musicology for that matter to you tube. hong kong confirms its 1st death from coronaviruses striking medical workers demand the closure of borders with mainland china. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm nancy davis also coming out of the race to pick a democratic presidential nominee in the u.s. gets off to a confusing start with results to late. national mourning declared in kenya in honor of its longest serving president daniel hour of morning has died at the age of 95. and a warning for the world health organization the number of cancer cases could jump

more than 60 percent if current trends continue. the hong kong has recorded its 1st death from the corona virus outbreak the 39 year old man is the 2nd person to die from the illness outside mainland china officials say he visited the city of will hand last month and this brings the global death toll to 427 all but 2 of those have been recorded in mainland china well than 20000 people have now been infected and examples of people contracting the virus without even having been to china have now appeared 2 cases one in thailand and one in singapore and there's a cruise ship that's under quarantine at a port in japan a passenger. got off the ship in hong kong was later confirmed with the virus

adrian brown reports. as hong kong confirmed its 1st death from the virus a quarter of its doctors and nurses went on strike seriously affecting emergency services several 100 demonstrated outside the offices of their employer hong kong's health authority they say the complete closure of hong kong's border with the mainland would help prevent the disease spreading their members of the new union born out of the protest movement politics have now entered this growing public health emergency headline thing i hope the government quickly listens to our demands quickly closes all the borders and brings this epidemic under control by choose day 10 of the 13 border crossing points with the mainland were closed but the bridge to china remains open now one of the few ways into or out of hong kong when this bridge opened almost 3 years ago it stood as

a symbol of the deepening links between hong kong and china today it stands as a symbol of the few border links that now remain between the 2. hong kong's leader kerry lam is resisting calls for a total shut down of the front here saying it would go against the guidelines of the world health organization and rejects accusations that her administration is the one playing politics i certainly would not agree with the allegation that we are. not addressing this public health concern adequately and suddenly i don't agree with the allegation that we are putting politics of public health the economic fallout from this emergency has spread to the nearby gambling hub of macau popular with mainland tourists all casinos will be closed for 2 weeks in a new hand a new hospital built in just 9 days has begun treating. patients another 3 mobile

hospitals are being assembled in a rare move china's government has appealed to the outside world for help saying vital medical equipment is needed including more face masks and protective clothing for medical workers doctors also say there's a shortage of testing kits in another unusual development china's top leadership has admitted to shortcomings and failures in its response to the crisis the politburo standing committee chaired by president xi jinping warned that officials who failed in their duty would be punished that amounts to a public good knowledge meant that they failed the people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong all right let's go live to scott hyla now he's in beijing and these are missteps in the extraordinary times not just in china but in the region as a whole absolutely martinez when you look at what's happened

over the last 10 days or so you've had a couple of high level highest level admissions of missteps of challenges of problems things that need be corrected from the top level of the central government here in china you've had you know local governments admitting that they fumbled things at the very beginning but what we've been seeing particularly on state run television here a lot of images of this new hospital that has just opened up and there's another one that's going to open up tomorrow lot of images of supplies coming in but again there's this call from outside of china that they need these medical supplies as we heard in adrian brown's piece right there but one thing that's interesting we have all those challenges but also there are other challenges too and the world health organization just last hour kind of went through dissected some of these other challenges and one of them is misinformation. when you deal with epidemic. disease that in addition to the epidemic of diseases we often have an epitome of information and this is what we call in for demick and it's really an e.p.

dimmick of rumors of false information that is circulating at the same time and every outbreak as it is in food in mc and sue we have realized over time that this in for them it could be really. a call for a good response and hamper effective implementation of countermeasures and so there we saw the doubling warning about an overload of information if you like an avalanche of information so what's happening to those people in china who are pretty much restricted to their homes being able to nominate in some cases one person to go out for 4 provisions every other day i mean what are they doing. yeah there was one thing that also in that w.h.o. press conference i mentioned that one mechanism that chinese government has put into place is to circle these areas where the epidemic has been it kind of been

centered in that is who bit province and she had mentioned that you know there are clusters that have sprouted up in other places still very close to who they promise and that's what they're trying to do and circle those clusters to prevent further spread and the way they're doing that is they're locking it down probably something you can really only do in a country like china so what they're doing is in some cities now not in who have problems what they're doing as you mentioned martine there's they're restricting. people from going out on the streets nominating one family member who will go and get the supplies for their household in other cities there's you know no one allowed on the streets and some cities if you don't have a face mask on you will be put be sent back home so there are a lot of different kind of stages of this that kind of control if you will but again it's one thing to look at that this is what they're trying to do the trying to encircle where these clusters are preventing it from spreading further but you know when you look at the gestation period the incubation period i should say about 2 weeks you know the big concern is that you know you could see clusters sprout up

elsewhere because the person to person transfer of this virus so obviously looking at a very very closely but again some of these these control mechanisms in place the chinese but really probably could only handle be handled in by a government like we have here scott hyde alive in beijing thank you. the races aside hoby the democratic candidates in this year's us presidential election has had something of a stumble on the very 1st say results from the selection in iowa couldn't be declared on monday night local party officials blame inconsistences in reporting the count and say they need more time our correspondent alan fischer reports now from the state capitol the morning was. it was a night of frustration and questions in iowa after people cast their votes in the democratic caucuses the process of adding them up and sending them to headquarters was plagued with technical issues it created a terrible image as the country watched the 1st real contest that the 2020 election

ton into a farce was the candidates decided to claim victory and move on leaving iowa and its problems behind bernie sanders is looking like the eventual winner of the self described democratic socialist finished another 2nd 4 years ago though he believes he's taken a big step to securing the democratic nomination today in morgues the beginning of the end for donald trump was here mose dangerous president in modern american history the biggest loser of the night is shaping up to be former vice president joe biden for a man who campaigned on electability it's not clear to even finish in the top 3 normally that would kill a campaign he played each to continue so much on the air was south carolina well beyond where some of. elizabeth warren seems to have

made a solid sure it was suggested the massachusetts senator would be competing for the same grind with bernie sanders she says the result sends a message tonight she's already showed that americans have a deep hunger for big structural. change it was also a good night for the youngest candidate in the field here people to judge had no problems the clearing victory by all indications we are going on to new hampshire. for others is a question of how long they can sustain their campaign no footers a beginning to have their say. on the republican side no technical problems and a clear and predictable when for president donald trump his 2 opponents would even getting 3 percent of the vote as the campaign george out of iowa all were demanding to know what went wrong it's not a good look for the democrats as a 1st step on the road to the white house it's also not good news for iowa which is

keen to retain its 1st in the nation status when it comes to help picking the candidates alan fischer al-jazeera the morning now in kenya at least 14 children have been killed during a stampede at a school it happened in the western region of the country as students were leaving the building to go home 40 other students were injured in the crash police say there was no clear reason for the panic and investigators. and kenya's for president daniel moyer who led the country for 24 years has died during his time in power from 178 to 2002 he had absolute wealth already have a political and judicial systems often violently repressing calls for political change catherine sawyer looks back on his life and career.

was daniel are up more in kenya 2nd president ceded power in 2002 after 24 years of what was seen as autocratic leadership many called him the accidental president he came from my minority ethnic community called a token was regarded as being not as charismatic as other leaders and was humiliated by close that friends of founding president john walking atta when morrie was his deputy when kenyatta died white to cova and was seen as a shrewd and calculating politician president mourners always kept in mind that his 1st duty is to the people of kenya as head of state he'll be remembered for his passion about education and other social programs he gave the go ahead to build schools universities health centers and charges across the country is selfless personal example has given kenyans a new sense of urgency and purpose but he also spearheaded a campaign to protect the environment passed in a leading efforts to build fortifications to prevent soil erosion. present

a more deserve accidentals as a populist populist to wanted to be seen as a compassionate. and they want to be seen as a god fearing figure but everything that he did went to contrary to what what he wanted the people to believe some analysts say the timing point for his leadership was in the $982.00 quest temped by a group of soldiers and politicians in the years that followed his government ordered a violent crackdown on opponents some blame for plotting the coup thousands were detained and tortured though the country remained broadly stable ethnic clashes in some parts became common especially during elections. divide and rule like most politicians do you know that's how he kept. he remained at the helm but then he had to be ability to see when he was gone and

always provide a unity to be. credited by many for allowing a peaceful transition of power to his successor why kibaki but by the time he retired critics argue that the economy was in ruins with extremely high rates of unemployment and poverty in addition to all that corruption patronage and tribalism had been normalize and most kenyans just wanted him gone. still to come here at al-jazeera. we find out why these people in malawi a celebrating how to manage the family rest over the last election and a big night ahead for president trump about his in when child could have a shot day his state of the union address.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of china we are looking at some rain developing over the next few days all the way extending to parts of northern vietnam take a look at the forecast map here as we go towards wednesday lighter rain across much of the area also cool down here across the neuer we do expect to see a temper there of about 19 degrees as we go towards thursday though the rain really expands across much of the area in this region we could be seeing anywhere between 20 and possibly 40 millimeters of rain but it's very widespread making its way towards the east as well shanghai you'll also be seeing some rain as we go towards thursday as well up here towards the north though still quite cold across much of a cuddle with sapporo sick attempt or of minus 4 degrees there where we have had some rain here across parts of india that is on the decrease as we go towards the next couple of days still quite active here along much of the east up towards

kolkata as well on thursday though much of that rain begins to settle down we still see some cloudy conditions across much of the area but down towards colombo it's going to be quite sunny with the temperature a few of 30 degrees and then here across much of the middle east things a little quite nice we are watching what is happening very quick closing the up here towards parts of the mediterranean windy conditions across much of the region and beirut a temperature few of 19 degrees. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libel reigns influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist away feel castro is a feudal eastern not a communist that custer wanted his country che wanted international revolution they came a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics che guevara and fidel castro face to face on

al-jazeera. tarvaris is a look at the top stories here it is here hong kong's recorded its 1st death from the coronavirus a 39 year old man who'd been to han last month on tuesday china reported the death toll at 425 and more than 20000 defections. the 1st attempt to pick a u.s. democratic presidential nominee's been delayed because of inconsistent says party officials say the problem has nothing to do with hiking nor outside interference in iowa kenya's former president daniel are more has died at the age of $95.00 he led

the country for more than 2 decades his country is government was criticised for violently repressing those who spoke out against his leadership. now to malawi which mr holder knew vote for president within 5 months after the result of last year's election was thrown out by the courts bitter water reka was returned to power for a 2nd term last may prompting big a physician protest about the constitutional court has now ruled that there were widespread irregularities here's our correspondent erin the tasa. 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 $150.00 days opposition leaders who were caught wacom the ruling of the judgment justices be very old.

for comments 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 inconsistencies in may's election some people may have voted more than once there was ballot stuff. and some figures which changed using typewriter correction fluid holding another election in a few months will be a logistical nightmare obviously the point is they don't want guarantees that will be no repeat of the widespread irregularities and vote rigging that damaged election. in 2017 king a supreme court and now that country's presidential election because of the regularities by law is not the 2nd subsaharan country to have a presidential fact overturned there will no longer be an attempt by any other body for the possibility to do certain things and the hunt. for the point to you need to go back on the wrist. you are in the 1st part of the process forward to

start looking at the. or in the other system that the would be even go to secure or assure over a free and fair trial. for months have been demonstrations in several parts of the country of amazing speech election some others have been filed. with erika's really d.p.p. party can appeal a constitutional ruling and the supreme court's no one from the party was willing to go on camera after monday's 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 rerun of elections is handled could improve or deepen. an economic crisis. all right when go live now to live a long way the malawian capital and harmattan sorry. what happens next in order to perhaps prevent

a repetition of this rather enthusiastic ease of correction fluid that happened last time i mean they have to do something surely to prevent a repeat of last year. if not a lot of people are saying is basically opposition supporters what's going to happen is that he's a little bit and will say to the president and call the next election parliament is made to meet within 21 days when they meet and you and daniel are going to decide what they're going to do about the electoral commission that's the body that's the plane the focus lighting up a lot from what some called a shouting election are those officials going to keep a job was it going to be 5 if they keep the jobs or the mandate to make sure. you can have a lot of people are saying what kerry will occasionally give the fed raising them in ways. that rightly the franklinton the right. and

remind us how or who want those original results were how close was the victory. last may. when you won by one and it. we seem to have lost her in metals are our correspondent in the malawian capital long way but nonetheless she was reporting on the very latest and following on from that constitutional court ruling now let's go to libya because warring leaders are participating in talks in geneva they're aimed at ending years of chaos and conflict speaking at a news conference the libya own void the un's man may said that all sides were working to transform a truce that was put in place at the berlin conference last month he also said there is new evidence that both parties a violated an arms embargo and the new mercenaries are still arriving in the

country this is after all the 1st time. since a very long time high ranking officers of the 2 sides meet the very very 1st time i hope that within the few days the security council will come to its 1st is illusion that reaffirms this and i also hope that those who are exporting these arms understand that there is already more than 20000000 pieces of weapons in the country. after 2 weeks of debate both sides have presented their closing arguments in the impeachment trial of president trump democrats say the president pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival move health security age aide as leverage cycle quid pro quo but he's expected to be acquitted of the charges by the republican dominated senate on

wednesday but e.j. a report from washington said it 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 a particular candidate you are free and welcome to vote for another candidate but the answer is elections. not impeachment. trump's approval rating is currently the highest it's been since he took office on tuesday he'll tell it 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 meanwhile president trump is due to deliver his state of the union address on the eve of that expected acquittal in the senate white house correspondent kimberly how kit now looks ahead to what the president is likely to say during the senate

impeachment trial to decide whether to remove him from office u.s. president donald trump said he'd like to address his accusers directly sort of love sit right there for all and stare in their corrupt faces on tuesday he'll get the chance when he delivers his annual state of the union address to the u.s. congress it will be the 1st time trump speaks to lawmakers as a president who has been impeached it will also come just one day before trump's impeachment trial is expected and with an acquittal. meanwhile administration officials insist the president who likes to go on the attack will instead focus on his successes. the speeches titled the great american comeback trump is expected to tout the solid job market low unemployment and health care advances. trump will also continue to promote his wall of the southern border which is cost

ing the u.s. billions of dollars in spite of his promise that mexico would pay for it foreign policy officials are being deliberately vague on the content but expect the ongoing trade war with china to get at least a mention and the killing of ice a leader abu bakar al baghdadi by u.s. forces in october as well but 6 6. last year trump delivered his remarks as the justice department conducted an investigation into allegations trump's campaign worked with the russians if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war and investigation but aside from that brief mention trump steered clear of any vitriol and that's why it's so incumbent on this president to look presidential so this is an opportunity for the president to actually set the stage for what another 4 year term in office will look like

with president trump's expected acquittal in the senate both republicans and democrats are now leaving the decision on trump's future to us voters in november election kimberly helped get al jazeera the white house. now cancer is the world's 2nd biggest killer the anything that causes more deaths is heart disease but the world health organization says millions of lives could be saved if the gap between rich and poor nations could be bridged in the fight against the disease around one in 6 deaths are caused by cancer last year it killed almost 10000000 people around the world the number of cancer cases is growing sharply in the last 10 years and it's expected to almost double over the next 2 decades lung cancer is the deadliest type followed by colon and stomach ounces the w.h.o. says more than $2000000.00 people die every year from cancer that's caused by tobacco

products. well i've been speaking to dr andrei il barly who's a cancer control technical officer at the world health organization he says by investing in cancer care poor countries could save money in the long run. we know that the cancer burden in poor countries is increasing quickly if we focus on prevention now we can avoid the cancer cases that we know will come in the next $23.00 decades at the same time we have to also invest in treatment capacity because many cancer patients who live in poor countries are unable to access even the most essential of basic cancer services so if you're going to tackle this major cancer and public health challenge we have to do both prevention and control because in fact there are many lifestyle changes that we can make that will reduce our cancer risk for colon cancer as an example we know that diet makes a big difference both the foods that we eat and the risk that we have to develop

obesity that is related to the foods that we eat those 2 factors significantly impact the likelihood that an individual will develop cancer there are many countries that are struggling to get health on the agenda because there are limited resources and there is a perception that diseases have to compete amongst each other but what we've done with this report this is show that cancer should not be seen as a competing disease in fact if we invest wisely we can save lives and add societal value that is in the form of reentry into employment productivity gains and broader societal benefits. these are the top stories here of houses era hong kong has recorded its 1st death from corona virus a 39 year old man who'd been to han last month on tuesday china reported its death toll had risen to 425 and reported more than 20000 infections the w.h.o.

says it's trying to avoid information overload by targeting its messages to specific allegiances. when you do is epidemic. disease that in addition to the epidemic of diseases we often have an epitome of information and this is what we call in for demick and it's really an e.p. dimmick of rumors of false information that is circulating at the same time and every outbreak as it is in food emic and sue we have realized over time that this in for them it could be really nuts to call for a good response and humper effective implementation of countermeasures the 1st attempt to pick a u.s. democratic presidential nominee's been delayed because of inconsistency is in reporting results in iowa party officials say the problem has nothing to do with hacking no outside intervention at least 14 young children have been killed after

a stampede as a school in western kenya it happened as primary students were leaving the building to go home for 3 other students were injured in the crash and kenya's former president daniel our war has died at the age of $95.00 he led the country for more than 2 decades he was criticized for violent repressing those who spoke out against him will always constitutional court has ruled the country must hold a new vote for president that's after the result of last year's election was thrown out because of irregularities those are the latest headlines let's go now to inside story.

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 end to 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 adlib in the north west turkey backs opposition groups and had sent reinforcements to counter president bashar al assad's offensive syria's main ally russia is blaming turkey for not coordinating its true.