became a point when the relationship came to the icons of revolution change the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face on al-jazeera. a 1st coronavirus death in hong kong the striking health workers demand the closure of all borders with mainland china. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up the race to pick a democratic presidential nominee in the u.s. gets off to a confusing start the results are delayed. turkey hits back at syria after 5 of its soldiers were killed by shelling in italy

a province. and national mourning declared in kenya in honor of its longest serving president daniel aren't more has died at the age of 95. but has its go to hong kong which is recorded its 1st death from the corona virus outbreak a 39 year old man has become the 2nd person to die from the honest outside of mainland china health officials say he was in new hampshire last month and was also suffering from an underlying illness or 15 confirmed cases in the territory a south korean woman is also being confirmed after visiting thailand she's the 1st foreign tourist to be infected after going to that country although it's not clear if she'd also been to china meanwhile in china itself 2 more cities outside of who

bay province they have been put into lockdown the death toll in the country now stands at 425 more than 20000 people are infected. and a cruise ship for the port in japan is under quarantine after a passenger was found to have the virus the 80 year old passenger had this embark from the ship in hong kong several days ago and then tested positive medical checks are being carried out on the ship 70 the ship's 3700 passengers and crew are this go live now to hong kong and adrian said the 1st confirmed death from the virus in hong kong is a spreading more alarm. well yes i think this death had actually been expected it was only a question of time before it was going to happen here in hong kong and given the

high death rate just across the border in the mainland the man who died it was 39 years old he had been to hand on january the 21st he had a stroke on choose day morning and as you pointed out in your introduction he had an underlying illness now apparently according to health officials who spoke to him in the days before his death he told them that he hadn't been to any medical facility on the mainland or indeed had visited any live produce markets remember we believe that the source of this virus was a market that was selling wild meat so that sort of broadens it a little bit in terms of how he became infected now it was confirmed on monday that he was all so the 1st person to be responsible for person to person transmission here in hong kong the person he infected was his mother as you say the that the death rate here in hong kong has been very very low the number of confirmed cases still very low and of course it has to be remembered martine that people who have

been infected with this virus off to make quite a quick recovery authorities on the mainland are saying that a number of people who have been stricken with this far as have in fact made a recovery or are on the road to recovery so there is sort of an optimistic element to this as well here in hong kong the chief executive kerry land has once more insisted that she is not going to close all of hong kong's crossings with the mainland on monday she announced she was closing 3 more meeting there are now just 3 places where you can cross over into china and we visited one of them the smalling which is the bridge to china which goes as far as macau and macau of course is where an announcement has been made in the past few hours that all casinos in that gambling hub are to close for too weak. x. now we've had here in hong kong growing demands for kerry to close all of the border but she says to do that would be discriminatory and also go against the

guidelines of the world health organization and it has to be remembered that hong kong is very reliant on goods food that is trucked over from the mainland in tang home and in so doing as you as you say carried them at continuing to uphold what is w.-h. and guidelines is that enough for the health workers many of whom you've been on strike because they apparently have very little confidence in the way she's handling it yes i think it's fair to say that these doctors and nurses didn't take this decision lightly many of them have memories of the sars epidemic 17 years ago when a number of health workers died and they feel that on this occasion they are in many ways no better protected they say that the resources they have aren't adequate but it is a reminder martine i think that just about everything in hong kong these days is being politicized because these doctors and nurses who are now striking a part of

a newly formed union that was borne out of the protest movement that began more than 8 months ago the government says that if this is causing havoc really to emergency services in hong kong a number of operations have been canceled operations for cancer patients and also of course there have been problems on wards where you know babies are being delivered so this is causing severe problems for the health authorities in hong kong adrian thanks for that hey jim brown there live in hong kong. now the 1st phase in the u.s. to pick a democratic presidential nominees got off to a rather confusing start results from the iowa caucuses have been delayed local party officials blame inconsistences for the setback but insists the problem has nothing to do with hacking nor to an intrusion. the results seen as an indicator of the results would be seen as an indicator of who among the 11

democratic candidates will go on to challenge donald trump in the november election let's go live now to allan fisher who is in des moines iowa where this seems to be a bit of an embarrassing turn of events and for the democrats in iowa. it's worse than it's a disaster for them and they were hoping that whoever came out of iowa would go with a great deal of momentum behind them no the really handling a farce and we're expecting the results know at some point or and choose the source some time in the next 12 hours all the candidates have left they're all demanding answers from the local party all of them claiming victory in some form or another although people to judge himself said that he had been victorious the only one to be quite saw outspoken on that front. really just a big mess the caucuses are held all over the state the idea was that the results

would be filed to headquarters using an up if there was a problem with the then there was a whole line it seems that there was indeed a problem with the out and then local officials were finding that the hotline was being tied up they were on hold for more than 2 hours some saying that when they finally got through the phone was hung up on them the party then decided that they were going to hold a conference call with all the campaigns and apparently that got sort of testy that they actually hung up on the campaigns so this is been an absolute mess normally you're seeing yet so and so has momentum so and so did better than expected this is the end of that campaign we don't know and for the democrats who want to show that they're competent and able to take on donald trump this is a really bad 1st step but not only that martin it's a really bad 1st step to for iowa iowa prides itself on being faster than the nation there's been a lot of people saying oh that has to change because it's not terribly

representative of the united states all those calls will all negro lowder after what has been an absolute farce in the last few hours and that alan of course at stake is the confidence in america's electoral system more generally at this point is it possible to say whether this is a result of tax failure or of foul play. it doesn't play and certainly the the local democratic party are saying look it was a technical issue this isn't because of hacking or any sort of intrusion it just seems that they out that they had given to all the local officials to tabulate the results simply didn't work and then to complicate the phone line that you could call in if the didn't work didn't work as well so they were really came to stuck with the real problem of not being able to get the results in some of the local cheers of the democratic party started to drive the results towards the democratic

headquarters to see this is what happened with us know everyone was expecting to see the results because this is the 1st contest in the 2020 election it gets a great deal of media attention it gives the public their 1st chance to vote on the candidates to see who they would like to see to challenge donald trump to test some of the ideas to test some of the positions and it's really no just a complete disaster because the democratic party have none of that and all of the candidates all of the campaigns they've ruled out of iowa they're heading know to new hampshire the printing iowa behind them the best that iowa can do is offer a result at some point on tuesday exactly when no one knows all right allan thank you for that the very latest from. alan fischer. that's why he says its military has hit several syrian government targets killing thousands of soldiers the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians died from shelling in

syria's rebel held italy province and kriz now sent more reinforcements to the area and is threatening further action to go up to report. towns and villages and not to press syria under attack by government jets. a grim reality throughout the 90 a civil war. for the 1st time the government to soltan it has put turkey on the syrian regime it direct military confrontation. ass off to turkey sent military reinforcements into syria which says it was to prevent more bloodshed in the province its soldiers and civilians came under attack prompting a retaliation from ancora egypt. 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 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 diverse communities he these people were 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 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 there with one help the syrian regime to quins out the.

strategies on the battlefield with dangerous consequences and a tragic human cost priyanka gupta al-jazeera. lots more to come here at out here including back to the celebrations in malawi is the constitutional court the results of last year's presidential. evolution in his basically result in a company's health crisis. why residents of india's capital want pollution to top the political agenda. of. some cooler weather pushing into europe over the next couple days after incredibly mild weather so far as a class still tumbling in from the atlantic weather systems will introduce some

clout and brightness this next system makes its way across the british isles just starting to see something more of a north westerly wind feeding in as we go on through the next couple of days and that will drive its way down across the low countries through a good part of germany snow there over the alps some parts could see maybe 70 centimeters a slice of quite a bit of it and that will make its way down into their accounts as well the balkan states and right state and snow will push this way all the way over towards the black sea so we'll see some wet weather coming into rumania temperatures falling away in the process i 10 cells just the book caressed by the time we come to where to stay 6 celsius in bucharest and little further north as temperatures go down it's a single figures now we're losing the double figure values that we've seen in recent days will be something of a change it'll start to up again as we go on into the weekend but some nasty weather into the eastern side of the mediterranean some rain sleet and snow so because posset greece and also into on the other side of the maddest lotty fine and

dry with plenty of warm sunshine for all. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of budget shooting cuts and loads of commuting to put across the country and as a dockside into 12 is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the him to fix into something more like the team i didn't see of the british football i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera.

all right let's have a look at the top stories here of hong kong has recorded its 1st deaths from the corona virus a 39 year old had visited last month on tuesday china put its staff to hole up 425 and reported more than 20000 infections. results from the iowa caucuses have been delayed because of inconsistences now this is the 1st vote in the u.s. to pick a democratic presidential nominee. will say the problem has nothing to do with hacking or foul play. turkey says his military has hit several syrian government targets killing dozens of soldiers the strikes were launched after a number of turkish soldiers were killed by shelling in a province. where the man who ruled kenya for more than 2 decades has died at the age of 95 for most of his term as president daniel are more they had absolute

authority over the political and the judicial systems his regime van that they were oppressed calls for political change using detentions torture and even killing also credited with keeping the country stable though whilst other countries were dealing with civil unrest we go live now to catherine's our correspondent who's in western kenya at the moment will daniel are more be remembered with affection or loathing by most people in kenya. when it comes to the legacy really depends on who you talk to as you mentioned he is a very devious he was a very divisive leader and people say that he started out well in his presidency you mentioned in that introduction there he kept the country really relatively stable and peaceful when other neighboring countries went back in the ninety's and the eighty's. kenya was mediating in a lot of conflict so people say that's

a good thing who's also very passionate about education during his reign a lot of schools one bill he introduced what was called narrow milk and no more use milk because it was a pastoral process of keeping children in school i benefited from that milk of the president he was also very passionate about the environment chris titled the street planting and building guardians and digging trenches to avoid the ritual but other people will say all that has been over so was overshadowed by his reign of terror and sense of police to call opo and then torture many of them died during that period there was a lot of tribal violence during these raids corruption was run pants he also reigned had a government that was very divided as well so a lot of people opinion quite divided if you go online on the street as well opinion divided how people choose to remember him but ultimately many think that

even if he started well almost destroyed this country absolutely because many people have described him as being a wily political survivor who managed to keep stability in the country by waging this kind of war against the people of the country didn't trenching essentially one policy ruling. yes he did and a lot of people say that he time and she changed to this dictator after an attempted coup back in 1902 that's when after he entrench this single party rule and he's party congo was the breath of everything no one could speak against can build a lot of arrests and detentions then eventually he to cave in and accepted morsy fighting but even with that the political space was very spry for the lot of people who for political parties really what you know what i'm able to do that because

there was a lot of arrests a lot of tensions a very mentioned and so a lot of people saying that she did more damage than good for this country all right catherine thank you very much now in western kenya where catherine is at least 14 young children have been killed after a stampede at a school it happened as students were leaving the building to go home 40 other students were injured in the crash police say there was no clear cause of the panic and are investigating what happened. malawi's constitutional court has announced last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the voting may return peter move to recur to power for a 2nd term and that's far out huge opposition protests a new elections now to be called her room a tosser has more from the capitol hill long way. than. it was a unanimous decision 5 constitutional court judges nullified may's presidential

election result saying did not win a 2nd term fresh elections have to be held within 150 days opposition leaders who were caught welcome the ruling of the judgment justices prevailed. after reading the final thank you we came to seek justice for just got was liberations erupted in opposition strongholds judges said there were too many in consistencies in may's election some people may have voted more than once there was ballot stuffing and some figures which changed using typewriter correction fluid holding another election in a few months will be elections to call nightly on this 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 regularities by law is not the 2nd sub-saharan country to have

a presidential fact overturned there will no longer be an attempt but then there are probably the future possible to do certain things and the hunt. for the point to you need to work back on the road with. you on the 1st part of the process forward to the. or in the on the system that the would be even go to secure or assure over a free and fair trial. for months they've been demonstrations in several parts of the country. some of those have been filed. to tell because really d.p.p. party can appeal because a seasonal ruling at the supreme courts 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 capitol along with eerily quiet many people chose to stay at home not sure what's going to happen next how a reader ivy lessons is handled could improve or deepen. an economic crisis how do

. you know only now the impeachment trial of donald trump is nearing its end after both sides delivered their closing arguments on monday senators will have a choice a chance rather to deliver their closing speeches but the president is expected to be acquitted by the republican majority on wednesday the president's legal team says it should be up to voters to decide his fate in november's election the democrats say president trump pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival and that he'll continue to abuse his power today we urge you in the face of overwhelming evidence of the president's guilt and knowing that if left in office he will continue to seek foreign interference in the next election devote to convict on both articles of impeachment and to remove from office donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states the e.u.

foreign policy chief has held talks in iran in an effort to salvage the nuclear deal as regional tensions rise president hassan rouhani told your step daughter el that iran is still ready to cooperate with the new iran has gradually scaled back its commitments to the deal ever since washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and tensions escalated after the us assassination of the a rainy and commander cost them so the money last month. israel has announced it's normalizing relations with sudan and with uganda it follows a meeting between the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and uganda's president yoweri most 70 and the head of sudan's sovereignty council abdul fattah bull han sudan has been trying to change its image and open the country up to international investment since the overthrow of the longtime leader omar al bashir sorry false it has more now from west jerusalem. well the word from israel's prime minister

benjamin netanyahu is pretty celebrates re he says that they've agreed to start a cooperation that will lead towards 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. airspace over sudan would make it much easier for israeli flights to fly directly to south america where there is a large jewish population. new delhi is one of the world's most producing cities and as people there prepared to vote in local elections this week many are demanding action to improve quality in the indian capital last year pollution levels were 14 times the limit set by the world health organization elizabeth per army has

a story from new delhi. 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 us will 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 a very long but i said if i stop going to the landfill who's going to feed my children. jane ob and others and ballasts will make a living by sorting and 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 as our main election agenda as said by our honorable prime minister is to legalize these. colonies of. 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 metre high tower it's ethyl to clean the air of pollutants as it passes through that but environmentalists say so. watchtowers only create a clean air zone 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 the ne is

basically resulting in a public health crisis it's not just a pollution problem anymore it's also a public health problem. a problem politicians say they'll address by improving public transport and planting more trees but jane i had made doubts whoever wins the election will do anything to improve the lives of the people of ghana swath elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. runtime just take a look at the top stories here about zara hong kong has recorded its 1st death from the coronavirus a 39 year old man who'd been to war last month on tuesday china put its death toll at 425 and reported more than 20000 infections adrian brown has more apparently according to health officials who spoke to him in the days before his death he told them that he hadn't been to any medical facility on the mainland or

indeed had visited any live produce markets remember we believe that the source of this taurus was a market that was selling wild meat so that sort of broadens it a little bit in terms of how he became infected now it was confirmed on monday that he was also the 1st person to be responsible for person to person transmission here in hong kong. results from the iowa caucuses have been delayed because of quote inconsistences this is the 1st vote in the u.s. to select a democratic presidential nominee party officials say the problem has nothing to do with hacking nor outside interference turkey says its military has hit several syrian government targets killing dozens of soldiers the strikes were launched after a number of turkish soldiers were killed by shelling in italy a province kenya's longest serving president has died daniel more was 20 with

95 for most of his time in office he had absolute authority over the political and judicial systems his regime violently repressed calls for political change at least 14 young children have been killed after a stampede as a school in western kenya 40 other students were injured in the crash police say there was no clear cause of the panic the european union's foreign policy chief has held talks in iran in an attempt to salvage the nuclear deal as regional tensions rise president hassan rouhani told botterill that iran is still ready to cooperate with the e.u. iran has gradually scaled back its commitments to the deal since washington withdrew in 2018 right up to date coming up next the inside story.

with every. turkish soldiers are killed as fighting intensifies for the last piece of syria held by opposition rebels hundreds of thousands of refugees are caught in the middle on hopes fading for peaceful and many years of war this is inside school. hello and welcome to the program i'm daryn jordan syria's government is stepping up its campaign to retake the last rebel held province on monday 5 took his soldiers and a civilian became the latest to be killed by shelling on ad lib in the north west turkey backs opposition groups and had sent reinforcements to come.