0. the u.s. warns against all travel to china as the world health organization declares the deadly krone virus a global health of the city. i'm kevin al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up oh we're to go 700000 syrians are reportedly heading to the turkish border as s. trucks intensify in the last rebel held province. gunman targets protest is that if peace will rally against india's controversial new citizenship. and unwanted distinction or small town em out by donald trump as the capital of palestine is pushing against the plan.

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 chile angela begins our coverage. declaring an international public health emergency is rare but with the corona virus spreading globally the world health organization says it warrants a coordinated international response i'm declaring a public cause emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of normal call a number of voters 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 and we are ill prepared to deal with it. 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 corona virus. 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 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 is the science supporting this decision could you reconsider this decision. and we suggested. that the only way to should inform the world about 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 the efforts to contain the virus but it is still spreading fast and message what will protect us is not fear in

a version but solidarity and cooperation charlie angela al-jazeera let's go live out scott hyde where he is in beijing scott many countries are trying to get their citizens out of her by but china is looking to bring its expense back. yes it's very interesting move by china what they're going to do is they're going to dispatch charter aircraft they haven't said exactly where to bring those residents those citizens of china who are residents of these of acted areas back into china now it said it didn't really go into too much detail just said because the difficulties they're facing so most likely that is because there's been definitely cancellation of all flights into where they're from city or province in general but also because other airlines are canceling their flights into china generally so it's become much more difficult for chinese citizens who are abroad to come back home it will be interesting to see where these charter aircraft actually

land the hoo ha an airport is obviously open to charter aircraft only overseeing those evacuations from the growing list of nations who are taking their citizens out. so be interesting to see what happens with these chinese citizens are they going to fly them straight back into han who are from there or are going to land in a different city and then they'll take them down by special bus we're not sure yet and obviously they'll have to make some decisions about where they keep them and if they do actually go in to the affected area so it's an interesting move by china the one thing that they announced over the last couple of days is they're also going to dispatch charter aircraft into han in the province area affected area to bring people chinese citizens who aren't from there who are tourists stuck in there obviously they're going to test them then they'll bring them out and so they have the opportunity to go back to their homes in other places in china so the chinese government trying to work for their citizens as well as we're seeing this airlift out of to hunt for foreign citizens and the number of infections continues to grow

what's the latest in tens of containment if it. right now i couldn't really hear too well there kim that the situation right now with the latest numbers obviously we're seeing these numbers increase every day those who have been affected infected by this virus and that the death numbers what we're seeing you know it as a response from the chinese government they are you know there are 2 hospitals they're being built right now in rwanda deal with the growing number of patients down there one is supposed to open in just a few days on monday they're saying that's when it's going to open up now it's very difficult to know you know how quickly they're going to be able to start to accept patients they say that this 1st hospital is going to have about a 1000 beds a few days later maybe at the end of next week another a 2nd hospital purpose built hospital around the area to take in more patients there's also a hospital grounds for a hospital just outside beijing here that was used back 17 years ago 2003 during

the sars crisis that is being rebuilt if you will so they can have more beds for specifically the corona virus infected so that should be coming in in the next couple of weeks they expect so right now that's the chinese government move to deal with the current situation we know that there is a shortage of medical supplies down and move on and that's something the government is trying to deal with other supplies we've been speaking to people who are on other supplies food and water that's ok right now the focus is on those medical supplies thank you that that scott hided there live from beijing. continuing our coverage. has the latest from washington d.c. . the u.s. government is telling its citizens very simply do not travel anywhere to china it's very rare that the state department would issue such a high level warning that just came in on thursday night they usually reserve this for countries that are at war or perhaps a country that's in the middle of an aftermath of a very severe natural disaster so now level for travel advisory for americans to

china u.s. government saying do not travel to any part of china right now this all comes says on thursday that the 1st case of human to human was confirmed in the state of illinois it was a husband and wife in their sixty's the wife traveled to china came back had had coronavirus apparently gave it to her husband he was checked into a hospital went through exams and his tests came back positive that's the 1st case of human to human transmission of this in the united states overall that brings the total number of people in the u.s. to 6 rob mcbride has the latest now from a son in south korea. south korea was finally 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 in rwanda expressed

a desire to leave this it means about half of those citizens have now returned this friday to gimpo airport in seoul we've been in touch with one of the people on that flight have 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 we know last few minutes of her that of the 368 people on board this flight 18 of them do have fever symptoms and then not been taken off to medical facilities in seoul now the rest that 350 will be coming south of seoul to 2 specially set up quarantine facilities this is actually a police training center where we'll right this is at one of these centers it's a couple of hours drive south of salt we know that the coach is already on their way in the 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 that personal device that mobile phone they'll be obviously giving 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 that a lot of people here are fully supportive behind this these are south korea fella's 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. today's of questioning has just wrapped up and donald trump's impeachment trial the big issue now is whether u.s. officials were about to allow. new witnesses democrats have been pushing to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton she has returns he is live for us in washington now she has one more republican senator has indicated they'll vote for when this is do democrats now have the numbers they nate no they

don't and in fact the chances of witnesses appearing at donald trump senate trial have receded enormously because lamar alexander a republican from tennessee who is one of the 4 republicans that we've all been waiting for to decide whether he will join the democrats in all schools for more witnesses and documents has just released a statement and he says he will not now the democrats need 4 republicans already have they have one republican props possibly 2 republicans and mitt romney and. susan collins. there's a worry for lisa murkowski to make a decision tomorrow but lamar alexander was seen as key because he was seen as someone who didn't really have anything to lose he was retiring at the end of the senate and he's also see to someone if if he voted for 4 witnesses maybe other republicans would be encouraged to do so as well but he's he's actually released rather emphatic statement as to why he is not going to vote for witnesses he says

it has been proven that. the ukrainians to investigate the bidens but he says that's inappropriate behavior it does not rise to the level of impeachable behavior so that's the 1st article of impeachment the 2nd article impeachment obstruction of congress the marl xander says a president has the right to confidential discussions with with his advisors so that's why when he was telling people we used refusing to allow those around him to appear in the house or didn't want them to be in the senate that was perfectly ok because a president needs to have that confidentiality when he's making decisions on foreign policy and it gets quite heated towards the end of the statement the framers believe that should never ever be a partisan impeachment that is one of the constitution requires a 2 thirds vote of the senate for conviction yet not one house republican voted for these articles if this shallow 100 and who only pass' on impeachment that were to succeed it would rip the country apart pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist it would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to

be used against future presidents whenever the house of representatives is of a different political party that's pretty emphatic stuff from someone who was undecided apparently until just a few minutes ago having heard all the questions this effectively we would think puts an end to the idea of witnesses did means that there will be if the 3 other republicans do vote with democrats it will be a 5050 tie and the expectation is in that instance that means that the motion will not pass the the office of the chief justice john roberts would not break the tie that means the motion does not pass they will not be witnesses and documents but will have to wait till friday to see what happens think that we have a townsend and i from washington. meanwhile trump has been rallying supporters in iowa accusing the democrats of trying to overturn the result of the 2016 election event comes ahead of the state caucuses on monday when democrats begin the month song process to choose their candidate for november's presidential vote. you know

we're having probably the best years that we've ever had in the history of our country and i just got it can you believe this i got. their pizza the best trade deals the strongest military to cure the vets we got sure yes we got accountability for the accountability we got all these things and they impeach the president now the 2nd we're watch just what. they want another 5 you've found a place in our democracy i don't throw the tire system up government that's not happening i can tell you. still ahead on al-jazeera leaving a plus to the u.k. is finally breaking from the european union you know back in britain's breaks that odyssey.

going to welcome back to the national weather forecast well here across turkey we have been watching the very messy weather of the last few days it's been a combination of rain as well as snow the snow is going to continue unfortunately over the next few days and we do expect to see in some locations particularly the higher elevations up to 90 centimeters of snow could be seen anywhere from the central to the eastern areas in the mountains along for the south along the border area between syria it is going to be some very heavy rain over the next few days on saturday that same system makes its way across iraq into iran we could be seeing some snow in tehran in the overnight hours and it's going to be the rain down here towards a sad. for quite city you could be seeing some rain as well 1000 degrees for you doha well we're going to see some nice conditions as we go towards the weekend with a temperature of 22 degrees there well better weather for madagascar are the ready rain that cause the flooding is ending with so be seeing a few showers across much of the north but nothing that's going to lead to any

extensive flooding in the region over here towards harare it is going to be a nice day if you are the temperature of $26.00 cape town nice weather temp just dropping to about $24.00 degrees here on friday we're going to be seeing those temperatures continue as we go towards saturday as well but for johannesburg plenty of sun in the forecast with attempt of $33.00 in harare at about $26.00 degrees for you. on the last time you out on the streets contest whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every level or layer further further into the jail or if you join us on sand retention has to start from day one whether again you're in detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a price for there are states that supply crush coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how

does iraq. you're watching all jazeera her reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization has declared the corona virus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern a w h o says it's concerned about the virus spreading to countries that are prepared to deal with an el break. china has confirmed 213 people have now died from the virus and nearly 10000 have been infected the disease has spread to 18 other countries with the u.s. advising its citizens against travel to china. 2 days of questioning has just

wrapped up and donald trump's impeachment trial on senators will now decide whether to allow witnesses democrats have been pushing to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton. the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least 200 air strikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days an estimated 700000 people in it live in now fleeing to with the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed and government airstrikes backed by russia in recent days. the reports. this is what's left of al shami hospital in the province. we were at home with their kids when a russian warplane carried out an aerial raid against a hospital and also a residential area people are fed up with life here we don't know where to go no one can help no one can protect us from these attacks. many of the patients here have been injured and evacuated to other hospitals dozens of medical facilities

have been destroyed in air strikes 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 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 wretched type 2 and says both russia and syria have violated a ceasefire in it live brokered by turkey and russia earlier this month the

territories the last that's controlled by rebel groups in syria's northwest region thousands of civilians 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 the. police in protest as a force in india's capital after a man opened fire at what had been a peaceful rally. the latest outbreak of violence in a weeks of nationwide protests against a citizenship law that passed last month that critics say discriminates against muslims elizabeth brown and reports from new delhi. defiant and undeterred protesters gathered jamey a 1000000 islam a 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. you can see how the things going on here but the readers who just want. to see your country from this base has got only one student was taken to hospital after being shot in the arm. there was a tense standoff here between protesters and police who won't let people go past that point protest is here had been planning to march to a memorial to 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. the protests have been held across the country since the hindu nationalist government of prime minister than in the past the citizenship amendments act last month the law of fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but not muslims. with crotches one of many lawyers who filed petitions against the india supreme court. it's discriminatory. only play on only on creating insecurities only prey on violence and so they can live an absolute. normal thing on which they thrive and that is what exactly they're doing. 6 to be j.p. politicians have been banned from campaigning for 3 days and delis upcoming local elections after saying ready protestors should be shot and likening demonstrations

to rapists and murderess. dozens of people have been killed in 7 weeks of protests critics of the government pointed 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 law 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 brannon al jazeera you debbie. protests have broken out in the occupied west bank against a us plan for the middle east which side 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 on the trunks propose all settlements including by its own will be an

expired israel elsewhere riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades as demonstrators threw stones the un has rejected transplant. us president donald trump has aramark the small town of decent the occupied west bank as a potential capital for a palestinian state in his proposed middle east plan but. explains residents there say they don't want the distinction. nothing much surprises and what on what rod anymore the 62 year old palestinian spends a lot of time in his garden trying to enjoy life but politics constantly intrudes his hometown is once again in the headlines and i'm don can't make sense of it. out of me now with it so i've been out with these with all my respect to our bodies and there's a son of it's not qualified to be the capital and it doesn't even have qualifications to become a city it's needs a lot of things 1st of all it's surrounded by the wall from many directions the

possibility to expand and to become developed is very difficult this small town is getting a lot of attention now because of u.s. president donald trump's proposed middle east peace plan where it was suggested as a potential capital of a palestinian state. on a nearly empty street younger residents of up with these gathered looking for something fun to do i asked 1000 year old now that hamish what he thinks about mr trump's proposal it's impossible to have as a capital because jerusalem remains the capital in our hearts all that they said was england paper and it's not useful it's worthless. pieces close to jerusalem's old city residents say it feels further and further away israel's separation wall blocks most of the view but from some vantage points you can still see the aqsa mosque compound. the idea of having a play a larger and more significant role in palestinian politics is not a new one this structure behind me was for a time in the mid 1990 s. intended to house the palestinian parliament but the building was never finished

many palestinians felt completing its construction would indicate that i would these had in fact been selected as a future capital of a palestinian state something they did not want to happen and something all the residents we spoke with still don't want to see become a reality and last but not a capital is to resell them and we don't accept any other option no matter what they say what they do history shows that people's rights will be returned to them resolve running deep through a palestinian town that's not seeking the spotlight even though it's been thrust into it. would be east in the occupied west bank friday is the u.k.'s last day as a member of the european union it's a key moment in europe's modern history but there's not much change expected this week that's because the u.k. will follow most of the e.u. as regulations until the transition period finishes at the end of the year each

ellen's reports. big ben barnes born in celebration like the brits it is want but at 11 pm on friday midnight in brussels they'll get their freedom they've long desired the u.k.'s 47 years of marriage with europe will finally end in divorce the british wanted all the benefits of european integration. without having. engaged in many of the internal trade offs necessary for it to work when france west germany belgium it's a lead luxembourg and the netherlands 1st united the coal and steel industries in 1951 the u.k. didn't join the new club it was the e.u. forerunner created to stop a war ravaged continent have a fighting itself again the british attitude was well this is the greater good but we don't really need things as we were in the war i think there was a sense here that we were we can after need that sort of crutch and that they actually we had the rest of the world we had the commonwealth we had the united

states in addition to europe and as a leading colonial power with a global role we didn't want to tie ourselves to something as regional and small simply by the sixty's the european economic community as the 6 countries have become looks more alluring to british eyes it was economically successful compared to an increasingly uncompetitive u.k. but french president shoulder played hard to get twice rejecting london's proposal it wasn't until $973.00 that the u.k. and europe finally tied the knot but the u.k. always wanted something of an open relationship it stayed out of the passport free schengen area it didn't join the common currency the euro and it paid proportionately less. than other member states none of these exemptions though growing euro skepticism on the u.k.'s political rights. supported by a largely anti e.u.

press some in the conservative party wanted out of the whole thing fearing the e.u. was becoming a federal superstate vicious infighting over europe bedeviled prime ministers margaret thatcher john major and david cameron it is time for the british people to have their say ken clarke was a minister in all their governments david faceted chances seen quite sure he'd win a referendum he thought it was rather a clever way of stopping the party having these public rallies on the subject and that was the start of works become an historic crisis and so the cold country going back to square warm starting all over again trying to decide what his role in the world is cameron's remain campaign last the 2016 referendum boris johnson's leavers won but when next strengthen independence cheer some poverty and loneliness lament others much depends on what future relationship the

u.k. and europe will have and what different parts the to take. how to 0 london. there and these are the top stories the world health organization has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency they respiratory diseases 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 advising americans against traveling to china gabriel elizondo 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 2 days of questioning has just wrapped up in donald trump's impeachment trial senators will now decide whether to allow witnesses democrats have been pushing to hear from trump's former national security adviser john bolton meanwhile trump has been rallying supporters in iowa accusing the democrats of trying to overturn the result of the 2016 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. the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least 200 air strikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days an estimated 700000 people in it live and now fleeing to with the turkish border. 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 citizenship more passed last month which critics say discriminates against muslims . protests have broken out in the occupied west bank against the u.s. plan for the middle east that signs with israel on many contentious issues demonstrators burned pictures of donald trump and israel's prime minister near the illegal israeli settlement to the palestinian city of ramallah on the trams proposal settlements including by its would be an extent by israel. those are the headlines stay with us the news continues here on al-jazeera after the strain. talk to al jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and the carrot we listen so if you reprint place china as an enemy of the us and that's really bad news we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories that matter just 0.

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