every. 4. running out of beds and running short of medical supplies china confirms thousands more cases of coronavirus. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm dating now we're going to also ahead the u.s. senate it quits donald trump after his impeachment trial the democrats are planning more investigations. 7 a deadly confrontation in iraq if you can measure antigovernment demonstrators fight with supporters of a top pairing. thousands of syrians for the fighting in the provinces government

forces try to retake the last rebel held territory we're live inside syria. hello china struggling to cope with the corona virus outbreak as more people die of the onus it's running out of bed space to accommodate new cases of countries saw a record spike in deaths on wednesday bringing the total to more than 560 more than 28000 people are infected most of them in the epicenter of han and authorities are saying there is a severe shortage of beds and medical supply. and a day after the chinese president xi jinping met and thanked his cambodian counterpart for his support in the fight against the virus there are reports that beijing may delay its biggest political meeting the annual national congress is held every march and that's when top communist party leaders meet with thousands of

members to decide on the government's priorities for the year. meanwhile taiwan has banned all international cruises from docking after 10 more cases were confirmed on a quarantine vessel docked in the japanese city of yokohama dozens of crew members on members on another isolated 7 hong kong also say they're selling symptoms while 8 passengers have been infected. let's me to dream brown to give us an update from hong kong so how is hong kong coping with the developments of the corona virus and . well as is the case on the mainland there is a severe shortage of face markets here in hong kong they are available like in the shop behind me but at very inflated prices and people are very angry about that they want to know why the government can't provide facemasks for the people remembering of course that on kong is one of the richest societies on earth the hong kong government is sitting on fast reserves and people want to know why it is

that the government can't provide facemasks so rule there's been a certain amount of limited panic buying here in the nearby district of one child for instance on thursday morning shelves were cleared of things like toilet paper and rice the i think the the fear of the the biggest fear of the virus is really you know panic itself it's bigger than fear of the virus and and it's sort of spiralling out of control in some ways you think about places like hong kong is it people have parents and grandparents remember you know famine on the mainland and they really do worry that at times like this there's a possibility that they could go short of food so the government is trying to calm things down saying there's plenty of food on kong you're still getting what it needs from across the border in the mainland and hong kong of course very dependent on things like milk and vegetables and meat that have to be trucked in daily from the mainland which is why the border is not going to be of course totally sealed as

to the passengers on board that china. dreamworld that's the vast ocean liner that docked in hong kong on wednesday after it was confirmed that several passengers on board had been infected well they're ensuring what is basically the 2nd day of quarantine aboard that vessel they will now remain on board that ship that least another 12 days i should mention taiwan has also been imposing new restrictions from saturday anyone flying to taiwan from hong kong will have to go into quarantine for 14 days but foreigners won't be allowed to enter the country atoll if they have come from hong kong so taiwan now joining the philippines in terms of limiting the number of people blocking the number of people from hong kong you want to go to those places ok adrian thank you for bringing us that update from hong kong. now the u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in his senate impeachment trial he was charged with abusing presidential powers and obstruction of congress one republican

broke ranks but it wasn't enough to see trump removed from office democrats are vowing to press ahead with more investigations hardy's are cast to reports from washington d.c. it is therefore the outcome was as expected donald john trumped b. and he is here by acquitted of the charges in said articles donald trump only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached now also the 3rd u.s. president to be acquitted the white house called it full of vindication and exoneration mr romney all but one republican senator voted not guilty on both articles of impeachment the lone defector was mitt romney the utah senator who in 2012 with the republican presidential nominee my faith is at the heart of who i am romney said in an emotional floor speech his conscience was more important than party loyalty he voted guilty on abuse of power what he did was not perfect.

no it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights our national security and our fundamental values a few other republicans said they believe put trump did was wrong but didn't rise to remove all from office others blasted the democrats' efforts to remove the 45th us president i worry about the future of the presidency after what's happened here ladies and gentlemen you will come to regret this whole process all the democrats voted to convict on both charges they voice disappointment after his acquittal but did not admit defeat me yet face further investigation in the democrat controlled house and make no mistake about it the drip drip drip of evidence is going to keep coming out with each new revelation the message to the house of representatives don't do this again. now with the impeachment officially behind him trump can

spring for the november election whether all this has helped him or hurt him as a candidate is the big question castro al-jazeera washington. richard goodstein is a democratic strategist and a former legal advisor to the white house during billing bill clinton's impeachment trial and he says mitt romney's support for conviction could in bold and other republican politicians. in both cases i think there was an expectation after the house impeached that the senate was going to acquit was going to basically not convict him the one difference though is that this was the 1st impeachment trial in the history of the united states where a senator of the party of the president who was impeached voted to convict him so mitt romney did a lot of things today by breaking this news but i think the word that he used and the sense of conviction and putting country above party is something that democrats

whoever the presidential nominee is or frankly democrats going forward will seize upon to say that we all don't have to fall prey to what for a force donald trump has over most republicans that people can rise above that so in that sense by the time of the clinton trial bill clinton had apologized for his behavior donald trump to this moment still says that his behavior was perfect and i think the one answer is that when the impeachment trial was over in 1990 and bill clinton his popularity was in the 6065 percent range donald trump still in the forty's notwithstanding the fact that the economy is reasonably strong so i think the public ultimately soured 'd on his behavior and ultimately things are so partisan that there was a split you know all virtually all republicans going with him and every single democrat against him. after days of technical issues the preliminary results from

i was democratic caucuses have 2 presidential contenders virtually tied while every count early counts excuse me. slightly ahead of bernie sanders the gap has narrowed significantly with nearly all results counted already officials are now scrambling to verify the remaining results it comes as new hampshire prepares to hold the 1st democratic primary election on tuesday and 9000 year old palestinian has been shot dead by the israeli army after clashes over a house demolition in the occupied west bank town of janine protests began after heavy machinery was to destroy the family home of the man charged in connection with the $28000.00 killing of a rabbi in a west bank settlements 6 others were wounded in clashes this is the 2nd palestinian death in 24 hours a 17 year old was also shot by israeli soldiers during

a protest in hebron. and israeli police are looking for the driver of a car that hit a crowd of pedestrians in west jerusalem at least 12 soldiers were injured least say it was deliberate the driver fled the scene but the car was later found abandoned close to. at least 10 people have been killed and more than a 100 injured in the southern iraqi city of one supporters of the shah cleric. attacked an anti-government protest camp fights broke out between the groups such as it has a different time support and close the press has stars who want the removal of iraq's ruling elite. as more of the protests from baghdad. there's a real concern here in baghdad and across the south of what exactly a very influential shia cleric one of the most influential shia clerics is up to now he has flip flopped between supporting the protesters and no support taking the

protesters that what he seems to be doing is putting his backing behind iraq's security forces he's already said that here in baghdad he wants all the bridges and the roads leading here to tucker a square to be open he wants the protesters to simply remain intact or a square and outside of this area but he has a very different agenda to the protesters the protest movement is very clear they want a change a radical change in the way iraq is governed titles actually wants something slightly different to that and much more conservative what he wants is the writ of the iraqi government to be applied here in baghdad and across the south he looks to the protesters to simply remain where they are and to abate below he also has a very different a very radically different agenda when it comes to. the idea of u.s. troops being in iraq he wants them out and that's not something that many of the

protests we would want to back because they say we have one agenda anti corruption . an anti government agenda that we have no so what's happening reading fateful for a lot of people is the fact that several had a may will be trying to co-opt and take over the protest movement. still ahead an al-jazeera. look back on the life and career of hollywood legend kirk douglas who has died at the age of 103. pictures of protests we meet the indian artists using their work to speak out against the controversial citizenship law and tells coming up. how much the european mainland is relatively quiet receive a vast amount of rain recently in germany there's some flooding on the run as

a result but i think the fairly obvious view is down the bottom right hand corner that's a stormy systems just sit around for a day or 2 it's brought snow it's right all the high ground in central eastern europe still some more snow to come for ukraine most of europe to say is enjoying fine quite sunny with the time being at least not particularly warm but not particularly cold but turkey in particular is about to get yet another batch of 1st rain and rain all time low level and then snow now it's not going to be everywhere but as it falls is going to be between 30 centimeters and maybe a meter the further east you are and that includes van more likely has to be deepest snow once again the stormy weather this county of the g 8 into the west will eventually ease over the next 2 days but currently conditions on not good. still we weather will affect eastern libya and also north and egypt and you see from the wind direction this red represents the warm weather that you might expect

of north africa and that has been the case for a few weeks is still particularly warm in senegal and the gambia. the exclusive undercover report that captured a peaceful protest ruthlessly put down by the military they seem to be testing the ministry the standing over there with their guns ready this seems as if the start of the crackdown is now beginning. i. know you know me so maybe 10 years on what has changed rewind inside me in ma the crackdown on al-jazeera. the. you're.

top stories this hour china struggling to cope with the corona virus outbreak it's seen another record spike in deaths $73.00 in a single day and there are reports that beijing may delay its biggest political meeting of the year officials say it's unlikely the spread will be contained by next month. u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in his senate impeachment trial he was facing charges of abusing presidential powers and obstruction of congress only one republican mitt romney voted against him and democrats are vowing to press ahead with more investigation. at least 10 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the southern iraqi city of measure when supporters of the shia cleric who attacked and antigovernment protests. now

rebels in syria supported by churches artillery have pushed back government forces with from a key town in the province that says turkey's president warned syria's government not to continue their offensive into the last rebel held region hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting but speaker said in kosovo glue she's at the bobbin how a crossing that's inside syria so for those who are displaced by the fighting city where are they heading to. the reason all of them are heading to north where turkey syria border is which is very. camps that are very close to the area i am right now but unfortunately the camps that were by the border very cold out some area have have already been full so far and since last years since the syrian regime intensified its assault towards north of

the last april it's even more crowded i'm told by the locals here that each each 10 to each house it's there is not only family at these $23.00 even more families every siding in one tent or one apartment it seems is that civilians in the people have opened their dorms for the late comers who are recent they escaping from south of where he is actually are under control of the syrian government and the humanitarian situation is of course very bad because the schools are closed all schools are you being used like a dormitory for all the displaced people the situation is very dire as you can imagine and in terms of what's exactly happening on the ground with reports of the syrian government is continuing their offensive into that last rebel held area what is happening on the ground. i mean actually in the

escalation zone turkey had 12 military observation posts as russia and iran does do as well as they go in terms of the us sun and sochi peace agreements but. until recently the syrian government violated the escalation zone agreement and advance from south to north where the m 4 and i am 5 highways are those highways are vital for syria both for the government both for the pitches today we have because that's the main just secret and about one month ago the syrian government could regain territory down below the m $4.00 and $5.00 highway and set up where the clashes are is at the junction of the highway and turkey trying to establish a neve observe ation posts over that and last night 4 of them were again surrounded by the syrian government forces and there were clashes what i learned from the

military sources on the ground is that you must not i mean those clashes one syrian army general 7 officers plus several fighters embedded with the syrian army have been killed by the by the turkish back opposition force over here ok assen emco some of lou thank you for bringing us that update from the syrian side of the border. now the turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into what caused a passenger jet to skid off a runway while landing in istanbul 3 people were killed and dozens injured when the pegasus airlines plane broke into 3 pieces after landing in poor weather passengers and crew had to be evacuated through cracks in the fuselage from the president and turkey as a player bird has expressed sorrow over the deaths of 38 people in 2 avalanches in the eastern city of vanya most of those killed were part of her team digging to recover villagers hit by an initial avalanche before

a 2nd one struck rescue operations were halted on wednesday night due to poor weather. the venezuelan opposition leader who has held talks with the u.s. president at the white house a day after being unveiled as a special guest during donald trump's state of the union address quite oh is on an international tour to drum up support for his campaign to try and oust the venezuelan president nicolas maduro the white house says the 2 discussed speeding up a democratic transition there the u.s. is one of about 50 countries that recognize venezuela's leader meanwhile the government over in venezuela has criticized what it's calling interventionist rhetoric during trump state of the union address in the speech trump introduced by those who progress venezuela's true and legitimate leader called wed 08 tyrant and the natural death one of them on only the leading venezuela has the right to give itself its own institutions in venezuela the president of the republic is not

appointed by the president of the united states the people of venezuela elect him in a popular vote it is always been that way and will always be for free so i am the president elected legitimately according to the constitution mr donald trump enough of your sickly obsession with venezuela mr trump enough. for ministers from the african union are meeting in the ethiopian capital ahead of the leaders' summit starting on sunday high on the agenda as the dispute between cairo khartoum an address over ethiopia's ground renaissance down several attempts to resolve the crisis have so far thales as mohammad's all reports. there is no shortage of issues to debate at the african union summit even the host country ethiopia has its own dispute with neighbors while the construction of its multibillion dollar hydropower over the blue nile river continues it remains our odds with egypt over some major aspects of

the project. egypt initially opposed the giant dam itself now it's up opposing the plan for the filling of the lake that's going to hold up to 74000000000 cubic meters of the rivers waters if they're filling spreads over 3 years as ethiopia once egypt expects to face probably the biggest manmade reduction in its share of the nile waters in recorded history in 2015 if the o.p.'s sudan and egypt signed the declaration of principles aiming to resolve the dispute and getting rid of a colonial era treaty which gave egypt a lion's share of the nile but disagreements over technical details continue to prevent its implementation as the dam construction neared completion egypt pressed for international mediation against the wishes of ethiopia however the 3 parties finally agreed to us arbitration last year they held several rounds of talks in

washington coming close to signing a final agreement in january but after visiting the dam on saturday ethiopian prime minister ahmed told parliament he'd asked for more time to study the draft agreement own little money minds despite great efforts by the us president the us treasury secretary and the world bank to overcome the obstacles we still need to negotiate this matter further during the negotiations the downstream countries changed their position from rejecting building the dam to how to operate the dam and the water flows we will continue to benefit from our resources without harming anyone. if your peers says it has every right to utilise the blue nile waters that originated from its territory for both farming and the production of hydro power the dam is designed to produce up to $6000.00 megawatts but egypt believes any dramatic change in the water flows as the dam is filled will cause

a crisis on its territory. sudan for which the nile passes seems the least concerned despite warnings by some of it sr experts of a potentially negative impact on its water supplies it's not clear what progress the a you leaders can achieve during the 2 days of talks while eyes are still on washington and lincoln in hopes of the parties would sign an agreement some had fun of disease . hollywood is mourning the death of actor kirk douglas who has died at the age of 103 douglas starred in a more than 80 movies becoming one of the most celebrated actors of the film industries golden age he was nominated 3 times for the best actor oscar and received an honorary academy award in 1906 or burton manley looks back at his life and career. kirk douglas graced the silver screen for more than 7 decades he burst onto the scene in 1960 next the veteran movie star barbara

stanwyck and strangely you know for people douglas quickly established himself as a star and leading man in his own right earning his 1st oscar nomination in 1950 playing a boxer in the champion. 2 more. followed over the next decade that just look occupation one for playing a producer in 1952 the bad and the beautiful how do you know how i feel about and another in 1956 playing tortured artist vincent van gogh in lust for life well i think son i want to make people feel it revolving giving off like dog this is most iconic role came in 1960 playing spartacus. as slaves leading a revolt in ancient rome he also produced the film and helped end hollywood's communist blacklists by insisting right to dalton trumbo receive on screen credit

blacklisted hollywood writers had been working under pseudonyms they hadn't had their names officially on projects. courtesy system that we're talking from one of the greatest writers of his own generation and that's that was really important douglas later became patriarch of an acting did a city son michael followed him into business becoming an oscar winning actor and producer. in 2003 the pad along with michael son cameron appears in the film it runs in the family the veteran actor was a prolific author as well penning a whole dozen books including his 988 autobiography the rockman son. despite suffering it to political stroke in 1905 douglas continued the film in 96 at the age of 18 the act of finally won his fuss at catalunya who wrote

an honorary oscar andrew knight i love all of you and i thank all of you artists around n.p.r. joining the campaign against a controversial citizenship law they say they're using their work to show how the law is unfair and discriminatory specially against muslims elizabeth purana reports from. the writing is on the board and shopping bag the name of this one's little known neighborhood in new delhi has become synonymous with the protest movement against the citizenship amendment act it's also become a place for artistic expression the road protest is occupied looks more like an open air gallery just an aria has been portraying the protests on paper since the indian government possible in december it seems they go away.

from the other. day was actually going. to draw and have been shared online and used in protests around the country they criticized the law which fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but not muslims want. to see all my love them because. it's not my own anymore it's. the movement has drawn in musicians to rapid innovation kumar who's performed shaheen bob says have a responsibility to use their voice these are times when you should speak up in any which way whatever you do. as he was inspired to write his song ball speak to police used force against protesters and students at johnnie a 1000000 islamiya university. assistant job

a limb and i have some on painted this work reflecting the violence is what what's special about this you see that mark in the middle that is real blood from the student who was beaten by police we thought let's not hide that. police removed his other paintings of the protests from the india fan the 2nd of february. new delhi's other big protest site the day off for a man opened fire at peaceful protest rally here all the. 30th of january 2 women created this new road depicting the incident. the gunman praised police has he carried out the shooting but despite 3 shootings that shahid bike and job one week . and the people keep coming elizabeth al-jazeera you daddy a record breaking female astronaut is on her way back to earth american christina coke's departed the international space station about aboard

a russian soyuz capsule along with 2 other crewmembers coats shattered the space flight record for a female astronauts by spending $328.00 days on board and she also led the 1st all female space walk last year of the space capsule was due to land in kazakhstan within the next hour. coverage in the headlines on al-jazeera china is struggling to cope with the corona virus outbreak at sea another record spike in deaths $73.00 in a single day and there are reports that beijing may delay its biggest political meeting of the year officials say it's unlikely the spread will be contained by next month adrian brown has from hong kong where public concerns over the outbreak have triggered haneke buying. as is the case on the mainland there is

a severe shortage of face masks here in hong kong they are available like in the shop behind me but very inflated prices and people are very angry about that they want to know why the government can't provide face masks for the people remembering of course that on call is one of the richest societies on the hong kong government is sitting on fast reserves and people want to know why it is that the government tom provides facemasks. us president donald trump has been acquitted in his senate impeachment trial he was facing charges of abusing presidential powers and obstruction of congress only one republican mitt romney voted against him and democrats are vowing to press ahead with more investigations after days of delays and technical issues their preliminary results from iowa was democratic caucuses have 2 presidential contenders virtually tied while early counts had peed buda judge slightly ahead of bernie sanders the gap has narrowed significantly with nearly all results counted at least 10 people have been killed and more than 100

injured in the southern iraqi city of nazareth and supporters of the shiite cleric for the southern town and government protest. in 1000 year old palestinian has been shot dead by the israeli army after crosses over a house demolition in the west bank town of jenin protests began after heavy machinery was moved in to steroid the family home with a man charged in connection with the $28000.00 killing of a rabbi in west bank settlement turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into what caused the passenger jet to skid off a runway while landing in istanbul 3 people were killed and dozens injured there's the headlines the stream is coming up next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing that we're on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies on the reflect on the world. i answer me ok and you in the stream today is the united states deporting salvadorians to the deaths where discuss a new human rights watch report highlighting violence out of use many face falling deportation you can share your thoughts on this issue tweet us at a.j. stream or leave a comment in our live chat q. rating it right now as i speak and you can to keep me in the street. ringback project angry i'm an attorney with. the center we want to and leave the country and family separation and you're in the street. the u.s. government's hardening immigration policies putting fountains deported salvadorians .