developing pacific storm brings for the cascades and the rockies. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martin dennis coming up in the next 60 minutes a rescue mission for the rescuers in eastern turkey an avalanche buries teams searching for those caught in an earlier snow slide. hong kong locks down a cruise ship over coronavirus and now plans to quarantine anyone entering from mainland china. america's future is blazing bright. the

years of economic to carry are over. president trump boasts of a great american comeback in a state of the union address that underlined the defining political division. the democrats weren't impressed house speaker nancy pelosi tore up the transcript after he appeared to refuse to shake her hand. malawi's president says he'll appeal against a court decision that are now old his controversial reelection last year. i'm joining us there with the sports tokyo olympic organizers say they are seriously worried about the coronavirus outbreak impacting this year's games. there was started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside in eastern turkey has now turned into

a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 23 p. . will have been killed after 2 avalanches swept down on to a road near the city of van some of those killed were part of a rescue team they'd been sent in defined survivors after the 1st avalanche on to see night when told to our correspondent. who's life for a sin is stumble and hashim such tragic circumstances 2 separate avalanches and now those who've been sent in to help being sought after themselves. very tragic situation in deed in but just how i distract martine the rescuers who are in the midst of a frantic operation to retrieve the missing of those who were trapped under the snow earlier today were also trapped when a 2nd laws hit the area this explains the huge number of the people who were.

themselves and this explains the death toll which has been climbed being dramatically over the last few hours we're talking about $23.00 people dead and we're talking also about dozens of people still trapped under the snow it all started yesterday martin when the another launch hit the area which is surrounded by massive mountains with a passenger bus and a snow clearing vehicle and at that time yesterday about 5 people were killed in that village and many rescuers were sent to the area to try to help with the rescue operation civilians also took part in the rescue operation but in the midst of the frantic search for survivors the 2nd head and this explains the tragic situation where many people found themselves in the authorities are saying that they are

sending many ambulances many rescuers frantic addressed to you is underway as we speak of the thing the authorities are trying to retrieve all those still trapped be. under the you know within the coming hours the biggest concerns though martin remains the blizzards of the heavy snowfalls falls in those areas as we speak and this could just slow the rescue operation for hours to come and hashim you said that this is a particularly mountainous area to the east of the country what kind of level of preparedness would you expect there for is this weather particularly severe or is this the kind of weather that they normally have at this time of year. it's it's an extreme weather condition and weather forecasts have been talking about the past few weeks about heavy snow forced to hit particularly the north is some parts of the country particularly the province or violent but they were not

bracing for something similar to what happened over the last few days particularly the last 24 hours you know one of the reason why this has been exacerbated is because the passages are very narrow surrounded by massive mountains and most of the roads leading to the. to the area have been closed now the rest 2 were suddenly found themselves and the mounting pressure. to go after those trapped and under the snow and they were later joined by civilians and in the frantic search that happened suddenly the 2nd avalanche hit the area now for the rescue operations to be sent to those areas it takes quite some time and with the heavy snow falls and with the blizzard has taken place in those areas this has compound of the whole rescue operation the government is saying that it is doing all the necessary measures to try to save whoever is trapped and the.

thing if you look at what's happening over the last 3 hours we talk about more casualties which explains that it seems that most of the people who were trapped in the 2nd. may have lost their lives and we're expecting that sort of climb in the coming hours right hashem thank you very much for the very latest from istanbul . right now hong kong is to begin current inning all of those coming from mainland china as it tries to stop the spread of corona virus the territories leaders announced it will place anyone who crosses the border into isolation for 2 weeks hong kong is already quarantined a ship that sailed enough to having been turned away by taiwan japan has done the same with the cruise liner that was carrying 3700 people there been 10 confirmed cases on that ship and it remains in the harbor of york or harm or no one to say

china saw its largest spike in deaths from the virus 65 in a single day and that brings the total number of dead to at least 490 that while evacuations continue in who bay province that's of course the center of the outbreak on wednesday. flew out 84 of its citizens and they were immediately put under quarantine but we can talk to adrian brown our correspondent to is live in the hong kong adrian 1st will tell us about that ship the cruise liner that was turned away by taiwan and has been placed in lockdown by the hong kong authorities . that's right the odyssey of the dream world across the south china sea is now out and then seen that vessel is going nowhere the crew and passengers on board the vessel we're told by the cruise operators about 3600 in total remain now in effective lock down now this vessel arrived on wednesday

morning and it was just after the vessel arrived at the authorities in the mainland contacted their counterparts in hong kong to say that 3 passengers who'd been on a previous forage on this same vessel had now tested positive for the virus it was in that hong kong said well we now know that 200 passengers left that vessel after that previous floyd on january the 24th now the search is now on to find them that should be quite easy if they're stood in hong kong because everyone here has to have an i.d. card now we know that all the passengers and crew on board the vessel are now undergoing checks at least 3 crewmembers are now in isolation in a nearby hospital and i think it's fair to assume that in the current climate that the crew and passengers are going to remain in quarantine now that carry land has made this dramatic announcement of these draconian measures that are going to come into force and what it means as you pointed out marty is that life is going to be

severely disrupted for the up to $100000.00 hong kong people who have been commuting every day across the border into the nearby city of shenzhen and of course that's raising fears over over jobs at a very difficult time for hong kong now carol lam has effectively now sealed the front here with the mainland because anyone coming into hong kong is not going to go into isolation for 14 days but she is going to enforce this new measure on saturday to give all those people time as i say to prepare adrian brown live in hong kong thank you very much indeed well al-jazeera scott. sideline has been speaking to one particular family from shanghai they're currently stuck in and because they're not able to leave let's hear what he found out. trying to make the best of the lockdown. and his family

travel to hahn for them or new year even once the coronavirus locked down and they were face an additional 14 day quarantine when they get back home to shanghai like millions of other chinese across the country the children might be smiling but the adults are very concerned. how you feel what do what do you want to tell people out there how you feel and what it's like so i think every 60 is just the 1st to want to since it's funny. as it was and not. just don't. know that you know no you know it's doctor. 2 to 2 treaty and that's something he has had to speak with these children about age 2 to 13 i'm going to answer is serious and this is always hard to do.

since. this is the 1st schools photos to show the empty streets of will haunt but the shelves in the supermarkets are not supplies he said are being brought in by the military like on the big concern for the central government here in beijing is increasing the medical capacity for the growing number of infected in the province more beds for the ill and more supplies for those treating them large gymnasiums in an exhibition center have been converted into makeshift hospitals in melbourne. along with the 2 new hospitals built for the corona virus completed this week there are now more than 6500 new beds for those infected but with the spread of the virus and these new beds barely cover the increase of confirmed new cases it will be a problem from just the last week scott holler al-jazeera beijing well it's perhaps not surprising that the economic impact of this corona virus is already being felt across the world in thailand for instance there are fears it could cost the tourism industry more than a $1000000000.00 most foreign tourists to thailand come from china but numbers of

fall and drastically since the outbreak alexia brian ripples out from the capital bangkok. 8 times a day at the mekong railway market vendors move their legs. and clean up the tracks to make way for the train. it's hot and bustling a highlight with tourists even in the middle of the coronavirus crisis why a bit and we always shake. our is why our is like we are we aware of where. this. crowd at my chinese tour is china is thailand's biggest source of foreign tourists about $20000000.00 visitors a year and they bring plenty of money with them. but last month chinese 2 groups from traveling overseas and put a number of cities in lockdown to control the spread of infection. on the outskirts

of bangkok with tourists from all over the world including china it's much. higher in the colony and these bandits here rely on terrorism. more than a $1000000000.00. everyone he has affected. the numbers aren't really changing but chinese tourists by 90 percent the numbers stop dropping a few days ago look at a state of usually. packed with chinese tourists along the coast thailand's famous speeches a ghost towns hotels are out and someone may need to be laid off. you know if things don't improve soon in trouble because i have expenses to pay i need to pay rent and support my children so it's very difficult for me the ripple effects of the virus are expected to last for months if the impact prolonged for

example it's going to drag longer you know virus could spread worldwide and stop tourism sector the economy could fall into slow down below 2 percent in the 2nd half of the year this impact that we get is going to hit not just the recent sake they're not as exports that they're basically that's going to hear the mystical none of the tigers are back at the railway market the trains just pass through again the stalls are getting back to business. life will return to normal just as quickly. as here at bangkok. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including after hours of delay the results from the on over caucus start to come in find out who's in the lead rallying to a different chain we'll look at the divide between english and french speakers ahead of elections in camera. in school p m b a's most valuable plan reminds everyone who's boss he takes on the league's

brightest young stars the teacher it's. supposed to be a moment when the u.s. comes together but donald trump state of the union addresses instead emphasize the disunity in american politics he came face to face with the democrats who impeached him in the house of representatives a subject he completely avoided instead he used his speech to relaunch his election campaign patty culhane reports from washington. not at stake. the president of the united states was a u.s. president impeached by the house walking in to face the full congress expected the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours was 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 there 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 was 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 condition was 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 an 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 all americans are united with the venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom thank you very much for. 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 refused 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 all right let's go to our white house correspondent kelly haokip now who's there in washington for us to believe you've ever seen anything like that before the president refusing to shake the hand of the house speaker and then the house speaker tearing up the speech at the end of it. i haven't seen anything before like that before and neither have most americans i think this just really underscores not only how divided the nation is but how angry the nation is there it

was on full display this was a highly partisan speech to a divided congress that was shown repeatedly it was split screen moment where half of the. house of representatives was standing while the other half was sitting down nancy pelosi is getting a lot of pushback on the fact that she tore up that speech it is trending in a number of different ways on social media she has pushed back for her part on her actions in fact she said shortly afterwards when that moment was captured on television screens that it was the most courteous thing to do considering the alternative it was such a dirty speech what i think we can take from all of this martine is the tone in the tenor of the election campaign all the way to november is going to be very divided very angry very dirty and in the midst of all of this to fight despite the fact that donald trump's speech was unabashedly partisan we have to remember that his poll numbers seem to be going up in fact they're the highest they've ever been so

the president seems to have been able to strike a chord in the midst of all of this even as some americans are feeling utter disgust at what they've seen on display in the house of representatives and meanwhile committee of course we're just a few hours away from what we expect to be an acquittal for the president in the senate as they vote finally on the impeachment trial so it's basically donald trump's. can do what he likes pretty much and now as he starts to limber up ready for november 2020. he definitely is flexing his muscle because you have to remember he's going into this vote knowing that he's likely to be acquitted that seems to be the way the votes are going into this we always have to keep in mind there may be one more surprise we've seen a lot of them in the last few days but essentially the president is likely to do a victory lap in fact the white house has said that to expect some sort of response

after this vote comes down i think what we have in all of this is a lot of drama and expect that the other side is going to have drama to the democrats are angry that they were not able to make the case to the american public so we're also watching very carefully to see what the top democrat in the u.s. senate chuck schumer will say he is expected to make a speech just before that all important vote that is set to come down at 21 g.m.t. we'll get back to me a little later kimberly thank you very much indeed well now we can speak to our senior for the school analyst he's joining us live from london mowen be interesting to hear what your thoughts are about this particular moment in american politics. we're clearly as we've heard it's quite a divisive moment and it's a decisive moment as well especially in an election year the country is going

through or a cultural war is going through a political war if you will so much so that the theatricals in the in the in the u.s. congress reflect the mood of the country in general so polarized so bitter so much in disagreement on every single possible issue with the exception of and this is really the only in america thing martin which is a so-called applause lines there are certain applause lines that are made by presidents during state of the union speech that are meant for everyone to stand and applaud like on that in the military for example right but aside from that aside from the issues that there has always been historically consensus about most of the issues of the day most of the important issues facing americans from the economy to health to immigration to the environment to justice and the legal

justice and so on so forth they are divided and they are bitterly divided and on the issue of foreign affairs not much was said he did obviously introduce with a great deal of fanfare. of venezuela and so on but there was scant mention of foreign affairs should we be seeing this is the era the trump era as one of us disengagement. it certainly is specially in an election years but i would say that beyond speeches and rhetoric clearly the united states is involved if you watched secretary pompei of the recent trips in asia the middle east africa and elsewhere you would notice that america is and is in fact engaged and america wants to make sure that china remains contained even russia i would say remains contained and certainly in the middle east they've just pushed in 20000 more soldiers even when president from talks about america does not want to get involved

in never ending wars of the middle east and yet he dispatches 20000 extra soldiers to the region but if you were sitting a london like one foreign affairs editor tweeted today as something about it's too bad i stayed up all night there's nothing on foreign affairs well if you are in europe and the middle east you probably want beasts staying up because in most of europe africa the middle east and much of asia in fact this is late hours of the night and early hours of the morning probably no one is watching but be that as it may this president is focused on the economy is focused on domestic issues because this is an election year and he knows unless another big issue like an impeachment hits him he's going to have to remain focused on domestic affairs meaghan thank you very much indeed no on this share of that our special. this political analyst

talking to us live from london thank you the hundreds of people have been airlifted to safety have to turn to rain cause flooding in new zealand south island they've been downpours in southern areas for days now around 500 tourists were rescued from the remote milford sound region after rejects this was cut off rivers a river flowing the powerless down civil defense has declared a state of emergency. hi perfect timing now for the weather his role yes is follow him from that it's summer of course to new zealand so this rain damaged maybe isn't expected but you've just seen some of the video and it's at the south ounce affected milford sound highway was cut off by the imaginary in that that fellow of course that means there are people to be rescued here but this is on the northern side of the arm and the amount of rain that fell in the cave on the last system went south as well so much of science and with the overflowed river is also affected and you just heard people having to be rescued power is still out

across a few people now the good news from this point of view is the rain has effectively stopped so we can leave new zealand in the safety of knowing that there's no real problem there and then we go to australia now it's possible look at something similar here i know that seems that do mongering but look at the amount of caterpillar with lightning bolts are there has been an awful lot of rain recently recent new south wales there in queens and the orange hops on the full cost of what looked like big thunderstorms in the scale anyway but the thing is although they're coming down from queens and into new south wales in the next day or so they'll head them toward sydney and they're slow moving one of the scenario is from this is your development of tropical low not far away from sydney now if that happens the rain will be enhanced significantly so the potential for the rainfall for the next 3 or 4 days anywhere from queens down the new south wales coast including possibly cities to give another $400.00 millimeters of rain again this is summer for them to

be the rain is flash but it's damaged territory this is the worst case scenario of course the good news is that the rain is wanted a nice feather in that nazi. thank you very much indeed those want to come here in the al-jazeera news and reading standing in solidarity why files of pakistan is holding hands to protest. tax evasion money laundering and bribery accusations malaysians hear about the considerable influence wielded by former 1st lady. and rugby player israel folau speaks for the 1st time since coming off the sidelines following his homophobic social media rant. frank assessments the one good thing about these. really wiping out the culture of

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all right let's have a look at the top stories here on the news or least 23 people have been killed after 2 of a largely swept onto a road in eastern turkey some of those killed were part of a rescue team sent to define the survivors from the 1st avalanche on tuesday night hong kong will begin to quarantine anyone who comes in from the mainland for any sign of the corona virus and a cruise ship is on the town in the territory as the authorities test of. president trump has hailed what he calls the great american comeback in his state of the union address the focus on the economy and on jobs but he made no mention of

wednesday's impending impeachment vote to. allow its president is to appeal against a call drooling which overturned his re-election peter military career now really won a 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations a very tricky thing then on monday judges and the result saying it had been compromised by irregularities they ordered a new election within 5 months the president's spokesman called the decision a miscarriage of justice well peter fabricio says a consultant at the institute for security studies in johannesburg and he told me the coup truly is a major boost for fair elections in malawi. it does send a very strong message that the rule of law can be upheld it's not completely unprecedented in africa it happened in kenya in 2017 but it's pretty rare and the electoral board has come out pretty badly in this i mean it the judgment suggests

that there was just a temporary you know i think this is going to become remembered in history as the typical election because according to the court judgement over half a 1000000 vote results were altered by to pick and i think nobody really knows in this case knew in advance whether the judiciary would be up to it and likewise if we look back at the the president and kenya 3 years nearly 3 years ago there was a big question marks over the court and in fact off to that that judgment in the election in august that you hold the legal system seem to somewhat implode and the next you know the runoff election then was a complete mess and opposition boycotted it so there are concerns here that. that as in kenya the executive may 1 way or another find a route to to effectively neutralized this result but but so far so good you know it's there it's it's residing judgment in favor of the nor the rule of law

and one can only hope that it's sustained i don't know what the basis for the appeal would be to be honest. that's how he's president try to have time better one has threatened further action against the syrian government if its forces in if they don't pull back the announcement came 2 days after 7 turkish soldiers and one civilian were killed by government shelling in rebel held it live province the turkish military says it's dozens of syrian government targets and killed many troops in them cause you know who is in hatay province by the syrian border and says turkey is now showing a new strategy. this is probably the harshest message from president are gone so far and who has been claiming that turkey is supporting a diplomatic solution a political solution in syria out despite the threats coming from inside syria to turkey's border security that's why turkey has been involved in some processes like

our sun and sochi agreements that that actually led to this collision zone and that a but today we are saying that president obama's showing a change of turkey's policy or a new strategy in northwestern syria is the main the so far. a cording to the sun and sochi agreement you know turkey had 12 observation poles along with the russian and iranian observation post but not and they have been only with the military personnel over there has been only on the observation mission but now we see it transform a ship because since the syrian government as advance from south to north take is gaining more territory down below the m $4.00 and $5.00 highway and at that turkey has been sending reinforcements it to strengthen its military observation force and just 2 days ago one of them was attacked and there are soldiers that have been

killed which is a very tough situation for turkey that's why it seems president ad dawn is happy and satisfied with the reinforcements that have been deployed inside that so far. now going back to the u.s. and it was meant to be the 1st opportunity for voters to pick their democratic presidential choice for the upcoming election but it took almost 24 hours for partial results not even all of them to come from the our caucus to be released but they put pete put it. marginally ahead of bernie sanders although both of them are claiming victory alan fischer reports out in the state capital 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 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 be going 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 but that doesn't mean to say but the votes at the polls like comment will be adequate 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 this 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. al jazeera des moines. well i've been speaking to scott lucas is that professor of political science and

international studies at the university 'd of birmingham in the u.k. and he told us that the delay in the iowa results was merely a technical glitch there was a failure of an app to transmit the votes from each of the $1600.00 town hall meetings the caucuses to the center and when that failed they had to record by taking photos of the paper results and they were there were a few discrepancies now those have been resolved there's no indication from any of the candidates that they're disputing the result i suspect that on this roller coaster we call the presidential campaign within 48 hours even though the balloons have been burst in iowa the chaos would be left behind so no i think we're not looking at as it were a massive fraud a manipulation we are talking about a 21st century clutch list talk about the fact that 6 days from now we're in new hampshire in the 1st primary and everything can change again but for now what we can say is bernie sanders who won the popular vote that's a big boost for him because he is favored to win in new hampshire so he's very much

as it were at the lead of the pack he put it has done well but will have to prove himself in new hampshire and in south carolina elizabeth warren has done well enough to be in the forefront and joe biden has sunk to 4th place we also should mention i mean close but sharp who is coming from out of the senate from minnows from minnesota who got 13 percent of the vote. now a draft resolution at the u.n. that's been seen by al-jazeera calls the u.s. president's proposal to solve the israeli palestinian conflict a breach of international law the plan which was unveiled by president trump last week allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian land is that diplomatic he said james bays. the push back 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 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 entire international community is the reflecting the same position. by 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 and

the palestinian president mahmoud abbas will be here in new york on tuesday when the resolution is voted on by the security council. the thousands of people in pakistan administered kashmir have rallied to show support for those on the other side of the line of control they. human chain to mark kashmir solidarity day both india and pakistan claim the region is there room tensions been high since new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir last year and impose a lockdown come on is our correspondent in the town of kohala in pakistan administered kashmir. february is their day of solidarity with the people of kashmir and also our 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 work to nail into the rally at the key bridge 'd at. which the links pakistan red bug attorney 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 commitments 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 pointing kashmir so they don't think to let alone the day when they will have an independent state and freedom from the indian army such as cities is not far away but that's also 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 juggler when there is deep resentment 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 cease fire 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 or buggiest on i'll be independent

. police in cameroon are on high alert after a number of suspected separatists attacks in the political capital on day and the economic dollar just days before much anticipated legislative elections voting stations have been destroyed in mainly english speaking regions correspondent because huck. opposition candidate carlos and while i was running for mayor in a particular district of cameron's economic capital douala the 5th district to slow down to go to come back the campaign slogan it's time for action action an opposition which is talks because in cameroon politicians all we do is talk a lot but do little and has some convincing to do the 5th district is home to many people displaced from the fighting in cameroon is mainly english speaking and with regions they've lost trust in a political system they feel excluded from most of cameroon is french speaking so in the 5th district they shout power. something they don't have at home they say

what started off as a protest against the government insisting on having french teachers in schools in the english speaking regions has turned into an often violent separatist movement various armed groups call these regions rich in oil golden box site amazonia human rights organizations accuse both separatist and the military of torture beheadings and kidnappings the charge of the government and separatists but the fighting has left almost a 1000000 people displaced and in need of assistance this was a crisis that could easily be. the government will see. in its intentions and if the government pay it above the well being of. the situation would have been allowed to descend into the kind of chaos that we find. to be the situation has become so complicated that. a quick fix is almost impossible president called be as attempts for dialogue with the separatists failed with some

armed groups divide. it among themselves are now fighting each other in december parliament passed a bill to give greater autonomy to the english speaking regions not enough says separatists on social media they've called on voters to boycott the upcoming legislative elections in protest destroying some of the polling stations those who have the most at stake in this election of the political parties and the voters it's up to the policies to convince the electorate to come out and vote but the main opposition party is also boycotting the election. we need to listen to the angle phone community including the extremists to tell them you're taking the wrong path because no election can take place in a divided comer. merril candidate and others are trying to drum up support among the english speaking community to get as many people out to vote because even before polls open the outcome is already being contested because hawke al-jazeera. the wife of the film a malaysian prime minister najib razak is on trial she's accused of money

laundering of graft and tax evasion. received millions of dollars in bribes linked to a government project for islam he has more now from kuala don't. roast months or is the wife of former malaysian prime minister. and she's currently on trial accused of pocketing millions of dollars in bribes in connection with a project to provide electricity to schools in blue 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 be not to be himself 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 after the 2018 general election that the extent of her extravagant lifestyle came to light police raided properties linked to and and seized jewelry watches handbags now at least 12000 pieces of jewelry was 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 unseats. a government and rock while it's. watched here. so has a come here and now it's their news hour in peru where fishermen say they're risking their lives as they dive to make a living and a computer gaming tournament helps make up for the lack of sports speeches for syrian children at

a refugee camp joe will have more. business leaders as to why no bra spall.

business leaders want to buy no bras paul. the all. them want to praise various ecologically diverse bays fishermen who dive for crabs and shellfish say they're putting their lives at risk to make a living sucks of fish are increasingly scarce which means people have to venture further out to find them but on a sun chance reports from south of the capital leaving are. looking for crabs and scallops is not an easy job 26 year old will dives for nearly

a minute every time sometimes 5 to 6 hours nonstop he says finding shellfish these days is difficult enough. the water is warmer so the crabs hide underground there's been over fishing in the past 3 years we haven't found any squid around here. the bay of lima is an area protected for its diversity fishermen are assigned a part of the bay where they can hand pick each shellfish especially scallops but now the surface trucked in wheat consuming more time in catching and cleaning before they can be sold after 40 years farming shellfish says the richness of the last. overfishing in the change of the water temperature as to form the natural banks the industrial activity around here also increases and is warming up the water it's a series of reasons for this bank to be scarce. it is coast is among the most productive fishing areas in the world more than $70000.00 families depend on

fishing they produce at least 65 percent of the fish consumed in the country large scale industrial fishing is also taking a toll on small fishing communities. for hours but unlike years before now they don't know if they'll arrive here at the port with enough fish or shellfish to make ends meet that's why fishermen are putting extra pressure on themselves. for to decompression accident that left him with permanent muscle damage says they have no option but to dive deeper. we often risk decompression because sometimes we feel we have to run back to the ports or products so we get anxious and come to the surface faster so now we risk more and sell less. fishing ministry says it will implement vigilant committees to supervise the quality and amount of seafood harvested in the poor people turn to

fishing indiscriminately as a quick solution to providing a livelihood their chance to make money fast impacts on the most superficial stuff so that's why more divers are risking more accidents which are now frequent many academics say the effects of climate change on the fish and shellfish stocks still under it. yes to geisha in because government is fast tracking regulation of fishing and shellfish gathering but already these small scale fishermen say it is much harder and dangerous to make a living. or it is time for the sports use now with martine thank you very much tokyo olympic organizers say they are seriously concerned that the corona virus outbreak could affect this year's games impacted you to open in the japanese capsule in july the 24th with 11000 athletes competing several qualifying events have already been canceled or postponed as the virus continues to spread outside china japanese prime minister shinzo abyei has

dismissed talk of canceling will delaying the games but olympic organizers met they are preparing for a worst case scenario. i'm seriously worried that the virus spreading could throw cold water on the mentum towards the games i hope that it will be stamped out as soon as possible now. there no matter how bad it gets we will do our utmost for the athletes so they'll be able to concentrate on performing that best european football's governing body away for isn't sounding the alarm over coronavirus just yet despite its flagship event coming up to euro 2020 kicks off in june it will be held across 12 cities your office chief venue operations said on tuesday that though that preventative measures could be used if necessary israel flowers trained with his new french club as rival rugby league teams meet to discuss his controversial signing flowers joined catalan dragons' after spending months on the sidelines following

a homophobic social media post which led to him being sacked by the australian national rugby union team at least one rival club hull k r says compared to sue catalans a fall out signing leads to a loss in their revenue flower says he's glad to be back playing. missed that tame camaraderie the tame environment been around you'd say mites and. you know being able to train with with your team and working alongside the coaches so that's something that i missed the last 7 months but it's you know it's fantastic to be back in the in a team environment again and getting into the routine of of trying out with the boys and and most importantly getting out there on the field in and enjoying the game in you know put your best foot forward for the time. teenage sensation erling holland's kept up his incredible scoring streak for his new club dortmund but it wasn't enough to stop them getting knocked out of the german cup the 19 year old norwegian scored his team's 1st against vertebrae even this his 8th goal in 4 games

since signing don't win last month roman went $31.00 up so putting the game almost out of sight of the dortmund teenager did his best to keep the minute 17 year old american gere a no with us downing solo strike braman holding on to win 3 to 5. shock a head coach devon fagged was sent off of his team played her to berlin back no involved in a tussle with her tears jordan tour an hour ago who was also dismissed south for winning 32 extra time to send your contends ms team out of the competition. english premier league side newcastle avoided being knocked out of the f.a. cup by 3rd division oxford united newcastle had been 2 nil up before 2 late goals from oxford force extra time but then frenchman alan said not so much growth through the outside defense to head a thunderous went off in newcastle 32 the final score or into the 5th round for the

1st time since 2006. last season's most valuable player made sure the n.b.a.'s newest star didn't get too big for his at jordan's as they were walking bucs defeated the new orleans pelicans number one draft pick resigned williamson is making up for time after a late start to the season because of injury and has an early joy as the pelicans met the bucs but he had no joy at all one on one with dan assessed from both the greek frequencies non-blocking him here and sending a powerful rookie to the floor at his home both schooled on desire to on his way to 34 points about 12208 fairly decent standings just well. another former m.v.p. james harden scored 40 points in a dominant display for the houston rockets maybe this. hornets' 125212 strengthen their position in the playoff race. while hundreds of thousands of children are growing up in refugee camps without the chance to play nice sport but one camp in

jordan has found a solution using a sports zaatari camp is home to nearly 80000 syrians many of whom the children who fled to the a.t.m. back home now at least some have been able to experience competition and learn new skills 200 children were trained to use a play station and took part in the 6 day refugees east ports cup to find the best . footballs european governing body wafer plans to hold torments in other camps around the world alongside the charity libraries without borders when the smell of alcohol of a loved one it was the 1st time for most of the children to see a play station using it and getting rolled in the training they all felt excited and the turnout was be retorted a feeling about it i was so nervous because i was not aware of the level of the other players i was scared but after the 1st stage i believed in myself and i insisted that i reach the final. all right that's latest book from a man with paid sites i'm not saying thank you very much indeed not so for the

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