the. hong kong koren teens a cruise ship turned away from taiwan as the coronavirus death toll climbs in china . you're watching us here on live from a headquarters and. also ahead. america's future is blazing bright. the years of economic decay are over. president donald trump boasts of a great american comeback in his state of the union address that underlines the deepening political divisions the democrats opinion was clear house speaker nancy pelosi tearing up the trump speech after he appeared to refuse to shake her hand.

more political uncertainty in malawi the president plans to appeal a court decision overturning last year's election results. hello china has seen the biggest jump and deaths from the coronavirus as the outbreak continues to spread their respects to 5 more confirmed deaths bringing china's total death toll to 490 and the number of global cases has now hit more than 24000 officials with the world health organization has called on all countries to improve data sharing on the coronavirus more than 2 dozen countries have reported the virus and 10 people who were on board a cruise ship in japan are confirmed to have the virus there more than $3000.00 passengers on that vessel and all are now facing up to 2 weeks of. orenstein over

in hong kong around $800.00 people are being held on board a cruise ship there while health authorities carry out tests for corona virus the vessel was earlier denied entry to taiwan just to washington is standing by and that's to an island that's where indonesian citizens returning from china are under quarantine but 1st let's get more on the developments in hong kong from adrian brown what more do we know about the drama unfolding in the harbor adrian. well that drum durian is taking place just on the far side of the harbor in the distance that's where this giant vessel the world dream is now docked it arrived in hong kong on wednesday morning but the passengers are not being allowed to leave we understand that there are some 3600 crew and passengers aboard that vessel and the reason they can't leave is for this reason on a previous for age at the end of last month it seems that 3 passengers became

infected now those passengers are thought to be from the mainland because the alert has come from health officials in china they contacted officials from hong kong's center for health prevention on wednesday morning to raise the alarm as a result officials from the center now on board the vessel in protective clothing they are taking the temperature of all passengers aboard the vessel it's not clear though during what is going to happen after that because of course as we know this virus has a very long incubation period you can have the virus but not show any symptoms so i guess the hong kong authorities it is do they effectively quarantine these people aboard the vessel for the next 14 days or allow some of them to go if they're not showing signs of the virus we know this vessel had actually left hong kong in early february only about 4 days ago it sailed to vietnam which is not too far away also dock to the mainland and then wanted to sail on to taiwan but was denied permission

to dock there finally coming back to hong kong it's a reminder really of the many different ways of the moment this virus has to spread also you mentioned that in your introduction that your cruise vessel in japan well i can now tell you that 3 of the confirmed cases in japan are actually from hong kong ok adrian thanks for that update from hong kong and adrian was mentioning quarantines a moment ago while there and denise and citizens who are returning from china are also under quarantine in that soon island that's where jessica washington is joining us from what's the situation on the ground like jessica. well terrain in indonesia has somehow despite this virus spreading across this asia pacific region there are still no reported cases of the coronavirus here in indonesia but authorities are taking precautions those citizens who were evacuated from the who bay province have been brought here through than

a tuna regency this is one of the more sponsor populated parts of indonesia those citizens are in quarantine at a military base and they'll be there for the duration of the virus's incubation period so around 2 weeks but authorities are stressing that if even one of those passengers shows symptoms of the virus all of the evacuees will have their quarantine period extended beyond 2 weeks and how are locals responding to having the evacuees on their island. well there was a bit of anxiety from locals who i suppose were sort of fearful that having the quarantine centers so close to where they live could in fact put them at risk so where i'm standing now is the town that is closest to the military base many of the locals actually left when they heard the news that the evacuees would be quarantined so close to their houses but since then some of those locals have

returned they've been appeased by the sense that they have been told that none of the evacuees do have any symptoms of the virus but still there is a sense of anger in this community that they weren't in fact notified that their island would be used as a quarantine base or i just got washington thank you for that update. it's supposed to be a moment when the us comes together but donald trump's 3rd state of the union address has instead emphasized the disunity in american politics he came face to face with the democrats who impeached him in the house of representatives a subject he avoided instead he used his speech to relaunch his reelection campaign how to call him reports that had stayed. the president of the united states. a u.s. president impeached by the house walk into face the full congress expected the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours. was the

chants from the republicans in the chamber made it clear what this speech would be about his reelection the state of our union is stronger than ever before. was the democratic response was this obvious they're out but for the president he saw this as his time to herald what he sees as his accomplishments this is a blue collar boom. but many of his due to sticks were overblown out of context or simply untrue as with many other promises in this speech i have also made an ironclad pledge to american families we will always protect patients with preexisting conditions. his administration is actually in court trying to get some of those protections removed and his administration has rolled back most efforts to combat climate change but the president made this promise to protect the environment days ago i announced that the united states will

join the one trillion trees initiative an ambitious effort. in the democratic response some subtle attacks but they mostly focused on promoting their agenda it's pretty simple democrats are trying to make your health care better republicans in washington are trying to take it away but this speech will be remembered less for the substance than for the made for t.v. moments highlighting the president's past as a former television reality star he surprised the chamber by inviting one why don't know venezuela's opposition leader please take his message back that all americans are united with the venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom thank you very much. he had his wife present the presidential medal of freedom to an ellen conservative radio host and highlighted the family of a deployed soldier only to reveal he had come home. this was

a night for symbolism planned and unprompted as he entered to give a speech the president seemed to refuse to shake the hand of the speaker of the house and as it ended she sent her own message about what she thought of the speech the tension on full display the president departed making it clear he will fight to be back here next year and the opposition party will fight just as hard to make sure this will be his last party call him al jazeera washington well after trump's address house speaker nancy pelosi explained why she tore up a speech. it was amanda vanstone look. and i want to see what you think about him not shaking your head. no felix. if you take. your advice from others do the. least not expect another. round. was we mentioned the venezuelan opposition leader why joe it's funded the

state of the union. in america editor of suman is in santiago she says why does invitation was very last minute it's certainly had was not expected in fact the invitation to attend the state of the union address wasn't even confirmed until just now until just a very very short time before it actually happened and what is also very notable was the expression on kwang doubt why those face he was extremely stern and i would venture to say that the reason is that he has felt snubbed by president trump up until now remember that there was a highly anticipated meeting that was supposed to take place are expected to take place in florida in miami over the weekend not only that did not take place but the president went to his retreat to play golf instead did not have right why though there did not invite him to the white house and and this certainly was seen as i say as

a snub at the same time of course president trump probably did not want to draw too much attention to what has clearly become a foreign policy failure at least so far with regard to venezuela so at least one by the old can go home and it's expected he will do that very very shortly with this invitation under his sleeves. still ahead on al-jazeera tax evasion money laundering and bribery accusations malaysia's former 1st lady goes on trial after hours of delay the results from the iowa caucuses roland will tell you. how i was saying some very disruptive weather moving across the rockies a recently big snowstorm polocrosse wyoming colorado as well as making its way

across the plains and it's going to gather as it pushes over towards the central areas as we go on through the next couple days so wet and stay temperatures in dallas will struggle to reach a high of just 5 degrees celsius some snow on the northern flank of the system really heavy right into the deep south could see some flooding into louisiana mississippi and maybe also pushing across towards georgia as a go on into thursday what's the weather slides across the appalachians and heads towards the eastern seaboard with snow again on the northern flank of this in other areas snow will pot in across the rockies behind as we go on through thursday up towards washington state basically yet we still got some raised even snow coming through here but to the south of that generates right with a good deal of sunshine l.a. getting up to around 20 degrees celsius dry be plenty of sunshine too across the caribbean it's largely set back a little on the breezy side mind she will say yes busty conditions feeding through on those easterly winds as we go on through the next day or so but at least it's

a wall when we'll see temperatures getting up to 30 degrees in celsius 30 the santa domingo with a high of 27 bridgetown. musician performer visionary teacher. how does the world needs to man bring in traditional arabic sounds to whom you audience being a woman and being american and playing i would it already is something they all come to boston to palestine the land of yes but the nutters the next generation of musical talent simon shaheen their musical journey on al-jazeera. were.

now that we're going to top stories on al-jazeera this hour around 1800 people are being held on a cruise ship in hong kong while helps all 40 years carry out tests for coronavirus 3 crew members have been taken to hospital to be placed in isolation and japan has also quarantined a ship. in china and seen the biggest jump in deaths from the corona virus as the outbreak continues to spread there were 65 more confirmed deaths bringing the death toll there to 490 the u.s. president donald trump has hailed what he calls the great american comeback and his 3rd state of the union address he focused on the economy and jobs but steered clear of wednesday's impending impeachment vote. the wife of the former malaysian prime minister najib razak is set to go on trial accused of money laundering graft

and tax evasion. or is alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes linked to a government projects florence louie has more from kuala lumpur. rossmo months or is the wife of former malaysian prime minister. and she's currently on trial accused of profiting millions of dollars in bribes in connection with a project to provide electricity to schools in brule areas and if found guilty she could face up to 20 years in prison she also faces separate charges of money laundering and tax evasion and has pleaded not guilty to those charges now her husband. was the prime minister of this country until he lost a general election in 2018 is also at the center of a financial scandal where billions of dollars were stolen from a state investment fund known as one and d b not is on trial facing dozens of charges of money. laundering corruption and

abuse of power now when i was the wife of the prime minister she was already known for her expensive taste but it was really off to the 2018 general election that the extent of extravagant lifestyle came to light police raided property linked to not chip and grossmann and seized jewelry he watches handbags now at least 12000 pieces of jewelry with seized and police estimate these to be worth at least $100000000.00 so this trial even though it's not linked to one m.t.v. financial scandal that unseated a government and it is still being very closely watched here. thousands of people in pakistan administered kashmir have rallied to show support for those on the other side of the line of control they formed a human chain to mark kashmir solidarity day both india and pakistan claim the region as their own tension has been high since new delhi revoked the autonomy of

indian administered kashmir last year imposed a lockdown come on haidar isn't a town of kahala and pakistan administered kashmir and explains the significance for the protesters. february 5th their day of solidarity with the people of kashmir didn't go through a national holiday here in pakistan across the country there will be a rally in support of the kashmiri people who are in a state of rolled down after india revolt article $370.00 of the constitution and then tens of thousands of security forces go to nail into the rally. bridge 'd. which links pakistan redbud county administered kashmir people have come out in large numbers they will be forming a human chain to show their solidarity with the people of kashmir and to remind the international community about their commitment and to take north of the plight of

those people who are in a state of lockdown odd to me i mean we're standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters across the point in kashmir so they don't think to let alone the day when they will have an independent state and freedom from the indian army is the chastity's is not far away but that's a model muslim on 72 years our loved ones in kashmir have been locked down under a brutal indian regime every day they are tortured and killed but enough is enough it's time to liberate kashmir from indian occupation the indian prime minister is now threatening to cut off wardak applies to pakistan most of the rivers that flow through pakistan emanate in kashmir and out of god's will become another major dispute the founding father of barges gone normally journal called kashmir jug you know when there is deep resentment here in pakistan and in pakistani administered kashmir about the plight of millions of crushed me really who have been in

a state of log down there are frequent ceasefire violations according to pakistan by indian forces that both sides are on the word of another conflict. if this issue is not resolved it is also important to note that the budgets on a prime minister recently said that they did the right of the question really people to decide whether they want to join india buggiest on o.b. and depending. malawi's president is to appeal against the court ruling overturning his reelection peter months to recover narrowly won a 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations of voter voting rigging vote rigging excuse me on monday judges a no the result saying it had been compromised by vote stuffing and altered ballots and they ordered a new election within $150.00 days the president's spokesman called the decision a miscarriage of justice for an update let's speak to her when she is joining us

from malawi's cap it's a long way so what does this mean for the call to hold elections in 5 months time. when the president is going to address the nation on wednesday and he's going to tell people what he's going to do some of the senior officials in the reading posse say that what he's not organizing the paper would be legal documents for the appeal billet malawians knowing they plan to file the paperwork at the supreme court the supreme court guy that say it is no case and throw the next house or they could set a date to hear the medicine what does this mean because the constitutional court has ordered that a french election has to be held within $150.00 days this appeal could delay the procedure so what will the opposition do the head of the n.c.p. party as was so clear has made that the ruling party and the president have a right to appeal the constitutional court ruling but he is very confident that the president did not win the election and he says the post has much take its course

but of course the key thing of course is how the opposition supporters are going to react for a few days now they've been gathering at the party headquarters here in the capital in a way that ending with the elections looking forward to the election maybe chatting to hold the all planning to hold demonstrations and much is in the capital and elsewhere in the country not much saying that they really want the state to take place to prove a thing that they can get one direction so they are the is that the longer it takes to get to the. these elections they could be violence on the streets if people go out on the street and protest so it's a very delicate phase for people in malawi right now all eyes are waiting to to see and hear what the president may be in just as people later on on wednesday yes o'hara was this surprising turn of events by the president's expected at all. it was in a way a lot of people felt that because the ruling party and the president took too long to come out and comment on the constitutional court ruling that maybe something was

being planned and a lot of people did quietly state themselves that he and his party are going to appeal the constitutional court ruling i suppose now the focus now is and how it's going to be handled and how quickly if the appeal is heard in the supreme court how quickly that is going to be dealt with of course have been waiting for so long to in this political cycle the economy is in crisis people just trying to get on their lives but right now everyone feels that the country is in a political limbo they just simply call on move on but also people want this election face to indicate a tide of the country always being in an election mode and they hoping to quickly and with the courts make a decision or the country goes to election and the winner off the silage that will be declared once and for all ok haron which also thanks you. well that was meant to be the 1st opportunity for voters to pick their democratic presidential choice in the upcoming election but it's a whole most 24 hours for partial results from the iowa caucuses to be released

they put him. ahead of bernie sanders although both are claiming victory oh and fisher reports from des moines. for the democratic campaigns iowa is already in the rearview mirror they've moved on that in new hampshire the next step in this process move through results from iowa new problem. each candidate is telling everyone what a huge success they've been even if it looks like they've struggled where it. is a good. thing going to. really doing well. in des moines an apology from the democratic party chairman that the system to count votes at the caucuses failed so spectacularly but he insists the results no being published can be trusted we have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate the one thing i will say is that the underlying data the raw data is secure

it was always secure conspiracy theorists online are suggesting the result is being manipulated that's not something bernie sanders is buying into you know there's no excuse for not having results but it's like oh but that doesn't mean to say but the votes at the polls like comment will be awkward and i think that's an unfair i think to try to get the youngest candidate in the race former mayor people to judge is performing ahead of predictions and expectations but he's already looking forward to a similar result in new hampshire this weekend or this tuesday this is we get to this new hampshire just 4 decision. i have never been more times in our campaign you know our team and this is the process is the failure and i want to deliver results quickly and clearly has amplified calls to drop the state as the 1st in the nation to vote in the presidential process but one experience political observer

says there's no obvious solution that doesn't mean that they rest of the nation will come up with the alternative that everybody can agree on new hampshire has a primary so that straight up election style voting the next state to hold a caucus is nevada later this month the democratic party there has already said it won't be using the system they used here in iowa. i'll just demoing. a draft for a u.n. resolution seen by al-jazeera calls the u.s. president's proposal to solve the israeli palestinian conflict in breach of international law a plan which donald trump unveiled last week allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian lands are the fanatic editor james bays has more from the un in new york. the pushback against the trump plan on the middle east has begun here at the united nations i've seen wording for a draft resolution for the security council drawn up by the palestinians by tunisia

the current arab member of the council and by another security council member indonesia the wording is says that they strongly regret the fact that the trump plan is a breach of international law that's very strong wording and it's very interesting i was told earlier by an arab diplomat but they didn't want to criticize directly the trump plan because they wanted to get their support for this resolution from 2 permanent members the u.k. and france the palestinian ambassador has made it clear he already knows how the u.s. is going to vote we know it will be defeated by a veto but we want to show that the international community is that if electing the same position. all of us and articulated by the secretary general today again as he articulated that days ago when this very bad plan. announced in washington d.c.

negotiations on the wording of this resolution will continue later this week in the palestinian president mahmoud abbas will be here in new york on tuesday when the resolution is voted on by the security council. the kenyan government is investigating how 14 children died in a stampede at a primary school on monday it's believed they were crushed while running down a staircase after class have been sawyer spoke with some of their relatives and catherine make a. 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 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 me up the children from the classroom to get downstairs because he. saw in due course that's why he assumes it's not something we trust. and then you know the jokes of the children they were holding hands back so when these one came this was spears who was a. child star. for the night. shows as a picture of high level year old daughter. 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 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 under way we must get to the point on. whether the structure of the. what. we're. going to. have a 100. in september last year 8 children. right after our body built a 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 $3000.00 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 beat all they know they'll never get to

see that 9 year old again cathy. come a got western kenya over the border. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera around 200 people are being held on a cruise ship in hong kong while health authorities carry out tests for corona virus 3 crew members have been taken to hospital to be placed in isolation and japan has also quarantined a ship and china has seen the biggest jump in deaths from the corona virus as they go prey continues to spread there are 65 more confirmed deaths bringing the death toll there it's a $498.00 her brown is a hong kong with more on the korean team's cruise ship. on a previous full wage at the end of last month it seems that 3 passengers became infected now those passengers of thought to be from the mainland because the alert

has come from health officials in china they contacted officials from hong kong's center for health prevention or wednesday morning to raise the alarm as a result officials from the center now on board the vessel in protective clothing they are taking the temperature or of all passengers aboard the vessel u.s. president donald trump has hailed what he calls the great american comeback in his 3rd state of the union address he focused on the economy and jobs but still clear if wednesday's and penn impending impeachment vote but tensions between trump of the house speaker nancy pelosi were clear the president appeared to reject the handshake from pelosi as trump finished speaking below sea ripped up her copy of the speech because she said it was a manifesto of mistruths. alawi's president plans to appeal against the court ruling overturning his reelection peter with a recount narrowly won a 2nd term last year and on monday judges and all the results saying it had been

compromised by vote stuffing and altered ballots u.s. democratic party officials in iowa have apologized for a delay in the release of caucus results citing a technical glitch with 71 percent of the votes counted pete who to judge is slightly ahead of bernie sanders thousands of people in pakistan administered kashmir have rallied to show support for those on the other side of the line of control both india and pakistan claim the region as their own tension has been high since new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir last year and imposed a lockdown europe today to the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up right after this stream thanks for watching but by. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing the on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies on the reflect on the world.

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 to 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 and the democratic republic of congo and many countries from the balkans to the baltic face of the population of the 20 countries with the biggest expected drops in population 14 i mean eastern or central europe.