a suitcase of the best documentary films from across the net. to 0. china's government struggles to contain a wave of anger after a doctor who raised the alarm about a coronavirus dies in hospital the woman is still months. but it is insufficient to meet the needs of. this as the world health organization says soaring demand for mosques is disrupting the fight to stop the epidemic. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria's last rebel stronghold as pro-government forces close in and we look at the national health crisis that's

dominating the agenda ahead of ireland's general election. hello welcome to the program out top story china's government is battling to contain a wave of grief and anger after a doctor who was punished for raising the alarm about the coronavirus died in hospital hundreds of thousands of people have used social media to pay tribute to dr lee when leon who reportedly fell ill after treating a patient many accuse chinese officials of trying to stage a cover up and putting politics before public safety government in beijing meanwhile is saying that it will investigate while also racing to contain the epidemic so far killed more than 630 people on the chinese mainland 2 other deaths have been reported in the philippines and hong kong as well overall more than 31000 people have been infected in mainland china with at least 320 cases in 27 other

countries and territories the world health organization has been speaking out saying that demands for mosques gowns and gloves have shot up by more than $100.00 times causing a supply backlog of 4 to 6 months on tuesday we're sending testing kits mosques the spiritus. to countries. however. the world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment as you might imagine this afternoon i would be speaking to the pandemic separate chain network to identify the bottlenecks and find solutions meanwhile the chinese government has sealed off cities cancel flights and closed factories to limit the spread of the virus in the world's most populous country adrian brown reports to us now from hong kong these

are some of the last poignant images of li one leon a doctor who was punished for daring to tell the truth now he's died from the virus that it 1st warned colleagues about late last year to many he'll be remembered as a chinese here. or there to hear during the closure i deeply regret his death and feel sincerely sad for him we need to see if the employment of his death can wake up anything and i hope he did not die in vain. you know of our youth here he left us when we needed him to fight the virus and he was a victim of the virus too he was unfairly criticized because of his work so we feel very sad and regretful for certain for his show to responsible attitude towards society and he is honest and faithful so i think the whole society should reflect on this. on social media the grief and outrage is more profound is it that hard for the government to admit it's wrong

a doctor had to die twice that's a national humiliation and the eyes of the people are clear his death is the top trending topic on china's micro-blogging site way below one of the most popular hashtags before being deleted was we want freedom of speech lee had been in the front line of this crisis falling sick from the virus while treating patients his death was confirmed on the website of one hospital on friday morning leader after all rescue efforts said the statement we express our deep condolence as did an official from china's national health commission and now he's in the national your national health commission extends our sincere condolences and respect to the family and wife of dr lee when young we know that for medical workers on the frontline they sacrifice their own family life to contribute to this battle against a virus the society needs to care more about our medical workers. in december

leader had sought to share information about his concerns only to be investigated by police who accused him of spreading rumors lee's passing highlights the huge risks taken by frontline doctors and nurses to treat patients a situation made worse by overcrowded hospitals and an acute shortage of beds the government appears to be listening it's dispatched a team of anticorruption investigators to its words listen to the concerns of the public and in china today there's no shortage of people with opinions about the doctor and the way he was treated. the virus is spread across china with cases also emerging in 2 dozen countries 2 cruise ships carrying thousands of holidaymakers have been placed under quarantine in hong kong and japan as doctors test all on board for infection and another ship currently in the south china sea there's been refused entry by japan south korea and the philippines. in china the growing public

outrage will worry the leadership as it threatens to create what they fear most social unrest adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. vehicles and tanks have entered rebel controlled northwestern syria in response to an advance by syrian government forces. regime forces have captured the strategically important town of sorrow in the last rebel held region 4 of the town and nearby highways could pave the way for an offensive on the provinces capital the turkish president. is threatening to drive back the syrian troops and less they withdraw it's widely feared an assault on the city will worsen an already serious humanitarian crisis more than half a 1000000 civilians have fled the area since the start of december was seneca syria is inside syria. not far from the border with turkey and describes the tensions

between turkish and syrian government forces. right now turkey and syria now a turkish and syrian army's risk confronting each other and turkey's president added on sat and he's giving he gave an ultimatum and said that the russia the the syrian army should withdraw from the areas where the turkish military paused are until the end of february of course this is a very huge risk and they risk we are fighting each other but how turkey is going to come from syria while the syrian army is supported by the russian air forces is a question and this is this tension between turkey and the syrian military is also increasing the tension on the civilians inside who already are depressed and suppressed because of the internal displacement the russians and turks also have had some serious discussions within the last couple of days as turkey pushed for in

more it observation posts after the syrian government's advance from south to north and advance through said argument at the city center the russians claim that it is a turkish reinforcements and they were in military posts were not coordinated with the while the turks claim just the opposite so it was difficult for both sides who's who have always said that they are committed to they pursue the astana and sochi peace agreements israeli forces a shot another palestinian dead in the occupied west bank the 5th in 48 hours funeral procession has been held for one of the victims of palestinian policemen who was killed in jenin on thursday and one was in uniform at his station when he was shot during raids by israeli forces they were seizing c.c.t.v. footage related to a car ramming tensions are running high at the moment after u.s. president donald trump unveiled his long awaited middle east initiative. well now

to iraq the country's most powerful shiite cleric has called for security forces to protect anti-government protest is grand ayatollah ali al sistani is intervention follows weeks of violence in baghdad and in southern iraq on wednesday at least 8 protesters were killed and not jeff when the count was stalled by supporters of the shia total souther iraq's human rights commission says nearly 550 iraqis have been killed since the protests 1st began in october but despite that violence iraqi students are continuing to skip school so they can take part in the demonstrations they say until their demands are met as little point in returning to class and many schools and universities have been closed for months some on a fulton reports now from baghdad. your education is a failure they chant rather than preparing for midterm exams these students from various universities in baghdad skipped class to join anti-government protests they demand a better future a future they say the current system is incapable of providing they don't want to.

if this doesn't succeed we won't have another opportunity this is the last chance for us we haven't achieved anything in the protest square yet so we can't return to our studies as usual you've unemployment in iraq is high and one of the protesters main grievances a lot is a 1st year engineering student but without connections she stands little chance of finding a job missing class is a small price to pay 'd you know it doesn't worry me to lose one year because there are 600 people who lost their lives entirely not just one year what is one year compared to the goals of our revolution which is to bring change. what they want is to append the political establishment that rose to power after the overthrow of saddam hussein's regime they reject prime minister designate mohammad. the former communications minister and member of parliament is seen as representing the status quo. as protests continue midterm exams are looming to catch up on months of

last education some received tutoring at private institutes like this one. of my uncles say cut him is a senior in a nearby public high school classes there were suspended for several weeks when protests began in october but even after schools reopened his peers pressured him to stay away. from the protest squares they were asking for support they said they need us some of my friends pressured me don't go to school it's not good it's better to go protest. despite his private schooling of mana worries about not achieving the marks he needs to get into university the biggest losers. of course we will get hurt by this we went with the protesters and supported them but it will all come back to us of months teacher and the director of this institute doubts that many students will fail not because they mastered the subjects but because the education ministry has told instructors to help them pass. the education ministry

told us to teach only the important things and skip whatever we feel isn't necessary to be so expect that this year we will see highest success rate public schools reopened but attendance has been sold oh many classes have been canceled so private institutes like these are flourishing many public school teachers earn double salaries by giving private lessons classes here cost over $600.00 per subject too expensive for many lower income families. and so the inequality gap threatens to further widen students who can't afford private tutoring have little choice but to keep protesting and hope for a better education for all the government and shia cleric mcdowell sautter have ordered students to return to class for penalties for both with all of these students are determined to stay on strike the only way to pressure the government to listen to their demands even if it means putting their own future on hold see

monopole to mean i'll just there are. so i have for you on the program the british woman and for my cell member facing an uncertain future after a decision by a u.k. court and brazilians forced to beg for food off the major cutbacks in the nation's flagship welfare schemes. what is taking most of the winter but finally it's got properly cold see this cloud is going south that's drawing in an arctic wind at long last it's recognizable while the temperatures moscow is now down to minus 70 and anchors down to minus 2 bare misread most the rest of europe is the least a degree so warm that should be and that's double figures for london and paris

madrid the 12 you'll notice just optically when we recently asked for the weather associated with those low temperatures snow now almost certainly confined to turkey or else is dry but there is wind and rain and increasingly strong wind storm force across the british isles later on in the weekend for spread across to norway where to bring snow and also the low countries were to just be a very windy potentially damaging the windy day warnings are out already so that is europe now there is an effect in the northeast of africa for libya and egypt the wind will be up but it will get colder to oversee the levant including turkey we've got rain or snow but temperatures at a high only 16 in carter only 16 and a swan so most of egypt could probably be is considerably colder than you might expect designations and full time son. of. a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis

how many did not all have to die this. is hard says paula really for sale and investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting alluring the case. is the amount of money yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera. the on. the eve of. a comeback with al jazeera live from london a quick look at headlines now chinese dr li when leon who was threatened by police for raising the alarm about the coronavirus has died it's triggered

a wave of grief anger and demands for freedom of expression in china. turkish armored vehicles and tanks have entered rebel controlled northwestern syria in response to an advance by syrian government forces. and israeli forces have shot another palestinian dead in the occupied west bank this the 5th in 48 hours a funeral procession has been helpful one of the victims a palestinian policeman who was killed on thursday. now in all the stories we're following a 20 year old british woman who joined a eisel has lost the 1st stage of her appeal against the u.k. government's decision to strip of citizenship she left london in 2015 along with 2 other school girls to join i still she resurfaced at a syrian refugee camp a year ago where she told reporters she wanted to return to britain. well our correspondent emma haywood has been following the story and joins us in the studio

now so tell us more about this ruling and she and showing the begum situation now because she has now lost her appeal against this decision it is an interesting case that of begum it's 5 years ago actually next week since she along with 2 other schoolgirls left east london they were pictured then traveling to turkey going to northern syria where they lived under rocker. and the 1st as you say was seen of should mean bacon was when she was spotted in a refugee camp and her lawyers have said that the decision within weeks to render to revoke her citizenship by the u.k. government has rendered her stateless which is illegal under international law and now the tribunals today which was looking at this case sat that simply wasn't true because she is a citizen of bangladesh by descent now hope moya's dispute that as a last year as well bangladesh made it clear that they would not want should mean a begum to enter bangladesh and a family of also said that would put her at risk and it's fascinating the reaction

that we've seen in this country with some people government's decision to sever her citizenship is viewed as a positive thing by some men and those who struggle to sympathize with her and others saying that it sets a very dangerous precedent well certainly there are those people who believe that she was 15 when she left this country she was still very much classed as a child along with the other girls that she left with however there are others who believe that when she left she left illegally and that she knew what was get what she was getting into are the activities of i saw were well documented at the when she left she gave up her rights to be classed as a british citizen but what this really does miriam is shine a light on the difficulties that governments now face around the world in what to do with those people who left to join i saw those who now want to return thank you very much and i would. well now catalonia is regional leader wants the spanish government to agree on a date for an independence referendum torah says the part towards the region

secession is absolutely irreversible and catalonia will be independent he met spanish prime minister petra sanchez on thursday but sanchez rejects any push for independence though he has agreed to hold talks with castroneves leaders to determine the future of the region your. new study i believe that the people of catalonia never felt they are there they have realised this process has been about and a sacrifice is needed in order to reach independents and it will also be lies that this is not about pressing a button it's a man's persistence willingness to sacrifice we have had enormous evidence of people and their families sacrifices to achieve this goal of freedom i believe that this has really widen the pro independent sector and therefore our trust that the independence of catalonia is absolutely irreversible. now island is gearing up for an election that could shake up the status quo health care is one of the major concerns in saturday's vote with more than half a 1000000 patients waiting to see

a doctor as paul brennan reports from the southern city of limerick issue could really influence the outcome of the election. around cork city political posters gazed down from the lampposts but it's islands health care crisis which the voters want the politicians to look at you know when the news of a woman had to bring in pillows for the mother but during apollo so notice a doctor look if you have probably this insurance it's just it's appalling it's no problem for the ordinary man in the street it's not good to see people waiting on trolleys for hours and hours dr sarah fitzgibbon has worked in a deprived area of north korea for the past 15 years her dedication is self-evident and so are her frustrations. so a child presenting today with mental health issues that i feel require a specialist intervention if i put them on a waiting list they might be seen in 4 years time which is just that's not

a service in 2014 only 359000 patients were on the public waiting list to see a consultant by 2017 the number one reason above half a 1000000 for the 1st time and in 2019 it had grown to more than 553000. to tackle those relentless increases in the waiting lists the irish government is throwing millions every year of public money into buying private health care in 2019 it was the equivalent of 82000000 dollars and this year it's going to be closer to $110000000.00 and still the waiting lists go up having private health insurance meant that when john wall was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2017 prompt treatment helped extend his life in the time he has left he's advocating urgent reform frontline staff to their absolute to do whatever they can given the resources that they have but that's the problem they don't have enough

resources they don't have enough beds they don't have enough staff and the resources that are being allocated is basically telling good money after bad a universal health proposal called slow has been suggested but the different political parties have very different ideas of what to prioritize and how to implement it so really what's important here is that the population they're going to pull in the next on saturday are really looking for change and it's a change in culture to actually be citizen centered and to put the politics aside to ensure that everybody can have safe timely access to health care it was the threat of a no confidence vote in health minister simon harris which forced the irish tea should be over at good to call this election faced with a combination of public anger and the sense that no one was accepting responsibility on saturday in the polling booths the voters will hold the politicians to account for brennan al-jazeera limerick. french president emanuel

has called on his european counterparts to discuss the role that france's nuclear arsenal could play in the continent security calling for a surge in european defense spending my concept french nuclear weapons serve as a deterrent against enemy attacks he also said that bracks it wouldn't affect french nuclear cooperation with britain which fish he left the e.u. a week ago has previously called on his european allies to stop relying on nato and the united states for defense. now india's prime minister says his government will continue to push for peace in the country's northeast the runner modi has been addressing crowds in the state of a some it's his 1st trip to the area since his government passed a controversial citizenship law which is sparked widespread protests people in a sandwich shares a border with bangladesh say the measure would open the region to a flood of foreign migrants but modi try to allay their fears. there are forces which are using the full energy and spreading rumors in the north

east region they say that with the citizenship of right people from outside the country comes through the states i assure the people of us but nothing of this sort will happen. modi also spoke about a peace accord signed with rebels calling for greater autonomy for the broader land area but there is skepticism about his motivations for the agreement as elizabeth purana explains. he spoke for a long time and he was there in a place called border land and autonomous territory off after signing a peace accord with the tribal group the bodos now critics have said that this was a hastily signed accord because the government needs the political support of the borders as it faces opposition elsewhere in our over the citizenship door and whereas protests around the country elsewhere in india have been by people who say that the rule discriminates against muslims the protests in the northeastern states

like us for a different reason the northeastern states have the largest number of migrants from buying that there is. a border and people there who are an ethnic minority in india feel that they'll become a minority in their own states so the prime minister was talking celebrating this peace accord signed with the borders and the only thing that he said very briefly about the citizenship law was that the people of need not worry that's not going to lead to an influx of what he called outsiders that he's talking to people the people who aren't affected by the northern territories that they live in the tribal territories are protected and he is not planning on going to any of the parts of. that have seen protests malawi's electoral commission is seeking to suspend the element of last year's presidential election electoral body filed an appeal on friday saying that judges were mistaken in almost all of their findings when they

discarded the results of last year's poll earlier this week the court cited voting irregularities in overturned the reelection of president putin were to recover. many of brazil's poorest families are struggling to afford basic goods so the government has been slowing down the flagship anti-poverty program they've drastically cut the number of beneficiaries of the so-called also often media or family bag it's led to a huge waiting list as john homa now reports from rio de janeiro. at the end of the road outside of real de janeiro powerless in gauging in a weary daily struggle to make up for a laugh today we had nothing to eat i had to go away to ask a women to help us we had no fit yesterday i kicked some pastor and my husband some fishermen nearby to give him something from their cats until 3 months ago they received cash from the government the program's coo bolsa familia the family bag it

was only about $40.00 a month but it helped keep them afloat now for them and about a 1000000 other brazilians that benefits been stopped the number of families newly admitted to the program has plummeted to a fraction of those accepted before it's meant a ballooning waiting list of hof a 1000000 people sell it 58 and unemployed is among them she says she's been given the run around since she tried to join up last august no thank there they say the authorities don't care they push me from one place to another like a pingpong ball. both of them is help millions of brazilians it's the government's flagship anti-poverty program but it's a been having problems for 5 years now and this is just the latest setback it started when the leftist thing government stopped adjusting payouts to keep up with inflation now the current administration has again hit what was a successful and cheap and the poverty to their very important at the same time you

know reached about what one quarter of the of the brazilian population the very very poor is very well parg and the money goes to women go through children with conditionalities and costs very little so costs are going to point 4 percent of the g.d.p. so you basically brazil did a sort of fiscal adjustment on the poor for its recipients not just present survival but futures and now when home. my children have big dreams the eldest wants to join the army he was training and trying out for a football club but we had to throw him we couldn't afford his transport. the government says it's just real denies him to improve the program million's a way to join home and out to see it are real the generator. but swan has held its 1st auction of rights to hunt elephants since lifting

a ban last year 7 hunting packages were auctioned in the capital. each package includes the right to hunt and kill 10 elephants there are a around 130000 in botswana which recently issued a quota to kill native $300.00 in the next year in order to control the population government says commercial hunting will bring in income but conservationists say it could encourage poaching. scientists of one the bumblebees across europe and north america are facing a mass extinction a study suggests that drastic decline is because of climate change and it threatens food cultivation says europe's bumblebee population fell by 17 percent between the 20th and 21st century and by 46 percent in north america. play a key role in pollinating crops including nuts fruits and vegetables united nations as one that consumers will have to opt for staple crops like rice if the trend continues more in everything right here al jazeera dot com don't forget you can

also watch us on life streaming there as well. recap of the headlines china's government is battling to contain a wave of grief and anger after a doctor who was punished for raising the alarm about the coronavirus died in hospital hundreds of thousands of people have used social media to pay tribute to dr lee when leon who reportedly fell ill after treating a patient or than 630 people have now died on the chinese mainland the u.s. secretary of state my own peo says america is prepared to send up to $100000000.00 to help china and other countries after world health organization want the shortage of equipment on tuesday we're sending testing kits mosques grabs the spiritus in gonesse to countries in the region

however. the world is facing a chronic shortage of protective equipment as you might imagine this afternoon i would be speaking to the. world to identify the bottlenecks and find solutions. turkish armored vehicles and tanks have entered rebel controlled northwestern syria in response to an advance by syrian government forces turkish president of type one is threatening to drive back the syrian troops and lest they withdraw from the strategically important town of sarka more than half a 1000000 civilians have fled the area since the start of december. israeli forces of shot dead have shot another palestinian dead in the occupied west bank the 5th and 48 hours a funeral procession has been held for one of the victims a palestinian policeman who was killed in janine on thursday. a 20 year old

british woman who joined by still has lost the 1st stage of her appeal against a u.k. government decision to strip her of her citizenship on national security grounds she left london in 2015 along with 2 other schoolgirls to join i sill and catalonia is regional leader wants the spanish government to agree on a date for an independence referendum keim torah says the path towards the region secession is absolutely it reversible he met with the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez on thursday. front with matty as sun is coming up next challenging a close ally of donald trump on the president's impeachment acquittal i'll see you a bit later bye for now.

he got away with it this week senate republicans voted to acquit president donald trump but can he ever escape the taint of impeachment one of his closest allies. steve cortez thanks for joining me on outfront on wednesday president trump was acquitted on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress you must be delighted the white house has called it a full exoneration for the president but given this was the 1st full senate him.