a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with football hooligans. read audette on al-jazeera. the b.o.h. heard. it brought here. by yesterday the philippines recalled the 1st death outside china from the coronavirus to the global community imposes more travel restrictions. 1100 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm come all santa maria with the world news iraq has a new prime minister after months of deadlock the protesters say they will carry on with their anti-government demonstrations francis to point $600.00 more soldiers to

africa some whole region to fight against armed groups and the wheels are stopped spinning india's textile industry is hit badly by a slowing it all. so the impact of the corona virus outbreak in china is now spreading around the world we have the 1st death from the illness outside of china confirmed in the philippines a 44 year old man from holland with the virus was 1st reported he died in a hospital in manila the virus is now responsible for the deaths of at least 304 people with more than 14000 confirmed to have the illness now a number of african countries including angola and botswana have reported suspected cases and officials there are concerned the poor countries are ill equipped to deal with any out bright and also a growing number of airlines are suspending their services to and from china also

south korea the philippines and you zealand have banned people who recently traveled there from entering. new zealand payment residents and citizens who have been in my mind trying to will continue to be able to retune harm they will be required to go into isolation for a period of us for anyone who has visited mainland china and the last 14 days they will not be able to come in and remain with the new zealand borders for search and will be placed at the border we will be reviewing that every 48 hours we'll speak to our correspondent shortly but we're starting with the support and got hired learned by jing. one of the purpose built coronavirus hospitals in ruhani will open its doors on monday another is due to go online in the coming days together chinese officials say more than 2000 patients with the virus will be able to get care at the new facilities but with urgent calls for more supplies and

warnings of understaffed and overworked medical teams at the existing one hospitals these new facilities will probably take some time before they can run at full capacity. this is the announcement health officials around the world have been bracing for the 1st coronavirus death outside of china a 44 year old chinese man from mohan died on saturday in the philippines last few days. and showed signs of improvement however the condition of the patient. well the last one before are worse resulting in his face. more countries are flying their citizens out of province and new zealand has joined the list of nations barring non-citizens who have recently traveled to china from entering as this was supposed to be the end of the extended lunar new year holiday the streets of beijing should be bustling but the government here has said only essential workers were turned the others not for another week at least

businesses and private enterprises are doing the same. many are stuck inside their homes millions of chinese are taking to social media to talk about the coronavirus mostly venting frustration on the slow reaction of the government when the virus was 1st discovered and how donations have been diverted or delayed this story about a t.v. crew stopped from reporting on the work of the red cross received nearly 300000 comments chinese officials are also taking to social media using it to notify the public about details of cases of coronavirus so those who travel on the same flights trains or buses as infected patients and repast oblio exposed can get tested to try and prevent the virus from spreading further god or al jazeera beijing so i want to 0 in on a couple of areas now and that'll be with catherine sawyer in nairobi to talk about preparations across africa comes in a moment catherine 1st below manila as we say about to be the philippines the 1st

death outside of china but important to point out that it is not someone from the pale of a philippines it's not been transmitted in the philippines it's just happened there essentially. that's right kemal the 2 cases of the virus here in the philippines a couple actually the 44 year old man from one who died on saturday in a government hospital here in manila his partner a 38 year old woman from one china again the epicenter of the bill quote a virus outbreak they both apparently got sick while still in china or could be when they were transitting from china to the philippines via hong kong they left china on january 21st arrived in the philippines the same day that 2 days before the lockdown. and apparently when they arrived in the philippines they were

symptomatic and so that is causing some alarm here in the philippines because they traveled for 4 days in the central region of the philippines and did not get admitted to a hospital until january 25th so we are assuming they got in contact with if not hundreds of thousands of people on the on their flight and on their travels and so again that is causing some alarm here but the health department has assured the public that they are conducting contact tracing again as you mentioned the philippine government already banning travelers from china coming to the philippines not just chinese nationals but any foreigner flying in from china to to philippines except filipino citizens filipino citizens can still fly to the philippines but they will have to be quarantined for 14 days upon arriving in the philippines thank you bonnie below in manila and as promised catherine soy

in nairobi now catherine how prepared are well east african and southern african countries how are they prepared to fight this. well that's what a lot of people are asking is a lot of concern that have been raised by people living in countries on the continent who are quite worried about how prepared their countries are to deal with corn a virus that's in many statements that have been issued by countries in different regions of particular listen statements from kenya and ethiopia all of them trying to assure their citizens that hall is well talking about increased measures talking about increased surveillance border screening screening in all border points in this kemal is something that has been going on from before especially in this region because of an airball outbreak in the democratic republic of congo's soak up

government officials i've talked to saying that they're just enhancing these measures in kenya they also say they have expanded the capacity of isolation wards just in case we've also seen several national airlines like wonder and kenya suspending flights to china kenya has suspended flights to one zoo there's also this risk on sand that if you open air lines particularly which is one of the largest airlines on the continent has said it's going to continue with people particularly in ethiopia very concerned about that and it's also important to note kemal there are many many africans working and studying in. china there are about 5000 students in one alone and some countries are trying to find ways of evacuating their citizens here in kenya we've had we've seen reports of students particularly in one calling loved ones here saying that they're afraid they're running low on supplies they want to come back home but we've also had from

the ministry of foreign affairs with officials there saying that there are no immediate plans to evacuate a kenyan citizens from china the issue the situation is best to live with best handled by china in china but they also say they're very closely monitoring what's going on thank you for that catherine so in nairobi. let's go to other news and iraq's president bottom sollars name former communications minister mohammad as the new prime minister designate but his appointment hasn't been welcomed in some areas where demonstrators have camped out for weeks demanding greater political reforms similar fulton reports from baghdad. on 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 saleh chose mohamed allow it

to replace other loved the mahdi who resigned 2 months ago amid widespread anti-government protests days prior to allow his appointment we spoke to protesters in tahrir he had 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 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 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 on 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. a concern that we're going to investigate some bring those responsible for the violence against peaceful demonstrators to a town which. 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 allowed his appointment but influential shiite cleric mokhtar starter 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 pan then 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 and the months of deadlock and pave the way for early elections and gradual reform some want to hold in al-jazeera but that and also reporting from baghdad as imran khan has been in tahrir square the center of the anti-government protests with the public mood on this new appointment . because we know he needs to get these people on the his side in order to be able to put pressure on the politics set him and his cabinet and form a government and he has 30 days to do that and then yes to call early elections. elections for that for the protesters to be even vaguely satisfied but let me just say show you're going to get out the way of the camera now these people have been camped out since october they had very big demands of the very beginning of the

protest movement they wanted a complete overhaul of the political system in the months since then they've actually template that actually we just want now a new prime minister who cold elections or you want a change in that way now is the habits of the man that be able to deliver that well that's the really big question the protest movement is a unified very different views on the protests protests as well there's 2 key schools of thought the 1st one is well if a law we support supports this movement then we should support him and the other one says well actually he's part of the old school he's part of the problem and we want a complete change in the news ahead more on the corona virus outbreak and should you be wearing a protective thanks hans that the answers from health specialists. to call 1st and ignore the tourist hub of tripoli rises to become the house of

lebanon's protests. we've got some bits and pieces of rain sleet and snow pushing across northern parts of japan at the moment see this area have just drifting across the cotton northern areas of honshu and it will continue to filter in some of that so wintry weather from time to time but to the south of that this decent spells of warm sunshine tokyo sheltered by the mountains say highs of around 13 or 14 degrees over the next couple of days. central and southern parts of china family of cloud his southern there is a child in particular will say some rather heavy rain from time to time that's drifting a little further south which had a switch down towards hong kong to move on into the middle part of the way to the north of that there was you can see more sunshine 4 celsius there for beijing some

of the temperature to a soul meanwhile plenty of sunshine across south asia lousy clear skies across a good part of india into myanmar bangladesh also seeing lossie clear skies you might just catch want to choose showers just around the dish and old pos all out of the dash could catch a little bit of wet weather from time to time but essentially it. dry further north well 21 celsius in new delhi that's not too bad as the lows that we're more worried about lows have around 5 or 6 degrees celsius but as i said a slushy fine and dry. for 2 years ago the mysterious killing of the president of north yemen the nation. it's a story of deception and. one that still resonates today. al-jazeera world reveals how a banquet for your many dignitaries became the backdrop to

a brutal assassination. the last lunch. 0. if. you go down to 0 on these the top stories some man in the philippines become the 1st person to die from corona virus outside of china or injured 4 people have now died within china and more than 14000 cases have been confirmed in. the philippines and new zealand have joined the u.s. and australia in banning entry to foreigners who recently visited china and in hong kong pressure is growing on the government to close its border with the mail. and

in iraq there is a new prime minister after months of political deadlock and anti-government protests demonstrators say mohamad a law is just part of the old ruling elite and so they will continue to protest. so more now on the corona virus outbreak was spreading and you say many people rushing out to buy face masks to protect themselves we wonder though just how effective they really are well according to the world health organization if you don't have respiratory symptoms then you don't need one only health professionals treating people with symptoms need to wear them also people who have developed symptoms of coronavirus need them to protect. from getting sick running back in time now who is head of the bias security program at the university of new south wales and kirby institute she tell us surgical masks may not necessarily always stop us from getting infected but they do help. those miners may act as a physical barrier to stop splashes and sprays of large droplets and also

from touching your face we tend to touch up face at about 200 times a day and the mask will stop you contaminating yourself with your hand and i think the search for mars probably will help if you're in an area where if you're on an evacuation flight. if you're in who if you're in a city or town with there it's a lot of the debates around. it may be helpful there have been a number of studies looking at mosques in community settings including one that way denounced already we've found there is there was a sick person in the household if you wore the mask all the time when you were around that person and it protected you from the sick person with what's on the market with surgical masks you can get some very poor or low quality products that are cold mask the other thing is that last months which i use commonly in asia they

do not work we did a study of. surgical masks and what surgical mask is better than a plot plus might even increase your risk of infection. at the same time china is struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu cases reported on a farm in the city of shall young in hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds died the government has culled a further $17800.00 chicken the h 5 n one strain of bird flu can be transmitted to humans but it is rare. now france is deploying $600.00 more soldiers to africa's whole region to fight against armed groups the french defense ministry says the troops will mostly be sent to an area including parts of mali bikini faster and. france already has about 4 and a half 1000 soldiers in the region more with nicholas hawk in dakar any particular reason for the increase in troops now nicholas. welcome all there's

just been an increase a really drastic increase of attacks happening in the region in mali and. just last week 20000000 soldiers were killed earlier and during that week gunmen on motorbikes sprayed this village this market killing lots of people at this border area with mali and brick enough ah so so the attacks have been increasing there is a lot of anger amongst many west african countries that are hosting these french forces that not enough is being done to protect the population so yes there's a reason why there's so many troops coming up now 600 troops is it adds up to 5000 troops in this region never has there been so many french soldiers on the african continent since the wars of independence so it's a group it's a big move from the parts of the french when it comes at a time where president my cone is struggling to build this coalition that he's

trying to to garner a coalition to the likes that we've seen in syria and iraq and he is. armed forces minister flawless probably went to the united states to meet her counterpart mark esper the defense secretary to try to convince him to keep the american troops on the african continent but they're moving away a 1000 troops of west africa are supposed to move away france has asked for germany to send in troops they have refused germany is already contribution troops part of the un peacekeeping mission in mali that's the biggest un peacekeeping operation costing a $1000000000.00 a year so now in west african countries like seeing that these attacks are just escalating have resorted to trying to arm civilians just last week. so passed a law in parliament to arm civilians so that they can defend themselves to try to stem out all of these attacks. in dot com thank you for that.

now japan is sending a warship to the gulf for what it calls an intelligence gathering mission. attack an army destroyer was sent off with a ceremony near tokyo on sunday 90 percent of japan's oil imports come from the gulf and so prime minister shinzo army is expected to authorize the military to protect commercial oil tankers this has been opposed by some groups on. the economic slowdown in india is crippling its textile industry many workers have lost their jobs they say they're cheap imports reduced export markets higher taxes they're all to blame for this to climb this report now from sahara raman and in 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 looms have been silent for 18 months it's only spoke to us on the condition of anonymity to protect what little he has left in terms of a business for us to follow the implementation of g.s.t. closing our code to many hassles and 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'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 kickstart 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 one you know 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. protesters in lebanon have marched through its poorest city to show the government they are united in their calls for political change and still widespread anger over corruption and mismanagement this latest rally coming out of next week's confidence vote to approve a new lebanese saw reports now from tripoli. so. revolutionary songs play out says 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 we came from label to thank tripoli for all the birds

everything she did for beirut and all every single egypt game yet also. that the mosque today is hand in hand so we're putting i would hunt together. the one heart one blood and one heart beats was. just weeks ago protesters nationwide said a british forcing former prime minister inside of these government to resign but they're still unhappy. they're concerned and the government is caught out of the same cloth a political elite that won't meet their demands and time soon if i take this love cost $7.00 or maybe a few religious and even a short background but they are here in tripoli to show you see and they have one message for the new government is that i'll be stronger than ever and you'll always find the right. the new cabinet is gz receive a vote of confidence in parliament next week but protesters don't trust those at

the helm and to worry 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 born the coalition to 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 simple but i do more than just strip this. no because you 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 remember that most of the debate they talk about wanting a government that will be held accountable and despite the diversity hey 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 tricky. supporters of the former ivory coast president are on back both cold for his

release prosecutors at the international criminal court are preparing to appeal his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity that herring happens next week last year backed by was acquitted of charges relating to deadly violence after he lost 2010 presidential election since then he's been on that conditional release in belgium where prosecutors are preparing the appeal by supporters say it's just a ruse to prevent him from participating in politics back. in the united states democratic hopefuls making their final pitch to voters ahead of monday's presidential nomination process it all begins in iowa with 11 candidates i would traditionally serving as a vital launching point or maybe even a burial ground for presidential campaigns there is no clear front runner in this vast field but polls suggest senator bernie sanders has a narrow lead over former vice president joe biden but sanders and biden of use their rallies to take a swipe at president obama trump. i believe both are saying let me point out that

you personally. say was told house and house was. president we cannot. legislate which is strong. position in which things like. the hullo. everyone knows who donald trump. we have to little know who we are we choose hope over fear we choose science over fiction we choose unity over division. and guess what we chose only. ok we're going to end this bogus and with a bit of torturous news something a little different to what is that was believed to be extinct but 2 species of giant tortoises have been discovered by scientists on ecuador's islands in the

pacific $29.00 florrie on the tortoises were found there but the real excitement came with the discovery of a single pinta tortoise which is a relative of the told to scald lonesome george i thought he was the last of his kind he died 8 years ago but that may be different now. and without a look at the headlines on al-jazeera a man in the philippines has become the 1st person to die from corona virus outside of china $304.00 people have now died within the country and more than 14000 cases have been confirmed in hong kong the pressure is growing on the government to close the border with the mainland the philippines a new zealand have joined the u.s. and the strain and banning entry to foreigners who have recently visited china is what you see the prime minister's been saying new zealand permanent residents and citizens who have been in mainland china will continue to be able to return home they will be required to go into isolation for

a period of 14 days for anyone who has visited mainland china and the last 14 days they will not be able to come in and remain within new zealand's borders restrictions will be placed at the border we will be reviewing that every 48 hours . china is also struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu cases reported on a farm in the city this isn't one province 4 and a half 1000 birds died there and so the government is culled a further 17 $1800.00 chicken the h 5 n one strain of bird flu can be transmitted to humans but it is rare in some other headlines now iraq has a new prime minister after months of political deadlock and anti-government protests the demonstrators say he is part of the old ruling elite and so they will continue their anti government demonstrations. france is deploying $600.00 more soldiers to africa's whole region to fight against armed groups the french defense

ministry says the truth for mostly be sent to an area that includes parts of mali and france already has about 4 and a half 1000 soldiers in the region japan is sending a warship to the gulf of oman for what it calls an intelligence gathering mission. to. the destroyer was sent off with a ceremony on sunday hosted by prime minister shinzo other 90 percent of japan's oil imports come from the gulf and so prime minister expected to authorize the military to protect commercial oil tankers in the region that has been proposed by some members of that. that's my lot for today thanks for your company inside story is coming up next with adrian finnegan. countering the calls to keep it off i suggest how the drug industry is changing wolf plus putin's power grab for life if

we look at the russian president's economic record over his last 2 decades and she's biggest test controlling the spread of the coronavirus counting the cost on al-jazeera. donald trump looks certain to be acquited republican senate witnesses in the u.s. president's impeachment so is this trial and will democrats still pursue trump's removal of what does it mean for his reelection bid this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan the 3rd impeachment trial of a sitting u.s. president will likely come to an end on wednesday after the senate voted to block any witnesses testifying this puts trump a step closer to being.