0. being eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on which is iraq. i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern the world health organization declares a global health emergency over the coronavirus. our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up what we have seen over the last couple days is a descent into constitutional madness bitter words on a 2nd day of questions and answers in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump. the surgeon syrian government as strikes on the u.s.

as $700000.00 people a fleeing towards the turkish border. and the last stunning images from a telescope which has broadened our understanding of space. under the world health organization has declared the corona virus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern an expert panel has recommended international cooperation saying that while the response from china has been strong there could be a danger in the virus arriving in a country with a weak a health system in china itself 170 people are now known to have died from the virus with almost 8000 people infected globally including in the past hour the confirmation of the 1st cases in italy and a bit too hope to spread is continuing russia has closed its border with china or egypt air and ethiopian airlines have joined the tally of carriers avoiding chinese

airports charlie rangel reports declaring an international public health emergency is rare but with the corona virus spreading globally the world health organization says it warns the cool would need to international response i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of normal. the main reason for this. is not because of what is happening in china but because of what is happening in other countries greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker systems and we're prepared to deal with. countries like india one of the latest report cases is the respect to disease until now individual nations have made their

own decision in response to the outbreak in italy more than $6000.00 tourists were under locked out aboard a cruise ship near rome after 2 chinese passengers displayed flu like symptoms the couple were put into isolation until the test results came back negative for coronavirus meanwhile evacuations of foreign nationals from we continue turkey sent a military cargo plane to bring back $35.00 turkish and 10 azerbaijani citizens and their families all including the crew will now be put under quarantine for 14 days the e.u. is bringing back another $350.00 europeans on a flight into portugal and 150 british nationals will touch down in the u.k. on friday this as a number of commercial airline suspended flights to china a decision the w.h.o. is now asking them to revise why did you take this decision why what is the

science supporting this decision could you reconsider this decision. we suggested to w.h.o. that w. 2 should inform the world about transparency concerning these measures which should not constitute an example to follow but the decision to to reconsider for china the w.h.o. only had praise for their efforts to contain the virus but it is still spreading fast the message what will protect us is not fear in aversion but solidarity and cooperation charly under our desire when out of the world health organization is declared that public health emergency what changes 1st it puts in place legal requirements that all countries must adhere to principally to share information they gain on the virus and its spread including from people diagnosed with it it is recommended that all countries should be prepared for cases of the virus putting in

place active surveillance and isolation and case management protocols well done nature said no restrictions on travel were currently needed it says controls may be required on a temporary basis and the countries should report back if they put them in place will happen when here is a lecture environment at lancaster university he says that although china's efforts are commendable many cases of the virus may have gone unreported. the efforts that are being made by china has been unprecedented but at the same time looking onto this scientific evidence as there has been few we areas where there are cases for example are reported much lower than what they actually are if you apply prediction tools and sort of predict the widest would have been spreading. there have been days we are there cases are sorted which are not really fitting into the code indicating that there had been some cases those are not reported and then the other

element is merely that the case the 1st case or this will want to know why disappeared in at the end of december but then there are evidence of strong evidence as that indicates the disease has been there much earlier like at least 3 months before so all those cases that have appeared before that they'll never been in and calculation. yes democratic congressman and house impeachment manager adam schiff has called on the minutes made by president johnson was a descent into constitutional madness and speaking on the 2nd day of the question and also phase of the senate impeachment trial he was responding to an argument made by the president snow is getting far help for a political campaign does not violate the constitution trumps alleged to have made aid to ukraine dependent on an investigation into a political rival you would see it's astonishing that on the floor of this body

someone would make that argument now didn't begin that way in the beginning of the president's defense but what we have seen over the last couple days is a descent into constitutional madness because that way madness lies if we are to accept the premise. that a president essentially can do whatever he wants in gage in whatever quid pro quo he wants now the only reason you make that argument is because you know your client is guilty and dead to rights. as his capitol hill so what's the latest on that question and answer session. it laura many questions that are really designed to elicit the talking points from the 2 various sides we saw one question that republican senator rand paul attempted to submit when in the presiding officer chief justice john roberts actually declined to read it out loud because if the

truth the name of the whistleblower who is at the center of all of this of course he's the one that alerted his superiors to the phone call between president trump and all of his alinsky the president of ukraine which really jump started this impeachment process while whistleblowers are protected by law their identity is to remain a secret and john roberts did not read that question out loud we also heard a lot of questions trying to get clarification on the president's attorneys novel legal argument which they introduced yesterday that essentially says because the president believes his own reelection would benefit the country that then getting foreign assistance to get dirt on a put on a political opponent is not an impeachable offense because it wasn't on purely personal motives will democrats have been outraged by that argument saying that it

is akin to viewing the coronation of president trump with republicans holding his train senator cory booker a democrat told al jazeera that this argument was not moral so more of these questions are still being submitted as this trial hurdles toward an end that could possibly come as early as tomorrow. using hurtling towards a potentially an end but what are the next steps then. well tomorrow the 1st order of business is is considering whether or not to call witnesses to this trial now it would take at least 4 republicans siding with democrats to answer yes on that question if they answer no they could immediately move to a vote that would very likely acquit the president given that republicans hold the majority in this chamber and it takes a 2 thirds majority to convict and remove trump from office if those moderate republicans in the middle of the swing voters vote yes to open the trial to

witnesses all of that would open an entirely new phase with john bolton who is the former national security adviser to trump at the top of the list for witnesses that that democrats want to bring to the trial of course bolton has said in his upcoming book that he has evidence that trump did ties security aides to ukraine to his demand for investigations into joe biden whether or not they'll be called again dependent on a vote tomorrow and likely of that vote is yes still not many legal battles to come so 2 scenarios either a quick end to this trial tomorrow likely with an acquittal or perhaps a continuation with more witnesses mourn i did your question thank you very much indeed. at least 23 people have been killed by a rebel group in eastern democratic republic of congo. democratic forces armed group is suspected to have been behind the offensive in the city of beni brings the

number of civilians killed this week to at least 59 on wednesday at least 36 people were killed in attacks which also took place in the east of the country u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 asteroids have hit province in the last 3 days. more than 22 civilians have been killed and a hospital in the city of every her was among the sites hit the russian backed government offensive enough 470-0000 people to flee towards the turkish border. reports. 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 and 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 a woman and a boy under the rubble. rusher is supporting syrian government forces and has denied bombing a real hospital moscow insists it avoids attacking civilian targets turkey's president red chip type says both russia and syria have violated a cease fire in it lip brokered by turkey and russia earlier this month the

territories the last that's controlled by rebel groups in syria's northwest region thousands of civilians a 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 nebula. leaving the city over a year but they don't know where they can go say victoria gates and the. still to come on al-jazeera protesters in sudan and not giving up keeping up the pressure for proper civilian representation. and the u.s. defends trump's middle east plan after it's called nonsense by the palestinians. hello again it's good to have you back well across australia we are still dealing

with some very heavy rain from queensland to the northern territory down here towards the south as well and that's going to continue as we go into the weekend still we're watching the flood potential across many areas flood watches and warnings are still in effect and you can see the very heavy rain extending all the way down here towards adelaide on friday as we go towards saturday though it is going to be very strong thunderstorms across much of the south pushing through adelaide this will drop the temperatures be very windy as well we're going to be seeing those times just drop in melbourne to about 33 here in hobart though we're seeing those temperatures still very hot here on friday 43 degrees by the time we get to saturday 33 and by the time we get to sunday $23.00 the heat wave will finally be ending for your area well here across japan we're still dealing with a lot of snow across much of the north you can see that of low pressure across parts of a kaido that has continued to spin bringing some rain as well as snow across much of the area for tokyo near can be seeing a messy day as well temps are there of about 12 degrees on friday by the time we

get to saturday it is going to be a little cooler snow mostly on that western side of japan up towards support though it is going to be a better day with a temperature of minus one in a soka attempt if you of 10. in the philippines the black market for gold is with hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards the sound of paying the ultimate prize when i went east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera capturing a moment in time. snapshots of on the lives. providing a glimpse into someone else's one. witness on al-jazeera.

and again a reminder the top stories here now jazeera the world health organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern an expert committee praised the chinese response but said that no limits on trade or travel were needed. in the impeachment trial of president trump and senators are questioning his defense team and democrat impeachment managers from the house of representatives proceedings are being dominated by the possibility of evidence and transform a national security adviser. 21 people are being killed in air strikes on 2 villages in syria's rebel held in lit providence hospital was among the buildings hit hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the russian backed bombardment. the u.n. security council is yet to discuss u.s.

president donald trump's middle east peace plan it's been widely criticized the palestinian representative to the u.n. is refusing to engage in talks on talk about today and to james bays reports from the un's headquarters in new york. there's still be no security council meeting about the trump middle east plan the us ambassador kelly craft has not briefed her colleagues but she did come to speak to reporters outside the chamber in the days to come that will be able to work with the countries that were very positive and hopefully have more dialogue and i'm open to conversation with mentor what is there in this deal for the palestinians to like doesn't this just reward 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 palestinian the children the future of a palestinian state she says she's prepared to discuss the plan with the palestinian

ambassador to the u.n. but he made it clear to me it's a meeting he won't be taking there is not a single palestinian official will meet with american officials now after the submitted. earthquake the essence of it the destruction over the national over the palestinian people that is the palestinians and the united nations no israel may declare its sovereignty over settlements in the west bank sooner rather than later secretary-general what's your message to israel on possibly axing the settlements. it's very clear that her statement is very clear on that he didn't answer so i put the question to his spokes person for our position. last week last month last year and today remains the same is that according to security council resolution $2334.00.

israeli settlement activities are flagrant violations under international law i mean that's that's been our position the focus now will be on palestinian diplomatic outreach at the weekend president mahmoud abbas will attend an emergency meeting of the arab league in karo just over a week later he'll be at the african union in august and then on for the 11th he'll attend a meeting here of the u.n. security council james pays out his era of the united nations. at least one person has been injured after a man fired a gun that protests as a new delhi let's. pick up witnesses said the man shouted slogans at the crowd of more than a 1000 demonstrators gathered it is a mere university before being fired a protest as had gathered to rally against india's new controversial citizenship law which excludes muslims and in police have arrested a suspected gunman is about pure numbers at the demonstration and says

a similar incident happened earlier this week at another major protest site in the capital. wynnie a johnny i'm ilya is the media university where a man shot at a protest is injuring one person has been taken away to hospital now mobile phone video of the incident shows the man brandishing a gun waving it at protesters 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 protest since the citizenship amendment act was passed by the indian government 7 weeks ago most of the rallies here have been peaceful and people 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 in early in the week and not the battles that are headed at another of one of these major protests sites. 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 p making statements say that cases should be shot like killing the protestors that should he bother to. murderers and rapists. ahead of the election. next week a. a french court of appeal has overturned cardinal philip barbour has conviction for failing to report past acts of sex abuse. or was the highest profile cleric to be caught up in a child abuse scandal inside the french catholic church last march the cardinal had been given a 6 month suspended sentence for not reporting a priest in his diocese who deliberately abused dozens of boys in the eighty's and ninety's your 6 your state might compare says the u.k.

has taken a risk by allowing chinese tech firm who are way to have a role in building its 5 g. network he made the comments on a trip to london the day before the u.k. leaves the european union and before it attempts a trade deal with the u.s. for a challenge says it could cause strain between the 2. there are several cracks in the u.k. u.s. relationship right now an argument over the extradition of a u.s. diplomats wife there are differences over iran and perhaps most significantly there is a u.s. opposition to chinese tech giant hallway building parts of the u.k.'s 5 g. network but the u.k.'s decision to limits hallways involvement in that project does seem to have calmed the us and get some somewhat and boris johnson will be pleased to hear what my pompei or has said about the speed of doing

a post breaks its trade deal with the u.k. or the previous administration took the view that the kingdom a decision they'd be at the back of the line we intend to put the milking them of the father while the u.k. needs a quick deal with the us to make it look like breaks it is a success but i spoke to an international politics experts who said that as this is donald trump's america 1st administration the u.k. needs to tread very very carefully put in still needs a trade deal with the unit in union and so you drop your health and environmental and safety and other standards as you trade with the us the e.u. will penalize you in the other direction bragg's it has given extra importance to the u.k. government's unusual task of maintaining expression relationship with the us without being a complete walkover a former government minister told me this week that this is long been known around westminster as deep in the art of not looking like

a lapdog and we'll have to see over the coming days and weeks how much london is willing to beg for washington's trees. thousands of protesters have gathered in the capital of sudan to go from military governors to be replaced they want civilians to take the roles and a transitional legislative council to be formed the demands were enshrined in the country's constitution after former long time ruler was removed from office last year she dons prime minister said achieving peace is his 1st priority. was at the rally and says people are 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 the 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 embarked 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 insecurity incidents happening not just in the capital hard to me 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

. after 16 years nasa has decommissioned it spits a space telescope which would help to paint a more complete picture of the universe it was one of 4 observatories circling the earth transmitting information about all galaxy and all those beyond we're left now to hibernate among the stars which it once studied mike hanna reports washington. this is the last image the spitzer transmitted back to earth the tarantula nebula named after the filaments of gas that resembles spiders legs stretched out across the cosmos. it was one of the telescopes 1st observation targets when it was launched 16 years ago spitzer allowed us to look at things lift the cosmic veil and see the super massive black holes that we couldn't see previously since then it has revealed twice as many galaxies as any other observatory and most importantly perhaps advanced human knowledge of black holes and the birth and death of stars

spitzer's operational life was expected to be 5 years at the most but even after its helium fuel ran out the telescope continue to send vital data about the universe back to earth its relatively small size lead scientist to label spitzer the little telescope that could so this is a image of the telescope and i also have a little long love it right here in front of me now so this is 130 seconds of the size of spitzer so if you if you multiply this little lot of by certain times you'll come up with a spacecraft that is about 13 feet in height. it weighed 930 kilograms approximately at launch and it was the small telescope that identified another solar system similar in many ways to ours the trappist one system a dwarf star 39 like years from earth surrounded by 7 exoplanets some of which show

traces of water and which scientists agree may contain life forms markedly each of the traps one system discovery got that science on to like mainstream media at a level that had really very seldom seen of us now a command has been. into the spacecraft switching it to what is called safe mode and in about 53 years it will come back past the earth and then head away in another direction into space even though spicher is in what you would think of as a hibernation mode folks not likely to say hardly make believe me it was really hard to come up with a term to do or want to greet or based on the final state right there would be art but that legacy of scripture will love them because that that is there for people to go back and mock the legacy of spitzer is 16 years of data archived at a us university data that may still produce new discoveries about how souls and our

universe mike hanna al-jazeera washington. can see more for you anytime on our website address that is out there dot com and you can also watch us live up to hang on the orange live icon out there dot com. and one of the headlines now well health organization has declared a public health emergency of global concern over the novel coronavirus but said they'll be no limit on trade and movement they praised the chinese government press response to the outbreak saying it has undoubtedly limited the number of deaths however they warned that as the virus spreads to countries with potentially weaker health systems the consequences could be grave. i'm declaring a public cause emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of

norval call and i quote on a virus the main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in china but because of what is happening in other countries our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker systems. which are ill prepared to deal with it. us democratic congressman and house impeachment manager adam schiff has called arguments made by president trump's lawyers a descent into constitutional madness speaking on the 2nd day of the question and answer phase of the senate impeachment trial he was responding to an argument made by the president's lawyers that getting foreign help for a political campaign does not violate the constitution trumps alleged to have made

aid to ukraine dependent on an investigation into a political rival this 22 people have been killed in airstrikes on 2 villages in syria's rebel held in live province a hospital was among the buildings hit nearly 20000 people are thought to have fled south of the province in the past 2 days hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the russian backed bombardment at least 23 people have been killed by a rebel group in eastern democratic republic of congo the allied democratic forces armed group is suspected to have been behind the offensive in the city of beni brings the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59. those the top stories do stay with us one i want east is next and why people are dying to get a hands on gold thanks so much watching when you feel after that i feel. with all the right ministers. mission is to do little richard and making this

country the greatest place to go to. follow the final run into the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. . there's a gold rush in the philippines with hundreds of millions of dollars but no one wants you to know about it through a building block market because it can buy the land in the unknown in the beamish adelina and so this illegal industry is leaving a trail of misery for its workers were merely to fame you know you could look at them and their families. will be able to get up in the bottom of the gap in the last summer when i went east investigates why people in the philippines a dying for gold.

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