now all jews are. with every. a new iraqi prime minister is named but will his appointment be enough to break the political deadlock an end to antigovernment protests. below i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program as an emergency summit in egypt the arab league rejects u.s. president donald trump's reposed plan for peace in the middle east. china's fight against the coronavirus the government appeals to the e.u. for help as medical supplies are running low. and mystery surrounds the death of a prominent mexican activist who dedicated his life to the protection of monarch

butterflies. hello welcome to the program our top story iraq's president has appointed in hama to allow we as the country's new prime minister allawi is a former communications minister and if his appointment is approved by the parliament he will govern until early elections are held his 1st task will be forming a new cabinet iraq has faced months of mass protests over corruption unemployment and the lack of basic services in the country if point when a new prime minister was a key demand of the demonstrators in a message posted on twitter allow it promised change and said he stood with the protesters. to. continue demonstrating and protesting and shouting your slogans this is your country and these are your rights our job is to meet your demands and we have to protect you and not oppress you the country's

weapons should be directed towards those who carry weapons and who should stay in the streets to we manage to hold the killers accountable to compensate families of the martyrs who treat all the wounded to set time for elections restoring the pride and prestige of the security forces in the economy to fight the corruption and. for my government if the political powers try to impose certain names on me i will tell you directly i will leave the same way you left your colleagues for the sake of your country and i will join the masses finally i want to tell you that you went out to the streets to get back your nation and if i don't meet your demand i don't deserve to be a prime minister. let's go to iran khan who is in the capital baghdad and i'm just looking at a statement here iran shia cleric all solder says that he supports the new prime minister but i suppose what's not clear is if this will go any way to satisfying the protesters. well before the protestors before they even have a chance to say what they think there is still another tough fight on mohammed to

lower his hands down what he's got to do he's got to form a cabinet and then that cabinet has to be approved by parliament now they. look he's put his support behind that but the largest bloc in parliament may still be a sticking block for him and that is the big he blogs hope there are still sticking points when it comes to polman but he's already set out his stall he's thrown his support behind the protesters but that might not be enough already we've seen in necessary a in the south and here in central baghdad intact risk where people rejecting him because he's part of the old school this is a man who was the communications minister in the nuri al maliki government so he's already been seen by the protests as being somebody who's part of the old school of protests has been very clear on that yvonne's have said they want a completely new suite now whether they can actually get that or not remains to be seen but there is a real concern from

a lot of people within the protest movement that his name might divide them for example you've got people in the protest movement who say well look he's come out and supported the protest movement therefore we should support him others say actually no he's one of the old school and we don't need that card of person in our corner or even backing us we are an independent movement so it really remains to be seen what he will do he has been already congratulated by the outgoing president. mahdi he's been a quiet take a prime minister since november the 30th now just to give you some of the constitutional side of this this he resigned in november 30th 15 days it should have taken for the new prime minister to be named it has and has taken months so the iraqi president has taken this upon himself he gave a deadline of saturday night to name a name now this kind of pressure may well put pressure on the parliament just to simply accept him as the nominated president and go forth and have him. in

that role thanks very much from baghdad and non-con. well our other top story the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan and an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacked the plan and said his people would never accept it trumps plan was negotiated with israel without input from the palestinians and abraham is in the occupied west bank with more i want to say he pointed out that he wants an arab support for his rejection of the plan that doesn't meet any of the palestinian demands or aspirations for a state he speaks specifically talked about jerusalem something very important he said it's not just important for him it's also important for the arabs we're going to. approach the moment they said you do salamis and next to israel i knew i have to say it loud and clear we will never accept that under any circumstances i will

never sell jerusalem is not for me it is for all of us were just the guards were only here because it is our duty our responsibility jerusalem is our capital it is our capital. if you talked about students on the street today many of them might not even know that there is an arab league meeting they would tell you that they lost hope that the arabs have been going to be supporting them to be giving them even political support many of those we speak to in the streets say that they believe that the arab people are with the palestinians however it's not necessarily reflected in that we by their political regimes so it doesn't seem that the street is really holding so much hope however politically politicians who want to see the arab league unified in rejecting it or at least supporting the buses rejection of it there are fears that this will become the new standards that palestinians will be sitting in

a few years to accept even less than that and they will be told that you already rejected something less than that president abbas has reiterated that he wanted to go back to international legitimacy and the arab peace initiative as basis for negotiations well under the pan want to area inside israel would be part of a possible territory swap if all the parties agree i'm a gem jim has more now from being inside the so-called triangle. this is one of 10 palestinian towns in this part of israel referred to as the triangle communities the members of these communities they are palestinian israelis that means they are palestinians with israeli citizenship and one of the reasons they're out on the streets in israeli today is to show their opposition to u.s. president donald splaying for peace which to me treats the possibility going forward that perhaps real the agreement all the parties that the boundaries and the bridge of israel might be redrawn such that the triangle communities would

essentially have a future state of palestine and we spoke with her today is very much opposed to that happening in the clueless sense that we're against the whole deal and we believe the support for the upcoming election when you look at this deal with the wider view you see it's meant to completely kill the palestinian people. that gave them our message to tromp and all the failing leaders no one is going to move even a centimeter a lot of the leader of our land will be taken we are steadfast here and staying. over sure if we accept the deal of the century we will lose the resistance that we've lived through since we were young we were raised to know that this land is ours. that's interesting is that this idea had actually been floated before many years ago far right is this enough not to go lieberman but actually proposed this as well it was rejected then and it is being rejected now the.

government's continuing to repatriate their citizens from china in response to the coronavirus russia is the latest nation to confirm its pulling out its citizens with the military sending planes to china on monday and tuesday a german air force plane is arrived in frankfurt carrying a 102 germans and 26 other nationals evacuated from the city of one han the center of the outbreak and 300 taliban. desh is a back home now of the government that chartered a flight from the one as well 8 of the passengers were taken on board and as the number of cases in china continues to rise china's prime minister has spoken to the opinion if they can help with the shortage of drugs wayne has the latest on this now from hong kong. china's war against corona virus is being waged around the country as it spreads to every province and territory so far the virus is winning

with the number of infections and deaths growing by the day on the front line in who province where the outbreak is thought to have started the challenges made greater by a shortage of medical supplies i must live. with the full support from the party central committee the state council and all the chinese people the shortage of medical supplies his ease to some degree but protective suit glasses and 95 masks are still in tight balance you have to be scheduled daily there's not enough medical personnel either which the government is trying to address by sending thousands of extra doctors and nurses both civilian and military to a much of the provinces shut down as authorities try to contain the spread of the virus but supermarkets remain open and the government says it's trying to maintain a steady supply of food at regular prices. so that we can ensure sufficient supply for daily necessities such as vegetables lamb beef pork and eggs in supermarkets as foreign nationals are evacuated from the provincial capital china's government has

started bringing stranded nationals home from overseas the 1st charter flight arrived in hand from thailand amid reports of who bay residents being prevented from boarding commercial flights back to china in hong kong medical workers are threatening to strike next week unless the government does more to restrict the flow of travelers from the mainland while some border crossings have closed flights from chinese cities are still operating the latest official statistics show that on one day last week almost 10000 mainland chinese residents flew into hong kong it's that traffic that many people here want stopped the government says existing measures to control the outbreak are working and stopping the flow of people goods isn't the answer but critics say unless hong kong follows. the lead of some other governments and closes its border with the mainland completely this city could be about to see a big increase in infections wayne hay al jazeera hong kong. so had for you on the

program firefighters hold back australia's raging flames but another day of scorching temperatures brings a new scrags. in the fight for the right to take on donald trump begins on monday the iowa caucuses could be the end of this big democratic names. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast with a mild air is still here across much of europe and the reason being is we have a westerly flow what that means is a lot of the air is moving straight out of the atlantic and straight across europe that tends to keep the temperatures a little bit above average and that is what we're seeing right now it's going to continue as we go through the rest of the weekend and into monday notice is temperatures zurich at 14 it's also going to be accompanied by a lot of rain across much of this area we could even see some winds down here

across southern parts of germany into the czech republic as well now as we go towards monday still a lot of heavy rain across much of the region a few snow showers here across parts of the alps those could be heavy at times we are going to be seeing the change of air by the time we get to tuesday those temperatures will begin to drop and that is seen here in vienna where temperatures are above average very rainy across the region but as we go towards tuesday it begins to drop we do expect to see a tempter there of about 8 degrees well here across the northern part of africa for bodyguards see we're going to see some rain showers over the next few days that will linger as we go through parts of sunday attempted there about 17 degrees and then as we go across towards parts of egypt would be seeing some cloudy conditions as well for cairo expect to see a tempter there of about 28 from gussy at 18. talk to al jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the

endemic corruption of the current we listen so if you replace china's enemy a little more with and that's really vendors we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just 0 really understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what you see the news and current affairs that matter to you. the world. welcome back you're watching out is there a life from london a look at the top stories now iraq's president has appointed the former communications minister mohammad alawi as the new prime minister country has seen

months of mass protests over corruption unemployment and lack of basic services the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's plan for the middle east at an emergency meeting in cairo to discuss the proposal palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacked the plan that his people would never accept it. and a german air force plane is right in frankfurt from the heart of this government's continue to repatriate their citizens from china in response to the coronavirus 312 bangladeshis of also been taken while russia prepares to pull out its citizens also . i just want to tall just want to look at syria now in estrus and fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are escaping towards the turkish border as hospitals and live and aleppo come under attack priyanka gupta reports now on the diet conditions people face as the fighting rages on. it's difficult to imagine what they might be

left to salvage from this destroyed neighborhood in west map of homes and a hospital shattered by bombs dropped by what were believed to be russian warplanes in the town of poor. russian defense ministry usually denies it's involved it's the new frontline close to syrian opposition fighters main supply lines in neighboring province. their government forces are advancing fast capturing towns and villages and the 2nd largest city of martin amman the violence has once again driven families out of their homes into syria's harsh winter. i have nothing with me we fled with just the clothes we were wearing because of the heavy bombing airstrikes and the airstrikes were so intense that we could only take the clothes we had on our backs for people like mohammad concrete blocks like these in a glib city is home for now the cold flows offering little comfort for the children

but the situation here is catastrophic because we can't find a place to live in we are here for families in this place where there are no windows or doors you don't even have water more than 3000000 people live in it live half of them i'm totally displaced businesses are suffering people say they simply cannot cope. with the trade is badly hit in the city the displaced people don't have money to buy anything they can barely find a place to live we need a place is for these people apartments or houses without windows and doors are hosting 4 or 5 families now can you imagine 30 people living in one room we can't even find tents for the displaced at least 11 hospitals and health centers came under attack from government forces backed by russian air power in italy blasts month the surgeon numbers of those displaced has stretched the health workers to

their limits the most important. unity challenge for us and they make us sick that against our best it is our and our because so we miss you damn it emmett because society where we documented 82 at the act against the health care services starting last april. for president bashar al assad. the short term goal is to secure serious made highway that runs from north to south of the country the larger plan is to capture the entire province of if the last major storm of the rebels. put the people of the mood remains one of defiance priyanka gupta. or burton work up on saturday no longer a part of the european union although months of work still lies ahead the u.k. now faces intense negotiations to determine its future relationship with the bloc

this includes trade security and resource agreements which are yet to be secured day to day life of britons will remain much the same until equipment rationing made with freedom to trade work and travel in europe one of the biggest challenges for the e.u. in the u.k. is northern ireland while it remains part of the u.k. customs territory it also follows the rules many businesses rely on cross border trade with ireland which remains in the e.u. don't know how that's going to work in the future paul brennan reports. port of belfast accounts for 64 percent of northern ireland's freights traffic half a 1000000 trucks a year pass through here fetching and carrying products between the u.k. mainland and the island of ireland but with ireland in the e.u. and the u.k. now out new checks extra paperwork and added costs are inevitable we've created concerns we have grave concerns about our business models with grave concerns about choice of also grave concerns about affordability for northern ireland high so it's

quite simply there can't afford cost rises from fraction on what this plan has at the moment as lots of friction the amount and intrusiveness of the new customs declarations will form part of the transition negotiations we want to see want but there are a medication for this because to come across the irish sea the volume of trade on not. be a hugely time consuming and expensive formality for drivers and business to stop a complete we hope will be this common sense from both sides where we levy at the need for the. o'neals is a multi-million dollar sport to a company with factories in the north and the south and a manufacturing process built on frictionless movement between them from the roi on the finished product here the shirts go through a complex series of stages about 8 of them in all printing i'm going to reselling and coloring and crossing from the factory here down to assist the factory in dublin and then back again through the process now hardboard or no deal brecht's it

will be a nightmare for this company but the m.d.c. here is reasonably optimistic i do think there's a good opportunity to know you here for the economy in northern ireland because then the day you'll find out investors we love the northern and a country that has i suppose of what both compounds you know free trade with you know the 27 member states of the european union and also the access to the u.k. as well you know everyone agrees on the irish side of the border up in county down a goal the bulk fertilizes animal feed. and equipment at this farmer's co-operative mainly come from ports in northern ireland and the frictionless way the farmers currently send livestock and produce to markets looks set to end some of the arguments that have been made is that it would be like a digital type order you cross it seamless you hardly know you cross put all of that adds a lot of cost i was long enough doing haulage to know what it was like to have to

do customs papers to get through from here to dublin we had to we had 4 border crossings to do during a lot. worse delays and paperwork and we don't want to go back to that it was a nightmare in the next 11 months of trade negotiations a specialized committee to represent northern ireland specific interests but the challenge is complex and time is short paul brennan al-jazeera belfast is now strong gusts of wind and soaring temperatures have fueled bushfires near australia's capital firefighters have been able to help but blaze is back from reaching the outskirts of camera but uncontrolled fires in the territory of reached at least 350 square kilometers in size on friday the australian capital territory declared a state of emergency in preparation for fire conditions throughout the weekend. age there's no homes lost but we've still got a long road ahead of us and you know father mentioned zealots in the story is

a serious issue and unfortunately we've seen this occurred many times during the season but we can't be complacent when you have this much far activity. now the u.s. has rolled back restrictions on the use of land mines which have been banned by more than 100 countries arms control proponents have been quick to criticize in the bush will allow the use of anti personnel land mines in exceptional circumstances and your schapelle has more. a weapon of war that most countries believe should no longer be used and cannot be justified morally. anti-personnel land mines maim and kill thousands of innocent people each year often in places where fighting ended decades ago and while most of the world has banned them the us says it's planning to use them again after more than 30 years a land mines are one of very many other important tools that our commanders need to have available to them on the battlefield to shape the battlefield and to protect

our forces but the change in policy u.s. forces will be able to use anti-personnel mines in future conflicts in certain circumstances mines the pentagon says will be able to self-destruct or self deactivate without threatening civilians unlike the millions of mines that dot the korean demilitarized zone the obama administration committed the u.s. to destroy landmines stockpiles except those intended to defend south korea the last thing which we need is more land mines is an incredibly reckless meat is a very dangerous leave and people will die as a result of this move it just for her normalizes peace is an obscene weapon they're not designed to be safe they're designed for one purpose and that is to kill. 22 years after princess diana's walk through an angolan minefield helped galvanize the world to take action 80 percent of un member states have signed the mine ban treaty and destroyed more than 55000000 of them yet thousands of people continue to be killed and injured each year more than half of them children mostly in

a handful of countries including afghanistan syria and ukraine the u.s. is unlikely to ever use landmines on its own soil and campaigners say the change in policy will put civilians at risk in future conflicts no matter how smart the minds become and al-jazeera. well in iowa developments the race for the white house officially begins on monday in the u.s. state of iowa still a wide field of democratic candidates vying to take on president donald trump in november including 1000000000 as mike bloomberg and tom steyer alan fischer reports now from iowa. there have been rallies and debates. there have been t.v. ads and lots of them and there has been the traditional shaking of hands and kissing of babies but no the politicians are almost done the people will soon have their see the 1st presidential contests of 2020 the caucuses in iowa donald trump all win

on the republican side that's a certainty the big story will be the democrats there have been 28 democratic presidential candidates there are 11 still left in the race many of them would have thought they'd spend the summer campaigning across the country instead their campaigns will end here in the snows of america's midwest the conversations largely been dominated by discussions of joe biden senator bernie sanders senator warner and mayor people who did it and i think those are the 4 candidates that everyone is going to be watching but this state is known for producing surprises famously a little known senator called barack obama won in 2008 and went on to the white house other long shorts of talk the polls people who won the nomination have finished 2nd or 3rd you don't have to win year to be a winner the performance of who finishes 2nd in who finishes 3rd and 4th that can have an effect on the campaign as well moving forward you know certainly whoever comes out of iowa in 1st place if there really is

a true victor is going to have wind at their back it's going to help them in new hampshire in nevada it might help them in south carolina but ultimately this is a long primary season last minute campaigning has been difficult for the 4 senators in the democratic race they've been tied to washington for the impeachment trial another missing big name billionaire michael bloomberg he was too late into the race to register to run here he's pouring money into his campaign hoping to know what success is later in the process from a group of $28.00 the field will be much tighter in just a few days iowa doesn't pick the president but it will eliminate several possibilities alan fischer al jazeera the more in iowa. well now to a story in mexico the suspicion over the death of a prominent environmental activist their home meadow gomez's body was found in a pond 2 weeks after he was last seen alive because of his death is still being

investigated by new rappler reports now from mexico city. one of mexico's most iconic species the monarch butterfly has just lost perhaps its greatest advocate. they're not going to. known as mexico's monarch butterfly defender was found dead in a pond in the state of the chalk on. his mysterious disappearance 2 weeks before his body was found has raised concerns among many in mexico who say violence against environmental activists has become commonplace isn't that. he was a defender of the environment in a region with many conflicts me jochen is a perfect example of where natural resources are under a lot of pressure especially when it comes to 4 is being cleared for avocado plantations. the iconic monarch butterfly is known for its annual migration to the forests of central mexico where millions spent the winter is.

days before his disappearance olmedo gomez posted this video on social media surrounded by thousands of flapping wings gomez invited tourists to visit his butterfly sanctuary a federal investigation is determining how gomez died but one thing is certain the death of the monarch butterfly defender has dealt a significant blow to environmental conservation efforts in central mexico nationwide mexico continues to shatter records for violent homicides especially in states like me to account for many of the deaths of conservation workers highlights the government's inability to curb violence. and that's not only does this threaten the butterflies but the risk exists for those who defend against illegal logging the threat is also against indigenous people who defend their culture and the history. a funeral for. those was held in the village of admiral saadi.

the country's president called his death painful and has vowed to fight the criminal gangs suspected of being behind his death madrid up in mexico city. more everything right here al jazeera dot com is the address don't forget you can watch us on lie streaming there as well. recapping the headlines now iraq's president has appointed alawi as the country's new prime minister allawi is a former communications minister and if the appointment is approved by the parliament he will govern until elections are held his 1st task will be forming a new cabinet iraq is facing months of mass protests corruption unemployment and a lack of basic services he has vowed to punish those who killed protesters in a message posted to twitter allow he promised change saying he stood with the protesters. who. continue demonstrating and

protesting and shouting their slogans this is your country and these are your rights our job is to meet your demands and we have to protect you and not oppress you the country's weapons should be directed towards those who carry weapons and you should stay in the streets so we managed to hold the killers accountable to compensate families of the martyrs who treat all the wounded to set time for elections restoring the pride and prestige of the security forces in the economy to fight the corruption and to form my government if the political powers try to impose certain names on me i will tell you directly and i will leave the same way you left your colleagues for the sake of your country and i will join the masses finally i want to tell you that you went out to the streets to get back your nation if i don't meet your demand i don't deserve to be a prime minister. the arab league has rejected u.s. president on all trump's plan for the middle east at an emergency meeting in cairo to discuss the proposal palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacked the plan and said his people would never accept it trump's plan was negotiated with israel

without any input from the palestinians. a german air force plane is arrived in frankfurt from ohio on its governments continue to repatriate their citizens from china in response to the coronavirus 312 bangladeshis have also been taken home while russia prepares to pull out its citizens on monday and tuesday person woke up on saturday no longer a part of the e.u. but months of work still lies ahead the u.k. now faces intense negotiations to determine its future relationship with the globe this includes trade security and resource agreements which are yet to be secured. the listening post is coming up next examining the corona virus outbreak in china do stay with us for that oscillator.

the spread of grain of viruses that i was. trying to find were seen a false misleading information kind of struck me. as a tough question i asked the president part i haven't central china or an advice to take it off hello i'm richard just put in you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week we're pointing our lens at china hong kong and taiwan starting with the coronavirus and beijing's efforts to keep the outbreak and the coverage contain. the talking heads who gave up their ankle chairs to serenade chinese audiences about the violence plus contraband books a forced confession and a life in exile the bookseller who fled hong kong for taipei and the death of colby

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