i want to see. the. the of. the philippines confirms the 1st death from corona virus outside of china in several countries and for small travel restrictions. i'm tempted al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq has a new prime minister designate and he tells protesters to keep demonstrating until they get what they want. no deal palestinians get the backing of the arab league against don't trump's middle east. and why the wheels of the textile industry in

india have grown to india hopes. the philippines has reported the 1st death from the corona virus outside of china a 44 year old man from died there on saturday to developing demonio in the philippines and new zealand have now joined the us and australia and banning all foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days and hong kong calls are getting louder to close its border with the mainland china hospital workers have voted to go on strike from monday to pressure the government and countries around the world are continuing to fly this citizens out of china russia is the latest with the military sending planes on monday and tuesday within china $304.00 people have now died from the virus beijing has asked the e.u. for urgently needed medical supplies as it struggles to contain the virus let's go

now to scott hyla who is live for us in beijing scott the 1st death with now heard from corona virus outside of china what more can you tell us. yes it's been confirmed by the philippine authorities that a 44 year old chinese man from hawn died on saturday he developed pneumonia while he was in in the hospital in quarantine with a companion a 38 year old a chinese woman who traveled with him they landed in the philippines on the 21st of january they connected through hong kong on their way to the philippines yes this is the 1st death now from the corona virus outside of china now it's interesting you know it came comes in the philippines and that's when as you mentioned one of the 4 nations that are really kind of clamping down on allowing non-citizens to come in who have traveled to china who have been to china so very intimate now that this is the 1st death recorded of a from the coronavirus outside of china let's talk a little bit about that the number of countries who have banning people have been

in china is growing how is that going with beijing beijing you know the 1st announcement of a procedure like this restrictions like this came from the united states and it didn't it was not received well by beijing here they said that it did was not a show of good faith in the united states said that that wasn't their intention but they were just being very protective there was no big threat in the united states they said but they wanted to be as protective as possible for the united states citizens so what it what it really is is that any person none citizen from the united states coming to the united states who's traveled to china who is not a relative a close relative of an american citizen or has a green card that legally can be in the united states as a foreign national they will be turned away a minister announced a similar situation similar restrictions the philippines and then new zealand to new zealand said that there is going to go into a place into place on monday i meant i'm going to see more of that to thank for

that for now that scott haile there live for us from beijing where the u.s. can say 8 cases of the virus soft a woman fell ill and boston gabriel amazon has those 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 had 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 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 1000 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 quarantine areas on military bases and the pentagon confirm that they are doing that they are having beds if you will for as many as 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 scoop 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. a new political leader but signs it was has a fire rocky protest president barham saleh has named former communications minister mohammad allowing as prime minister designate but his appointment hasn't been welcomed in some areas where demonstrators have camped out for 4 months demanding sweeping political reforms simona fall to 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 are here 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 the 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. 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 sudras movement will stand with him and if that's the case the other political blocs will do this. 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 is appointment doesn't fulfill either of these demands but it could end the months of deadlock and pave the way for early elections and gradual reform. in al-jazeera but the bat. the arab league has rejected the us president donald trump's middle east for an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacks the proposal saying his people will never accept its reports that. palestinians were banking on the support of the arab league's faith 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 and

president mahmoud abbas 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 my skin's 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 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. al jazeera the occupied west bank. still ahead on al-jazeera making the most of what. we go inside the shops and homes of families in northwest syria. and 5 pfizer's hold back a strain is raging flames spots and now the day of scorching temperatures brings a brand new friends. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across turkey

things are improving now we did see a lot of snow as well as rain this past week with a storm system that is now beginning to pull out you can see that on satellite image making its way towards the northeast we're still going to be dealing with some coastal snow as well as rain here as we go towards sunday really on the north coast but things are looking a lot better as we go towards monday as well we are expected to see better conditions here across parts of iraq as well as into iran much of the snow is making its way over here towards the east here in doha though we do expect to see some breezy conditions over the next few days mostly as we go starting on sunday that could bring some blowing dust as well as we go towards monday it is going to be mostly breezy in the morning but tempers are going to be dropping we do expect to see tempers coming down to about 20 overnight low so we're down to about 12 degrees here well over here towards madagascar of course we have been dealing with a lot of heavy rain and flooding across much of the north things are better across much of the region as we go towards the beginning of the week though we're going to be dealing with some coastal showers over here much towards the east things look

better to the north a lot drier across much of the area but down here toward southern africa and cape town expect to see a temp just coming up here on sunday at 30 degrees and as we go towards monday $31.00 degrees for you. gives you a deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances and in theory for one thing you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me mary huff and as i put the upfront questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera.

you're watching auxerre on her reminder of our top stories this hour the philippines has reported the 1st death from the coronavirus outside of china a 44 year old man from harm died there on saturday the philippines and new zealand have now joined the u.s. at a straight here in banning travelers of recently china. iraq's president has appointed former communications minister mohammad a law we as prime minister designate but he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters who wants weeping political change. the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's proposed plan for the middle east as head of emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept it. 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 export markets and higher taxes are to blame for the decline so how raman reports from louisiana 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 lubes have been silent for 18 months ota spoke to us on the condition of and the liberty to protect what little he has left in terms of a business foster for the implementation of g.s.t. was not quite good money then economic downturn all over the world not just india but all over the world and too much change 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 sort of 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 and 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 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 your people must have read us they are planning for our own clothes they have been 31 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 production. 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 robert al-jazeera look down on the job. possibly is the director of the european center for international political economy explains why india's economic decline is

a risk for the global. 1st of all india remains one of the most closed up economies with many regulatory barriers even the mystically of the business 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 he he's made a majority he has received in the last election has actually fell address money on the growth impediments we see and so we see actually for example i met writing down the expectations for the. 27 percent or almost over any 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 seeing is that. we

are looking at mostly long 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 humans see already in 2020 now 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 immaturely economy is actually going down as well as so this is one part of the well this is the mcchrystal we're facing now in the global economy. protesters in lebanon have converged on its poorest city to show the government they're united in their calls for political change there's still widespread anger of the corruption and mismanagement the latest march comes ahead of next week's confidence vote to approve a new cabinet sarkar it reports from tripoli. the. 'd revolutionary

songs play out is 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. the team of today is hand in hand so we're putting i would hunt together the fellow to handle one heart one blood and one heart. just weeks ago protesters nationwide said a british forcing former prime minister inside a highly 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 a test is no love lost levon or maybe a different religious and even facial backgrounds but they are here in tripoli to show you see they have one message for the new government is that i'll be stronger

than ever and you'll always find the server right. the new cabinet is g. to receive a vote of confidence in parliament next week but 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 there are more of george bush who are really really urgent this is one is the economic crisis the is that and the benghazi of the court system 1st it's not that suburb and i hear more that the strip of the city going to. hard to come in there's a real sense of community at this demonstration 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. al-jazeera trip 30. airstrikes in fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are escaping toward the turkish border as hospitals and live in aleppo come under attack after nearly 10 years of war government forces are back in control of large parts of the country marked here and rid of it as a confined to the northwestern province of idlib where the forces backed by turkey and surrounding areas after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts on the else around it frank up to 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 and western 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 then 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. 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 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 blasts month the surgeon numbers of those displaced has stretched the health workers to their limits the most important. unity challenge for us they make us sick that against our best it is our and our because so we

miss you know american medical society or we document it 82. against the health care services starting last. for president bashar al assad. the short term goal is to secure serious mate highway that runs from north to south of the country the larger plan is to capture the entire province of the lost me just on and off the rebels. but the people of the mood remains one of defiance. there's been another shooting at a protest against india's controversial new citizenship law police have arrested a gunman who opened fire at demonstrators in the capital new delhi there are no reports of casualties comes just 2 days after one person was injured during a shooting at another rally in the city the nora now allows for other minorities from 3 neighboring countries to get citizenship excludes muslims. of the

us has rolled back restrictions on the use of land mines that have been banned by more than 100 countries arms control proponents have been quick to criticize the moves that will allow the use of anti-personnel landmines in exceptional circumstances and to shift. 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 u.s. says it's planning to use them again after more than 30 years of landmines 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 as a very dangerous and even people will die as a result of this move it just for her to normalize these pieces and seen what happened 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. strong gusts of wind and soaring temperatures a fuelling bush fun as if the australian capital firefighters have managed to prevent the flames reaching the outskirts of canberra but uncontrolled fires in the territory have spread across at least 350 square kilometers. the issue we have with the fire activity is that the fire itself is generating its own way the pattern and that combined with the wind direction is what is driving that intensity in the fall and we have created an environment with air attack and ground based and shaping of the fire that is the fire particular comes out of man 10 it will attack it on the grasslands it is too dangerous to put half i thought is into more remote areas and so we're actually waiting for the fire to come out and they were believed to be

extinct species of giant tortoises being rediscovered by scientists on an expedition to the galactica $29.00 examples of the florey on a tortoise were found on the largest of the galapagos islands but the real excitement came when the discovery of a single tortious it's a relative of the tortoise called lonesome george who is believed to be the last of his kind and died 80 years ago scientists are now keeping a close eye on the new discoveries but there are unlikely to get. results there and these are the top stories the philippines has reported the 1st death from the corona virus outside of china a 44 year old man from will han died there on saturday the philippines and new zealand have now joined the us and australia banning all foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days scotland has more from beijing it's been confirmed by the philippine authorities that

a 44 year old chinese man from will han i died on saturday he developed pneumonia while he was in the hospital in quarantine with a companion a 38 year old chinese woman who travelled with him they landed in the philippines on the 21st of january they connected through hong kong on their way to the philippines yes this is the 1st death now of the coronavirus outside of china. hong kong hospital workers will go on strike on monday for 5 days demanding the government close its borders with mainland china amid the outbreak within china at least 304 people have now died from the virus up to dozens more deaths were confirmed of annoying. china is also struggling to contain bird flu an outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of shell young and hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds dived the government has called for the 17800 chickens

iraq's president has appointed former communications minister mohammad a long way as prime minister designate but he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters who have been out on the streets since october demanding political reforms and a message posted on twitter allow it promised change and said he stood with the demonstrators. the arab league has rejected the u.s. president's plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict at an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept the proposal put forth by donald trump. protesters and they have been on have converged on its poorest city tripoli to show the government they used i sit in their calls for political change comes ahead of a confidence vote next week to improve a new cabinets. the headline stay with this up front is coming up next. i'll choose their own. talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the

endemic corruption and we listen so if you really put please china as an enemy of the winners and that's really then yours we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that back to 0. all wrong in the united states on the path to war on today's up front a special debate between a former iranian diplomat and the retired u.s. general. i'm mad also on the show u.n. investigator and yes calabar has accused the crown prince of saudi arabia of hacking into the cell phone of washington post owner jeff bezos kalama whether anyone can stand up to m.p.'s but 1st after iranian general hossam silly money was assassinated in iraq on the order of u.s. president donald trump the islamic republic of iran and the united states almost

went to war and we're not out of the woods yet tensions between the 2 countries are the new high.