in favor of an airport if more people come and make business with us but only if bieber preserve our environment and our ruins some farmers like it look east they believe their lives may change is the new it will bring development to our community and country. who with a. al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine dennis coming up in the next 60 minutes spraying the streets of woodland to try to stop the coronavirus but there are reports the government may cancel its biggest political meeting of the year because of the outbreak. clashes in bethlehem after a series of violent incidents raises tensions between israelis and palestinians.

the u.s. senate acquits president trump in his impeachment trial but the democrats say they're planning more investigations. and accused of murder the wife of prime minister she's out on bail but she's charged with hiring people to kill her husband's former spouse. and sport olympic organizers say that roy in fact some not fair and the questions on how coronavirus might affect the games plus could a dispute with barcelona mean that little massey's days at the nou camp are numbered. that the chinese city at the center of the coronavirus emergency is running out of hospital beds as the toll of dead and infected continues to grow 73 more deaths were recorded on wednesday that's the highest in

a single day and brings the total in china at least to more than $562.00 people have died outside the country but most of the people infected are in the epicenter province and there are reports that china may even delay its biggest political meeting of the year the national people's congress that's when thousands of representatives come to beijing from all over the country and that comes a day after president xi jinping met his cambodian counterpart and thanked him for his support. now evacuations of foreigners from war hand is continuing apace australia has just sent 36 of its nationals to a remote island to be quarantined after their return and adrian brown is our man in hong kong will be speaking to him in just a little moment 1st though this report from sarah clarke. medical workers in china are stepping up their efforts to stop the rapid rise of corona virus infections

spreading countrywide since wednesday more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases have been officially confirmed in china taking the total count to 28000 putting a new born baby who by province where the virus was 1st detected remains in lockdown. in provinces reporting the highest rates of infection supplies have been delivered by all forms of transport in japan this cruise ship is in quarantine after 20 passengers were confirmed to have the virus there in hospital receiving treatment the rest of the passengers are confined to the ship. to fit you know. there are 4 people who are japanese nationals of the others 2 are from the united states 2 from canada one from new zealand and one from taiwan in hong kong more than 3600 people on the world dreams cruise ship have been put into coroutine after passengers on the previous voyage tested positive for the virus the ship's medical team is carrying out mandatory temperature checks on passages ole cruise ships will

be banned from docking in hong kong from saturday as the government claims further restrictions on arrivals taiwan is also banning chris shipped in a bid to stop the virus spreading hong kong has partially closed its borders with mainland china the bridge linking hong kong with mccowan ju hai remains open so as hong kong airport one of the busiest in asia from saturday all travelers crossing from the mainland to the city will be quarantined for 14 days in asia was announced it too will stop all arrivals from china the world health organization is sending a quarter of a 1000000 testing kits to affected countries to try to curb the outbreak but a shortage of protective gear for doctors and nurses as well as medical supplies is stifling efforts to treat those already infected and stop the global spread of the corona virus sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. are listening to our correspondent

adrian brown in hong kong and adrian we've seen president xi there i think the 1st time since the world health organization declared this a global health emergency it's quite unusual isn't it for china to ask for outside help but that's it exactly what they've done. yes president xi jinping has really been conspicuous by his absence during the past week he's been keeping a very low profile perhaps deliberately so but yes he met the cambodian leader on wednesday and thursday the come boding leader of course is very close to president xi jinping and china is a very big benefactor of cambodia but yes china is sending out a message on state controlled media and that message is a sense the this china has the arsenal at its disposal to contain this fire as social media though is accentuating the negative state controlled media is accentuating the positive but there's no doubt from the pictures that i've been

seeing on twitter and elsewhere that china is very much you know a nation at war at the moment and that enemy is a visible one now the people's liberation army has been deployed police have been deployed and of course hundreds of thousands of medical workers that said though china has conceded as you pointed out that actually it does need outside help it needs more medical appointment including protective clothing for medical workers and more face masks so it's rare for china to make that sort of admission i covered the earthquake in sichuan in 2008 and china resisted all offers of outside help this time it appears to be different and meanwhile what about those who measures the measures that were put in place in woodland these a hospital is made from pre-fabricated units that were meant to be up and running and providing thousands of extra beds and they functioning at.

well yes and no certainly china has been conversing stadiums and gymnasiums into makeshift hospitals and you know state media again has been you know touting the value of this and also portraying this as a very much positive news the emphasis being very much on the positive we've also seen pictures today of people who have recovered from the virus leaving hospital again that's something china wants to stress a few weeks ago martin the media in china seem to be much more open than it normally is it seemed to be given almost free rein to report not just on what was happening on the ground but the questions that were being raised about how this outbreak happened and the cover up that followed that has now stopped it's back to the state controlled media that we've always known right adrian thanks for that adrian brown there giving us the very latest from hong kong now we can speak to derek gatherer his a viral a g.'s in the diff partment of biomedical and life sciences at lancaster university

in the u.k. thank you for talking to us i just wondered how worrying is it the development of we've heard the virus has been confirmed in a new born baby the baby is now at 36 years old and sorry 36 hours old believe but it has been confirmed that the baby's got the virus how alarming is that. it's not particularly surprising really there are some viruses that can cross the placenta by here and and infect newborn infants so that that in itself isn't particularly surprising unfortunately and do we need to discover exactly how the virus was transmitted because of course the baby could have been could have been infected just being in close proximity to the mother or via the womb. it would be surprising if it had been infected after birth because 36 hours is that is a very short time in the incubation period is the period of time between the virus

entering the body in for symptoms appearing no we know in the case of this particular virus that the incubation period can be quite short it can be over 3 or 4 days but 36 hours seems to be well beyond the end of that range so i would suspect that this is actually an infection that occurred in utero meaning before the b.b. was born right now the baby is apparently 3.25 kilograms so you know a good sized baby and is in a sable condition and are you surprised at the rather low levels of fatality when it comes to this novel coronavirus given that there is something like 565 deaths in china out of 28000 plus infections. but when we 1st discovered the virus and discovered it was a relative of sars we feared something rather worse because sars is a very dangerous virus was a very dangerous virus back in 2003 with a very high fatality rate the fatality rate for this particular viruses are only 2

percent mark but we have to be careful with that statistic because that's true percent of the confront cases and in order to become a confront case you have to usually find yourself in hospital and that probably means that you've got your morning or already an hour are already in a fairly severe condition so it's not to 2 percent rest of the general population and the corresponding figure for the influenza in 2001 in the swine flu pandemic was 1.8 percent so this new virus is just slightly rather more clinically dangerous than than the swine flu but it's certainly not in the same league as science which is good news right and have we seen this outbreak of the new coronavirus peak yet or is there some way to go. it's difficult to say because we don't know whether the containment measures will eventually work or to respond achieve viruses are extremely difficult to contain we have. a mix of flu every winter and

occasionally have flu pandemics and it's generally believed that continuing influenza is it isn't possible that you just have to wait an influenza epidemic or pandemic watch over the population so what we're trying to do here is to contain a large scale responder tree virus outbreak which is going to be very difficult if you'd asked me that question of a week ago i would have said that there would be a very small chance that we could continue this in china but a week has passed and it seems that although we still have a good handful of travel related cases appearing around the world that the majority of infections are confined to one city and who be proven so it may be that this is just working but it's still a little bit early to see all right derek gatherer thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from lancaster university in the u.k. . my pleasure therefore palestinians have been shot dead by israeli soldiers in separate incidents within the last 24 hours clashes later broke out in bethlehem

between palestinians and israeli soldiers the military is searching for a suspect to those involved in a cow ramming incident in jerusalem in which 12 soldiers were wounded let's go live to our correspondent gary fawcett he's in west jerusalem and and so it seems like a fairly frenetic 24 hours can you take us through the sequence of events. it does yes well let's start with some of the more recent events and just in the last few minutes reports in the occupied west bank of a and his rating being shot and injured. in a shooting attack to the west of ramallah and then before that we had this attentive shooting attack in the occupied east of jerusalem in the old city close to the al aqsa mosque compound known as the temple mount to jews were israeli security forces there say they were shot at by

a man as he approached them and that man was shot and killed one policeman lightly wounded that man said to be a palestinian israeli from what police say is the north we understand that he is from haifa that before that in the early hours of the morning in west jerusalem israeli time just around 2 am there was a group of israeli soldiers who were on a tour through the city ahead of investiture ceremony at the way at the western wall they were rammed by a vehicle 12 injured one of them seriously the vehicle an involved in that found just outside bethlehem in the town of beit jalla there have been clashes in or at least confrontations inside bethlehem as there is an operation to try to find the driver of that vehicle dozens of people reported injured with tear gas inhalation and before that all of that overnight in janine in the west bank in the occupied

west bank there was another israeli military operation to demolish a house belonging to someone involved in a 2018 killing of an israeli settler and jury in clashes that erupted after that one of the protesters was shot dead by israeli israeli security forces and there was video as well released of an israeli palestinian policeman who appeared to be just standing in a doorway. a and he too being shot dead so as you say it is a real spike in violence and this coming after a nother incident in hebron on wednesday when about astonied teenager was shot during confrontations there so it is a real spike and harry would it be what it be fair to link this increased violence in the region to the recent revelation of the details of the drop the trump peace plan which of course made both sides the israelis and the palestinians hardened their positions. will certainly it will be hard to make

a conclusive link but many people are at least pointing to that as a possible reason for this the initial response from palestinian terms of palestinian protests and the like in the days after the announcement of the peace plan on tuesday last week was relatively muted there were some protests and confrontations but the fact that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu immediate plans to begin annexation measures were braked by the americans seems to suggest that perhaps there wouldn't be a major response or a spike in violence it is a bit hard to give a direct line of course 2 of these deaths were linked to an israeli operation engineered to demolish a house and so there are sometimes local and very immediate reasons for these sorts

of confrontations breaking out that once we do see a spike like this it can inspire more such activity they can start to take on a momentum of their own so we have to wait and see how things develop in the coming days powerful if it live from west to east and thanking. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including. oil and where record numbers of families are now living in emergency accommodation the country's housing crisis is central in this year's general election. also coming up pictures of protests we meet the indian artists using their work to speak out against a controversial citizenship. and the race for the playoffs heats up in the n.b.a.'s miami take on the clippers will have the details.

the more demonstrations are expected in the iraqi capital baghdad as well as other cities across the country after weeks of political deadlock and anti-government protests on wednesday at least 10 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in the city of marjah in the south the supporters of the shia cleric mactire al sattar attacked a protest camp matata al sadr has a different time supported and opposed the protest movement imran khan has more now on the protest from baghdad. seems that there is a crack between those. movements though what we're hearing from people very close to the generals of the i'd also from political analysts is that the qatar also the eyes actually got a mission to try and open. and all of the bridges particularly central baghdad leading to where i'm still right now which is tucker

a square there was all of the protesters to be pushed into tucker a square and it is also replicating this strategy where the in the southern provinces well that's why we saw his followers supporters go in to niger where 10 people were killed now the reason for this is that the. several soldiers actually put his support behind the iraqi government and behind the security forces he says that the law needs to come back to iraq but he also has a very different agenda to the protesters the protesters have been here since october with a very clear agenda they want a complete overhaul of the government system an end to corruption a new government elections but what other actually wants is an end to the u.s. presence both diplomatic and military in iraq and those 2 things are very different what people are really worried about here is that in total saddam will try and co-opt the protesters and try to force them to back his agenda. all right now we

can speak to. a researcher on identity politics in iraq in the middle east thank you very much for joining us 1st of all it be interesting just to. work out exactly who is doing the protesting it seems very much is the approach anti-government protest movement is now split into 2 distinct groups well no the the same protesters that have been on the streets since october 2019 it's the same protest there is a made at the very early stages of the protest movement but they don't want a new form or or a new faces of the ethnic sectarian quota which includes most of the southern who have many ministries involved in many of the posts through 1003 rocky governments which is also why he took a gradual step back from the protest movement which allowed him to take an advantage of the posts in a money power vacuum where you ron also had an opportunity to pick a significant cleric like him to do the proxy right is it fair to say then that the

saddle right to follow is a now. the antigovernment protesters who have set up shop pretty much in baghdad and other cities in the south of course they are now under the umbrella of the iranian proxy umbrella of power or influence of power in iraq this is due to the fact as we mentioned that most of the souther did not receive the usual popularity he really does 3003 iraqi protests therefore he took an opportunity to taken advantage of the previously mentioned power vacuum there for the sudras followers whom were involved logistically to support or whatever they want to call it and the iraqi protests were only there for the personal interest or the political interests of those other and not for the very same interests of the iraqi people as there are that's the point question obviously that is what is the ultimate objective of saddam and his followers of the objective of the so that his followers to maintain that the so there is power and influence across iraq you provinces within iraq you domestic affairs whether it means to be with the protesters or whether to be with

you again and go. them and so to most of us older and his followers unfortunately it's a balance of power between him and the other shia parties in iraq and mohammed ali the new prime minister designate it where does that leave him between a rock and a hard place it would seem well that doesn't leave him anywhere different from where it left other i'd imagine him a tough a low as a veteran of the ethnic sectarian quarter region which the protesters have been protesting against he was imposed again like his predecessor is on the iraqi people on the iraqi protesters the iraqi protesters were very clear they do not want any member any former member of the ethnic sectarian coterie gene he has been an m.p. for years he was a minister of twice the means as if they never replaced are that i've been at the it's the it's a it's a politician from the same political bloc from the same political arena from the same political economic league they do. thank you very much indeed version.

probably going to the us now because president trump as you may have heard has been acquitted in his impeachment trial he was charged with abusing presidential power as well as the obstruction of congress only one republican broke ranks but it wasn't enough to see the president removed from office the democrats are now vowing to press ahead with more investigations here's our washington correspondent joe castrated. it is therefore the outcome was as expected donald trump be 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 loaded 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 an 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 what 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 trump on both charges they voice disappointment after his acquittal but did not admit defeat may 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 toward the november election whether all this has helped him or hurt him as a candidate is the big question castro al-jazeera washington. well this is the scene live in washington d.c. where we are expecting president trying to make an appearance and perhaps are his 1st words since the acquittal in the senate watching all of this this is our white house correspondent kimberly how kit and kimberly has all kind of mood as the as the president woken up and is it kind of triumphalist or or what kind of mood. we expect the real victory lap of this president is going to come at $700.00 g.m.t. that's when he's going to make an announcement from the east room in something of

the white house that promised would come after the vote to acquit the president in the u.s. senate you have to remember the context he does have a lot to celebrate here not only has he been acquitted in the u.s. senate but since day one there has been pushed back at the grassroots level on his presidency he we've also seen ongoing legal court challenges that so far have not impacted his time in the white house significantly and then of course we have the fact that he survived federal investigation that russia probe into whether or not there was collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and russia the president her survive all of that the headlines now in washington tougher than taff line of the that essentially that what we've seen in the polls is this is actually helped the president so why now when it comes to checking power really the only check now will be at the ballot box in november so we expect to hear from the president if not sooner that he will be somewhat celebrate tory given the fact that he has once

again shown shown that he's been able to continue this presidency despite enormous criticism and investigation you can believe there are many. beyond who is suggesting that he might have been acquitted but he's certainly not been exonerated i mean is there any sense the the mud will stick if you like and the shame of having been only the 3rd president in u.s. history to have been impeached will stay with him because he's joined joined a very tiny club. it's a long day until election day and there's a lot that can still come out and expect that those spears for the president are still out and she's certainly scharf and so we expect that this is not over there are a lot of things that are happening that will help the president too for example something that kind of wasn't mentioned much in the headlines of the last 24 hours but we'll have enormous significance is the fact that the department of justice has basically

now blocked all investigations that could be quote politically sensitive what does this mean anything that would investigate the president potentially hurt his reelection effort is now blocked you remember how that hurt hillary clinton the when she was running for president as the democratic presidential nominee the fact that there was that investigation into whether or not she had used e-mail improperly well that kind of investigation certainly hurt her campaign will not occur now under this department of justice so what we're seeing here is not only the potential to protect the president but essentially those institutions that used to check power that certainly isn't happening anymore in fact the erosion of accountability certainly is accelerating in the united states something we've seen for the last 20 years but this impeachment has really shown that the check and balance that used to be the congress isn't in place anymore when it comes to checking presidential power all right thank you very much kimberly how good our white house correspondent and we'll get back to you later on. a high speed train

is the road in really 2 people have died they were both throwaway workers 27 passengers were hurt it came off the tracks in the early morning traveling at around 300 kilometers an hour from milan to but no new engineers had repaired the truck over night. and rescue workers niece and turkey are searching for a final missing person after dozens were buried by 2 avalanches a military ceremony has been held in van province for the rescuers who were killed most of the 40 people who died were part of the team sent to search for villagers who'd been hit by the 1st avalanche search operations resumed on thursday after being stopped because of bad weather and also in turkey prosecutors have launched an investigation into what caused a passenger plane to skid off the runway and down a bank whilst it was landing in istanbul 3 people were killed in that dozens of

others were injured when the pegasus airlines boeing 737 broke into 3 pieces after landing in poor weather. see here whether it is rob what are you looking at we will go on with this area because turkey's was particularly bad and it's not just turkey to southeast of europe is suffering from what is a winter lies will not name moscow is just called out of bounds in moscow this is the 1st proper stance for one and some parts of southeastern europe for example in serbia and the winds come with it there's a fairly good seasonal wind it's called the bora comes down the croatian coast domination coast and it's pretty strong i've seen gusts of $180.00 calories per hour in the last 24 hours dangerous coast now it is slowly easing so for that part of europe are all right the same cannot be said for turkey although for the most part it is rain and strong wind it is a snow we should probably consider considering we're just talking about for example event in the next 24 hours that we can to see that snow going east wouldn't start

to fall in eastern turkey now it's going to stay there for 2 days van will gradually get colder and probably subzero this is the picture for saturday we're down to plus to the stars persistent and will of course build up the chances are we'll get something nasty out of it anything up to a meter of snow in eastern turkey was winds as the whole system goes across over the thing up to $100.00 can be his brother all that adds up to pretty nasty conditions repeatedly in van in the same area where we've had now 2 avalanches. well thank you very much still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour we look back. on the life in the era of hollywood legend kirk douglas has died at the age of 103 by munich take a step closer to adding to their collection of trade is in germany paul will have the details.

think of some of the biggest companies in the world today all of them big tech with algorithms that they call them all that we use them the more data we produce and we're in the midst of a great race for data and big tech companies around the chase empires are rising on a wealth of information and we do other commodities and the 2nd the far series carly rae examines whether corporations are colonizing the internet like the popularity and power of big tech on a. conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many did not all have to die like this horrible stock response is really for sale and investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting a war in the south the case is interesting to watch as the amount of money involved yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera.

for this have a look at the top stories here in the al-jazeera news hour china is struggling to cope with the coronavirus it's seen a spike in deaths $73.00 have died in a single day and there are reports of beijing may even delaying its biggest political meeting of the year. clashes have broken out in bethlehem in the occupied west bank between palestinians and israeli soldiers earlier 4 palestinians were shot dead by israeli forces in separate incidents within 24. of president trump is due to speak publicly for the 1st time since being acquitted

in the his impeachment trial that's a seen live in washington is due to address the audience at the national prayer breakfast i'm a bring you what he says to reach out to syria. the rebels in syria supported by turkish artillery have pushed back government forces from a key town in italy a province that has turkey's president warned syria's government not to continue their offensive into deadly which of course is the last rebel held region hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting many of them have fled north closer to the turkish border where our correspondent is sin and cos yearly you're in a camp soon i'm in italy a province close to the turkish border and use you were there last year we've seen the u.n. warn of parts even half a 1000000 extra people now on the move heading in your direction what difference do

you notice in the camp this time. well martin here i am and carmel of the strength of a leg which is actually a little bit further than my camp and as you said i have been traveling to here for the last couple of years and the little camp is literally looking to buy the roads exactly by the roads and you know these camps they begin to the bills beginning from last all this after a aggression or a start the syrian president intensified it's in his advance from south to do north and this can and is called chaffin starmap that as i said literally advisory role and look to find the internally displaced people by themselves and i am told by the camp administrators that they began with 250 families and they are during

last august in the last 6 months left next plane and in the last couple of weeks the number of the families have been increased to 750 and really look tents are all in the very crowded and in some plant there are 2 families 3 families and they showed me one tent where fight families live together just this is unbelievable and i have to tell you that martin this is not only i was suing the government in the strikes killing you paul but the psychology here total it down and. you can see the water behind me this water is a lot more there because of the rain and i'm told that also the storage of the camp flows and into that water and children are playing in the water like the looting and i'm told by again and really can't president epidemics are on the rise and they're telling that they're looking for bread everything nor anything mention schools kids are not able to go to schools and also another thing that i'm told for

instance in a tent right across me i'm not able to show you because i don't want to go that route. the picture because of connection. and you have the heart attack because of the situation right you and there are you know living in water so. it is it is unbelievable you have to see it with your eyes to understand what's going on but people are suffering it's like that not only from air strikes but because of the dire conditions and other things sin and cos here lou reporting on the most terrible conditions being endured by hundreds of thousands of people in northern syria thank you. all right let's go back to main story of course it's the corona virus outbreak so far in africa there have been no confirmed cases but the authorities there have been put on alert as hundreds of suspected infections are being reported and it's likely to be on the agenda of the

african union leaders they're currently meeting in their biannual session in at this hour but while our correspondent mohammed evolve is there in that is over and he's been speaking to john kangas song who's director of the task force that's been set our. i think we we have to have a coordinated approach in order to respond to these i mean entry it the cordon it is approach is being guided by. their accommodations on the word organization. or was very clear last week just it it clearly there should be no restrictions to travel. or movement of people good setting conditions that we strongly advise and recommend everybody should. we have seen some public pressure via media on the government to stop flights of china do you perceive the trend growing across africa we should really rely on the facts and avoid feeling. if we

do not do that then you become very complicated to manage. it devalues in case it comes to africa's days no need to panic at this point but to be action and reaction on the facts and evidence as we speak today there is no deported cases of. on the continent of africa that is a fact. police in le city fear that the 1st lady could escape facing murder charges if she is allowed to travel to neighboring south africa my saia was charged on tuesday for her alleged links to the killing of the prime minister's 1st wife to follow that was in 2017 well the current mrs to barny turned herself in after weeks on the run the word for her arrest was issued after she failed to turn up for questioning a month ago meanwhile her husband the prime minister thomas of army announced his

intention to resign following pressure from his party over the whole kerfuffle let's speak to for me to miller in johannesburg i mean this sounds very much like a kind of novel doesn't it say the current wife of the prime minister of the su too is being charged with the murder of her predecessor. and that's exactly if martina does read like a script from a soap opera and the current wife of the prime minister time to bonnie is out on bail in a suit to their work concerns from the police that she was a flight risk despite that the judge presiding over the case did grant of bail and they've even been questions raised around that and the judge's ties to the prime minister tom to bonnie they have been questions around that judge previously also previously accused of misconduct and that judge's relationship and has also been criticized by all pursuits

a convention the party in power and the one that tom to bonnie belongs to nevertheless. has been given a bail and she's due to appear in court in about 2 weeks time and as you mentioned the story goes back all the way to 2017 when a rather was killed at that time police say that they thought perhaps an armed gang was behind the killing killing it was they then emerge that. talked about his current wife was then questioned in fact the body himself was also questioned he's not faced any charges but since then messiah has been charged with murder as well as attempted murder because the companion the friend of the polo was with her at the time and she was injured in that shooting and now people across the country are concerned about the political ramifications that that some marchers pushing for the prime minister to step down because the story of the scandal has certainly affected

his credibility and that's what i was going to ask your chief or meter i mean this is really i know it's obviously serious because somebody has been murdered but is this merely a case of domestic controversy if you like or is there a more serious political. side to this scandal given the lisita is not in great shape economically it is a tiny little mountain kingdom surrounded completely africa it can ill afford anything like this. well tom de body has come through some very difficult political times he did win the last election and it was also there that you saw him a company of on voting day by his new went 3rd wife and that was despite not having it being divorced from. who we know now was killed but the time in office there was also a point where tom to bonnie flared lawsuit to himself to neighboring south africa

saying that the military had wanted to possibly kill him he was in a score to back to le suit to by police and then he ran in those elections which he then one the old bus to the convention says pushed him to resign and they previously backed the prime minister but this does not ease the difficulties that he's found that he's found himself and he says all resign he says that he needs to wait for the parliamentary processes to allow that to happen but there's been no clear indication of when that will happen they are they speculation around the political turmoil this may cause especially if he doesn't have the backing of that political power political party in power so certainly difficult time for that prime minister who himself has also faced questions over this murder all right for me to thank you for giving us more detail on what is a fascinating case thank you. now to outland which is one of the fastest growing

economies in europe but the sudden boom after years of economical ceratin has left the country with a critical shortage of affordable housing and that has led to a sharp increase in the homeless this crisis is a defining a-c. ahead of this weekend's general election doesn't leave barca now reports from dublin. lifting the lid on the island's housing crisis it left this family homeless forced to live with friends and relatives or in particular areas short term housing the result of sky high red so the market could be against them the main challenge was people not wanting a single mother with 3 children because maybe single mothers are trouble or why are there things you know i did walk the streets a lot and i often had. just days where i just felt despair charities have intervened where the government has and the family now has a long term home and

a place to grow. ready ready ready this charities inundated with desperate calls some from entire families affected from their homes you have children with. a record number of babies and now being born into homelessness currently we have nearly $4000.00 children who are homeless time includes only 2000 families it's a disgrace that there are so many children homeless but it's just a reality of the homes crisis in our love the moment it was hit hard by the economic crash in 2008 the house building stalled since then wages have increased rents and house prices have risen by a bigger margin it's left an entire generation struggling to afford rents that are higher in dublin and tokyo sydney and singapore meanwhile house prices have soared as social housing is scarce on the outskirts of dublin a new suburbs emerging from wasteland built by an american property giant to attract large investors this is a 3 bed pan tastes in

a nearby development this 3 bedroom apartment costs more than $3000.00 above well beyond the reach of many we need something in the order of 35000 houses here we're only delivering 2025 so the main political parties at the moment are promising 406-088-0000 extension 0 units every over the course of the next government whereas i think they perhaps might need to look and see how feasible those numbers are it is a critical issue in this year's election all parties agree that rents need to be lower and they need to be more houses but they can't agree on how much to intervene in the lucrative private markets the government of prime minister leo varadkar is having to account for its time in office opinion polls are predicting a shift away from the main. centrist policy safina galen feet a full wielded power for generations towards left wing shin fein during the conflict in northern ireland the party was regarded as the political wing of the

republican paramilitary group the ira it's put housing at the heart of its campaign . charities urging all politicians to find a robust solution to the housing crisis the consequences of inaction clear for families tonight the basic right of a secure place to live. now to syria. the hollywood is mourning the death of actor kirk douglas who has died at the age of 103 he starred in more than 18 movies becoming one of the most celebrated actors of the film industries golden age in his best lead role in the $960.00 s. film but he was also a producer and a prolific writer as well as the patriarch of an acting den the city it was nominated for the best actor oscar 3 times and received an honorary academy award in 1906. so to come here in the al-jazeera news

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business leaders is brought to you by the brass part. the all. the artists in india are adjoining the campaign against a controversial citizenship law they are using their work to show how the law is unfair and discriminatory elizabeth purana reports of new delhi. 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 their art gallery just another year has been portraying the protests on paper since the indian government possible in december it seems they go away. from the what are you going. to be going. hadrons have been shared online and used in protests around the country they criticize 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 the role of. the movement has drawn in musicians to rap in

a vain kumar who has performed shahid bob says his have a responsibility to use their voice these are times when you should speak up in any way through whatever you do. as he was inspired to write his song ball speak after police used force against protesters and students at johnny a 1000000 islamiya university while artist and johnny a limit i have some on painted this work reflecting the violence is wild 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 peaceful protest rally here on the 30th of. and you read 2 women created this new role depicting the incident. the gunman praised police has he

carried out the shooting the despised 3 shootings that shooting back and giambi and one week the artists and the people keep coming elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera new delhi. writes time for this fall she is now here's paul martin thank you very much take care of 2020 organizers say there are no plans to postpone or council the olympics or paralympics over coronavirus the games c.e.o. seem to backtrack a day after he said he was seriously worried the spread of the virus would dampen enthusiasm to sport's biggest event which is less than 6 months away but the man in charge of the paralympics believes there's no cause for alarm they've clearly said there's no pandemic they have today they'll come up with a great phrase which is called an info demick which they say uses speculation that is driving fear and one thing i'm noticing at the moment is fear is spreading far quicker than the virus and it's important that we quell that fear. spanish

champions barcelona go into their copper del ray much on thursday amid what is potentially their biggest crisis in years it involves a very public falling out between club record score a little messy and the sporting director eric abbott i'll mess is criticised abbott alpha claiming lack of effort from players helped get former coach a nest of valverde sacked its lead to fears messi could leave for free in the summer after 16 years in the boss a 1st team new boss k.k. setian just wants to focus on the game against bilbao i mean the only go get me there is i am only interested in giving my players the necessary tools for them to play better football as for everything else i am truly not interested honestly i am not interested i know that in a club like this there are problems in all clubs around the world for sure but there are things i will never be able to control. by quick roundup of some of the other european football action now by in munich through to the quarterfinals of the

german cup thomas moore helping them to a 40 win over hoffenheim. union berlin avoided an upset against 4th division s.c. virgo robert and rich getting a long range when it's put the punters league aside into the quarter's for the 1st time in 20 years. and in the english f.a. cup tottenham 4 from behind to beat southampton 32 brazilian lukas more with a pick of the goals texts and last season's champions league final lists into the 5th round. the head of french a figure skating has refused to resign denies covering up sexual abuse by coaches diego has been in charge for more than 2 decades but is facing calls to step down after several former skaters claimed they were assaulted as teenagers by their coaches one of the accused ere was sacked by the french sports ministry in 2001 but continued to work at the skating federation for another 17 years.

ladies and gentleman there is no perfect federation because society and people are not perfect in order to resign i would have to be at fault and i don't think i am i certainly committed errors several of them but i am not at fault. the defending n.b.a. champion toronto raptors have one iraq code 12 game in a row that's a franchise record they had to work hard for it though fighting back from 19 points down to beat the indiana pacers at barca scored 30 points including this 3 pointer to win it by a single point raptors while 2nd east. the l.a. clippers kept on the trail of the lakers at least top of the western conference that's despite a slam dunk showcase from the miami heat derek jones jr 3 pointers were the order of the day for l.a. though paul george with 23 points quit his 128211. all right harlow at 10000 more reasons to celebrate for one clippers fan on wednesday.

but half court shot proving profitable earning him a $10000.00 check. the new super bowl champions have been celebrating with a victory parade through kansas city the chiefs beat the san francisco 49 ers on sunday and as joe got your oscar explains it was a party that had been a long time coming. but all that. no matter what the last time the chiefs and their fans celebrated like this was 50 years ago and an uncommon snowstorm did nothing to freeze out the hundreds of thousands who lined the route. the chiefs called their way back 283120 victory over the 49 ers on sunday skipping not only the been somebody trophy but also the m.v.p. award for quarterback patrick mahoney. was our series a mere $33.00 we do. with your injuries i mean money was in the start of our

learning though we still weren't hurt and we won the super bowl with very little load drover good what do we do we. just. one drunk frantic that posse a little too far when he went on a joy ride along the super bowl parade route police safety bringing the car to a dramatic stop as they arrest both the driver and passenger gunpoint fans watch from the sidelines. the drama was a side note on a day filled with celebration and the team's traditions. for decades they've been banging their drum ahead of each home game now they finally got to do it as n.f.l. champions joined al-jazeera where we started talking about 2020 and many olympic athletes are putting that final preparations together while most

will be aiming to medal an athlete from south sudan already knows what he'll get out of the games 1500 meter runner abraham is one of the 100 full of competitors from his country has been invited to train in japan and he's been struck by the welcome he's had from locals sometimes you get when you know foreign countries you know sometimes you may have telling you when you came in they love the for how. it really was done in a more or less my own understanding is our game or. i need toppings because the world is at peace and know us and from a country that is still not having force and i have come this we haven't seen the advantages of these and when i get back the missing is the importance of peace and that's the biggest message of the same to my people. it will have. a full thank you very much indeed and that's all for this al-jazeera news hour.

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seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an arm or a leg is a sacrifice we have to mike to serve this country. disinfecting the streets of woodland to try to beat corona virus and reports that the government may be forced to cancel its important annual meeting because of the outbreak. hello again are not in debt this year without is there a live from doha also coming out clashes in bethlehem after a series of violent incidents raised tensions between israelis and palestinians. the u.s.

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