it's clear and sounds to me and clear that with the listening sed on al-jazeera. the or. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm how i'm hittin in doha with the al jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes. thousands more people are infected with corona virus as countries around the world move to isolate china. iraq has a new prime minister designate and he tells the testers to keep demonstrating until they get what they want. it's a no deal palestinians get the backing of the arab league against donald trump's middle east plan. and smic in the most of what little they call left we can cite

the shattered homes of families in northwestern syria. but countries around the world are beefing up border controls as the threats grows from coronavirus dozens more have died from the illness taking the toll in china at least $304.00 people know beijing has asked the e.u. for urgently needed medical supplies as it struggles to contain the virus more than 14000 cases have been confirmed for thousands more suspects it and several countries are implementing travel restrictions to limit the spread the u.s. and a strain have banned chip foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days even in hong kong calls are getting wider to cause the border with may. china hospital workers have voted to go on strike from monday to pressure

the government and countries around the world are continuing to for their citizens from china russia is the latest with the military sending pleas on monday and cheese state that the mayor of new york city has announced its 1st suspected case of coronavirus gabriel and is on the stand by in washington d.c. with more from the u.s. but 1st let's go to scott hyde in beijing scott those numbers just keep rising in china what will he tell us the. yeah we can say at least no maybe the last 5 plus days almost a 20 percent increase in the number of dead every morning you know the results the statistics are updated pretty much you know just before dawn around dawn here in china time and then you know that's when they kind of trickle out and you can see just how the big increase know it's interesting today sunday should be the last day

of this extended lunar new year holiday but as you were just describing a lot of the transportation networks are pretty much shut down in country and most of the private enterprises has have told their employees to either work from home or they're going to delay reopening after this lunar new year holiday another week obviously they're trying to buy time to see if there's any more information or if the spread of this virus can be curbed but so far there are no indications that that's going to happen we do know that the beijing government they are going to have essential workers start again on monday but non-essential workers they say at least delayed for a week you know we've seen retail outlets big retail outlets shut their stores for another week as well apple is one of them they're not going to open their stores at least until february 10th so we're seeing you know the efforts here to try to curb this virus from the private enterprise from the government continuing but those numbers keep rising. i will. go to foreign governments and repair

citizens this never hearing about a couple of birds after another a break of another disease just how are regular people in china reacting to all of this was very as you know because yes we see this this long long list of nations who are repatriating their citizens who are in who by province who are in in one city but you know the people here in china are reacting it's interesting just i'd say over the last 12 hours a focus has really gone into donations and criticism of how donations are reaching the places they need to go there is you know there is a call out to the european union for to procure more emergency of medical supplies particularly the protective equipment for those frontline doctors and medical workers and there's a big kind of outcry here in china because there's been so much donations coming from inside the country to the affected areas and just the lack of infrastructure

or antiquated infrastructure or delays of getting that material that's been donated inside china to those affected areas so a lot of citizens here in china are are upset about that the government says they're going to try to streamline that but right now that is something that's really on the minds of the chinese people they're trying to help those in need down who have problems but the donations aren't getting to where they need to be ok scott heide is live in beijing thank you very much indeed let's cross over to washington d.c. elizondo is live for. just tell us more about the cases that have been announced in the u.s. . yeah we now have 8 confirmed cases in the united states there are 3 in the state of california 2 in illinois one in the state of washington and one in the state of arizona the latest confirmed case comes from the state of

massachusetts particularly the city of boston that's where officials there said it is a. man in his twenty's a college student who is a student at the university of massachusetts at the boston campus who had come back from china showed signs or symptoms of being sick was tested and the test came back positive he is now being head held in isolation at his home in boston and being closely monitored 24 hours a day by medical officials there we also have from the city city of new york city mayor bill de blasio confirming the 1st suspected case this is of a woman. came to new york city apparently 2 days ago from china she wished so also showing signs of being sick she checked herself into the hospital she's not a confirmed case yet but she is suspected there waiting back for test results to come back within the next 48 hours but it has certainly put new york city on alert

listen to what the mayor bill de blasio had to say at a press conference saturday evening this individual this patient who is being evaluated right now did exactly as they should of follow the guidelines that the city of new york put out and they met these specific criteria they had traveled to china they did have the specific symptoms associated coronavirus and they did come to get medical care here at the hospital and what is the u.s. doing to prepare should the threat over the great sea the u.s. large. yeah that's a big question that's being asked right now because the u.s. is preparing potentially for hundreds if not thousands of people that they're repatriating from china or visitors that they need to corn teen and where are they

going to put them well the department of health and human services has requested that the military set up some sort of corps in teen areas on military bases and the pentagon confirm that they are doing that they are having beds if you will for as many as a 1000 people to be quarantined they've already identified 3 different military bases where they will put these people that potentially could have coronavirus should this be necessary in the coming days all 3 major u.s. airlines united american and delta have canceled all of their flights to china however there are flights from chinese carriers that are coming to the u.s. still and those flights are all being diverted to 7 different international airports in the u.s. where there is going to be extensive extra scrooge screening of all passengers who are either coming from china or could have come through china to the u.s. all of this is going to be starting on sunday so the u.s.

is clearly ramping up all operations taking nothing for granted preparing for any further threat from coronavirus ok gabriel elizondo life as in washington d.c. and i thank you very much indeed let's stay with this sets of in good is a deal it's a specialist in pulmonary critical care is also a faculty member at the university of washington medical center and joins us live from seattle good to have you with us on the program let's just start with these these flights governments are flying the citizens of china look so rather alarming is this an indication that china's done something wrong or that they're just overwhelmed and struggling to cope with this virus. i have to applaud the chinese government because i think they've learned the lessons of 2003 with sars because corona virus this current virus is behaving very

similarly to sars it kills elderly individuals more so than younger otherwise healthy individuals it seems like it's actually more transmissible than sars that if you're asymptomatic or if you're recovering from this illness you're so likely to transmitted that's why it's so concerning and frankly even more concerning than sars so i would say the chinese government has done has learned the lessons of the past they've there are some concerns that maybe they delayed their detection or weren't issuing red flag warnings as soon as the should have but they've done a lot and they've they've taken on an aggressive cornton so i am not alarmed by all these governments flying their citizens out i think it's the right thing to do so they have the core unseen is the thing that the charities be praised for and this is the thing that perhaps we should be doing to prevent the spread of virus doesn't prevent people in plain suggesting them all round the world is that no help or hinder the spread of disease it seems rather counter-intuitive.

well i think that's the big concern in and you're really cutting at the concern i have as a palm and all of us and all my colleagues in public health care in the united states have which is who knows how many people are actually exposed to the corona virus and if it's true that if you're in asymptomatic individual that you can still transmitted and major studies in major medical journals have confirmed that then then the transmission patterns of corona virus are unlike anything we've ever seen previously with a droplet or airborne transmitted disease like flu or sars or mers this is different and this is concerning so yes i share your concern that i think that's why our our pentagon in our our military services are are setting up coroutine beds because what else are we going to do but the fact is you can't quarantine everybody is so i think we should all be prepared that case loads will increase i think i'm hearing numbers of 75000 just in who pay province we should expect that number we

should expect the number of dead to increase we should think spec the number of suspected cases here are confirmed in the united states to increase as well and i think that should not be surprising to anyone of us so what should we be doing then because this this also is incredibly alarming especially for people who are who who are people who travel a lot what sort of thing should we be doing in order to reduce our risk of coming into contact with this virus especially now with a bad flu season at least in the western hemisphere this is one of the worst in a decade and with the overlap of flu in terms of symptom profile with corona virus there's a lot of confusion. and frankly a lot of the the flu test that we do in urgent care clinics here in the united states they can be falsely negative 3 out of 10 times so what i would recommend

anybody watching especially hearing that is states is if you're feeling ill if you have fevers if you have chills fever flu like symptoms see your primary care physician get tested minimize exposures to others like family stay at home get the flu shot if you haven't otherwise already there isn't a lot we can do it be helpful to know if you have the flu or corona virus because we can treat the flu and at least minimize symptoms with tamiflu with coronaviruses supportive care and this just bringing yourself to attention so that that's the best we can do right now and unfortunately it feels like that's just doesn't feel like it's enough but that's all we can do ok dr van get to thank you so much for joining us on the program and sharing your expertise. there's plenty more still to come on this news are including. 000000 pressure and ignores tripoli voices become the heart

of lebanon's call transplants. they have been debates there have been rallies amount fischer in the morning with the people of iowa will cast the 1st votes in campaign 2020. and in sports the tennis player who has just become the youngest really open champion in more than a decade. well there's a new political leader about the signs are it still won't pacify iraqi protestors president barham salih has named former communication minister mohammed a long way as prime minister designates bonce his appointment hasn't been welcomed in some areas but i'm stretches of camp site for 4 months demanding sweeping political reforms some wonderful scene reports from baghdad. the

the streets response to iraq's prime minister designate came fast and it was loud and clear. mohammed the law is rejected protesters in baghdad to hear square chanted on saturday night after 2 months of political deadlock president barham salih chose mohamed allow it to replace other law of the mahdi who resigned 2 months ago amid widespread anti-government protests days prior to allow his appointment we spoke to protesters into harriet who saw him as another incarnation of a political system that has failed them a good model for sure he's rejected any person who has a relation with the parties from close so far is reject from all the people in general because for 16 years we haven't seen anything from them just destruction. indeed allawi is part and parcel of iraq's post 2003 political establishment a cousin of former vice president and prime minister ayad alawi he served as

a member of parliament and communication minister but resigned in 2012 after he accused the government of sectarianism upon his appointment allowing addressed iraqis in a late night speech pledging to address their demands. i want to point towards the necessity for the peaceful protests to continue that support reforms until they achieve their legitimate demands and the government starts their genuine reforms. just like his predecessor allow a promise to create jobs and fight corruption and he vowed to bring those responsible for the deaths of over $600.00 protesters to account. i'll confirm that we're going to investigate some bring those responsible for the violence against peaceful demonstrators to a town which is. the prime minister designate has 30 days to form a cabinet which must be approved by a parliament that has been deeply divided over how to handle the latest crisis some factions have rejected allow his appointment but influential shiite cleric mokhtar

aside or throw his weight behind him. i don't think he has support from all the political blocs but there are important political forces and i expect that the surge wrists movement will stand with him and if that's the case the other political blocs will do the sign it. for 4 months protesters have asked for a complete overhaul of the political system and then independent head of state who isn't beholden to any domestic or foreign powers allow his appointment doesn't fulfil either of these demands but it could end the months of deadlock and pave the way for early elections and gradual reform some want to fold to an al jazeera but that. is the former chief of communications for the iraqi mission to the united nations she explains why protesters have already rejected mohamed odeh we. he has reached up the protesters and he did actually speak to them in a language that they would understand he addressed their concerns he asked for them to continue their protests and till their needs were met. which in strategically

very important i think for him in history viable because the protests will continue so for him to look like he is actually supporting those protests i think is integral to his survival however unfortunately they or fortunately they have rejected him he is. i think based on the unofficial remarks of protesters as well as the social media reports it's been quite clear that they are not interested in having yet another member of the iraqi political elite representing them particularly somebody who has been a minister in the past has been a relatively unremarkable minister which means that he's probably going to be beholden to those who put him in power being the sudras as well as the other larger shop political walks who put him everything on the ground is actually very dynamic right now so it's hard to know but they have put forward a few people an officially again and through their social media accounts that have

become quite noteworthy one of whom is a gentleman in the fire and he he is an independent politician as well as a set. non-sectarian a secular politician which is a new development in the streets of iraq arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's middle east plan at an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacked the proposal saying his people will never accept that it perhaps reports. palestinians were banking on the support of the arab states and they got it. from the ministerial council confirms the palestinian government's rejection to the so-called deal of the century in its current form the council stressed that the acceptance of such a deal would mean waiving the historical rights of the palestinian people because it's considerably less than the legitimate ambitions of the palestinian people

president a basque detailed at length the reasons why the u.s. mideast plan should be rejected saying it adopts the israeli position in full leaving little or no room for any negotiation u.s. president donald trump has given the palestinians 4 years to engage with the plan but the best that is rated we use that time to push ahead with policies which are contrary to international law and further sort of defy the occupation and we're going to go and approach the moment they said jerusalem is 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 the arab league has presented the arab peace initiative from 2002 as a solution for the palestinian israeli conflict. it calls for the end of the israeli occupation before arab and islamic states normalize relations with israel. and the influence of the regional conflict led some states to go along with the us

administration fear from iran pushed them closer to the main enemy who accuse israel reflected negatively on the obscene of the official level the palestinian leadership hopes that diplomatic pressure could help keep israeli plans in check but i think it is we spoke to here today say that they've been hearing similar statements from different organizations productive and their lives under occupation have only been getting worse there are no could not do it if the arabs are with us the u.s. and israel won't do this to us. are not waiting for the arabs they already sold us thought if we are split amongst ourselves what are we expecting from them palestinian officials say the arab league's position helps them rally support especially as the israeli prime minister promised to push for an extension as early as next week i do believe that the village action of this plan must must be come from the community because it is illegal it's undermines the international law not

only undermines the rights of the palestinian people the palestinian leadership is also looking for the backing of the african summit the organization of islamic cooperation and the united nations security council officials here say it's not the u.s. plan itself they fear it's how israel can use it there but him al jazeera the occupied west bank well under the plan one area inside israel would be part of a possible terrorist war before parties agree. has more from beer. 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 his writing today is to show their opposition to u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace which contemplates the possibility going

forward that perhaps with the agreement of all the parties that the boundaries and the bridge of israel might be redrawn such that the triangle communities would essentially become part of a future state of palestine anyway we spoke with here today is very much opposed to that happening and clueless said 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 polls that gave the our message to tromp and all the failing leaders no one is going to move even a centimeter short of the leader of our land will be taken we are steadfast here and staying. i wish 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 but what's interesting is that this idea had actually been floated before many years ago far right to say this enough not to go lieberman but

actually proposed this as well it was rejected then and it is being rejected now the. amman bashar has all jazeera senior political analyst he says the threats of the u.s. backlash is holding something that is back from condemning the plan. clearly some arab countries are willing to support the palestinians but still unwilling to reject trump directly for fear of american reaction in one form or another a lot of other regimes to the are either a whole nother ball or just the circle of course the 2 smaller gulf countries the united arab emirates and bihari and have consistently tried to say something about look let's let's deal with the palestinians cannot use the chance you did with loosely has to be realistic at the same time there's clearly some new members around the block here in his arab league summit like algeria like sudan like

soonish in addition to others of course iraq lebanon and certainly qatar who've been mentally ill reject the betrayal of palestinian rights so publicly and in front of the out of public opinion and hence collectively you could say and i must admit i was skeptical that they would come up with such a statement so directly against the american plan and against dealing with it which is even more important so don't only reject it passively what they're saying is we cannot deal with it and that tells you just how horrible this plan is and of course we've been saying for the last 23 days why this is in fact an israeli radical plan repackaged as an american plan and that stinks so much so much that no arab leaders could collectively with a stock market and hence we see that collectively they reject it but one or 2 or

more countries might still try to work with the united states in form or another but with the palestinian positions being so clear that the door is closed shut and that you know that the palestinians will do severing relations. with both the united states and israel made it clear that any out a position that compromises the palestinian position would be seen as total betrayal what would a bass do when he returns to palestine if he will no longer coordinate with the israelis because l. though he is the president of palestine he still needs believe it or not and that's very important for our international viewers to understand that a palestinian president thinks an israeli permission to leave the occupied territories and to come back to the occupied territories called palestine and so severing relations with the united states and israel with the united states means

that total rejection of a trump netanyahu conspiracy against the palestinians but in practical terms suffering relations with israel it means undoing the all the arrangements all the peace process agreements between the israelis and the palestinians and the right might have major repercussions. still to come on al-jazeera. bucking the international trends why the u.s. wants to roll back chris trick sions on landmines. we'll take a look at how slow economic growth in india has heavily impacted one of the country's most popular industries. and in sports the northern hemisphere biggest international rugby tournament is underway and we'll have all the details for you.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across china as well as northern vietnam the rain is on the increase now we're not seeing that really much on the satellite as of yet but on sunday the rain is going to start to increase across much of the south we'll be seeing some heavier pockets just to the south of han but it really is on monday that it expands across much of the area heavier down here towards the south as well hong kong going to be seeing the rain starting as we go towards monday night and really by tuesday it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a lot of rain across much of the area forecast high here on monday we do expect to see about $21.00 in the forecast there well here across indonesia we're going to sing plenty rain as well down here toward the south it's going to java down here towards bali maybe lombok will be seeing some very heavy rain as well there up towards borneo we could be seeing some heavier showers localized flooding could be a problem but up towards the philippines a few local showers not too heavy for manila we do expect to see attempted there of

about $28.00 degrees as we make a way out of here towards india it's going to showers across the eastern coast they're going to be developing as we go towards sunday we'll be seeing some of those showers quite heavy clouds into the interior but for tonight it is going to be a most cloudy day $32.00 degrees is the forecast high for kolkata son of the forecast with a temperature of $25.00. a journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera as james gannon expose his family's legacy of slave ownership you know like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to slave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us all star we've a skill to speak out there's a surprise that. al jazeera correspondent a moral debt. the 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible.

as the balkans route begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian family. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning bank to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera. org. this is al-jazeera quick reminder of the top stories this hour china says at least $304.00 people have died from the corona virus after dozens more deaths reported

countries around the world are beefing up border controls as the threat grows iraq's president has appointed former communications minister mohamad alawi as prime minister designate country has seen in months of mass protests a corruption unemployment and like of government services. and the arab league has rejected us president donald trump's proposed plan for the middle east emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept it. now protesters in lebanon have converged on its poorest city to show the government they're united in their calls for political change the so widespread anger over corruption and mismanagement the latest march comes ahead of next week's confidence votes to approve and who can finance reports from tripoli. so. 'd revolutionary songs play out his activists board buses

taking them to tripoli it's the 1st time they've come together from different parts of the country to meet in the poorest city in lebanon on we came from able to thank tripoli for all the birds everything she did for beirut and all every single digit game you also. that the mosque today is hand in hand so we're putting i would hunt together the fellow to handle one heart one blood and one heart thank just weeks ago protesters nationwide celebrated forcing former prime minister side of these government to resign but they're still unhappy. they're concerned the new government is caught out of the same cloth a political elite that won't meet their demands and time soon if i take it is the last 7 or maybe a different religious or even mention of background but they are here in tripoli to show you and they have one message for the new government is that i'll be stronger

than ever and a lawyer by the way right. now the new cabinet is gz receive a vote of confidence in parliament next week but protesters don't trust those at the helm and they're worried about the future. they've suffered for years from deep rooted corruption power cuts and a lack of basic public. services they say their revolution is not dead yet despite winning numbers there are. 2 really really urgent this is one is the economic crisis or is that the benghazi of the court system 1st it's not that some of the idea was that the surface and going ok how's it coming there's a real sense of community at this down stray ssion from free soup kitchens to a discussion forum bringing together different movements and civil societies. they talk about wanting a government that will be held accountable and despite the diversity here they all agree on one thing they need to work hand in hand in challenging the government and

making sure their demands are met so to hire that al-jazeera tripoli. air strikes and fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are escaping towards the turkish border as hospitals and it live and aleppo come under attack after nearly 10 years of war government forces are back in control of large parts of the country marked here in red opposition fighters are confined to the north western province of idlib the forces backed by turkey in surrounding areas after the latest russian backed government's advance some turkish observation posts are now surrounded priyanka gupta reports now on the dire 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 lap 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 an adlib city is home for now the cold flows offering little comfort for the children 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 tired of displaced businesses are suffering people say they simply cannot cope. 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 as 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 blas months the surge in numbers of those displaced has stretched the health workers to their limits the most important. unity challenge for us. against our best it is our and our because so we. as you know i mean

chemical society or we document 82. 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 the last major storm of the rebels. but the people of the mood remains one of defiance. india's economy is slowing down in this particular the effect in the textile industry and has led to dozens of workers losing their jobs many of them say cheap imports are reduced export markets and higher taxes are to blame for the decline so they are raman reports now from the d'anna in india's region of punjab.

there's an eerie silence at the textile factory the wheels of industry have come to a day a grinding halt the majority of lives have been silent for 18 months its owner spoke to us on the condition of ability to protect what little he has left in terms of a business 1st before the implementation of d.s.t. was not called too many hassles then economic downturn all over the world not just india but all over the world. too much ending in government policies too many trade barriers coming up in export markets. his concerns are shared by many of the 40000 textile factory owners of the city many say they've seen their profits plummet by 25 percent and had to lay off workers. for one industry leader the whole system needs to be looked at he says industrialists are having to make hard choices about where to invest and how many staff to employ. the government rushed to apply g.s.t. and hasn't got it right that's the funds are needed to complete the financial

circle and keep businesses afloat they're not refunded and stuck with government so business men are dipping into profits to run their factories until they are remembered sed. factory produces clothing that is running smoothly despite the financial headwinds he told me it's tough to juggle both of you taxes keep products competitively priced and his $250.00 staff employed those in the textile industry are not the only ones concerned about the impact the economic slowdown is having the international monetary fund says the indian government needs to spend in areas that just construction and infrastructure to kick start the economy and they need to be evaluate their relationship with other nations and economic blocs to make their exports attractive. to the aurora has been designing high end we've been sweating clothing for 20 years profits are down and she's had to lay off 20 percent of her seamstresses people just have to do is there are pending power on clothes

they have been on you know all of the one putting up and investing on the right lot of the right time people don't worry about that they need a hand where they may even go for a commercial for a dollar. if you look fancy but it should be cheap that is what people are looking for. the textile industry continues to discuss its financial woes with the government hoping both sides can find a way forward to secure jobs of the economic future with global demand down of the domestic market cautious about spending the future doesn't look too promising so he'll robert al-jazeera look down on the job. well let's get more on this now from hosa clete maki on the he's director of the european center for international political economy and children says by skype from tokyo good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour and he just explained says why india's economic problems are so critical in a global context well 1st of all india remains one of the

most closed economies with many regulatory barriers even domestically is this and what i think we have seen now here is there is a great disappointment from the markets and the business in terms of actually a bigger step by president. despite this major majority he has received in the last election has actually fail to address the many of the other growth impediments we see so we see i actually for example i am the writing down the expectations for the . quarter went from 7 percent all at almost every percent which is actually in terms of actually expectations of the market but why is there that the indian market so critical in mean as it is and to get the one that's driving global growth here. yeah it is certainly true there are many expectations in terms of.

what we have basically saying is that. we are looking at mostly long projects infrastructure and also personal tax cuts which is essential in terms of well building a competitiveness back to the indian economy but it is not bringing the short term gains that you would see already in 2020 now india is actually one of the major growth senses in the global economy where we have seen china slowing down and of course united states and europe and the more mature economy is actually going down as well and so this is one part of the well this is stomach risk that we are facing our global economy well and the world the figures saying that the global economy is g to condemn the growth this year to date from 3.4 percent 3.3 percent what exactly does a dip in 0 point one percent of growth mean in actual real time so to be able people

watching this why does this matter. well it does matter a lot and we do have to remember the case actually the recovery we seeing it on the on the bigger picture $29000.00 was actually the worst year in so so of a global growth since actually the global financial crisis that we're actually looking at very very modest rebound but at the same time we need to bear in mind that well 3.4 percent which is and i mean revised down to 3.3 percent by the i.m.f. it is actually a very optimistic figure for example china is expected to grow by 6 percent and whereas actually the full extent of the current coronavirus has not really be established we couldn't be actually looking at 0.5 percent drop in the c.e.p.t. that we are of course living in a world where we used to think only

a few years ago that if china falls below 6 percent growth it might be quote infinitum only chaos in the global system and at the same time we are seeing very carefully positive. signals in terms of the end of the. great who is still ancient and one of the things that has really been rebounding and that we're seeing now in clinton presidency is that international trade is reading going back into 1990 the trading system came from complete standstill which was actually almost unheard of and we have seen now it's 8.8 percent that it's been expect to find 20 may have good news about these that thank you so much most likely john is that from tokyo thank you. the strongest so winds in soaring temperatures are fueling bushfires near the straightly capital far pfizer's have managed to prevent

the flames reaching the outskirts of canberra it's uncontrolled farmers in the territory are spread across at least 350 square kilometers one friday the australian capital territory declared a state of emergency in preparation for far still can conditions throughout the weekend. the u.s. has rolled back restrictions on the use of land mines which should be banned by more than 100 countries arms control proponents have been quick to criticize the move which will allow the use of fancy personal land mines in exceptional circumstances under 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 of 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 move is a very dangerous and even 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 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 $55000000.00 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 the race for the white house officially begins on monday in the u.s. state of iowa is still a wide field of democratic candidates vying to take on president donald trump in the ember ellen fisher reports from iowa. there have been rallies and debates. there have been t.v. ads and lots of them and 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 that 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 at 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. still to come on al-jazeera. now for god of all brothers. in this angeles lakers

remember the line from franchise legend kobe bryant's. an award winning investigation i mean a worker's room right behind it has wings factory when we operate for less and we buy for less we can pass those savings all of our customers into the supply chains that produce cheap clothing. with little regard for workers' lives different means of the fire are still everywhere rewind made in bangladesh on al-jazeera. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement just found alive and well on the terraces of the build files stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share

a platform an ideology with followed football hooligans. read old death on al-jazeera. rule. for. the all. it's time for the sport here is andy. thank you very much american saffir cannon has won the australian open title beating garb in yuma gertha of spain it fulfills a 16 year dream for cannon whose talents has always outstripped her experience poorish reports w. the reader few would have predicted an australian open final between these 2 spain's. a 2 time grand slam champ but unseated after

a terrible 2019 and 21 year old american safina canada who had never before been beyond the 4th round to slam me by hand. if the much help was unpredictable the match itself would prove even more so but only after muguruza had taken the 1st set $64.00 seemingly on the way to regulation win over her fall less experienced opponent i. can in though has said she was already dreaming of winning a grand slam final when she was just 5 years old the moscow born daughter of russian immigrants grasping the opportunity to turn fantasy it's reality and taking the 2nd set 6th who it was then that she showed her true mettle 40 love down on her own serve she won 5 straight points to go $32.00 up in the sat i she continued to snuff out any attempted comebacks from the spaniard but. then on match point ken in

saw her rival double fault i all over in favor of the american 466262 i took a home this is my 1st big. but i'm going to try my best. to rationally being on and a great match of those returning and how my dream house officially came to a 1st grand slam final the 1st speech and the 1st win for canada. and unlikely to be the last full race al-jazeera. well on sunday austria's dominant team will aim to emulate ken and win his 1st major title he seeded 5th and beat rafa nadal on his way to the final he'll be taking on title holder and 7 time champion of a joke of it he did not get the better of the twice last year. more of the last call this than he did but i think it doesn't call and so march it's absolutely his comfort zone here i mean he always plays his best in his in

australia since many many years so i'm expecting that as well in the finals the los angeles lakers have returned so action for the 1st time since the death of kobe bryant's lebron james leading the tributes for the player who spent his entire career a lake as far as small reports. less than a week after kobe bryant's dad the team he made his own was back playing the game a lot but i trid you to honor bryant his daughter giana and the 7 others killed took place before the l.a. lakers took to the court for their 1st game since last sunday's fatal helicopter crash there. oh bryant was 41 he played his entire 20 year career with the lakers before retiring in 2016 but remained a franchise icon bryant inspired a generation of young players and was

a mentor to others i want to tell you what moments a mess like that so you his legacy not only for his year. but as long as we can play the game a bass part of we love because that's what i call the bottom of the sauna was a call by. mama but in the words of us. now for god love all brothers. the next every play war brian's now retired numbers roses were placed on the seats were bright and giana would have sat . still doesn't make it while this game gets a portland trail blazers ended in defeat for the lakers the team are at the top of the western conference and in with a good chance of winning their 1st title since bryant led them to championship glory in 2010 you know anybody feels like he walked away as a as a winner tonight i would given the circumstances. and the memories that would take away from should i just say. just to. this night the 1st

step in the healing process for city and a team that has lost one of sports all time greats far is smile al-jazeera. wales have made a winning starts in the defense of their 6 nations rugby title semifinalists at last year's world cup the welsh beat italy $42.00 nil in the opening match of the northern hemisphere is biggest international tournament italy without a 6 nations win now since 2015 ireland beating scotland in the days of the game world cup runners up england starting their 6 nations campaign against france in paris on sunday coach eddie jones has kept faith with the majority of the team that lost to south africa in november france were beaten by a single point against wales in the last state of the world cup they can turn on like that they can be dangerous. i re watch the quarter final they played that they had been pretty disappointed to lose that going to be honest. but even even more so

now it is a bit you can you can sense it is a bit a new era for the new challenge fresh start engulf northern ireland's graeme mcdowell is in sight of a 1st european top title in 6 years the 2010 us open champion hitting 4 birdies on the back 9 at the saudi international and he'll take a one shot lead into sunday's final round. ok that is a sports looking for now more later. thank you and finally they were believed to be extinct spit 2 species of joint tortoise have been rediscovered by scientists on an expedition to the galapagos so i do not examples off the floor iana tortious refined but the real excitement came the discovery of a single tortoise else of the tortoise called lawn some george was pleased with the last of his kind died 8 years ago. and that's it for me do stay with us here on al-jazeera kampenhout is up next.

he's your deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances in theory for one thing to cheat somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me in the hot sun as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on

al-jazeera. over 40 years ago the mysterious killing of the president of north yemen. it's a story of deception and. one that still resonates today. al jazeera world reveals how a banquet for you many dignitaries became the backdrop to a brutal assassination. the last launch. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and.

thousands more people are infected with coronaviruses countries around the world moves to isolate china. i'm given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq has a new prime minister designate sente tells protesters to keep demonstrating to like get what they want. no deal palestinians get the backing of the arab league against donald trump's middle east.