the rule. the world health organization says school run a virus is not a pandemic as china admits shortcomings in its response to the outbreak. the area watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go also ahead the race to pick a democratic presidential nominee in the u.s. gets off to a chaotic start in iowa. celebrations in malawi as the top court counsels the results of the presidential election paving the way for a new focus air pollution and believe is basically resulting in a bubbly case it's the old and a call for action from residents in one of the world's most polluted capitals. the

ecu for joining us the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak that's killed hundreds of people in infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has not caused a pandemic the global death toll stands at 427 all but 2 of those have been recorded in mainland china more than 20000 people have been infected there now examples of 2 people contracting the virus without being in china one got sick in thailand the other in singapore and a cruise ship is under quarantine at a port in japan a passenger who got off the ship in hong kong was later confirmed with the virus that brings the total number of cases in hong kong to 17 as a city reports its 1st death from the outbreak and in an unprecedented move the world's biggest gambling have been neighboring macau has announced all its casinos

will close for 2 weeks and the world health organization has warned against the danger of misinformation jury the outbreak. 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 emic and so we have realized over time that this in for them it could be really. a call for a good response and humper effective implementation of countermeasures. now kongsi think 2nd it has defended her government's handling of the corona virus outbreak but health workers don't think she's doing enough on strike demanding that carry landfills all the territories borders with mainland china.

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. landing 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 sort of are not addressing this public health concern adequately and suddenly i don't agree with the allegation that we are putting politics about public health the economic fallout from this emergency has spread to the nearby gambling hub of macau popular with mainland tourists. senos will be closed for 2 weeks in new han 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 are 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 acknowledgement that they failed the people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. and out of walking is the 1st attempt in the u.s. to pick a democratic presidential nominee has gone off to a confusing start after results from the iowa caucuses were delayed local party officials blame inconsistency in reporting for the setback alan fischer or some of the morning i'm sure. 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 contests that the 2020 election tun into a farce that was the candidates decided to claim victory and move on leaving iowa and its problems behind bernie sanders is looking like the eventual winner the self described democratic socialist finished and not all 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 presidents 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 if you even finish in the top 3

normally that would kill a campaign he played to continue so it's on a new hampshire was south go on throughout iraq during this time of. elizabeth warren seems to me to solace 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 near people to church had no problems the clear. victory by all indications we are going on to new hampshire victoria was. for others there's a question on how long they can sustain their campaign no filters a beginning to have their seen. 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 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 farce than the nation status when it comes to help picking the candidates alan fischer al-jazeera. speak to john hendren also in des moines forest john all this very embarrassing for the democratic party when do we expect these results to come out. and right of the republican party could have written how those might have gone for the democratic party last night this is probably pretty much how they might have written it the night ends with technical problems one by one the top 5 candidates each declare a kind of victory and you've got 2 of them bernie sanders who judge each releasing

numbers that suggest they have a commanding lead they were scolded by an aide to elizabeth warren who said they shouldn't be releasing those numbers but went on to suggest that joe biden came in a distant 4th biden's campaign says they want the party to explain to them exactly what happened before those numbers were released all of this seemed to make donald trump the president a republican very happy he said this was an unmitigated disaster is campaign said these are the same people who want to run your health care so all in all it ends up being a black eye for the democrats and for the state of iowa and so what does this mean for the future of the iowa caucuses john. well we don't know who won but it does seem like the state of iowa turns out something of a loser here and the 1st obituaries of the iowa caucuses have already been written politico wrote an article called the death of iowa and while i was death might be

premature. there is a legitimate question to be asked as to whether the caucuses still serve the purposes that they were originally intended to after all only 6 states still use caucuses and many of them have dropped caucuses in the past 4 years and there's a reason for that there they've been criticized as undemocratic their relatively low turnout you have to be in the caucus for hours and that means they're often dominated by political activists and they're overly complicated some people think and that may be represented in the numbers here so there's a lot of consideration as to what should happen in the future one problem for iowa though is if they stop using caucuses they would likely not be the 1st state anymore that's because new hampshire has a law saying it is the 1st state to hold a primary and so if i were to declare its own event a primary in new hampshire would probably move it before iowa so. that makes a bit of a problem for the state and for the democratic party and thank you for that john

hendren my friend said the morning. mulai is set to hold a new presidential election less than a year after people voted for a leader the cost to tional cortez last year disputed presidential votes citing widespread irregularities are more tossed as more from the capital. the capital in long way is an opposition stronghold and some people worried that there would be violence is things didn't go their way but they got what they wanted the constitutional court now looks like may's election results and frankly making the going to be held within $115.00 days obviously support is a gathering. we have a. fun meeting by the way forward is going to be the mood is very different in the routing cots the cattle feed is i know you still need to do that in a statement and from that's the big people will know when they going to appeal the

ruling at the supreme court if they do that it could plunge the country into a now the crisis or they could just say they'd save the day and the country that was. was a was you know we need to take the within $21.00 days the fighting is going to meet and they're going to the dates for the next legal step decide what to do with the electoral commission the body that's being a king the presiding over a sad election i think all going to be 50 if they're not going to be 5 what's this all going to put in place to make sure the issues that sold up in the maze election won't repeat themselves steam ahead on al-jazeera kenya's government declares a period of national mourning after the death of longtime president.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across the eastern mediterranean as well as into southeastern europe we are watching a system coming out of europe and with it a lot of snow a lot of rain as well as some very very gusty wind conditions across much of the area really evident here on our forecast map on wednesday with those winds pushing down from the north across the central med pushing more towards the east and then up towards the north as it makes its way towards turkey so for turkey over the next few days it is going to be quite wet as well as very snowy in the higher elevations wind gusts across much of the area including and tell you over the next few days could be reaching about 75 kilometers per hour so we will be watching this on wednesday and thursday improving conditions by the time we do get towards friday well for the northeastern part of africa you will be seeing the winds as well also the rain will be developing probably by the time we do get towards thursday here in benghazi windy conditions rainy conditions where the temperature there of about 13

degrees over towards cairo it will just be the winds and a temperature of $22.00 degrees there well here across parts of south africa across the eastern cape we are going to be seeing the rain increasing over the next few days dry here on wednesday but rainy conditions pushing through much of the area for cape town great for you with attempts to there of about 23 degrees. from passion into transformative science that brings about change al-jazeera goes on a journey with 5 scientists who want to time and to use scientific knowledge to say that humankind we have done things in our sanctuary and we can monitor them. or their job or the photos from behavior when you're out there and tap into their new environment women make science coming soon on al-jazeera. the earth and the

the earth. while come back our top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak that's killed hundreds of people in infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has not caused a pandemic noble death toll is 127. the 1st attempt to big a u.s. democratic presidential nominee has been delayed because of inconsistency is in reporting results in iowa already a fish will see the problem is technical and has nothing to do with hiking and malawi's constitutional court has ruled the country must hold a new vote for president assad to the result of last year's election was torn down due to widespread irregularities. and a stampede at

a primary school in kenya has killed at least 14 children it's believed the students were crushed when they ran down a staircase after class catherine so i have spoken to relatives of the victims in kakamega. the parents of the children who died are in shock they can't believe or understand what happened the youngsters aged between 9 and 11 when leaving school to make their way home when there was a stampede the last bell had just rung in class but it's not clear why the children were running down the steps. julia admission has 9 year old daughter june had justin's factor the school 3 weeks ago was too distraught to talk to us so her friend did the teacher was trying to hide me up the children from the classroom down the stairs because he. saw in due course that's why he assumed

is not something we had to just. you know the jokes of other children they were holding hands back so when these one came these ones came in asp years ago as a. child still only. for the night it. was as a picture of high level neural dota botha. but the. brother was a smiling machine she was always happy and helpful always quick to help in the kitchen and to pray she was a court fearing child. many politicians and government officials led by deputy president william ruto have visited the scene of the tragedy and given assurances that investigations are underway we must get to the bottom. with the structure of the. something that happened. whatever you are we're. going to.

have a 100 years in september last year 8 children died after a badly built school in nairobi collapsed the government shut down several substandard schools and moved pupils to government once many of which were already overcrowded this school has about 3000 students that's a huge number so you can imagine hundreds of them in panic and fear running down this narrow staircase to get out safely. jews relatives say they don't want to imagine the pain she suffered in the stock bead all they know it will never get to see the 9 year old again cathy zoi al-jazeera got western kenya. and kenya as former president morsi has died he ruled the country for more than 2 decades from 1978 to 2002 for much of that time he had absolute authority over

political and judicial systems and vinatieri frest calls for change john stratford reports. here when you. need to tell you daniel arab strip the president ceded power in 2002 after 24 years of what was seen as a critic leadership when he called him the accidental president he came from a x. knit community called the telegram was regarded as being not as charismatic as other leaders and was humiliated by close knit friends of founding president joel kenyatta when moyo was his deputy when kenyatta died in 1988 more took over and was seen as a shrewd and calculating politician president morsi has always kept in mind that his 1st duty is to the people of kenya as head of state to be remembered for his passion about education and other social programs he gave the go ahead to build schools universities health centers and churches across the country is so close

personal example has given kenyans a new sense of urgency and purpose but he also spearheaded a campaign to protect the environment personally leading efforts to build fortifications to prevent soil erosion. the president might to some extent was i was a populist a populist who wanted to be seen as a compassionate figure. and he wanted 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 turning point for his leadership was in the $182.00 coup attempt by a group of soldiers and politicians in the years that followed his government ordered a violent crackdown on opponents blamed 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 used divide and rule like most

politicians don't you know that's how he kept. he remained at the hill but then he had to be ability to see when he was going and you always provide an opportunity to defuse tension. is credited by many for allowing a peaceful transition of power to his successor. but by the time he retired critics say the economy was in ruins with extremely high rates of unemployment and poverty in addition to all that corruption patronage and tribalism has been normal or eased and most kenyans just want you to go home for stratford. the united nations says more than half a 1000000 syrians have been displaced in the north west of syria in the past 2 months the syrian government backed by russia is trying to take the last rebel held area which is mostly made up of edler province the u.n.

says many people urgently need food and shelter in just 2 months more than 520000 people have been displaced from their homes the vast majority of them being women and children many of the displaced have left with nothing but the clothes on their back or what they could pile onto ramshackle vehicles and the urgently need shelter food water and sanitation support health support emergency education and not least protection. and an additional $280000.00 people from urban centers on the m 4 in 5 a highway axis that runs through the area are at imminent risk of displacement if ongoing military operations continue. there is in her 10 year turkey's border with syria she says most of the people fleeing violence are heading north elsewhere. the pressure on turkey's southern border by syria is increasing because of internal displaced inside northwestern syria in the province due to syrian government's

assaults and advance from south to the north this advance by the syrian government despite a cease fire brokered and as donna and sochi peace process is causing hundreds of thousands of people being displaced according to un since december the 1st 520000 people have been displaced and must vast majority of those people are women and children who left their homes without anything only with their clothes on or with fear stuff that they could carry with them and the u.n. also drives attention to an imminent risk that 280000 people living around the area nearby and 4 and 5 highways are facing right now as the syrian government is adventure has already advanced in this area that's why turkey's president reject a paradox that turkey will not allow any more territorial gain to the syrian government and the end of the escalation zone which is because it is already

increasingly a burden on turkey's shoulders that is already hosting around $4000000.00 syrian refugees within its borders and to trying to take care of hundreds of thousands of displaced people on the syrian side that's why turkey has a plan to provide a safe area for the internally displaced in 15 to 20 kilometers deep inside it they're providing new shelters made of brick 8 at least and they can have a better life in this weather condition which is the weather is very cold it's raining everywhere is mum that's why turkey is also seeking some help from germany mainly financial aid and turkey is planning to begin with 25000 shelters for those people. the u.n. secretary general says in the 1st months of this year the risk of conflicts around the world escalating has increased antonio terrace made the comments as part of a speech laying out the un's priorities for 2020 which he says include battling climate change and inequality i've spoken recently about winds of hope

but today a wind of madness is sweeping the globe from libya to yemen to syria and beyond escalation is back arms are flowing and the offensives are increasing all situations are different but there is a feeling of good knowing is the believe see and hair trigger tensions which makes everything far more unpredictable and uncontrollable with the hearts and risk of miscalculation cancer is a 2nd biggest killer after heart disease but the world health organization says millions of lives could be saved if the gap between rich and poor nations can be bridge around one in 6 deaths are caused by cancer last year killing 10000000 people around the world the number of cases has gone sharply in the past 10 years and it's expected to nearly double in the next 2 decades lung cancer is the most fatal followed by colon and stomach cancer is that says more than 2000000 people

die every year from cancer caused by tobacco products doctor is a cancer control technical officer at the world health organization he says investing in cancer care in poor countries can save money and lives. 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 or 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. now it's one of the world's most polluted cities and people in new delhi prepared to vote in local elections this week many are demanding action to improve quality in india's capital last year absolution levels were 40 times the limit set by the world health organisation and is a random report. 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 bias 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 oben others in violence will make a living by supporting 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. party told us that was not their priority. we don't treat this as one of our election. election. honorable prime minister.

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 makes a high tower it's f.-l. to clean the air of pollutants as it passes through that but environmentalists say such towers only create a clean is on. around them and a lot of 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 belize 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've had made doubts whoever wins the election will do anything to improve the lives of the people of by a swath elizabeth brand of al-jazeera new delhi. clare again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak that killed hundreds of people infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has no cause not cause a pandemic the global death toll is $427.00 w.h.o. has warned against the danger of misinformation during the outbreak. you do is a.p. dimmick. 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

a nippy dimmick of rumors of false information that the circulating at the same time and every outbreak as it's in food a mic and sue we have realized over time that this in for them it could be really they called for a good response and humper effective implementation of countermeasures. the 1st attempt to pick a u.s. democratic presidential nominee has been delayed because of inconsistency as in reporting results in iowa party officials say the problem is technical and has nothing to do with hacking kenya's former president morsi has died he led the country for more than 2 decades his government was criticized for violently repressing those who spoke out against his leadership a stampede at a school in kenya has killed at least 14 children it happened in a western region as students were leaving the building to go home for jihad a students were injured in the crash police say there's no clear cost for the panic . when it came to pick up my child i heard the students calling for teachers from

the upper floors when we went up the staircase we found some it fall and some were on the top while others were under we managed to pull some to a car others through a land cruiser and others into a school bus and took them to a hospital and libya's warring leader is a participating in talks in geneva aimed at ending years of chaos and conflicts the un's libya envoy haasan saddam may says all sides were working to transform a truce into a lasting cease fire he also said there is new evidence both parties have violated an alms embargo and that you mercenaries are still arriving in libya those are the headlines inside story is next on al-jazeera stay with us.

it kills almost $10000000.00 people a year and that figure is rising from the poor countries are the biggest losers in the fight against cancer why is that such a gap with wealth in nations and how can we project this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm nick luck most of us probably know somebody affected by cancer but your chance of beating the disease depends greatly on the way you live the world health organization is marking well counts a day by highlighting what it cools unacceptable.