type police shoot dead a soldier who went on a gun rampage in thailand killing 20 people. i'm sami's a than this is al jazeera live from dollhouse so coming up the death toll from the china coronavirus outbreak is climbing it's now killed more people than the 2003 songs an outbreak. of a 3 way tie exit polls in islands general election suggest it's too close to call. and talk to because hottest day and that could mean for the world war 2 levels.

we begin with some breaking news out of thailand where a soldier has been shot dead by security forces 18 hours after he started a shooting rampage at least 20 people were killed the shooting started on saturday when the gunman opened fire at a military base near caught he then made his way inside a shopping mall security forces spent hours trying to stop him and managed to rescue hundreds of people let's bring in our producer kitty forms going on now in bangkok so 1st of all is the situation under control. yes the situation is under control the police are clearing the area to rush there and then people who were injured to the nearby hospital we did have

a moment ago by the company that that they will try to bring everything back to normal as soon as they can and we can expect another path which we read given by the prime minister. which he will be arriving in 20 minutes for a not update give us an update as how casualties look right now. the casualties at the moment the official numbers we have 20 confirmed that and 42 inches some of them are in. critical condition at the moment but they are all being prepared to talk to and do we have any idea of what prompted this incident 1. d. motive of the attack is still unclear in terms of the 3 next plan for depletes will start collecting evidence at the crime scene and will be conducting

the investigation especially what was the motive behind the attack because because it seemed like he had an issue with his commanding officer but there's no clear indication why he attacked a civilian in broad daylight what has been the public reaction to how long it took to try and contain this apparently lone soldier. you have to understand one thing 1st mass shooting it's not come on. a come crime it's very high in the country but attacks in the public that cost such high casualty if not common at all so it is not surprise that people are very very and they want to know how when the gunmen will be apprehended but the reaction from the from the general matt. is with its respect in more like a relief that the the situation is fine it was so all right thanks so much for that

update. well wayne has been following the story since it 1st broke here's his report on how the situation unfolded. late on a saturday afternoon a shopping mall in thailand came under attack a gunman opened fire at a time when it would have been at its busiest. here he can be seen firing multiple rounds towards people and passing cars. people found whatever cover they could after he entered the mall panic shoppers ran out the day coming to a terrifying hearing and this was the heavily armed gunman seeming to walk casually through the mall he had earlier been named by police as jack reponse tama a 32 year old soldier in the thai army he began his rampage hours earlier by killing a commanding officer on a military base outside the city as he continued his murderous spree he posted

updates on social media including this one we complained that his finger was sore from pulling the trigger so many times gun violence is common in this country but not on the scale this will be remembered as one of thailand's darkest days when hey al jazeera bangkok. the number of people who have died from the china corona virus has now surpassed those killed in the sars outbreak in 2003813 people are now confirmed dead all but 2 in china the sols toll was 774 the world health organization is sending a team to help beijing cope with the outbreak there are more than 37000 confirmed cases around the world most are in mainland china but 343 people have been infected in 24 other countries in hong kong the 2 week mandatory quarantine for all arrivals

from mainland china has come into effect and in japan thousands of cruise ship passengers remain in quarantine doctors in the port of call harm of confirmed 64 cases on board. adrian brown joins us now from hong kong adrian i wonder there is any sliver of good news any reason to be hopeful at this point because some numbers are talking about the number of new infections even deaths having declined. yes that's right the death rate does appear relentless at the moment this is proving to be a much more deadly virus now than sars but the world health organization has as you indicated offered a sliver of positive news it says that it seems that the death rate is stabilizing but it's too soon to say whether the death rate has now pete we have to remember

that the official statistics we're getting from china relate to people who are being treated in hospital what we don't know is how many people are at home who are sick and can't get medical treatment now in china the anger over the government's response to this virus has been mounting a lot of angry messages on social media which are very quickly deleted by the algorithmic censors but certainly it is a reminder that many people in china feel that the government has failed them and the belief also that perhaps confidence in the one party state has been severely undermined by this crisis. in a national emergency the country's leader is normally front and center not so china's president xi jinping his meeting with the visiting head of the world health organization in late january was 1 of his few recent appearances on state television nightly news we normally features prominently and since demanding

a transparent and timely release of information about the coronavirus more than 2 weeks ago he's yet to visit. instead he sent the premier league chung to test the temperature and encourage medical workers. one analyst says there's perhaps a good reason for the president's disappearing act if things turn that. thing the onus will be young. so. in a way seeing thing is protect himself from being too much exposed by that crisis it's almost 2 years since she was appointed president for another 5 years that was after china's parliament voted to abolish the 2 term limit on the presidency effectively allowing she to remain in office for life for president she this crisis is much bigger than the young going protests here in hong kong or trade friction with the united states because the way his government has responded to the coronavirus outbreak is causing more and more people on the mainland to openly

question the system they live under. many chinese people feel that core values like family livelihood and food security and now under attack threatening she's credibility and legitimacy especially if the virus becomes pandemic so i don't think this is as bad as that at the moment. he's got no real competition you know he's secure. but if this sort of crisis deepens and there's becoming a pandemic of course the political consequences could be devastating. a maybe evil style virus is threatening china's city of the future but 17 years ago i reported from shanghai on the aftermath of another deadly virus sars that also caused people to question their faith in the party after officials admitted a cover up

a local colleague help navigate me around a popular chat room be internet in china was still in its infancy then as now though public skepticism ran deep. and they are no means no tell the truth he says the government here doesn't owe those who. there are more expressions of anger today in spite of tighter internet censorship lessons that should have been learned from sars haven't proved once more the china remains vulnerable to disease at the beginning of the cries us china was boasting i mean the media were boasting about the how much the chinese while the legal system could be better phase the crisis manager the crisis and solve the crisis. he says it's hard to imagine the crisis threatening she's survival because unlike 17 years ago china security machine is much bigger and better able to maintain control of your package says there than

adrian how much of a challenge is this to the government. well some it's interesting i think if this was anywhere else in the world heads would have rolled by now the government might even have fallen but this is not going to be china's chernobyl moment the system isn't going to collapse because the system is designed to prevent that happening but what the government has not been able to control so far is that sustained anger among the population that anger is growing and i can't recall a time when there's been such outrage perhaps it was 31 years ago in the weeks leading up to the devastating bloodshed in tiananmen square but certainly i think you know the government is going to survive it it's going to survive by responding this way more censorship and more control in the right adrian brown there thanks so much still ahead an al-jazeera fears of another escalation in syria a certain sense hundreds of military vehicles across its southern border.

separatists in cameroon threatened to boycott landmark elections we'll have the latest on the ground. hello now the latest storm that's gone through the u.s. which is a violent one has at least gone off shore it's going to cause some damage in northern europe and as it goes away what was in the west which was snow from into the cascades in the rockies is now this across the plains into the midwest was rain shasta south of that there's a contrast in temperature is not a huge one so these are probably just just going to be xander still rather than thing more vicious than that this is sunday's picture we're looking at which is a much drier and sunnier one in seattle and in vancouver washington oregon haven't seen that for quite a while after teddy and that's true down the pacific coast as well all monday the

rain is developed a bit more big showers i think down the southeast once again looks like a repeat performance but don't think it'll be anything like a vicious and there's not much snow on the northern end or on the back end either in fact is not back in chicago minus 3 in minneapolis and the real cold pool is in winnipeg that's gone as well minus 6 as opposed to minus 12 so the back edge of this frontal system is on its way through cuba and the bahamas which means for crosswise it's turning off we're going to few showers left or not very many 26 don't have hours warmed up against slowly 29 and 29 in belize and the sun shines brilliantly. on counting the cost despite vowing to stop propping up straw men in africa france is backing a libyan war and charles dictator is it all about the oil plus the u.k. finally clears $1.00 british hurdle what does it mean for one of the worst

performing industrial economies. counting the cost on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. what the war. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines. tyson jersey forces have killed an army sergeant who went on a shooting rampage and took hostages at a shopping mall at least 20 people being killed an urgent investigation into the thai government's motive is underway 1st person killed was his commanding officer

as a military base prime minister is expected to address the nation in the next hour. of people killed by the corona virus outbreak has risen to $813.00 that's more than the total who died in the sars epidemic in 2003 an international team of investigators is expected to arrive in china in the next few days to help. politics in island seems on the brink of a momentous shift in its general election sion saying this one a surge in support exit polls have the left wing nationalist party matching the vote share of the 2 main parties that will bring a previously fringe party to prominence as poll prone reports and the results we can now show you pre-election opinion polls suggested that the political order here was about to be turned on its head this exit poll suggests it has been turned on

its head and shaken up and down the 2 center right parties fianna for oil and fiona gale which are jointly dominated irish politics for nearly a century have been matched by shin fein each polling 22 percent of 1st preference votes and what that means essentially is that the party has been making gains and has now consolidated those gains over the last number of years so they're in a strong position going forward not necessarily to form a government it's time right there anyone running 42 candidates but certainly for the next election they're in a very good position. the buzzword of this election campaign was change ireland's economy may be the fastest growing in the e.u. but people here are struggling with soaring house prices and years long waiting lists for public health care voters were just fed up with the 2 main parties voting for the turn. so i don't really want to go independent but basically just some kind of alternative to the status quo i have

a lot of fears about what the future is going to hold for me with climate change. that's going to affect my life in the future chin fein is the left wing nationalist republican party previously regarded as the political wing of the paramilitary group the ira now shedding those associations and remolding itself as a progressive alternative and it's not clear what strategy will be now looking at it from the outside i think they would benefit from not going to government on this occasion because they would be going in as a junior partner define a fall of and previous experience of junior partners with those party suggests that they would lose votes nonpolitical factors may also influence the outcome of this election if the 1st saturday poll since 1918 storm keera brought dangerous winds and driving rain to many polling stations and slap bang in the middle of polling day a major rugby international. does. the timing of this election certainly raised eyebrows i can't believe that it is really. but it's

a point we've often and have you voted already don't imagine that gave is more important vote i'm sorry. under the irish system transfer of votes will be crucial how many 2nd and 3rd preferences can the big parties pick up but even if shin fein doesn't get into a government the days of 2 party dominance in this country appear to be over paul brennan al-jazeera doublet. peace talks between representatives of libya's u.n. recognize government and war sorry for have to have again ended with no agreement senior officials from the warring sides gathered at the u.n. in geneva this was the latest in a series of talks so we hostilities in the country hoda abdel-hamid is that the talks in geneva she says both sides were at loggerheads over what to do about the various armed groups in libya and the withdrawal of hofmann's forces. an

internationally recognized government in tripoli has been calling for the troops of have to pull back 2 to 3 april 2019 position that means all the way back to being pulling out of south of tripoli pulling out of sirte that is something that general have to has been the former general rather has been saying no to and continue to say no to we don't know much about how did what was going on during those meetings simply because they kept it quite secretive and northpoint i did read a report just see any of these delegations coming in and out of the u.n. building behind us but we do know that there were some points where they didn't see eye to eye and it you mean one's being what to do with a few diffusion of these armed groups and pulling the debris out of the declare libyan national army that needs to go back to the east now to communicate that was

issued at the end of this round it says that the 2 parties agreed that. thousands of displaced people need to go back to their homes but they also did not agree on ways to bring back some normalcy to those areas that had been evacuated by civilians the conflict in libya is top of the agenda for the african union summit in ethiopia's capital addis ababa speaking at the meeting u.n. secretary general and tony were terrors criticized other countries for interfering . example with regards to libya it's evident the crisis has been seriously aggravated by the presence of forces and equipment from many other countries in clear violation of the mandate of the security council i think we have to reestablish the sovereignty of international law and the conditions in which the decisions of the security council could be implemented and that countries should understand that their engagement to promote certain conflicts increases the potential for actions by terrorist groups the u.s.

and afghan forces of come under attack in eastern afghanistan the soldiers who are taking part in a joint operation in the province were engaged by direct fire u.s. forces had been helping the afghan army clear an area threatened by the taliban in the region turkey has send reinforcements across its border of the syrian government forces advanced in the last rebel held province talks with russian officials have been taking place in un corridor to try to deescalate the situation in the last week turkey said it killed dozens of syrian government soldiers response to an attack the regime ignored warnings to retreat and is now taken inside of. the syrian government's offensive to take it live province has included air strikes on civilian neighborhoods as well as fighting on the ground it's forced many people to flee north towards the border city of course all of visited

a camp that's how some of the displaced people. how do i know she is one of the very new camps the stablished for the displaced after the recent skirmishes in the south of it let. in the time of the situation everybody has to share. there are 17 people crammed into this tent. mariel was displaced from so rock and a month ago despite her own suffering she opened her doors to her relatives who were also displaced from so rock up just 5 days ago. and if my husband left us a year ago and me and my kids are living here in the camp thank god i have 8 children and another one got killed when we left our home the regime was still shelling our houses are destroyed where shall we go run off merriam's relatives there's more her struggle is even harder she's almost 9 months pregnant and she has another daughter to look after the locals that are $37.00 i say out of the dana we

managed to hitch a ride to get here off to hours of waiting and asking people on the road since my husband died 8 months ago we've been forced to me it's depressing to think that i'll give birth here it would be better if i had my own tent this latest away wolf displacement seems to be unprecedented the refugees are suffering in the harsh winter weather the rain was a major problem the tents were flooded now it's knowing and keeping everyone a war is even towards if it gets aid workers in the field say they can't meet the needs of so many people. they are fleeing to either north or to off rain or azhar but it's difficult to find a place there to international humanitarian aid is urgently needed that's the only way to suffice. the syrian army captured the strategic crossroads town of surat on friday after weeks longer offensive against the country's last rebel stronghold and

at the just a few months ago so iraq accounted some 110000 residents but now it's a cost down. and for the children of. their destiny is to suffer through yet another syrian tragedy. al-jazeera it live north of us in syria. australia has been hit by a tropical cyclone and floods some areas have been so by the heaviest rainfall in almost 2 decades since friday the number of rescue operations in new south wales has more than doubled the country's bushfire crisis been raging for months it could be eased by the downpours but the combination of extreme weather is causing new problems including debris from the fires being swept into rivers that supply trunking water and deforestation in brazil's amazon rain forest doubled in january

compared with a year ago government data shows more than 280 square kilometers of land was destroyed last month destruction of the rain forest tends to slow this time of year as the rainy season limits access and toxic air has just had its hottest day ever recorded the reading of 18.3 degrees celsius was taken at an arjen time research base and is nearly a full degree warmer than the previous record and shepherd is professor of earth observation at the university of leeds he researches the changes in the antarctic and its impact on the environment he says the damage won't be fixed for a 1000 years. this temperature record from the argentine base is being really powerful for as it's allowed us to say whether the changes that are happening in antarctica in this part of the continent are. short term people look to ations or

a long term trend and it's definitely the latter but they also very much like the canadian fires at the moment give us a glimpse into the future and how different parts of the world will be in just a few decades time so we've learned a lot about how ice response to changes in climate just because of this particular part of the planet the northern tip of the antarctic peninsula a series of ice shelves and really floating extensions of glass thius into the sea and they've broken away over the past 2 or 3 decades and we didn't think that that was possible until it started to happen and that and they were reversible process they won't grow back again for a 1000 years and this is the 1st time it's happened in 10000 years so this is definitely a signal of dramatic change the ice is retreating called the south are not taught but we've learnt how really glasses respond to ocean warming because of what's happened and we can use that information to improve our predictions of what's going

to happen farther south where there's a lot more ice. voting is set to open in cameron's local and legislative elections there is expected to be tight security around the poles as separatist groups and the main opposition party call for a boycott of the election there has more cameras. fearing for children's lives patients may come packed her bags and travelled for 3 days in the bush to safety. her children don't understand why her father coko farmer was shot dead by the police they thought were meant to protect. do you understand what's happening she asks do you know why we left our home yes joseph ounces it's war this is the region she left behind armed separatists here call this embers own they see it as an english speaking country struggling for independence from a french speaking nation but for the government this is an armed insurgency in the

country's north and southwest region 3000 people have died human rights organization accuse both the armed separatists and security forces of torture killings and kidnappings for 4 years the cheney house his mom went to school not in not so well we have needs we need. so why. keep on a movie night on the lawn how peace. head of municipal in parliamentary elections poll because government passed a new law for more autonomy to the regions but this falls short to the separatist ambitions who want full independence or at least a federal state they've called for a boycott of the elections fearing more violence many are leaving the english speaking regions some have fled to neighboring nigeria others are coming here to the economic capital of the norwegian refugee council estimates that there are

about a 1000000 people that have been displaced from this conflict calling it one of the most neglected displacement of people in the world people here 400 people share this small corridor people are suffering from malaria tuberculosis now most of the people here cannot go back home and so they cannot vote and yet they have the most at stake in this election. where the main opposition party boycotting the vote the government is urging people to take part in this election. going to schools probably last week the president does quote also could force this to be deployed so that people feel safe to express themselves and so they will keep a watch before during and after the vote the englishmen regions are on lockdown airports and borders are closed cameroon is on high alert because in this vote at stake is the credibility of the country's democracy in they looking for unity

nicholas hoult al-jazeera ken rudin. and you can get much more normal stories we've been telling you about you can head over town to syria dot com. take a look at some of those stories now that. security forces have killed an army sergeant who went on a shooting rampage and took hostages at a shopping mall at least 20 people have been killed an urgent investigation into the motive is underway as well in haiti explains from bangkok he had a rank of sergeant major so clearly he has been in the military for a while and there is no clue yet as to what his motive might have been it seems as if judging by that 1st shooting that took place where he killed his superior officer at around 3 o'clock on saturday afternoon that this may well have started

as some sort of personal grievance perhaps a grudge but obviously it is become a lot bigger than that is he then after that in the hours after that went towards the central part of the city to the shopping mall and has continued his killing spree the number of people killed by the corona virus outbreak has risen to $813.00 that's more than the total who died in the sars epidemic in 2003 an international team of investigators led by the world health organization is expected to arrive in china in the next few days to help exit polls an islander predicting a 3 way tie live arrived because party in a guy a was 22.4 percent of the vote left wing nationalist shin fein have 22.3 percent and the main opposition party has 22.2 percent. talks between representatives of libya's u.n.

recognize government and warlords vended with no agreement they met in geneva the conflict is high on the agenda at an african union summit which begins later on sunday turkey has sent reinforcements into northern syria that's after regime forces took the town of south africa been a province talks with russian officials have been taking place in ankara to try to deescalate the situation and targeted because just had its hottest day ever recorded the reading of $8.00 degrees celsius was taken at an odd time research base it's nearly a full degree warmer than the previous record it's counting the cost for. me to talk about the biggest problem facing the endemic corruption. we listen so if you. and that's really the news we meet with global news makers and

the stories that matter just 0. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your week you look at the world of business and economics this week france in africa despite trying to stop propping up strong men on the continent france is backing a libyan warlord on chad's dictator is it all about the oil. or forces loyal to her leave or have to have blockaded oil ports stocked pipelines strangling the economy much needed from.