great interview with. evacuations from china and travel bans to the country the flight the fight rather against coronaviruses stepped up as it's officially declared a global emergency. by michelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up turning the tables on the u.s. ukraine's president asked for more help as peo pays a visit to the man at the heart of the trumpton pietschmann case. 9 hours to go until britain officially leaves the european union the prime minister calls it a moment of national would

a new wall. that nasa bids farewell to one of its great space observatories the spitzer telescope goes online after 16 years in service. back to aisha's from the epicenter of the coronavirus are being stepped up and 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 nearly 10000 cases confirmed a 3rd plane load of japanese arrived back in tokyo early friday evacuated from move on 3 people flown out on earlier flights have been confirmed to have the virus the turkish plane has also left behind in malaysia health officials are handing out pamphlets on how to avoid the infection and also 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 some communities and at the center of the virus are

taking matters into their own hands or from scott heiler and beijing. the lockdown of will haunt city origin of the corona virus and the surrounding province is now in its 2nd week so how are the more than 50000000 people there coping we spoke with a few through video chat to get an idea john and his wife live in their 2 sons postpone their trip from hong kong for the lunar new year because of the virus the dates keep getting pushed back and their biggest concern is the uncertainty the obvious stress of concern about being infected with the coronavirus but what is it like just the other stress about supplies about your daily life i think. this is. because. he says he gets his information from friends outside china and contacts at the local hospital. is next

to will han like its neighbor it is sealed off and its streets empty this video was shot by one shin he has a supply of mass and food in the fridge his parents are with him but his wife and young daughter are with her parents outside who pay province. i feel more relaxed because who by province is now seriously hit by the epidemic the place where they are at now has far fewer cases so i feel a bit relieved that they're not with me this cipher at the moment at biggest concern is when will we have medication for the virus this is what we care about most all those people who have problems are under a forced lockdown there are some communities across china who are self imposing a lockdown like this one on the outskirts of beijing they're not letting anyone into this community from the outside they're worried someone might carry the virus inside no matter the type of lock down government forced or self imposed with the spread of the virus accelerating no one knows how long these communities remain

safe it's got al-jazeera beijing. thousands of people are returning to hong kong from mainland china after the lunar new year wayne has more on how the territory is handling the crisis. there is big demand for protective face masks in hong kong as concern grows that we could be about to see a significant increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases here because so many people are returning from mainland china following the end of the lunar new year holiday there is a shortage of protective facemasks here and now some shops do have them but the price is high in some cases 3 times higher than what it normally would be criticism of the government has been growing too there are many people in hong kong who feel they haven't been doing enough to protect this city from more confirmed cases of the virus they have reduced significantly the number of transport options between here and the mainland but many people want the border crossings to be closed

completely something hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb says they won't do we should not contemplate sort of restrictions off international travel or trait and we should not adopt a discriminate trade approach in dealing with the people flowing between different countries and places in trying to contain the spread of the d.c.s. there are other measures which will help us to achieve that in fact kerry lamb also said that they will ask all civil servants to continue working from home next week and all schools in most universities will remain closed until march the sikkens a plane carrying evacuees from move on landed at an air force base in the u.k. a short while ago these are live pictures in or oxfordshire our main worse on a day ago is reporting live so sagna what now for the people on the plane. well there were just descending off the plane now and what they're facing now

really medical checks ahead of getting into buses and then being transported some 275 kilometers to northwest england to a medical facility at a hospital there that they will be held in isolation for 14 days for the quarantine period although the passengers there were there were no reported illnesses so far what we do understand about coronavirus is that you don't have to exhibit any symptoms to actually necessarily even sort of avoid passing the virus on so it is a very crucial time period that these people have to face it's offense to the part of the hospital where they'll be staying it will be fenced over so no one will be able to get in no one authorized that is will be able to get in nor will they be able to get out questionnaires of course if someone does fall ill will that then what happens to the rest of the group does that person get isolated and what kind of medical attention does the group to the group will receive without also as well

we have the confirmation of 2 corona people with coronavirus they took ill at a hotel and were transported to one of the specialized medical facilities one of 4 in the u.k. and there they are receiving treatment for best symptoms or shall our son and i go with the latest on the batteries were arriving there and or for sure thank you. ukraine's president is calling for the u.s. to be more active in settling its conflict with the russian backed separatists and reza linsky has been meeting president trump's top diplomat in here michael barrios visit coincides with the impeachment trial and president donald trump back in washington he is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in order to pressure kiev into investigating his political rival joe biden on peo has denied that any future visit by zelinsky to the white house depends on an investigation into the by. matt i'm unsurprised by your question i suspect you will

not be un surprised by my answer. no there's there's no condition of the nature described for presidents who come to washington and have that visit it's just simply not the case will find the right time or find the appropriate opportunity to negotiate is a professor of political science at the national university of kent mahela academy he says ukraine in the u.s. can help each other move on from the impeachment trial. ukraine has become it 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 efforts of european nations in finding some kind of compromise with russia even rain to gratian of ukraine of its eastern parts and

how to make ukrainian system not to be corrupt ukraine can do a lot for american democracy to prosper now its discussion about old was there pressure or not definitely some of mr trump's assistance oh his lawyer mr giuliani did some clumsy steps but the essence is whether or not corrupt practices took place in ukraine in the economic and political life whether america we're making serious mistakes not against strong it's not not not against a biden it's not. of mr trump it's bringing the truth to the humoring of all the people ukraine needs to get rid of corruption and of old practices ukraine needs peace and the medica can provide for new efficient efforts for peace peaceful solution of conflict international conflict in the east of

ukraine where senators had to vote in just a few hours on whether to call witnesses in the impeachment trial as republican senator who democrats hope would support that move says he will vote against it democrats want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and others but they need the support of 4 republicans can really help it is in washington d.c. looking ahead to tonight. it appears that dramatic twist has already come the question of whether there would be the witnesses called now seems very slim to almost unlikely but not impossible so we're watching that carefully for that final vote on the calling of the witnesses and once that comes down if it is sort of a $5050.00 split there are $100.00 u.s. senators then that means that it could be up to the chief justice to break that tie but we're hearing he won't so a 5050 split means there will be no witnesses was asked the 1st thing to watch for after that happens democrats looking to play their last potential hands may have

some procedural maneuvering but ultimately what we're going to see is that motion to have the final vote and then the final vote on whether to acquit the president what i'm hearing is this could go into the wee hours of the morning meaning that it becomes sometime after $23.00 g.m.t. . still ahead on al-jazeera thousands of palestinians marched in the streets of gaza to say no to donald trump. the century. one concern that the ice age does not have really. a state of emergency declared for the capital. homeowners for the government is unable to stop the spread of historic bushfires. how air quality in both shanghai and beijing is unsurprisingly not particularly

good at these probably into the afternoon against better curiously in the morning however there's not much cloud which suggest not much movement there's a little bit coming out from the interior of china usually going to get some cabins and rain the winter tend to stir things but most active weather has been around japan recently and given the lack of snow this was a welcome addition on the north western slopes honshu and particularly in her current attempt is about where they should be there's a bit on the high side in beijing shanghai is about right it 12 and here's a creeping rain in the chinese interior back towards the high ground in the west in the borderlands but the summer is right here just a little nuts reason we're not the significant rain of course in the rainy season is in indonesia more or less exactly where it should be born here sort of west java and sumatra the main focus there are a few showers to the north so that it is prevailing breeze into the southern islands of the philippines but the concentration is further south. in india that's

a sign of developing showers in order to show possibly up towards west bengal for she everywhere else with the exception of a few snow showers nepal it's drawing. when is the last time you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every leg with your layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on set retention has to start from day one whether again you and attention or you incarcerate this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for it join the global conversation on how does iraq.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour the 1st plane caring for addition to your citizens from the epicenter of the china coronavirus has landed in the u.k. several countries are stepping up evacuations from hong ukraine's president is calling for the u.s. to be more active in settling its conflict with russia back separatist a merciless keys been meeting president trying to top diplomat in kiev mike visit coincides with the impeachment trial president try back in washington and the u.s. senate is set to vote in just a few hours on whether to call witnesses in that impeachment trial as republican senator who democrats hope would support that move now says they'll vote against it democrats want to hear from trucks former national security adviser john bolton and others. thousands of palestinians in gaza held demonstrations against donald

trump's proposed deal between palestinians and israelis are testers say it will maintain gaza's isolation and the blockade against it and keep the status quo in the occupied west bank stephanie decker has more from gaza she says there's been widespread condemnation of trump's proposed deal. a few 1000 people came out after friday prayers fair to jog in the northern part of the gaza strip to protest or by having heard the last about an hour or so people now starting to leave the service at the mosques across gaza focusing on trying to take the teaching of the century specifically talking about it saying that by the stupid law and that they too should be rejected in the battle sequence will remain steadfast but certain if you look at these numbers a few 1000 to get to the population nearly 2000000 people and that's because people who tell you they didn't expect anything to. participate today

to express our rejection of this shameful deal the trumpet netanyahu made along with the traitor arab leaders we're here to say palestine from the river to the sea and no one has the right to sell or give away any part of it. if these public activities will be followed by a fight is in these public movements or preparation for all the forces we have been gaza and that with spanking resistance will undermine completely the deal of the century one other thing the sermons of the last little is 201 the complete absence of that nation of the arab world and of the power of the leaders is something that a lot of people who might like to do or they would also do that they want greater what they focus on the americans are trying to ease the blockade lift the blockade and give the world the opportunities that everyone else how did not meet a long term political solution what this plan is done people didn't expect anything different what was done in the dog was only highlighted how far away from a political solution we are the head of the when agency for palestinian refugees says the plan will hurt refugees and he's asking me international community to

stand with the palestinians. the plan that was released this week is extremely unsettling for the palestine refugees living under occupation under brocade and through conflict after conflict and crisis after crisis hoping for justice and human rights and with the constant fear that the international community will one day abandon them today more than ever there is a need for stability and today the international community must send a clear message to the palestinian refugees and to the world at large that the international community stands firmly behind them and palestine ambassador to the u.n. says there's no way any official will consult with the u.s. over what he calls the earthquake of middle east plan it comes after america's own representative said she was ready to talk about the future of a palestinian state and american writer james bays has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york there's still be no security council meeting about the trump middle east plan the u.s. 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 months or 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 lives now after this subnet it. earthquake. the essence of it that destruction over the national aspersions over the palestinian people that the

palestinians and the united nations know israel may declare its sovereignty over settlements in the west bank sooner rather than later secretary-general what's your message to israel on possibly 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. 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 his era at the united nations. people in the united kingdom are hours away from ceasing to be citizens of the european union the country's 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends friday night at $2300.00 g.m.t. the u.k. will then enter a so-called transition period until the end of the year to get time to reach a deal on its future relationship with the e.u. thousands of blacks and supporters are expected on the streets outside of westminster later on friday to celebrate the occasion as this in europe are trying to ensure the u.k. doesn't run out of food or inflame reports from belgium. 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 bag from supplied to

schools and hospitals all over britain the same will organize of the works out how to keep feeding the u.k. even if the trade deal never happens all of the transport is now. used to use the weekends rather done and depending on the week days so we gain 2 extra days to get our stuff over to u.k. we used different bolts living room we were using maybe 2 folds in the past we have 234 boards at the moment things like food a critical in forth coming trade talks and determines what extent the u.k. plans to stick close to the e.u. but would no deal mean no food points about bric cities that uniquely east involves the u.k. dismantling rather than creating existing trade deals not slaves 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 that burps i don't believe in and out might 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 tones at times bricks 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 and will have to do to you 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 bricks it's 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 scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon made a renewed push for an independence referendum he said the situation now is completely different to 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 year key insights 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 a state of emergency has been declared in australia's capital as bushfires threatened southeast and camber and the surrounding region authorities are concerned hot weather and strong winds this weekend will spread a fire out of control calcutta reports. smoke billowing towards the australian capital canberra bushfires in a national park to the south post the most serious threat to the australian capital territory or in nearly 20 years. government officials fear that strong winds blowing over parched land combined with high summer temperatures can

make the fires even more unpredictable and difficult to control. the i say is now facing the worst push for threat since the devastating fires of 2003. the combination of extraneous hate weened and a dry land sky poor place suburbs in camber say off at risk in the coming dice. the auroral for has now grown to i turn a half 1000 hectors that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the australian capital territory. people preparing for the worst and stalking up on water many remember the 2003 bushfires that killed 4 people the canberra and destroyed hundreds of homes on concern that the ice and does not have really put out 2003 at a little small fire burned for. that were given to what and then when other results

of that the unpredictable weather through the summer has made the fight more difficult this video shows how bushfires have exploded in minutes because of sudden gusts of wind about 90 bushfires a burning in different parts of the country the largest are new south wales where high temperatures are returning back in the forty's in the next 24 hours before it's ready canberra is also moving to a new south wales the state's government is investigating white this fire season is so bad we've got everything to gain from these prices and nothing to lose we want leaving east. on turn it's in our interest it's in as citizens interests to find out everything we can into and to bring forward those recommendations that are critical for the future. this is been australia's most devastating summer in decades dozens of people have been killed by the fire as thousands of homes have been destroyed and more than 11000000 hectares of land scorched and with some of

far from over many more testing days ahead. nasa has decommissioned its spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service it's one of the 4 observatories that orbit the earth sending back images and information about the galaxy and beyond this was launched in 2003 with enough liquid helium to keep it going for about 6 years but scientists managed to keep the mission going for an extra decade like hanna reports this is the last image the spitzer transmitted back to earth the tarantella nebula named after the filaments of gas that resembles spiders legs stretched out across the cosmos. it was one of the telescopes 1st observation targets when it was launched 16 years ago spencer allowed us to again look at things lift the cosmic veil and see the super massive black holes that we couldn't see previously since then that 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 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 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 would be on but the 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. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera the 1st plane carrying british citizens from the epicenter of the char china coronavirus has landed in the u.k. several countries are stepping up evacuations from o'hagan the world health organization has declared the virus a global health emergency the death toll is 213 and nearly 10000 cases have been confirmed it korea's president is calling for the u.s. to be more active in settling its conflict with russia back separatists. had a meeting with president trump's top diplomat and here my pompei is visit coincides

with the impeachment trial of president back in washington and pompei has denied that any future visit by zelinsky to the white house depends on an investigation into the bidens matter i am surprised by your question i suspect you will not be surprised by my answer. no there's there's no condition of the nature to strive for presidents to come to washington and that is just simply not the case will find the right time to find the appropriate opportunity in the u.s. senate is set to vote in just a few hours about whether to call witnesses in the impeachment trial a us republican senator who democrats hope would support that move says he'll now vote against it democrats want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and others beneath for republicans to vote with them. the palestinians in gaza held demonstrations against donald trump's proposed deal between palestinians and israelis a testor say the plan will maintain gaza's isolation and the blockade against it

and keep the status quo in the occupied west bank a state of emergency has been declared in australia's capital as bushfires threatened to take over camera and the surrounding region there are concerns that 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 in 2 decades. people united kingdom are hours away from ceasing to be citizens of the european union the country's 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends friday night at $2300.00 g.m.t. thousands of bricks and supporters are expected on the streets outside westminster later on friday to celebrate the occasion and we will bring that to you as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera we have a news hour at the top of the hour and the meantime the strain is next. on the counter because people off i suggest how the drug industry is changing. it's a power grab for life we look at the russian president the moment breakwater his

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