zira capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives that provided a glimpse into someone else's world the idea of witness on al-jazeera. her. al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes china's government struggles to contain a wave of anger after a doctor who raised the alarm about the coronavirus dies in hospital. to meet the needs. this is the world health organization says soaring demand for

masks is disrupting the fight to stop the epidemic also coming up this hour turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria's lost rebel stronghold as pro-government forces close in and we look at the national health crisis that is dominating the agenda ahead of the island's general election. i don't feel the same as in doha with all your school tensions at the motel behind her and as little missies balsa little mocked out of a couple movie disputes between the players and the club. welcome to the program our 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 young who reportedly fell ill after treating

a patient many accuse chinese officials of trying to stage a cover up and putting politics above public safety government in beijing is saying that it will investigate while also racing to contain the epidemic that so far killed more than $630.00 people on the chinese mainland to all the deaths of also been reported in the philippines and in hong kong was and 31000 people have been infected on. mainland china with at least 320 cases in 27 other countries and territories well the health organization has been speaking out saying that demand for mosques gals and gloves of shot up by more than 100 times causing a supply backlog of 4 to 6 months on tuesday we're sending testing kits mosques grabs the spirit or is in goans to countries in every region however. the world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment as you might imagine this

afternoon i would be speaking to the. chain network to identify the bottlenecks and find solutions meanwhile in terms of measures the chinese government is taking it has sealed off cities cancel flights and closed factories to limit the spread of the virus in the world's most populous country algis there is adrian brown now reports from hong kong these are some of the last poignant images of li one a doctor who was punished for daring to tell the truth now he's died from the virus very 1st warned colleagues about late last year to many he'll be remembered as a chinese here. or there to hear during the culture 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 he said irresponsible 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 though 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 the 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 front line 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 hand 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 has been refused entry by japan south korea and the philippines. in china the growing public outrage will worry their leadership as it threatens to create what they fear most social unrest adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. we're joined now by alison shylock a research. focusing on china at what is your assessment of the how would you describe the public reaction inside china to the death of dr li particularly after he after he tried to sound the warning over the virus but was then pressured and

criticized for doing that. thank you for having me the outpouring of grief and anger after dr lee's death has been really surprising and unusual in china and i think the central government was really taken aback by this show of emotion online and so now they're trying to catch up with the response by trying to turn him into a state sanctioned hero by lauding his selflessness during the crisis and by sending out a team to han to investigate why he was silenced and i wouldn't be surprised that if someone loses their job over this i think the government is really trying to look like they're on the people's side here the problem is that people are acutely aware of the hypocrisy of their statements because they know that even if the central government was not directly involved in early on official silencing dr lee

they at least condoned those actions and we've seen them continue to happen throughout the country just a few days ago and now as a tell me now as i don't believe this or it's very unusual as you say for dri people who are not opponents of the government or activists to be speaking out in this way but tell me more 1st of all about how dr lee's death has then changed the atmosphere what specifically of people saying about this. so there's a few things but the most important is that people are trying to question why local officials would try to silence someone who is trying to share information with other professionals online about the virus now the document that the public security bureau forced him to sign a circulating online where he was treated like a criminal who had broken the law and people are upset that someone who is can was clearly working to save lives was treated in such

a manner so how have you is saying that chinese officials are trying to use dr lee's death to shape the narrative around the coronavirus tell us more about how they have to trade him so they really have seem some official media outlets even call him a whistleblower acknowledging that there was there were some attempts to silence them but they're trying to separate the central authorities from the local government in this case and trying to show that the central government is like i said before on the side of the people. but these attempts are coming off rather tone deaf as people are remarking that you know they they know what happened to him and they're concerned that it's going to keep happening unless local officials and people at the center are really held accountable so you have this ongoing clampdown

this censorship already people are angry with the government for playing down the threat from the coronavirus and then within who bay province in the city of han people are on lockdown so there's a lot of outrage and over that if people perceive the government to be stifling openness and transparency particularly in the wake of the death of dr levy how much more frustrated could they get and how might they express that. well i think there's there's a sort of a distinction between criticism of certain institutions like freedom of speech and the state as a whole verses criticism of the local officials so i think that the censorship apparatus is going to allow more direct criticism of local officials so it'll be possible that we'll see more calls to investigate local officials and people will

use official channels to try and report wrongdoing among the local authorities but beyond that it's unclear whether the central government will allow for more substantial you know organizing or just because. i think they're concerned that people might start to connect the dots between the local authorities and the center all right thank you very much allison shellac appreciate your thoughts on the story joining us there from the eurasia group also that situation inside china but of course the corner of coronaviruses affected countries and territories beyond china's borders actually 3 cases of the virus have been reported in the philippines medical staff there are striking against what they say are deteriorating working conditions jim alan dugan is in manila and explains what they want. we're outside one of the government's hospitals here in manila where health workers are picketing

demanding better transparency from the philippine government they say they have been frustrated with the government's response towards this outbreak and they're hoping for a better compensation and better protection slashing of the national budgets of many health research and monitoring facilities and services actually is worsening the situation they hope they say that the government will react fast because time is of the essence they also remain committed to their cause and they will continue there were a call on the government for more support for better protection compensation and better equipment in many government facilities across the country now in our other top stories turkish armed vehicles and tanks have entered into a province in northwestern syria the last rebel held region there it's in response to an advance by government forces and could pave the way for them to make an offensive on the provinces capital base and consumer reports turkey is determined

to stop that. syrian government forces in the suburbs of surat camp hours before disrepute well after fierce fighting with the syrian rebel defenders. sits at the junction of 2 major highways and it was seen as a major up stocco in regaining control of the province one 3rd of which is now under syrian government control. turkey has warned to put the mask his forces to back home. unfortunately the syrian regime does not believe in political process and thinks peace can only be possible by a military solution and i have to say they are wrong about this they have stepped up their aggression. turkey has to walk through observation posts positioned around the globe the escalation zone agreed with russia and iran in 2017 but 9 of them have been surrounded by advancing syrian government forces to protect and stop the

advance troop yes stablished for more post which ended up in direct clashes between the turkish and syrian army's sole little michiru the hook up some of them use the local should get tax responded to within the scope of self-defense from now on any kind of attack will be responded to appropriately and observation post will continue their duties. the syrian government has intensified its attacks since last november and backed by russia has targeted civilians this triggered a new way of a migration with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the violence in the 9 year long civil war in syria that was where the displaced could find refuge but it live said the center is now under threat as the syrian government forces captured so rocket and just 7 kilometers away seen em go solo al-jazeera bubble however northwestern syria israeli forces have shot another palestinian dead in the

occupied west bank a 5th in 48 hours a funeral procession has been health for one of the victims a palestinian policeman who was killed in janine on thursday tarik 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 running tensions are running high at the moment after u.s. president donald trump unveiled his long awaited at least initiative. you with the news hour live from london more still ahead india's prime minister aims to quell fears over his controversial new citizenship or as he travels to one of the region's most affected by. the british woman and for myself member facing an uncertain future after a decision by a u.k. court. and the man known as the greek free is unstoppable again in the n.b.a. he too will have that option later.

drug addiction in afghanistan is a serious problem with the number of users rising sharply in the is following the u.s. invasion the taliban has been providing we have services for drug addicts but as many have come to learn help from the taliban comes at a cost the same the strike the reports now from kabul. 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 but dictate to opium heroin morphine crystal but. even with their high video where it could lead. sarin 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 that 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 teachings 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. that's the actual this is us are who helps us with our military operations he can go 100 kilometers into enemy territory he plants mines and enemy areas even inside their rooms he told 15 to 20 people by planting mines former addicts do these things people inside these centers are encouraged to become

a man like him. 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 only 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 a number of drug users inside the country as well as neighboring countries has seen a sharp increase an addict 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 and open secret of 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. the. traffic flows down into the terrorists not

for their needs and they're exploiting the situation that is rocking the instability of afghanistan for their business and this. is cher's artwork for the ministry of counter-narcotics he says despite cases of corruption at the highest levels of government the label 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. pm economy are not complaining it increases through them $400000000.00 so really really this money is it's not in afghanistan. is it is it in pakistan is it in iraq is it in central asia is it in the water. it's a complex issue that has for years taken a back seat to the country's more immediate security concerns and more recent efforts to end the war. but how those in power now deal with have got

a starts drug problem analysts agree will dramatically influence the future of the afghan people. a couple. india's prime minister says his government will continue to push for peace in the country's northeast and render modi has been addressing crowds in the state of a son it's his 1st trip to the area since his government passed a controversial citizenship will which is sparked widespread protests people in a sandwich shares a border with bangladesh say the measure would open the reach into a flood of foreign migrants but modi tried to allay their fears. there are forces which are using their full energy and spreading rumors in the northeast region they say that with the citizenship right people from outside the country will come and settle in the states i assure the people of us that nothing of this sort will happen. almost he also spoke about a peace accord signed with rebels calling for greater autonomy for the borderland

area their skepticism about his motivations for that agreement as as of prana me explains. he spoke for a long time and he was there in a place called border land and autonomous territory off to 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 from the movies to the states like a for a different reason the northeastern states have the largest number of migrants from bond that they share 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 don't worry that's not going to lead to an influx of what he called outsiders that he's talking to people on the border 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 pakistan's parliament has promised a resolution calling for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists a measure follows a spate of high profile child sex abuse cases human rights groups have been quick to condemn the non-binding lol but hyder explains it has a great deal of support inside the country. bugger's guns polymer and highly approved a bill which will carry their death penalty for child rape is and. will be carried

out publicly there has been a stronger mind from people across bargain stand that there should be exemplary punishments for such heinous crimes there has been a right in the number of cases in this country last year alone there were all 4 tolerant cases that were reported and that means almost 11 children per day debuggers on the parliament supporting god bellbird a majority ward because of the growing demand from the people of their day should be very strong sentences against such crimes in order to curtail day however their city international may be critical but people across blogger stan say that this is the only way forward a 20 year old freshman then he's going to i.c.l. has lost the 1st stage of her appeal against u.k. government's decision to strip her citizenship should mean of a gun left london in 2015 along with 2 other schoolgirls to join i still she

resurfaced at a syrian refugee camp a year ago when she told reporters she wanted to return to percent and he would has more on the case and what the next move could pay. it's 5 years ago this month since mima begum along with 2 of her friends disappeared from east london police appealed for their safe return but the girls had travelled from london into turkey and then into racker in northern syria where they lived on the ice all rule now nothing was heard of shamima begum until she was spotted inside a refugee camp early last year now within weeks that then home secretary sajid javid 100 boat citizenship now her lawyers argue that that was unlawful because it rendered her state less but a decision today by a special tribunal set up to look into the shimmy my begum case said that was simply not true because she is a citizen of bangladesh by descent through her mother while she mima bacon's lawyers have said they will appeal against this decision and this is really just

the 1st stage of the process it could even end up in the supreme court the u.k.'s highest court and this case really does shine a light on the difficulties governments now are facing and dealing with those individuals who left the country to travel to syria to support i saw who now want to return to a country as jim of a guns families lawyer he says her safety is at risk in syria. right so this is a preliminary judgment 1st phase of these sort of. hearings in the cycles and they tend to go back was a poor it's over various issues and get fleshed out over time so that is also being appealed in terms of whether she is or isn't a citizen of bangladesh evidence has been out here and it will be fleshed out. more so we are saying that this decision is not. gauge law properly and so in our

interpretation i'm going to be close and it and it will be well you think anyone argues that somebody in the world of money is in danger as we know in washington new. in terms of the conditions of iraq a difficulty we have is that her family certainly had no contact with us as before february 29th 19. in terms of contact with lawyers that's been extremely intimate and through 3rd parties and so. the conditions we do talk about may go to the subject of. evidence in the substandard hearing about what conditions actually are more so had for you on the program the surprise front runner in the battle to take on donald trump from the u.s. president's am stick a another hurdle towards the white house brazilians forced to beg for food often major cutbacks in the nation's flagship welfare s.k.

the big upset the nanny a sucker in japan spread how tired brits banks have more on that later. i want to take most of the winter but finally it's got properly cold see this cloud is going south and drawing in an arctic wind at long last it's recognizable while the temperatures moscow is now down to minus 7 kids at 0 and anchors down to minus 2 misread most the rest of your visit the least a degree so warm that should be and that's double figures for london and paris madrid the 12 you'll notice nonstop particularly when we're going to be asked for the weather so say to those low temperatures snow now almost certainly confined to turkey where 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 or to bring snow and also the low countries where the 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 and 16 and a swan so most of egypt could probably be is considerably colder than you might expect designations and full time sun. every attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens. stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stark reality of being ostracized by the very

communities in which they lived. and moon the tragic loss of life twice a victim on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard the general situation of course is affecting both of any answer and fear and graffitti and the story needs to be told with exclusive interviews as a country do so used to in fuller and in-depth reports movie we have i phone 5 is out use iraq has teams on the ground there saying that they're against the idea to bring the moon to documentaries and light news.

welcome back a look at the headlines this hour now chinese dr li one man 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 soldiers have shot another palestinian dead in the occupied west bank the 5th in 48 hours a funeral procession has been held for one of the victims police a palestinian policeman who was killed on thursday. so more on the corona virus outbreak now that has obviously caused alarm right around the globe foreign ministers from the african union have been meeting for a 2nd day to discuss their response hundreds of suspected infections have been reported amid concerns africa is particularly vulnerable to the spread of the virus

as 100 valorie ports from the ethiopian capital addis ababa are also worries over people trapped in china. adonis is a mother in distress her 21 year old son is stuck in the chinese city of who along with $200.00 other ethiopian students there they've been confined to their halls of residence under current team for weeks emergency measures aimed at preventing further infections of the coronavirus that are on end of this anita i'm very worried about his situation right now it's not only the disease but also access to food it's very difficult they're sharing a bottle of water for 2 they're in a very difficult situation she is having a hard time communicating with her son when he did get in contact he sounded tired and dejectedly.

the families of the stranded students are appealing to the ethiopian government to repatriate them as soon as possible. ethiopian government hasn't banned flights from china but has stepped up prevention measures at airports and medical centers up to 50000 chinese live and work in ethiopia and ethiopian airlines operates daily and weekly flights to 5 destinations in china and as just as at we found 40 suspected cases of corona virus based on the criteria of the w.h.o. 8 of them were found negative we're still waiting for test results regarding the other 6 including one chinese national to write. similar measures are being taken in other african countries too we've set up what we called the africa. task force for. various preparedness and response which brings all member states together and we called it that closely with the world health organization in several areas of work in the areas of laboratory testing. in airport surveillance and

control in the areas of infection control and in the areas of care and treatment for potential with the continent considered vulnerable to the spread of the epidemic doctors are racing to raise their levels of readiness to cope and disease at this about. a mass gatherings including several sporting events have already been cancelled in china and even next month's national people's congress is reportedly at risk there's been no such ban in south korea where $6000.00 couples from all over the world have just come together for a mass wedding organized by the unification church travel coronavirus cases have been reported in that country and the building in the city of got young was sterilized before the ceremony. now a key witness and u.s. president on trump's impeachment trial has been fired from his white house job attendant alexander then dman his testimony in the inquiry infuriated president

trump and his allies has just been escorted out of the white house let's go live now to rosalynn jordan is in washington for us what do we know about alexander. well if they can. well we have a statement from his lawyer david prospect and i'm going to quote from part of the rather lengthy statement quote there is no question in the mind of any american why this man's job is over why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the white house lieutenant colonel vandeman was asked to leave for telling the truth his honor his commitment to write frightened the powerful and as you might expect mario the reaction is coming in quite quickly from people who are very concerned about his future after he testified back in november about the july 25th phone call between president donald trump and the president of ukraine mr is a lenski

a call which mr benjamin told members of congress at the time that he thought was improper was veering into inappropriate and perhaps illegal areas and that the handling of the transcript of that phone call was placed under extremely tight classification something that should not have been done if in fact this were simply a getting to know you better phone call we've heard from hillary clinton the former secretary of state in 2016 democratic presidential candidate who said quote in her tweet during his testimony about trump's crimes lieutenant colonel venkman had a message for his father you made the right decision 40 years ago excuse me to leave the soviet union do not worry i will be fine for telling the truth and this is clinton following up on this quote it's appalling that this administration may prove him wrong thank you very much from washington ron and john thanks. well in

all the developments the race to take on donald trump into them his presidential election is reaching another key stage 7 counterfeits from the opposition democrats taking part in a debate ahead of the new hampshire primary it comes off to technical glitches month the start of the selection process in iowa earlier this week the judge is the early front runner after scoring a narrow victory in that iowa caucus former mayor of south bend indiana is a centrist and also the openly of the only openly gay candidate he was point one percent only point one percent ahead of veteran senator bernie sanders the 78 year old has strong grassroots support from the left and famously lost out to hillary clinton in the nomination in 2016 elizabeth warren took place she's also from the left of the party and has called for more funding from her supporters joe biden had a disappointing week with 4th place in iowa barack obama's former vice president was seen by many senior democrats as the person who could beat don't trump 3 more

candidates have qualified for the debate minnesota senator amy klobuchar lawyer and businessman andrew young and philanthropist and environmentalist tom stay above is one more potential leading candidate who is not there former new york mayor michael bloomberg started his campaign late and is focusing on the so-called super tuesday states next month richard goodstein is a democratic strategist and former advisor to bill and hillary clinton joins us now from washington so obviously i don't need to tell you that the iowa caucuses turned out to be a bit of a fiasco for the democrats how critical is new hampshire going to be. well let me just put in some perspective in 2012 rick santorum who was running for the republican. presidential nomination was told that he won the iowa caucuses 16 days after the caucuses and did so this is not like a problem unique to democrats i can tell you know of anything else that that's

going on that scene trumps acquittal in the impeachment trial we don't want to get into that but it's just it's something they could have done without. obviously so. new hampshire is obviously vital to each of the people the 4 top ones that you named kind of take them in reverse order yes joe biden needs to show that he really can compete in states that aren't reliant on minority voters south carolina has a high percentage of black voters for example iowa didn't new hampshire most definitely does not again to promote a perspective in 1908 george h.w. bush the older president bush finished 3rd he was the incumbent vice president he finished 3rd in the iowa caucuses and of course he went on to not just get the nomination but win the presidency so people are kind of writing off biden i think a little too soon warren is from the neighboring state of new hampshire

massachusetts but again she and bernie sanders are competing in what's called the same lane the kind of the liberal lane and i think if she falls behind him again that's going to be a problem for her in terms of fund raising or just political kind of vitality people it is the one i think that frankly is going to benefit most by having done as well as he did in iowa i don't think the people new hampshire frankly sat up and took notice of him but they are now and the national polls show him coming on the new hampshire polls show him coming on and i think he's going to give sanders a real run for his money and sanders in 2016 as you mentioned he ran against hillary clinton he got 60 percent of the vote in new hampshire against hillary in 2016 it looks down in the polls he may get half of that so i think have a hunch the big story coming out of new hampshire unless biden surprises people is going to be what mayor put a judge comes out with right off to iowa you've got the sound as and.

really doing very well they are the top targets from what you're saying. i mean it's really bite and there's a baseline and because i mean because of the need to put some more aggressive performance and demonstrate some strength. correct and i think frankly both biden club char and maybe even booted have a challenge do they take on bernie sanders and say and senator you're running for the democratic nomination for president you were not a democrat you are a unreconstructed socialist you believe in nationalizing banks and telecommunications and the list goes on we don't we live in a capitalist society we actually are fearful that you at the top of our ticket will be not just beaten by donald trump but hurt our senatorial and congressional candidates and they haven't done that yet and i think that's the question tonight

that i'm going to be watching for is will one of them step up and finally hillary clinton ever did this take on bernie sanders directly and i think the fear for them is do i his supporters right and just briefly a good debate performance doesn't necessarily mean that that doesn't necessarily translate to a win in the primary itself. it worse i mean it yes it's true what you just said and the calculus is with a 5 person or more field you might take somebody else down but somebody else might benefit by kind of the gap that you've left so that's the that's the calculus that each of these candidates has to make if they choose to kind of go negative against sanders or anybody else that might they might in fact hurt themselves a little bit in the course of hurting somebody else maybe a bit more there's a 3rd candidate who might benefit so it's like 5 level tests it's complicated it's complicated but nonetheless thank you for explaining something of the dynamics to us appreciate it richard goodstein that democratic strategist joining us from

washington you for having me. now malawi's electoral commission is seeking to suspend the element of last year's presidential election electoral body filed an appeal on friday saying the judges were mistaken in almost all of their findings and they discounted the results of last year's poll earlier this week the court cited voting irregularities in overturned the reelection of president. how much gas has more now from the capital a long way. malawi's electoral commission wants the supreme court to overturn a ruling made by the constitutional court to a now last year's election and they've cited a number of reasons they say 1st of all a prominent banker has been accused of allegedly trying to bribe some of the judges they also say that the constitutional court can not to tell parliament to make sure that in the next election the winner must get more than 50 percent of the vote they say that's a case of the judiciary trying to interfere with the legislature an issue of separation of powers president peter is also going to appeal he says the judge made

by the constitutional court is a miscarriage of justice they are fears that all these appeals in the courts could delay the election in their fears that could be violence if that happens authorization parties and human rights activists say they're planning protests if the elections are delayed they also want the head of the electoral commission john answer to resign or to be removed and they say they have given until friday next week to step down or there will be nationwide demonstrations. now island is gearing up for an election that could shake up the status quo potentially health care is one of the major concerns in saturday's fight with more than half a 1000000 patients waiting to see a doctor and reports from the southern city of limerick issue could greatly influence the outcome of the election. around cork city political posters gaze down from the lampposts but it's island's health care crisis which the voters want the politicians to look at you know when the end of

a woman had to bring in pillows for the mother but during apollo sort of the doctor 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 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 nearly 359000 patients were on the public waiting list to see a consultant by 2017 the number had risen above half a 1000000 for the 1st time and in 2019 it had grown to more than 553000

trying 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 slosh a cat 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 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. out of brazil many of the country's poorest families are struggling to afford basic goods as the government has been slowing down the flagship anti-poverty program they've drastically cut the number of beneficiaries of the so-called also familia or family back it's led to a huge waiting list as john heilemann reports from rio de janeiro. at the end of

a dirt road outside of real de janeiro. gaging in a weary daily struggle to make up for a laugh and i think 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 asked some fishermen nearby to give him something from their catch until 3 months ago they received cash from the government the program's coo bolsa familia the family bag it was only about 40 dollars 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 runaround since she tried to join up last august no thank you they see 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 parget the money goes to women go through children with conditionalities and costs very little food 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 one whole. book amish feel 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 withdraw 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 the real degenerate scientists of one that bumblebees across europe and north america facing a mass extinction study suggests a drastic decline is because of climate change threatens food cultivation says year population fell by 17 percent between the 20th and 21st century by 46 percent in north america and the bumblebees play a key role in pollinating crops including not fruits and vegetables. so had. i look to their captain for inspiration and like the 6 nations he will have more on that clash with wales.

or more. time now for the sport with pete indo. thank you very much former pakistan cricket a nasa jump ship has been sentenced to 17 months in prison by a u.k. court for his part in a spot fixing scandal the 30 year old added method along with 2 other defendants to conspiring to bribe fellow players in a t 20 match in dubai in february 27th seen batsmen were asked to avoid scoring runs from certain balls in return for money jump should has already been banned from

cricket for 10 years by the pakistan cricket board it was a good day on the field for pakistan's current cricket team on the opening day of one of test enroll pindi bangladesh were bowled out for 233 shaheen afridi with a 5 wicket haul for the hosts muhammad was the only man to go past the half century for the tourists he contributed a knock of 63. but also known as coach k. city and insists they are heading in the right direction despite a shock exit in the spanish cup and a cloud over the future of star player in the n.l. messi the build up to thursday's defeat at athletic bilbao was preceded by a public spat between messi and boss of sporting director erik abbey dull macy's contract does allow him to leave at the end of the season for free but one of his former coaches pep guardiola does not think he will move away from the no cap

player commercial and humorless to do that is my wish. same person so i'm not going to talk about the players for the club. but as a someone knows him or not but ask about signing him i'm going to ask you where you think he might play for another european side ever or whether that's just barcelona i think he's going to finish his career there. israel folau is controversial return to rugby league has been delayed he has been left out of the cattle and dragons squad for sunday's season opening match at wakefield the french club did not say why but flowers fitness was in question it has been 8 months since he was sacked by australia's rugby union for posting homophobic comments on social media defending 6 nations champions wales face a story in taste of their title credentials in the 2nd round of matches the grand slam when his take on ireland in dublin on saturday coming to use is

a great place that can play. play rugby in a tournament game in particular never had a. mixed bag over recent years and. few friendlies will match whatever we call them but tonight here it's louis who to trust you know in the international stage so he will be on the front foot or as for ireland well they labored it's a victory against scotland in their opening match of the championship last weekend the team were hoping to give their fans a more inspiring performance this time around at the of the stadium you know that big moments in the game that get the crowd up for it and get them in on us. the way the game started last week scott in the probably on the ascendancy from from the 1st sort of 56 minutes. so if you can flip better on this weekend and get up this figure and scotland welcome their old rival the england some murrayfield in edinburgh on saturday in their 1st home game of the tournaments they are looking to

retain the cull cuts a cup for a 3rd season in a row we can't stand back and admire england for too long they have got some crack at individual players call it say it. or not and i will cup final 4 for mufon. world class team is going to take us to be our best but if you lay him out to come over there is i want as for england who well of a.o.l. still smarting from their opening day defeat to france in paris and the team already for the reception they'll receive from the scottish crowd. the person stuff can see in the reaction of the scottish players when that one i'm seeing the crowd and how much it means that one appears like it is definitely something to acknowledge and it's definitely the you can't really ignore it specially when it's as loud as. one of tennis's greatest rivalries produced a record breaking occasion in south africa on friday roger federer and rafael nadal took part in a one off charity event in cape town watched 550000 fans phèdre one in 3 sets

elsewhere in the faded cup there was an embarrassing defeat for mayo me a shocker on friday the former world number one ross toward number 78 saw a sort of told no in japan's qualifying time with spain losing 663 spain lead the tie to no after the opening day singles. the milwaukee bucks almost total dominance of the n.b.a. so far this season continued with janice and t.t. competent in numbers superhuman display the man known as the greek freak who was a thorn in the side of the philadelphia 76 is losing his fellow all-star joel embiid here and t.t. compo was last season's most valuable player and looks well on the way to claiming that title again drawing in m.b. to set up pat's constant search for the final 6 or to do with janice would like

a league title too and he's $36.00 points mean milwaukee stay top in the. sense 112101 the score here against valley for old losses on the bounce for the. los angeles lakers are still top of the west but they have been far more inconsistent le bron james and co losing to the used in rockets on thursday russell westbrook passing 20000 career points for euston who climbed to 4 check. and gregg popovich seen plenty of ups and downs and he's 24 years as coach of the san antonio spurs a bit of a. down on this occasion c.j. mccollum running the plays of damian lillard to give them victory both teams just outside the playoff picture. when you get there from coming up again later the hall hand you back to marry him in london thank you very much well that wraps up the news out that i'll be back in a moment with much more of the day's news for you a full bus and coming up very shortly seemed a bit i found. from

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calgary calls to spike avowing to stop propping up straw men in africa backing a libyan border and chance to take it all about the oil plus the u.k. finally clears one bridge to total what does it mean for one of the worst performing industrial economies. counting the cost of. the race for the white house has become this month to 04 states have their say they want to place donald trump. joining us throughout the continuing coverage of the current state of the 2025 u.s. election. on new jersey. musician pro-forma visionary teacher. al jazeera world meets the man bringing traditional arabic sounds to a whole new audience being a woman and being american playing around with it already in something new from

boston to palestine and london is bad enough as the next generation of musical talent simon shahid their musical journey on al-jazeera. china's government struggles to contain a wave of anger off to a doctor who raised the alarm about the coronavirus dies in hospital. months and. insufficient to meet the needs. this is a while health organization says soaring demand from lost is disrupting the fight to stop the epidemic. and i know i'm marianna mozzie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up

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