as now escalated to west africa. the community has taken its case before west african regional court because they say the people have little for you in the justice system. the world health organization prepares to reveal in the next hour whether it will declare the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency. or and tell you 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 surgeon syrian government astronauts on the us says

$700000.00 people a fleeing towards the turkish border. and a man opens fire in new delhi on a crowd of more than a 1000 protesters against india's controversial citizenship and all. over the world health organization is currently meeting to decide whether to declare the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency an expert committee could order greater international cooperation to try to stop the disease spreading in china itself 170 people are now known to have died from the virus with almost 8000 people infected globally neighboring russia has closed its border with china with egypt air and ethiopian airlines joining the carriers avoiding chinese airports and it's me $6000.00 passengers a trapped on board the 5th largest cruise liner in the world while tests are

carried out on 2 passengers with a fever house officials in china say they're doing everything they can to bring the situation under control. after the outcry china has been in close communication with the world health organization other countries as well as the regions of hong kong and macau and taiwan we have reported and circulated epidemic updates and shared the genome sequencing of the corona virus as 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 nancy of al-jazeera correspondent charlie angelus or charlie what factors will the w.h.o. be considering when it makes this decision well they'll be looking at how the disease is spreading where it's spreading to you in the last 24 hours we've had cases confirmed in finland india and the philippines of the not total number of countries where corona virus is now present is 18 there's going to be looking at how it's spreading and with that in the last hour we've heard a report from the u.s.

of a human to human transmission a man who would not travel to china caught the virus off his wife who had returned from we've had 2 and a half weeks ago is that human to human transition is going to be a key deciding factor and if they do make this declaration they will have the authority through the united nations to put restrictions on trade and travel to anything that encourages the spread of the disease so for china this could mean the export of any animal related products but one of their main aims is to improve the surveillance the early detection and the tracking of the disease and to try to limit any more of those human to human transition so they could be forming a specialist network of laboratories where they can be. working out how to detect the virus more efficiently they could also be giving individual countries the tools to diagnose suspected cases rather than having to send samples abroad and wait for the results so we are waiting with bated breath to see what they announce in india

and in the meantime and what kind of different approach and in fact different measures talks to the situation in italy with those people are trapped on the cruise line yes we're seeing the quarantine of an entire cruise ship more than 6000 passengers some 1000 crew members as well because one woman a 50 year old 54 year old chinese woman who had flown in from hong kong was showing signs of a high fever she's now in isolation along with her husband they're still on board the ship but within the ship's hospital and the ship is effectively under lockdown they've had samples taken from them they've been sent for testing to a nearby hospital that specializes in. actions diseases but authorities are saying they are not taking any chances these people cannot disembark and until they get the full results of those tests those people are not disembarking they're staying at the 6000 people a floating city essentially here in the u.k. we are seeing. repatriation of 150 british nationals along with the 50 european

nationals that flight that has been sent by the ministry of defense should arrive in we're at about 23 g.m.t. they'll be brought back here to. our airspace and then put into a medical facility under quarantine for 14 days challenging thank you very much indeed. when the outbreak of the career of our suspect a massive surge in demand for protective masks were czech republic to south korea factories have been scrambling to fill orders and shops selling out when he reports now from hong kong where anxious residents were left queuing for hours to get their hands on one concern is growing in hong kong but the number of coronavirus 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 can only hear. yeah. this morning. so i've been waiting for 6 to 7 hours.

more to get the mass to try to control the spread of the virus the hong kong government has suspended most rail and ferry service is 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 hand as it did the government confirm some passages 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 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 hay al jazeera hong kong.

centers have gathered on capitol hill for day 2 of a question and answer session as part of the impeachment trial m.p.'s president donald trump. trump's defense team of facing questions over the allegation that the president sort foreign help for his reelection and the democrats are continuing to push a former national security adviser john bolton to testify in his book reportedly claims that trump not directly linked the freezing of military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into a democratic rival there had been. they have gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on john bolton to avoid calling him as a witness to avoid letting american people hear what he has to say to trying to stifle his book to attacking him publicly because they fear what he has to say because they already know the president scheme has been exposed

as got 100 castro his attack after the hills so what's the latest from that question and answer session. lauren senators submitting several questions seeking clarification on the president's new and much amplified legal defense strategy that we heard introduced yesterday which goes something like this according to the president's attorneys that if president trump asked for foreign assistance to help win his reelection that's coming up that that is both in his personal interest and in the public interest because he believes that being president is good for the country now democratic senators hearing that argument have been incensed saying that this amounts to the coronation of president trump of republicans holding his train and senator cory booker a democrat spoke with al jazeera saying that this argument was immoral. that it is not acceptable in our nation to say that a president can solicit foreign interference in an election period

it's definitely not acceptable when he soliciting that foreign interference in exchange for. things that foreign aid to try to extort that that help in that support this is wrong dead wrong and you don't need to be a constitutional scholar to understand that honey what can we expect after today. well the rest of today will be more question and answers and then tomorrow the key question on whether or not to extend this trial to include new witnesses legge john bolton who you mentioned who may have revelations that get to the motive of the president when he withheld aid from ukraine democrats say that that is still has not been established in the trial record exactly what the motive was and if republicans are truly interested in learning the truth and they should call bolton to testify now in the republic the president's defenders have been telling the

senators basically that even if what bolton is saying is true the president still should not be in impeached and removed from office and taking that argument a step further then what is the point of even seeing what bolton has to say ultimately it may be up to 4 republicans who would be the swing voters on the question of whether or not to call bolton and other witnesses and tomorrow we expect these senators to vote on that very question lauren i did your question thank you very much indeed. the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least 200 astronauts have hit in the province in the last 3 days at least 21 civilians are being killed and a hospital in the city very high was among the sites hit russian backed government offensive is now 470-0000 people to flee towards the turkish border. of course. this is what's left of 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 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 the woman and the 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 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 are caught up in the violence the. and says more than 350000 have been forced to leave their haven since the beginning of december many families are now packing that belongings and leaving the city over rear but they don't know where they can go that safe victoria gates and be out there. still to come on out here and protest is a sit down and not giving up keeping up the pressure 5th proper civilian representation. the other one who loses. steam.

and britain maybe breaking up with you on friday but both changed relationships allow musicians to talk freely. hello good or welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe it is going to be very mild across much of the north also over here towards the west we're talking about a westerly flow that's going to keep those temperatures above average as we go into the weekend we're going to see here on berlin about 11 degrees here down towards europe it's going to be about 15 by the time we get towards saturday it's going to be more rain across much of the area but the temperatures are continuing to rise in many locations so paris the rain is going to be in and out of your area about 14 degrees here rain all the way towards warsaw though with attempt a few of 8 degrees where we're going to be seen as

a very messy weather though is down here across much of the southeast and it is going to be the snow where we see in the higher elevations particularly over probably 90 centimeters of snow just in the next several days for ankara though it is going to be better with a few you saw the rain you saw the snow but by the time we go into the weekend it is going to be still cool but by the time we get to sunday much better conditions with attempts at there of about 10 degrees than here across northern africa what we are going to see some clouds here across much of parts of libya as well as into egypt for cairo it is going to be a cloudy day here on friday with a temperature of $21.00 degrees and as we go towards saturday it's going to be cloudy day for benghazi at 17 in tripoli with attempt a few of about $21.00 degrees for you at the. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how life will raise influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution covering this for wakefield castro is

a feudal east another coming mr castro into this country change that international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and for del castro face to face on al-jazeera. they're going to run to the top stories on our syria the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak a global emergency $170.00 people are now known to have died from the virus in china with nearly 8000 people infected is. a battle over whether witnesses will be

called in president trumps impeachment trial is continuing his question and answer session is being overshadowed by the possibility of potentially explosive evidence in this format national security adviser. 21 people have been killed in air strikes on 2 villages in syria's rebel held in libya province a hospital was among the buildings hit hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the russian backed on body meant. at least one person has been injured after a man fired a gun that protesters in new delhi. witnesses said the man shouted slogans at the crowd of more than a 1000 demonstrators who gathered at jamia millia islamia university before getting fired the culprit used facebook's live broadcast feature to warn people that he was taking his final journey before the shooting protesters have gathered to rally against india's new controversial citizenship law which excludes muslims indian police have arrested the suspected gunman is with burnham was at the demonstration

and says a similar incident occurred earlier this week at another precious site in the capital. when you're job be a millionaire is for me a university where a man shot at a protest is injuring one person who's been taken away to a hospital now mobile phone video of the incident shows the man brandishing a gun waving it at protestors and to the lists looking backwards to a line of police officers before being apprehended by police john media has been one of the center of protests since the citizenship amendment act was passed by the indian government 7 weeks ago do most of the rallies here have been peaceful and people outweigh the os 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 battles that are headed at another of one

of these major protests sidestepping he also has a gun and these incidents occurred as members of the ruling thought of the job of the posse all the b.j. he having making statements say that each case should be shot like killing the suggest is that should he bother to. murder is and break his. head or think that she's a snake she can't. force is no will to libya's u.n. recognized government say they've shot down a russian made drone in southern tripoli meanwhile the french president in one year mccoy has accused his turkish counterpart. of breaching an agreement to halt foreign interference in libya. was accused of sending warships and most maries to the country world leaders pledged not to interfere in libya's conflict and vowed to

uphold a u.n. arms embargo at a summit earlier this month. you know on the un's special representative for libya has expressed anger and disappointment at countries involved in the complete there are unscrupulous actors inside and outside libya who cynically nod and wink the words efforts to promote peace and by use the f. their support for the land meanwhile they continue to double down on a military solution raising the frightening specter of the ford escape conflict and further misery for the libyan people. thousands of protesters have gathered govern in the capital of saddam to call for military governors to be replaced they want civilians to take the roles and a transitional legislative council to be formed the demands were in trying to the country's constitution all to form a long time ruler. was removed from office last year but she dons prime minister said achieving peace is his 1st car chase for the moment is that the rally inches

people becoming impatient. once again thousands of people have taken to the streets here in the sudanese capital khartoum most of them have gathered outside the office of prime minister of the law who was appointed in august last year following a deal between the military and the protest movement known as the forces of freedom and change coalition now today's protests have been called for by the sudanese professionals association the body that has been spearheading calls for protests since december 28th seen and they're demanding that the prime minister and his cabinet appointed brilliant governors in all 18 states of sudan to replace the current military governors and to form a legislative council those 2 demands are included in the constitutional declaration that was signed between the protest movement and the military we need immediately the government to take care of this because the situation this economic situation in sudan is not good at all we suffer no transport and you know that

people are just waiting to get bread and this story is going back and looking at the transitional council was supposed to be formed 5 months ago we're not supposed to be protesting for it today it was one of the 1st demands and the fact i have to go out to mounting for it is wrong and people should rush to form it. but when it comes to responding to the demands of the protesters today the prime minister and his cabinet may face some issues at the trial the prime minister has previously stated that achieving peace in various parts of the country is his 1st priority and the transitional administration has in part on peace talks between itself and various armed groups in the south sudanese capital juba they've already signed something called the principles agreement and as part of that agreement they cannot be an appointment of any civilian governor or the formation of a legislative assembly and till a comprehensive peace deal is signed but people here are saying that they're impatient and that the reason why the country's economy is in turmoil and that

there are various and security incidents happening not just in the capital hard but various other states as well are because there are no civilian governors in place and there's no legislative council and they're saying that they're here to put pressure on the prime minister and his cabinet to let them know that they're here to got their revolution and make sure that their demands are listened to and heard and that they're there to make sure that the the articles of the constitution declaration are implemented so that they can feel that their revolution is complete . israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited moscow to brief the russian president on a u.s. plan for the middle east u.s. president on trump's proposal recognizes israeli sovereignty over west bank settlements incident in violation the international community united nations rejected this plan saying the israeli palestinian conflict should be solved through international law and un resolutions russia has been pursuing a greater role as

a mediator between the 2 in recent years. you know israeli security forces have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters in the occupied west bank demonstrators rallied against the u.s. middle east plan burning tires and throwing stones at security forces by the illegal israeli settlement of. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has rejected the plan as nonsense and says he will resist it switzerland has begun supplying iran with food and medicine avoiding u.s. sanctions will and $2000000.00 worth of medicines including cancer and organ transplant drugs are being sent one humanitarian supplies are exempt from the u.s. sanctions the possibility of litigation has deterred banks from supplying funds the scheme includes assurances on the processing of payments for iraqi security forces have used pellet rifles for the 1st time in attempt to disperse anti government protesters in baghdad clashes have continued in the iraqi capital for the 2nd week

as protesters threw rocks at police who responded with live fire and tear gas prices are angry at unemployment and alleged corruption within 450 have been killed since demonstrations broke out 4 months ago and rocks president has given rival political blocks until saturday to appoint a new prime minister but none can has been among the protesters in baghdad he says the security forces are trying to push back demonstrators to to hear square. that's what the square just down there where clashes have been ongoing for days now you can see the protesters very moved forward i'd already in the last 5 or 6 minutes we've seen tear gas being fired we've also heard live fire going on now the baghdad operations command has urged the protesters to go back to tucker a square where they say they are allowed to protest what they're doing is they don't want to move any further away from it now just

a few days ago we were told what the police were trying to do was to push the protesters back into town for a square however the protesters for would they've been here for days now where these are been this thing's going now the protesters are there the bonds haven't been listened to there's still no new prime minister. new other actions so they want to try and keep up the pressure and that's exactly what they do. and french cool to appeal has overturned a cardinal conviction for failing to report past acts of sex abuse. as the highest profile cleric to be caught up in a child abuse scandal inside the french catholic church last march a cardinal had been given a 6 month suspended sentence for not reporting a priest in his diocese who did engineered be used dozens of boy scouts in the eighty's and ninety's the u.k. is leaving the european union on friday after years of debating and negotiating how

to exit the blog but many sectors have raised concerns about the impact it will have on business this includes the music industry which wants to ensure musicians can continue to talk freely and they would report. now hersh was writing about love to travel and is 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 if you can organize a tour bus or amsterdam cologne. in copenhagen they offer. 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 freelance basis don't earn big money and some play in different orchestras so go back and forth figure every week so the musicians union which represents more than 32000 artists is pressing the u.k. government to ensure that members can still thrive in a post spread out. great i had big success in the ninety's with his. and now works as a solo artist and producer when i go into an exclusive voluble for the fans

we can just run europe 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 whatever the trade deal is it's not going to be good 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. 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 lemma he would al-jazeera the south of england. a powerful new telescope has taken the most

detailed images of the sun ever seen the turbulent boiling gases of the stars surface can be seen in each of the gold nugget like chunks of hot plasma shown are about the size of france images will be used by scientists to improve understanding of solar flares and magnetic eruptions in space. top stories on our 0 the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare the corona virus outbreak a global emergency 170 people are now known to have died from the virus in china with nearly 8000 people affected mostly in and around the city of new hands where the outbreak was 1st detected more than 100 cases have been diagnosed in a number of other countries the united arab emirates finland the philippines and india or recording their 1st cases in the past 24 hours. in the impeachment trial

of president trump senators are questioning his defense team and democratic impeachment managers from the house of representatives proceedings are being dominated by the possibility of evidence from trump's former national security adviser whose book reportedly covers events around one of the charges they have gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on john bolton to avoid calling him as a witness to avoid letting american people hear what he has to say trying to stifle his book to attacking him publicly because they fear what he has to say because they already you know the president scheme has been exposed 21 people have been killed in airstrikes on 2 villages in syria's rebel held in a province a hospital was among the buildings hit government forces return a strategic town on wednesday when nearly 20000 people were thought to fled to the

south of the province in the past 2 days hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the russian backed on guard and with many heading for the turkish border. at least one person has been injured dartrey a man fired a gun at protesters angry at a citizenship law in new delhi witnesses said the man shouted slogans at the crowd of more than a 1000 demonstrators gathered at a university before he opened fire the culprit used facebook's live broadcast feature to warn people that he was taking his final journey before the shooting and in police have arrested suspected gunman. there's a top stories do stay with us the stream is up next they're reporting on the controversy over a migrant novel i'll have more news for you after that thanks so much for watching so you know bit after.

me ok and join the stream today we are going to look at a new book that is causing a lot of controversy around the wild thank you to find out and of course we are on twitter if you have a comment about america and we want to hear about it. ringback really are journalists covering organized crime and drug trafficking and you are industry . the book is called america and it tells the story of a middle class woman and her 8 year old son who was forced.