the. chinese doctor who 1st raised the alarm on coronavirus dies in hospital putting more pressure on beijing as it struggles to contain the outbreak. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm debbie navigator also ahead the u.s. says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula during an operation in yemen. it was evil it was corrupted was dirty cups victory speech for president donald trump as he celebrates his impeachment acquittal and attacks the democrats. marching in the hope of

a better future refugees gather at serbia's border with hungary to demand entry into the e.u. country. hello a chinese doctor who was among the 1st to raise the alerts about the corona virus outbreak has died from the illness and that's led to the outpouring of anger against the government's liang 1st issued warnings about the virus in december but police accuse the 34 year old of scare mongering now the government's anticorruption body is sending investigators to look into this case and president xi jinping has spoken with donald trump by phone telling him that beijing's efforts to contain the outbreak are achieving results and the commissioner of china's foreign ministry in hong kong has called for the country to unite against the virus . love of balance time useless and didn't.

define the rampant violence we did chinese have stood for together. in the ongoing battle that people. chose to lock down the city for the sake of others. waiting patiently for the dawn of a new day. so the world health organization says it's too soon to know if the virus has reached its peak but there are signs the new number of new cases as dropping at least 638 people have died from the virus and there are more than 31000 who are infected. let's bring in sara couric for an update she's joining us from hong kong sara to just talk to us about the you're hearing in mainland china as anger spreads at the government's handling of the crisis and a nudes of doctor these days. this

is a doctor who worked at the hospital at the at the center of the wind virus and said that the early warnings social meeting was one of the doctor's notes you discover not as thought public outrage has almost become a national hero this public outcry just didn't share his own social media and if in a very rare move but china in the last couple of hours announced that it's going to send in its highest and corruption agency to investigate the surrounding the surroundings of this did you mentioned earlier that there was a bumbling of the handling of his data at one stage was announce he was dead in the hospital said no it was in a critical condition and then this morning we had confirmation from the hospital that he had in fact died now the handing of this incentive is the anger over china's ability to cope with this rapid outbreak of the coronavirus has sparked anger and as a result this looks like the chinese government reacting to that public outrage by sending in this group with this i can see to investigate they're also going to look into some of the comments have been shared on public social media now the

government has also said that it sent a condolence letter to the family of this 34 year old doctor up that she didn't pay is also fine donald trump trying to reassure him stating that china can defeat this virus epidemic and as you mentioned the commissioner of the ministry of foreign affairs in hong kong has also done a press conference this morning he said we can china can cope with this outbreak he said sequence the genome if identified the virus and now they're working on a vaccination and what about the situation outside of china what are you hearing. well there has been a global concern about the rapid rise of the number of infections and certainly the fatality rates japan is reported 41 you cases on the cruise ship which is quarantine currently and yet to hama and japan's prime minister shinzo alibi is also announced that another cruise ship coming from hong kong talking now it will not be allowed to dock and certainly they will not be allowing any foreign passages to arrive in japan taiwan is refused entry from a residence coming from a cow or

a china and hong kong of course on saturday hong kong has announced that it will basically restrict or put the any land traveler in quarantine for 14 days in the world hold a health organization is also launched a $675000000.00 plan to try and cover the months from 50 to i pulled this year to sort out to put in place help pages to deal with the corona virus in the most affected countries and sarah we've been reporting the past few days on these strikes that have been taking place in hong kong where you are by the doctors and nurses have they managed to achieve any breakthrough in their demands. with this stage the strike is continuing to die and a number of other unions threatening to join that strike if these borders are not fully closed and that's a key demand at the moment we currently have a scene one of the hospitals i've been callin city this is basically the hospital workers in the medical workers assigned to struggling to cope with the influx of

people coming from from the mainland and the lack of protective measures that are being offered to those health workers we've also had a number of the private doctors saying they simply have to close the clinics because that i have the protective gear and the medical supplies to cope with the rising number of people visiting those clinics all right sarah clarke with an update from hong kong thank you. now the u.s. says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula during a military operation in yemen last month president donald trump says possum remey was trying to organize and inspire attacks against americans but there's been no confirmation of the killing from al qaeda and the gallagher has the latest from washington well the news is just emerging the confirmation of this al qaeda leader's death is just emerging but the strike itself took place last month at the cia an american intelligence officials have been very carefully after previous strikes proved that their targets actually survived them so they were careful to

check whether this is actually happening but all really is a significant target for the u.s. authorities he's one of the few al qaeda leaders predates the attacks of september the 11th the training camps in afghanistan before going back home to yemen where he was in prison for 5 years for plotting to attack the u.s. ambassador there he actually broke out of jail in 2006 is thought to be behind the attack on the u.s. embassy and is a significant target for the u.s. authorities so we do now have confirmation that the 41 year old was killed in these attacks in this drone strike in fact it was a $10000000.00 reward out for him and the u.s. state department says that al qaeda has now been significantly weakened by this strike meaning that both americans and their allies on now say for upon his death lawrence korb is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense and he says his death is likely to result in some

temporary setbacks for al qaeda. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is the strongest component of al qaeda and you may remember several years ago we killed an american citizen. a lock we because he was plotting to blow up some of our airline as it is probably the most dangerous in terms of being able to hit outside the region a basically he took over he was the head of the military branch of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and then when we killed his predecessor then he moved up i'm sure somebody else is going to move up and sometime that name will be called for mil year i think it does set them back at least temporarily and also probably given what's happening in yemen where we're trying to get a peace arrangement there could end up with that no longer being

a branch of al qaeda in yemen if the whole days when the saudis can come up with some sort of arrangement the u.s. president has attacked his political rivals during a speech celebrating his acquittal on impeachment charges an unrepentant donald trump described the proceedings as corrupt and run by dirty cops as our white house correspondent kelly how could reports the address could set the tone for his 2020 election campaign. one day after the u.s. senate voted not to remove the u.s. president from office donald trump was in the mood to celebrate 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 is. trying railed against opposition democrats who watched the impeachment effort against him times using language that was derogatory and profane. it was all but.

he tried to coerce an ally into helping him cheat trump took a bit congressman adam schiff who led the inquiry into whether trump abused his presidential powers by withholding military aid to ukraine in an attempt to get them to investigate his political rival former vice president joe biden a corrupt politician named adam schiff made up my statement to the ukrainian president he brought it out of thin air just made it up they say he's a screenwriter a failed screenwriter donald trump earlier that day at a national prayer breakfast trump also went after mitt romney who was the only republican senator who voted to removed from office he also lashed out at house speaker nancy pelosi i don't like people who use their faith as justification. for doing what they know is wrong. pelosi blasted the president in response

a pretty hard for him because he's so off the track of our constitution but throughout trumps more than an hour long remarks he repeatedly maintained he committed no wrongdoing it was a sharp contrast to president bill clinton's more than a minute long statement in 1999 following his own impeachment acquittal i want to say again to the american people. how profoundly sorry i am. for what i said and did. to trigger these events thank you. troubles only apology came not to americans but to his family who he says has been caught up in allegations and investigations since the start of his presidency i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony rotten deal well the impeachment trial may be over the allegations are

not both democrats and republicans are vowing to take this case to american voters in november who will ultimately decide if donald trump is a one or 2 term president can really help get al jazeera the white house all the chair of the democratic national committee has called for a review of the results of the iowa caucuses after days of technical the lanes with all the votes finally counted p. boot a judge has narrowly defeated bernie sanders in the 1st contest between the democratic contenders vying to take on president trump in november the committee says a review is needed to assure public confidence after technical glitches and its mobile slow down reporting of the results. still ahead on al-jazeera. brazil's president is calling his controversial plans for indigenous land a dream but critics say it's a genocide bill we'll tell you why. and the splinter group of the afghan taliban

that's running a rehabilitation center for drug addicts top stories coming up. hello it still stormy in the southeast of europe and in turkey turkey of course has got the snow problem the thunderstorms are easing but they're still there and the same daylight hours are show friday to be still wet and sundry from cyprus and southern turkey to the event the wind behind the cold wind has eased to some degree does this start for the ground but not very much here and much of europe is not as cold as it was say the day before now moscow is that mine site not a pleasant change to proper way into the change carrying the atlantic as everything moves slowly eastward seeing increasing wind seems like it's for ireland the british isles in general potentially damaging at least later on friday in the saturday and strengthens again later on saturday otherwise you're mains relatively

quiet little right down through france so the bottom right hand corner there which will affect libya and egypt and the whole advantages of the interns windy and wet but that's the extent of northern africa's involvement otherwise it's quite of course temperatures aren't necessarily particularly high but they have been so on the western side north africa dropping down a little bit i think showers a further south as they should be the seasonal rains are taking a back step than i was just a good scattering of showers. frank assessments. about the. really. climate change informed opinion economy i think is actually what's keeping down the truck afloat right now critical debate cyclone goes to school you've been told what the noise on a bogus argument is astonishing be patronising in-depth analysis of the day's

headlines this is the beginning for you iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. the move. following on the top stories on al-jazeera china's government is sending anti-corruption investigators to look into the death of a doctor who was among the 1st people to raise the alarm over the coronavirus outbreak. the u.s. says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in their arabian peninsula during a military operation in yemen last month it says to you is trying to organize and inspire attacks against americans. u.s.

president donald trump has celebrated his acquittal on the breach one charges by using the speech to attack his political rivals on wednesday the senate earlier trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress trump has described the proceedings as corrupt. more now on one of our top stories and so far there have been no confirmed cases of corona virus in africa but it's been high on the agenda during an african union foreign ministers meeting in ethiopia. is in the capital addis ababa. as african leaders prepare to meet here in the european cups look at this about for a normal summit the gates are telling us that the continent is making itself ready to combat any possible outbreak of the coroner a virus coming from china the african center for disease control and prevention is coordinating efforts across the continent and in the senegalese copies of the car a training is going on to make more countries ready as we speak only south africa

and ghana have a laboratory it's not contest specimens for the virus but in a matter of 2 weeks they tell us that 15 more countries will be ready for that testing so far all of the cases suspected suspected in some countries have been proved negative and african countries are responding differently to what's going on in ethiopia foursomes the best african airlines have not stopped flights to china and that is being received in the wider public here in the g.o.p. with some negative feelings they are putting pressure on the government to follow suit because other countries in africa have stopped flights at least 5 other airlines including morricone madagascar and others we know also that china and africa have huge investments and some african countries are afraid to cut any ties or to current in china because they think that is going to hurt their economies but as this situation develops probably their response in africa will be

different depending on how many cases will be coming from china with regards to corner virus. about 200 refugees have gathered at serbia's border with hungary demanding to be let through thousands more fleeing war on poverty remain stuck in the balkans as they try to gain entry into western europe warburton manly has more . cut chain what little possessions they have left and wrapped up against the biting cold. war these people are demanding serbian authorities that some pass into hungry. as a city in protests in the border village television they hold signs demanding they be allowed into hungry a member of the european union i didn't go there to get money from their opinion is i'm only look for a better life you know my country have a lot i going to go back to syria where it's not just syrians trying to cross

refugees from afghanistan iraq yemen and other countries have found themselves here after fleeing who poverty and persecution as serbian police follow their protests and one carry in police blocked the border fence the left with few options we don't have a way to go to buck and no way to run that's why we are here and tonight we are europe and today we are also on the way that is so but you know does winter this winter we have to destroy children we have women goodness we have all the old guys we will stay here one of the 3 when they give permission to go in border we will go last month and gary in police fired warning shots when dozens of people attempted to cross the border the 2nd i mean as it was evolving group that attempted to break in you carried out with a violent behavior by young organized men feel through to

a shot off and fences erected with razor wire after hundreds of thousands passed through balkan countries 5 years ago. hungary's prime minister viktor orban has made clear refugees are not welcome and starting to use force against them. across the border in serbia there are now more than 6000 refugees living in government run camps they want to leave the getting into the e.u. has become increasingly harder nor about a manly al-jazeera. the israeli army says it's sending about a thousands war soldiers into the occupied west bank after a surge of violence over the past 24 hours palestinians in the israeli army clashed in several cities after 4 palestinians were shot dead in separate incidents deborah him reports. it's been the deadliest 24 hour period in the occupied west bank in a year i recall

a stimulus were killed by israeli fire in 2 separate incidents on thursday and dozens of palestinians were wounded. in jeanine north of the occupied west bank tensions escalated after the israeli army demolished the house of a palestinian prisoner in the city. 19 year old isn't about beef was killed in confrontations between palestinian protesters and israeli forces following the house demolition of holliston a police officer was also killed the funeral of 25 year old daughter but when it was delayed till mid day friday to allow his wife and 2 children to come from jordan where they live police surveillance video shows by the end standing before he was killed i witness is told that but when i was watching the confrontations when he was shot by a sniper. a 3rd person was killed in the old city of jerusalem one israeli police officer was lightly injured after the conmen shot at an israeli police post in the

city. when hamas praised the attacks the palestinian presidency described the latest tension as a dangerous israeli escalation it sir this follows the u.s. announcement of its proposed mideast plan that was unveiled more than a week ago. palestinians have strongly rejected the plan they say it's means them accepting this radio station and the status quo analysts say the general mood in the west bank is that of frustration i think that there is going to be a continuity for a while. because i think the palestinian public wanted to show that the palestinian people are against this deal and that this deal is compromising the legitimate rights of the palestinian people and the land but i don't think that it will continue on the long term. they don't thursday the israeli army said it arrested the palestinian it says it rammed his car into israeli soldiers in

jerusalem. the attack has left 12 israeli soldiers wounded one of whom sustained severe injuries it's not clear whether tension will escalate frustration has been mounting for a long time and palestinian factions of called for protests on friday against the u.s. peace plan but if the previous calls are any indication it seems unlikely that these will materialize. al-jazeera the occupied west bank. iraqi students have rallied in the cities of baghdad. attacks on protesters by supporters of an influential shiite cleric demonstrators and to have you to square in the capital denounce the attacks which left at least 10 people dead supporters of stormed an anti-government protest camp in the southern city of najaf on wednesday. the resilient president joe you're both scenarios proposing a bill that would open up indigenous land to mining agriculture and energy projects

it has yet to receive congressional approval but has drawn strong criticism from environmentalists as well as indigenous groups they say could wipe out their communities and speed up deforestation also accuses critics of hindering developments. this is a big step forward it depends on congress pressure from environmentalist those people from the environment right if i could one day i would confined them to the amazon like the environment so much christian program director at amazon watch and travels to the brazilian amazon regularly and he says the bill seeks to sideline indigenous communities. also not his proposed bill brazenly violates brazil's constitution which guarantees the right to its indigenous peoples to consultation this is the kind of consultation that his minister of mines of energy has said will

be but a formality and not be carried out in the rigorous manner that the constitution guarantees in addition to international labor organization convention $169.00 which also in trying is the right to consultation indigenous people that have this right and shrine in the constitution and other international conventions and they're demanding it today much to incur in opposition to what bills or not it was trying to ram down their throats but both are not always doing here is he's pushing brazil up or reputation cliff by trying to open up indigenous territories which are the best preserved territories in the brazilian amazon to industrial activity which is highly destructive not only to the environment but also to the culture of indigenous peoples he sending a signal that this government lives outside of the law that it will do anything to encourage what it considers to be development by destroying the forest and destroying indigenous territories the government is actually sending

a signal to investors that if they want to be responsible with their money they need to look elsewhere. drug addiction and i'm gonna stand is an issue often overshadowed by years of conflicts but it's a serious problem and in the last 2 decades following the u.s. invasion the number of addicts has risen are now some members of the taliban have stepped in to provide rehab services but that comes with its own costs sampras ravi reports. iraq city western afghanistan. these men just a few of the millions of addicts in the country today the latest you would figure suggest women and children are as much at risk of ending up like this addicted to opiates heroin morphine crystal meth. even when they're high meadow where it can meet. every night one or 2 are dying here they are very young and they do not have any family they were once very useful citizens and were not like this before but

now their life is in a severe condition and i worry about them if someone will not take care of them they will also die. this is what a lost generation of afghans looks like. a splinter group of the taliban says it has a moral duty to do something in heroics belt in caves they've been running a drug rehabilitation center for 4 years addicts go through what passes for detox here several months of cold showers and long walks in freezing weather a taliban commander offers islam a teaching for inspiration and pain killers for withdrawal. once they're clean half of the addicts go home others stay for training weapons and to join the taliban. this is who helps us with our military operations he can go 100 kilometers into enemy territory he plants mines an enemy areas even inside their rooms he killed 15 to 20 people by planting mines former addicts do these things people inside these

centers are encouraged to become a man like him on a new lease on life makes for loyal fighters going to come on as india i destroyed my life my family became hopeless because of me and i was left alone with the taliban not timely treated me but also i helped my family financially they seem to money to my family i had the commanders trust and i'm valuable now i want to stay in the street hard you know to the last day of my life. the 2 decades since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan the number of drug users inside the country as well as neighboring countries has seen a sharp increase in addicts so become a common sight in city streets across this country experts say addiction is a symptom of a problem that stretches beyond afghanistan its borders an open secret in the capital kabul is that all sides of the conflict make money dealing drugs criminal gangs armed groups including the taliban as well as the governments and militaries

of neighboring countries. traffic down into the terrorist networks in the region and they're exploiting the situation broke in the instability of afghanistan for their business in the business. work for the ministry of counter-narcotics he says despite cases of corruption at the highest levels of government the labeled narco state is not afghanistan's alone to bear. our farmers are not receiving a lot of money from the poppy cultivation so what about the rest of the many if you call it clear when the laundry of. economy and all came very near it increases through more than $400000000000.00 so. this money is it's not in afghanistan is it is it in pakistan is it in iran is it in central asia is it's in the border and it's a complex issue that has for years taken

a back seat to the country's bore immediate security concerns and more recent efforts to end the war. but how those in power now deal with have got to starts drug problem analysts agree will dramatically influence the future of the afghan people say a couple. weeks . following on the headlines on al-jazeera other sour china's government is sending anti corruption investigators to look into the death of a doctor from the coronavirus he was among the 1st people to raise the alarm over the outbreak in december sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. this is a doctor who worked at the hospital at the center of the one hand virus and said that the early warning. actual meeting was one of those so you can't either not as a public outcry just almost become a national hero public outcry just being own social media and in a very rare move in the last couple of hours announced it's going to send its

highest and corruption agency to investigate the surrounding surroundings of these did the u.s. killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula during a military operation in yemen last month it says cost summary me was trying to organize and inspire attacks against americans president donald trump has celebrated his acquittal on impeachment charges while using the speech to attack his political rivals on wednesday the senate clear trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress and trump has described the proceedings as its final results are in from the iowa caucuses. narrowly defeated bernie sanders it's the 1st contest between democratic contenders vying to take on president trump in november the chair of the democratic national committee has called for a review of the results after days of technical. thousands of iraqi students have rallied in the cities of baghdad and. some protestors by supporters of an

influential shiite cleric demonstrators in the capital denounce the attacks which killed 10 people about $200.00 refugees and migrants have gathered at serbia's border with hungary demanding to be look through hungary shut its border this week to stop them from entering thousands more fleeing war and poverty remain stuck in the balkans as they try to gain entry into western europe. the brazilian president they are both scenarios proposing a bill that would open up in digitas land to mining agriculture and energy projects it has yet to receive congressional approval but has drawn strong criticism from environmentalists and indigenous groups those are the headlines inside story is coming up next. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by 1.8 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are changing the world. to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera.

the is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. donald trump acting approval holly off to the in each month trial along the strength and trump presidency for america and the rest of the world this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sammy's a than victory on the impeachment hoax that was how donald trump reacted to the end of his senate trial the us president was charged with abusing power by pressuring ukraine to investigate the political rival then obstruct.