died for this range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our network's journalists on al-jazeera. the u.s. warns against all travel to china as the world health organization declares the deadly coronavirus and global health emergency. i'm kim burrell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up democratic hopes of calling witnesses in the u.s. president's impeachment trial looked to be dashed as republicans reveal their intentions. no where to go 700000 syrians are reportedly heading to the turkish border as airstrikes intensify in the last rebel held province.

and it shed light on faraway galaxy snaps the ends a 16 year mission for an orbiting telescope. 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 traveling to china charlie 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 close emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of

normal call a number of voters the main reason for this. 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're 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 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 reconsider for china

the w.h.o. only had praise for the efforts to contain the virus but it is still spreading fast the message what will protect us has not been a version but solidarity and cooperation charlie angela al-jazeera well it's week now to rob mcbride who is outside a temporary quarantine center and also on in south korea where the 1st group of south korean citizens to be evacuated have a rived back what more can you tell us. that's right this was an overnight flight it was somewhat delayed we've been expecting this flight for the last couple of days now it finally took place especially chartered plane arriving overnight early friday morning into seoul bringing 368 south koreans who'd been trapped inside and we know that there are more than 700 south koreans there who have stated that they wanted to leave they went through screenings before they

left behind as soon as they touch down into south korea more health screenings we understand that 18 of those people on board actually had feverish symptoms and have all been taken to hospitals around the seoul area we are a couple of hours drive south of seoul. outside the city of san is one of 2 places where they have set up makeshift quarantine centers this is actually a police training center but. 3 by then hour ago 'd a large convoy of buses and police vehicles drove through these gates and basically this is a number of those people off that flight who are going to be here for the next 2 weeks in quarantine this place was chosen because it is fairly well cut off from from the city itself there are individual rooms where all of these people will be kept individually and obviously their health monitored over the next 2 weeks to make sure they have no signs of the coronavirus they get to keep their personal

device for entertainment but basically no visitors for the next 2 weeks as they are kept in quarantine and just about the reaction being near among locals because we have seen push back in other cities where quarantine santas have been set up so what are the locals there feel about it all. it is you know part of the uncertainty and i think fear about this corona virus we know obviously how contagious it is but there's an awful lot that we don't know about the virus and that does i think lead to lead to this feeling of fear there have been protests here for the past couple of days ever since people realized that they were going to have a quarantine center right next to them people did take to the streets they were trying to block the roads with tractors other vehicles police had to intervene the government actually sent down a minister and a governor a provincial governor to try to reassure people they were met with angry shouts and that's the some eggs being thrown so yes there have been protests. the vehicles

were allowed to get inside and in fact we also do see some people coming out saying look you welcome your south koreans we should bring you back and we should look after this so please come and stay in our city which they have done thank you that update that's right nick right there. ok bill alexander has the latest on that state department advice 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 let's go hardly has more now on the story from beijing where it's been announced that china will fly home some of its ex-pats to buy. 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 because the difficulties they're facing so most likely that is because there has 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 on 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 their oars 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 the have to make some decisions about where they keep them and if they do actually go in to the affected area. a republican senator says he will oppose calling new witnesses that president donald trump's impeachment trial my alexander was seen as one of

a handful of republicans who could support the move when the senate votes later on friday democrats have been pushing for witnesses to be hurt including former national security advisor john bolton she had pretends he has more from washington . now the democrats need 4 republicans already have they have one republican problem possibly 2 republicans and mitt romney and. susan collins. there's a word 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 that 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 in phatic statement as to why he is not going to vote for witnesses he says it has been proven the dog 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 or 2nd article impeachment obstruction of congress the marl example says the president has the right to confidential discussions with with his advisors so that's why when he was telling people just 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 this effectively we would think puts an end to the idea of witnesses do it means that there will be if the 3 other republicans do vote with democrats it would be a $5050.00 tie and the expectation is in that instance that means that the motion will not pass meanwhile has been rallying supporters in iowa and choosing the democrats in trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election even comes ahead of the state caucuses on monday when democrats begin the mob the 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 these i got if you are and their pizza shop the best trade deals the strongest military to care that's we've got show us we got accountability for that's accountability we got all these things and they impeach the president now the 2nd to work watch i just want to thank they want another 5 years my boys here are just markers you know the road the tire system of government that's not happening i can tell you that. alan fischer was at the rally he says supporters were as you saw there lapping up trump's criticism of the impeachment trial he didn't spend a great deal of time on it and called the usual things so who 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 jury trying donald trump i've been 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. still ahead on al-jazeera at the united nations we talked about the u.s. and palestinian ambassador about the trump administration's middle east plan. and

a gunman targets protest at a peaceful rally against india's controversial new citizenship people. are. going to welcome back to you in a national weather forecast while 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 the central to the eastern areas in the mountains a little further 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 the south for quite city you could

be seeing some rain as well 19 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 real heavy rain that caused the flooding is ending with super missing 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 with a 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 in harare at about 26 degrees for you. but. over 40 years ago the mysterious killing of the president of north yemen shocked the nation. it's a story of deception and murder one that still resonates today.

al-jazeera world reveals how a banquet for you many dignitaries became the backdrop to a brutal assassination. yemen the last launch. on al-jazeera. we're watching our disaster reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization has declared the corona virus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern the w.h.o. says it is concerned about the virus spreading to countries that are ill prepared to deal with an outbreak. 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 traveling to china. a republican senator says he'll oppose holding new witnesses at donald trump's impeachment trial the maher alexander was seen as one of a handful of republicans who could support the move 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 $200.00 air strikes have hit the last rebel held province in just the last 3 days an estimated $700000.00 people in adlib an hour fleeing towards the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed in government airstrikes backed by russia in recent days victoria gate and the reports this is what's left of. the program. the elusive are number one we were at home with their kids when a russian warplane carried out in 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. the patients here have been injured evacuated to other hospitals dozens of medical. the cities 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 our shammy 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 says both russia and syria have violated a cease fire in a glib 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 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 go safe victoria gates and the. activists gathered outside u.n. headquarters on thursday after it delayed the release of a report into a strong song syrian medical facilities the u.n. says its workers need more time for the investigation among them was syrian filmmaker. uppers documentary salma has been nominated for an academy award.

it was our city i'm from america i'm just a syrian woman whole believed in freedom and democracy and still believe in doubt i know that you know. that i found so many tough situation inside syria and it's 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 we lived was the mental get for assad and. in this is awfully put there was no not because it was then completely destroyed and we became the last remaining in the area of 3500000 people who still in adlib now it's their story now and i hope we can really make a difference from that and that's why we're trying to stand today in front of the u.n. asking them to take their responsibility for these people. at least 23 people have been killed by rebel group an eastern democratic republic of congo the democratic

forces armed group is suspected to have been behind the offensive in the city of binny that brings the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59 on wednesday at least 36 people were also killed in attacks in the east. police and protesters have clashed in india's capital after a man opened far what had been a peaceful rally is the latest outbreak of violence and weeks of nationwide protests protesters are angry about a citizenship law that they say discriminates against muslims elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. defiant and undeterred protesters gathered a jar me a 1000000 islamist 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.

as you can see. here but the readers who just want. from this base has got only 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 protest is 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. 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. met with many lawyers who filed petitions against the law at india's supreme court saying it's discriminatory. only thrive on terror only on creating insecurities only thrive on wyland and so they can live an absolute. normal thing on which they thrive and that is what brings that. to be j.p. politicians have been banned from campaigning for 3 days in delhi's upcoming local elections after saying 'd protestors should be shot and likening demonstrations to rapists and murderers. 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 that protests to say both him and the law threaten the foundations of a secular india elizabeth brannon al jazeera new delhi. flash floods and landslides have killed at least 9 people on indonesia's sumatra island heavy rain has forced thousands to flee temporary shelters civil defense authorities say most of those who died drowned or were hit by logs. palestine's ambassador to the u.n. says there's no way any official will consult the u.s. over what he calls its earthquake of a middle east plan his comments come after america's representative said she was ready to talk about the future of a palestinian state diplomatic editor james space reports from the u.n. in new york. there's still be no security council meeting about the trump middle

east plan the us ambassador kelly crafters 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 that 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 subnet it. earthquake the essence of it the destruction over the national aspersions 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 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 and president mahmoud abbas will attend an

emergency meeting of the arab league in karo just over a week later will be at the african union in alice arbor and then on for the 11th he'll attend a meeting here of the u.n. security council james pays out his era the united nations. now has decommissioned its fitz's space telescope after 16 years it's one of 4 observatories circling the earth to send back images and information about our galaxy and to others beyond it but unlike the other 3 spitzer has infrared cameras capable of looking through dust and debris to get images even the hubble space telescope can't mike hanna reports this is the last image the spitzer transmitted back to earth the tarantella 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

look at things lift the cosmic the hill 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 worth. it's relatively small science 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 132nd 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 light 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 out of the us 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 in what you would think of as a hibernation mode folkestone lucky to say hardly make believe me it was really

hard to come up with a term that everyone agreed on the final stay right there would be on but that legacy of scripture will live on because the doubt is there for people to go back and mine 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. this is out there 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 advise it americans against traveling to china bride has more from outside a temporary quarantine center and a son in south korea. a large convoy of buses and police vehicles drove

through these gates and basically this is the number of those people off our flight who are going to be here for busy the next 2 weeks in quarantine this place was chosen because it is fairly well cut off from from the city itself there are individual rooms where all of these people will be kept individually. their health monitored over the next 2 weeks to make sure they have those signs of the coronavirus they get to keep their personal device will and to tell humans but basically this is for the next 2 weeks as they kept in quarantine a republican senator says he'll oppose calling new witnesses that donald trump's impeachment trial amar alexander was seen as one of a handful of republicans who could support the 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 corpuses on monday when democrats begin the month long process to choose their candidate for november's presidential vote the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 strikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days and it's to make it 700000 people in the now fleeing toward the turkish border. at least 23 people have been killed by a rebel group in eastern democratic republic of congo the allies democratic forces armed group is suspected of being behind the offensive in the city of binny it brings the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after it radicalized to use. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by 1.8 percent we bring you the

stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. over the. corner of your market you. are. what you have been a. partner with her. ok everybody in their.