should matter so much to the rest of the world the indigenous people who live here always realized that now is the smoke those the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it to. the on. al-jazeera. tallow there i am how i'm here see an endo how with the al-jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes the iowa caucus gets underway senator bernie sanders leads in the earliest results from iowans taking part thousands of miles away a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it's retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians are killed in syrian shelling crushing demonstrations in

iraq protesters fear their movement has been taken over answered another $64.00 people have died from corona virus in the province at the center of the outbreak in china plus an election victory overturns malawi's constitutional court and nullifies the $2900.00 result and orders a rerun. well the race to just sign it it will be the democratic challenger in the embers us presidential election is that underway candidates are facing the 1st big test in iowa the results are seen as an indicator over who will go on to face donald trump in the ember now unlike primaries these are caucuses won by the parties themselves people meets in small gatherings in churches and town halls rather than in official

polling centers the focus is on face to face engagement the caucuses will be held in more than 16 hunt. locations as well as other satellites locations both inside and outside the states the last 4 democrats to win iowa all went on to win the party's nomination so the stakes are high along with their backers this year's candidates have spent nearly $80000000.00 on iowa t.v. and radio ads in the lead up to the votes now we have 2 correspondents covering developments in iowa for you in a moment we'll hear from john hendren news talking with people taking part in the caucus but 1st let's begin alan fischer allen one of the candidates have been doing today that. well the 1st caucuses have already taken place the results of those won't be released until the main results start to come

out for the candidates it's a difficult day what do you do when people are about to vote well for the senators it was really simple they all had to head back to washington there are 4 senators running here in iowa so they've been tied up with the business around the impeachment trial as for the others well they've been doing typical politician things they've been trying to get on as much media as possible are getting people to go out to vote and vote for them they have been shaking hands with people in the streets all across iowa they have been kissing babies patting dogs having coffee just trying to make sure that they can get the tonneau and we're expecting a record turnout here now i've been speaking to one of those candidates is a man by the name of tom styer he's been doing better in the polls over the last few weeks is support is rising but he's looking perhaps at a 4th or 5th place is being his best possible scenario here in iowa the difficulty

of course for many people is that tom star has never held elected office elected office and we know that there are many democrats who don't think that turned out terribly well the last time that the united states voted someone who was new to politics so i asked him could he convince people that he could actually do the job in the white house i believe corporations of better government i think the problem with our government is that it's broken because corporations own it someone who spent 10 years as an outsider beating corporations every single time or someone who is a career politician from inside the beltway why it's working perfectly for people inside the beltway the question is how is it working for the american people and we all know it's not. what i was just so many candidates in these caucuses is there any indication of what sort of result will be licking outs from iowa. course no unusual that you have a large field in iowa this is where they start to win or don't the numbers and by

to morrow a number of people will announce that their presidential campaigns are over because this just simply wasn't the time the big surprise here in iowa would be if bernie sanders didn't when he has been the top of the polls over the last couple of weeks if an exec in very narrowly to hillary clinton 4 years ago he's got a big grown swell of support and certainly he's been attracting the biggest crowds to his rallies across iowa in the last few days particularly over the weekend when he was actually here on saturday and sunday but you don't have to win in iowa to be a winner if you come a good 3rd or a good 4th then there's every possibility that that will give you momentum though you may think that doesn't sound quite possible and let me give you a name bill clinton he finished 4th here in iowa when the polls were putting him down and he dubbed him self the comeback kid and suddenly he's catapulted towards the top of the polls in new hampshire and he goes on to secure the nomination for the democratic party and ultimately won the presidency so we're not just looking at

1st place we get 2nd who gets 3rd we're also looking at 4th and 5th and whether or not people then have viable can penes it's interesting with tom styer because normally you've got to do well to build up a bit of momentum to make sure that your fund raising continues well when you are as rich as tom styer he's a millionaire perhaps even a billionaire then he can sell fund this one campaign and that's exactly what might bloomberg is doing he's not here in iowa didn't get on the ballot soon enough so we're looking at who finishes in the top 3 the likelihood is it's going to be joe biden in there somewhere elizabeth warren possibly bernie sanders there fill in the top 3 and then people and amy clubbish are where did they finish and then they going to go on with the momentum of the comeback kids or is this where the campaigns and certainly everyone says look. we've got campaigns going beyond here into new hampshire next week and so be interesting to see when we start getting the results exactly who is where and what all that means indeed for alan fischer thank

you very much indeed we also have john hendren in des moines forest john you're among the caucus goers a little bit see behind you know you but certainly in iowa what's the atmosphere been like this is quite a crucial caucus season is it not. that's right i mean the drake university basketball arena if you look behind me you can see just a little bit of activity going on this is a caucus in fact it's the biggest caucus in iowa what 121200 people will be gathering here and if you just want to see the beginnings of what's going on i'll ask my cameraman jim to pan over here that is where the democrats come to register by name separated alphabetically of course and then they come in and if you can look behind me here there are sections and here's a sign for tom styer who we've all been talking about this would be the section

where stiers people would sit so what happens if there's a leader somebody gets up and talks and at an event this big sometimes it's the candidate him or herself that comes to plead their case then what happens is they take a vote in that vote people gather together in groups and if you don't have 15 percent that candidate is not viable in this particular precinct so you get rid of them and all of those voters have the opportunity to go to someone else so there's a 2nd vote taken there used to be multiple but this year there are only 2 and there's a complicating factor that this year could make things a little confusing it used to be said that there were 3 tickets out of the iowa caucus the 1st 3 people numerically who won delegates gold silver and bronze will now they're going to announce the winner of that 1st vote the winner of the 2nd vote and the ultimate winner of the delegate count so it's entirely possible that you could have people arguing that they had

a moral victory even if they didn't get the most delegates so this could be an interesting night it's certainly kids and a lot of the the the the caucus goers themselves i mean many of them have been torn really you've been speaking with them what are you getting is the sense from these caucus goers what's more important to them the elects a billet say off the counter to 2020 or just the gusts in states. well i talked to a young man earlier who was undecided i've talked to a number of people who say they're actually coming to the caucuses and this is how this is different and than most other states they're coming to the caucuses to learn to hear from the people the advocates for the candidates or from the candidates themselves and they want to be convinced to vote for a candidate some of them come in with a list of $12.00 or 3 people that they want to vote for well this year the polls suggest that the top 2 vote getters are actually at the polls of the democratic

party on the one hand you've got joe biden who is the establishment candidate and then on the other end you've got bernie sanders self-proclaimed socialist the left most candidate perhaps and those are the 2 who seem to be polling higher under them you've got people to judge and elizabeth warren also representing really a moderate and a more leftist candidate and that seems to be what we're seeing a lot of people are talking a lot about those candidates and it is the activists people like the bernie sanders people who tend to fire people up in iowa and get them to come and vote he had has had a good history here even though we didn't win against hillary clinton so the people we're talking to are excited they're talking about all kinds of candidates and the truth is this is is such an idiosyncratic process that the polls don't necessarily refer reflect what's going to happen so we could see surprises here this evening we saw in the kid john it looks like is shaping up to be an end to signify that's john

hendren there live for us ends of morning thank you very much indeed for ny well we are going to stay with american politics but a change of pace not just 2 weeks old debates both sides have presented their closing arguments in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump democrats say pressured ukraine c. investigates a political rival and withheld security aides as leverage he's expected. to be a quizzes all of the charges by the republican majority senate on wednesday castro has more now from washington the senate will convene as recorded in pietschmann chaplain will lead us and pray for the final time democrats serving as president trumps prosecutors made the case for his removal he has betrayed our national security and he will do so again he has compromised our elections and he will do so again you will not change him you cannot constrain him he is who he is truth

matters little to him what's right matters even less and decency matters not at all but these arguments are mere formality the conclusion all but certain that the republican senators making up the jury's majority will vote to acquit trump they said so themselves i think what he did is a long way from treason bribery high crimes and misdemeanors democrats have known from the beginning their effort to remove trump was a long shot they argue they've nevertheless tried because the constitution required it the question now is how this impeachment will impact trumps reelection bid in november trumps lawyers maintain american voters should be who decides the president's fate and if you do not like the policies were particularly ministration or particular candidate you are free and welcome to vote for another candidate but the answer is elections not impeachment. trumps approval rating is

currently the highest it's been since he took office on tuesday he'll tell his administration's accomplishments at his annual state of the union address a chance to revel in his impending acquittal. castro al-jazeera washington. well there's plenty more cells to come on the news hour including the cordons reveal what iran knew in the immediate aftermath of the downing over ukrainian airliner amid warnings of a worsening food crisis inside see done with look at the challenges of delivering aid to remote areas and the superstar of the super bowl is living the dream at disney world and he has worked in sports. that turkey says its military has had dozens of syrian government targets killing

many troops strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers on 3 civilians were killed by shelling in syria's rebel held it live province turkey has now sent more reinforcements to ad lib andas threatening further action as priyanka gupta reports . towns and villages and don't press syria under attack by government jets. a grim reality throughout the 90 s. civil war. and for the 1st time the government assault and it has put turkey on the syrian regime it direct military confrontation. asked after turkey sent military reinforcements into syria which it says was to prevent more bloodshed in the province its soldiers and civilians came under attack prompting a retaliation from ankara yet it. was all of us and what we see is an aerial

assault by regime forces an adlib which resulted in 8 people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out. the u.n. says it's alarmed at this scale ation underscores yet again the threat to regional . an international peace and security post caused by the ongoing conflict in syria . we also remain deeply concerned by the continue reports of civilian casualties large scale displacement of civilians turkey says nearly a 1000000 people are moving towards its border to escape the relentless bombing campaign by the syrian government it's fast capturing towns and villages in it live and aleppo provinces leaving destroyed neighborhoods and devastated families homeless once again in syria's harsh winter this found the of 9 never stood a chance or do you know that

a driver can in as he these people are coming they were displaced we heard the airstrike we came running and found the bus burning inside it there were bodies small children. over the past few weeks syrian government forces have been trying to secure 2 major highways that links cities under government control and isolate the rebels the m 4 highway runs from west to east and the m 5 highway from north to south connecting aleppo to the capital damascus and latakia after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts built to monitor a cease fire niblett are now surrounded the russians are saying nothing really happened out there barred meant kind of in denial meaning that. we use wiggling space to try and find some kind of magic formula to prevent the herd on collision the russian military 1st say have their own political interests inside

syria where they're with one help the syrian regime to quins out their. strategies on the battlefield with dangerous consequences and a tragic human cost priyanka gupta al-jazeera. well thought he had guru manages the turkey project at chatham house he says turkey is trying to prevent more syrian refugees from crossing its border turkey's trying to maintain the status quo in italy and to prevent syrian refugees streaming over the border into turkey it's becoming a real hot potato politically for president and the turkish government but there's not but what we tend to see is that we see a military escalation with russian air support and then a temporary cease fire followed by another escalation and inevitably i think that syrian army may be able will be able to take it live over it over the course of

time i think what russia wants is for greater political engagement between president eridu on and did and assad in damascus for exert recently moscow engineered the meeting between the turkish head of intelligence a comfy done and the head of the syrian intelligence so what what russia wants is closer coordination between damascus and. to avert any kind of a showdown in italy and for turkey to accept the fact that assad will regain. it glib and say government process camps in iraq appear to be fracturing over the appointed appointments of prime minister designate mohammed alawi many demonstrators immediately rejected the nomination bots influences shia cleric souther back to low and threaten penalties against those who continue disobedience smaller fulton reports from baghdad. if the square is the heart of iraq's protest

movement this building called the turkish restaurant has been its nerve center from its upper floors you can observe the entire square the river tigris and frontlines on strategic bridges but the protesters are no longer in charge of it last saturday supporters of shiite cleric. wearing blue hats took the building and since then their sphere day might seize control of the entire movement these young men say sutter supporters forcibly evicted demonstrators beating those who resisted now they're no longer allowed to enter the. market for the protests square the most important building is that building because we can watch everyone from the turkish restaurant when there is an attack against us we were able to confront that but now we don't know any think we don't see who is coming who can enter. the eviction coincided with the appointment of mohamed allow as prime minister designate many

here firmly reject him that our side or however has endorsed allawi and demonstrators fear that the sudras now want to curtail any opposition to their candidate perhaps even and the protests. means you know the worries over we don't know their intentions maybe taking the restaurant stage which was to 1st we don't know if they are with us or against us inside the turkish restaurant floors that once teamed with demonstrators stand largely empty except for a few blue hats conducting cleanup operations they say their takeover was necessary to remove those they call a rogue elements of the movement who used drugs and violence. the turkish restaurant was closed to the real demonstrators the infiltrators controlled and even the families don't want to go inside it became difficult to come inside because there was violence and attacks by molotov cocktails over the months sutter has repeatedly changed his position on the proto. for now it appears he has decided

that it's time for things to return to normal and i thought of he's been through in a half months there's been bloodshed killing and exhaustion the security forces are exhausted demonstrators are exhausted sutter supporters say that allow we will only serve for a transitional period until early elections are held these protesters however accused her of using their movement to meet his political ends they are determined to stay until their demands for an independent candidate are met. the takeover of the turkish restaurant signals a growing rift within the protest movement between the followers of looked at the start of a support allow we as prime minister designate and others to reject him and some are concerned that these tensions could lead to confrontation especially if the sudras incorporation of security forces attempt to clear more protest sites similar fault in al-jazeera. but 3 members of an iranian opposition group have been arrested in denmark charged with spying on behalf of saudi arabia they've been

under investigation for more than a year when they were arrested accused of collecting information on individuals in denmark and abroad passing it on society intelligence officers danish authorities say they've also been charged in absentia they've also charged absentia rather a member of the rainey an intelligence service accused of murder attempts on one of the activists let's get more now from our he's director of the gulf affairs institution joins us by skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the news or just 1st so who are these arabian opposition separatists on why are they so coarsely lying to you say gee arabia because normally when you think of saudi arabia and iran this they aren't they don't work together well. yes to this this is part of the iranian opposition group and this is one of the groups that comes from the hose

a stand or a. bit which is the arab area iran and saudi arabia has been funding many of apposition members there and you can see them visiting saudi arabia and other countries and even there is a saudi channel that with that name to support the independence of the separate separation. secession of of the arab provinces so they have been also funding other groups. it was also called and this has been and for many years even before the current tension dating back 2 years this has been known in in in the ninety's the deputy one of the deputies of miss joe he said and he personally told me through e-mail that king abdullah when he was crown prince gave them fuel trucks loaded with gold to support them so this is that

is saudi support of iran in opposition of some of them at least there are t.v. stations in london for example so and iran probably supports some saudi opposition as well so this is a 2 way street but totally has done a better job in supporting the opposition of iran than iran and on what rather than just looking at the opposition is off this isn't the 1st time that a let's say the spies have been uncovered as far afield as the the west sea thinks why is satie arabia becoming so increasingly emboldened when it comes to spying operations and espionage overseas. this is not new i think the report says these people started in 2012 but and american sentiment the country the government has been doing even more operations abroad because it feels that it is a bold in its fears it has you know american support or. looking the other way

so that you we saw yesterday and today news about a saudi student who was targeted in los angeles and others as well. who lived in the u.s. was also nort to turkey for that purpose so saudi arabia is is more assertive and in tracking not only its critics nationals but also people who are not because in denmark there is no so there are not so the. opposition people there maybe there are some refugees so they are increasingly acting as if they are great at a regional power that has these kind of operation iran has that turkey probably has it. maybe they are trying to copy israeli mother in terms of of expanding their influence through. intelligence services ok alamosa i favor have to leave it there

thank you so much for giving us some context there at sea that story and the author joining us from washington d.c. thank you. and the death toll from korea the corona virus outbreak in china has risen to $425.00 and sascha dozens more deaths were reported in hoop a province the epicenter of the outbreak more than 2000 new cases have also been to tactic there and viruses continuing to spread outside of china with more than 150 cases confirmed in 23 countries. well pressure is growing on hong kong authorities to contain the virus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china 10 out of 13 crossings have been close and they're there on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be completely shut so far on kong has confirmed 14 cases of the virus brain has more.

well this is causeway bay one of the busiest areas of hong kong and one of the few places where you can now buy facemasks it's a case of supply and demand little supply and plenty of demand it's the same story across the border in mainland china where the government on monday appealed to the international community for more medical supplies especially facemasks also on monday hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb gave more details of her decision to close down more sections of the border between hong kong and china it now means there are just 2 places where you can cross from hong kong into china excluding the international airport and this was why she said she was taking this qualified decision our strategy is really to consol a day as much as possible a day existing control points now is really down to excluding the airport there are only 2 nannies descends and pay the. hong kong bridge and the additional

benefit of doing that is we are channelling all cross by the traffic into alisa to cross border control points and because of the inconvenience we have cost to people as a result so the numbers will come down kerry land has been under pressure from a group of striking medical workers to close the border in its entirety also on monday hong kong confirmed its 1st person to person transmission of the virus a man returning from move to hong kong infecting his mother who hadn't been to the mainland this week of course hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens who've been across the border celebrating chinese new year will be returning raising the prospect of more infections. still to come on al-jazeera israel's prime minister visits uganda times is the start of a new relationship with sudan excluded from workers' protections human rights

groups say a quarter of a 1000000 migrants in lebanon are vulnerable to abuse and in sports the teenage goalscoring sensation getting ready to make his german cup debut. how i once again we've got some rather nasty weather making its way across north america at the moment this big massive cloud spilling out of the rockies that's been producing a fair amount of snow that will drive its way further east was as we go through tuesday some heavy rain as well across the plains pushing up towards the appalachians 19 celsius in dallas on tuesday afternoon make the most of that top temperature of around 3 degrees as we go through wednesday some snow tumbling in the what's the weather making its way towards the eastern seaboard in the

eventually pushing up towards the northeast into that eastern side of kind of the back across the northwest of the u.s. west apostle kind of around b.c. still plenty of rain sleet and snow we had a state of emergency declared here just around the border for the weekend more unsettled weather to come over the next couple of days not too much some sort of weather meanwhile across the caribbean it's the aussie fada drive we got a little rash of showers which will feed their way through the greater antilles quite a keen a steely few showers around the western side of the region as a result of that but over towards us you might just catch want to shout into the leeward just a fine and dry it'll stay fat and dry to fortress that by with lots of lovely tropical sunshine. a journey of puzzling discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the leave property al-jazeera is james gannon exposed his family's

legacy of slave ownership young like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us so stai to ski to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. al-jazeera . where after viewing.

this is al-jazeera our mind off the headlines this hour the u.s. state of iowa is about some of the 1st votes in the months long race to the site who will be the democratic challenger in the embers presidential election caucuses will be held in more than $1600.00 locations turkey says its military has set dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops in strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the province and the death toll from the coronavirus a break in china has risen to 425200 new cases have been detected in a province the epicenter of the outbreak. i'm allowing is constitutional court says

no a 5 last year is disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the votes in may returns peter mucha reka super for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests and you election must not be held within $150.00 days. has more now from the capital lome way. 5 judges ruled that people with erica did not win made the election they have nullified that result if they think elections must be held within 150 days some of the concerns i had about the election was that they were just too many inconsistently that jeopardize the credibility of the result the judges say this is that some people may have voted more than once they say there was evidence of ballot stuffing and if they come numbers some results were changed using typewriter correction fluid now this is a huge occasion for the people of malawi history in the making so to speak of the 1st time an election here has been nullified is the 1st time you have an africa

even if it happened in the rest of africa most recently it happened in kenya in 2017 when of course they ordered a rerun off that election was found to have told many irregularities but right now this evening of course it's a way to the how people are going to react supporters of the wedding party and supported the opposition we know they plan to be celebrations tonight into tomorrow tuesday from the opposition people waiting to hear reaction from the ruling party and what the way forward for them is going to be next at least 14 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western kenya 40 of the students have been seriously injured for they said stampede happens when panic broke writes the students were leaving school it's unclear what calls the panic investigation is underway. israel has announced it will begin to normalize relations with sudan and uganda it feels amazing between prime minister binyamin netanyahu uganda's president and the has of

sudan's transitional military council or so. on well sudan has been trying to change its image in the country's international investments since the overthrow of longtime leader omar al bashir our faucets in west jerusalem he says this is part of a wider strategy by the israeli leader. well the word from israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pretty celebrate 3 he says that they've agreed to start a cooperation that will lead towards normalization not a normalization of relations between sudan and israel and he calls that history it is part of a wider strategy both in africa and in the middle east to try to get friendly relations going with majority muslim and arab nations in the region and of course it comes very soon after the trump plan which was released last week

which attracted at least not immediate arab state condemnation of course there was a rejection of that plan at the weekend and so there has been a slowing down of the provisions in that plan for potential annexation of the occupied west bank something that netanyahu had hoped to start moving on in this past weekend so it is about time given the fact that he's in the midst of an election campaign for another major foreign policy announcement of this one serves netanyahu very well it also serves sudan to some extent that the leader of sudan's been invited to washington so there's a recommendation from israel. as far as the prime minister's office is concerned sudan is moving in a positive a positive direction away from iranian influence and also potentially provide something more practical for israel as well for air space over sudan would make it much easier for israeli flights to fly directly to south america where there is

a large jewish population. well it told you a recording appears to suggest that iran immediately knew it had shot down a ukrainian airliner despite denying it for days the exchange between an iranian air traffic controller and another domestic pilot has been acknowledged by ukrainian investigators as genuine iran says it will not share material on the crash after the leak or $176.00 people on board the ukrainian jets were killed and it was brought down last month. run over by one. of the been living there or not i have a mole on the monitor here moving. these beads. that are that i did pick up on the bottom of the bell and the bike on the knowledge . that i did. not a money order from him and i was in the right to leave.

it at the $51.00 on one tank. that. i kept. in the middle and i will number. 7 that i was. never allowed to. run them under on. the money and then one. moment when no one i would. think that was. coming down on my copper chef school is a global affairs analyst who works on the investigation into the turns and the age 17 aircraft in ukraine he says it's likely iranian authorities were caught off guard by the leak. do you koreans were there at the crash site very early on they

had very good access they were collecting very very good evidence and sending it back to kiev before the iranians could get their hands on it so they were really key to this investigation and for them to be sidelined or frozen out from key documentation or evidence is not a very good development indeed but i have to say our expectations were very low from the time we saw those images of the iranians clearing the crash site with that bulldozer and then also they're flip flopping over who is going to download and get caught the black boxes so hopes were very low to begin with but this is really not a welcome development whatsoever in many many crash investigations no matter where in the world they happen you do have lakes i mean it's inevitable but you know i kind of smile because i know ukraine very well and leaks happen every day in fact it's unusual not to have a lake on a particular day and i remember during the time at that make 17 there were many

lakes especially of top phone calls between russian backed rebels and officials in moscow so it's very common in ukraine but i think it's something that the rain authorities aren't used to having that kind of open interaction between politicians and officials in the media so they must be quite taken aback at this but hopefully we'll get past this and they will try as much as possible to you know deliver that international professional transparent investigation. the european union's foreign policy chief a cell talks and iran in an attempt to salvage the clear deal as regional tensions rise president hassan rouhani told josep loral that iran is so ready to cooperate with the e.u. iran has gotten the scale back its commitments to the deal ever since washington withdrew from the agreements in 2018 and tensions escalated after the us assassination of a reigning commander qassam so the money last month. human rights groups say

migrant workers in lebanon are being increasingly exploited as the country suffers from a deepening economic crisis foreign workers are excluded from labor law protections and though many are being pays in local currency instead of the dollars they've been promised so what's reports from beirut. mohamed is not backing down on his prices the vegetable seller has been arguing with the customer for 15 minutes every piece of money he earns counts in the testing times the shortage of us dollars which the local currency is a large number of migrant workers like on able to transfer money home to their families. i can't send money to bangladesh i can only afford to eat and drink $100.00 is no only worth 15 this dollar crisis started 4 or 5 months ago and foreign workers here are suffering it's not just me. with a lack of dollars in the bank the lebanese currencies value on the black market reduced some employees have been forced to pay their workers and lira instead of

dollars almost having the value of their salaries for many migrant workers in 11 on sunday is a day of fright and some of them have come to this church to pray but they are clearly concerned as their weekly conversations have changed will catch up it's a financial problem according to the international labor organization the average salary of a domestic worker in lebannon is less than $250.00 a month. but the financial downturn has affected us all but foreign workers are some of the most vulnerable especially because of a lack of legal protection with a shortage of dollars some aren't receiving their salaries and are defaulting on their grant doubling the possibility of being exploited for their. foreign domestic workers are excluded from lebanon's labor laws instead they're brought in on a sponsorship system one that some rights groups say leads to exploitation islamic . sponsorship system means many foreign workers are not only exploited in lebannon

but also that employers or abusers get away with it without being punished by law last week new labor minister mean want that lebanese citizens will need to take on low skilled jobs traditionally filled by my coworkers to cope with the effects of the economic crisis we contacted the ministry of labor and we're still waiting for comments on this story it's still not clear if lebanon's new government will reform bill a bill that was. the sort of know a lot of this is the worst i've seen it in the 12 years i've lived here but only god knows what the future holds for now foreign workers like muhammad have little option hey go back home. al-jazeera. world food program is warning the number of people in need of aid in south sudan is increasing years of conflict has left nearly half of the population reliant on food assistance and as have been walking reports recent flooding has made the situation even more dire. it's the world's largest storm but the 3rd in south sudan for the leech state

is now home to 28 year old deborah neckwear she fled her home in their town several kilometers away because of fighting deborah now struggles to feed herself and her children but to get a mile but to see him right now we cannot do farming because of insecurity if you take a risk and go home you may lose your life what makes me lose sleep is that during the rainy season we farm on and off because of displacement floods also destroy our crops we really suffer joined a rainy season due to lack of shelter. deborah and her kids are now among the 7500000 people out of south sudan's 11000000 population who rely on food 8 years of fighting that started in 2013 and was largely brought to an end after dealing 10 to 18 resulted in nearly 4000000 people being displaced many had to abandon their farms which has led to food shortages and last november's floods have made worse

and already dire situation the un's world food program says more than half of the 27 flood affected counties are facing extreme levels of acute malnutrition but delivering aid in a poor country like south sudan is not easy but roots mean air drops have become the only way to reach many in remote areas like nell where deborah has taken refuge there's also the risk of famine and we need to be supporting 5 and a half 1000000 people in south sudan with some form of food assistance but if we don't get the resources to reach that many people we're going to have to make some really tough choices we're going to have to focus on alleviating the most food and secure people in the country staving off hunger stopping famine in its tracks but that also means that some people will fall through the gap it means we won't be able to support everybody children are the most at risk from the lack of food here all their families can do now is hope that somehow they get the help they need he

will morgan al-jazeera. their porting yemen's capital sana'a has partially reopened to allow u.n. medical relief flights out of the country though this the rebels control center the coalition they're fighting controls the air space their sports has been closed to commercial flights since 2016 almost 5 year war has pushed yemen's health system so the brink of collapse with 80 percent of the population without access to health care mamma was at some airports as the 1st patients prepared to parts. here we are inside decided to national airport so many patients are still waiting for their turn to be transferred out of yemen for 1st flights will have been boarded at least 7 people with with another 8 from their relatives we have here abdullah who is waiting for his turn to travel out of yemen for to make

a kidney transplant patient. in itself and i've had enough of my kidney failure they were finally able to travel to get a transplant my mother is the donor. after we heard from the patients and also the medical savable be the dismay and also the disappointment of all the the few number who could be transportable outside of yemen will talk to the operators from the world health organization also the united nations to speak about the reasons behind the fuel not about the who could be transferred out of sight of yemen as there are more than 32000 patients who are still waiting for their turn to be transferred out of the country we will be putting more planes with more capacity but we want to make sure that this 1st group goes off successfully this is the 1st group of patients all transfer outside of yemen for urgent treatment. most of the patients are very happy because now they are going to be transferred to be traded outside of

yemen most of them are very. saying life threatening diseases and also chronic diseases because of the saudi ban and also the serious shortage of medicines many people have died 25000 patients up died since the saudi ban on side to national airport. started on in september 26th in so we have been this has been banned for over 4 years many people hope this will be the start for reopening the national airport. up al-jazeera some are. now less than 3 days after brick said the device between the e.u. and u.k. has widens as they prepare for trade talks but as prime minister boris johnson says the u.k. wants free trade but that his country would not align itself with all e.u. rules meanwhile europe's chief negotiator michel barnier says reciprocal access to

fishing mortars is vital to any trade agreements they have until the end of the here to agree a new relationship well honestly as in london with a look at the differing expectations. he didn't say that he necessarily even needed a treaty you know even in summer signing up to a european union standards he said we don't need to write that down we'll just do it anyway it's sort of typical flippant approach but origins in some ways but i think the but the main thing to understand at this point is because a nurse in seven's actually started jets you go to him and michel barnier for the european side giving virtually simultaneous news conferences this morning about sort of beating their chests and putting out was what effect simply equal an opposite hard line positions so michel barnier says we europeans a man can sing the access to british waters for fishing even though he knows the brits it's as that as an idea equally boris johnson knows that the europeans want

continued alignment and they continue into the same sorts of standards and so to try to undermine that he gave a speech in which he said we don't need those things at all in fact he said we'd be just as happy to have either a canadian or an australian styled. still to come on al-jazeera you'll hear from the australian open champion as he moves closer to roger federer's all time grand slam records.

for the sport now here's andy thank you very much for the kansas city chiefs have ended their 50 years super bowl droughts course about patrick mahoney was the star of the show as the chiefs fought back to beat the san francisco 49 is in miami reports. super bowl 54 online with 100000000 watching worldwide the chiefs in the 49 listed battle on one of sport's biggest stages here we go. a lot was expected from young chiefs quarterback patrick the holmes but he was frustrated by the 14 on his defense early on the table was inside. the 24 year old dug deep and still managed to run in the game's 1st touchdown. passes some francisco had success tuesday it's tuesday. and so there was nothing in it at the halfway point with both teams looked on 10 points each. the game was in miami and the halftime show

certainly had a latin flavor pop stars jennifer lopez and shapiro providing the entertainment have but the main fireworks was still to come in the 3rd quarter he must force his way over to help the 49 ers open up a commanding lead they were 10 points ahead and time was running out for the chiefs but they'd come back in the 2 previous games and in the final quarter the homes started to fire still to suit the engine it 3 scoring drives in just over 5 minutes to turn the game completely on its head 21 unanswered points so the chiefs run away with a famous victory. for the 1st time i didn't. say. there were big celebrations but kansas city fans back home in missouri they've not

seen their team lift the lombardi trophy since they beat the minnesota vikings in super bowl 4 back in 1970 was. not i think. my god. the party will continue for a few days no doubt but the chiefs and their fans will hope that it's not another half century before they do it again david stokes al-jazeera. well chief's quote about patching the homes truly is living the dream after the game winning performance here is a day later at disney world in florida and as a teenager 7 years ago he wrote on twitter i bet it feels amazing to be the quarterback who says i'm going to disney world after winning the super bowl on the huns and his team will be part of a much bigger homecoming parade that's coming up in towns the city on wednesday. in reality you never could imagine what what this feels like i mean it's surreal. be

a suitable championed the know all the hard work to put in every single day has paid off and be in the champs and be in the chance for your brothers you can never think of that but i mean it's it's are it's awesome. did you spend time with the trophy did you sleep at all. really sleep last night. but i didn't spend it with a trophy why did i spoil a sparrow with my trophy wife. of romelu lukaku is up to 20 goals for the season as in some around the belgian striker scoring seymour and when i hear keep in so within 3 points of lead is your ventus. car chance and your concept has invested heavily in experience during the january transfer window christian eriksen ashley young and on loan chelsea player victor moses all making their league debuts in this. week. of goalscoring sensation earning holland is getting ready for his

german cup debut. the 19 year old norwegian is now scored 7 goals in his 1st 3 bundles league it appearances despite saying he's still not fully fit brush a fiver to bremen on shoes day. in the english f.a. cup liverpool's under $23.00 coach neil critchley hailed take charge of the team for the replay against 3rd to shrewsbury manager juergen klopp had promised himself and his 1st team a proper rest during the premier league winter break so a young line up will feature at anfield on tuesday. he gives is not only will support. so i say i can speak to him whenever i like when i'm down here. he supports the employees on believably well as is shown so far this season. so. is present even if. he is present his it is always fall and parry sunday man coach thomas sokol has criticised neymar for hosting his 28th birthday bash in

the french capital on sunday the events was a white themed party taking place just 48 hours before a league game with nonce sokol describing the party as a distraction. australian open champion number djokovic has moved back to the top of the tennis world rankings after his record 8th title in melbourne so he's been showing off his 17th grand slam title djokovic now just 3 behind roger federer is all time record of 20 today obviously it's a different feeling there last night i was pretty exhausted in kind of the flayed it was difficult to comprehend in really kind of contemplate as well on the on the victory and on the feeling and of course today you know i just feel relieved that. it's all over ok that is only sport finance. thank you very much

indeed well that wraps up this news are stable something back after the break. frank assessments the one good thing about these bush fires is it's really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 schoolchildren know what the law is on about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. every attack in europe creates

fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and on al-jazeera. trouble began at the end of the country's civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. moore who was shot and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government are set in your. accusations of abuse and displacement between the communities the mining companies and the government has now escalated the west africa's regional court the community

has taken its case before west africa's regional court because they say the people have little for use in the justice system. the iowa caucus get some the way senator bernie sanders leads in the earliest results from iowans taking part thousands of miles away. and this is al jazeera mine from doha also coming up. major escalation in northern syria turkey says it's retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers on 3 civilians are killed in syrian shelling. another 64 people have died from the corona virus in the province the center of the i preach in china.