0. 0 i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes evacuations from china and travel bans to the country the fight against coronaviruses stepped up as it's officially declared a global emergency. scuffles near the oxen mosque ahead of palestinian protest against president trump's middle east plan. at the heart of the impeachment case america's top diplomat is about to meet ukraine's president as the u.s. senate prepares to vote on calling witnesses in the trump trial. 13 hours to go until britain officially leaves the european union the british prime minister calls

it a moment of national were new will. break. out on a new front. and i'm certain homeless with all the sporting coding the l.a. lakers prepared to pay tribute to kobe bryant to as they get ready to play the 1st game since the death of the n.b.a. legend. evacuations from the epicenter of the coronavirus are being stepped up more restrictions placed on travel to china world health organization is now officially declared a global health emergency with the death toll at 213 and early 10000 confirmed cases a 3rd plane load of japanese arrived back in tokyo early friday evacuated from mohan 3 people flown out on earlier flights have been confirmed with the virus by iris that is a term. plane has also just left for han and malaysia health officials are handing

out pamphlets on how to avoid infection and making public announcements and the u.s. has upped its travel alert to the highest level the same as war zones advising americans not to go to china. thousands of people are still returning to hong kong from china after the lunar new year health chiefs there are giving an update right now alongside chief executive kerry land and wayne hay joins us live so wayne what has kerry lamb been saying. well richelle carey lamb the chief executive volved hong kong and government have been coming under a lot of pressure over the past few weeks from people in this city who believe that the government is not doing enough to try to protect them from the spread all of coronavirus so far the numbers here fairly low we have 12 confirmed cases one of those people is in a critical condition the people who are calling for more to be done wants the borders between here and mainland china to be closed completely so carol lam has

refused to do that. choosing instead to reduce the number of transport options that are available for people to go from here to the mainland and vice versa speaking on friday she has again said that there is no need to close the borders completely between here and the mainland because the measures they have in place at the moment to protect hong kong from the virus would she says and so far as to say those numbers solve confirmed infections in hong kong still fairly low adding to that she confirmed that all schools will remain closed until march the sick and 4 universities in hong kong have also followed suit and will stay closed until then and she'll see it confirmed that next week she wants all civil servants to work from home as another preventative measure they've been doing that this week after the end of the lunar new year holiday period so that is an extension by another

week old civil civil servants will be asked will work from home and what we saw this week wasn't it wasn't just those civil servants that did that many private businesses corporates followed suit as well ok wayne hale at the latest from hong kong wayne thank you. a charter plane has brought out the 1st group of south koreans from mohan they have been taken to 2 know only created 2 quarantine centers but people living nearby they're protesting. and. 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 into waves by contact or by respiratory droplets so you need to be within one to 2 metres 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 they will 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 to wound is behind them rob mcbride i'll just sirrah a son south korea. a plane is due to land at a british air force base in a few hours carrying $110.00 british an e.u. evacuees trying to go is there she says the $83.00 british citizens will immediately be quarantined. 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 then 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 the some what was previously stuff accommodation at the 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 of the utmost importance that they are kept away from any other people that's why the public health authorities have made sure there is a fence around this area it's about people from going in and coming out as well as you know even without any symptoms the corona virus can be passed from person to person now with that in mind there there also the issues of trying to get some more people onto those foreign office so slight spots in 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 in an effort to avoid the spread of the coronavirus the u.s. has advised all its citizens to avoid travel to china or elizondo is in washington d.c. he says the u.s. rarely issues such a sweeping travel advisory. 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 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 joining us on saddest dr patrick tang a division chief of pathology scientists at center of medicine here and qatar joining us right now also global health emergency what are the the practical implications of those words. so i think the w.h.o. has made a decision to declare this a public health emergency of international concern but the thing that we have to recognize is that during this whole time many countries have already adopted many of the measures that they would need to control the spread of this outbreak so the

reason why they're calling this a global emergency right now is that they want to take control of the narrative they want to take control of the messaging and they want to make sure that people put in evidence based practices instead of allowing the fear to permeate through the population and cause people to make irrational decisions in terms of things like travel bans or or some of the racism that we've seen around the globe so this may feel familiar to some people we we've been through zico we've been through sars can you compare this to that like are they similar in any way i think outbreak that's most similar to this would be the sars outbreak in 2003 where it almost became a pandemic but it didn't so it is something but when alex has a pandemic for for a virus or another pathogen to cause a pandemic or to have to cause sustained transmission in many countries around the world at the same time and this has not happened the transmission the human to human transmission that we're seeing right now in countries outside of china have

been very limited and have been limited to family clusters so when what people often forget the flu influenza kills thousands of people every year you know really dwarfs what we're seeing now but explain why there's this type of deeds to be this type of response to something like this. the reason why we're acting against this new virus is that we don't want another new virus to be established in the human population so right now this is an animal of ours and it's made some mutations to adapt to infecting humans but we don't want it to become one of the common viruses and factors every year just like influenza so it was any chance to prevent more viruses from becoming human virus it's a good thing you actually touch on something that really think it is important that if there is fear running rampant. that it could be channeled through the

racism how to how do we make sure something like that doesn't happen is it in the messaging is it in making sure people know the facts. i think the important thing is to stick to the facts and get away from all the fear that is going around all the fear mongering that might be going around on on social media and the same things happened during sars i mean sars also came out from china and there were. there were travel bans and there was a bit of racism in many of the countries that had cases ok so does the average person have anything to be scared of for the average person that's not in a province and not in the surrounding areas in china there's very little to be concerned about. right so it seems that right now what we're dealing with the to be clear is a global health emergency not a pandemic for the most part if you're not in that immediate area you're ok don't panic this is a matter of having the right financial resources as well do countries and medical

departments need the right resources to make sure they can that everybody's doing the same thing certainly that's very important so the reason why the w.h.o. is making this announcement is making sure that everyone steps up their game so the countries that may not have the same level of public health resources would would be able to get assistance from other countries or from the w.h.o. in order to screen for infected individuals and to be able to quarantine them or patrick thank you very much for your expertise on this we appreciate it. plenty more had and the news hour including. i'm at a woods and the lead protein great yarmouth where many people are now looking forward to life outside the e.u. . also mission accomplished nasa said farewell to the spitzer space telescope said officially goes offline. and then scored as the general football transfer window shuts manchester united complete their 1st signing.

of the ox a mosque compound or palestinians were holding a protest against u.s. president onil trump's middle east plan palestinians gathered in the early hours after morning prayers israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering her hostin joins us live in the old city and occupied east jerusalem so what else do we know about what's been happening harry. well yes that was it just just off to dawn pres this morning there were those confrontations between israeli put security forces and palestinian worshippers dozens of them in or around the locks the most compound now the main friday noon prayers are underway and we had already heard from israeli security forces that they would be thing up their presence in the old city because of the current political tensions of to the

release of the trump peace plan just before those present under way we did hear that in the immediate area around the locks a mosque compound under the temple mount to jews in that area the security presence was a good deal more visible and had been increased the real question is how things pan out a few minutes from now once the pres breakout break up rather and people come out into the streets of the old city around the mosque the the that the general security presence of say here has been increased as it has in the occupied west bank as well all of this coming after tuesday's release of the trunk plan and the apparent green light that it gave to israel to start an acting annex ation in israeli settlements and indeed the jordan valley the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had indicated that he wanted to move almost immediately this sunday to vote in cabinet to start that process but the brakes have been put on by

the americans it seems in the last couple of days so we wait to see whether that reality the fact that there isn't going to be an immediate change whether that has any influence on how things pan out today in terms of protests and here even before in the plan was that facially release there had already been protests of sorts and pushed back before the plan was even released and this was almost to be expected. yes i mean that there have been coast. protests earlier in the week end of the day there was some protests on wednesday but you have to say that the that the situation on the on the ground in the streets has changed in recent years in terms of the parents' willingness of people to go out in large numbers we haven't seen much evidence of that either here or in the occupied west bank apart from of course when metal detectors were put in inside the locks a mosque compound

a couple of years ago and then we saw real street protests of the like that so that hadn't been seen in this part of jerusalem for a long time so the indications so far of the things that runs or be quiet so far today the question as i say is is what kind of presence that will be off to the pres the the behavior of the israeli security forces the behavior of any potential protests but so far the indications on that we're going to see a really mass events this friday but you know that could always change all right her boss said on friday strickland thank you. how science ambassador to the u.n. says there is no way any official will consult with the u.s. over what he calls the earthquake and the middle east plan it comes after america's own representative said she was ready to talk about the future of a palestinian state and diplomatic editor james bays has more from un headquarters

in new york. 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 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. an earthquake the essence of it the destruction over the national over the palestinian people that is the palestinians and the united nations no 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 that her statement is very clear on that he didn't dance or 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 and that is arab 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. a u.s. republican senator who democrats hope would support calling new witnesses at donald trump's impeachment trial says he will now vote against it so. senator from tennessee released a statement saying there was no need for more evidence democratic senators want to hear from trump's former national security adviser john bolton and others i think the support of for republicans reports 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 donald trump's 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 hybrid 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 draw would be in the motion for new evidence will be judged to have failed islands of decision makes it very likely that the president will be acquitted off to what's expected to be many hours of debate on friday the white house's goal there off on the quick little before donald trump delivers his state of the union address next tuesday appears to have all been achieved she every time see

al-jazeera washington trying to rally supporters in iowa accusing the democrats are trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election. 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 you there pete struck you the best trade deals the strongest military to cure the vets we got julius we got accountability for the vets accountability we got all these things and they impeach the president now the 2nd to work what you just want to dwell they want another guy you down i'm always there our job after saying i don't throw the tire system of government that's not happening i can tell you. alan fischer was at the rally he says supporters are lapping up trump's criticism of the impeachment trial. he

didn't spend a great deal of time on it called the usual things so and so which he criticized that i'm sure he said the 2 senators from iowa both of whom are republicans didn't come here tonight because he wanted them in washington because of course they're part of the trying. i be 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 up the balance for 2020. course going to be in the caucus the republican caucus also being held on monday night he's going to win because let me tell you can you name the 2 other republicans are standing against the 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 iran's president is calling for the u.s. to take a more active position and settling its conflict with russian backed separatists pompei o is crane as he. president donald trump prepares. for some vote on whether to call witnesses the senators will be doing that selenski says relations with us remain very. talented as a professor of political science at the national university of cademy he joins us now via skype from him appreciate your time very much so what about this press conference happening right now with the president still and secretary of state might. have been very forceful in saying that we need more help from our u.s. ally when it comes to russia that that's fairly significant is it not. it's a very significant significant visit for ukraine no president

zelinsky is using in all directory of the previous president we is aggressively and russian while at the same time he tries to make moves towards finding a compromise with russia in resolving the conflict the international conflict in the east of ukraine i think no zelinsky east playing is. a game to make egress if the criticism of president on the part of his political opponents from the right wing of the democratic party. politicians from the deep state in order to see to show that mr trump is also using the same old the cavalry but at the same time the typical words which are said now very important it's bringing more security

to the region trying to find peaceful solution of the crisis in international relations in the east of ukraine then doing some positive steps in anti corruption the measures in ukraine in bringing in more democracy let me let me let me ask you something let me ask you something how difficult of a position is lattimer selenski in right now there are members of the presidential trump's own party who have admitted on the floor of the senate that he did pressure ukraine to enter fair and the u.s. election that is actually not for dispute how difficult of a position is why merit selenski selenski in that he did not acquiesce to that. as i see mr zelinsky now is surrounded by his advisors who advise him to take as if imaginary

a neutral position in the interim american clash between future. who president really telling him telling him to do his best as best he can to try to stay out of the middle of it is that what you're saying yes but the same time it means that he takes empty trunk positions because showing the truth in what has happened in ukraine when ukrainian corrupt institutions into rut officials they were involving in their you can in europe be in other politicians and their members of the families into corrupt activities in ukraine it's not against trump it's not not not against the biden it's not. of mr trump it's bringing the troops to the hearing of all the people ukraine needs to get rid of corruption and of all practices ukraine needs peace and the medica can provide for new

efficient efforts for peace peaceful solution of conflicts international conflict in the east so you can do a lot for american democracy to prosper not discussion was there pressure on not definitely some of mr trump's assistance or his lawyer mr giuliani did some clumsy steps but the essence is whether or not corrupt practices to place in ukraine an economic and political life whether they were still a free states let's bring this back to what you're saying you would like for the u.s. to do on behalf of ukraine this meeting has happened between secretary of state and president so once he still has not gotten that white house meeting that meant so much to him so what would you like to see happen next. so know it's correct tactics

of bugs. you credit has become a toxic asset for mr trump for american politics so now this should calm down the ukrainian topics. in america and the next step would be positive steps of america joining forces of european nations in finding some kind of compromise with russia even reintegration of ukraine over its eastern parts and how to make ukrainian system not to be corrupt america can help in this and ukraine can help to american democracy not american democracy which is what is happening in america when somebody is trying to get through the of the president and putting american democracy on the brink of internal conflicts ok. positive role and we need international assistance maybe even the tourney's can help in this as

a 3rd force coming and saying ok let us help you to find ok ok professor i thank you very much for your insight we appreciate it valentino. thank you very much joining us from here a state of emergency has been a clarion australia's capital as bushfires threatened to take over a camera and the surrounding region there are concerns hot weather and strong winds this weekend will spread a fire south of the city out of control it's the worst threat facing the area and 2 decades. the combination of extraneous hate weaned and a dry land skype will place suburbs in camber say off at risk in the coming dies. the auroral fire has now growing to itin a half 1000 haiti's that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the striding capital territory. time for weather now with rob i for sure will stay in the same area cameras you saw was the seat of the problems with

emergency has been declared and if you look at the last night as i got this all the loop down as a satellite picture is something coming in from the west as it comes and it gathers the heat effectively further east so that red represents rather high temperatures at the moment surprisingly that cloud is a deed to raise a frontal system cameras for temperature was $41.00 degrees now going into the evening is are just $20.00 on the seculars months counter hit $44.00 made a new record in all time record and this general area of course has been plagued by heat and the winds that come with it where the wind changes direction hence the far as there is a change going all miss changes manifest itself in port lincoln just west of adelaide this is not long ago significant rain another active front this of course should be good news and indeed will be good news so detail down through tasmania hobart also it $41.00 friday it's not cooling down next few days significantly difference so there is a change on the way but i think for camera self

a new science well we've got more than a day to wait and see the changes are creepy don melbourne's down to 32 then 23 about time we get to sunday with canberra another day to go however it will cool down they'll be some rain for sure. still ahead thank you rob still ahead on al-jazeera and into a 16 year mission nasa bids farewell to the spitzer space telescope and sport it's been 50 years in the making the kansas city chiefs are hoping to make history and sunday's super bowl 54. john the president is on donald trump jr was promised a damaging information about the hillary clinton an obligation to see an investigation sit down to see did the trump campaign with russia did you at any time the urge the former f.b.i.

director james comey in any way shape or form the closer to back down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you know no. next question bottle field washington on al-jazeera. and award winning investigation i mean the workers room right behind it has resigned tree when we operate for less and we buy it for less we can pass those savings all of our customers into the supply chains that produce cheap moving. with little regard for workers' lives the remains of the fire are still everywhere rewind made in bangladesh on al-jazeera. or.

they're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now japan south korea and the u.k. are stepping up the evacuation of their citizens from china and response to the corona virus outbreak. americans are now being advised to avoid traveling to china and the world health organization has declared the virus a global public health emergency thailand has just confirmed its 1st case so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak in china and really $10000.00 have been infected there events couples outside the ox a mosque compound where palestinians were protesting against u.s. president tunnel trumps middle east plan israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering. people of the united kingdom have little more than 12 hours left to citizens of the european union the country's 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends friday night at $2300.00 g.m.t.

and will then enter a so-called transition period until the end of the year to reach a deal on their future relationship thousands of bricks and supporters are expected on the streets outside of westminster later on friday just celebrate the occasion let's go live to lawrence lee who is in brussels in belgium so lawrence what is the mood there about it. well look i mean you know it's a fait accompli as a they say the the pro europeans on both side of the channel obviously lost and so it's very flats very downbeats lower the british flag him after 47 is midnight tonight. and so make things even worse for them as they've been leaving the bricks it policy m.e.p. these have been waving the union jacks or red round and more or less sticking 2 fingers up in a very trying for this way and that's really rub people's noses in it but they're trying to say to the british look you know you can always come back we're going to miss you and and they're trying to be sort of benevolence about it in that sense

but all of this rites of passage of course through tonight into tomorrow morning finishes in the u.k. has gotten it nothing really changes very much because they go into this thing called transition which is where the u.k. gets into a whole protracted series of talks lasting months and months and potentially longer with the european union european commission about everything from the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. and u.k. citizens in europe and trade and all that sort of thing so you know that's when the heavy lifting really really starts with the moves yet flips sat so how is your opinion going to. prevent discourage whatever the case other countries from doing the same thing. well and that yeah that really is is that preoccupation of the whole thing about trade soldiers in is it is it in the they will get rid of the european commission primarily. and what they're trying to

do now in this sense of europe is to limit the damage and try to make it look as if they're still moving forward despite brics and so come under meters down that there's there's the president a european commission the president the european council and the press and the head of the european parliament all holding a press conference together trying to say let's move europe forward despite brics it but they've got big problems european expansion they disagree about whether the countries like north macedonia should join things to the budgets the rule of law or immigration there's a general sense inside the european union that the population's on very convinced about about the togetherness of the european projects and so what they're trying to do is make a virtue out of a problem the problem being brics and say we recognize all the concerns about trying to move forward despite brics states and of course the last thing as you say they want is another country leaving all right lauren fully florence thank you as always all right now on to the hayward and great yarmouth and u.k.

so i mean you're in a place in a community that voted overwhelmingly. the day is here and it's happening now so what's the feeling there. over show this is not one of the highest anyway in the u.k. so for many this is been a long time coming some have been pressing for change long before that referendum on a membership back in 2618 and i have high hopes of what breaks it might. breaking away from what many have known for nearly a lifeguard there is an appetite for a different picture very much outside the here in the seaside town of great yarmouth where just over 70 percent of people voted to leave 3 and a half years ago and the design of the bricks it is still strong i think it's high time it starts to happen i think the uncertainty of the last few years has been has not been good for anybody really there's nothing about immigration it's about being

controlled boy by people who got no interest in this country whatsoever. just think your pain is real is too much you know we should be all independent. and everything is going to get going again businesses and everything just get the borders control just everything we want breaks for where another child was we are no one i think short term but long time. in the winter months it can be a like this is a place time forgot like other resources that. the energy sector has helped bring money in but there are pockets of poverty and wages are lower than the national average many people are pinning their hopes on bricks it hoping that somehow it will transform their lives on a local on a national level that it will bring prosperity to this town and that's not just tear it's in leave voting communities up and down the country the imperial hotel has been in the same family since the 1930 s.

it's busy all year but there are concerns about what breaks it might bring i voted against to leave because i feel we were better off in the year i fully recognize now the fact that we are leaving the u. but i'm still greatly concerned about what the future will hold what the future will hold for this business what the future will hold for getting supplies in from europe what the future will be for getting my staff to come and work here that we need no one knows exactly what bricks it will bring what impact it will have only that the changes won't be felt in the next few months but the decades to come. so in that world won't there be celebrations about this. we're shown no flag waving that we've seen but certainly people celebrating privately that this day is finally here a lot of people have told us it is about time it happens that it is taken too long to get to this point and when you go to some places they voted on the issues of immigration but certainly talking to people here the word control comes up time and

time again people who are felt that somehow britain has been shackled by the by europe and those shackles will finally be off in the north so everybody of course here voted to leave some people concerned about the impact it will have on business and of course around the country there are millions of people who will be very pleased that britain is finally leaving but also millions of people who voted against leaving who will have their head in their hands today disappointed that this day is finally. among them here with live for us emma thank you. earlier on friday scotland's 1st minister nicolas sturgeon made a renewed push for an independence referendum and said the situation now is completely different when scotland voted on the same issue 6 years ago. people do have differing views on whether or not scotland should be independent but the case for not having the right to meet that choice is overwhelming as of 11 pm

tonight the u.k. that scotland voted to remain part of a $24000.00 a you key insight the e.u. will no longer be a reality the status quo that a majority voted for will no longer exist there will be a material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014 the u.k. will have until the end of the year to reach a deal on its future relationship with the e.u. or a challenge looks back at how that happened and what it might mean in the coming months and years. big ben wants pong 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 italy 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 ever fighting itself again the british attitude was well this the greater the go ahead but we don't really need it thanks as we won 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 as simply or 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 showed a cool played hard to get twice rejecting london's proposal it wasn't until 973

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 toy for the british people to have their say ken clarke was a minister in all their governments they would pass is a chance to see quite sure he'd win a referendum he thought it was rather a clever way of 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 last the 2016 referendum boris johnson's leave is one but when next strengthen independence to some poverty and loneliness laments others much depends on what future relationship the u.k. and europe will have and what different parts the to take. his era london and the us has announced new sanctions on iran's atomic energy organization and its chief officer. tehran is accused of resuming iranian enrichment to build a nuclear bomb iran says the latest sanctions show washington's despair and the terms of the 2015 nuclear iran has agreed to limit and richmond for use in its

domestic energy program tehran rollback on its commitments sense donnel president the us out of the agreement in 2008. at least 59 people have been killed by a rebel group in the eastern democratic republic of congo in the past few days the allied democratic forces armed group is suspected of being behind the violence in the region of benny the i.d.f. is blamed for the deaths of more than a 1000 civilians since 2014 began as a rebel group in neighboring uganda but then expanded into the d r c now says decommissioned spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service sort of the 4 observatories that or brought the earth sending back images and information about our galaxy and beyond the spitzer was launched in 2003 with enough liquid helium to keep it going for 6 years the scientists managed to keep the mission going for an extra decade i can of reports. this is the last image the

spits are transmitted back to earth the tarantella nebula named after the filaments of gas that resemble 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 earth its relatively small size lead scientist to label spitzer the little telescope that could so this is a image of the telescope and i also have

a little long love it right here in front of me now so this is 130 seconds of the size of spitzer so if you if you multiply this little model by certain times you'll come up with a spacecraft that is about 13 feet in height. it weighed 930 kilograms approximately at launch and it was the small telescope that identified another solar system similar in many ways to ours the trappist one system a dwarf star 39 like years from earth surrounded by 7 exoplanets some of which show traces of water and which scientists agree may contain life forms the mark of the later of the traps one system discovery got that science on to like mainstream media at a level that had really very seldom seen oh that's now a command has been. into 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 old folks don't like you to say hardly make believe me it was really hard to come up with a term that everyone agreed on based on the final state right there would be art but it legacy a spiritual level one 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. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport it's all smiles from this paris by crunch their 3rd grand slam title at the australian open.

all the. time for sport with ana thank you very much to over shallowest out with the australian open while she has done many team is taking on a japanese alexander's 5th and the men's semifinals the winner of that match will face novak djokovic on sunday in all hungary is its image and france's christina wild innovates one their 2nd women. doubles crown and 3 years and the 3rd grass them together where the pair beat the top seeds. and both were struck over in straight sets 6261. we all have our ups and downs we had it

here both of us and still each match we went there and we gave our best and we helped each other and at the end it turned out pretty solid because we went all the way without dropping a set that actually never happened to us. he l.a. lakers will play their 1st game since the death of boscobel legend kobe bryant on friday the 41 year old who spent 20 years with the lakers before retiring in 2016 was killed in a helicopter crash on sunday bryant's a close friend and conti lakers star le bron james took to the courts in a practice session ahead of their game against the portland trailblazers the lakers match against the l.a. clippers on monday was canceled due to bryant's passing along with his daughter jana and 7 other people were killed in the crash ceremony to honor the formulae because will take place before the game. i would imagine it probably makes

a little harder than an ordinary game with all the emotions and and all that stuff but. you know you should do it any other way you know it's the right thing to do and be an important and poor night for our franchise and for lincoln if you know we know it's going to be a tough game. emotionally. and i think we're all looking like out there. think. cosimo centuries people hold 24 seconds of silence to honor crime before their game against the sacramento kings the clippers lead at the end of the 1st quarter of the sacramental came back and took control of fox's top school with 34 points to lead the kings 224203 when. things were defending n.b.a. champions the toronto raptors beat host the cleveland cavaliers a surge of back us called

a game high 26 points to lead 212215209 when the raptors have now won the game 9 games in a row to stay 2nd in the eastern conference standings the high of the milwaukee bucks. is that line day in football where the january transfer window closes in few hours time with several high profile deals still up in the air p.s.u. forward edison cavani could leave the french club but while chelsea is only visual is also linked to a move away but one of the biggest transfer stories in january has the majesty united pursuit of sporting lisbon midfielder bruno fernandes the 25 year old portuguese has joined the english premier league club in a 5 and a haul for a year deal today and it has scored 63 goals and made 52 assists in 137 appearances for sporting lisbon and has made 19 senior paris's for his country.

he kansas city chiefs and the san francisco 49 meta at howard stadium in miami on sunday for super bowl a 54 its 50 years since the chiefs lost to reach this showpiece a game led by 24 year old colt about patrick mahoney and if the chiefs win the title it will set a record for the longest fan between super bowl victories and their players are hoping to step up to the big location. knowing that you can have a long pre-game a long kind of ceremonies that will happen at the beginning of the game but i'm never going to be ready to play and for me it's about trying to manage human emotions going out there with a clear head with the right mindset to go out there and play my best football is the biggest football game we've ever played in but i can overhype it because then you start doing things you haven't been doing all year or your whole career. so i'm just trying to approach it you know same way approach and play off games regular games. meanwhile the $49.00 ers are just lucky to be in miami coach

a college shanahan transformed the team in the last 2 years that they lost their 1st line games at the start of the $27000.00 season they're now just one win away from lifting the trophy for a 6th time the 49 ers last won the super bowl it back in 1982. but one thing about the year i was most proud of you know every you know there's been a number of teams it started on 9 but no team had ever finished with more than 3 wins and we were able to finish 6 and 10 that year so i've said it before but i learned a lot that if you want to get people excited about a 6 and 10 year to start on 9 and i want you all excited going offseason. and that's for you sport for me we'll have more later on including the latest on the australian open semifinal in the men's semifinals but for now i hand you back to richelle and i thank you very much ana thank you for joining me keep it here more to come.

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