off planet on al-jazeera. the on. al-jazeera. back to this is the news hour live from headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes 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 emergency. the u.s. says 700000 people are fleeing to or sickies border with syria following a surge in asked strikes on aid late province. they have gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on john bolton also this hour u.s. democrats keep up the pressure for the national former national security adviser to

testify a donald trump's impeachment trial as senators get ready for a 2nd day of questioning and protesters again cindy is controversial citizenship law become the target a man opens fire at a rally in the capital new delhi. and i'm here to swim to the only school shoulder mastic football in china is postponed because of the corona virus outbreak another joke of it which beats roger federer to reach the final of the distro you know. thank you very much for joining us within the hour the world health organization is due to reveal whether it will declare the corona virus outbreak a global health emergency in china the virus has now been detected in all the country's provinces in the epi center an emergency hospital is being rapidly builds

to treat those who are ill so far the death toll stands at 170 with nearly 8000 people confirmed to be infected. 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. well java is a face in growing restrictions of russia is closing several direct border crossings with china and the czech republic has become the latest country to announce temporary visa restrictions for chinese citizens meanwhile a cruise ship carrying more than 6000 passengers has been in lockdown at a poor me of rome in italy a chinese woman onboard who fell ill is being tested for the virus. xor cautions

are being taken in hong kong as well where another case has just been confirmed bringing the total cases that 11 around 300000 people are returning from new new year's celebrations in mainland china and trade unions that's threatening to strike unless the border is completely shuts when harry for some who call. concern is growing in hong kong but the number of coronavirus cases here could be about to shop any 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 and siding here. yeah. these morning. so i'd be waiting for all 6 to 7 hours. call to get there are mosques 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 wide a union protest against the gov. it's response to the outbreak of the virus 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 passengers on wednesday's 1st flight tested positive for the virus but with the national institute of infectious diseases have reported to

us 3 new cases of corona virus related diseases the city they left behind to hand remains largely under lockdown most people are choosing to stay indoors but among the few signs of commerce delivery businesses are 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. now the world health organization is set to announce whether it will declare the outbreak as a global imagine see here's what that actually means w.h.o. defines a global emergency as an extraordinary event that poses a public health risk to more than one country and requires

a coordinated international response all member states have a legal duty to abide by it's the designation would allow the w.h.o. chief to make recommendations to control the global spread of the virus including travel restrictions screenings at land borders and airports and it could lead to additional funding and resources from the international community but it's rare for the w.h.o. to make the declaration it's only done it 5 times over the past 15 years let's speak to jonathan ball about this his a professor of viral and she at nottingham university in the u.k. joins us live from there thank you so much for being with us so does this outbreak of the corona virus fit the definition of a global health emergency what would be the purpose of declaring it an emergency. well clearly the debate in the moment of the not finished deliberations but it is there since what it means is that it's a potential threats to more than one country and i think there's also got to be

some kind of consideration for whether or not the country that's been affected by the outbreak can deal with that infection on their own means and i think at the moment considering the scale of the likely outbreak in china but also the fact that we've seen cases exported to several countries around the world that i would be very surprised if to be a cho didn't declare it a public health emergency of international concern yet there's been debating this for the past 3 days now on whether or not to declare it a public imagine see a global imagine c. but isn't there a risk of creating more panic by doing that. well it i think there's a reasonable amount of panic around the world anyway about this virus and i think it has got to the stage now where there has to be more of a coordinated effort and i think that's the key there's been a lot of collaboration a lot of involvement from various agencies around the world trying to help china

and they've done an incredibly good job themselves and you know the scientists have worked hard so identify what it is so there's a lot of coordination and collaboration but i think this is just an official mark of the seriousness of this particular outbreak compared to the sars outbreak in 2003 and the maze virus outbreak how how does this compare to those 2 previous operates is it spreading more quickly is it more fatal. so it's a it's a very useful thing to compare it to what we've seen before so the sars mers and the current corona virus you know they are all coronaviruses they belong to the same family i would expect or hope that they behave in a similar way but of course what we're seeing at the moment is quite marked differences so for example sars coronavirus killed one in 10 people it also caused serious illness in lots of people that infected where's the current corona virus we

think that there are far more people infected but fortunately the number of people who then develop serious disease and die is a lot less so we think and it's difficult to put a number right around 80 percent of the infections might be fairly mild but that's a problem. if china has been very keen to show that they're being transparent about this virus they've been criticizing the earth with their the size epidemic of not being transparent do you think they're sharing all the information with the international community right now no i don't see any reason why they they wouldn't want to share the information but it's certainly the case that they might not know the actual true scale of the outbreak so this thing probably emerged in november last year it was recognized in december and the virus itself was identified around 2 weeks ago so this is an incredibly fast rapid change in picture and we're only

now starting to understand how this virus is behaving and there are some reason reassuring elements for example the levels of serious disease or death but there are also some worrying elements such as the fact that there does seem to be quite a lot of human to human transmission particularly the fact that individuals with mild symptoms or maybe even no symptoms are all might be able to pass on the virus and of course the numbers are increasing day by day so those are worrying elements to this outbreak thank you very much for speaking to us jonathan barr professor of biology at nottingham university thank you very much for your time. our we want to take you now live to the u.s. senate's where proceedings are underway in the trial of. the president president donald trump this is the 2nd day of questioning for by the senators and old soul questions that are being posed to the managers democratic and

managers were acting as prosecutors in this impeachment trial and questions also being posed to president tom snorri is let's bring in heidi. following these proceedings for us on capitol hill so heidi then the debate continues today over whether to call witnesses what were the main takeaways for his from the 1st day of questions and answers on wednesday the key moments. sure well there were more are close to 100 questions that were submitted and answered yesterday but the the the argument of the trumps defense team alan dershowitz 1111 of his attorneys has really struck a chord with those who heard it the argument goes that if the president believes it is in the nation's interest for him self to win re-election then asking for foreign interference to help him win reelection should not be an impeachable offense that has really incense some of the democrats who are listening mazie hirono senator

a democrat said that this amounts to the coronation of president trump with republicans holding his train and senator cory booker who just spoke with al-jazeera called that argument immoral he said that it is unacceptable to say that the president can solicit foreign interference as part and is steadily not as part of a store sion scheme as he says by using foreign aid to ukraine as leverage to get that help to help him win reelection so expect more questions from both sides many of these questions. we've seen so far have been taking up talking points really to their respective sides but really what's being talked about here is whether or not this argument from alan dershowitz gives in a sense gives cover to the president that even if he is found even if he is guilty of everything that democrats impeach or managers accuse him of so goes the argument

of the president's legal defense team that he should still not be impeached and removed from office and taking that argument one step further are the president's attorneys in a sense saying that because it doesn't matter whether or not the facts be proven that there's no point in finding out more information and that's where this push to get more witnesses is that play democrats say that people like john bolton the former national security advisor to trump he does know whether or not trump had corrupt motives when asking for investigations into his political rivals so at the end of today and at some point tomorrow expect a vote on the floor whether or not to call john bolton and other witnesses we're going to listen to some of the questions now heidi stand by this speaking right now on the floor is the impeachment manager democratic impeachment manager zoe lofgren

let's listen in. and the oversight. that we have as we now know what would be permanently altered back. in cuba is manager. mr chief justice from kentucky i have a question to present to the desk for the house manager shift and for the president's counsel. the presiding officer to ons to read the question as submitted.

mr chief justice. the senator from wisconsin mr chief justice i sent a question to the desk thank you. the question from senator baldwin is addressed to the house managers given that the white house counsel could not answer senator romney's question that asked for the exact date the president 1st ordered to hold on security assistance to ukraine what witness or witnesses could answer senator romney's question.

thank you chief justice thank you senator for the question. you're right they were not able to directly answer that question and we believe that there is a tremendous amount of material out there in the form of e-mails text messages conversation and witness testimony that could shed additional light on that including an e-mail from last summer between mr bolden mr blair where we know from witness testimony this issue was discussed but we do know is from multiple

witnesses ukrainian officials knew the president had a place to hold on security assistance soon after was ordered in july of $21900.00 so we know that not only did u.s. officials know about it and know and be communicate about it but the ukrainians knew about it as well we know from former deputy foreign minister of ukraine alina zirkle she stated publicly in fact that the ukrainian officials knew about it and had found out about it in july we also know from the testimony of laura cooper that her staff received 2 e-mails from the state department on july 25th revealing that the ukraine embassy was quote asking about security assistance and quote and that quote the hill knows about the f m f situation to an extent and so does the ukrainian embassy in quote and that was on july 25th the same day as president trump's call with president so inskeep what we also know is that career diplomat

catherine croft stated that she was very surprised at the effectiveness of my ukrainian counterparts diplomatic tradecraft as in to say they found out very early on or much earlier than i expected them to end quote we also know that lieutenant colonel alexander alexander men testified that by mid august he was getting questions from ukrainians about the status of security assistance. so there is a lot of evidence surrounding it the administration continues to obstruct holi our efforts to get the e-mails and correspondence that we have asked for that obviously can be remedied by this body with the appropriate subpoenas namely a subpoena to ambassador bolton to testify and a subpoena to the state department and department of state department of defense and others to actually provide that material. last thing i'd like to say is last evening council for the president was asked the question about why did the the

hold for ukraine differ from holds in the northern triangle and other holes like afghanistan he provided an explanation that i'm still trying to wrap my brain around because he seems to be the only person in the ministration that actually has an explanation. and as far as i could tell that's been a sham was somewhere along the lines of one was public trying to poke public pressure on the countries in question and one was not was a private conversation a private effort to put pressure if that were true then of course there would be plenty of evidence plenty of e-mails text messages and other correspondence within the entire interagency process that we know is robust that would at illustrate that to be the case but they have failed to provide any evidence to corroborate that and let me finish with this i happen to know that a lot of people in this chamber lot of people in the chamber on the other side of

the capitol including me have often described much consternation about red tape and bureaucracy and layers of government that run too slow and i sometimes share that concern right that sometimes it takes a long time there are memos for everything e-mails for everything there is paper trails for everything in this town i think that is true with respect to this issue and it is time that we actually see that information's we can get to the bottom of what actually happened this body could get that information thank you mr manager it's a chief justice senator from pennsylvania mr chief justice i send a question to the desk on behalf of myself and senators sas mix sally craig both young ernst and wrong.

the question from senator toomey and other senators is for counsel for the president given that the election of the president is one of the most significant political acts in which we as citizens in gage in our democratic system how much weight should the senate give to the fact that removing the president from office and disqualifying him from ever holding future federal office would undo that democratic decision and kick the president off the ballot in this year's election members of the senate one of the concerns that we've raised throughout this process over the last several months in going back to the time when the house was dealing with this in their various committees is we're in an election year there are some in this room that are days away from the iowa caucuses taking place so we're

discussing the possible impeachment and removal of the president of the united states not only during election season in the heart of the election season and i think that this does a disservice to the american people again we think the basis upon which this is moved forward is irregular to say the least but i do think it complicates the matter for the american people that we are literally at the dawn of a new season um of elections i mean we're at that season now and yet we're talking about impeaching a president and i want to tie this into the urgency that was so prevalent in december with my colleagues the managers it was so urgent to move this forward that they had to do it by mid december before christmas because national security

was at stake and then they waited 33 days to bring it here and now they're asking you to do all the investigation although they say they you know prove their case but still need more to prove it because we believe and i want to be clear that their entire process was corrupt from the beginning and there is putting it on this body. but to do it while the american people are selecting candidates for nomination to be the head of their party to run as president of the united states. some of you in this very room. and to talk about the removal of the president of the united states i think that's all part and parcel of the same pattern in practice of irregularities that have taken place with this impeachment proceeding since the beginning the speaker allowed the articles to linger it was such a nationally urgent matter that they could linger for

a month. so we think that this points to be exact problem what's taking place here and that is my colleague mr sibal only said this is really taking the voter away from the american people think most people. so then the debate over to call witnesses continues at presidential and senate impeachment trial senators have been posing questions to the democratic house managers who are of course acting as prosecutors in this impeachment trial and also to the president's lawyers about president tom's conduct towards ukraine which is so the president's personal lawyer there jay sekulow speaking the president's legal team saying that new revelations by the former national security adviser john bolton are irrelevant to the impeachment trial despite the democrats' demands that he be called to testify. and in a manuscript of his forthcoming book that the white house is trying to block john bolton is said to say that president trump ordered him to maintain a hold on u.s.

military aid to ukraine until ukraine agreed to investigate former vice president joe biden again the white house has written a letter to bolton seeking to block the publication of that book as bringing on capitol hill for us so heidi the crucial day of course will be tomorrow when there is expected to be a vote on whether or not to call witnesses like john bolton the republican strategy the president's legal team strategy seems to have changed. that's right you know their strategy now and we heard this argument made by alan dershowitz yesterday one of the president's attorneys is that even if john bolton's revelations are proven to be true even if president trying to solicit foreign interference in the upcoming election then he could still be acquitted and should be acquitted they say because that does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense the logic goes that the president may sincerely. i believe that his own

reelection is not only in his personal benefit but also in the public's benefit that he thinks another term in office would be good for the country and thus that asking for aid from a foreign nation to get him back in the white house rather 4 years is not purely corrupt now of course that has landed on very offended ears of some of the democrats who've been speaking with the press saying that this logic is twisted that it is even. but today's proceedings and you may have missed it if you just played to there was a moment just now when we heard the chief justice john roberts roberts declining to read aloud one of the questions submitted by one of the senators i believe it was submitted by rand paul republican from kentucky and john roberts said he would not free to allow the question and we heard that audio cut off because again this video feed is controlled by the government itself so i'm sure people are wondering what

this question could have been about well we know from previous reporting from yesterday that rand paul has been trying to get the name of the whistleblower out into the public wants that name to be read aloud by john roberts of course the whistleblower is the person who started all of this by saying that the phone call between trump and the president of the lens of president of ukraine volodymyr zelinsky was of concern and john roberts the chief justice had said that there is no way he would allow that name to be read aloud on the senate floor all right heidi thank you for the moment live for us on capitol hill. all right some breaking news now and an update on the corona virus outbreak the 1st u.s. incident of person to person spread of the virus has been identified in the state of illinois that's according to the u.s.

centers for disease control and prevention so that case brings the total number of infected patients in the u.s. to 6 the corona virus was confirmed in the husband of a woman who had been in china previously and was confirmed to have the infection both patients are said to be in their sixty's so the 1st person to person transmission of the corner virus reported in the u.s. the w.h.o. the world health organization is meeting this hour and they're expected to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak a global health emergency one of the latest on that for you as more information becomes available moving on to other world news now in the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 strikes have hit the last rebel held province of idlib in the last 3 days an estimated $700000.00 people in italy but nothing towards the border with turkey over the last 24 hours at least $21.00 civilians have been killed in government as strikes that are backed by russia

a hospital in the city of our rehab was among the sites that they to be as the details. this is what's left of al shehri hospital in italy provence. are known to have a 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 a strikes in recent months to say these facilities were attacked deliberately. what i work in the rehearsal it was reckless. targeted the hospital is not operating now and is completely destroyed due to direct shelling so many were killed in dozens wounded the syrian civil defense group known as the white helmets also blames russian warplanes for the attack. the russian warplanes targeted

a hospital hundreds surrounding residential areas in a real and 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 adelaide 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 caught up in the violence the u.n. says more than $350000.00 have been forced to leave their homes since the beginning of december many families are now packing their belongings and leaving the city over riyadh but they don't know where they can go say victoria gates and be out.

soon and. bowl with more on how turkey is reacting to the strikes in syria. the situation is very dire for the civilians and especially given the weather conditions due to winter people do not have many options to find refuge for themselves and there is an immense pressure by the turkish border as hundreds of thousands of people are stuck it has been like that since april last april as the syrian government intensified its assault assaults on the civilians inside it live trying to advance from south to the north but when i was at it last time at live in late $21000.00 people were at least able to stay on their $1.03 is now it is much worse than that and for the cease fire is peace deals they do not last and the latest cease fire that was inactive on january 12th only lasted for 72 hours that's why turkish president reject a paragon reacted harshly and he said that our son and such a peace process they all failed and the support must be revived and he said that

syria and russia do not abide by the cease fire and it's russia's responsibility to persuade a syria and according to the latest national security meeting in uncorrupt today if turkey decided to increase its increase its measures against the assaults that target the civilians now what is next for turkey in the what is next for syria's and at the still today in our no. still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour as standoff in guinea a security forces and protesters bottle in this recent. past facing the music how british artists are grappling with the changes wrecks it may make to the industry in sports and as action from the australian open including the known round american who stunned the world number one.

hello turkey is about to get plastered with snow you can see it happening now and it might well come across the border into northern syria so any high ground because in the up to a meter of snow in the next 48 hours or so to the south of that there will be some rain showers but you'll end up on friday dodgy with an onshore breeze not particularly warm 11 in damascus probably bright skies the blue is clearly rain the what is clearly snow and there's something you can't quite see this line here develops a few showers in the mountains in the west society that's moving science words it might be society bahrain or qatar but probably not and following it not immediately is a should also quiet weather but still not very warm 39000 is a mix in their hot most of north africa is affected just by the hamas and the

winter breeze if you like and that's so ganged up to bring some pretty high temperatures to senegal in the gambia banjul 35 is above average and we did see a record broken the last day or so and nothing much will change with that breeze still blowing your still going to be the dust in the air and high temperatures the rains further south the rift valley all the way down towards zimbabwe and from angola eastwards there's the focus of the heavy rain with a few showers as far south as the suit to. in the philippines the black market for gold is worth hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to some of paying the ultimate prize when i went east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every.

a journey of puzzling discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera is james gunn and expose his family's legacy of slave ownership you know like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us so scar we've askey to speak out because a soprano. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. the in the the in. the end the in. the

watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories on this news hour the us has just reported its 1st case of human to human transmission of the corona virus in the state of illinois bringing the total number of infections in the country to 6 the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corn a virus outbreak that's killed $170.00 people mostly in china a global health emergency. u.s. senators are on their final day of questions in donald trump's impeachment trial in the senate democrats continue to push for testimony from former national security advisor john bolton we say believe would help their case against iran. and the u.s. says 700000 people are now fleeing towards turkey's border with syria following almost 200 strikes by syrian and russian aircraft on the rebel held 12 and so it lives in the last 3 days at least 21 civilians have been killed a hospital was among the sites it. now protests have broken out in the occupied

west bank against the u.s. plan for peace in the middle east which sides with israel on many contentious issues a small crowd of demonstrators have been burning tires near the illegal israeli settlement of beit el which lies close to the palestinian city of ramallah on the donald thomas proposal settlements including beta would be on expired israel the un has rejected transplant it says solutions to the israeli palestinian conflict should be based on international law and resolutions about a science chief negotiator side erekat says a pulse plan would make israel's occupation of palestine penates 94 percent of this land has been stolen between 67 and now under the total control by the specified militant group creation. or 7000 as a result this is a contractual agreement that was constructed and based on ending the israeli occupation what is offered here is to turn the timber occupation to

a fair amount want. and it is going to happen scenario you may shoulder the responsibilities from there were a lot of material everything and my memory i'm sorry america and mahmoud abbas and the fed are worried we're here and we're here to stay are diplomatic as are james bays asks the u.s. ambassador to the un kelly craft about what's in the proposal for palestinians but you know i'm not i'm not going to prejudge because i'm nothing's happened as of yet but i am open to conversation with the palestinian p.r. this is an opportunity it's a very solid opportunity for peace in the region i think it's. they have to want peace. as much as we do actually more than we do and i think that in the days to come that we'll be able to work with the countries that were very positive and hopefully have more dialogue and i'm open to conversation with months or what is

there in this deal for the palestinians to like if you look at all the deals that have come up in the past in percentage terms of the division this gives the palestinians less than any other proposed deal doesn't this just reward 'd israel for illegally taking palestinian land over many decades you know i think i think what you say is a dialogue that has become normal and we need to move away from that dialogue because it's not normal and we need to focus on the palestinians the children the future of a palestinian state and making them economically stable giving you know education choices making certain that their health care is stable and you know this is a plan we are proposing it is up to them to negotiate the 2 the 2 israelis and palestinians on you know we are offering them a plan and this is an opportunity that they have to take negotiate the us has announced new sanctions on iran's atomic energy organization and his chief officer

. tehran is accused of resuming uranium enrichment for the proliferation of nuclear weapons iran says a new sanctions shows washington's despair under the terms of the 2050 nuclear deal iran has agreed to limit enrichment for use in its domestic energy program but is the jurors have rolled back on commitments to the agreement since it was abandoned by president donald trump and 20. iran's continued nuclear escalation underscores the serious challenge the iranian regime poses to international peace and security we call on nations to oppose iran's nuclear extortion. and to restore the united nations security council standard of no win richmond for the iranian regime that standard was abandoned under the iran nuclear deal and it needs to be restored. police and protesters have clashed in india's capital after

a man opened fire at what had been a peaceful rally it's an ace outbreak of violence in weeks of nationwide protests against the citizenship amendment act which critics say discriminates against muslims and is a random reports from new delhi. defiant and undeterred protesters gathered at jamey a 1000000 university where a man opened fire just hours earlier mobile phone video shows him brandishing a gun at protesters and journalists as he walks backwards towards police officers he's heard praising delhi police and threatening protestors we are feeling and see if there is no rule of law in the country right now as you can see how the things going on here but the readers who just want to see you are going to see your country from this place has gotten. one student was taken to hospital after being shot in the arm. there is a tense standoff here between protesters and police who won't let people go past

that point protests here had been planning to march to a realtor one of india's founders mahatma gandhi on the 72nd anniversary of his killing by a hindu nationalist but after the shooting police have cordoned off the area around the university and closed 3 metro stations police are questioning the gunman whose facebook profile is said to contain extremist views they included a post praising the man who in 1948 assassinated mahatma gandhi the leader of the campaign for india's independence from british rule. was protests have been held across the country since the hindu nationalist government of prime minister that in the past the citizenship amendments act last month the law of fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but not muslims. as one of many lawyers who filed petitions against the india supreme court saying

it's discriminatory. only thrive on better. on creating insecurities. and 2nd life. is normal thing on which they thrive and that is what. 6 to be j.p. politicians have been banned from campaigning for 3 days in daddy's upcoming local elections after saying protestors should be shot and likening demonstrators to rapists and murderess. dozens of people have been killed in 7 weeks of protests critics of the government point out that while demonstrations have taken place around india the deaths have only occurred in states ruled by the b j p. the prime minister says the citizenship little helps people from other countries who've been persecuted for their faith but protests to say both him and the law threaten the foundations of

a secular india elizabeth purana al jazeera new delhi. anti-government protests have turned violent in guinea's capital conakry with 2 more people killed by security forces at least 21 people have died since the demonstrations began in october nikken to gauge reports. a standoff in guinea's capital tear gas filled the streets as another round of mass anti-government protests turned violent. police used slingshots with stones as they tried to disperse the crowds and protesters forced back arrests were made by security forces and. told me to go to the garage to work i told her there's a strike on today she wanted me to go anyway but i went outside the police arrested me i was just trying to get to work. this building was set alight in the demonstrations it was a local business a coalition of opposition groups calling itself the national front for the defense

of the constitution has been spearheading the protests it called for a national strike on wednesday which saw many shops close one since last night police have been deployed in the area to secure cannot create against these authorized protests but we are sure in the community that we have this under control the west african country has been hit by rolling protests since mid october or the concerns president alpha condé will seek a 3rd term in office he 1st came to power in 2010 and his 2nd and final 5 year term in office is coming to an end this year the opposition claims he plans to use a new constitution to extend his 2 term limits until this is rolled out it's unclear when the unrest will end nicola gage al-jazeera. u.s.

secretary of state my compare has met with the british foreign minister boys johnson to discuss post breck's it ties including a free trade deal unveiled told johnson that london is at the front of the line in trade negotiations that comment came after he area said the you get taken a risk by allowing chinese tech for a while way a limited role in his 5 g. network. now the u.k. leaves c.e.u.s at midnight on friday after years of wrangling about how to honor the result of the 2016 referendum on membership many sectors have raised concerns about the impact wrecks it will have on business not least the music industry which wants to ensure musicians can carry on touring freely emma hayward's reports. when i'm. writing about love to travel and if that spirit says along the way hasn't john smith a fan base in the u.k. . and he spends

a quarter of his touring time in mainland europe every year like many artists who live in the e.u. he's been able to work with out of what life will be like in the future is unclear you can organize a tour bus or amsterdam cologne. in copenhagen pay off. and you can do it all on the train so if it gets really expensive to tour europe for a little financial gain then it could be a tough choice i think for people at my level british artists have benefited from decades of being allowed to work freely in the e.u. and sell them merchandise at no extra cost it is a reciprocal arrangement leaving the e.u. means that will and unless a future negotiations allow it you claim is there and the artistic producer has always been central to the global music industry and is highly valuable to weapon estimated $6700000000.00 to the u.k. economy most musicians work on a free lance basis don't and big money and some play in different orchestras so go

back and forth figure every week so the musicians union which represents more than 30000 artists is pressing the u.k. government to ensure that members can still thrive in a post spread out. greater had big success in the 90s with his band and now works as a solo artist and producer when i go into an exclusive vinyl for the fans we can just run your no problem but when we try to take it to china we can get it with the trade deal. so things are going to change. and what about. the terms as we've got already the u.k. government told us it is holding talks with the creative industry and set a world class orchestras of musicians make an invaluable contribution to the u.k.'s cultural reputation around the world we are continuing to work closely with the

sector to ensure the needs of musicians are considered as part of our preparations believing the e.u. the other rules of. many artists will tell you that the power of music is that it has no borders no flags but it's all about bringing people together but that could be harder now for some of europe's musicians i'm a haywood al-jazeera the south of england. nearly release images have captured the surface of the sun and its highest detail yet these pictures show a pattern of boiling gas with hot gas my risking cooling off and sinking they were captured by the new danny kaye in oh we telescope in hawaii is features the world's largest solar marrow which allow it to capture such clear images. i still ahead on this out there news hour and sport the enemy has returned

to practice with kobe bryant in there thanks peter as well coming up next disabled still. playing. so bring on al-jazeera. and make tension with the u.s. and protests over a plane downing iran's harlem entry election will be held on february 20. 5th to syria explores the face of india's religious minorities on the prime minister modis can the. u.s. voters get that last chance to weigh in on the 2020 lection al-jazeera will have comprehensive coverage a new series looks at how female scientists across the globe are opening doors for other women to pursue careers in science and after 5 years of civil war could bitter rivals agree a peace deal to revive africa's youngest nation. separate on al-jazeera. in the philippines the black market for gold is worth hundreds of millions but not

everybody is reaping the rewards to sound the ultimate prize when i went east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. move. or. for. sports and speech to play thank you very much domestic football in china has been postponed due to the spread of the coronavirus this applies to all levels of the game including the lucrative chinese super league which is due to start next month the world in the west lasix championships in china have been delayed by a year until march 2021 and the international ski federation has canceled next month races at china's 2022 winter olympic venue the u.s.

is also on alert for the virus ahead of the super bowl in miami thousands of n.f.l. fans of traveling from around the world to sunday's game were doing enhanced screening at 5 primary airports that has now expanded to 20 airports including miami here. medical professionals we do a number of enhanced medical screenings there from individuals coming from mainland china. the kansas city chiefs and the san francisco $49.00 is metered hardrock stadium home of the miami dolphins it's 50 years since the chiefs last reached this showpiece game and their players are hoping to step up to the big cation. knowing that you can have a long pre-game a long kind of ceremonies that will happen at the beginning of the game but i'm never going to be ready to play and for me it's about trying to manage human emotions going out there with a clear head with the right mindset to go out there and play my best football is the biggest football game we've ever played in but i can overhype it because then

you start doing things you haven't been doing all year or your whole career. so i'm just trying to approach it you know same way approach playoff games regular games. 7 time australian open champion novak talk of it's got the better of rival roger federer in thursday semifinal of this year's event but there's a surprise lineup for the women's final in melbourne as david stokes reports i know that djokovic she already has 7 australian open titles and he's hungry for more after get another win over roger federer in a major as night fell in melbourne federal court hard to open up a full one lead in the opening set despite struggling with a growing injury i bet he couldn't make it count and djokovic full back to win it on a tie break i federer did his best to keep up in the 2nd set but the serve was just too good i

he was fired up and he wrapped it up in straight sets i it's his 6th straight win of the federal mages and gives him a chance to win grand slam number 17 that would put in just 3 behind federer is all time record respect to roger for coming out tonight see he was obviously hurt i wasn't at his best even close to his best things in terms of movement and you know respect for coming out and trying his best all the way through joke of each will face are the dominant team aleksandr in the final there was a big shock in the women's semi's where the world number one actually barty was looking to become australia's 1st time winner in 42 years and it was going to plan for the top seed. i was shocked set up she said points and had her american opponent saffir kevin rattled. but barty didn't convert the chances and was made to pay 21 year old ken in one the tie break to take a one set lead and since. it was the same story in the 2nd set again had to

set points but fail to make them count and once again ken in the 14th seed at this tournament took full advantage to record a famous victory was my born in russia but raised in florida she's through to her 1st grand slam final she's a great player you know and there's a reason why she's wrong number one by i mean i'm disillusioned with the hunt for barty a disappointing end to the tournament but her baby niece by her side in the post much press conference helped soften the blow you know perspectives a beautiful thing life is a beautiful thing it's she brought a smile on my face as soon as i came off the court i got to give her a hug and. so good. in saturday's final cannon will face the former number one guard in make a wreath he fought hard to beat the wimbledon champion samoan howlett like kennan she choose to say force a point the 2 time major winner has dropped down the rankings and he's unseated at this tournament but she's been enjoying

a revival recently and wrap things up in straight sets i the spanish venezuelan setting up a 1st appearance in a major finals that she won wimbledon back in 2017 david stoked al-jazeera. one of the n.b.a.'s bryce's saws returned from a year on the injured list to inspire the indiana pacers to victory on wednesday victor all of the pro nailed versus a long 3 pointer to force overtime against the ship and the. sending the crowd into raptures and his mother as well nice to see their faces going on to win 115106. the los angeles lakers have returned to practice for the 1st time since the death of their former star kobe bryant the team counsel tuesday's match with the l.a. clippers but returned to the court against the portland trailblazers on friday bryant spent 20 years with the lakers. baseball coach john l.

to bury his wife and teenage daughter were among those killed in the helicopter crash alongside a bronze 2000 people pay tribute to them on the season's opening day of the ultimately spent 27 years with the orange coast college team. some of gold's biggest names are in the middle east for this week's saudi international tournament 5 time major winner for mickelson imprest stay in is opening round sydney with putts like this one to finish 2 shots behind the joint leaders graeme mcdowell and gap and green the world number one brooks kept making the trip from the u.s. for this one but he is 6 shots off the pace. that's what we'll leave it for now most for coming up again later fully thank you very much for that peter that's it for this hour on al-jazeera from the family back to bill and out in here and i thank you very much for watching daryn tale that is live next from out and in the center thanks jeanne.

india a nation of 1300000000 people deeply religious desperately divided i think good you know day the action which is potentially catastrophic what's causing this crisis of identity human who is making the get back out but it releases all physicists to us and why is it getting one. join the us here on my journey in search of india's soul coming soon on al-jazeera what was the last time you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and every love billboard layer further and further into the jail

or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again learned attention or young participants this is a dialogue everyone has a voice from fighting on the stage that supply kalashnikov rifle to varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on mt is iraq. trouble began at the end of the country's civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. ammo more horse shopped and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government are setting your this time the. nation's song for news and displacement between the community the mining companies and the government has now escalated to west africa's regional court the community has taken its case before west africa's regional court because they say the people have little for use in the justice system.

the world health organization prepares to reveal in the next hour whether it will declare the corona virus outbreak a global emergency. or this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the administration continues to obstruct our efforts to get the e-mails and correspondence that we have asked for obstruction claims from the democrats on a 2nd day of questions and answers in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump. a surge in syrian government asked. the u.s. says $700000.00 people a fleeing towards the turkish border. and a man opens fire.