you should do it again. hong kong reporters 1st coronavirus death as another 64 people die in the province at the center of the outbreak in china. slowing down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up decision time in iowa senator bernie sanders leads in the early caucus results from iowans taking part thousands of miles away. a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians are killed in syria and shelling plus. air pollution in believe is basically resulting in a monthly basis with elections on the horizon a call for action from residents of one of the world's most polluted cities.

so we begin with breaking news out of hong kong which has reported its 1st death from the corona virus is the 2nd fate talented from the illness outside of mainland china on monday hong kong closed 10 of its 13 borders with mainland china in a bid to stop the spread but medical workers have been demanding that the border be completely shut well 425 people are now known to have died from the virus within china and there's more than 20000 confirmed cases the virus is continuing to spread elsewhere with more than 150 cases confirmed in 23 countries with a john brown joins us live now from hong kong agents are confirmation that a man has died from the virus what more can you tell us. well down i can tell you he was 39 years old and he had visited the city of who

which is the epicenter for this virus on january the 21st but we also understand that he didn't visit any health facilities on the mainland or go to any live produce markets not simple because it's of course a lie produce market that's believed to be the source of this outbreak now we know that he is responsible for the 1st person to person transmission here in hong kong that was confirmed on monday night the other person who was infected was his mother now the man who died also had an underlying illness and that of course is the case with many other people who have died on the mainland the only other person to have died outside of china is of course in the philippines that case was confirmed on sunday now this latest death in hong kong was confirmed just hours after the chief executive of hong kong carrier announced he was shutting down more of hong kong's fronted with china one of the few crossing points that remains open down is the

bridge to china behind me that goes to macau before my portuguese colony as well as the chinese city of zoo high it's about 55 kilometers long but traffic today has been very light indeed now kerry has been under pressure to close all of the border with hong kong and china but he says that simply isn't practical because of course many people who live in hong kong but work across the border in china on sunday for instance 100000 people went backwards and forwards so that's one of the reasons why i carry land is resisting the school to shut the front here completely also remember hong kong is reliant on the mainland for so food milk water and a lot of this has to be trucked in from china into hong kong every day so i think for the moment she's going to resist calls to close the front here for very practical reasons and they join it's day 2 of the medical workers strike with

doctors and nurses expected to join in tell us what's been happening there. well there has been a protest this morning outside of the hospital authority here in hong kong this body is responsible for 42 public hospitals here in hong kong on monday as you pointed out a number of doctors and nurses around about 2 and a half 1000 decided to skip work we understand the figure is much greater today and of course that is a big worry for the government because it means that a number of operations operations involving cancer patients for instance have had to be canceled and these workers are saying that unless the government cedes to their principal demand which is that which is the closure of the border then there strike action will continue although i did hear an interview with one of the strike leaders on monday morning saying that of course if there was a major outbreak of this virus in hong kong then they would have to reconsider but

it's a reminder daryn that this public health emergency is being politicized here in hong kong one other point i just want to bring up is in wu hand one of the hospitals that has been built in record time to treat patients is now treating patients that hospital was built in just 9 days and also on monday night the politburo standing committee the top political body in the country that includes president xi jinping and the premier they met and in a rare admission they said that there had been deficiencies and shortcomings in the government's response to the crisis that's as near as you get to an acknowledgement there and that the system had failed to agent brown there in hong kong thank you. now in the u.s. state of iowa results are trickling in from the 1st electoral contest of the 2020 democratic presidential campaign coaxes have been held in more than 1600 venues across the state the results to be seen as a key indicator of who will go on to challenge donald trump in the november

election the last 4 democrats to win to win the party nomination well we have 2 correspondents following developments in iowa in a moment we'll hear from john hendren who's at the headquarters for bernie sanders campaign but 1st let's bring in alan fischer allen so we're still awaiting those democratic results any time now do we know why there's a delay. we're told from the democratic party in iowa that the integrity of the results is the most important thing and so they're checking everything almost twice just to make sure that everything is right they've also told us that the tonneau is roughly about 2016 levels now if that's the case we were saying that some precincts had reported that they were getting a huge turnout record turnout but 2016 is not a great turnout in fact it's a lot less than 2008 when barack obama won the nomination as you remember from the precincts that have reported what we can tell you is that people just having an

incredibly good night he looks as if he is at the top of the polls for the moment this is still very early on bernie sanders who came 2nd last time around he's sitting 2nd this time around he's expected to go up what is surprise is who's in 3rd place it's not joe biden it's a lizabeth warren joe biden actually in 4th know you remember that he spent a lot more time campaigning here because the 4 senators that were involved they've been tied up in washington with the impeachment trial the fact that joe biden isn't doing well if there's a couple of things that play into that 1st of all people might be concerned about all that's been said about his ties to ukraine and whether or not he could be facing impeachment if he wins the presidency if he beats donald trump in november but also maybe democrats are thinking look 3 times since the 2nd world war we've appointed people who were vice presidents to be our nominee and in each of those occasions they have lost so that may be playing into as well. in 5th place as

probably a good result for her of the others they're really not very much at the races so just to recap what we're getting from about 25 percent of the precincts at the moment is people to judge in the lead bernie sanders in 2nd place elizabeth warren in 3rd joe biden in what would be considered a very disappointing 4th place and even. coming in in 5th all of the 10 that are running here in iowa are at so that's the democrats alan let's talk about the republicans because they held their caucus already no doubt as to who is the winner here. boy when for donald trump that's exactly what we're expecting is the incumbent is got a big support he's probably about 97 percent support in the iowa caucuses but roughly translates to his support in the republican party as a whole his team are saying that that's going up because of all of the impeachment hearings and the impeachment trial over the last few months that people want to see him win in november his family on the ground here in iowa they say they're raising money hand over face then that they are going to have

a very successful election in november so no doubt that he won the 2 that are standing against him joe walsh is a former congressman from illinois he's trailing in 3rd place william weld might stay in the race for a little bit longer he's a former governor of massachusetts the next primary the 1st primary the next contest is in new hampshire that's right next to massachusetts it gets the boston t.v. market william weld will be in even some people will know soon obviously hoping to do a lot better there but there was never any though that donald trump was going to when the republican primary caucus and that's exactly what he's done here all right allan thanks so let's cross over now to john hendren he's also in des moines for us and he's at the headquarters for bernie sanders campaign john you were there 4 years ago you were there tonight what's the atmosphere. where 4 years ago there was a sense of optimism and hope and there was more optimism and hope this time if only

because the the bernie sanders they showed him a little bit ahead pretty much across the board of joe biden these people here have been chanting bernie bernie every time something comes up that's positive on the t.v. screen but i'm getting a sense of deja vu here 4 years ago i was at the same hotel in this same ballroom in practically this same spot at the bernie sanders celebration and in the end the vote was generally late at night it was 49.8 percent for hillary clinton. 49.6 percent for sanders so he ended up claiming a kind of victor big but it was really a hillary clinton victory he's hoping for an outright clear victory tonight but you can sense the frustration with that vote tally those problems are having and i can speak a little bit to that because i was at a caucus earlier tonight where it took several counts just to determine how many people were in the room they did it by a physical head count who was sitting in certain sections designated for each of

the candidates and people had their children in those seats so ultimately they do have a paper trail this time there are these presidential preference cards they're using and that's supposed to be a backup for any problem that is going on maybe there's a problem transmitting some of the tallies electronically from one precinct to another but ultimately they are supposed to have a piece of paper for every voter 'd called the presidential preference card in any case here and they are still feeling positive about the results that they're seeing troops going in based on that 25 percent that is being reported but they're waiting for that 75 percent bernie was looking good in the polls they say they're going to keep on chanting until they get the final results here but they are hoping for a clear sander's victory this time here we're going to have ok all right to john hendren there in des moines iowa john thank you. tucker he says his military has had several syrian government targets killing dozens of troops the strikes will no

stop to 5 to his soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in syria's rebel held in the province turkey has now sent more reinforcements to have threatening further action there's priyanka gupta for. towns and villages and don't try syria out on tour attack by kaufman jack it's. a grim reality throughout the 90 s. civil war. and for the 1st time the government to sold. it has put turkey on the syrian regime in a direct military confrontation. os off to 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 ancora yeah a good day. how is all of us in a what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces an adlib which resulted in

a 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 along this escalation underscores yet again the threat to regional and international peace and security paused 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 aleppo provinces leaving destroyed neighborhoods and devastated families homeless once again in syria's harsh winter. this found the if 9 never stood a chance or do you know that a driver can in is he these people were coming they were displaced we heard the air

strike 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 link 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 now turkey bombardment kind of in denial meaning that. we use a 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 all dizzy or. our time for short break or not is here and when we come back israel's prime minister visits uganda unannounced as the start of a new relationship with saddam. and election victory over time malawi's constitutional court none of finds the time to 19 results an old as a rerun more nuts than us. how the weather's laci set fabric cross the middle east basin places a cloud rolling across afghanistan pushing towards northern parts of pakistan a little western disturbance here just filtering some rain some sleet and some snow but the rather more unsettled weather that's coming back across the eastern side of

the mediterranean turkey says some rather nasty weather as we go towards the middle and latter parts of the wake winds really picking up around the middle of the week there choppy waters in that a ceasar of the mediterranean with that's a very nasty weather pushing through some heavy rice and heavy snow as well across the middle east across the nation it's laci dryly you might just catch one of 2 rogue showers into central i was to saudi arabia they were down to a solemn and off the red sea and across the water to just stay around the ethiopian highlands paces the shabby way coming in here various showers will be towards uganda maybe some showers too into parts of kenya big downpours there a possibility into rwanda northern parts of tanzania still seeing some rather nasty weather as you go on through the next couple of days and you can see just out into the open waters the possibility of a developing tropical storm over towards nutritious north america madagascar will see the heaviest of the rainfall over the next couple days.

when was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and every luggage or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you and attention or your incarceration this is a dialogue everyone has a voice over there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for it join the global conversation on how does iraq.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the al jazeera hong kong has reported its 1st death from corona virus is the 2nd fatal to from illness outside of china territories closed 10 of its 13 borders with mainland china in a bid to stop the spread. results are trickling in from the 1st electoral contest of the 2020 democratic presidential campaign the results of the iowa caucuses are seen as an indicator of who will go on to challenge donald trump in november. turkey says its military has hit several syrian government targets killing dozens of troops it follows the deaths of 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians in syria's rebel held in the profits. of the anti-government protest camps in iraq appear to be fracturing over the appointment of prime minister designate mohammed allow a week many demonstrators immediately rejected the nomination but influential. as back to law and threatened penalties against those who continue disobedience manifold in 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. 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 take over it 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 and saw it it became difficult to come inside because there was violence and attacks by molotov cocktails over the month sutter has repeatedly changed his position on the protests. 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 the demonstrators are exhausted sutter supporters say that a law 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 who 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 fulton i'll just about. now israel has announced at the begins a normalize relations with sudan and uganda it follows

a meeting between prime minister benjamin netanyahu uganda's president on the head of sudan's transitional military council. sudan's been trying to change its image and open the country to international investment since the overthrow of longtime leader. ari forces 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 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 he 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. airspace over sudan would make it much easier for israeli flights to fly directly to south america where there is

a large jewish population now more than $300000000.00 is on its way back to nigeria after it was seized from the bank accounts of format militarily that sunny about butter is believed to have laundered hundreds of millions of dollars before his death and $998.00 cash was in bank accounts and jersey in the english channel has already received more than $300000000.00 from switzerland. malawi's constitutional court has an old last year's disputed presidential election results citing widespread irregularities the vote in may return peace and with a recount of for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests a new election must now be held within $150.00 days are much more now from the capital the long way. it was a unanimous decision 5 constitutional court judges not if i'm a presidential election result say did not win a 2nd term fresh elections have to be held within 150 days opposition leaders who were caught welcome the ruling of all the judgments of the justices be very old.

for the colemans after reading the final thank you we came to seek justice for just got was a liberation serrata didn't opposition strongholds judges said they were too many in consistencies in may selection some people may have voted more than once there was ballot stuffing and some figures which changed eating typewriter correction fluid holding another election in a few months will be elections to call night me on the point to say they want guarantees that will be no repeat of the widespread irregularities and vote rigging that vanished election. in 2017 king a supreme court and now that country's presidential election because of the regular routines malawi is not the 2nd sub-saharan country to have a presidential fact overturned there will no longer be an attempt but there are the broad if you're possible to do certain things and the heart. of the point

to you need to walk back on the road with. you on the 1st part of the process for we did not start looking at the 5th or him. that the would be even go to secure or assure over a free and fair trial. for months had been demonstrations in several parts of the country. some of those have been filed. with erika's really d.p.p. party can appeal the decision the ruling at the supreme court's no one from the party was going to go on camera after mine is constitutional court ruling the country is tense early on monday the streets of the capital eerily quiet many people chose to stay at home not sure what's going to happen next how a reader is handled could improve or deepen political and economic crisis. the world health organization is warning of a 60 percent increase in cancer cases over the next 20 years if the quality of

their treatment but in rich poor countries is allowed to continue as the world's 2nd leading cause of death but in a new report the w.h.o. says at least $7000000.00 lives could be saved over the next decade of treatment is improved in low income countries. it's one of the world's most polluted cities and as the people of new delhi prepared to vote in local elections this week many are demanding action and improve quality in the capital last year pollution levels were 40 times the limit set by the world health organization elizabeth reports. jane up to me that lives in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the delhi region it's also one of the most polluted the tiny home she shares with 6 other members of her family backs on to the 2nd biggest dumping ground in the city toxic air from the dump is just one of the hazards that the 40000 residents of basra have to live with . the doctor says that besides my lungs my kidneys are also affected now he

told me to stop going to the landfill that you're not going to live for very long but i said if i stop going to the landfill who's going to feed my children. jane ob and others and make a living by sorting it out separating waste they held a town hall meeting ahead of elections to ask politicians. what they're doing about the environment the candidate of prime minister and that in the morning the party told us that was not their priority. no no no we don't treat this as one of our election. election as said by honorable prime minister is to legalize these. but it's not just people who live in the delhi regions illegal slums who are affected new delhi's equality sees it consistently ranked as one of the most polluted cities in the world in this neighborhood people

are not waiting for others to tackle the problem the traders association and this market have installed the 7. f. filters that clean the air pollutants as it passes through them but environmentalists say such towers only create a clean as on around them and another solution for the whole city the towel was put up after air pollution levels reached 40 times higher than the amount deemed healthy by the world health organization late last year air pollution in there is basically resulting in a. crisis it's not just a pollution problem anymore it's also. a problem politicians say they'll address by improving public transport and planting more trees but jane i've had made doubts whoever wins the election will do anything to improve the lives of the people of. elizabeth al-jazeera you daddy. kenya's former president daniel

are up more he has died he ruled the country's more than 2 decades from 1978 to 2002 for most of that time morley had absolute authority of a political and judicial system was regime violently repressed calls for political change but tensions torture killing and media control but is also credited with keeping the country stable when other neighbors were grappling with civil strife. a quick check of the top stories here hong kong has reported its 1st death from coronaviruses the 2nd from the illness outside of china the man and travel to hong kong from the city of the epicenter of the outbreak the territories close tend of its 13 borders with mainland china in a bid to stop the spread agent brown has more from hong kong. according to hong kong officials this man was 39 and he was the man responsible for the 1st person to

person transmission here in hong kong which was confirmed on monday evening the other person being his mother now the person who has died had an underlying condition which is also the case with many other people who've been dying on the mainland so outside of the mainland this is the 2nd person to have died from the virus the other case being in the philippines. well 425 people are now known to have died from the virus in china and there's more than 20000 confirmed cases the virus is continuing to spread elsewhere with more than 150 cases confirmed in 23 countries. in the u.s. state of iowa results are trickling in from the 1st electoral contest of the 2020 democratic presidential campaign your caucus has been held in 1600 vans across the state the results will be seen as a key indicator of who will go on to challenge donald trump in the november election the last 4 democrats to win iowa iowa went on to win the party nomination

so he says its military is hit several syrian government targets killing dozens of troops the strikes were launched after 5 to 3 soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in syria's rebel held province and european union's foreign policy chief has been holding talks in iran in attempts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal didn't stand rouhani told us at doral that iran is still ready to cooperate with the e.u. iran has gradually scale back its commitment to the deal ever since washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018 those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream stage and that's watching 5. to al-jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing endemic corruption. we listen so if you really put place china as an enemy of ours and not really that we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories that matter just 0.

for me ok internet service is slowly starting to trickle back into indian administered kashmir but a nearly 6 months communication blackout has already had a devastating impact on the people at economy have you been affected talk to us for our live chat or on twitter and you too could be in the story. the 160 day internet ban in kashmir affected hospitals schools businesses 7000000 of the region's residents couldn't contact relatives or pay their bills let alone shop online or watch netflix india cut off the internet last august after revoking kashmir's semi autonomous status officials insist the blackout prevents on raw.