the war. 0. alarm came that al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes china's government on the defensive france the coronavirus death toll so posses the sols numbers that traumatized the nation 17 years ago. information emerges about the motives of a thai soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing 26 people. eagerly awaiting election results vote counting begins in ireland's closely force election plus. facing the music at the oscars organizers of the academy awards again face

complaints about lack of diversity. and this boy event to suffer a setback in the effort to win the tally league title to a loss to help us there on that means that you they could now do was the top spot later this sunday. the number of people killed by the corona virus has surpassed the stars epidemic 17 years ago the latest coronavirus total is 813 did again the emergency is centered in china where there is growing criticism of the shortage of medical supplies and leaderships handling of the crisis there in hong kong passengers and crew stuck on a cruise ship for the past 4 days are being allowed ashore the world dream was quarantined on wednesday when a chinese passengers on a voyage in january were diagnosed with the virus doctors lifted the ship's

quarantine after the results of virus tests on its crew gave the all clear. brown joins us now live from hong kong from that ship terminal what's happening there. well as you can see behind me that giant cruise line are just now starting to light up and just a short time ago passengers and crew began leaving this vast cruise liner not so much a cruise liner more a floating city they've been aboard this vessel now for about a week they left hong kong for taiwan at the beginning of the month but they returned here on wednesday after it emerged that passengers on a previous forage had been infected with the virus so for that reason medical checks had to be carried out on all of the staff all of the crew who'd been on that previous voyage on sunday it was determined that none of the crew had been infected no follow up treatment was required and for that reason everyone has now been

allowed to leave this has been a floating quarantine center for them it's been an effective jail but now they've been given the all clear and they can finally go ashore it is a relief i'm sure for some of them even though you want for nothing on a vessel like this meanwhile across the border in china anger continues to grow over the government's handling of this crisis further undermining trust in a party that has ruled china for 70 years. 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 where he 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. figure 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 and so. in a way seeing ping is to protect himself from being too much exposed by the 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 xi 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. and 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 to help navigate me around a popular chat room the internet in china was still in its infancy then as now though public skepticism ran deep. may not tell the truth he

says the government doesn't owe this through. there are more expressions of anger today in spite of tighter internet censorship lessons that should have been learnt from sars haven't proved once more the china remains vulnerable to disease but the beginning of the cries of china was boasting i mean these. are both saying about the how much the chinese well little system could better phase the krises bit and manage the crisis and solve the crisis. he says it's hard to imagine the crisis threatening she survival because unlike 17 years ago china's security machine is much bigger and better able to maintain control adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well as chicken now with katrina you who is live for us in beijing katrina we're seeing these live pictures from hong kong those people who had been quarantined coming off of that ship how is the mandatory quarantine going for those people who

are coming from mainland china back to hong kong. in terms of those coming from mainland china into hong kong now we saw that hong kong was actually there was a lot of pressure by the government in hong kong to close the borders is still a lot of people with memories of sars people demanding that that that group from people from mainland china coming to hong kong were being prevented from it. that that that they've closed the route so that they prevent any people coming in from mainland china at all and now we've seen that the amount of people have been slowed to a trickle i think they've only been a few people coming from mainland china into hong kong from we've seen from tens of thousands of people every day i think only a few 100 this weekend being quarantined in specific designated areas now in china there have been a lot of complaints about about this obviously we've had

a lot of people even the surrounding provinces who have not been affected by the lockdown trying to sort of as much as possible go leave leave the mainland and certainly before that deadline was put into place there was a rush of people trying to leave before that time but now we've seen in china i think a lot of people are adjusting to these wartime measures sort of wartime measures in china those who are affected by the lock down have been forced to stay in their homes or in families in china only one person per household has been allowed to leave to go get sarees in some areas and there are very strict measures in place in cities across china in terms of reporting if you've left your city for example you have to report to the local police where exactly in china you've been and there are very strict penalties for some of those people coming back for not reporting these things to the authorities so it's a very tense time at the moment and it is something that's affecting not only the 50000000 people in lockdown not only those wanting to travel to call into other

places but also other cities far from who hunt here in beijing as well every compound you enter in terms of residential compounds there are temperature checks neighbors are recruited courage to report to police if they know of somebody. who has a high temperature and who is not reporting it and people are also being encouraged with financial incentives to go to the hospital themselves to prevent people from staying at home for fear that they'll be forcibly quarantined so there are a lot of measures in place and this is affecting the daily lives of people certainly they're not allowed to leave this many not allowed to leave the city certainly many are prevented. in terms of traveling outside the country the lot of the airlines have also stopped flights out of china so it is the situation at the moment is quite tense and there is more and more criticism from the people who maybe not directly affected in who can but in other areas of china who are becoming increasingly frustrated that all these measures are affecting daily life but we are concerned continuing to see numbers of people affected by the coronavirus go up and

up still think that update that's katrina you there live from beijing. so what is a virus and what can you do to protect yourself well the outbreak is so new it's rarely seen in humans often affecting animals the trouble is the virus can spread even before symptoms appear and that may include coffee and shortness of breath in severe cases the infection can cause pneumonia acute respiratory problems kidney failure and death the world health organization says risk of infection can be reduced by fairly washing hands covering nose and mouth wow sneezing avoiding close contact with those with colds and flu like symptoms and authority cooking meat and eggs the w.h.o. also recommends avoiding wild or farm animals without proper gear. on their state speak now to dog in a mass she is the president of the hong kong public doctors association 1st off

thank you for your time as soon as you're in hong kong can you just bring us up to speed how is that mandatory quarantine growing is it is it going to be an effective . actually at the beginning to government advocate to current teen measures instead of the what sit tight for the control we doctors in a school is asked for. we find one practice decorum to do current time issues actually is quite lose we afraid that those people coming from china who may be in fact it all in the asymptomatic to face death do allow to go around the city travel they have not being. police or any kind of measures we afraid at this current time issues may fell to control the disease spread around hong kong. talk to me about the number we've heard about a leveling out of new cases in recent days is there anything that way of knowing

whether this is the beginning of the end for corona virus or just perhaps some sort of lag period. i thing for hong kong definitely it will be the beginning same as other parts of the world maybe 4 main is in the middle of the crisis one of the epidemiology study conducted by professor gave bill and of hong kong university medical school he predicted the disease may go on and peak in may or a pro sometime in the before the summer so we hope we think that the disease may still lingering on for a film on this expression. is start to spread it will singapore hong kong and even some european country got in custody of cases in hong kong we start to have come military. besides those cases imported from mainland we saw a case cases. inside a city in during

a family gathering spread in we've known contest source so definitely for hong kong it's just the beginning of the disease we have seen all these comparisons with saz even though the death rate for current virus is much lower you believe that it's a more complicated outbreak can you explain that for us. actually this disease seems to be much more complicated than sauce 1st of all it can in fact more people we in one of our local study with one of the chinese families some john but find when you can't close contact with. the new or horace infected patients you got a keeper a sense of charles to get infected and everyone patients who can. feel one in fact that vision can in fact 2 to 3 person and for this disease they have very widespread trauma of presentation you can be completely asymptomatic or long or

ages of. you even don't need to see for any kind of medical attention on the other hand there are some patients very severe disease or even within a week's time now are we have no. don't have completely. about the disease who go downhill or who become. but we know the 4 who are above 60 years old we have some kind of chronic illness they're more likely to have a more severe course of the seas so have but however even if you are a symptomatic you can still in fact to someone else so a silent carry maybe everywhere city thank you that that's our scene of president of the hong kong public doctors association. 2 of the new security forces in thailand have killed a soldier after he went on a shooting spree at a military base then held hostages in a shopping mall 26 people are confirmed dead in the north east city of course out

and he suspects the soldiers motive may have been because of a property deal that went sour or hillah mohammed reports. late on a saturday afternoon a shopping mall in thailand came under attack a gunman opens fire at a time when it would have been at its busiest. here you can be seen firing multiple rounds towards people and passing cars. people found would have a cover they could after he entered the terminal $21.00 more in a con watch a sema also known as karate panic shoppers run out their day out coming to a terrifying and this was a heavily armed gunman seeming to walk casually through the mall identified by police as jakrapob tama a 32 year old soldier in the thai army he began his rampage i was earlier by

killing a commanding officer on a military base outside the city as he continued his murderous attack he posted updates on social media including this one where he's complaining to his finger was sore from pulling the trigger so many times others remain trapped inside hiding in stairwells and cardinals trying to find a way out gunfire rang out told dawn with reports of a rising death toll police closed off streets around the mall and kept journalists behind a security cordon. high security services soon stormed the ground floor of the mall where the gunman held out after 18 hours the terror came to an end as police made their way out of the building with ambulances on standby. start. this rampage. was a really really trained soldier he was fully armed not just normal ya but fully

armed by by robbing. development with 700 rounds of ammunition. at the same time when he went through that mall there were a 1000 people in there so i thought i thought that the type of carefulness that that security force there would pick the right timing to really to to deal with this this this this shooting gun violence is common in this country but not on this scale one of thirties will begin to investigate the motives behind the shooting this will be remembered as one of thailand's darkest days for healing mohammed al jazeera thank you more ahead on the news hour including calls in cameroon for an election boycott voting gets underway but many are expected to miss sounds. and we mean the u.s. republican hoping to take donald trump's seat in the white house. in sports the 5

time major who's in with a good chance of adding another trophy to his collection. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the northwest the soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province along 2 major highways defensive could open up a direct route to rebel held areas of western aleppo until it. is monitoring the situation from istanbul and joins us now live hashem at the same time as this we're seeing turkish reinforcements being sent into italy but what's happening there on the ground. well the turkish army has been sending more we force moment over the last few days but around. near the city of we're talking about to bust. we heard the reason being this

turkish army would like to prevent the syrian army from moving towards the city of a red line for the turkish military this is why there are no setting up many military outposts and they are warning that if the syrian army decides to move ahead and cross that line they will they will retaliate what you see at the same time is that the syrian army is changing tactic instead of pushing towards its taken over by eating into rebel territory particularly in the southern outskirts of aleppo and the north western askers of those areas close to the province of. it's quite obvious that the syrian army is on the orphans of determined to encircle the rebels waiting for the find the bush to take over the last remaining years under the control of the syrian opposition we're talking about 2 thirds of.

which are now still the control of the syrian fighters thank you for that update that's hashim about it there live from istanbul a vote counting from saturday's general election in ireland is underway with the result expected to cause a major political change except polls show the left wing nationalist party fane in a tie with the 2 center by parties which have dominated irish politics for decades but the ruling finegan l.n. rivals find a bone falling out a coalition with the same brennan reports from dublin. 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 phina for oil and phina 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 games and it's 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 this time right there anyone running for 2 candidates but certainly for the next election they're in about a position the buzzword of this election campaign was change islands economy maybe 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 voted for the terms of. so i don't really want to go independent but basically just some kind of alternative sort of 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 sin 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 shin fein 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 if you know gale 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 kira brought dangerous winds and driving rain to many polling stations and slap bang in the middle of polar. today a major rugby international hot so scarce that it gave the timing of this election certainly raised eyebrows i can't believe that it was really going well but it's important we've often and have you voted already you know imagine that gave is more important vote and i'm sorry. one of the irish system transfer 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 well for the very latest me back and joins us now live from dublin neve. well thank you very much ken as you can see behind us the count is well underway is expected to go on for many many hours it could be a long drawn out somewhat laborious process largely because of the system of voting that's employed here in ireland something called the single transferable vote where voters are able to rank in order of preference the candidates that they want from different political parties and that means the ballot papers themselves will need to be counted multiple times before we have any sense of a final result but what we do know as we heard there in paul's report is that the

exit polls are predicting a major search for fish in thane now now if the polls are to be believed on an equal footing with the 2 centrist political parties female galen finn a fall who have dominated irish politics for generations and it now raises big big questions about the kind of makeup of a future government what kind of coalition could possibly be formed in the coming days well for more on this i'm joined by dr o'brien from dublin city university thanks for joining us firstly firstly can i ask you how you understand shin fein to have done quite so well in this year's election what's behind it all i believe they got a lot of what we might call the change vote so foreseen from the exit poll last. day were in the top 3 if not the most popular party in every age cohort except the post 65 so what that indicates is there's a significant coworker of young people and what we call the renting group or the

renting generation that actually see fane a really significant voice for change that they've tried to try thena gayle and dot house and work they find themselves in what they perceive to be very difficult circumstances so they didn't get the government didn't get the benefit of the vote that didn't happen it was perceived to be important housing and education and. dealt are the key issues a given should fame some more thought he history be regarded very much as being the political wing of the are raging 30 years of violence in northern ireland people seem now to be prepared to put that aside because sinn fein are focusing on domestic issues yeah i think bear in mind that. the agreement from 98 good friday agreement that the generation that the troubles don't mean anything to so you didn't come of age for it was violence every day so i would have a lot of undergraduates not the troubles mean nothing to there it's history so there's doctrove so they have no problem von frisch in fame they have no baggage

the older group said the next generation descendant 1830 five's they're willing to give them a try and i think that's going to be very interesting going forward look even should faine are surprised at the vote they've received they didn't run the candidate the cop the lawyers in the vote and i think that reflects their surprise so they had to very bottle lections the presidential election in 2018 under local elections in 29 and european elections but they didn't do well so they can garrett genuinely taken aback at what's happened today as well ok dr derek o'brien thank you very much surprise is all around as i said of the exit polls are to be believed fein are making ground in this year's election where they haven't done before but after the final results are in possibly later on this evening possibly even on monday or tuesday a very difficult process of coalition building begins the question is whether the 2 traditional parties are prepared to reach out a shim fame for the shin fein will look to the smaller policies to support or to

playful thanks for that name back of there with the latest from dublin. local and legislative elections are being held for the 1st time in 7 years in cameroon it's a time of political division and concerns over security 30 parties are on the ballot ruling cameron peoples democratic movement supports president paul he's ruled for 37 years and as one of the world's longest serving leaders the main opposition party 7 has refused to feel any candidate its leader morris come to was jailed for 9 months after his defeat in the 2018 presidential elections and now lives abroad and then there is the ongoing conflict in the english speaking northwest in southwest regions 4000000 people out of a population of 23000000 people live there and they want to break away and form a new country called the people there say they're treated as 2nd class citizens in the largely french speaking country the fighting has killed more than 3000 people and displaced 700000 nicholas joins us now live from nicholas

ross or what the turnout spain and some of the issues behind these elections. well where i'm standing right now we've been here since this morning when the polls open in there's a slow trickle as you can see behind me of people coming out to vote and now in the angle of phone or the english speaking regions of the northwest and southwest of cameroon it's a different matter altogether we're hearing reports out of the town of it's a ghost town some reporting that there is an eerie silence only broken by the sound of heavy gunfire and mortars now separatists in the phone region have called for a boycott of this election and during the campaign they've also attacked election election officials and also those that have been campaigning we spoke to an m.p. from. she was telling me that 30 of his. party members are being held

captive by the separatists some of them have also been arrested by security forces there meanwhile in the far north there are reports of boko haram attacks 50 villages that have been burnt in the area of mojo go now all of this to show you how tense the situation is and what's at stake in this very important election there's these are local elections but for these regions it's about getting a chance to get their voices and getting a little bit of the autonomy that they so much want from us or is some of the reasons why people their desire to form this new country amazon what are the what are the issues that they're facing. well on the surface it's about english speaking people versus the french speaking people who are the majority of the people here in cameroon but if you dig a little deeper it's much more about the rules that emanate from the colonial times so for instance the the start of this of this conflict started by

a protest of peaceful demonstration from the lawyers who are asking for the laws to be in english and in french the french law uses a napoleonic napoleonic code whereas english law is much simpler it's common law and just to break it down simply in the english law the laws are codify it in a simple way and can be very well understood same thing for the teachers there are french teachers that were assigned to those regions so a lot of the english speaking people feel alienated by the central government that they see as french speaking think that update that's next let's talk that live from the lala. let's time now for the weather has ever seen and the house of the king and australia well came when we're concerned about the floods then the fires now the fires there are still a few files but i think that we're seeing some incredible amounts of rainfall and there's more where that came from you can see in here just around the northwest side of course there is trouble cycling damien that's in the process of face laying

out what i would say rules east coast with a huge mass of plowed into good parts of new south wales down into victoria and we've seen some lively showers into southern parts of queensland as well just to the north the 1st sydney this is between byron bay and up towards the go coast a creek $321.00 millimeters of rainfall in just 24 hours negatively caused widespread flooding and this is sydney actually this is in say the c.b.d. itself where we have seen some very heavy rainfall over the past few days and there's more right over the next few days as well as we zoom in you can see the rain is now in the process of just starting just starting to slide its way a little further southwards towards the far east of victoria clearer skies do come in behind to be hanging on to those showers there are more where that came from so as we go on into monday war weather coming through that race stretching up across the gold coast replacement into the sunshine coast and beyond much of that eastern

side of australia seeing for the showers longest posing for the notice heavy as we go into the last part of the week they are still there we have severe warnings in full for good parts of the east coast of new south wales and thanks that edison still ahead on al-jazeera because sounds plague of locusts a national emergency is declared as billions of insects were in the country. and it's poured one of tennis's fastest rising stars celebrate the new team success fantasy it with that story. frank assessments doing. about these bush bars usage really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping domino trouble float right now critical debate sequel of those 3 is going to bring forward the noise all 'd about assad him and his astonishingly patronize a in depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of

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you're watching all desire on her mind about top stories this hour the death toll from the corona virus has risen to 813 that's now more than the number of people killed in the 2003 sols outbreak meanwhile people on board a cruise ship in hong kong that's been under quarantine are being allowed to leave more than 3000 people were stuck there for 4 days. a soldier has been shot dead by security forces in thailand 18 hours after he killed at least 26 people in a shooting rampage it's believed he may have been motivated by a belief he had been cheated in a land deal. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the northwest the soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province along 2 major highways the offensive could open up a direct route to rebel held areas of western aleppo and. winter when the has continued to worsen living conditions for the hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees living in lebanon's bekaa valley refugees there and

had to endure another heavy storm bringing more floods and snowfall to the camps it comes as the ongoing economic crisis in lebanon is having a serious impact on humanitarian programs and now the situation there has changed again let's go live to sarkar ads are what's happening there. well him when i see one of the same refugee camps they've been heavy snow and rain overnight and this one in particular and of quite a few have seen some on the way down the road you can see them in flooding it has reduced since this morning the sun is just coming out now but it has been bitter and a lot of earlier you've missed the last of the refugees who are trying to sweep the water away now this is one of the harshest winters in the last few years and there are almost 1000000 registered syrian refugees here with you and h.c.r. of course the number is higher because there are those that are not registered but

the policy statement that was. that should be voted in on tuesday has had an added clause in there that refugees or displaced people apparently that's what it says should return back home if their homes are safe now the lebanese president michel on has made it clear that if they don't need to be here that they should go home because they say that the economic crisis has been massively strained by the number of refugees that's hard to take in and for this show and spoke to a french news channel just this week and he also added that the international community should be helping lebanon financially with aid as well because of the amount of he said billions of dollars that they've actually spent to take in all of the syrian refugees that have come in and fled the war in syria now lebanon is one of the top 3 countries in this region that has taken in syria as well as have a saying in refugee is but the harsh winter is quite tricky i don't know if the

camera can round if you see these children here some of them are best fitted so they don't always have enough clothes. to keep them warm and the other problem that they're facing is an economic crisis has meant that there's been an inflation of prices not just affecting the lebanese people but also affecting a lot of the right. few g.'s and many of the refugees here are relying on cash cost given to them by the likes of you and h.c.r. as well as the world food program and those cash cards are given to the most vulnerable 3 quarters of the syrian refugees are living below the poverty line and those cash cards are not bringing in as many they can't buy as many products because of the inflation of prices we spoke to a few refugees in another camp yesterday that said some of the prices have more than doubled they're struggling even to buy fuel to keep themselves warm in the ones that are the most vulnerable have even resorted to burning not peace because it's cheaper for them to buy nothing then burn wood or even fuel so the situation

here is quite tricky for them and there has been a lot of hostility towards some of the syrian refugees a few days ago we were we were in the poorest city 11 on that was tripoli and some of them play in the syrian refugees to taking their jobs where unemployment in this country right now is almost a breaking point so it's a very very difficult time for the refugees here and we have to wait and see what the new government the sons of prime minister has and what their plans are for the refugees here as well as the tough reforms they're going to be bringing in to fix the economic crisis space that that sarkar there live from the valley. and the annual african union summit is underway in ethiopia is from $55.00 african countries are set for 2 days of talks all focused on ways to end regional violence so the continent can unlock its economic potential the conflict in libya is high on the agenda as well as the growing instability in the sahara region our

correspondent michael ware is in the ethiopian capital addis ababa for us. you can mark some successes but as we mentioned it's facing some serious challenges to. that's right the opening session actually just began sure while ago here inside the auditorium which is in the dome there we heard from the fact the chair of the african union commission he was talking about several of those conflicts including the african union's increasing efforts to get involved in the peace dialogue around the conflict in libya that's something that we're expecting them to talk about more today and tomorrow you also talked about the conflict in the hell and some of his comments were echoed after by the secretary general of the united nations. he made his remarks he talked about the necessity for african governments to be involved in those peace processes and condemn condemned once again foreign powers from outside

the continent for getting involved in the libyan conflict against the mandate of the united nations security council he also has also talked about african peacekeepers and talked about the need also for peacekeeping missions we have stronger mandate peace enforcement missions waiting to see if that something that that's going to be talked about for the region or for libya will bring you more as soon as soon as we get it once these opening session is over then they'll go into some closed meetings that's where anything is to be agreed or anything significant is to be discussed that's where it'll happen let's talk a little bit more about libya if we can. there are some questions as to how african leaders can have a role in bringing peace to libya because so far they've been largely left out. they have been left out the people give a number of reasons for that but

a key factor is that there were several key players in the libyan conflict here on from this continent libya has africa's largest oil reserves and not seems to attract substantial attention from other powers beyond africa turkey sent troops to support the internationally recognized government in tripoli russia and the united arab emirates will be accused of providing military support to the forces of general khalifa haftar. as we just heard from good terry's in the auditorium a short while ago there's a strong objection from the u.n. to to to the breaking of of was meant to be an arms embargo there but as long as this foreign interest from foreign powers outside this continent limits what the african union can do to actually stop these 2 factions fighting billie's as some people describe it centrally a proxy war between powers outside of libya and outside of africa thank you that

said small come where there live from the ethiopian capital. pakistan's prime minister has declared a national emergency off the opinions of locusts devastated a farming communities in the east the crop eating insects have ravaged caution we tend makes crops raising fears of food shortages the government says this is the worst locust infestation in more than 2 decades swarms of locusts are also destroyed crops and east africa. has more now from its marathon and become a pop home quadruples. an emergency has been declared the district administration the agricultural department a plant production department are all busy had dried to. warm we have the deputy commissioner of the icon leading the campaign against the war and we talked to him about what steps are being taken to try to ease the situation.

we have encountered in this situation a couple of weeks back but look you leave you've got the dykey alert and we just go off to there and you have got your project or do we consider ourselves the print player the front line or before the locus and i must acknowledge by. the security culture and security lead has given us a great sport we have. manual operations then we go for the motorized operation and then we feel that they should be out of the box solution for this emergency situation so we go for the drone solution as well. a republican is making a long shot at that 1st seat in the white house as the u.s. state of new hampshire prepares to hold the country's 1st primary election on much of the focus is on which democratic contenders will come out on top bill weld hopes republican supporters will back him of the donald trump christian salumi reports.

bill weld is no stranger to the campaign trail the former republican governor of massachusetts ran for vice president in 2016 as a 3rd party candidate there are a lot of things emanating from the white house these days that are not reality this time he's in the neighboring state of new hampshire challenging president trump for the republican nomination ahead on in the primary to stakes couldn't be higher and i think the continuation of our form of government depends on mr trump not winning this election in november of 2020 and i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that that doesn't happen he's hoping to appeal to disgruntled republicans like claire manye considered voting democrat republicans have always believed in fiscal responsibility right now it is not right to have a trillion dollars of debt and i listen to the democrats and i'm saying they are democrats they're promising free education that promising free health care this is

not with the repub what i stand for is a republican but well has no support from the party establishment to say bill weld is a long shot candidate is putting it mildly but this is new hampshire a state where past presidential hopefuls campaigning at small town events like this one have defied expectations and changed the trajectory of the election. this northeastern state historically leans republican and because of its relatively small size political scientist chris carter says candidates can meet a lot of voters face to face without having to spend much money at bill clinton was able to make his case you know one handshake at a time face to face with one voter at a time and place a really strong 2nd at a time when people are basically written him off as a candidate. clinton of course went on to become president as for bill weld he seems to make a good impression with middle of the road voters i just always at martin's policies

and you know we always got reelected in a otherwise democratic state because he was so good but i don't think he's going to get the support that we need to take to get rid of the drop well this promising to stick it out past new hampshire but he needs to do very well here to have any chance of unseating the president christian salumi al jazeera new boston new hampshire still ahead on al-jazeera kalends male alarm bells are ringing once again over the lack of diversity for this year's academy awards. and in sport 20 years on from its failed 1st season can this north american league take home the 2nd time around that is here with that story. of whom a visionary teacher. al-jazeera world meets the

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the 92nd academy award ceremony will take place later on sunday this year a lack of racial and gender diversity in the nominations has caused al cry it's a reminder of 20152016 when the hash tag oscars so white was trending on twitter rob reynolds reports from los angeles. extraordinary to see were not for cynthia air of those nomination for best actress in harriet the oscar acting nominations this year would have been all white it's an embarrassing outcome for the academy of motion picture arts and sciences which has tried for several years to expand and diversify its overwhelmingly white older male membership you know hollywood is trying to diversify but it's slower than it should be and that's part of the nature

of the film business film the film is very cautious because in television they take a lot more chances with things and so and so it's are you see a lot more diversity in television and the emmy awards and the the oscars are still on diverse actors of color who were left out this year include opera phina in the farewell jennifer lopez in hostler's lupita in young go. eddie murphy in dolomite is my name. and some con hole in parasite. puddle not too much interest going to caucus it's a sharp contrast to 2019 when out of the 4 acting awards only one went to a white person ollywood also has. a serious gender gap the nominees for best director are all male female directors passed over include gretta gerwig for little

women and little weighing for the farewell in 90 plus years of oscars just one woman has ever won best director i think by women directors being hired for preacher films was about 6 percent 10 years ago and i think it's about 6.5 percent now so it's like i mean it's and but not much it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy because there haven't been any in the past there aren't many being hired today and you know again it's because i think the studios are very conservative and cautious financially cautious while the academy struggles with diversity the companies that make films and the way people watch them are changing rapidly streaming services are steadily taking the lead in hollywood's most prestigious event netflix says garnered $24.00 oscar nominations including 2 for best picture with marriage story and the irishman the stage is set for hollywood's biggest night

but there will be fewer awards for an industry slow to embrace diversity rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles and al-jazeera is also up for an oscar nomination for best documentary shorts object is saying no superman you can watch it at 2230 g.m.t. on sunday tapering knowing he was in the u.s. can watch witness if and take a look now is to fly during 5 to 0 yes i have to what day. it's night you don't learn about using something else happened on august night. to the ground it was going to play going to be something like this i saw me i saw my sign to tell. you that i meant to. and i felt like you know what this my time to stand. and time now for sports has senna thank you very much a camel a new club record for christian are now though i couldn't save his eventis team

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the season but is a reality not accepted not to face it you have to learn about it but i like calamity. a moment to forget in the dutch league for this it will and to a defend their own goal that secured a 3 nil win for p.s.v. eindhoven the defeat means it when to a stay 4th in the league or with p.s.v. in 5th i.x. it top of the table. the united states overcame 2 unexpected singles the feat to advance to the fed cup finals sophia cannon and bethany matic sansa teamed up to beat off the pinko anastasia for the decisive doubles match ocean open champion cannon making amends after falling short early on saturday in her singles match against or step in goal but the 21 year old bounced back to health plan help put her country through to april's new look fine. stuff that was natural for it

really well where i was ready to fight for the team and you know we got the job done i was fired up and probably volley the rest of my life to raise over. the years and a lot. earlier serina williams stumbled in her singles encounter the 23 time grand slam champion was beaten by to do so over in 3 sets it was the 1st time williams had ever lost a fed cup ingles. mando duplantis looks set to be one of the stars to look out for at this year's tokyo lympics the 20 year old swede has just broken the whole vault a world record while silver medalist successfully kid 6.70 meters in poland to set a new global mark to plan to stop in the previous record set by a limpet champion of 10 in 2014.

former use an astros manager a.j. has admitted he didn't do enough to stop his former team cheating investigation found the astros used an illegal sign stealing a system during the 2017 champions. winning season and was hit with a one year ban and fired by the astros speaking publicly for the 1st time since he left the franchise and to accept the team's achievements may now be tainted. it's a fair question and people are going to have to draw their own conclusions unfortunately we open that door. as a group and in that question i may never be as we may never know. when we're going to have to live and move forward to be be better. 5 time major winner phil mickelson is in with a good chance of adding another trophy to his collection the american shot a 5 under par round of 67 on saturday i will be troy and it means he'll start the

final round just one stroke behind the tailor of canada nicholson is targeting a code 6 title at the california effect. and 20 years on from its failed 1st season the excess fell is back as in a week after the super bowl this revival is hoping to get an overview of the n.f.l.'s offseason a crowd of close 220000 fans watch the d.c. defenders beat the seattle dragons in game one of the x f l z a new era. and that's as well for me isn't about to thank you so much for that song and you can find much more on our web site dress for that al-jazeera dot com do stay with us richelle carey will be back in a moment but also be going live back to hong kong for the very latest on the coronavirus to stay with us here on al-jazeera.

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a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like was so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho are among the most persecuted minorities in the world around the world council and jews are working to manipulate and influence us trolls books faking you skipped out rhythms that athena developed and designed to push content that says click me every click we make is a fad you just saw. one and in the throes of a 5 part series i did raise in mexico examining how propaganda and proper shape.

the algorithm on a job c.e.o. . china's government on the defensive as the coronavirus death toll surpasses the sars numbers that traumatized the nation 17 years ago. and i'm richelle carey this is out there life and also coming up information emerges about the motive of a thai soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing 26 people. really awaiting election results but counting begins and ireland's closely fought election. pale and male alarm bells are ringing once again over the lack of diversity for this year's academy awards.