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kong plans to quarantine anyone entering from mainland china plus america's future is blazing bright. the years of economic to kill are over. president donald trump boasts of a great american comeback but his state of the union address highlights the country's deepening political divisions. i don't people stand with you a sport lympics organizers say they're seriously worried about the coronavirus outbreak impacting this year's games. thank you very much for joining us a pegasus airlines flight has skidded off the runway while landing at one of the stumbles main airports turkish authorities say all 171 passengers and 6 crew members on board survived 52 are engineered and have been taken to. hospital the

boeing 737 was landing had to be had go china airport when it crashed splitting into 3 parts it was traveling from the turkish city of is me here let's get the latest somehow or has any stumble for us so tell us about what's been happening and have all the passengers been removed from the airplane they have india they have been removed from the plane and the 53 who were injured of the moment of the crash were sent to hospitals in istanbul to be treated however investigators are now trying to determine exactly what happened the moment where the plane was touching down because what happened later was basically the plane. veering off the runway bursting into flame and breaking into 3 pieces and they are trying to establish whether there was any mechanical problem that led to this crash or

this was related either way or another to bad weather conditions strong winds were poor to the very same time with the plane worse attempting to touch the. force of this is exactly i think what the our investigators are the authorities are trying to look into with more details to come up with more clarity about what happened to the boeing 737 right a lot of questions in it indeed what impact has this had on operations that have a chain airport. the authorities have closed the airport and then redirected most of the flights to neighboring course in istanbul and i think they are trying this particular moment to ensure that everything is under control and before making any decision in the near in the coming hours they would like to establish exactly

whether this was a technical failure or related to whether conditions are this explains why they are taking all of those preemptive measures but i have also to remind our viewers that the same low budget company lives. suffered a similar incident about a month ago when one of its. planes slid of the runaway of the sub. port and then the investigators established later that this was related to poor weather conditions than. ok hashem thank you for that update hashem for us any stumble let's speak some more about this to aviation specialist alex my cherise who joins us here on the news hour good to have you with us on al-jazeera alex plain sight off the runway often but they don't break up in 2 or 3 pieces as is the case here at ord what do you think happened here well this aircraft has today suffered quite a dramatic runway excursion and that's the real name for what this aircraft has

been involved in so this is a boeing 737 or pretty by the turkish low cost carrier pegasus and ultimately their variety of factors that can lead to the inability to bring the aircraft to a safe stop at the end of the runway this is actually not the 1st time this aircraft and this airline have suffered with such a runway excursion at this airport in assembles to be here and of course the investigation this initial period will focus 1st on the search and rescue and that's rescuing those who have been caught up in this accident and then of course preventing any future of other potential incidents if for example the runway was contaminated how difficult is it for a pile pilot driver to keep control of the plane on a runway or pilots are incredibly well trained and automatically act travel continues to be the safest form of transport an aircraft is taking off or landing every one and a half seconds and so you know why there should be no question over the potential difficulty of this specific airport for example but actually it's more likely to be

like i said one of those external factors for example weather now the weather right now as we have seen in the footage in istanbul it's very windy suffering a lot of rain a contaminated runway for example what runway could lead to the added complexity during the landing and during the phase of that landing where the flight crew having to bring that aircraft to a full stop as you mentioned this is not the 1st incident involving pegasus airlines at that same airport in a month i think it was last month in january there was a similar incident how how safe is a sale and what says safety records. guesses are known predominately for their low fares and ultimately it would be unfair to brand them as unsafe just because they do off a very competitive fares but there will be serious questions are asked now given that this airline has suffered now its 2nd runway excursion in just 4 weeks at the same airport and quite famously in 2018 it suffered another dramatic runway excursion in trips on and is in turkey where the fuselage was broken into to today's incident the fuselage broken into 3 pieces very dramatic i hear that

investigators are already on their way including from the u.s. to determine exactly what has happened and then to drop that initial investigation and alex i can't help but note that this is a boeing 737 obviously something that boeing doesn't need right now this extra publicity bad publicity that they don't need for viewers it may seem like boeing can't catch a break at the moment with all of this published surrounding the 737 but especially in this circumstance with just being a runway excursion this should be no question over the safety boeing 7373 main incredibly safe worldwide they are the workhorse of the fleet not to be confused with the troubled and grounded 77 max it is i thank you so much alec so shedding some light on the sonics my chair is an aviation specialist joining us here on out is here thank you for a time now 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 38 people have been killed in

2 days now going to gauge the story. they rushed to save people trapped under the snow but this rescue mission soon turned to tragedy it began on tuesday when an avalanche struck a road in the turkish province of van a bus carrying passengers and a snow clearing vehicle were buried in the overturned we've been under the snow since the avalanche hit this morning and no one came to us until now hundreds of emergency workers joined the rescue operation the vehicles operator and 7 passengers escaped 5 others were killed as police officers firefighters and volunteers desperately tried to dig out those trapped a 2nd avalanche struck the same road burying dozens more. 8 people from our escape units 3 security guards one firefighter and 9 civilians unfortunately lost their lives may they rest in peace the death toll quickly began

to climb weather conditions didn't help either blizzards and heavy snow or blocked roads and slowed the search operation people in the area were among the 1st to respond using their bare hands shovels and roy to dig out the victims but the snow fall was too much and the steep incline posed enormous challenges by the end of the day chances of finding survivors were fading away nicola gage al-jazeera. in other world news the world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the corona virus outbreak a short time ago it appears for $675000000.00 to fight the virus especially in developing countries our message to the international community is invest today or pay more. immersed today or pay more

later. $675000000.00 u.s. dollars is a lot of money but it's march less so 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 leaders says anyone entering from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days so any signs of the corona virus a koshare base on lockdown in the territory as authorities tests all those on board adrian brown has a report 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 one $100000.00 commuters cross into china each day and they need time to prepare the quarantine orders begin vote through rarely use special powers so i

think food like we will invoke the powers to annex legislation for people coming from the mainland including hong kong resistance 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 onboard 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 the be likely time of finishing b.b. are currently measures right now and i would like to reassure. or need to impress on people here our department of health is adopting a prudent approach in managing this incident several crewmembers 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 $200.00 passengers who left this 1st so on january the 24th before the 3 infections were confirmed the $200.00 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 most there have been long orderly queues outside suppliers with some waiting in line overnight in the hope of not leaving and handed this seems to be no shortage of face masks or luxury to dreamworld as passengers wait to learn just how long their extended and now enforced holiday will be adrian brown al jazeera hong kong dr patrick tang is the chief of pathology sciences at cedar medicine here in doha earlier i asked him how the new corona virus compares to other deadly strain such as the size and maize if we compare this novel coronavirus to sars we find that this new novel coronavirus is less lethal than sars i think that early data all shows that one of the other things about it is that it maybe just says infectious as sars if not more based on some of the data that we're

seeing right now it's quite possible that the number of cases might be underestimated in china there might be other people that they haven't been able to test for the virus so so right now we're still in this stage where we're learning a lot more about the virus so similar to the severe krohn of ours is so that sars the people that have died are mostly older elderly people that have had other illnesses as well to have been fewer people younger who have died. i think it's very hard to predict how long it's going to last it's probably the last a few more months at least while we still have a hope of controlling it in china and i think the whole world is hoping that china will be able to control it and reduce the impact they will have on the rest of the world i think we have to put all their efforts into containing the virus in china and helping china able to stamp it out just like we did with sars the worst case scenario would be that this virus just keeps on keeps going on and on and then

there's transmission more transmission in other countries around the world plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including after long delays some results from the iowa caucuses roll in but nearly 2 days after the event it still isn't clear who won last square in peru a fisherman say they're risking their lives as they dive to make a living and support the n.b.a.'s most valuable player reminds everyone who's boss peter has the action coming on. to the u.s. now where political ceremony division and confusion have all been on display this week and this much more still to come in a few hours the senate is all but certain to acquit president donald trump on charges of abusing his power and obstructing congress on tuesday he delivered his annual sin of the union address on occasion that highlighted the country's ideological divide meanwhile democratic party officials in iowa are still

struggling to report the results of monday's presidential caucuses when they get our coverage with this report from patty. bad state or. 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 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 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

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 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 political hay al-jazeera washington after trump's

address house speaker nancy pelosi explained why she tore up his speech was it was a manifesto of mr true and what would you think about him not shaking your hand. up the office and standing behind you believe. were you invited to another state of the. public not expect another. one from. now away from the political theater in washington a winner is yet to be declared from monday's democratic caucuses in iowa the 1st vote in the race for the party's presidential nomination the delays been blamed on technical issues results put pete mancini ahead of bernie sanders although both a claiming victory alan fischer 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 results from iowa no problem. each

candidate is telling everyone what a huge success they've been even if it looks like they've struggled where. is. he 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 experienced 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 alan fischer.

and live. in jordan in washington for us ross let's start with the state of the union and this usually not a lot of drama at the state of the union address but this was one of the one of the most politicized ones in a long time i think what have been the reactions 1st this morning. well obviously the reaction has been on partisan lines and there have been moments such as what we saw on tuesday evening in washington you'll recall during obama president obama's 1st state of the union address shortly after he took office he was screamed at frankly by a republican congress person from the u.s. south joe wilson of south carolina who basically accused him of lying what people are reacting to more than 10 years later is the fact that as donald trump the us president was wrapping up his state of the union address the house speaker nancy

pelosi took her a copy of the president's remarks and ripped them in half there are people suggesting that because this was a government document that she may have committed some sort of federal crime there are others saying that this was simply a computer printout as she had the right to express her displeasure with donald trump's statement so while all of that has been going on what hasn't really been addressed has been the substance of donald trump's speech on tuesday evening in which he basically used it as a campaign speech he talked about school choice he talked about protecting the rights of unborn children and trying to outlaw abortion he talked about military funding he talked about stepping up his campaign to prevent immigration from expanding into into the united states all of these points very much of an appeal to his political base there have been democrats who have been calling on the president

before the speech on tuesday evening to try to reach across the political divide and instead what they are saying on wednesday is that donald trump missed an opportunity to try to bridge that very deep political divide a lot of special guest airing that state of the union speech was one of them that his weight his opposition to one quite bill and he's due at the white house. that's right who was elected the leader of the national assembly and will be at the white house in the next hour we expect that there will be video of that meeting with the u.s. president has been on a tour of sorts in the past couple of weeks trying to build international support for his effort to take control of the venezuelan government from nicolas maduro who is the current leader of the government in venezuela the prince of mr kaleido at the state of the union on tuesday night was not previously announced the white

house had said that a person who had been a top police official had been invited to sit in the box with the 1st lady molony a trump but then in the middle of the speech as we see there donald trump called out. and said that not only will the u.s. people stand with the people of venezuela but that his government was committed to helping him claim what the u.s. believes is his rightful place at the head of the venezuelan government again that meeting is supposed to take place at the white house in the next hour it certainly is a political boost for mr udell i though but whether it's actually going to make a difference politically back home is something that will have to see all right ross thank you for that ross in jordan my for us in washington. still ahead on this . presidents a zealot against a court decision that announced his controversial reelection last year. on an

experiment in the thai capital bangkok with there he is the corona virus could cost the terrorism industry more than a $1000000000.00. and is rafa nadal gets down to work as he makes his content return to rugby or has a story coming out it makes. hello it's all going downhill again in the eastern med that means the levant you see the cloud across turkey which might give you a clue that something's going on in the right to think that the picture answers is an increasing breeze in the eastern med bringing rain through cyprus and then pro-drug there the day you start to feel it in some parts of syria or lebanon for the size there is a bit of cloud there's not much of a breeze so dark $25.00 meccas up to $29.00 you might spark

a shower too in the mountains of western society but no i will not this is where the action will be and that rain spreads all the way science to sinai and you can see the breeze coming behind is even stronger so this is still wet and windy and 10 in damascus gives you an idea of my field if you're further north or further up it's not not particularly pleasant but then again it is february that most of north africa is a coke is quite apart from what's happening in the northeast corner there the breeze tends to concentrate the heat further west so mature in libya it's a pleasant with a dusty breeze and the temperatures dekker reflect that around about the 30 mark maybe 40 off a little come friday we pick up the rain wait expected to down through the rift valley further west to rango and eastwards towards madagascar but malawi the gets a concentration. of. that 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the balkans route

begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian from a. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning bank to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the island of sardinia a famously a delay khalid a spot. less well known as a proving ground for the. investigation claims that years of military training and arms testing triggered cancer and birth defects amid the local population. secret sardinia people in power on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories a pegasus airlines flight test kit off the runway while landing at one of the samples main airports all 171 passengers and 6 school members on board the boarding 737 have survived but at least 120 injured it's. the world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the kona virus outbreak it's also appealing for $675000000.00 to fight the virus especially in developing countries. 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 american comeback. more now on our top story one of our top stories this hour in the economic impact of the corona virus outbreak which is being felt worldwide in thailand there are fears it could cause a tourism industry more than a $1000000000.00 for in tory's to thailand come from china but numbers have fallen drastically since the outbreak alexy o'brien reports from bangkok. 8 times a day at the mekong railway markets lose their way. and clear the tracks to make way for the train it's hot and bustling highlight with tourists even in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. and we always like ours by hours like we are we aware of where. this.

crowded my area 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 number. 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 i'll be 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 that impair poor law for example is going to drag longer his her niece you know virus could spread worldwide and stop tourism sector the economy would fall into slow down below 2 percent in the 2nd half of the year this imperative 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 domestically none of the taking back of the railway market the trains just pass through again the stalls are getting back to business meaning here hope life will return to normal just as quickly alexie o'brian al-jazeera bangkok. malawi's

president just to appeal against a court ruling overturning his reelection and with every can now really want to 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations of vote rigging on monday judges an old the result saying it had been compromised by vote stuffing and altered ballots they ordered a new election within 150 days the president's spokesman scald the decision a miscarriage of justice. has the latest from a long way. well the president is going to address the nation on wednesday and he's going to tell people what he's going to start with senior officials in the ruling party stated what he thought of organizing the paperwork the legal documents for the appeal village malawi's know when they plan to file the paperwork at the supreme court the supreme court to either say there is no case and throw the matter out or they could set a date to hear the matter 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 last with a clear has stated that the ruling party and the prison have every right to appeal the constitutional court ruling but he's very confident that the prison did not win the elections and he says opposes must take its course but of course the key thing of course is how the opposition supporters are going to react kristie days now they've been gathering at the party headquarters here in the capital a long way to landing for these elections looking forward to these elections are you planning to hold they are planning to hold demonstrations and marching in the capital and elsewhere in the country some are saying that is really was a big take place today they say that they can't that won the election so there are fears that the longer it takes to get to these elections there could be violence on the scene if people go out on the street and posters so it's a very delicate phase for people in malawi right now all eyes are waiting to see and hear what the president may be interested people later on on wednesday. peter

for gracious phase wave east institute for security studies in johannesburg he says the court ruling is a major boon 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 blatant tempering you know i think this is going to become remembered in history as the to pick selection because according to the court judgment 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 the 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 northern route and all and one can only hope that it's sustained i don't know what the basis for the appeal would be to be honest police in cameroon on high alert after a number of suspected separatists attacks in the political capital yeah one day and the economic. just days before the much anticipated legislative elections voting stations have been destroyed in mainly english speaking regions making us talking points. opposition candidate carlos and while i was running for mayor in

a particular district of cameroon's economic capital douala the thrift distro to distro back you know 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 time rooms 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 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 easy. the government will see. in its intentions and if the go home and pay it. off. the situation would never have been allowed to descend into the kind of chaos that we find. the situation has become so complicated that. a quick fix he's 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. the vote is it's up to the parties 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 ngo phone community including the extremists to tell them you're taking the wrong path because no lection can take place in a divided. barrel 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. several protesters in iraq's southern city of najaf have been injured in an attack being blamed on supporters of shia cleric. they have denied involvement in the assault the latest in a surge of violence following the appointment of a new prime minister's 10 is in baghdad with more several people were injured when followers of influential shiite cleric mark that outsider stormed a central protest square in the southern city of not just burning tents and beating

protesters now this is just the latest in a series of confrontations between the sudras who support the nomination of mohamed tawfik allow as prime minister designate and other protesters who reject him until recently the sudras supported the protesters providing important logistical support protection as well as political cover but look that assad has changed his position on the protest several times at times offering his support and that other times withdrawing it now the situation has become particularly tense we have the nomination of as prime minister doesn't that on saturday that assad or endorsed him while many protesters rejected him the sudras then moved into central protest sites controlling strategic buildings and since then we have seen several confrontations just yesterday on tuesday we saw that a group of sudras beat several student protesters who criticize sutter and. rejected allow we as the prime minister designate for all of these all of these

tensions to risk further escalating in their fear further fueled by mocked at us letters repeated a change in stance on the post with increasingly confusing messages tours his supporters on whether they should join the protests or whether they should withdraw all of this comes amid growing fears among the protesters that the sudras may try to seize control of the protest movement that they may try to ended all together now despite the nomination of allow we were seeing a continued support for the protest movement among especially student protesters and they are determined to keep turning out to keep demonstrating until their demands for an independent candidate for the prime minister are met. a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in the occupied west bank the shooting happened in hebron the palestinian health ministry said says 17 year old was killed when

a bullet went through his heart the israeli military says its troops opened fire after a palestinian through a fire bomb meanwhile the palestinian government is banning some israeli goods after israel stops the sale of palestinian agricultural products in its markets last week that move was part of a pilot program to reduce dependence on the israeli economy but it's already hurting palestinian farmers need to 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 server software owns or own 25 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. if we were going to make some money out of it

now after the ban 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 new york and the west bank. here there are too many on the market and that has 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 haste spaces which are the basic food of the animals palestinians input 3 times more from israel than they exported 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 as 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. within years of occupation and blockade c.v.a. any weakening the palestinian economy many believe they may be forced to back down before the israelis do. the occupied west bank. the wife of former malaysian prime minister najib razak he's on trial accused of money laundering graft and tax evasion was months or isn't

a child receives millions of dollars in bribes to a government projects foreign story has more from kuala lumpur. rossman months where 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 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 be not to 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 not chip and grossmann 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 and the financial scandal that unseated a government and it is still being very closely watched here. a trial has begun in paris for 6 suspected fosters accused of impersonating a french politician to steal millions of euros they're accused of calling more than 150 targets by phone and sky posing as for. foreign minister a former french foreign minister. investigators say they requested money for

a secret mission with a promise of repayment by the french states $3.00 people were successfully duped including spiritual leader the aga khan who reportedly sent $22000000.00 you know. this is an attack on the state this is an attack that could have because in the context of public affairs we must not forget that the events that interest us took place in 20152016 that at the time they were the child and battle plan attacks so in a context of very very high levels of terrorism everybody was sensitive to the issues and the crooks who using the breeding ground of terrorism now to peru where in one of the country's most ecologically diverse bass fisherman who dive for crabs and shellfish say they're putting their lives at risk to make a living stocks of fish are increasingly scarce with means that they have to go further out to find them al-jazeera as mariana sanchez reports from south of the

capital lima. looking for crabs and scallops is not an easy job 26 year old with. a minute every time sometimes 5 to 6 hours nonstop he says finding shellfish these days is difficult. 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 fisherman 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 this bay is being lost. 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 these fishermen go out at sea for days. 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 most suffered a decompression accident that left him with permanent muscle damage fatigue spiegel 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. that is fishy.

the ministry says it will implement vigilant committees to supervise the quality and amount of seafood harvested any 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 starts so that's why more divers are risking those more accidents which are now frequent many academics say the effects of climate change on the fish and shellfish stocks is still under investigation but his 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 but he just. still ahead on al-jazeera and support the super bowl champion celebrate with their fans in kansas speech a has more coming at us.

in an increasingly globalized interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states railings and increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists.

sports has been set for thank you very much there's a party atmosphere on the streets of kansas city right now as the super bowl champions celebrate with a fair chance the chiefs operating the trophy they won in sunday's victory over the san francisco 49 er's it's the 1st time these fans have seen their team lift the n.f.l. championship in 30 years schools are being closed for the day so everyone in the city can attend the parade which concludes with a rally in front of union station. olympics organizers say they are seriously concerned about the outbreak of coronavirus affecting this year's games they begin

in the japanese capital on july 24th with 11000 athletes competing several qualifying events have already been canceled or postponed as the virus continues to spread outside of china japanese prime minister shinzo has dismissed talk of canceling or delaying the games but olympics organizers admitting they are preparing for a worst case scenario all saying that. i'm seriously worried that the virus spreading could throw cold water on the momentum towards the games i hope that it will be stamped out as soon as possible. no matter how bad it gets we will do our utmost for the athletes so they'll be able to concentrate on performing their best. israel folau is settling in these new fringe club castle and dragons but rival rugby league teams are taking steps to protect themselves after he's controversial signing for allow has spent months on the sidelines after a homophobic social media post led to him being sacked by the australian national

rugby union team council and admits signing him was a calculated gamble. obviously we took the risks into account and we experienced them ourselves as soon as we announced phil out signing because there was so much media interest i do understand but at the same time i'm completely happy with my decision although i myself do not share all the reflections or ideas he might have expressed but at the same time he's a younger player full of talent who we must give another chance been around your teammates and. been able to train with with your team and work 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 team of our manager but at least one rivaled club whole k r and they c.e.o. neil hugill have told counsel and they are prepared to sue if allowed signing leads to a loss in their revenue and damages the reputation of the league at a meeting of the clubs on wednesday they decided to introduce new measures for

intervening in any future controversial signings. superleague board accepts fully believe galaxies around the are a false decision to register for and the the board has voted unanimously to put in place measures that ensure superleague has greater authority to stop controversial signings such as this in the future the head of french figure skating refused calls to resign on wednesday following allegations of historic sexual assaults against former coach. a government investigation has also been launched into $200.00 clubs in france d.d.a. a gay gay has been in charge of the skating federation for more than 2 decades said he wouldn't quit over allegations of incidents that occurred 30 years ago when he was not president but said he thoughts were with the victims. that theory i'm opposed to the sad reality of the women's lives shattered and changed forever because of those who took advantage of their innocence there are no words to

describe my discussed that said the darkside does not represent the federation. hundreds of thousands of children are growing up in refugee camps without the chance to play organized sport but one camp in jordan has found a solution using e-sports but that of the camp is home soon nearly 80000 syrians many of whom are children who have fled the 8 year war at 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 a 6 day refugees sports up to find the best get. the most beloved part 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. that 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. from e-sports to the more traditional form last

season's most valuable player made sure the n.b.a.'s newest star did not get too big for his age jordan's as the mobile he bucks defeated the new orleans pelicans number one draft pick zion a williamson is making up for time after a late start to the season because of injury and had some early joy as the pelicans laid the bus but he had no joy at all one on one with giana sente to come close the greek freak blocking and then sending the powerful rookie to the floor wednesday to compose hold on zion so you on his way to 34 points the bucs winning this 112108 they also lead the eastern standings as well. that's where we'll leave it for now more sports coming up again later funny and peter thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera coming fully backed by now. thank you very much for watching as always much more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com i think.

in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states agreements increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to under. i mean human rights. in this context the

national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. in india identity politics on the rise what we're 'd seeing is the construction budget cuts and loads of millions of people across the country and as a dark side is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the him fix into something more like the team i didn't see of the british football i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera there are some of the

media stories a critical look at the global news media but also on al-jazeera government shut off access to social media. president trump's impeachment drama set to end with a now as with republican senators poised to acquit him trump meanwhile is preparing to welcome the man the u.s. recognizes as venezuela's president to the white house. and tale of this is out is there a life in london also coming up. a plane skidded off a runway and breaks into pieces at an istanbul airport but all the passengers managed to get off alive. this is a sad.