to come back threats to our planet on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm sammy's a dan this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes evacuees make it out of china while travel bans to the nation remain in place containing the spread of the coronavirus miller global health emergency turning the tables on the u.s. ukraine's president asks for more help and pays a visit to the man at the heart of the trumpet case could this be the final day of the u.s. president's impeachment trial we live in the u.s. capital. just hours to go until britain officially leaves the e.u.

prime minister calls it a moment of national renewal. and in sport dominic team is into the final of the australian open for the very 1st time the austrian beating alexander's veritas set of the title decider is now. evacuations from the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak of being stepped up more restrictions placed on travel to china the world health organization has now officially declared it a global health emergency the death toll now 213 nearly 10000 confirmed cases a plane load of citizens from the united kingdom and the european union has now returned to the u.k. after being evacuated from war in china 2 cases of corona virus have already been confirmed in britain in thailand taxi driver has become the 1st person there to

catch the virus through human to human transmission health authorities are worried the driver may have come into contact with chinese tourists a 3rd plane load of japanese nationals arrived back in tokyo early friday evacuated from war han 3 people flown out on earlier flights have been confirmed with the virus a turkish plane has also left. and the u.s. is up to its travel alert to the highest level the same as war zones advising americans not to go to china some communities in one hand where the virus emerged taking matters into their own hands more from scott in 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 and. 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 cypher at the moment because 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 has more on how the government there is handling the crisis there is big demand for protective facemasks 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 now some shops do have them but the price is high in some cases $3.00 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 of international travel or trade and we should not adopt a discriminatory approach in dealing with 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 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 chartered plane is brought out the 1st group of south koreans from more they've been taken to 2 newly created quarantine centers for people living nearby are protesting but mcbride is. arriving in seoul after days of delays especially chartered plane returning 368 people who'd been living in home 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 way 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 they'll 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 hand is behind them rob mcbride al-jazeera a san south korea. let's get the latest on those arrivals in the u.k. from one guy a guy who's an oxford chair so from the evacuees to the confirmed cases a lot for the british authorities to deal with right now how's it going. well so far what they have done me is that they've managed to get every one of the british nationals who were on board that flight that landed

a little while ago and now they are making that 275 kilometer journey to the northwest of england to a facility in a hospital. facility which they have managed to make out of a former starts accommodation there that will be the quarantine a location where they will have to spend the next 2 weeks now around this area has been fenced in to allow basically no one who has any will to rise ation to go in will anyone who goes out so they will be monitored there for the next 14 days in the meantime you've got an activation in the 4 other health. facilities around the country to which are in london one in liverpool and one in the northeastern city of. you casillas as well which is where anyone who comes up with the symptoms of corona virus will be taken to already in the new castle

facility 2 people have been taken who were confirmed today to have tested positive for corona virus they took there with a fellow with the symptoms they were staying at a hotel. just south of the area itself so that's where they're being that's where they're getting their treatment from in the mean time that's all really that you have from the british authorities they have maintained they will send out another plane to try and collect other people who did not manage to make this flight. thanks so much they are going to go. with branches line for us from bangkok more on the taxi driver who's trying to the virus any clearer at this point then and see how he got infected or it would have been a bit of issues they're getting through to try and get through to her later. plenty

more still ahead on the news hour including palestinians rise up on the 1st friday since u.s. president donald trump announced his middle east plan. a reignited crisis a state of emergency declared in australia's capital. and sport the los angeles lakers basketball team prepared to make an emotional return to competitive action. now ukraine's president is calling for the u.s. to be more active in settling its conflict with russian backed separatists rather. been meeting president trump's top diplomats in kiev my visit coincides with the impeachment trial against trump back in washington he's accused of threatening to withhold 2 cranes in order to pressure here into investigating his political rival

joe biden. has denied that any future visit by the white house depends on. the by. surprised by your question i suspect you will not be surprised by my answer . there's there is no condition of the nature described for presidents to come to washington and that is just simply not the case will find the right time or find the appropriate opportunity scott lucas is professor of political science and international studies at the university of birmingham he says ukraine's relationship with the white house has been damaged because of the impeachment scandal. presidents lansky has to by this time hope that there might be a change of administrations next january and that there's a sensible foreign policy it's as blunt as that even in washington defenders of donald trump are no longer saying that donald trump did not freeze military aid in

an attempt to get the investigations for his personal gain to get ukraine to investigate the presidential candidate joe biden presidential attorney alan dershowitz said during the trial well you know if trump had personal motives if he thought there was a political interest then it's ok lamar alexander the decisive vote on whether or not we get witnesses and documents to make this real trial said yesterday well he will not vote for witnesses he said well donald trump did this but you know it's not impeachable so my pump aoe is basically covering for someone who has already been found to have committed those acts that threatened ukraine national security but of course a lot of reasons he cannot say that because to say that would be really anger trump more and threaten even more of punishment or at least distance by washington as ukraine continues to face russian pressure the u.s. senate is set to vote in a few hours on whether to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of president donald trump a u.s.

republican senator who democrats hoped would support that move says and now vote against it lamar alexander released a statement saying there's no need for more evidence than across 6 senators want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and others but they need the support of 4 republicans to do so let's go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly how that so with that move by alexander is that looking like game over for the democrats in getting more witness testimony. that is how it's appearing at this hour but there's still time for some sort of for a magic plot twist and we're holding our breath to see what happens but as it stands right now it does appear the senate is ready to reject witnesses because with senator lamar alexander saying that he will not support the vote to call witnesses the path is almost impossible for the democrats to force that hand so here's how it looks like it's going to play out when things kick off around $800.00

g.m.t. we're going to have about 4 hours of debate there is going to be that vote on the witnesses that's whatever we'll be watching very carefully but with that statement from that senator from tennessee it appears we know how that's going to go even if it was a $5050.00 tie in the $100.00 seat senate and that means there will be no witnesses because we do not expect the justice chief justice john roberts to preside and break that vote in any way so after that it then becomes just a series of debates and votes procedural until the ultimate vote of whether to acquit the president so it could be a very long day it could be anti-climactic day it's very hard to see how this will play out so we're watching very carefully in the next few hours but in terms of good news for the president i think this white house is holding its breath expecting that this is going to be the day for the acquittal however that could bleed into the wee hours of the morning here in washington so basically does that

mean we could be looking at the end of the whole impeachment process very 3 soon in rockford. in terms of procedure yes in terms of hearing about this i don't think so i think this is the beginning of hearing about it almost every day until election day in november because here's how it's going to play out and we've got the question now about whether republicans in congress are going to pay the price for saving the president on the campaign trail or whether the democrats are going to pay the price for impeaching him in the 1st place and that's the debate we're going to hear back and forth so i think that this is not over sammy but ultimately what happened here we believe and it's not over yet but it appears that the senators are poised to have this decision ultimately to the u.s. voter and we are within a year now from the election day in the ballot box and and so i expect that we're going to hear about this many many more times whether the president was guilty

whether he wasn't guilty each side making its case i think that this is well over procedurally potentially today it's certainly not going to be over in the minds of the u.s. voter nor in thanks so much kimberly how could. there have been scuffles there the along some mosque compound where palestinians were holding a protest against u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan palestinians gathered in the early hours of the morning prayers israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the hurry forces in the old city of the occupied the strew salumi says israel stepping up its security head friday prayers. just after dawn prayers this morning there were those confrontations between israeli police security forces and palestinian worshippers dozens of them in or around the alexa mosque compound and we had already heard from israeli security forces that they were beefing up their presence in the old city because of the current political tensions of to the

release of the trump peace plan and just before those present underway we did hear that in the immediate area around the locks the mosque compound and as 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 break up rather and people come out into the streets of the old city around the mosque the 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 trump 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 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. well stephanie deca has more from gaza why she says there's been widespread condemnation of trump's proposed deal. few 1000 people came out after friday prayers here to devalue the northern parts of the gaza strip to protest for by the last about an hour or so people now starting to leave the site those are the mosques across gaza focusing on trying to take the deal of the century specifically talking about it saying that to get land that they totally rejected and that was against what the maid said false but certainly if you look at these numbers a few 1000 is going 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 a rejection of this shameful deal that trumpet netanyahu made along with the traitor arab leaders who are 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 those $201.00 the complete absence of that nation of the arab world at least our leaders something that a lot of people that i'd like to do or they would also do that all they want really what they focus on the americans are trying to ease the blockade lift the blockade and give them 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 martin's dog was only highlighted how far away from the political solution we are. in refugees are concerned what

steele would mean for their future sort of hired author is that they bought a camp south of beirut. that is crazy i am to go to ship but i should not count it if i am family to hold 12 council processional my house is probably. now in rome which is the un also a palestinian you just bought off a 1000000 of them in this country the government can sell that so that i can see our $100000.00 but of course 7 they hate that i am very happy on the property with the proposed trauma of middle east and the one thing they're very concerned about it would say to highlight that there was a handful palestinian refugees was that a. very important point because it also suggests 3 options it says that it could say that the others in your country have you absorbed by the palestinian state that it said will be created it says that these host countries such as that should not

try and include them in society and i also suggest that members navy is not make a corporation should be able to take up to $50000.00 refugees over the 10 year period if they agree to this deal as well not call palestinian refugees as so many generations of them here was done for generations some of these kids were actually i was come by like never seen now hung on but they all say that i see a good idea of all the problems they are facing here is that they all knots and lebanese citizens which means that the kids like these ones have a calling to go to public schools that lacking in education basic economic and social rights do not apply here and some of them cons even take certain jobs for example they want to be an engineer or even a doctor so that facing very harsh conditions and the numbers have swelled just well because also most palestinians who were displaced from their homeland ended up

in syria and of course the syrian war heightens our love and up. they of course are in many ways the times before have been on my mind although she admits he sells but then all top. about this deal of course it was caught. by a week from the administration we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars so the u.n. is our 1st struggling to survive and of course people here are living in a very. fast in these camps and all they say they want. to run back. home. palestine's ambassador to the u.n. says there's no way any official will consult with the u.s. calls the earthquake of a middle east plan it comes after america's own representative said she was ready to talk about the future of a palestinian state different i think at the 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 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 palestinians 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. earthquake. the essence of it that

destruction over the national spirit 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 alice arbor 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. let's return to our top story now the spread of the corona virus we can cross over now to lax here brian who is live for us in bangkok with more on that tie taxi driver whose contract to deal miss alexy any clearer the key question here how he got in fact it . well there were 5 new cases an ounce here and thailand on friday 4 of those chinese men who have travelled to one hand to the center of that outbreak and as you said the most interesting case is the thai taxi driver who has no history of travelling to china it's thought of that he may have caught the virus while picking up chinese tourists here in thailand not china is the biggest source of foreign tourists to thailand there were 10000000

visitors from there last year in fact they've been 2000000 visitors just in the past 2 months since the virus broke out now the thai government has said that it's not necessary to ban all of the flights coming from the mainland because of actions that have been taken by the chinese government and their numbers are down about 80 percent but thailand does have the highest number of cases outside of china they are at 19 here but 7 of them have already gone home from hospital said that the taxi driver is doing pretty well and of course that 19 figure is dwarfed by the thousands of cases being reported in china. thanks so much still ahead on al-jazeera. boldly gone. good bye to one of its most iconic telescopes. all new faces and old rivalries set to be the story of the upcoming 6 nations rugby championship.

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welcome back you're watching our just the right time to recap our headlines. the 1st plane carrying british and e.u. citizens from the epicenter of the china coronavirus has landed in the u.k. several countries are stepping up evacuations from the heart. ukraine's president is calling for the u.s. to be more active in settling its conflict with russian backed separatists all or nearly so then ski's been meeting the u.s. secretary of state in kiev. the u.s. senate is set to vote in the coming hours on whether to call witnesses in the impeachment trial u.s. republicans democrats hoped would support that move says they'll vote against it democrats want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton another. let's get more on that story michael isikoff is chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news he joins us now live from washington d.c.

so there's a look here like the congress is not going to be hearing any extra testimony. that certainly is the way it looks once we heard from will mar alexander last night that he was not going to vote for witnesses he was the critical swing vote that could have pushed the effort to get witnesses over the edge that would have supported the democrats and he said no he's not so susan collins the republican from maine has said she will vote for witnesses mitt romney has indicated that he will he is the republican from utah but that still would leave the democrats short we're waiting for lisa murkowski of alaska she has not weighed in but even if she does the vote would be $5050.00 the expectation is that supreme court chief justice john roberts will not weigh in to break that tie

that would leave a motion for witnesses sure and then very quickly mitch mcconnell the majority leader will move open debate on dismissing the charges entirely that could come very late tonight so we could be looking at the end of this pretty soon in terms of the impeachment process when it ending in this manner without calling more witnesses with all the complaints that will come with with that will that help to hill all inflame the polarization over this in the u.s. . it will inflame and that's already you're already seeing that in the comments on twitter and cable news and from democratic senators and members of congress they're going to be a lot of people very angry about this and of course the sort of you know big

unknown is will john bolton. tell his story he could be subpoenaed by the house next week to testify before a house committee and you know he's already indicated he wants to tell a story he's got this book manuscript so how is all this going to go down when people do finally hear what john bolton as to say and how are these republican senators who are about to vote to dismiss the case. what's going to be the blowback for them. if john bolton comes out and completely contradicts the president's defense says everybody expects he's going to do so the show may yet go on thanks very much michael isikoff. people in the united kingdom are hours away from seizing to be citizens of the european union the country's 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends friday

nights $2300.00 g.m.t. the u.k. will enter a transition period until the end of the year to get time to reach a deal on its future relationship with the e.u. well in a moment we'll speak to nadine baba who's outside the u.k. parliament but 1st let's go to lawrence lee who's in brussels where the european union of course is based lawrence is brussels ready for braggs it. well yes i mean they they are in this sense that they accept is going to happen i mean it's all obviously completely answer climactic here you know it's not like the u.k. going to change its mind. going to take the british flag down at midnight and not see it after $47.00 is and so in the senses and elements of humiliation for the european union it looks terrible for them that a country as powerful as the u.k. is turning its back in this in this sense but the die is cast it's all over they've

been trying to be nice to the u.k. in the last few days saying look we still love you if you want to come back you can all laugh but obviously everything's moving in the other direction the moment in the u.k. in terms of the trade talks you mention sammy in the coming months is digging his heels in saying he doesn't really want to be very close to the european union going forward but certainly the last couple days we've been in antwerp and in the north sea just over the sea from the u.k. and all the institutions and companies there we've spoken to i made it very clear that they think they will be able to do everything they can to make bricks of the success. the last day for the u.k. in the european union but here they're carrying on as if nothing is changing the vegetables come from several european countries and the bagged up and supplied to schools and hospitals all over britain it's a well organized if it works out how to keep feeding the u.k. even if the trade deal never happens all of the transport is now. used uses the

weekends rather than and depending on the week days so we gain 2 extra days to get our stuff over the u.k. we use different boards where we're only we're using maybe 2 folds in the past 234 boards that's a moment things like food a critical in forthcoming trade talks and will determine what extent the u.k. plans to stay close to the new what would no deal mean no food points about brecht see. it is that uniquely it involves the u.k. dismantling rather than creating existing trade deals and that's led many people to wonder in the worst case scenario if the u.k. will simply run out of things like food but maybe just maybe things won't be all that bad. remember all the talk of huge queues of trucks on motorways this is and what 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 no insufficient products in the u.k. shops on the other hand it will make things much more difficult it will come with a cost and it comes with the consequence of longer towns it turns bricks as have 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 the u.k.

so i know that you will still have to wait with us but of course we want a new dream and may be focused on on things like beverage him food. in brussels brits and others distraught about bret's his 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. some say a lot of that looks like good news for supporters of brics it doesn't say it but at the same time it's also true that the european union doesn't want to make things too easy for the u.k. in the trades talks that will come in the coming months because if they do that it might encourage other countries to do the same thing in the senate don't want that . lawrence a good perspective there from what's going on brussels let's thank him and go to the other side of this equation standing by live for us in westminster let me ask you the same question flipped around do the brits well do they believe they're ready just a few hours away from it now. that's right

as always it depends who you talk to there is still a large percentage of all the british population very worried about what might happen. today for people who supported from the beginning it's a time for celebration one of those people is jonathan is a b from the central website jonathan today's a day full of symbolism the prime minister has been reaching out saying that he must acknowledge that some people are upset i'm saddened today what do you make of the way he's talking at the moment the prime minister is to bring the country together are they. doing frankly except obviously there are some people who are upset that britain voted in the referendum but that referendum happened 3 and a half years ago and the time to be upset about that result was 3 and a half years ago afraid that far too many politicians and commentators in this country didn't accept the results 2 and

a half years ago and therefore have spent far too much of this time complaining about refusing to accept the result trying to stop that result from being delivered and if there is still anxiety among some of the british people it's partly because of those politicians have been promoting it which i would argue is actually quite irresponsible of course leave the negotiations with the e.u. over the future relationships. in the next few weeks and many people wondering how we can get a substantial deal with time for a particular because the prime minister talking about divergence from the e.u. regulations are you hopeful that we can get something that protects the economy. boris johnson has been very clear about what he wants he wants to strike a deal with the european union by the end of the year he's very ambitious about that and he does want the u.k. to have the power to divert from the e.u. regulation over time which is our right as a sovereign nation we should not expect in the future to be bound by regulations made in brussels by european politicians without u.k.

involvement we voted to take back control and that's exactly what needs to happen and how ready is britain as a nation to start making those deals with other countries for example with the us there's been a lot of talk about what pressure they'll bring to bear particular access to the n.h.s. and the agricultural sector and so on have we really got all of our ducks in a row for those talks they're always going to be to and fro between countries or when trade deals are being negotiated but certainly i get the feeling there's great ambition in many corners of the world to do trade deals with the u.k. and quickly obviously president trump has been very keen to do a trade deal with the u.k. quickly and indeed the us secular state has been in london just this week but also you look at australia you look at new zealand are the commonwealth countries are the friends around the world in the middle east you know all corners of the globe want to do trade with the u.k. with the 5th largest economy in the world we are going again to be

a proud independent nation and doing those trade deals on the important aspects of the freedom that we're gaining as a result of leaving the european union i mean just briefly put it something that some of the remains are saying is that in perhaps 10 years time the country may well be looking back on regretting what it's lost what it what it had before even applying again is that a realistic prospect for you i think that's very unlikely not least because if we apply to rejoin the european union the rules of the e.u. say that you would have to accept the euro is the single currency you would have to accept the schengen free movement area which i think the british people will be extremely reluctant to adopt him. they'd be very hostile to those things i think the fact is that the u.k. is retaking its place on the world stage as an independent nation standing on our own 2 feet once again and i think we'll look back on this moment as yes a very historic a momentous moment but also want to be extremely excited about as we carve our

future as an independent nation once again we thank you very much for your time well of course there are rival rallies in westminster near parliament behind me later on they'll be thousands of people celebrating the departure from the e.u. there will be light shining projected on to 10 downing street as for. commemorations it's fairly fairly low key you might say a recognition perhaps that some people are celebrating other people are looking to the future with a bit of concern or an indian barber there from london. a state of emergency has been declared in australia as capital massive bushfires are threatening canberra and the surrounding region the flames are being spread by record temperatures strong winds up to reports. smoke billowing towards the australian capital canberra bushfires in a national park to the south coast the most serious try 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 fire has even more unpredictable and difficult to control. the i say to a is now facing the worst bushfire threat since the devastating fawaz 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 dies. the oral fire has now grown to itanium a half 1000 hectors that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the striking 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

relief for 2003 had been a little small fire burned it was either candidate no attention given to what then and we know the result 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 bush fires are 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 towards new south wales the state's government is investigating white this fire season is so bad we've got everything to gain from this process and nothing to lose we won't leave any stone unturned it's in our interest it's in our 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 fires thousands of homes have been destroyed and more than 11000000 hectares of land scorched and with summer far from over there are many more testing days ahead . dizzier. nasa has decommissioned its spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service it's one of the 4 observatories that orbit 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 but scientists managed to keep the mission going for an extra decade michaela reports. this is the last image the spits 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 and spencer allowed us to again look at things lift the cosmic veil and see the super massive black holes that we couldn't see previously since then it has revealed twice as many galaxies as any other observatory and most importantly perhaps advanced human knowledge of black holes and the birth and death of stars spitzer's operational life was expected to be 5 years at the most but even after its helium fuel ran out the telescope continue to send vital data about the universe back to 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 on but that legacy of spritzer will of want to cause a doubt is there for people to go back and mine the legacy of spitzer is 16 years of data archived at a us university data that may still produce new discoveries about how souls and our universe mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well still ahead on al-jazeera in spalted soul smiles from this pattern as they clinched their 3rd grand slam title.

looking back it's time to catch up on all that sport has andy thank you so much sammy well the match up to sunday's australian open men's final has been decided austria's emerging star dominic same will take on defending champion of a joke of it for the title on friday the same as playing alexander's vera of his tennis got a glimpse its future but on the current big 3 of jock itch nadal and federer poorest reports. tennis is next generation is an increasingly familiar sight in the later stages of grand slams but friday's match between alexander's verify and dominic team was the 1st time 2 of the next gen have faced off for a place in a major finals. and it was 1st blood to the youngest of arabs in his 1st ever semi and taking the 1st set of the 22 year old german is 4 years younger and 2 ranking

places below tame but showed no fear as he battled to stay in the 2nd set i. i austria's team has been to 2 previous grand slam finals though and his experience and movement began to tell as he levelled the much i he would win the 3rd on a tiebreaker befalls very forced another decider in the 4th but given the chance to win it his austrian rival and friend showed no mercy i team taking it in 4 sets to set up a final against defending champion novak djokovic facing over here he's the king of assyria live on the 7th title sirrah think most. than than any other men so i'm always facing the beginnings of this is going to slam in a final. with 2 french open final defeats to rafael nadal already part of his

learning curve will hope he can finally beat one of the best to become one of the past when reese al-jazeera. hungry and francis christine a lot of it she have won the women's doubles title to per beating top seeds surely seaway and barbara streets are in a one sided final and lot of each winning this one in straight sets for the loss of just 3 games it's the 2nd time in 3 years they've won this moment so. 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 and that actually never happened to us. the l.a. lakers asserts by their 1st game since the death of kobe bryant's alike is facing the portland trail blazers brown spent 20 years with the team before it's harming 2060 it's called in a helicopter crash on sunday ceremonies for

a member his life 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 shouldn't do it any other way you know i know it's the right thing to do and be an important and poor night for our franchise and for a condition you know we know it's going to be a tough game. emotionally. and i think we're all looking back out there. a 50 year whites playing the super bowl is all my starter for the kansas city chiefs the chiefs take on the san francisco $49.00 ers in the n.f.l.'s showpiece events on sunday in miami if the chiefs win it will set a record for the longest span between super bowl victories. knowing that you 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 my emotions go out there with a clear head with the right mindset to go out there and play my best of all it is

the biggest football game we've ever waited but you can't over hype it because then you start doing things you haven't been doing all year or that your whole career you know so i'm just trying to approach it you know same way approach why after games regular games. with the 49 ers when else high with the new line patriots and pittsburgh steelers for the most super bowl victories in history the 5 time champions last winning the title back in 1995. if i said i did i could tell you how every game was going to go before i went into it i'd be able you know i mean i'd make a lot of money i'd be in vegas every week but but i can't you know we i know my team and i trust my guys but football that's why you play the game because you don't know what's going to happen you don't know how the ball is going to bounce well new faces and old rivalry sets me the story of the 6 nations rugby championship the northern hemisphere is biggest international repeats one that starts on saturday in the aftermath of last year's world cup for you had coaches of its i can challenge if it seems eddie jones is still that's got beaten finest england hit by france on

sunday a new era beginning the reigning 6 nations champions wales with replacing warren. where new management great this new plan as you say are similar of some plaza to one up but we want to go at the nail like every other team and trying one of this year so we're no different from the other side but we certainly don't see ourselves as defending it that we're going to get there and want to you can play some good rugby along the way it's not sure about the stability of teams. so the 1st couple weeks is always quite interesting you find their way teams are you going to go with the u.k. cheese and maybe some new fire with plenty of the not spezza so now that is it from the summit thanks so much andy that's it for this news out probably back in a moment with more of the day's news we'll have the full bulletin for you so stay with us here on this area.

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several countries step up evacuations from china and impose travel bans to contain the coronavirus. a low i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up just hours to go until britain officially leaves the the prime minister calls it a moment of national renewal. celebrations i'm commiserations begin in london mixed feelings as many watery about their future. turning the tables on the u.s. you.