for life if we look at the russian president economic record over his last 2 decades and she's biggest test controlling the spread of the growth of counting the cost on al-jazeera. this increase is likely to continue. a warning from the world health organization is the number of people killed by the coronavirus crosses 250 and countries scramble to evacuate their nationals. from doha everyone i'm come all santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera . no witnesses no documents impeachment trial is a perfidy. outrage from the democrats as president trump are said to be acquitted in the impeachment trial the u.s.

senate rejected to call new witnesses in. the u.k. finally leaves the e.u. after 3 years of this the divisions we will explore what the future holds. and the scars of war how libyan women are falling victim to violence with little help to deal with their trauma. the latest on the coronavirus 1st of all in australia has joined the united states in banning entry to foreign nationals who've recently been to china due to the outbreak here the latest numbers 259 people have now died from the virus at least china is now announced 46 new deaths the u.s. moved to ban visitors who have traveled to china in the past 14 days american citizens have been in china in the past 2 weeks will also be screened and quarantined for 2 weeks while the world health organization's representative in

china has defended the decision to clear the outbreak a public health emergency and it's warning that we now respond from the spread of the virus in the near future. this increase is knightly to continue because there are almost as many specimens waiting to be studied as that oil will be an important so. the numbers will continue to grow is the team covering events alexia brines in bangkok where health authorities have just held a news conference will be with you shortly alexy want to start with scott hide in beijing hi scott i mean we hear from the world health organization there about this is really only the beginning isn't it and then these travel warnings come in as well which what sort of impact they have in china. well it's interesting though with the way the united states reacted in a story followed suit pretty soon after barring any foreign nationals from entering

their country if they have been in china last 2 weeks that obviously would not members of family members of those who are u.s. citizens but you know it's very it wasn't received well here let's just put it that way come of the the ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman came out and said this was not a gesture of goodwill and went on to say that it went against what the world health organization had been recommending and that is not to implement travel ban so it's very interesting kind of a push back immediately from china now it's interesting when you see how things are unfolding on the travel front internally here in china you know this to be very busy weekend normally you know we've got this delayed holiday return on monday so these last 3 days would be very very busy travel days but we're hearing from the railway authority here in china that yesterday friday today saturday train traffic train passengers is down 80 percent so a lot of people are taking this opportunity to stay home

a lot of companies are encouraging their employees to stay home or work from home and we're also hearing from the government here in beijing they are delaying the return of non-essential workers until february 10th so next week monday morning they only only the people who are essential to running the government here in china are coming back to beijing pushing back those non-essential workers another week i'm i right in saying this should have actually been a very very busy weekend the end of the lunar new year period. yes absolutely you know this would have been a very busy friday would have been the day that you know everyone kind of went back to business as usual if there wasn't any delay and the push back of the holiday period but what we're seeing so now it's pushed back into money what we're seeing a lot of businesses the government as i mentioned they've they're pushing things even further back they're worried about people coming back who might be of infected know it's very interesting we were speaking with some people who were trying to

come back to beijing on friday and the traffic jams coming in to beijing are quite crazy to tell you the truth that's because they're stopping every car and taking the temperature of everybody in that car you know you can't go around anywhere here in beijing and to a facility enter a hotel into a compound without getting your temperature taken so any kind of movement even if it's a lot less than what we'd normally be seeing right now is much much slower because people are being very very cautious compounds businesses hotels are being very very cautious about letting people in who might have a fever. in beijing news conference going on there at the same time as well and we will keep an eye on the new lines coming out of that. off to bangkok thailand the 2nd highest number of corona virus cases alexia brun who has literally got the numbers for as their legacy. that's right there has just been a press conference here by the ministry of public health and thailand and they said

that the number of confirmed cases here remains unchanged at 19 but the number of suspected cases has jumped overnight now at $344.00 and state of $280.00 on friday they say that's not necessarily because the virus is spreading any faster here in thailand but that they have wide into the net to include people who have arrived not just from one hand in the epicenter of that outbreak but also thais who may have come into close contact with chinese people and especially chinese tourists because china is the number one source of foreign tourists for thailand they've been 2000000 visitors here from china in the past 2 months jim you know when that virus broke out in december you can actually have a look at the map behind me and met that has been here in the operation saying to all the outbreak the big ridge circle of course is will hand the epicenter of the outbreak and china's hu by province and down here there is bangkok with a read flickering circle and that is because authorities here say obviously 19 that is the 2nd highest number of cases behind china and authorities here say look

thailand is the most at risk country outside of china not just because of its proximity but because of the numbers of chinese people arriving here every day but that number of 19 and maybe the 2nd highest in the world but it is absolutely dwarfed by back number just over 11000 that's the number of global cases of course but most of them in china you mentioned widening the net and you can you do that for us regionally outside of china and thailand. absolutely what researchers say it's very difficult to get a handle of just how many people might be infected beyond that number of 11000 in fact some researchers out of hong kong on friday suggested with their modeling that they could be up to 75000 people who are infected and will hand a line now different countries are dealing with it in different ways scott mentioned that some people are blocking flights from coming in and out of china some people are blocking people from coming in and out of china some nations around here that are going in to pick up their people

a flat has just arrived back from south korea just in seoul it had 368 people who have come from that city that has been in virtual lockdown since january 23rd at 18 of those people had symptoms they have been taken to hospital to be monitored for the next 14 days the rest of them have gone to just outside seoul to be quarantined there has been a lot of anger in some of the places where people are being taken for quarantine around the world by people say hey we live here we don't want the coronavirus here so there has been a little bit of anger and frustration from that ngo to say in indonesia where a flight is on its way back with about 250 people in india another flight as well 400 people taken out of hand those people are going to be held in quarantine at this facility set up just outside new delhi india as an aside just recorded its 1st case of the corona virus this week on thursday in kerala. ridge will update from. thailand bangkok thank you.

well into the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump and likely be over by wednesday that is after the senate voted to block any witnesses from testifying so it means donald trump all but certain to be acquitted as the republicans have that majority in the upper house of the u.s. congress he is of course accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden just after the vote president trump up on twitter he said no matter what you give the democrats in the end they will never be satisfied in the house they gave nothing. that is a concert with more now from washington d.c. . democrats say the impeachment trial of president donald trump is the 1st trial in u.s. history without witnesses is this a fair trial without the ability to call witnesses and produce documents the

answer is clearly and unequivocally no but despite hours of arguments trying to convince republican senators to allow new witnesses in the trial the yeas are $49.00 the nays are $51.00 the democrats lost all but 2 republican senators voted no it's a grand tragedy america will remember this day unfortunately where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities where the senate turned away from truth and went along with a sham trial democrats had hoped to get the support of moderate republican lisa murkowski but in the end she rejected the idea saying in a statement i have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the senate i don't believe the continuation of this process will change anything it is sad for me to admit that as an institution the congress has failed this means the

senate jury has essentially sealed its ears to john bolton chum's former national security adviser in his soon to be released book bolton reportedly says trump asked him to help pressure ukraine for dirt on political opponents and it tied u.s. security aide to the request trump has denied the reports his attorneys argue even if true trump should still not be impeached so this idea that they haven't had witnesses. is that's the smokescreen you've heard from a lot of witnesses the problem with the case. the problem with their position is even with all of those witnesses it doesn't prove up an impeachable offense the articles failed the impeachment trial now nears its end with trump's acquittal all but certain given that republicans hold the majority trumps political fate more likely lies in the hands of american voters who will decide in november whether to

give him a 2nd term. castro al-jazeera washington. we're pleased to have joseph you're with us here in studio associate professor of political science at texas a and m. university here in counter. it's so odd because we knew he was going to be acquitted it was such a little chance of donald trump being removed from office and yet the process here the fact that it is a trial with no witnesses and you can see which direction is coming from it's not a trial if you haven't got any witnesses no absolutely not the constitution puts the burden of having a trial for impeachment on the u.s. senate not hearing witnesses not not collecting any new documents that you turns a trial into essentially a collection of speeches and the republican majorities eagerness to to forego the kind of normal processes and collection in consideration of evidence that would go on and something this momentous whether it's impeaching a president or meeting another federal official it really is out of the ordinary so

has anything been achieved by the democrats if they impeach the president and there's only the 3rd time that it ever happened but is it is it sort of all for naught in the end well i you know i think it was an important symbolic gesture right that the democrats were signaling that with whatever institutional mechanisms they have at their disposal they are going to be active in trying to constrain the president when the democrats took control of the house there was a fairly long period where nancy pelosi and others in the democratic leadership sort of insisted that they didn't want to pursue impeachment they wanted to do the best they could with the administration and of course they would exercise oversight but you know the president's continued involvement in abuses of power were made it so they had very little choice but to either decide to become complicit in their own way in what he was doing or again to use the mechanism to separate themselves feel though this might be as we look at president trump there on screen it's the

kind of. thing which may only embolden him you know there was a clip recently of bill clinton apologizing to the united states after he was acquitted saying you know they're sorry for putting the country through this quite see president trying to you know there was the investigation into his campaign's involvement with with russia and at the end of that the mole the report and that seemed to energize his. efforts in ukraine and now he's been impeached and will be won't be removed by the senate you know the pattern of behavior in his administration is that he pushes some boundary faces no real consequence and pushes even further the next year are you a very well certainly very contentious period in american politics perhaps of a very dangerous period with the president running for reelection and you now feeling free to use his office in the ways that he's been accused of doing so so far this is what i wanted to ask you know we've got the iowa caucuses only a few days away now so the process of choosing someone to go up against donald

trump how does all of this impact on the on the 2020 race well you know among the democrats choosing and now the nominee i'm not sure it has much you know the democrats amongst themselves all agree that the president should be ok let me phrase it a different way than it has to be for the democrats about obviously someone who can beat down in europe and. i mean trying to pick that person at the moment trying to pick a big personality or someone who can actually go toe to toe with him that's a tough yeah i mean donald trump you proved in the last election where he's sort of serially defeated or worse the various republican challengers he had and then you know won the surprise victory in the general election that he has a sort of formidable political presence and the democrats very much you have beating him on their mind i think. the thing that sort of really important to focus on is are all of the allegations about ukraine and about russian about foreign interference about the president trying to. the electoral process and whoever the

democratic nominee is and however the democratic party rallies around that nominee i think they're going to spend a lot of times report seeing the election to make sure that it is free and fair and you know without corrupt influences whether that's within the united states or from overseas a long year ahead isn't it for sunday february thank you trees if you're joining us here in studio in the news ahead why 6 more countries are now being hit with travel restrictions from the united states. had though they're still a very mild theme continues across much of central europe this point of chatter and there is some rain on the way meanwhile as i say we have had this a mild air in place but a lot of moisture has been really building up to the east of the black sea so this

is new to sochi and this is where they've had too much snow so the training was canceled for the women's world cup the downhill skiing so as i say there is such a thing as too much snow but we haven't had much of that generally throughout much of central europe look at these temperatures facade today there's rain pushing in from the west becomes very widespread but these homages are anywhere from $7.00 to $10.00 degrees above the average for this time of year there's a very strong west and south westerly flow so bringing in some very mild air as we go through the weekend more rain pushing in again on sunday again pushing through much of france the low countries on into areas of germany and also we see the rain showers working the way fairly swiftly through much of the u.k. pushing up into know that areas where it could just tons of snow in those particular areas but as i say it really is very mild in most areas and also willing up across northern sections of north africa 21 in about on saturday it'll areas of cloud north coast but really nothing more than that you know showers in the 4 cars so again sunday 24 about 20 celsius in.

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this is al jazeera and these are the top stories straight here has joined the u.s. in banning the entry of foreign nationals have recently been to china due to the corona virus outbreak 259 people have now died from the virus and china has announced 46 deaths. the world health organization's representative in china says the number of cases will likely go up and he also defended the decision to declare the outbreak a public health emergency. a plane has left to evacuate indonesian nationals from china province schools the epicenter of the outbreak doctors are preparing to quarantine them for 2 weeks washington this report from jakarta. on the streets of indonesia's capital this is the new normal on public transport most passengers with face mask as a precaution against the corona virus outbreak demand for masks and sanitizer is

soaring across the country some markets and stores have even sold out many parents likely. anxious 18 year old daughter deefa is one of her around 250 indonesian students who have been living in the china city where the outbreak began i mean i worry every 2nd that something bad will happen and i cannot help my child now deefa and the other engine asian students are being brought home they'll be in quarantine for 2 weeks. the indonesian government says chinese authorities helped coordinate the evacuation. and the. people from the area. doctors say they are well prepared for the quarantine process. astafy used to

dealing with cases requiring strict isolation we dealt with saws through and we have regular training so we're ready for it to happen at airports around the archipelago it's far from business as usual indonesia's lion edge which is southeast asia's biggest airline by fleet size has suspended all flights to and from china. and while many are trying to get out of china hundreds of chinese citizens flew back from indonesia this week after their travel agents cut short their holiday plans here at indonesia's main airport authorities are taking steps to defend against the virus there are thermal body scanners and quarantine offices checking the health of the arriving passengers around the country there are the same precautions in place at more than $130.00 points of entry. incubators are ready for any passengers suspected of carrying the virus and airport staff will

transfer anyone to hospital if they show symptoms like fever or coughing just to washington. 3 and a half years of drawn out debate delays division but finally the u.k. has left the european union historic moment ending 47 years of membership was marked by both celebration and protest prime minister johnson is now promising to bring the country together even though he faces an uphill struggle as were a challenge reports from london. for those who see this is national liberation for those who see the e.u. was suffering t. sapping monster this is their moment 11 pm g.m.t. on january 31st 2020 britain is no longer a part of the european union and the foundation is countries built in the same. time. i mean yesterday threw it off and a lot of children moaning about it to think that the european union had

a lot of faults and had they been a bit more accommodating to david cameron this would have boris johnson who staked his political career on bricks it and won the prime ministership has marked it with an address to the nation well look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed. that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success and whatever the bumps in the road ahead i do that we will succeed with the bay the will of the people we've taken back the tools of self-government. never before has the e.u. had to do this it hopes it never will have to again experienced only an expansion now the e.u. has taken down a member's flag because it's left europe's leaders want to show that there's little to be gained from this we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership.

to europe and for those who voted remain this is a moment of sadness and in a sign of the constitutional challenges ahead for the u.k. rex it is boosting the coals in scotland for independent study is very very sad and i think what really does or is it sure is that there isn't really a future but in and europe and the way that we've enjoyed over the last 3040 years i am but it is a future for scotland you know but for the crowds in parliament square on friday night the possible breakup of the u.k. is made do you mongering considered do you mongering to the concerns of britain should be too fussed about doing a deal with the european union i told. i was. and this is that moment they say that it doesn't the sky will be heading they think so if you go out and trade relationship with the

european union is just beginning to look to the brics it has just finished for the countdown to the end of the transition period and little under a year's time well that's just begun for a challenge for al-jazeera london. the us government has announced new immigration restrictions on 6 countries citing security concerns the department of homeland security will suspend visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals from eritrea kurdistan. and money and nigeria sudan and tanzania will also stop or seizing receiving diversity he says. that award green cards to countries with low immigration numbers to the united states travel restrictions have been in place on muslim majority countries that is iran libya somalia syria and yemen 27 everyone is on that with more now on the security announcement from washington well administration officials are saying that in their words it's not a travel ban they're saying it's just travel restrictions it only applies inferi at

least they say to a certain group of people that want to come to the united states it would be citizens of these 6 countries but they say will only apply to immigrant pieces for people that from those countries that wanted to move to the united states administration officials are quick to point out that it will not apply they say to people that are applying for student visas or work visas they also say it will not affect any of the citizens currently in the united states from these 6 countries that are legally here on valid visas they're saying it simply will only affect those that are applying for new visas to immigrate to the united states but that still potentially is a lot of people thousands of people potentially any people from these 6 countries that will be applying from here on out for immigrant visas to the united states with a few exceptions will have those pieces denied now administration officials are saying

they're trying to avoid the situation in 2017 and that so-called muslim ban on those 7 come predominantly muslim countries where they were coming to the united states the airports being detained held sent back to their countries and all sorts of confusion and hearty for many families the department of justice department homeland security saying they are specifically trying to avoid that by making this a little bit more clear however the big question is when this goes into effect which is february 22nd how will it actually play out at airports in reality and that's a big question the walk to wait and see. on libya and years of conflict since the fall of leader moammar gadhafi has scarred and entire generation and children in particular are struggling to cope with the loss of family members many say they can't get the help they need tony berkley as the support from misrata was. these women in misrata a knitting hats and scarves for men at the frontlines it's a small gesture but it's part of a big campaign to help the u.n.

recognize government repel fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar they opposition 100 kilometers away and could attack at any moment women in libya don't fight with guns but in a unique way are fighting every battle we feel like we're part of what's going on in like were helping to defend our country and our city as it's kind of a. we're supporting each other we feel like we're doing something we're not just sitting there watching t.v. and listening to the news. many of these women have sons at the front line and some know the bitter reality of the risks each has lost a son or brother. or lima lost one son join the revolution in 2011. and her last surviving son 23 year old abdul hamid was killed last sunday in the fight to defend the town of abu ghraib. prison but i lost my sons for my country but it was very painful losing them they died defending

their land and on a but i have to be honest that didn't take away the pain i don't wanna meet the will that is what we are tired of war talk only my little brother he was engaged and we were planning the wedding for him but he went to fight and he became a matter and stayed. for them there is closure of sorts for hadija there is not. instead pictures of his disfigured courts were posted on social media by his killers. with music added. i need to get my son's body so i can bury him i don't know where he is and what they have done to his body where they have thrown it why when they give us the body we just want to bury him her son mohammed must offer was on the frontlines when he was killed a month ago his body has not been recovered it's rare for women in libya to speak so publicly but many are suffering from the wars effects u.n.

studies are showing that around 30 percent of people in conflict zones are likely to suffer from some form of mental illness and women will suffer more than men but in libya there's no structure in place to help them deal with that trauma. these children are all suffering from war related trauma that libya is struggling to find enough qualified mental health workers and funding to help them let alone for women . and them and then. some have in our mental issues where they don't want to leave the house or to work there are many cases where they become isolated and alone they don't want to do anything and they treat their kids with anger if they are able to get out and meet others they become more relaxed. but that's not so easy for women to do in this conservative society they often stay home battling their grief and trauma on their own tony berkeley al jazeera misrata.

is taken to the headlines on al-jazeera australia has joined the united states and banning the entry of foreign nationals recently been to china due to the corona virus outbreak 259 people have now been confirmed dead from the virus that was after china announced 6 new deaths. the world health organization's representative in china says the number of cases will likely go up but he's also defended the decision to declare the outbreak a global health emergency. this increase is likely to continue because there are almost as many specimens waiting to be studied as that. or so. the numbers will continue to. impeachment trial of u.s. president on trump will likely end on wednesday after the senate voted to block any witnesses from testifying going trumps all but certain to be acquitted as republicans have the majority in the senate is accused of abuse of power and

obstruction of congress for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into joe biden the us government is announce new immigration restrictions on 6 countries will suspend visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals from eritrea kyrgyzstan me and ma and nigeria sudan and tanzania will also stop receiving so-called diversity visas. the u.k.'s officially left the european union often more than 3 years 3 years after a referendum narrowly won by the leave boat the u.k. now and has a transition period with the european union while the new trade agreement is negotiated prime minister barak's johnson says the country is in quite a moment of national renewal and those are the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is next. talk to al jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and we listen so if you

really put place china as an enemy of the north and that's really then yours we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. breaks it is finally happening britain leaves the european union up to more than 3 years of political calles but what does it stand to gain or lose for the quotes in the blog and does it signal the beginning of the breakup of the u.k. itself this is inside still. welcome to the program i'm nick clegg after more than 3 years of political wrangling 2 general elections and angry protests across the united kingdom brics it is finally here $2300.00 g.m.t. on friday the time that goes down in history the hour the u.k.

became the 1st country to leave the european union ending its 47 year membership of the block britain has until the end of the year to.