al jazeera where every. form. the way the earth the the world. evacuated from china and heading for quarantine the fight against corona virus is stepped up as it is officially declared a global emergency. everyone i'm kemal santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera there have been. head of palestinian protests against president trump's middle east peace plan also there's been a big blow to democratic attempts to call witnesses to the trump impeachment trial a waiver and republican senator says he'll vote against it and after more than

$6000.00 days in space nasa bids farewell to the spitzer telescope as it officially goes offline. so evacuations from the epicenter of the corona virus are being stepped up more restrictions are being placed on travel to china as well as the world health organization now officially declares that a global health emergency the death toll is 213 the confirmed cases heading 410000 let's take you around the region a 3rd plane load of japanese people arriving in tokyo earlier on friday they were evacuated from 3 people were flying out on earlier flights or i should say triple fatal who were flown out on the earlier flights have been confirmed with coronavirus we've got malaysia as well with health authorities handing out these pamphlets on how to avoid infection and making public announcements as well and the united states is up to its travel alert to the highest level the equivalent of

a fact of war zones advising americans not to travel to china at all here is why in hong kong to talk a story things actually 1st of all when seeing as you are outside what i think is a pharmacy there i can see people reaching for what's left on the shelves tell us about that there. yes well there is a lot of concern in name hong kong that we could see a significant increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the days and weeks ahead partly because the end of the lunar new year holiday and they estimated that as many as 300000 hong kong residents travel to mainland china during that period many of whom are still to come back at the moment there's any 12 confirmed cases in hong kong one of them is in a critical condition one of the problems as you mentioned it is face mosque protective face mosques just about everyone on the streets is wearing one and there is now i sure all of them the shop behind me that you mentioned does have some and

from time to time there are quite logic routes gathering around people checking out exactly what specifications they are whether they are the type of mosque that they need to whip i have to say the shop behind me though like some others along the street are not making many sales because that put the prices up significantly there's one type of face mosque on the shelf behind me a box of 20 disposable mosques that is selling for more than $115.00 u.s. dollars which is about 3 times what they should be the government says it's going to step in and fill the gap by importing more than $30000000.00 face mosques and also says that they're going to rely on inmates at one of hong kong's prisons to work around the clock to manufacture more it's a fascinating of just what you behind you have not seen a single person go by without one of those mosques so clearly they can't get them from somewhere let's look at the official lines the world health organization calling this now officially a global health emergency what does that actually mean in practical terms.

well in practical terms in the 1st instance it means more money they unlock more funds that they can throw at the problem it also means they have more power because men but the nations of the w.h.o. including china they have a binding all the geisha to. it here to any rulings any decisions that the w.h.o. makes in regards to the emergency in hand in this case of course it is corona virus what the w.h.o. does advise against things like total travel bans it advocates for trade and travel to be kept at fairly normal liberals well what we've seen so far is the likes of the united states and japanese governments citizens not to travel anywhere in china we have today more and more airlines announcing back canceling flights to china or significantly reducing those services which the w.h.o.

has criticised so china will be very much worried about this declaration than i think there's no doubt judging by those comments that were made by the w.h.o. praising the response so far from the chinese government that they would have been probably pushing back over the past week week or so while the w.h.o. what's weighing out where the 2 declared this a global health emergency one other piece of news i want to bring to you just briefly the chinese government has confirmed of course that it is going to send the flights to thailand planes thailand and malaysia to get some of the chinese nationals who are trapped in those countries because of those flight cancellations in the 1st instance specifically they're going to bring back residents from a province thank you when high in hong kong. well look at south korea now where a chartered plane has brought out the 1st group of people from one hand they have been taken to 2 newly created quarantine sent people living nearby that were not

happy about this report from mcbride in athens south korea. arriving in seoul after days of delays especially chartered plane returning 368 people who'd been living in will hand 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 they'll 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 they're back on south korean soil and what they call the nightmare of will hand is behind them rob mcbride al-jazeera a sun south korea. also we've got

a plane carrying 110 evacuees due to land at an air force base in the united kingdom. goes there for us what happens on you once they land. well kemal here at the brize norton royal air force base they're expecting within the next few hours that plane to be landing here now what will happen is that there is a makeshift medical facility where all those on board will be tested they are accompanied by medical military medical offices as well as public health officials as well from then on they will bend board a bus where they will make the journey of about some 270 kilometers up to a hospital in the northwest of england where they will be put into some accommodation that some of what was previously stop the combination of

a hospital one of the only places which should accommodate such numbers and they will be in quarantine for 2 weeks now even if they don't display any of the symptoms there it is of course the utmost importance that they are kept away from any other people that's why the public health authorities to make sure that there is a fight and surround this area it's about people from going in and coming out as well as you know even without any symptoms growing a virus can be passed from person to person now with that in mind there they're also the issues of trying to get some more people onto those foreign office flights by the u.k. as well but still sort of some britons who are still trapped in the. area which are still concerned that they will not be able to get a flight back home and anywhere else in the world but you can tell us about song over some of them focusing a lot on the ocean region but where else of developments come from.

the absolutely i mean not less cause the european union or is coordinating its own efforts as well france and germany have already been. the repatriation of best it is and as well with coordinated efforts trying to get sort of people from all the european union countries back on to those flights as well they're doing it in conjunction with the european union how health officials too but also you know the united states has started its repatriation it started initially this week by bringing back a plane load of diplomats and their families as well with more u.s. citizens hoping to try and make other flights back as well. and of course and also a stray here as well but quite controversially the that these the strain and citizen is going to be on christmas island well that's the $11.00 of the whole 1000 kilometers away from the astray in mainland that that was a little bit of

a controversial issue that the citizens but nevertheless that is the plan still ongoing and of course those $6000.00 passengers plus the $1000.00 crew on that italian passenger ship were eventually allowed off the ship yesterday after the chinese couple who. had symptoms of some kind of flu were found to have tested negative for corona virus so it's really those repatriation efforts are really starting to take place in a more intense sun you're going to go in oxfordshire in the u.k. thank you. on to other news and there's been scuffles in iraq's a mosque compound where palestinians were holding a protest against the middle east peace plan plan proposed by president. allison is gathered in the early morning prayer as israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering harry force that is in the old city in occupied east jerusalem and says israel has stepped up security in the area. people

have been arriving throughout the morning it is relatively quiet here now as you say there were those scenes earlier in the morning in and around the al aqsa mosque compound has to be said there have been some such scuffles in previous weeks as well as well as the fact that we are in the days after the release of the trump peace plan in the previous weeks there also being protests against israeli actions in and around the mosque and the surrounding area there so it could be to do with that as well although it is worth saying that israeli security forces have increased their numbers in the area this morning ahead of what they thought might be heightened tensions in the aftermath of the trump peace plan as they have increased their forces in the occupied west bank today as well so this is this remains a situation for now will remains to be seen also as to whether the tension might have been somewhat sad by the fact that the americans have stepped in to prevent it

seems the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for making any immediate steps towards annexation in the occupied west bank that's what he promised in the immediate aftermath of the plan being released it seems there are mixed messages really certainly netanyahu said that he would initially bring this to a vote in the cabinet on sunday the u.s. ambassador to israel david freedman saying that israel was initially at least that israel was freed started sonic sation plans at any time it wanted to but then there was an interview at least one interview from jared pushed. initially one with c.n.n. and then one with another us media organization which he was clearer in saying that he expected any such moves to take place after the election and the need to be more u.s. is really coordination and detail given to any maps for any annexation plan so it is clear that the americans at least the white house and from the administration have been acting to put the brakes on this potentially because they're aware that

it would make it much more difficult for arab nations which so far have been relatively muted in their response certainly not openly critical of it it would make them potentially find that more difficult to maintain that that state of at least relative support for what has happened so far. palestine's ambassador to the u.n. says there's no way any official will consult with the u.s. over what he calls their earthquake in the middle east plan he was responding to an offer of talks by washington's ambassador to the u.n. both of them speaking to our diplomatic editor change space. there's still be no security council meeting about the trump middle east plan the us ambassador kelly craft has not briefed her colleagues but she did come to speak to reporters outside the chamber in the days to come that will be able to work with the countries that were very positive and hopefully have more dialogue and i'm open to conversation with mandatory what is there in this deal for the palestinians to like doesn't this

just reward israel for illegally taking palestinian land over many decades you know i think i think what you say is a dialogue that has become normal and we need to move away from that dialogue because it's not normal and we need to focus on the palestinian the children the future of a palestinian state she says she's prepared to discuss the plan with the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. but he made it clear to me it's a meeting he won't be taking there is not a single palestinian official will meet with american officials now after this subnet an. earthquake the essence of it the destruction over the national over the palestinian people that the palestinians and the united nations know may declare its sovereignty over settlements in the west bank sooner rather than later secretary-general what's your message to israel on possibly an ex in the settlements. it's very clear that her statement is very clear

on that he didn't answer so i put the question to his spokes person for our position. last week last month last year and today remains the same is that according to security council resolution $2334.00. israeli settlement activities are flagrant violations under international law i mean that's that's been our position the focus now will be on palestinian diplomatic outreach at the weekend president mahmoud abbas will attend an emergency meeting of the arab league in karo just over a week later he'll be at the african union in august and then on for the 11th he'll attend a meeting here of the u.n. security council james pays out of the united nations in the news ahead bushfires that raging 2000 southeastern australia now starting to threaten the

capital city canberra and leaving at last the u.k. finally breaking from the european union we will look back at britain's brags that stock. hallow the ready season continues apace in indonesia and a good mass of thunderstorms the last day or so sudden borneo java and sun's march have been the focus they still are the forecast shows and if you see a bit of orange as you do there that's one of the biggest forecast on storms and we're into western java once again we might include you catherine is the risk of flash floods clearly then it extends through some ways as well there are a few showers further north in for example the southern philippines but not that many and most the southeast asia the mainland remains dry and sunny occasional showers maybe in the far south attala no more than that there are

a big changes afoot once we're in australia was is hot with a fire risk and indeed fire still around the capital territory's do science wales we've got this thing here which is a frontal system on its way through that will not attempt is back by 10 even 20 degrees next day or so and give substantial rain and that sin band sundry rain they'll be some flash flooding because it will change in the fear of the environment 20 times 23 by sunday as you can see now as the rain goes for new south wales unfortunately it tends to fade away so no more than the case and showers and rather more cloud but it's damper than dry most the rain is further north in northern territory. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power development investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned

to deliver against the stimulus we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and in fire mentally sound energy solutions for future generation the breastpin i am hearing future energy. you with al-jazeera these are the 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 traveling to china thailand the world health organization's also declared the virus a global public health emergency thailand has just confirmed its 1st case so far

we're looking at over 200 people killed from the outbreak china and nearly 10000. on the bin scuffles outside the locks a mosque compound with palestinians protesting against a u.s. president on trump's middle east peace plan ready to lease 5 tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering. u.s. republican senator democrats hoped would support calling new witnesses that donald trump's beach trial says he will be voting against it amar alexander released a statement saying there was no need for more evidence democratic senators want to hear from among others trump's former national security advisor john bolton but to do that they would need support all at least for republicans she had her tansey with us from washington. after the 2nd and final day of cross-examination of house

democrats and white house lawyers in 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 and misdemeanor and the removal of the president from. office alexander also said in a statement that the whole impeachment process had been quote shallow horrid 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 54 and 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 the people of britain will need no reminding that they have less than 14 hours left as citizens of the european union countries 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends on friday night at 2300 hours g.m.t. britain will have until the end of the years to reach a deal on its future relationship with the e.u. is there a challenge now looking back at how all of this is happened and what it might mean in the coming months maybe years. 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 to. engage in many of the internal trade offs necessary for it to

work when france west germany belgium it's a leader 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 the go ahead but we don't really need things as we were in the war i think there was a sense here that a we were we can after need that sort of crutch and that 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 had become looks more alluring to british eyes it was economically successful compared to an increasingly on competitive u.k. but french president showed a cool played hard to get twice rejecting london's proposal it wasn't until 900

$73.00 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 bedevils 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 the fascist chances with quite sure he'd win a referendum he thought it was rather a clever way. stopping the party having these public hours on the subject

and that was the start of works become an historic crisis and so the whole country going back to square warm all over again trying to decide what his role in the world is cameron's remain campaign lost 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 a state of emergency has been declared in australia's capital as bushfires threatened kamber and the surrounding region many fear the hot weather and strong winds this weekend will only spread the blaze out of control south of the city it is the worst fire threat canberra has seen in 2 decades. the combination of extreme heat weaned and a dry land sky poor play suburbs in cambridge set off at risk in the coming dice.

the auroral fire has now grown to itin a half 1000 hc tears that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the australian capital territory. funny nasa has decommissioned its spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service spitzer was one of the 4 observatories orbiting the earth sending back all those images and information we see about our galaxy the spitzer was launched in 2003 apparently had enough liquid helium to keep it going for 6 years scientists managed to keep it going for another decade mike hanna with this 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 spitz'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 130 seconds of the size of spitzer so if you if you multiply this little lot of by $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 like years from earth surrounded by 7 exoplanets some of which show traces of water and which scientists agree may contain life forms markedly each of the traps one system discovery got that science on to like mainstream media at a level that had really very seldom seen 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 and what you would think of as a hibernation mode 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 stay right there were beyond but that legacy of scripture will live on 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 so and our universe mike hanna al-jazeera washington. past the hour here on al-jazeera let's take you to the headlines japan south korea and the u.k. are stepping up their evacuation of citizens from china in response to the coronavirus americans are now being advised to avoid traveling to china while the world health organization has declared the virus a global public health emergency so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak in the 10000 been infected series when he and hong kong with more on what

the declaration means for the fines against the virus one of the main things that this declaration does is free up money in the 1st instance that means the w.h.o. 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 of their headline scuffles outside the al aqsa mosque compound where palestinians were protesting against the middle east peace plan proposed by u.s. president donald trump to police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse right now. in the u.s. republican senator who democrats hoped would support calling new witnesses that donald trump pietschmann trial says he will now vote against it in the ma alexander released a statement saying there was no need for more evidence democratic senators need the support of 4 republicans in order to hear from among others donald trump's former

national security advisor john bolton the state of emergency declared in australia's capital as bushfires threatened canberra and the surrounding region many fear the hot weather and strong winds this weekend will spread the blaze south of the city out of control it is the worst fire threat in camber in 2 decades. the combination of extreme heat weened and a dry land skype will play suburbs in campers say off at risk in the coming dice. the auroral fire has now grown into itin a half 1000 hecticness that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the striving capital territory. the are in a huff and it's time one of many just is next. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 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 our own just iraq. there's a gold rush in the philippines worth hundreds of millions of dollars but no one wants you to know about it or feel bidding into does it come by the night in the unknown in the media michel you know. this illegal industry is leaving a trail of misery for its workers were there any issues for you none of you could or could not and their families. will be able to get up at in the cold in the back in the last summer when i went east investigates why people in the philippines a dying for gold.