crisis cuts and unemployment in parts of the country will the current prime minister manage to miss it this issue. is being looked at through to the country through great states. it's a. rescue mission for the rescuers in eastend turkey and avalanche buries team searching for those caught in an early yes no slight. watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also coming up the world health organization appeals for 750000000 dollars to fight the corona virus outbreak as hong kong plans to quarantine anyone entering from mainland china. emerges future is bleeding bright.

the years of economic decay are over the. present donald trump boasts of a great american combat but his state of the union address highlights the country's deepening political deficiencies malawi's president says he will appeal against a court decision that unowned his controversial reelection last year. thank you very much for joining us what started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside in eastern turkey has turned into a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 33 people have been killed after an avalanche swept on to a road near the city of rescue workers are among the dead and they were searching for victims of an earlier which killed 5 other people on tuesday let's get the latest from our who's in istanbul for as a tragic situation in no doubt what what is the latest on the rescue operations.

the front tick rescue operation for this still underway about a thing the chances for finding more survivors are now fading away and this explains why the death toll has been climbing over the last 2 hours particularly those who were trapped in the 2nd of a large that took place they all started on tuesday when an avalanche hit a road in an area in van province a bar carrying passengers and also a vehicle were birds and snow the operation was underway to rescue those who were trapped under snow 7 people managed to escape alive but 5 were killed there was yesterday but then what happened was that hundreds of emergency personnel rescuers volunteers villagers rushed to the area using shovels bro or they had to try to rescue those who were trapped what a 2nd of

a large hit dozens of the rescuers were buried under the snow now the authorities are saying they are doing their best they're standing more. and that they are determined to do whatever it takes to find survivors but they're also warning against the potential for more of a particular area given the worst weather conditions we're talking about liz's about having a snow which is hampering the operation and which is blocking many of the roads leading to the province another incident hashim out of turkey this one in istanbul and we saw some spectacular pictures that are being broadcast on turkish television and incidentally sample some airport where a plane skidded off the runway and broke into what more are you hearing about this in india the authorities are saying basically that there were 177

passengers on board the plane or the are all. no injuries whatsoever in the managed to come out or come of the plane however the traffic has been completely now suspend the. action for there's no official explanation as to what happened to the plane it's a pegasus and whether this was mechanical failure or it was due to the weather condition i have to say that over the last few hours there was heavy rains and heavy a strong wing wind here. in istanbul but this is the 2nd incident involving the pegasus lie in the. port in one of the 1st incident took place on the 7th of january now you can when you look at those pictures coming from the airport you see the fuel which has split we don't know that was whether it happened at the very moment of the landing when it touched the ground or whether when it hit

a physical obstacle because if you look some of the videos coming out from the. port you would see a fortified war at the very end of the run away or this would explain the because of that impact the front part of the plane broke apart quite impressive these pictures and it's really very lucky that the passengers at least said there's no casualties among our injuries among the passion passengers thank you hashem for that update hashem and vera lie forests in the sample. in other world news the world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china to help combat the corona virus and a short time ago it appealed for $675000000.00. our message to the international community is invest today or pay more. immersed today or pay more later 675000000 years

dollars is a lot of money but it's my choice less than the bill we will face if we do not invest in preparedness now during the window of opportunity that we have meanwhile hong kong's leader says anyone entering from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days for any signs of the corona virus and a cruise ship is on lockdown in the territory as authorities test all those onboard brown reports hong kong is becoming increasingly isolated from mainland china the mandatory 14 day quarantine of all people arriving in hong kong including its own citizens from across the border will not begin until saturday that's because around $100000.00 commuters cross into china each day and they need time to prepare the quarantine orders begin vote through rarely use special powers it's

a thing for self like we will invoke the powers to annex legislation for people coming from the mainland including hong kong residents mainland residents and other visitors to go into compulsory quarantine for 14 days. as carrie lam attempts to navigate around this crisis the cruise ship dreamworld docked in hong kong harbor with more than $3000.00 passengers and crew on board they're going nowhere now that mainland health officials have confirmed that 3 passengers from an early a voyage are infected with the coronavirus now checks are being carried out on everyone on the ship at the time being i think we cannot conclude e.p. likely time of finishing the current he mentions right now and i would like to reassure our or need to press on on people here i'll keep up with the health of this adopting a prudent approach in managing this incident several crew members have been placed

in a hospital isolation ward the announcement by hong kong's leader means that all the crew and passengers aboard the dreamworld now face the prospect of 14 days in quarantine what's less certain though is the fate of the 200 passengers who left this 1st seoul on january the 24th before the 3 infections were confirmed the 200 a rule understood to be from hong kong and went ashore in january the 24th. this scare is one of the reasons why doctors and nurses have been striking they say the only way to prevent the virus spreading is to seal the entire frontier in another setback to the economy hong kong based cathay pacific airways has asked its 27000 staff to take 3 weeks unpaid leave before june the airline has had to reduce flights to the mainland its most important market for many people here the big

concern now is a shortage of face masks there have been long orderly queues outside suppliers with some waiting in line overnight in the hope of not leaving empty handed there seems to be no shortage of face masks or luxury on board the dreamworld as passengers wait to learn just how long their extended and now enforced holiday will be adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. in a few hours the u.s. senate is all but certain to acquit president donald trump on charges of easing his power and obstructing congress on tuesday he delivered his annual state of the union address an occasion that highlighted the country's ideological divide panicle hain has already off from washington battered state or. the president of the united states. a u.s. president impeached by the house walk in to face the full congress expecting the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours thank god 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. thanks 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 and. 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 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 political hay al-jazeera washington and palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in the occupied west bank the shooting happened in bob in hebron a government statement says 17 year old mohammed al had died was killed after a bullet penetrated his heart. now the palestinian government is banning some israeli goods after israel stop the sale of palestinian agricultural markets last week. a pilot program to reduce dependence on the israeli

economy but it's already hurting palestinian farmers it abraham reports from the occupied west bank. the harvest from this palestinian farm in the jordan valley was supposed to make its way into the israeli market but not anymore israel's banning all agree cultural produce from the occupied west bank after a decision by palestinian officials to cut down on some israeli imports some or so off the owns around $25.00 acres of land and plant some with zucchinis and cucumber . he says the israeli ban is going to have a devastating effect on his business even. if we were going to make some money out of it now off to the barren we want real hard to be able to cover our running costs farming is the main source of income for palestinians living in the jordan valley they've been selling vegetables to israel for decades. this is one of the main markets for fresh produce and your part of the west bank. here is there are too

many on the market and that has pushed prices down. on wednesday the palestinian government responded to the israeli ban by barring some israeli products from entering the west bank this is not the 1st economy between the 2 sides but it's different now because the palestinian government says it wants to limit dependency on the israeli economy it started with a pilot project in october to cut down imports of israeli calls and buy them from other countries instead. israeli cattle raisers say that the band violates signed agreements between israel and the palestinian authority and all but sometimes they are dependent on the palestinian market the palestinian talk and direct import of calls from but they don't have enough touch and taste spaces which are the basic food of the animals palestinians import 3 times more from israel than they export to it which analysts say could make any trade with between the 2 very one sided

front of don't feel that i've done so but if israel controls all borders and crossing it has the final say in the flow of goods and services for example it can prevent any foreign goods from entering the palestinian market they control more important sectors such as the energy sector fuel and foreign currency. with years of occupation and blockade c.v.t. weakening the palestinian economy many believe they may be forced to back down before the israelis do. the occupied west bank. still ahead on al-jazeera where. fishermen say they're risking their lives as they dive to make a living.

hello there's still a cold breeze running into northern japan the last storm system it's wet and you can see there but the cold air goes across the warm water but is masses of showers not as cold of course they turned out to be snow and they will do that on the west the slopes in northern honshu unfertile while on the little while i think in her car there with the power is going to maximize for that's where the weather is because going out of the way and everything else a korean peninsula much of northern china is quiet not particularly breezy static and it's not good for equality but clearly it's very different in southern china once more a bloom of clouds produced rain or will produce friends is systems forecast all the way from that it means border to the east now it's going out of the way it is moving east was an across the southern coast taiwan to be honest just touching it early part of friday but the land masses and masses rather as morons a lot she trotted still cold turkey at 7 degrees shall start and uneasier a pretty widespread need expect to be it is the rainy season the heaviest ones

allowed to be a thing in silly way see occasionally in java on the west and science of sumatra on both days of course the shots and to get bigger as the day goes on that it injected heat from the sunshine but the position of them is roughly the same. for. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of a lot. of the stories. we're providing tips into someone else's work. david won do they for. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. like a witness on al-jazeera. you or.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera a pegasus and line strike has skidded off the runway at one of turkey's main airports the authorities say say all 177 passengers and 6 crew members on board survived the incident is someone else said we had good chen and. meanwhile 38 people have been killed in eastend turkey in 2 separate avalanches rescue workers were setting for victims of the 1st satellite when the 2nd one struck. and hong kong's leader says anyone entering from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days for any signs of the corona virus and a cruise ship is on lockdown in the territory as authorities test all those on

board. now to camera and where police on high alert after a number of suspects are a separatist a tot's in the political capital yeah one day an economic hub just days before the much anticipated legislative elections voting stations of been destroyed in mainly english speaking regions nicolas hock reports. opposition candidate carlos and go all of his running for mayor in a particular district of cameron's economic capital douala the 5th district to the sudan to go to comply how campaign slogan it's time for action action an opposition which talks because in cameroon politicians do is talk a lot but do little. and it 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 foreign 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 teacher is in schools in the english speaking regions has turned into an often violent separatist movement various armed groups called these regions rich in oil gold and bauxite amazonia human rights organizations accuse both separatist and the military of torture beheadings and kidnappings the charge of the government and separatists design for the fighting has left almost a 1000000 people displaced and in need of assistance this was a crisis that could easily be of the. the government will see. in its intentions and if the government pay it above the well being of. the situation would never have been allowed to descend into the kind of chaos that we claim. 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 divided among themselves and 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. errol candidate and grow him and others are trying to drum up support among the speaking community to get as many people out to vote because even before polls are open the outcome is already being contested because hawk al jazeera. saying with africa malawi's president has to appeal against

a court ruling overturning his reelection to move every can now only one a 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations of vote rigging on monday judges an old for results failing it had been compromised by vote stuffing and ballots they ordered a new election within $150.00 days the president's spokesman called the decision a miscarriage of justice how much castro has been a to strong. will the president is going to address the nation on when he's going to tell people what he's going. to school in the ruling parties they would have thought organizing the paperwork the legal documents for the appeal village when they plan to file the paperwork at the supreme court the supreme court to say there is no case and throw the matter out or they could set a date to hear the matter what does that mean because the constitutional court has ordered that a fresh solution has to be held within 150 days this appeal could delay the

procedure so what will the opposition to the head of the n.c.p. party as a clear has stated that the ruling party and the president have every right to appeal the constitutional court ruling but he's very confident that the president did not win the elections and he said the post is must take its course but of course the key thing of course is how the opposition supporters are going to receive days now they've been gathering at the party headquarters here in the capital a long way planning for these elections looking forward to these elections planning to hold they are planning to hold stations and mosques in the capital and elsewhere in the country some are saying that is really was take place to put a face. that they can't get one direction so they are fear that the longer it takes to get the election they could be violent on the street if people go out on the street and potent it's a very delicate face for people in malawi right now or i'll wait to see and hear what the president maybe people like ron on wednesday. turkey's president.

further action against the syrian government if its forces in need lead don't pull back the announcement comes 2 days after 7 turkish soldiers and one civilian were killed by government shelling in the rebel held in the province a turkish military says it's his dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops love sort of out of the. moment you know and from now on we are not going to accept any steps that would be a violation of the agreements that we already have in the phone conversation i had with mr putin yesterday night i stressed that it lip the regime needs to pull back to the softly agreement borders behind our observation points at this stage 2 of our top observation points are behind the regime lines hoping that in february withdrawal of the regime forces will be completed and if the syrian regime does not pull back now turkey will act. the wife of former malaysian prime minister

najib razak is on trial accused of money laundering graft and tax evasion rosmah months or is alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes linked to a government projects for instance he has more from for. a month 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 rule 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 trip 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 extravagant lifestyle came to light police raided properties linked to not chip and grossmann and seized jewelry watches handbags now at least 12000 pieces of jewelry would 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 while it is still being very closely watched here. returning now to one of our earliest stories on al-jazeera and the u.s. senate is preparing to cast its crucial vote in donald trump's impeachment trial the president used his state of the union address on tuesday to hail what he called a great. we can come back as speak to james warren about this is executive editor

of news guardian previously the washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune tribune he joins us live from chicago thank you very much for being with us certainly a very unique state of the union address that comes in the context of impeachment the election season and the president you know judging from what he was saying yesterday seems to have the upper hand right now wouldn't you agree you know the piece you had a few minutes ago by patti calling out of washington i gather was spot on as far as what the dynamic was and if you had watched the state of the union speech just a year ago. the tables have been turned nancy pelosi was again the speaker of the house the democrats having just won what we call the midterm elections and she was verging on being slightly arrogance smirking at trump and then a year later the tables at least for the moment have turned the economy's doing

pretty well among the actual factual statements that trump made last night several had to do with the economy and it's quite good his popularity is at least for him fairly high nearly 50 percent and meanwhile coincidentally the democrats democrats for the moment seem to be in disarray as rightly or who they have who will actually run against trump and be tough and even as we speak not too far from here in the state of iowa they still haven't figured out who actually won the 1st caucuses the 1st vote during the democratic primary season which was held almost 48 hours ago right it is really a chaotic side to the democratic presidential nomination process. will will you know will they be able to stop the president's momentum thing. yeah it's so it's too early were in just into february so many things can happen at

this same time back in the last campaign you probably could have made a lot of money taking your weekly paycheck and bet it on one donald trump to win the republican nomination similarly. long ago there was a young u.s. senator from this state from this city chicago named barack obama at this point you would have still seen it as unlikely what is interesting is that the choice of many moderates and a lot of the pundits early on as far as being a tough factor namely former president president joe biden seemingly fared rather poorly on monday in iowa and in the early polling in the state of new hampshire which votes next tuesday. the blue seemingly has come off the rose he's coming off as listless sees showing up in 3rd or 4th and 5th place that's a big surprise because there much of the conventional political wisdom in this country is that an attack on trump from the far left by bernie sanders.

is a long shot james quickly speaking of surprises do you expect any surprises at the impeachment trial which is ending today. in one word no straight party line probably 103 to 47 remember you would need 2 thirds to win anyway. i like to be more verbose but the answer is no thank you so much for speaking to us james horan from his god thank you for joining us and not just here . the headlines on al-jazeera a pegasus and lines flight test kit off the runway at one of turkey's main apple season live pictures from the scene. say all 171 passengers and 6 crew members on board survived this crash at istanbul seppi had. meanwhile

38 people have been killed in eastern turkey in 2 separate an avalanche as rescue workers were searching for victims of the 1st avalanche when the 2nd one struck. in other news the world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon do help combat the corona virus outbreak a short time ago it appealed for 675000000 dollars. message to the international community is in list today for more. immersed today or more. $675000000.00 u.s. dollars is a lot of money but its march lists the bill we will face if we do not invest in preparedness you know during the window of opportunity that we have

and hong kong's leader says anyone entering from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days for any signs of the corona virus a coup ship is on lockdown in the territory as authorities test all those on board . the u.s. senate is preparing to cast its vote in downtown see these 2 men trial the president used his state of the union address on tuesday to hail what he called a great american combat a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in the occupied west bank the shooting happened in bob in hebron a government statement says 17 year old mohammad was killed after a bullet went through his heart they're upset with headlines on al-jazeera as always plenty more on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next year it's witnessed say with us. our land is going to the polls to elect a new government faced with criticism over the housing crisis. and unemployment in

rural parts of the country will the current prime minister manage to present just a decision to join us as we look at who will take the country to break say it's. the in. the in. the lead.