the old. u.s. president donald trump comes out swinging against the democrats after being acquitted in his senate impeachment trial. we'll be live in washington in just a few minutes where the u.s. president is used to beat from the white house i'm fully back to you boy are watching al-jazeera also ahead the world health organization says the overall number of new cases of coronavirus has dropped for the 1st time in china. israel says it's sending an extra 1000 troops into the occupied west bank after a series of violent incidents raises tensions between israelis and palestinians and

thousands of syrian street fighting in italy province as government forces try to retake the last rebel held territory. u.s. president donald trump is due to address the nation this hour from the white house a day after being acquitted of all impeachment charges by the u.s. senate these are live pictures from the east room of the white house where the president will be speaking from in a few minutes and we'll bring that to unite here on al-jazeera of course earlier donald trump appeared publicly for the 1st time since being acquitted in the senate trial he displayed 2 newspaper headlines after arriving at an event hosted by the u.s. congress it was clear on 2 counts of impeachment only one republican mitt romney broke ranks romney said his faith motivated him to vote against surprise that is

what donald trump had to say about. as everybody knows my family. our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people they have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation well the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi criticize the president later at a news conference saying that his comments at the national prayer event were inappropriate and she said she prays hard for donald trump the president understands about prayer or people who do pray but we do pray for the united states of america pray for him i present president bush still president obama of it causes a heavy responsibility and

a pretty hard for him because he's so off the track of our constitution our values our country the care our children braze the water they drink and the rest he really needs our prayers so he can say whatever he wants to live to our white house correspondent kimberly hawke it can be clearly is still a lot of bad blood between the president and the house speaker. that's right as we continue to await the president is 1st formal remarks since the vote in the u.s. senate to acquit him on those 2 articles of impeachment the president gave us a bit of a preview of what we may be hearing from him washing out not only at house speaker nancy pelosi but also at the lone republican who voted to for him to be guilty on at least one of those articles of impeachment abuse of power mitt romney a senator from utah donald trump as he spoke at the prayer breakfast did not sort of isolate him specifically but certainly

a bleak late sensually kick using both the senator and the house speaker of hypocrisy weeks ago and again yesterday courageous republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom fortitude and strength to do what everyone. knows was right i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong nor do i like people who say i pray for you. when they know that that's not. really this impeachment process seems to have left the president in a more powerful position how does it how does the acquittal factor in to the presidential race. it's going to factor in enormously we already

have seen the president's poll numbers as you alluded to there that he seems to have only gotten stronger and more powerful which was a concern of opposition democrats when they went into this impeachment inquiry that this might happen now we see both sides sharpening their knives for one another as they head out onto the campaign trail with the president trying to win reelection the democrats trying to unseat him already we've heard from top republicans that they are looking to revitalize this inquiry into ukraine and the alleged abuse of power but flip it if you will to look at the handlings of the former vice president joe biden who is of course running to be the democratic presidential nominee asking questions about why his son hunter biden was sitting on the board of the ukraine energy company but for their part democrats are not done either in fact they feel that there was a lot of evidence that was on earth that was not allowed when the senate shut down

those witnesses in that trial did not allow new evidence one of the men they're looking to call potentially and try to get out the testimony is that of the former national security advisor john bolton who sat in the trumpet ministration who we know from leaks of his upcoming book has confirmed in his view that he saw firsthand the president allegedly abusing power in the oval office all right kimberly thank you very much we're going to leave it there for now of course we'll come back to you once the president starts speaking again we're waiting for president donald trump to speak from the white house today a day after he was acquitted by the u.s. senate of impeachment charges let's move on to maybe in the meantime in talks to end months some. signings in libya have wrapped up without any concrete plans for a ceasefire negotiators from the un recognized government of national accord and wallowed hi-fi have ties to ranks have been meeting in geneva in april last year have task forces launched an offensive to seize the capital from the jna libya's

envoy to the u.n. says both sides still want to work towards ending the conflict progress has been made. on many important issues. and we have before us a significant number of points of convergence. do are we happy was what you have certainly yes is this. complete certainly not and that is why. working on refining i was basic grasp. on. but edging the gap on a few points of divergence. on that was her son salim a the un's envoy to libya let's bring in hoda abdel-hamid is following those talks for us in geneva on sodomy hoda says has been some progress but there are still issues that need to be resolved one of those issues.

well he was pressed during this press conference to actually give us a bit more details about those they version points as he put it but he was quite tight lipped what we did understand through his words is the was they couldn't get a sort of an agreement on what to do with the armed groups he said that there was a very difficult conversation and i think also from what we understood from other sources there is a request by the u.n. the u.n. recognize government for the for the bookie the south of tripoli to be lifted and that would be another very difficult point actually that the blockade of the oil fields he said that there was no conversation about any military solution without talking about the oil fields he is waiting to hear back from libya about on conditions

a list of conditions he's hoping to get from the tribal leaders there that he says he would receive tonight and that's why actually the talks have not wrapped up. just saying that they will continue here tomorrow his hope being that by the end of these talks hopefully tomorrow in his words that they will be a final draft that both sides could back to their political leadership so nothing is set in stone at the moment there is a little advancement but. also a very clear that if the situation on the ground was a bit calmer then talks here would go smoother aren't what i thank you for that hoda abdel-hamid nie forests in geneva and i want to have organization says the number of new cases of coronavirus in china has dropped for the 1st time but it's too soon to say the outbreak has peaked. there is still

a lot we don't know we don't know the source of the outbreak we don't know what it's not a result of what is and we don't properly understand its transmissibility or a cd or easy to defeat this outbreak we need answers to all those questions and there are the tools we don't have we have no vaccine to prevent infections and no therapeutics to treat them but hospitals in china says struggling to cope with the number of people infected and a growing number of countries are closing their borders to chinese travelers adrian brown reports from hong kong where says it will quarantine on your rivals from the mainland. china is on a war footing unverified video on social media shows streets in wu han where the virus originated being sprayed with disinfectant. but questions linger over how

china's government is dealing with this invisible enemy few countries can marshal the resources now at china's disposal and that's the thrust of the narrative on state controlled television but hospitals are swamped with an acute shortage of beds gymnasiums and sports stadiums have been turned into temporary medical centers to cope with demand on thursday the death toll reached 565 the latest infections included a newborn baby but china's government says the number of virus victims who are recovering is also increasing here in hong kong the fear of catching this virus appears to be more contagious than the virus itself on thursday morning there were reports of panic buying in some local supermarkets with shelves being cleared of rice and other staples forcing the hong kong government to say there's no need to worry there's plenty of food. but there are not plenty of facemasks those that are

on sale costs 3 times what they did before the crisis began people we spoke to don't understand why the government isn't providing them for free there are many poor people they have to queue to buy to us and i think the government should do more of that to solve the problem because they're not doing enough because they did not plan ahead to pressure you see it was ford as it. is so now that prices were my ass is like throwing out. the day after the hong kong government announced it would soon begin isolating all arrivals from the mainland it remains unclear how that will happen the 2 options appear to be self isolation will be placed in holiday comes converted to quarantine centers in hong kong a luxury cruise liner the 2nd in asia with infected passengers is now a floating quarantine center as medical teams continue screening the 3600

passengers and crew the authorities are also appealing to passengers who were on a previous floyds to get in touch fearing thousands more may have been exposed to the virus adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. israeli army says it's sending around a 1000 more soldiers into the occupied west bank after an upsurge in violence have been clashes in several cities in the occupied west bank between palestinians and the israeli army after 4 palestinians were shot dead in separate incidents the israeli military has arrested a suspect involved in a car ramming attack in jerusalem that wounded 12 of his soldiers need abraham is in ramallah and she explained some of the incident and said unfolded on sorry say. the tensions started in the morning after the israeli army has raided the city of janine north of the occupied west bank where confrontations have erupted between the palestinians and the army and 19 year old palestinian was killed and he was

later relayed to rest another palestinian a policeman a father of 2 was also killed and as we've seen from the surveillance video he seemed to be standing in a police station doing nothing at the time of his injury and later his death it's not sure whether his family is going to be allowed to enter the west bank from jordan to attend his funeral now more than one in more than one occasion confrontations have been emptied between the palestinians and the israeli army medical sources tell us that there are around 80 palestinians who are wounded now in other news the post but it's really army has been reading several towns and villages in the occupied west bank they say they are looking for a palestinian who was injured in israeli soldier in a shooting attack here near ramallah. on the palestinian leadership is blaming trump's middle east plan harry fossett is in west jerusalem with more on that as

far as the the reason a lot of people are pointing to the fact that it is just 9 days after the revelation or the unveiling of the u.s. peace plan there had been talk about possible violent reaction to it or an escalation of tensions at least of course it's difficult to draw a direct line but that's certainly the message coming from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas his office saying that the trump plan has created this escalation in tensions we've seen a couple of incidents in jerusalem in occupied east jerusalem earlier in the afternoon there was a palestinian citizen of israel from haifa in the north of israel he got very close to an army checkpoint israeli security forces checkpoint just outside the locks a mosque compound are known as the temple mount to jews he pulled a gun out of his pocket shot out a group of israeli forces there injuring one likely he himself was shot and killed

and that came just a few hours after something that took place in the early hours of this morning a suspected running attack on a group of israeli soldiers who were on their way to a swearing in ceremony at the western wall this was in west jerusalem the driver got away one soldier seriously injured 12 injured in total the car discovered in beit jalla in the occupied west bank and there were raids and searches in bethlehem with some confrontations with palestinians resulting from that. about 20 people are reportedly trapped underground after a mine collapse in zimbabwe's midlands rescuers in quick way town has so far recovered the bodies of 2 people thought to be illegal gold mine is the shaft caved in on wednesday nights local media say the mine has not been in operation since 2007. rebels in syria supported by turkish artillery have pushed back government forces from a key town in italy province turkey's face event warns the syrian government not to

continue its offensive into the last rebel held region hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting 5 civilians have been killed as the violence continues in northwestern syria. who has been to a makeshift camp in italy province that people displaced by the fighting have built for themselves this is one of those camps and so our mother in it live nearby the roads of the camp was actually built by the civilians who had to escape their lands is since august after the syrian government advance its strikes in the south of it live at the camp situation is very dire a because it's all make up to make up shelters there are only tents and because of the harsh weather conditions it people have been suffering as you can see here the tents have been flooded it is getting more difficult for those people to live around here because there are also more people coming over and they have to share

their tents it with those people and of course it is very difficult mostly for women and children who suffered bad conditions mainly lack of hygiene food education everything is a problem here and those this is not the regular camp by the way the camp was built by the financial fine by the finance of the people who have been living here and i'm told by the local n.g.o.s who will grow. let us hear that even the rules are built by this of millions all monies so it seems the administrations are not enough are not capable enough to take care of all those people who have been displaced from all over. across it lept. this is not a life it's no way to live. in a new cloudy lab we lost our homes and our land our kids it's not safe for them to

go away we are subjugated. there's no food for the children no education no schools we don't have the basics even i feel like my soul is leaving my body. no money there's lots of months there's no school no aid no water no bread it's hard for us to play even going to the market is difficult i'm scared of the plains people have a lot to cope with here for instance here they are trying to fill in the order so that they can stop the floods reaching their tents so that they can keep their stuff clean and usable i have to tell that in this water it is not only water it is also the sewage of the scam that's why hygiene is a very big problem and it is a risk for people diseases that might be seen around people and i have to remind that there is no medicine here when it tarion 8 doesn't reach to everywhere especially medicine and it is difficult for divided syrian aid organizations to

access everyone especially given the conditions given more displacement from south to the north it is very difficult it is very very dire in these camps and people are tired people are tired of struggling with everything and when we speak to people they always cry because they say they lack everything here now it's a call from those people to the international community that the syrian government's attacks must be stopped very soon. for life now to the white house where u.s. president donald trump is about to address the nation after the senate acquitted him of all impeachment charges he's speaking from the east room of the white house and we are going to now listen to the u.s. president. thank you.

was was thank you very much it. was we've all been through a lot together and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because it's been

a very unfair situation they invited some of our very good friends and we have limited room but everybody wanted to come we kept it down to a minimum and believe it or not this is a minimum but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months but really if you go back to it over the last number of years we had the witch hunt it started from the day. we came down the elevator myself and our future 1st lady was with us right now at 20 . and it never really stopped we've been going through this now for over 3 years.

it was evil it was corrupt it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars and this should never ever happen to another president ever i don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it some people said no they wouldn't have but i can tell you at a minimum. you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with you if you get away very quickly it was a disgrace. had i not fired james comey who was a disaster by the way it's possible i would leave me standing here right now we caught him in the act dirty cops bad people if this happened to president obama lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already many many years. i want to start by thanking some of and i call them friends because you know you develop friendships and relationships

when you're in battle and war much more so than gee let's have a normal situation with all that we've gone through we've done i think more than any president and administration. and really i say for the most part republican congressman congresswoman and republican senators we've done more than any administration in the 1st few years you look at all of the things we've done. i watched this morning as they tried to take credit for the stock market from from think of that let me tell you if we didn't win the stock market would have crashed and the market was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like we had a good chance to win and then went up tremendously from the time we won the election till the time we took office. which was november 8th to january 20th

and that's our credit that's all our credit and leading up to that point was our credit because there was hope. and one of the reasons the stock market's going up so much in the last few days is people think we're doing so well they liked the state of the union speech thank you it really is it's a true honor to give it. make in the state of the union speech i was with some people that have been around they've been all over the world and one of them said highly sophisticated person said you know that matter where you go in the world doesn't make any difference there is nothing like what i witnessed tonight the beauty the majesty of the chamber. the power of the united states the power of the people in this room that really an amazing if not all that there is

anything like that anywhere in the world you can go to any other country you can go to any other location any other place the beauty of everything it's what it represents and how it represents our country i want to start by introducing some of the people that are here i know what some are going to be left out but they work so hard and this is really not a news conference it's not a speech it's not anything it's just we're sort of. it's a celebration because we have. something that just worked i'm and it worked out we went through hell unfairly did nothing wrong did nothing wrong i've done things wrong in my life i will admit not purposely but i've done things wrong. but this is what the end result us are to a

objective take that home money made through our frame and. the only good headline i've ever had in the washington. times but every paper's the same does anybody have those papers anybody haven't because they're really like that so i appreciate that . but some of the people here have been incredible warriors are worriers and there's nothing from a legal standpoint this is a political thing and every time i say this is unfair let's go to court they say so you can't go to court this is politics. and we were treated unbelievably unfairly

and you have to understand we 1st went through russia russia russia it was all bullshit. we then went through the moller report and they should have come back one day later they didn't they came back 2 years later after lives were ruined after people went bankrupt after people lost all their money people came to washington to help other people. bright eyed and bushy tailed they say they came one or 2 or 3 people in particular but many people. we had a rough campaign it was nasty it was one of the nastiest they say they say andrew jackson was always the nastiest campaign they actually said we topped it was a nasty it was a nasty both in the primaries and in the in the election but you see we thought after the election would stop but it didn't it just started and. tremendous

corruption tremendous corruption so we had a campaign little did we know we were running against some very very bad and evil people with fake is with all of these horrible dirty cops that took these dusty is a did bad things they knew all about it the pfizer courts should be ashamed of themselves. it's a very tough thing and then we ended up winning on russia russia russia should have taken the one day as i said and it took. years then bob muller testified that didn't work out so well for the others. but they should have said that 1st week because it came out is that right jim jordan they knew in the 1st 2 days actually they haven't is that right 2 days they knew that we were

totally innocent but they kept it going mark. they kept it going forever. because they wanted to inflict political pain on somebody that had just won an election that to a lot of people were surprised i mean we had polls that said we're going to went we had los angeles times and a few a few papers actually said it was we're going to win but it was going to be close. and we did when it was one of the greatest wins of all time and they said ok he won and you know i wrote this down because that was where thing called the insurance policy to may when i saw the insurance policy and that was done long before the election that was done when they thought that hillary clinton was going to win and by the way hillary clinton and the d.n.c. paid for millions millions of dollars to fake r.c.a.

and now christopher steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people i should have sued him too but when you're president people don't like suing i want to thank my legal team by the way not for that advice prefer. to a you and. you and very much are you a. right at the beginning. they said sir you have nothing to worry about all of the facts are on your side i said you don't understand that doesn't matter that doesn't matter and that was really true they made up for a corrupt politician named adam schiff made up my statement to the ukrainian

president he prodded out of thin air just made it up they say he's a screenwriter a failed screenwriter he tried to going to unfortunately wanted a politics after. remember he said the statement which is a bob statement don't call me i'll call you i didn't say that. fortunately for all of us here today and for a country we had transcripts we had transcribers professional transcribers then they said oh well maybe the transcription is is not correct but tenet colonel viewed bin and his twin brother right we had some people that really had mazy but we did everything we said what's wrong with it well they didn't know that this word or that we didn't matter as an editor the probably wrong but added so no one ever agrees that they were perfectly accurate when you read the stress scripts tim's got out of tim's here but he said sir the 1st one to call me

sir i read the transcript you did nothing wrong and mitchy stayed there right from the beginning he never changed and mitch mcconnell i want to tell you did a fantastic job that was somebody said you know mitch is quiet when i said he's that guy pay that price he's in the pit he doesn't want people to know him and they said is mitch smart has said well let's put it this way for many many years a lot of.