route. evacuated from china and head into quarantine the fight against corona virus is stepped up as it is officially declared a global emergency. but done every one on camel santamaria this is the world news from al jazeera and scuffles near al aqsa mosque ahead of the palestinian protests against president trump's middle east plan. also a big blow to democratic plans to call more witnesses and president trump's impeachment trial away for a republican senator is opposing the move. and i'm lawrence lee in western belgium where european food supplies are doing everything they can to mitigate against tensional worst effects of bricks.

so evacuations from the epicenter of the corona virus are being stepped up and more restrictions being placed on travel to china the world health organization has now officially declared a global health emergency the death toll is at 213 there are nearly 10000 confirmed cases united states has upped its travel alert as well as the highest level which is the same as war zones in fact advising americans not to go to china at all in malaysia health officials are handing out pamphlets and making announcements on loudspeakers to advise the public on measures to avoid infections and as we said the u.s. telling its citizens to avoid all travel to china where more than 200 people have died from the virus and around 9 and a half 1000 have been infected charlie angela begins our coverage with this report . 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. 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. 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 is the science supporting this decision could you reconsider this decision. we suggested. that w.h.y.

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 in a version but solidarity and cooperation charlie angela al-jazeera. in a moment but 1st to beijing china's health commission is giving an update house director since the epidemic outbreak the house care system has prioritized the prevention of control and knee and actually has already sent working teams to different provinces and to offer guidance and inspection we appreciate the media's coverage and also the attention to the inspection and we will make every

effort to win the battle against the epidemic also during the prevention control of the epidemic the society has offered a lot of care and support to the health care providers some restaurants owners sent muse to hospitals taxi drivers picked up the health care providers free of charge and companies donated their protective materials at the moment the prevention of control of the epidemic is advancing and the house care providers really need to our understanding and support regrettably we learned from the police . briefing or that yesterday in one hand there was a violent act violent event against the health care provider the offender had already being detained according to the law and we strongly oppose such

violence against the doctors and to support the legitimate efforts to safeguard the house and security of our health care providers let me 1st answer the questions from the mail boxes. in the morning of january 31st direct d g of w h o declared the. epidemic aine. i mean the epidemic the public house emergency was international concern but he suggested. that there should be no travel or trade restrictions towards china many media were very concerned about china's attitude the chinese government has attached a great importance to the epidemic control and we have already adopted the most

a strange into control measures we have the confidence and the capacity to effectively and control the epidemic and the finally when the battle and now we will move on to the q. and a please let us know your. organizations name or agency name please. the lady on the front will. i'm from china house. the severe cases we found a lot of the so that is the chinese health commission trying to put. the most positive spin they possibly can on events saying that they have the means to fight the corona virus of course when they're speaking to a room full of journalists wearing face masks at the same time as the declares a global health emergency also the chinese warning against any action against

medical staff as they had been in violence that they referred to. so as i said correspondents on the mcbrides in sun in south korea a temporary quarantine center all come to the robot want to start though with wayne hay in hong kong of course chinese territory with the declaration of the global health emergency what does that actually mean and in practical terms. well one of the main things that this declaration does is free up money in the 1st instance that means the w.h.o. now is more funds that it can throw at the problem but it also effectively gives the w.h.o. more power because member nations including china have a binding all began to accept and implements any decisions that the w.h.o. makes in regard to this particular outbreak of coronavirus and i think what you've seen perhaps over the past week or so is the w.h.o.

trading very carefully because they are dealing with china it was just a week ago that they met and decided not to declare a global health emergency they have not changed their minds but as you heard a short time ago they went to great lengths in that announcement to say that this was not being done because of what is happening in china but instead what is happening in other countries and in fact the head of the w.h.o. announcing the global health emergency said it was not a vote of no confidence in china so i think we can assume that over the past week or so there has been some pushback from the chinese perhaps because of any stigma that is attached to this decision but also any potential economic effect that it could have on china. and the situation in hong kong itself way what is it given i mean i think it's obviously a very very busy city you've got people coming in from all of the part of it is an island part of it is connected to the mainland as well how are they coping with.

the most part life is carrying on as normal here the lunar new year holiday has come to an. remembering on the mainland it's been extended for the rest of this week but there is a lot of concern here that we could see the number of confirmed cases increases being fairly stable for a few days it's gone up according to the latest numbers by 2 other now 12 confirms coronavirus cases in hong kong one of them is in a critical condition but there are hundreds more who are being monitored and being tested for the possibility that they are infected as well with corona virus one of the problems here is a lack of face must just about everyone on the street is wearing protective face masks but there is now a shortage all of them we're seeing very long lines throughout the day outside some shops there are pharmacies up and down the street where i'm standing at the shop behind me does have some face masks and they are attracting quite a lot of attention but there are some pretty high prices being asked by some of the

shops as well there is a box of 20 on the shelf behind me just normal protective disposable face being sold for more than 115 u.s. dollars that's about 3 times what they should be the government is saying they're going to bring in more they're going to import more than $30000000.00 additional face masks but there's also a program they have announced in one of hong kong's prisons where they're going to get inmates working around the clock manufacturing more face mox for the public to be able to buy extraordinary stuff thank you wayne hay in hong kong bad and now mcbride as we said in the sun in south korea south korea quarantining all evacuees from a province i believe rob bring us up to date with what's actually happening there at the center. that's why we've had 4 more confirmed cases in south korea bringing to 11 the number of people with corona virus that has been confirmed but of course the big development this friday as you mentioned there

is the opening of these makeshift quarantine senses 2 of them south of the capital seoul one of which. we're standing outside to accommodate the hundreds of south korean citizens who are now being brought out. and we've had the 1st evacuation flights that has come with people being brought here and this has been a long time in the organizing that have been attempts to get this flight for the past few days the south korean authorities say that they've been told by china that given the demand from all of these different countries wanting to send flights to get their nationals out you basically have to take a number and get in line and they say they've simply been some much demand for slots looking at it less charitably some observers are saying that this is china possibly controlling the number of flights to make it not look as though people are running for the exits are just abandoning the place which might spread more panic but certainly south korea is hoping to organize a 2nd flight to bring out the remaining citizens in the next day or so people who

inevitably will be brought and will join other people centers like this one. arriving in seoul after days of delays especially chartered plane returning 368 people who'd been living in and around half the number of south korean nationals trapped there and wanting to leave some were found to have fevers and taken to hospital. the rest were heading here to one of 2 makeshift quarantine centers south of the capital their presence has led to protests from people living nearby and police to remove roadblocks. the government sent to minister to reassure protesters that he was met by angry shouts and eggs being thrown. of course local residents will be worried by the prospect of patients coming to the area but the corona virus is transmitted in 2 ways by contact or by respiratory

droplets so you need to be within one to 2 meters a patient to be in danger. as the convoy bringing the evacuees approached other people turned out to welcome them you know. it's only natural for the country to bring back our citizens and treat them well small the people coming here past the screening and don't have symptoms. after an exhausting night of travel and health screenings their journey is finally at an end but now starts the quarantine in a place that i have to call home for the next 2 weeks each person will have their own room and are allowed to keep their phones and computers but there will be no visitors while their conditions are monitored to make sure they are free from the coronavirus. at least as one of the evacuees told us through this social media account that back on south korean soil and what they call the nightmare of will hand is behind them rob mcbride al-jazeera

a san south korea. on to other news and israeli police stormed a mosque compound early on friday morning where palestinian worshippers were holding a protests against the middle east peace plan put forward by u.s. president on palestinians gathered in the early hours after morning prayers israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering here is harry force it now live in occupied east jerusalem harry bring us up to date. well yes at the moment people arriving early for sort of midday prayers which is obviously the the biggest friday prayers as you say just after dawn pres inside the alexa mosque compound there were some scuffles some dozens of people who were staying on and were confronted by israeli security forces this is something that has been happening for the last couple of weeks there being protests against

israeli actions and then around the compound and so it might not necessarily be directly linked to the trump peace plan which was unveiled earlier this week we wait to see what kind of protests there might be in relation to that later in the day after the main room prayers it is as you see fairly damp here in the occupied east jerusalem today that might influence how many people might come out. and more importantly there does seem to be a stay at least on any immediate plans of israeli annexation and acting the provisions laid out within the trump peace plan the americans seem to be trying to dampen down any ambitions to do that immediately by benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister so we wait to see exactly how things play out later in the course of the day will come back to you then harry full sit in occupied east jerusalem still the heads in the news mission accomplished now said bids farewell to disputes space

telescope as it officially goes offline. hello good to welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across europe it is going to be very mild across much of the north also over here towards the west we're talking about a westerly flow that's going to keep. those temperatures above average as we go into the weekend we're going to see here on berlin about 11 degrees here down towards europe it's going to be about 15 by the time we get towards saturday it's going to be more rain across much of the area but the temperatures are continuing to rise in many locations so paris the rain is going to be in and out of your area about 14 degrees here rain all the way towards warsaw though with attempt a few of 8 degrees where we're going to be seen as a very messy weather though is down here across much of the southeast and it is going to be the snow where we see in the higher elevations particularly over

probably 90 centimeters of snow just in the next several days for on for though it is going to be better with a few you saw the rain you saw the snow but by the time we go into the weekend it is going to be still cool but by the time we get to sunday much better conditions where the temps are there about 10 degrees than here across northern africa what we are going to see some clouds here across much of parts of libya as well as into egypt for cairo it is going to be a cloudy day here on friday with a temperature of $21.00 degrees and as we go towards saturday it's going to be cloudy day for benghazi at 17 in tripoli with attempt a few of about $21.00 degrees for you at the. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires isn't really wiping out the politics of climate change in front of kenyans economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the streets don't even know what the law is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly

patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware of the use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. without is there these are our top stories japan south korea and the u.k. all stepping up the evacuation of their citizens from china in response to the corona virus outbreak americans are now being advised to avoid all travel to china world health organization meanwhile declared the virus a global public health emergency so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak nearly 10000 have been infected and as many places stone deluxe

a mosque compound where palestinians were protesting against u.s. president tom trump's middle east peace plan is ready police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gap. in the u.s. republican senator who democrats hopes would support calling for new witnesses that dominance pietschmann trial says he'll be voting against it the morrow xander released a statement saying it was no need for more evidence that senators want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and many others but they need the support of 4 republicans to make that happen but this report from washington. after the 2nd and final day of cross-examination of house democrats and white house lawyers and the u.s. senate a significant moment in doldrums impeachment trial tennessee republican lamar alexander announced ahead of friday's scheduled for our debate that he would not

vote for the introduction of more witnesses and documents his argument is that there's no need for more evidence to show that president trump withheld aid to pressure the ukrainian government to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son hunter he did but while that was inappropriate doing so did not rise to the level of a high crime misdemeanor and the removal of the president from office alexander also said in a statement that the whole impeachment process had been quote shallow 100 and wholly partisan with the potential to rip the country apart a major argument of trump's lawyers we're in an election year there are some in this room better days away from the iowa caucuses taking place. so we're discussing the possible impeachment and removal of the president of the united states not only during election season in the heart of the election season and i think that this does a disservice to the american people the democrats then did not convince other example

that by definition a trial should have witnesses it is certainly in their interest and the president's interest that we have a fair trial a trial without truth without key evidence without witnesses in documents would render the president's acquittal meaningless as things stand that means the democrats are very unlikely to get the 51 votes they need to call for witnesses the most they could hope for is a draw 50 $4.50 against witnesses and documents unless there's a major surprise and the expectation is a drop would be in the motion for new evidence will be judged to have failed alexander's decision makes it very likely that the president will be acquitted after what's expected to be many hours of debate on friday the white house's goal there off an acquittal before donald trump delivers his state of the union address next tuesday appears to have all been achieved shepparton see al-jazeera washington . well history will be made this friday night as the u.k.

formally leaves the european union it is expected to be business as usual for several more months during the so-called transition period but there are still concerns a trade deal might be impossible to reach by the end of the year lawrence leamer with this report from belgium where businesses are already preparing to ensure the u.k. doesn't run out of food or other essentials. the last day for the u.k. in the european union but here they're carrying on as if nothing is changing the vegetables come from several european countries and the bagged up and supplied to schools and hospitals all over britain so will organize of that works out how to keep feeding the u.k. even if the trade deal never happens all of the transport is now. used uses the weekend rather than depending on your week days so we gain 2 extra days to get our stuff over to you kate we use different boards where we're only we're using maybe 2 golds in the past 234 boards at the moment things like food

a critical in forth coming trade talks and will determine what extent the u.k. plans to stick close to the e.u. what would no deal mean no food points about bric cities that uniquely east involves the u.k. dismantling rather than creating existing trade deals and that's led many people to wonder in the worst case scenario if the u.k. will simply run out of things like food but maybe just maybe things won't be all that bad. remember all the talk of huge queues of trucks on motorways this is and container port which believes it can help avoid much of that that quite convinced all the talk of shortages of anything from medicines to toilet paper will come to nothing business finds a way always but at the end of the day. most of the problems will be eventually solved. burps i don't believe in an

outright get done in that sense that all of a sudden there will be. insufficient products in the u.k. shops on the other hand it will make things much more difficult it will come with a cost and it comes with the consequence of longer towns it times breaks it as i've always said speculation the u.k. will run out of vital supplies is overblown but their slogan taking back control will also mean continuing to rely on europe the west of flanders there is the export of vegetables all the time going from the port of cebu to port of antwerp to do to the u.k. so i know that you will still have trade twitters but of course we want a new cream and maybe focused on on things like beverage him food almost. in brussels brits and others distraught about brecht says have been parting away their sorrows but it belgian exporters of got it right the u.k.'s great departure may not

turn out to be entirely traumatic for either side barnsley al-jazeera invest in belgium. 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 of being behind the offensive in the city of beni the jets bringing the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59 about to wednesday and 36 people were killed in north kivu province as well. well thor he's in australia's capital have declared a state of emergency as bushfires threatened to take over canberra and the surrounding region are concerned the hot weather in the strong winds this weekend will only spread the fire a particular fire south of the city out of control the region's chief minister says it's the worst threats it's going to 2 decades ago when 4 people were killed and 500 others injured in the capital. has

decommissioned its space telescope after 16 years of service as one of the 4 observatories that orbit the earth sending back all those images and information about our galaxy and beyond the spitzer itself was launched in 2003 with enough liquid helium to keep it going for 6 years but scientists managed to keep the mission going for an extra decade mike hanna has our report 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 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 worth. it's 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 my $32.00 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 $39.00 like 2 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 likely to say hardly make believe me it was really hard to come up would return to everyone agreed on based on the final stay right there were beyond but that legacy of scripture will love them because of that 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. past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines japan south korea and the u.k. are all ramping up their repatch creation of citizens from china in response to the corona virus outbreak the u.s. is telling its citizens to avoid all travel to china due to the respiratory disease and the world health organization has declared the virus a global public health emergency so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak and nearly 10000 have been affected a correspondent when haye is in hong kong with more on what that world health organisation declaration means for the fight against the virus one of the main things that this declaration does is free up money in the 1st instance that means

that now has more funds that it can throw at the problem but it also effectively gives the w.h.o. more power because member nations including china have a binding obligation to accept and implement any decisions that the w.h.o. makes in regard to this particular outbreak of coronavirus the other headlines and there have been scuffles outside al aqsa mosque compound where palestinians were protesting against u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan is ready police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the early morning gathering. a u.s. republican senator who democrats had hoped would support scolding for new witnesses that donald trump's impeachment trial is now said he'll vote against him are alexander released a statement saying there was no need for more evidence democrat senators that want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and others but they need the support all or republican votes. these 23 people been killed by

a rebel group in eastern democratic republic of congo. democratic forces armed group is suspected of being behind the offensive in the city of beni the deaths bring the number of civilians killed this week to at least 59 on wednesday 36 people were killed in north kivu province and authorities in australia's capital have declared a state of emergency as bushfires threatened canberra and the surrounding region there are concerns the hot weather in the strong winds this weekend will only spread to fire south of the capital which is already out of control you have to deal with the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next in the philippines the black market for gold is with hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to sound the ultimate price when i went east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. the u.s.

secretary of state lobbies britain once again for a ban on wall away is the chinese tech giant a threat to cyber security or are there other reads in washington's opposition this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sam is a than the u.s. is pressuring allies in the west to band while away the chinese tech giant provides world leading technology for the next generation of mobile networks called 5 g. but the trumpet ministration has long accused beijing of using it for spying the u.s. secretary of state might pompei was in britain to push the case he wants the u.k. to rethink its decision to allow weiwei a limit.