we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. china admits shortcomings in its response to the corona virus outbreak which the world health organization says is not yet a pandemic this says hong kong reports its 1st test said my account shuts down all its casinos for 2 weeks. following barbara starr you're watching out there a live from london also coming up caucus chaos in iowa embarrassment for the democratic party as it fails to announce a winner after monday's vote plus. the parents in shock as they struggle to understand how and why 14 of their children died in

a stampede at a kenyan school. hello thank you for joining us china has admitted shortcomings in its response to the corona virus outbreak several asian countries have recorded more cases of the coronavirus in people who have not traveled from china but the world health organization says it is not yet an international pandemic it's calling it an epidemic with a number of hotspots but says it's showing no signs of mutation and is actually proving quite stable. when you deal with epidemic you rapidly sees that in addition to the epidemic of diseases we often have an epitome of information and this is what we call intraday mick and it's really a nippy dimmick of rumors of false information that is circulating at the same time

and every outbreak as it's info demick and so 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 well meanwhile the number of deaths in china has continued to grow rising sharply this week to 427 with more than 20000 cases diagnosed hong kong has now reported its 1st death from the virus only the 2nd outside of mainland china and neighboring macau has announced that all of its casinos will close for 2 weeks adrian brown reports now from hong kong. 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 close of 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 sort of they're 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 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 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 good knowledge meant that they failed the people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well the spread of the corona virus is said to be fueling racism and xenophobia towards chinese nationals around the world in the philippines president of the ego the path that has told citizens xenophobia against the chinese must stop the nation confirmed its 1st steps from the virus on saturday prompting a temporary travel ban to and from china by now below has more now from manila. empty streets empty shops and empty restaurants this is manila chinatown bustling on almost any day of the year but recent days have been anything but normal fear has gripped the city's chinese community a cyclone

a virus outbreak continues to spread the community itself has now become a target of discrimination on facebook photos of chinese businessmen distributing face masks were met with offensive comments this one reads you can keep those face masks go home to china one university was criticised for a memo require isolation for all its chinese students regardless of travel history . a number of chinese schools however took it a step further by suspending classes altogether for 2 weeks. of the abilities that we have. is that. it's also about. you i know. many people. and it's not just in the philippines elsewhere in asia there are examples on social media of growing hostility against those with chinese if this city leaders of the

chinese filipino community however say the issue of racism has been blown out of proportion you know this would mean anything that i know is what they are discriminating is the koran or why it was the good though the or this from the bin those came from and then his coughing. when the reason to be in the us i would do it the. community leaders and health department officials of the list come together to address the allegations of racism and find ways to help each other in preventing the spread of the virus as recently as last week hundreds of tourists from china and even the epicenter of the novel coronavirus are being allowed into the philippines that's fed into the alarm. and to some extent what many are saying is the. philippine government is also barred entry of foreigners with recent travel history to china and its autonomy as regions but with the country having been the 1st to record the death of outside china some worry may be too late to be

low al-jazeera middle well the major con maker is suspending production in south korea because the corona virus outbreak is the struct in the supply of car parts from china. has become the 1st major automaker to stop operations outside of china it relies heavily on important parts from beijing the car maker has 7 factories in south korea which accounts for about 40 percent of its global output. has not specified when production. will return to normal. chaos and confusion of rain in iowa where the democratic party still hasn't released the results from monday's presidential caucus it's blamed a coding issue in the app that it was using and says partial results will be released in summary hours that's at $22.00 g.m.t.

president trump unsurprisingly has seized on the fiasco branding it an unmitigated disaster for the democrats from iowa state capital the moyo island fishing reports . 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 town 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 a nano 2nd 4 years ago though he believes he's taken a big step to securing the democratic nomination today of more the beginning of the end for donald trump my 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 if you even finish in the top 3 normally that would kill a campaign he played to continue so much on the air should be right in south carolina well beyond your interest in the road. elizabeth warren seems to me to solace sure it was suggested the massachusetts senator. would be competing for the same ground with bernie sanders she says the result sends a message tonight has already shown 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 problem clearing victory by all indications we are going on to new hampshire

victorious. but others there's a question of how long they can sustain their campaign no filters are beginning to have their say. on the republican side no technical problems and a clear and predictable when for president donald trump has 2 opponents but even getting 3 percent of the vote. well allen joins us live now from des moines is so allen at 23 hours are going to get some of the results so when are we going to get the full results and just how much of a disaster is this for the democrats. ok let me take the 2nd part 1st it's a huge disaster for the democrats it's not just a national it's a global what is the whole world was watching to see who aisle would would see yet we think the person best suited to be the democratic candidate come the election in november and the passion that we think can be donald trump and what we got was an

absolute farce when we get the full results that's not entirely clear in fact it's no not entirely clear we might get the partial results at $22.00 g. that is because there is a suggestion in this stage it is only a suggestion that the biden campaign might go to court with the get an injunction and ask the democratic party of iowa not to release the results until they have the food results rather than the partial results what was interesting is that it gave many of the campaigns the chance to stand up last night very quickly and say what a great night for us we're off to new hampshire the best player of that move. it was easy closure you know she has been liking behind in some of the polls got a bit of momentum in the last few days but was the 1st out in front of all the media was carried in all the networks because they were desperate for some information and she got the chance to resell herself to the american public great piece of campaign a great move in her part she was certainly moving to new hampshire with a bit of momentum but really for the democratic party this is

a huge huge error on their part it just makes them look incompetent and means that donald trump can point to them and say look these are the people you want to handle your health care but not only that is a blow for iowa 50 years ago almost 50 years ago it became the 1st in the nation the place where they decided 1st who would go on in the race from here people have been talking for a long time about taking that away from iowa and putting it somewhere that is more reflective of the united states as a whole those calls will get loaded and it's much harder for iowa to defend itself after what happened over the last 24 hours or so because of what happened decent that we can glean i guess some kind of indication of who did very well among the democrats and crucially looking at the next step i suppose a lot more focus on that then to try again to understand who is leading the democratic race. from what we got

from some of the reports from the precincts we get a sense of what happened we also get a sense from the party's internal polling which they're beginning to release at least as a burning sanders of a good night that's not a surprise he was the front runner in the last 34 years ago he want to leaven of the 13 caucuses tends to do better in caucuses than he does and primaries he's got a good growing game here so we think that he is going to finish 1st people to judge did surprisingly well people were thinking of him coming thought the 4th or not being a good campaigner for him looks as if he might finish 2nd elizabeth warren coming in 3rd but people seeing that her and barely a roughly on the same track so they might take votes from one another the big disappointment of the night undoubtedly joe biden it looks as if he's going to come forth possibly even 5th and no for someone who's going to own saying this is all about electability on the person that can be donald trump if you can't convince democrats in iowa you're the person then what chance of you go of convincing the rest of the country other thing to remember is the democrats 3 times since world

war 2 have nominated a vice president to be the presidential candidate they've got 100 percent record and all 3 of them lost the election to the republican and so who are at that move against joe biden as well and then there's him equal bashar as a sick great move on her campaign to get her own in front of the cameras and leave . sold herself and gives a big momentum moving on to new hampshire which is the next event which is in just a week's time what is interesting is the event that comes after that are caucuses in nevada and already the local party in nevada are saying you know they're happy used in iowa you know we won't be using that because they realize that there were huge problems here and so they might go back to just the old idea of tallying votes by paper and that will give them an idea who wins in there but certainly people are going to be talking about iowa at least for the next few days and a lot of the talk is not so much about who did well and who moves on with momentum

but the absolute failure of process here by the democrats a real political goal right at the very start of what is going to be a long presidential year tallying votes by paper doesn't sound so bad to most democrats right now alan fischer with the latest there from iowa allen as always thank you. still to come in this half hour 10 years the longest serving president. but will he be remembered most for his social policies or his repression and why iraq's government is struggling to convince drivers that local gas is safer cheaper and then imported. how low the temperatures are now starting to tumble across europe we're seeing some very cold air starting to take its way across these northern parts but behind these

are weather systems you see this tight squeeze on the ice a pass into southern areas of france a mistrial wind winds gusting to 100 kilometers per hour over the next day or so so some fairy choppy waters because that western side of the but it's right in that couple of days ago the further north in jerk we were getting up into the height. pains for self dissipate the top temperature here on wednesday there's some snow there over the alps know that and to the balkans and some was for snow just pushing across hungry easing over towards the southern parts of ukraine very heavy rain sleet and snow there pushing down into both kerry and also into a good part of the choppy weather also affecting the eastern side of the mets and not looking too pleasant here is it go on through the next few days prices guys they took back in behind me down into single figures across a good part of the reason to be cold enough to cause parts of north africa over the next particular when you consider what's going on into that eastern side of the

mediterranean so well there we go out to the mid to high teens across east northern areas as we go on through wednesday a top temperature of just 13 with the study. of . musicians perform a visionary teacher i am. out a 0 miles meets the man bringing traditional arabic sounds to a whole new audience being a one man and being american playing at it already in something new from boston to palestine and landed his spot in natchez the next generation of musical talent simon shaheen the musical journey on al-jazeera. route forward.

kuku. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera china has admitted shortcomings in its response to the coup in the virus outbreak more than 400 people have been killed by the disease in china and hong kong has reported its 1st deaths but the world health organization says it does not yet constitute a pandemic and democratic presidential hopefuls in the u.s. are still waiting for the results of the are you what caucuses after technical glitches in the voting process it's the 1st contest in the nomination. the kenyan government is investigating how 14 children were killed in a stampede at a primary school several more on a critical condition in hospital after the crush which happened as the children ran down the staircase after class from kakamega in western kenya katherine sawyer

reports. 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 are running down the stairs. admission there's 9 year old go to 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. from the classroom. so in due course that's why he. is not some cool that we trust. you know the jokes of the children they were holding hands. so when these one came

. here it was a. chance to. form. a picture of high 11 year old daughter. brother was a smiling machine she was always happy and helpful always quick to help in the kitchen and to. support fearing charu. 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 point on. whether the structure of the. what. happened. 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 ones 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 stump beads all they know they'll never get to see the 9 year old again katherine sawyer. got western kenya. for staying in kenya former president. has died during the 24 years that he was in power he put in place many social policies including a mass school building program but he also had absolute authority over kenya's political and judicial systems and violently repressed calls for political change

for looks back now at his life and career. here when you. need baby dangling carrot stick 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 jomo 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 will 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. president might have some extenders 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 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 may remain that the hell but then he had to be ability to see when he was going around you always provide unopposed unity to defuse tension boy is credited by many for allowing a peaceful transition of power to his successor baccy 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 normalized and most kenyans just wanted him gone. more than half a 1000000 syrians have fled the ongoing fighting in libya province in just the last 2 months the united nations says another 280000 are in an interest of being the splay stiffness than it has continued this place the syrians are pushing towards

turkey to escape a sudden and fast moving advance by government forces on the last rebel held strong hold in italy. clashes have broken out in the iraqi capital baghdad as protesters rallied against the newly appointed prime minister that a stranger was marched on tuesday to the nouns the appointment of mohammad that allowed followers of the populous cleric. who supports allow we pushed back against the protesters hoping to disperse them allow he was appointed after 2 months of squabbling between lawmakers after a successor to. the who resigned in november following mass unrest. iraq's government is trying to encourage its citizens to switch from using imported fuel to locally produced gas all new public transport vehicles must run a liquefied petroleum gas but the spread awareness campaigns and subsidies users are reluctant to move away from traditional fuel well some of binge of i then back

that explains why. not the sound of a cleaner start. taxi now runs on iraqi produce liquefied petroleum gas or p.g. is daily fuel cost is nearly a 3rd of what he used to pay for regular petrol. for sure it is more economical and hence more profitable instead of paying $16.00 per day for fuel now apparent $6.00. it's mandatory for new public transport vehicles to install m.p.g. kit although the law was passed in 2016 it was only implemented a year ago the oil industry subsidizing the installation instead of a $1000.00. it costs around $400.00 to install an l.p.g. kit. any new project faces resistance the oil ministry has tried to tell people that there is no danger as the cylinder doesn't explode because it's a safe and with international standards the gasket is safe and complies with

international standards there is propaganda to defame the ministries if it's just need some time so people start to understand the benefits of l.p.g. . there are up to 6000000 cars in the iraqi capital more than 500 are registered every month with no new roads or bridges and some of the over 3000 offices and 600 cameras still can prevent gridlock the traffic department is encouraging the use of alternative fuel to these baghdad's public transport spews fewer emissions. we have installed gaskets on different types of vehicles there have been no accidents or explosions through word of mouth other drivers are also beginning to see the benefits. that's the case among many drivers who started using gas powered taxis. yes of course i encourage all drivers to install it it's safe and nothing wrong will happen now to just get people say it's not safe to use the gasket i have

witnessed 2 incidents with friends cars who did not have the kit their fuel tank caught fire because of loose wires in the fuel pump. iraq is a 2nd largest producer among oil producing opec nations and is trying to reduce its gas flare at defining much over all its liquefied petroleum gas is a readily available byproduct the pilot freeze in public transport is meant to reduce the carbon footprint and expensive refined fuel imports the government plans to expand it to hospitals restaurants and even homes but it still has to convince iraqis that it is a safer cheaper and see there alternative some of the there are facts. well meanwhile britain's prime minister has promised urgent action on climate change bringing forward a ban on the sale of new petrol diesel and hybrid cars by 5 years to 2035 hours johnson called on all governments to follow the u.k.'s lead in setting a target of net 0 emissions by 2050 he was attending the launch of this year's un

climate talks known as cop 26 alongside serge david attenborough in london the u.k. will host the summit in glasgow this november. and watching are a reminder of our top stories china has admitted shortcomings in its response to the corona virus outbreak as the spread of the disease continues that comes after hong kong has not reported its 1st deaths from the virus only the 2nd outside mainland china more than 400 people have now been killed by the disease and 20000 people in china are infected cases have been reported in more than 20 countries worldwide the world health organization says the outbreak is not yet a global pandemic and the world has a window of opportunity to stop the spread. 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 a mic and sue 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 candidates for the democratic nomination to be u.s. president are still waiting for the results of the iowa caucuses after technical glitches in the voting process people put the claim victory despite the absence of official results while bernie sanders a former vice president joe biden said they had done well the state is the 1st in the country to outline its choices for this year's vote the democrats say the hitch is not the result of a hack but it's given president trump republican the chance to call it

a disaster. devastated parents have been gathering at a primary school in kenya were 14 students were killed in a stampede police say 39 other pupils were hurt as they rushed out of a 3rd floor classroom and down a stairway on monday afternoon officers say that they don't what they don't know what caused the crash and look out of can come but have ruled out a scare. those are the top stories that stay with us the stream is next and it's going to be looking at europe's falling population we will of course have more news for you in half an hour thank you for watching.

welcome to the stream i'm femi oke a the un says the world's population will grow by a quarter between now and 2050 yet the populations of many european countries are plummeting why is that and what can be done to tackle it send your thoughts through twitter. the world's population is forecast to grow by 2000000000 people in the next 3 decades with some of the largest rises expected in countries such as india the united states i think the democratic republic of congo.