thousands more people are infected with corona virus is countries around the world move 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 till they get what they want. no deal tell us indians get the backing of the arab league against donald trump's middle east.

coverage and ignore tripoli rises to become the heart of lebanon's protest movement . at least 304 people have now been killed by the coronavirus off to dozens of deaths were confirmed overnight in china there are now more than 14000 cases of the virus there with thousands more suspected of beijing has asked the e.u. for urgently needed medical supplies as it struggles to contain the virus and hong kong colza getting louder to close its border with mainland china hospital workers have voted to go on strike from monday to pressure the government several countries are implementing travel restrictions to limit the spirit of the philippines the u.s. and australia have banned foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days and countries around the world that continuing to fly their citizens out of china russia is the latest with the military sending planes on

monday and tuesday has more now from beijing. 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 the big increase no it's interesting today sunday should be the last day of this extended lunar new year holiday but 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 lay 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 the u.s. is divesting all flights from china to just a handful of airports passengers can undergo extra screening it's confirmed 8 cases of the virus off to one man fell ill in boston elizondo has the details. 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 in the test came back positive he is now being 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 the mayor bill the blast to confirming the 1st suspected case 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 quarantine and where they're going to put them or the department of health and human services has requested that the military set up some sort of quarantine areas on military bases and the pentagon confirm that they are doing that they're having beds if you will for as many as 2000 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 scoop screening of all passengers who are either coming from china or could have come. china to the u.s. all of this is going to be starting on sunday. china is also struggling to contain bird flu an outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds died the government has culled a further 17800 hens the h 5 n one strain of bird flu can be transmitted to humans but it is rare i

new political leader but signs is still one pacify iraqi protest president saleh has named former communications minister mohammad a law we as prime minister designate but as appointment hasn't been welcomed in some areas where demonstrators have camped out for 4 months demanding sweeping political reforms simona fulton reports from baghdad. the streets response to iraq's prime minister designate came fast and it was loud and clear. mohamed the law is rejected protesters in tahrir square chanted on saturday night after 2 months of political deadlock president barham saleh chose mohamed allow it to replace other love the mahdi who resigned 2 months ago amid widespread anti-government protests days prior to allow his appointment we spoke to protesters in tahrir here who saw him as another incarnation of

a political system that has failed them. all for sure he's rejected any person who has a relation with the parties from close or far is reject from all the people in general because for 16 years we haven't seen anything from them just destruction. indeed alawi 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 allow 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 on the government start stage 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. that we're going to investigate some bring those responsible for the violence against peaceful demonstrators to a crown 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 in the pendent head of state who isn't beholden to any domestic or foreign powers allow is appointments doesn't fulfill either of these demands but it could and the months of deadlock and pave

the way for early elections and gradual reform. al-jazeera but that. the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's middle east plan at an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacks the proposal saying his people will never accept this reports. palestinians were banking on the support of the arab league 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 obama a bass 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 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. we are not waiting for the arabs they already sold us thought if we are split amongst ourselves what are we expecting from the 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 international 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 either but him al jazeera the occupied west bank. under the plan one area inside israel would be part of a possible territory swap of all the posses agree joe has more from. 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 demonstrating today is to show their opposition to u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace which puts the mountain iterates 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 and we spoke with here today is very much opposed to that happening and 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 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 there. i was 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. still ahead on al-jazeera taking the most of what got left to go inside the shattered homes of families in northwestern syria. and why the wails of the tank shell

industry in india have come to that end grinding halt. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecast but we have been talking about the rain and the very heavy snow here across parts of northwest united states as well as into canada and it's really evident here on the satellite all that moisture coming in off the pacific really pushy and wind bringing the very heavy snow to the higher elevations across much of british columbia now it will still be a problem here on sunday and you can see the snow right here particularly in british columbia now for washington state the rain is going to subside and things are going to get better as we begin the week well it's for the super bowl down here towards miami of course inside it's could be playing but outside it's going to be

a little bit chilly here on sunday we do expect to see a temperature of about 241 degrees that is below average for this time of year as we go towards monday things are looking a little bit better but up towards washington well above average for this time of year 18 degrees and sunny conditions well here across western mexico we are going to see an increase of rain and you can see here on the satellite all the rain coming in from the pacific so from mexico city not a bad day on sunday but by the time we get towards sunday evening the rain will begin it on monday it could be quite heavy we could be seeing some localized flooding across some of that area over here toward savannah though it's going to be a little bit chilly for the normal high of 23 degrees there for nasa about 27 for you. on countering the cost cheaper than a fighter jet how the drug industry is changing warfare plus putin's power grab for life we look at the russian president economic record over his last $2.00 decades and she's previous test of controlling the spread of the coronavirus counting the

cost on al-jazeera. investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al-jazeera. the. you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the philippines reported the 1st death from the coronavirus outside of china a 44 year old man from all harm died there on saturday the philippines is our joint the us said destroyer in banning all foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days. rox president has appointed former

communications minister mohammad the law we as prime minister designate he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters who wants we think that will change. the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's proposed plan for the middle east actually emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept it. as a protest as 11 on have converged on its poorest city to show the government they united in their calls for political change is still widespread anger over corruption and mismanagement the latest march comes ahead of next week's confidence vote to approve a new cabinet sarkari reports from tripoli. the. revolutionary songs play out says activists board buses taking live 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 we came from labelled to thank tripoli for all the birds everything

she did for beirut and all every single digit game year old. the team of today is hand in hand so we're putting i would hand together the folder the one heart one blood and one heartbeat. just weeks ago protesters nationwide said it grated forcing former prime minister inside how to use government to resign but they're still unhappy. they concerned the government is caught out of the same. a political elite that won't meet their demands and time soon if i take this for the last 11 or maybe a few religious even facial backgrounds but they are here in tripoli to show you they have one message for the new government is that i'll be stronger than ever eloise by the right. the new cabinet is gz receive a vote of confidence in parliament next week protesters don't trust those at the

helm and are worried about the future. they've suffered for years from deep rooted corruption power cuts and the lack of basic public services they say their revolution is not dead yet despite dwindling numbers they are warning the coalition who are really really urgent this is one is the economic crisis is that the benghazi of the court system 1st it's not that some people are you more that the strip the city going to be hard to come in there's a real sense of community at this demonstration from free soup kitchens to see 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 the need to work hand in hand in challenging the government and making sure their demands are met sort of al-jazeera tripoli. air strikes and fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of

people many are escaping toward the turkish border has hospitals and liban aleppo come under attack after nearly 10 years of war government forces a back in control of large parts of the country much here in red opposition fighters a confined to the north western province of with forces backed by turkey and surrounding areas after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts and else around it brag of the reports 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 western repl homes and a hospital shattered by bombs dropped by what we believed to be russian warplanes in the town of course. 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 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 boarded 3000000 people live in it live half of them i'm tired of 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 and 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. the 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 it's particularly affected the textile industry and led to hundreds of workers losing their jobs many of them say cheap imports are reduced to export markets and higher taxes that are blamed for the decline so her raman reports from the are known and 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 anonymity 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 and too much changing 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 the new 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 such as 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. it. 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 must have read use their pending power on clothes they have been. you know one of the one putting up and investing on the right lot of the right people don't worry about that and one of them even go for a commercial production. if you look fancy but if 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 the domestic market cautious about spending the future doesn't look too promising so robert al-jazeera looked down on the job. also claim akiyama is the director of the european center for international political economy he explains why india's economic decline is a risk for the global market 1st of all india remains one of the most closed up economies with many regulatory barriers even domestically for the business and what 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 he's made a majority he has received in the last election has actually fell. money on the growth impediments we see and so we see actually for example i.m.f.

writing down the expectations for the. current term 7 percent or almost over percent which is actually a character in terms of actually expectations on the new mother there are many expectations intensifying. but what we have basically seen is that. we are looking at mostly long term projects infrastructure and also personal tax cuts which is essential in terms of well building of competitiveness back to the indian economy but it is not bringing the short term gains that you would see already in 2020 now in india is actually one of the major growth and seeing the global economy. 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 the mcchrystal we are facing now a global economy. the race for the white house officially begins on monday in the us state of iowa it's still a wide field of democratic candidates vying to take on president donald trump in november including billionaires michael bloomberg and tom steyer alan fischer reports 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. senator bernie sanders senator warren 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 does. pick the president but it will eliminate several possibilities alan fischer al jazeera the more in iowa. results 0 in these the top stories the philippines as reported the 1st death from the coronavirus outside of china a 44 year old man from war han died there on saturday the philippines is now joined the us and australia and banning all foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days the 1st suspected cases also been announced

in new york this individual this patient who is being evaluated right now did exactly as they should have followed the guidelines that the new york put out and they met these specific criteria they had traveled to china they did have the specific symptoms associated with corona virus and they did come to get medical care here at the hospital hong kong hospital workers will go on strike on monday for 5 days and demanding the government close its borders with mainland china amid the outbreak china says at least 304 people have now died from the virus after dozens more deaths were confirmed of a nice. china is also struggling to contain bird flu an outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of show young and hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds died the government has called a further 17800 chickens iraq's president has appointed former

communications minister mohammed alawi as prime minister designate but he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters who've been out on the streets since october in a message posted on twitter a lot we promised change and said he stood with the demonstrate it. the arab league has rejected the u.s. president's plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict and emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said people would never accept the proposal put forward by donald trump this week protesters in lebanon have converged on its poorest city aaa to show the government they're united in their calls for political change comes ahead of next week's confidence vote to approve a new cabinet. but those are the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the

cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so plainly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policy is a matter of fact on the world. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business economics this week cheaper than a fighter jet saving of the ground and turning the globe into a battlefield drove us the multi-billion dollar industry and the nation's changing war for. powerful life but one of president putin's last 2 decades we look at the economic successes and failures plus the cost of a trade war now a virus as investors growing increasingly anxious we look at the economic impact of china is spreading.