cards to low income families in an attempt to fight man nutrition the card gives them between $50.00 and $90.00 a month to buy certain food items the country's in the middle of an economic crisis and is preparing to restructure around a $100000000000.00 in debt there is a bull reports on when a size. long lines of people waiting to get government help this is happening in. only half an hour away from the center of one of society's. this is just one of the places in the country where the new government of the for a man this has not got a program to fight my nutrition. has 4 children and has been without work for a year. it's a compliment to help last 4 years we have seen an increase in prices and it's

difficult to make sure the kids eat well we bought lot of pasta and rice and they need meat fish and protein in the past year the devaluation of the peso currency has had a strong impact on the price of food many of those coming here are already receiving government help this card gives them between $50.90 extra dollars a month to buy only certain food items. my husband has some temporary work but i don't and this helps a lot with some basic items the government hopes to distribute over 560000 cards to help cope with rising my nutrition in the province on site children can get vaccinated. and there is a nutrition expert that teaches people how to eat smart. we're telling people what they should buy once they get the card 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 hold that this cards will help reactivate argentina's economy that is already struggling with recession and nation and even though this food cart will certainly help lots of families here that are currently struggling with the economic crisis most analysts say that the program to help solve argentina's endemic incapacity to generate jobs now would our loans or 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 in the country to be able to generate jobs that is what the country needs by activating the economy we will 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 because i will when our scientists. play again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak that sickened 170 people a global health emergency is now spread to all of china's foreman says an infected around $8000.00 people passengers on board a cruise ship on the italian coast near rome aren't being allowed to disembark overthe years some have the virus including the crew there about 7000 people on board medical south have taken samples from 2 passengers who are suspected of being infected sonia gaggle has more on that 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 how for her it is but 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 towards turkey's border with syria following almost 200 strikes by syrian and russian jets in 3 days at least 21 civilians have been killed in a province a hospital was among the science hit in iraq security forces a fire tear gas and live i'm a nation at anti-government protesters in baghdad demonstrators have been throwing

rocks and trying to move towards riot police authorities are attempting to clear several protest camps in the capital. protesters and police in india are locked in a standoff as activists campaign against the country's citizenship law this is an age is no way to run re protests against the acts that they say discriminates against muslims earlier a man shot at demonstrators during the protests in new delhi injuring one person the man shouted at protesters outside a university in india's capital before opening fire protestors had planned to form a human chain those are the headlines talked to is mixed.

hitting u.s. bases. drone strikes taking out general. world war 3 started trending as the u.s. and iran took military action against each other but not what's happening on iraqi soil. war once again caught up between a regional giant and a military superpower we caught him in the act. and terminated him mr president is adamant the general classrooms in the money posed an imminent threat which was contradicted by iran and the iraqi prime minister in.