the u.s. warns against all travel to china as the world health organization declares the deadly coronavirus a global health emergency and. i'm kevin l. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up now as you go it was 700000 syrians are reportedly heading to the turkish border as airstrikes intensify in the last rebel held province. they have gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on john bull. democrats keep up the pressure of donald trump's impeachment trial as they seek to hear from a key witness. and it shed light on far away galaxy message ends and

16 year mission for an orbiting telescope. the world health organization has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency the respiratory disease has now killed more than 200 people in china infected 9 and a half 1000 to spread to 18 other countries the u.s. state department is now advising americans against all travel to china and in a moment we'll go to our correspondents in washington d.c. south korea and beijing but 1st this report from charlie and. declaring an international public health emergency is rare but with the corona virus spreading globally the world health organization says it warns the code need to international response i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of novel. coronavirus the main reason for this declaration 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. which are ill prepared to deal with it. countries like india one of the latest report cases 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. transparency concerning these measures which should not constitute an example to follow but the decision 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 in a version but solidarity and cooperation charlie angela al-jazeera let's get more now from gabriel is on the he's in washington d.c. gabriel even though the world health organization is asking countries not to restrict trade or travel to china the state department has issued the most serious travel advisory that it can. that's absolutely right the advisory is very clear it's a level 4 advisory which is the highest and most severe level advisory that the state department would issue to american citizens and it is very simple it says do not travel to china not only do not travel to the epicenter of where this outbreak is happening but it's very clear saying do not travel anywhere in china period full stop normally the state department only issue such

a severe level for travel warning for countries that are in war armed conflict or maybe a country that's right out of a severe natural disaster but clearly this is how serious the state department is taking this telling americans not to go to china under any circumstances this all comes as president donald trump here in the united states has not been saying a lot about this he did tweet saying though everything is very much under control but this is also happening when on thursday the 1st case of person to person transmission of coronavirus was discovered in the united states a couple from the state of illinois a couple in their sixty's the wife traveled to china came back she came down with corona virus and then apparently her husband had symptoms was sent to the hospital tests came back positive so that's the 1st case of person to person transmission in the u.s. the total number of people in the u.s.

that have this now are it's now 6 and i will say on the airlines all 3 of the major airlines in the united states american airlines delta and united have canceled hundreds of flights through march excessive bearly cutting back their schedules and frequencies to china because they say demand is down and it's just too troublesome at this point to send people there and the union for american airlines pilots has filed a lawsuit. they want to stop all flights to china as well so a lot happening in the u.s. as worry increases thank you for keeping us up to date there that's gabrielle is on the line from washington d.c. let's go now to scott he is in beijing scott the world health organization has praised china's response so far but obviously the numbers keep growing what's the latest there well the very latest is you know we're seeing more communities and provinces delaying the return after this lunar new year holiday

obviously they want to buy as much time as possible you know today would have been the 1st day back to work business as usual before the 1st extension of this holiday that's now until sunday but some communities are say saying encouraging firms and businesses not to restart business until another week so that's something we're seeing in local communities that hasn't been kind of mandated across the country of 1400000000 people but obviously that's something that certain communities are saying that is a good precaution to take to prevent further spread of this virus but we're seeing as you said jim the numbers continue to increase so there is still a great deal of concern about this now we've been speaking to some people down in move on they are bunkered in essential you know they have they've been under a lockdown if you will for more than a week now but what's interesting is they say that the supplies in move on are still ok for personal supplies food water difficult to get the delivery services are working as as quickly as you would think they would be so they are still

getting the things they need to live but the big concern now and this is been expressed by the government down there and will hunt and that is a medical supplies so that's really kind of the focus when it comes to trying to get things to the people to those communities and lock down i think that scott how do they live from beijing let's go now to the bride to say a son in south korea i believe south korea is courting all quarantining all evacuees from their problems what what's happening where you are. that's right this friday morning south korea is refinery receiving back after a number of delays one of the special charter flights bringing $368.00 south korean citizens a total of $700.00 plus. have expressed a desire to leave this it means about half of those citizens have now returned to this friday to gimpo airport in seoul we've been in touch with one of the people on

that flight back and forth through social media he says it has been an exhausting night of screenings leaving the blue hand certainly screenings on the way into south korea but certainly i think a sense of relief to be out of hand and also gratitude that this flight has been laid on. the last few minutes of her that of the 368 people on board this flight 18 of them do have fever symptoms and then been taken off to medical facilities in seoul now the rest that 3 $150.00 will be coming south of seoul to 2 specially set up quarantine facilities this is actually a police training center where we all right this is at one of these centers it's a couple of hours drive south of seoul we know that the coaches are already on their way in this special police convoy and this is where basically they will be quarantined for the next 2 weeks they will have individual rooms they'll be allowed to hold on to their personal device their mobile phone they'll be obviously given food medical checks constantly but have no visitors whatsoever for 2 weeks to make

sure that they do have a clean bill of health it is controversial there a lot of people here are fully supportive behind this these are south korea fellows fellow south korean citizens but there also has been a protest of people trying to block the road to stop people coming in here because of the fear of this coronavirus thank for that too rob mcbride there. the news now in the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 airstrikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days an estimated $700000.00 people in it lebanon are fleeing to with the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed in government airstrike specs by russia and recent days victoria getting the reports. this is what's left of. the program. 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 all say 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 2 and says both russia and syria have violated a cease fire 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 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 rear but they don't know where they can say victoria gates and the. activists gathered outside u.n. headquarters on thursday after a delayed the release of reports into strikes on syrian medical facilities the u.n. says its workers need more time for the investigation among them was syrian filmmaker. whose documentary for salma has been nominated for an academy award.

i'm sitting in for america i'm just a syrian woman whole believed in freedom and democracy i'm still believe and out i am. i friend so many tough situation inside syria and is part of a new book i lived in the hospital with my husband and the place where i wrote my 1st the child doesn't tell you where he lived was a man target for assad and desha and this is all for you but there was none of. them completely destroyed and we became the last remaining kazmierczak in the area of 3500000 people who are still in ad lib now it's told their story now and i hope we can really make a difference found out and that's why we are trying to stand today in front of the you and ask the asking them to take their responsibility for these people. still ahead on al-jazeera rallying his supporters donald trump criticizes the impeachment trial at an event in iowa. and a gunman targets protesters at

a peaceful rally against india's controversial new citizenship law. going to welcome back to international weather forecast while we are watching the western part of canada and the united states very closely over the next few days storms are coming out of the pacific and with it will be seeing some windy conditions we're going to see a lot of rain as well as snow is going to be a big problem particularly in the higher elevations of canada we're going to be watching that very carefully for seattle it's going to be very rainy over the next few days and also for big coover expect to see a mix of rain and snow your 3 day forecast for seattle looks like this the rain continues the temperature drops by the time we get to sunday probably seeing a mix of rain and snow as well mud. they are a much better day with a temperature of 60 degrees well here cross the caribbean and it's of the gulf of

mexico it is going to be rainy particularly appear towards the north and that means for parts of the bahamas it is going to be rainy or as we go towards saturday coming across florida over here towards nasa as well as into freeport of into you could be seeing some rain showers by the time we get towards saturday evening and the temperature of 27 degrees and then down here towards parts of one is out as it is looking quite nice the clouds are moving away we're going to see a lot of sun as we go into the weekend so here on friday 29 degrees but for a sense it is going to be quite rainy with a tempter of 31 and rio quite hot with attempt a few of 37. in russia many cuddy's migrant black. grazing. creasing need for many of. us labor force.

to exploitation and xenophobia. people in power and best of all. pakistan. on al jazeera. rule. or for. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern the w.h.o. says it's concerned about the virus spreading to countries that are ill prepared to deal with it help break and it sticks or ration will require more cooperation.

china has confirmed 213 people have now died from the virus and nearly 10000 people have been infected diseases spread to 18 other countries with the u.s. now advising its citizens against all travel to china. the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least 200 airstrikes have hit the last rebel held province in the past 3 days estimated 700000 people and it's been now fleeing toward the turkish border. to accredit prosecutors have been trading volumes with the u.s. president's defense team in a 2nd day of questions and donald trump's impeachment trial his lawyers are arguing that whatever the president does to boost his reelection prospects is in the public interest therefore not impeachable democrats say they're trying to normalize borlase this 100 year castro reports from washington democrats outraged by the

recent argument made by trump's lawyers that the president seeking foreign help to win reelection is in the public's interest say he may as well be coronated king with mitch mcconnell holding the crown and the republicans. holding his train this is war dead wrong and you don't need to be a constitutional scholar to understand that what we have seen over the last couple days is a descent into constitutional madness senators serving as jurors in trump's impeachment trial submitted their final questions thursday read aloud by supreme court chief justice john roberts but he declined a question submitted by republican senator rand paul the presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted because it reportedly named the whistleblower whose report kicked off trump's impeachment republicans accuse the whistleblower of being a democratic operative helping the party oust trump that is the most massive election

interference we've ever witnessed its domestic election interference the democrats say republicans who are the senate majority are playing with fire if they blindly support a president who has clouded constitutional norms democrats say at the very least senator should seek to hear all available evidence it is certainly in their interest and the president's interest that we have a fair trial a trial without truth without evidence without witnesses and documents would render the president's acquittal meaningless democrats want to call former national security adviser john bolton to testify the white house is trying to stop him from publishing his upcoming book that reportedly bolsters the case trump abused his power now all eyes are on the moderate republican senators who will be the swing vote on whether to call witnesses or to immediately end the trial what trumps all

but certain acquittal. castro al-jazeera washington. meanwhile trump has been rallying supporters in iowa accusing the democrats of trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election event comes ahead of the state caucuses on monday when democrats began the months long process to choose their candidate for november's presidential voters you know we're having probably the best years that we've ever had in the history of our country and i just got a big stick can you believe this i got it right. there peach the best trade deals the strongest military to cure the vets we got sure yes we got accountability for the vets accountability we got all these things and they impeach the president no the sucker we're watch just watch the fair want to notify you foul and poison our democracy i don't throw the higher system of

government that's not happening i can tell you that. alan fischer was at the rally he says supporters when that thing up trumps criticism of the impeachment trial. he didn't spend a great deal of time on it and called it the usual things so and so which he criticized that i'm sure he said the 2 senators from iowa both of whom are republicans didn't come here tonight because he wanted them in washington because of course they're part of the trying donald trump speaking to the people here no one believes that donald trump has done anything that rises to the level of impeachment they see is a way of trying to overturn the previous election and trying to keep him off the ballot for 2020. course going to be in the caucus the republican caucus also being held on monday night he's going to when because let me tell you can you name the 2 other republicans are standing against him no most people here probably couldn't

either he has the bully pulpit he of course has the benefit of incumbency of being the president so he's going to win that quite significantly and people here believe that that is just going to be the 1st step in regaining the presidency and regaining the white house. at least 23 people have been killed by rebel groups in eastern democratic republic of congo the democratic forces armed group is suspected to have been behind the offensive in the city of beni brings the brings rather 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. protests have broken out in the occupied west bank against a us plan for the middle east which sides with israel on many contentious issues. demonstrators burned pictures of donald trump and israel's prime minister near the illegal israeli settlement of beirut which lies close to the palestinian city of

ramallah under trying to propose all settlements including but it would be an excuse for oh elsewhere riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades as demonstrators threw stones the u.n. has rejected trump's plan police and protesters have clashed in india's capital after a man opened fire at what had been a peaceful rally the latest outbreak of violence and weeks of nationwide protests against a citizen citizenship law passed last month which critics say discriminates against muslims as a both purana reports from new delhi. defiant and undeterred protesters gathered in germany 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.

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 you are going to be from this piece is golden. 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 brings that. 6 to be j.p. politicians have been banned from campaigning for 3 days in daddy's upcoming local elections after saying ready 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 that protests to say both him and the law threaten the foundations of a secular india elizabeth brannon al-jazeera deadly. flash floods and landslides have killed at least 9 people on indonesia's sumatra island heavy rain has forced thousands of people to flee to temporary shelters civil defense will say most of the victims drowned or were hit by logs illegal logging has been blamed for making soil more susceptible to landslides. a french appeals court has acquitted a senior catholic clergy of covering up child sexual abuse cardinal philip bobbitt appealed against his conviction for shielding a pedophile priest from police analogy from priest is on trial for abusing dozens

of boys french bishops have set up an independent commission to investigate 6 abuse in the church. nice to has decommissioned spitz's space telescope after 16 years it's one of the 4 observatories that circle the earth sending back images and information about our galaxy and beyond it unlike the other 3 though spitzer has an a ray of infrared cameras capable of looking through the dust and debris together images that even the hubble space telescope count do i can reports. this is the last image the spits are 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 spencer allowed us to again 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 the mark of the later of the traps one system discovery got that science on to like mainstream media at a level that had really very seldom seen oh that's now a command has been. sent to 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 and what you would think of as a private nation no folks don't like you to say hardly make believe me it was really hard to come up with

a term that everyone agreed on based on the final state right there would be yours but that legacy of scripture will love the war because that is there for people to go back and mock the legacy of spitz is 16 years of data archived to us university data that may still produce new discoveries about how so and our universe mike hanna al jazeera washington. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories the world health organization has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency the respiratory disease has killed more than 200 people in china infected 9 and a half 1000 and spread to 18 other countries the u.s. state department is now advising americans against all travel to china gabriel is on the has the latest from washington d.c. the advisory is very clear it's

a level 4 advisory which is the highest and most severe level advisory that the state department would issue to american citizens and it is very simple it says do not travel to china not only do not travel to the epicenter of where this outbreak is happening but it's very clear saying do not travel anywhere in china period full stop the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 air strikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days an estimated $700000.00 people in it fleeing towards the turkish border. trump's trial defense team has told us senators that the president should not be impeached for doing anything to boost his reelection prospects democrats say they're trying to normalize lawlessness. meanwhile trump has been rallying supporters in iowa accusing the democrats of trying to overturn the result of the 26 election event comes ahead of the state caucuses on monday

when democrats begin the months long process to choose their candidate for november's presidential vote at least 23 people have been killed by a rebel group in eastern democratic republic of congo the democratic forces group is suspected of being behind the offensive in the city of binnie brings the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59 protests have broken out in the occupied west bank against a us plan for the middle east which sides with israel on many contentious issues demonstrators burned pictures of donald trump and israel's prime minister the illegal israeli settlement of. people in power is up next. tree tensions could cause global economic growth by 1.8 percent we bring you the stories and developments the right changing the world. for example trying to be a drag on the global economy 2020 something that comes on his iraq.

migration whether for safety and freedom from conflict and repression or for economic benefits has become one of the dominant things of our time but this huge flow of people isn't only aimed at europe and the united states many from central asia and to russia instead so what faces them on the right. moscow russia is key.