but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go on the record. al-jazeera. hello i'm tim that al this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes china's government allocates more than $10000000000.00 to fight the coronavirus as the death toll rises to 813. information emerges about the motive of a thai soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing 29 people. stuck with nowhere to go life as a syrian refugee in lebanon gets worse from the dead of winter. pale and male alarm bells are ringing once again over the lack of diversity for this year's academy

awards. and install you vent to suffer a setback in the effort to win the italian league title a 21 loss to help us fair on i mean they could now do this top spot later this summer. china has just announced it will allocate around $10000000000.00 as part of its effort to bring the coronavirus under control it comes as the number of people who have died from the virus exceeded those killed during the sars outbreak the death toll now stands at 813 that's compared to 774 killed during the severe acute respiratory syndrome or sols outbreak back in 2003 and both cases the vast majority of deaths were in china both of these are strains of the same type of virus however there are key differences the new outbreak has infected greater

numbers of people more than 37000 sols only have. around $8000.00 confirmed cases but it was also considerably more deadly killing one in 10 people the current outbreak only has a fatality rate of 3 percent now countries around the world have been battling to contain the spread of the illness in hong kong 3 and a half 1000 people quarantined on a cruise ship and now being allowed to shore the vessel was quarantined when 8 chinese passengers on an early avoids were diagnosed with a coronavirus the tests on the crew have all come back clear the chinese government was criticized for its handling of the saas epidemic but now is that death toll from corona virus outbreak climbs criticism is again emerging in mainland china adrian brown is in hong kong with more on the political fallout. 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. thing the onus will be on. so. you know we're seeing. 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 it's becoming a pandemic of course the political consequences could be devastating. 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 tell the truth. 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 at the beginning of the crisis china was boasting i mean these. are both saying about the how much the chinese well little system could better phase the crisis been managed 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. attorney here joins us now live from beijing katrina so trying is going to put forward $10000000000.00 in an effort to bring the coronavirus under control what more are we hearing. that's right the government is at pains to tell the people that no effort is being spared to really fight this outbreak this weekend more than 6000 medical staff from all over the country are being flown on chartered flights to han to help with the with the the really overworked and understaffed medical teams other currently that trying to deal with the growing cases of current virus at the epicenter of the outbreak now tomorrow if every 10 is officially the end of the lunar new year period and that holiday was extended because of the virus and in theory people are supposed to go

back to work government offices are supposed to reopen but we know that many companies have still extended that working from home hours indeed actually the government is encouraging private companies to return stuff to work in batches to try to curb the spreading of any out event of the disease as people go back to work most schools are going to remain closed until be the beginning of march with many students being encouraged to do online courses and in a city like they jean the capital of china it's a relative ghost town at the moment most businesses restaurants and shops are still closed and public transport has even been coordinated so that people who are returning to work in various major cities will not be returning all of the same times in fact some train train ticket offices have been told that they're only allowed to sell 60 percent capacity of their trains to prevent to try to minimize

in the amount of crowds using public transport at this time so we're really seeing a sort of pivotal moment with the government ramping up their efforts sending teams and increasing the amount of funds but this crisis has been something that's really disrupted the entire country and we're not expected to see things we're not expecting to see things return to normal anytime soon thank you for that update that's katrin you there live from beijing. a vigil has been held in the city in thailand where a soldier went on a shooting spree at a military base then seized hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and wounded dozens of others in the city of course the thai prime minister says the soldiers motive was a dispute over a property deal when hay has more from bangkok. in the final dramatic moments of this 18 hour siege the last remaining people inside the mall were brought to safety they had spent a terrifying night hiding or trapped inside the building where

a gunman roamed shooting at people as he went at that stage early sunday morning the shooter was still inside the building evading capture by security forces but that around 9 o'clock they killed him in the last burst of gunfire captured in this video say that. we have ended the perpetrators criminal act at the moment we are gathering evidence and witness material to start an investigation to give justice to all sides this was the gunman 32 year old soldier told a trained sharpshooter with years of experience as he went on his killing spree he posted updates on facebook before entering the mall date on saturday afternoon he could be seen spraying bullets towards people and passing cars as the siege dragged on into the night bursts of gunfire could be heard coming from inside the building hour after hour the situation became more tense and more desperate as the wounded were brought out under heavy protection. good god is that. i was scared i'd hear

gunfire and i was wondering if he was going to come near me because it felt like it was so close to where we were hiding with confirmation that the ordeal was over thailand's prime minister visited some of the injured in hospital and he sought to shed some light on what may have motivated the killer. it was a personal conflict over a house deal he had an issue with money and fought for 3 days nobody expected it to turn violent. that disputed may have been the reason for the initial murders of a commanding army officer and another person but it doesn't explain why he then traveled more than 20 kilometers to the center of town entered a packed shopping mall and elevated his killing to another horrific level wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. thank you more head on the news are including lots of counting being done in ireland but will the result of saturday's general election be

a swing to the left. and the sky's alive with billions of locusts with the latest from pakistan on the declaration of a national emergency. in sport one of tennyson's fastest rising stars celebrate the team's success is here with that story. the annual african union summit is underway the theos leaders from $55.00 african countries are set for 2 days of talks they'll focus 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. joins us now live from. a big task ahead they are you looking to address some major issues the major conflicts. what if you could have people question because of some loud music you hired me to run us through some of the biggest issues facing the

a you right now. right actually it's a series of issues quite a number of issues there are discussing here for today and tomorrow on top of that is libya of course since yesterday since that meeting yesterday afternoon by the by the united by the african union security. council they have been talking given big statements about what should be done in libya about the need for africa to join african leaders to join the global effort to find peace in libya the secretary general of the united nations also spoke both yesterday and today about this particular subject saying the united nations is here to express a message of solidarity and support to whatever the africans want to bring to the table. he says it's time for africa to join and he praised the peacekeeping efforts already deployed by africans in the say that the international community should

give full support to source efforts and advocating some of those missions to be conducted under chapter 7 so that they can have more efficiency with regard to the task at hand including combating terrorism and also. keeping our peace today. closed sessions are going on as we speak there have been there has been in the morning an opening session in which the president of south africa as he was handed the presidency of the african union from the egyptian president. talked about these issues and he mentioned that it is time for africans to unite or do something positive and strong with regards to climate change with regard to the keeping of peace and particularly with regards to the whole india i think that that's one of our there live from. among the issues facing leaders at this year's summit is the scramble to see a unity government formed in south sudan and an interview with is there is

diplomatic editor james bass the head of the u.n. mission says the gathering could create momentum have a deadline like this one where we're hoping that the 22nd of february when the 100 days does come to an end we all the other sufficiently advanced place with the parties will be able to form a transitional government a unity government and then from then on and there's a 3 year the transitional period before elections happen at the end of the. there's a lot of jockeying going on at the moment between the various parties about over different issues before that 22nd but you know we remain. optimistic that we will be able to get across the lawn the 22nd a you leaders are meeting right now in addis ababa tell me what pressure they could put on the 2 parties whether you think that would be useful so they all come together in this over the weekend and i understand there's a there's going to be a number of meetings including the secretary general who will be in some of those

and we're hoping that there will be give that the impetus for that or the continue the momentum to get us across the line south sudan is the world's newest countries had such a troubled birth is this an hour south sudan's dos chance we don't need to use the law the word last chance in their charts they fought for a long long time more than 30 years for independence they gained it and within 2 years it had fallen apart because they started fighting amongst themselves there was in 2013 we're now in 2027 years down the track and this is the opportunity for them to put aside the differences to think about the people and the they and their own country it's a it's a country with enormous wealth if it was able to be harnessed in it was able to be used properly and the people of south sudan who are some of the most. deprived in the world need that. the u.s.

ambassador to israel has warned the government there not to declare sovereignty over west bank land without washington's consent us president donald trump's plan for israel and palestine would see israel or keep large areas of the occupied west bank on saturday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced israel had begun drawing on maps the us ambassador said you know that all action by israel would endanger the deal the palestinian government has rejected trump's plan. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the northwest and soldiers are advancing in the southern part of a leper province along 2 major highways the offensive could to open up a direct route to rebel held areas of western n.f.l. and it lip has said is monitoring the situation from istanbul hashem at the same time turkey is deploying resources to adlib what's the latest on the ground. so this is what we have now on the ground turkey continues to send reinforcement to

. particular areas around. and. setting up. sending thousands of the hundreds of vehicles and soldiers to those areas the syrian army continues its push in north western and southern parts of aleppo and these have been rebel strongholds since $21213.00 and this is quite significant the government over the last few days managed to control dozens of towns and villages and this is a huge setback for the rebels because from now or worse they will be able to operate on those are scarce so they will be forced to move into the only problem is that one 3rd of the territory in the province has been taken over by the syrian government and the rebels are left with 2 thirds of the territory which means that

if the syrian government decides to move ahead the rebels would have nowhere to go now the turkish government insists the syrian army has to pull out and today the turkish defense minister. said that his country still have. other state has other options particularly talking about the potential for the turkish military to take action if the turkish if the syrian army does not pull out we have to remind our viewers that turkey says that syria has until the end of february to pull out from the demilitarized zone so poor he would face repercussions a while ago the syrian a spokesperson of the syrian army said that his army is determined to continue the fight saying that this is not a fight against civilians but are fired as he said against terrorist groups think of that day that's has yarborough there live from istanbul. snow has arrived 11

on's mountains making life harder for the hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees living in the bekaa valley with the country's economy in crisis some local people are blaming refugees for making it worse sarkar it has this report. kabul yes complex and see. the syrian refugees living here have been forced to stay in these makeshift tents. but the plastic tarp pooling offers little respite from the snow rain and strong winds. with very few possessions children aren't even wearing socks and some of the refugees have resorted to burning nappies to keep warm they can't afford fuel and wood the lebanese government won't allow them to build solid structures sending a clear message there only to stay in lebanon temporarily a new repatriation cross demanding displaced people return to safer areas is expected to be voted in this week as part of the government's policy statement some of the syrian refugees that we've been speaking to have told us that they would

actually prefer to die than live in these horrific conditions it's a bitter winter things are getting harder and tougher by the day for them in lebanon especially is going through an economic crisis which has affected the lebanese as much as it has affected syrian refugees in another camp further down the road a woman asked the seller if she can buy eggs and pay at a later date she says she has no money. for the war. there are nearly $1000000.00 registered syrian refugees in lebanon and 3 quarters of them live below the poverty line on around $3.00 a day. since protests started in october of the economic crisis inflation rates have gone up across the country and they're struggling to buy basics the people who work hard enough to give the cloth their blankets and fuel to keep the war other than that i have nothing just under half of the syrian refugees are relying on cash

assistance from aid agencies but the financial downturn has meant restrictions on bank withdrawals so funds aren't always available making it more difficult for some to cash their monthly allowance. mafia and have needs from wroclaw fled the syrian war 6 years ago when our husband and 2 of us sons were killed. she lives here with her family but it's been difficult even though they're safer now. and i'm taking care of my orphaned grandchildren and the little field they have to keep us warm is running out what the weather is called i can barely cover their expenses on saturday president michelle on said international assistance is needed in exchange for the billions of dollars it has spent on giving syrians refuge and there is rising hostility towards refugees here they're often blamed for making lebanon's economic crisis worse all this making their suffering increased by the day sort of

al-jazeera because our valley voting is underway in azerbaijan by the opposition so the parliamentary election has a sham the opposition accuses president ilham aliyev of stifling its ability to campaign several parties are boycotting voting early have succeeded his father and the election is being seen as the latest step to clear out veteran government workers in order to accelerate economic reforms. ting from saturday's general election in ireland is underway with the result expected to cause a major political change exit polls show the left wing nationalist party shane in a tie with the 2 center right parties which have dominated irish politics for decades but the building for the gael and rivals fianna fail both rolling out a coalition with fame joins us now live from dublin for more nieve. thanks jim well as you can see the count is still underway there is of course

something over a bit of a lol at the moment and that's largely to do with the kind of system that exists here in ireland it's called the single transferable vote whereby voters are able to rank in order of preference the candidates from different political parties so they've already looked at the papers once and looked at who's come top now they're working out 2nd 3rd 4th places so it's expected to take a tremendous amount of time it's a look boreas process but by the end of it possibly by the end of sunday maybe even into the start of the week we'll have a clearer idea of the final makeup of the final results of this selection but if the the exit polls that came out late on saturday or to be believed then shin fein for the 1st time has made significant gains in their selection according to those results their level pegging with female gallon pheno fall to party centrist parties who have dominated irish politics for generations we are going into unknown territory well for more on there so i'm don't join by derek o'brien former dublin

city university how do you explain the sudden rise of shin fein in this year's election i'm not sure i'd say it's certain so they've actually did been building from a relatively low base for the best part of 15 years that you had 2 very poor election is the presidential election 2800 very badly and the locals and 2019 did it very very badly but yes they seem to have cost of an emotional. change moment and they picked up a lot of what's probably a very fluid vote a very young both were jokingly call it a renter's election so housing has become one of the key issues if not the dominant issue of this election and voters appear to what we can see from d.s. that poll taken last night which is very detailed dark dark is the key issue. bragg's it does the government strategy about you know you go to the country on the basis the brags that that actually husband worked dollars much more basic bread and

butter issues like housing not the health care system and voters seem to be willing to give a chance on dot's really unprecedented so it is uncharted territory for us what does this mean for the 2 dominant parties in our politics to fall over rancor the prime minister has had a very big stage recently in breaks in negotiations but he seems to have missed the mark mr priorities home here and i would not touch very true and i think the challenge for them going forward so as we watch today and probably tomorrow is that the count is completes we'll probably see finnegan's fall being the largest party in the 2nd largest party should faine day didn't even expect this so they didn't run in of candidates so we didn't account behind is that you can see if they'd run 2 candidates they would have got 2 seats they've got one on his surplus so he's got elected here's a surplus that's going everywhere it's even going to government parties so it'll be very interesting for them they're going to have to make some big decisions do you

go into government do you try and go into government argue wait and maybe see an election in a year or 18 months. well thank you very much for that will they process of coalition building will undoubtedly be an extremely difficult one indeed as we heard the experts not ruling out the possibility of another rerun if a stable government cannot be formed the question is whether the parties of power the 2 traditional sense these parties finagling feel full of prepared to even consider working with sinn fein or whether shin fein will look to smaller parties to try and have much more of a presence here in irish politics it's all very uncertain right now thanks for that update that's just about men's from. well time now for the weather has every 10 minutes turn very wet and windy across northwest europe yeah that's right came across some high level warnings in force a very nasty storm making its way through this is course storm kara you can see the position of the storm there huge swathes of cloud right across the british isles

sliding down across the low countries pushing over towards scandinavian way you can see these tightly packed ice about that's where we got some very very strong winds hurricane force winds in places actually $14050.00 come to power in parts of western england wales pushing over towards land at times and some very heavy rain to the most of that more than possibly invincible scotland right mornings in force here and we have seen some overtopping of the rivers there so a severe weather warning in force as well across parts of northern england what's the weather that wintry weather that bad very very windy weather will push across into scandinavia into norway big warnings in force here as well along with the benelux countries you just see these orange and red arrows on the chart there that's where the winds are at their strongest even down here in excess of $100.00 promises per hour at times it will gradually become less when they as we go on through the next couple of days wetter weather when she weather pushing down across

the alps going to be the slow coming in for some of the meter as we go through the next few days behind that a little dry but staying very blustery kim thanks at everton still ahead on al-jazeera calls in cameroon for an election boycott both gets underway but many are expected to miss elves. and in sport the 5 time major when everything with a good chance of getting another trophy to his collection. big story general sounds like the media angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives. never really being. mean to. separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the sun this clear and intense. focus the listening

post on al jazeera. the exclusive undercover report that captured a peaceful protest ruthlessly put down by the military they seem to be testing the ministry the standing over there with their guns ready to seize if the start of the crackdown has now been. 'd over the army to make 10 years on what has changed rewind inside me in ma the crackdown on al-jazeera. the. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder about top stories this hour china's government has allocated more than

$10000000000.00 to fight the corona virus the death toll from the outbreak has now risen to $813.00 supposing the number of people killed in the 2003 saw is outbreak meanwhile thousands of people quarantined on board a cruise ship in hong kong have now been allowed to leave. thailand's prime minister says a soldier who went on a shooting rampage was motivated by a belief that he'd been cheated on a healthy the soldier was shot dead by security forces $18.00 off they killed at least 29 people. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the northwest the soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province on 2 major highways the offensive could often opted to read through to rebel held areas of western libya and. let's go back now to our top story and take a closer look at the corona virus as well as crime in the lives of 2 100 since

infected more than 37000 people mostly in china the capital of who bay province who hung with the upright was 1st reported experts suspect the source was an animal market and the virus spread in china and brought the corona virus is a respiratory disease symptoms may include coughing shortness of breath and fever doctors say the virus can spread before symptoms appear in severe cases even fiction can be fatal causing pneumonia respiratory problems and kidney failure although the virus probably 1st spread from animals person to person. admissions have also been confirmed both in china and in other countries the elderly and people with preexisting medical conditions such as asthma diabetes and heart disease appear to be especially vulnerable because the virus is newly discovered there are no known back scenes available scientists are working to develop one doctor is the president of the hong kong public doctors association she says

developing a vaccine will be challenging because so little is known about the illness this this is seems to be much more complicated than sas 1st of all it can in fact more people in one of our local study with one of the chinese families some john but find when you can close contact with. the new r. horn or is in fact a patient you got 80 percent of chiles to get infected and every one patient 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 all along or just of where mild disease 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 i don't have completely complete.

about the disease who will go downhill or who will become who will stay well but we know that for elderly who are above 60 years old with some kind of chronic illness they're more likely to have a very. severe of course of the seas so have a horrible even if you are asymptomatic you can still in fact to someone else so a silent carrier may be everywhere in our city. local and legislative elections are being held for the 1st time in 7 years. cameron but it's a time of political division and concerns over security 30 parties are on the ballot the ruling cameron peoples democratic movement supports president paul b. he's ruled for 37 years and is one of the world's longest serving meat is the main opposition party has refused to field any candidates its leader morris come talk was jailed for 9 months after his defeat in the 28000 presidential elections and

now lives abroad and then there's 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 amazonia 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 will surely will speak to nicolas hogg who is in the city of dalai lama but 1st his report on how some opposition groups a calling for a boycott of the vote. fearing for children's lives patients may come packed her bags and traveled for 3 days in the bush deceived. her children don't understand why her father coko farmer was shot dead by the police they thought were meant to protect the fight 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 called this and brazil india they see it as an english speaking country struggling for independence from the 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 separatist and security forces of torture killings and kidnappings for 4 years the cheney house has not went to school not in not in the city so what we have needs and we need. white. people die every day. keep on moving i don't move on 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. with 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 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 the looking for unity and joins us now live from nicholas so these are local legislative elections but as for your report there's much more going on. that's right kim and we've been observing this election since this morning 6 o'clock when the polls open in there's really a slow trickle it seems are going to be low turnout to this election 5 hours to go before the polls are close and of course for those that are calling for a boycott that could that is seen as a success but that also means that the ruling party the party of president paul be called the democrats huge book with him when he is likely to win the majority of the votes they have been in power in in charge of the parliament for the last 26 years meanwhile while this is taking place in. other parts in the anglo phone

speaking regions it's a ghost town in the town of one of the main towns populated of 2000000 people there's reports of gunfire being echoed in that place some people are staying indoors because they're scared to come out others are just boycotting the vote we spoke to an m.p. from the region of drawl who said that some of the people that went out to campaign in those regions are held captive by separatists groups others are being detained by the security forces so what does all of that may mean for the legitimacy of these elections and for the results. well for the opposition if there's a low turnout that means that much of the same most of these elections have happened under poll b. i have been called into question by the opposition mainly morris come to who is the main opposition leader he called himself the president elect during the last

presidential election claiming that he had won those elections but of course shortly after claiming that he was put into prison he his party is not taking part in this election what's at stake here is really the democratic institution democracy in cameroon a country that's under attack in many ways from several fronts we're talking about the separatist conflict but also there is the far north where there's fighting going on with the book or her and his government have the difficult task to try to address deeper grievances that are happening there it's not just about the french speaking or in the english speaking area because in the english speaking area it's a place that's known as the breadbasket of this country is where the oil is being extracted and yet this is the area where 4000000 people live that are the most destitute so there is deep economic grievances underlying these separatist movement in this movement that we're seeing across cameroon so at stake here is the

legitimacy of democracy in cameroon will see the results and we'll be watching keeping a close watch when the polls close in just a few hours time jim thanks for that that cynical us talk there live from the lala . social media has played a critical role in promoting the boycott of these elections in southern cameroon as tags like the exit tent and the annexation of trending in the country has more. the conversation online in the english speaking region conflicts with what the government is saying that angle phone say there is no election and what they call amazonia describing themselves as amazonian they say the french speaking government does not represent them this user asking his followers to disregard any result the leader of the cameron renaissance movement was the 1st to announce a boycott of the elections but he has come to said supporters should avoid giving credibility to elections which will not restore peace and peace has been hard to

come by in 2018 the cameroonian government shut down the internet in the english speaking region to prevent more protests this created so-called internet refugees people who travel to find a signal to keep their conversations going online hashtags like bring back our internet started trendy while the internet is up and running for election day there are reports that it is slower than usual we've been asking many online about what they think of these elections. come over to the. creator of democracy and the middle finger to the international. relations of genocide we the people of. j. . young given. that everything we ras yes 2 key. pieces there is no. this is much nicer recent because. we see.

a lot of people. well a boycott of schools courts and other government institutions was started by people in the english speaking region and 2016 they wanted greater representation in government many schools have been shut ever sense and the message this time is to stay away again from voting and polls their leaders say offer them no representation pakistan's prime minister has declared a national emergency of the billions of locusts devastated farming communities in the east the crop eating insects have ravaged costs and went on maize crops. of food shortages the government says this is the worst locust infestation of more than 2 decades swarms of locusts are also destroying crops in east africa. has more from there is money come on then to inquire province an emergency has been

declared the district administration the agricultural department the plant production department are all busy tried to. be warm we have the deputy commissioner of the. 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 in covering this situation a couple of weeks back but look you leave god the dykey alert and we just go off to and you have got you projected there we consider the french played the front line of before the locusts and i must acknowledge by. the security culture and security lead has given us a great hoot we have. manual operations then we go for the motorized operations 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. the 92nd academy award ceremony will take place later on sunday the sierra lack of racial and gender diversity in the nominations has caused an outcry it's a reminder of 201526 thing when the hash tag office so white was trending on twitter reports from los angeles. extraordinary to see were it 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 is troy for several years to expand and diversify its overwhelmingly white older male membership 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 so 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 uplift ina in the farewell jennifer lopez in hostler's lupita in young go. eddie murphy in dolomite is my name. and some kong hole in parasite. puddle not too much 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 lulu 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 of the. and i think it's about 6.5 percent now so it's like i mean it's injured up 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 students are very conservative and cautious financially cautious while the economy struggles with diversity the companies that make films in the way people watch them are changing rapidly streaming services are steadily taking the lead in hollywood's most prestigious event netflix has 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 few wards for an industry slow to embrace diversity robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles and they

speak not to film critic and historian could lay or no today who is in london thank you so much for your time mr know today even with the lack of diversity at this year's oscars you are optimistic about increasing diversity in the industry as a whole so tell us about that. very much very much so. if you look at some of the trends that are occurring up and saw about 2012 it could be safely argued that films that have significant minority content or out. would not make as much money as a white cause that trend has actually reversed and we're now in a situation where even the. the big kind of data is suggesting that the more mixed the film is the more diverse elements of it has actually the more money it's going to make and that's something that gives me optimism also the reaction of the

new platforms like netflix to actually being more adventurous in terms of their production and their ability to actually get behind projects that perhaps as the previous. people were indicating hollywood actually is more conservative in terms of actually engaging with so for me it's actually what's happening outside of hollywood which is really exciting. and i think that that in in time will come through to the mainstream. do you think some films are chosen to be included in the awards and the academy awards because they're diverse or they have a diverse range of act is or direct is and does that mean that those films a good. i think we have to be careful in terms of just. i suppose adopting a position that films just simply get awards because they're diverse i don't think that is the case there's been some. films of great quality that have missed out i

think us for example one of the pizza some fortunate that that didn't go through with a nomination or so the performance of jennifer lopez which has been remarked upon in terms of hustlers i think what is was worthy of a nomination but. in general i think the quality will come to the surface at the end of the day and there is genuine quality now being made let's talk a little bit about the story lines that are being nominated for big awards harriet tubman's nomination obviously for her role as a woman who led slaves to freedom well and nomination but some critics say the oscars are unwilling to pay attention to those storylines which is sort of more nuanced or complex in portraying black experience what do you think. i think there's an element of truth thing that i think if you look at something like queen and swim which is very new and smudge more complex of

a storyline. i'm surprised that that hasn't been picked up but. i do believe that the digital platforms like netflix like amazon and of the vehicle through which those more complex and new and storylines are going to come through and in turn are going to impose themselves on hollywood hollywood is beginning to understand even as i said from an economic standpoint their market is no longer just the united states and specific parts of europe it's a global market now and within that market there is a huge diverse audience hungry for news story lines outside of hollywood and within hollywood thanks so much that it can get a positive outlook that's going to all the today live from london. and al jazeera is also up for an oscar nomination for best documentary short subject to is saying

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