al jazeera. al-jazeera. how a bear i'm however he is in a in doha with the al jazeera news arm coming out for you in the next 60 minutes china's government allocates more than $10000000000.00 to finance the coronavirus as the death toll surpasses the sourness epidemic. more emerges about the most of all the toy soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing 29 people. with conflict raging in libya the son whole region and elsewhere african union leaders gather for a summit titled silencing the guns most hollywood is trying to diversify

but it's slower than it was. a poor year for diversity revives the oscars points to beat. and ends for event to suffer a setback in their effort to win the italian league title idea when lost to hell as far and means you they could now those top spot later this sunday. well china is putting more than $10000000000.00 into the fight against corona virus which has now killed more people than a similar epidemic 17 years ago the death toll currently stands at $813.00 severe acute respiratory syndrome syndrome or sars killed 774 people between 2.

1002 and 2003 no in both cases more songs the tests were in china so far the virus is more infectious more than 37000 people have for when ill only around 8000 people contracted sars but sars was deadlier killing one in 10 patients the new viruses fatality rate is around 3 percent meanwhile in hong kong photos of passengers and crew on board a cruise ship have been cleared to disembark they've been quarantined since wed in the same let's get more now from al-jazeera is katrina you she joins us now live in b. ching katrina lot smore extra money has been a nice how will it be spent and how effective are people expecting that to be. well it seems that this money is so far we still are waiting on more details but

what we spent probably in 2 ways one is to help individuals and one is to help governments and provincial provincial organizations deal with the outbreak now we've been hearing stories of people who have suspected cases maybe there might have some symptoms but they may not afford to be able to try be transported to cities where they can get adequate care or they might be worried about leaving behind family members so some of that money will be allocated towards those individuals in the cities especially those cities that immersed affected to make sure that there were that they are able to afford to get the treatment they need and at least the diagnoses that they need 2nd of all we've been hearing lots of stories of maybe not in a lot of cities and towns who are not getting as much attention as will hunt that are still heavily affected by and high numbers of infections of the coronavirus so the money will also go towards making sure those other cities and towns can deal with it that they can pay for more resources more hospital staff more hospital beds

essentially but as to whether this will be effective. it still remains to be seen you know this weekend that the government for had organized about 50 chartered flights to fly about 6000 medical staff from all over china to a province to help deal with overworked and understaffed medical teams so it definitely is not a case just of pumping dollars into the situation i think they need more manpower as well as resources so. this $10000000000.00 it's certainly going to help but it's not going to be the capsule solution by far in dealing with this outbreak. meanwhile died in hong kong there was that scare around the cruise ship which had been holed up there in ports over. well definitely that's good news for the passengers of this cruise ship about 3000

reserve passengers and crew crew employees were allowed to leave after several days of coron gene so it's good news for them all of them even those who had some symptoms were clear they were given the green light so good news for them but the hong kong territory itself the anxiety is far from over we heard from an expert today we said that there are still concerns that the core engine measures that have been put in place for hong kong are not going to be enough to prevent the outbreak from spreading in hong kong they say that in china it seems that they're in the middle of dealing with the outbreak but there are fears that in hong kong the spread is only just beginning and currently there are dozens of people infected there and there's a lot of pressure on the hong kong government to close the border with china completely they have not done that but they have included new measures to say that anyone coming from mainland china will have to undergo a strict 2 we quarantine period now that has done

a lot to stem the tide of people i think usually there are tens of thousands of people coming across the border from the mainland into hong kong from this weekend it seems to only be a trickle maybe a few 100 people coming through but people are saying that that's not enough and hong kong simply does not have the resources to tackle a widespread outbreak in the city so definitely the fears for hong kong are not over yet ok katrina you live for us in beijing thank you. a vigil has been held in the city in thailand where a soldier went on a shooting spree as a military base then seized hostages in a busy shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and wounded dozens of others in the city or koran it was our prime minister says the soldiers moved sort of was a dispute over a property deal when he has more from the thai capital bangkok. in the final dramatic moments of this 18 hour siege the last remaining people

inside the mall for 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 post of gunfire captured in this video say that. we have ended the perpetrators criminal acts 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 . a trained sharpshooter with years of experience and he went on his killing spree he posted updates on facebook before entering the mall late 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. god is the one. 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 still he had an issue with money and fought for 3 days nobody expected turned violent. that dispute 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 level when hey al jazeera bangkok. the african the annual african union summit rather is underway in

ethiopia during 2 days of talks leaders from $55.00 countries will focus on ways to end regional violence hoping to unlock the continent's economic potential where the conflict in libya is high on the agenda as well as growing instability in the region let's get more now from ahmed fahour he joins us live from at a suburb or mom at this year's conference theme is silencing the guns given the number of armed conflicts in the region that's a piece of the optimistic target is it not. the tone is optimistic even though we know that during the last several years the last 2 decades african union has been trying to silence the guns so it's a bit strange that you know the title of this summit is silence of the guns they have always been trying to do that as the main purpose of their meetings year by year even half of the 6 months sometimes they need to do this and if you look at

the the mission is that the african union has across the continent several of them . can only talk about a relative or relative success because they always say that whenever there is no political process that is going on and whenever there is no will on both sides of a conflict to come to a negotiation table and actually sign a deal politically there is always trouble for african union missions military missions to keep the peace. here today they are trying to stress on this point that you know they can silence the guns only if the parties to conflicts come to the table and show willingness and they talked about south sudan as a case in point they talked about cameron as a case in point and they are you know advance you know stressing on the message that for us to be able to achieve this goal in this summit the parties should understand that there is no solution that can be achieved through armed conflict

and they also mention that in libya. the speaker in this summit and even yesterday the peace and security council of the you they return to the park but in libya just like in the just like in the republic. republic of congo just like in the horn of africa just like in the south there has always been to be political will to resolve issues for all negotiated means before the guns can be silenced. and if we look at the why is there a track record off the africa. union how are expectations for the summit more generally people believe there is a political will to get these issues resolved. you know the leaders here of the the of the african union as an organization itself and also the leaders of the different countries attending the summit say that you know if you look at the history as i said of the last several years there have been

instances where the parties came to the negotiation table there have been instances where there was a response by the public and also by the political leaders locally and on the level of states and we have seen a relative calm in those countries who have seen a relative calm in sudan in the not both in the north in the region of r.b.a. and also in south sudan it is a relative of course and we have seen that in the central african republic even though those none of those issues is now completely closed so they are talking only about relative success in every case and they're talking about you know they've given these instances as examples of the the the idea that you know for all these files to be closed for all these conflicts to be finally finished there has to be this political will on every side in these conflicts to come to negotiation to sign a final agreement and libya is a case in point africans have been complaining that they have been marginalized in

terms of contributing to the finding of peace in libya that's why you now the secretary general of the united nations is here and he's bringing us he said strong message of solidarity with african union leaders and people saying but it is the time now that everyone every one of these parties should work together and they should drive home this particular idea of willingness to to come to negotiations and the fact that there is no solution for any of these conflicts without a political will to end it politically before ending it militarily ok thanks very much reporting live from apple. well a u leaders say they are committee to seeing a unity government formed in south sudan speaking to our diplomatic editor james bass the heads off the u.n. missions at the summit could create momentum ahead of a deadline later this month well we're hoping that the 22nd of february when the

100 days does come to an end we all the other sufficiently advanced place where the parties will be able to form a transitional government a unity government and then from then on and there's a 3 year transitional period before elections happen at the end of that 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 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 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 the last chance you don't need to use the law the word last charted 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 thought of fighting amongst themselves there was an 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 that and their own country 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 israel against taking any unilateral action to annex parts of the occupied west bank and head off the completion of the trumpet

ministrations middle east peace proposal david friedman added that such a move could endanger the plan last month the long awaited middle east proposal was unveiled it allows israel to annex all of its west bank settlements which is illegal under international law as well as the jordan valley which accounts for roughly a quarter of the occupied west bank where the palestinian government has rejected the american proposals. away from israel and the palestinian territories there being process against trump's plan turkish demonstrators rallies in istanbul they've condensed the plan and called on people everywhere to stand up for jerusalem similar scenes in the moroccan capital rebuts where people have denounced the plan as being too pro israel. still to come on the news our calls in cameroon for an election boycotts to get some to way but many are

expected to miss sites and in sports one of the rising stars attended celebrate some team success are will be here later to tell us more. 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 routes to rebel held areas of western aleppo and. going to iraq you know. over the past few days. forces have managed to make significant achievements the troops that were coming from eastern little had met with the advance forces from southern aleppo and managed to regain control of the geographical area of more than 600 square kilometers. is monitoring the situation from

istanbul across the head no this all comes as turkey is also deploying in the region are these 2 sides likely to come face to face what are we expecting on the ground. well that would definitely raise the potential for a confrontation between turkey and syria now on the ground that the syrian army has managed to take over dozens of that is is in north and southern parts of aleppo particularly tell us which is a hilltop this is going to give the government advantage to monitor all the movements of the syria of the rebels and also to shell the positions of the same time as the syrian military is making those military gains and edging towards the city of the turkish government is sending more troops into. and setting up new pose and this is all via stay in

a town by the turkish military to try to prevent the syrian army from moving towards the city of now the syrian army is saying that this is not this is a legitimate move and that it's determined to continue its fight against what it describes as a terrorist organization a reference to the head of which is the most powerful rebel group operating in italy but turkey is insisting that syria has to put out from areas beyond the turkish military army out of both inside syria and asham are caught in the middle of all this of course are the syrian civilians was all of this impacts in those who are still caught in that region of. as we speak. there are villages that have been completely abandoned by civilians so i mean many places people are worried about the syrian government those areas or others are

fearing they might be caught up in the fighting between the rebels and the syrian military moving towards the border the northern part of of now one 3rd of the phone and the control of the government 2 thirds are still under the control of the rebels which is the last major stronghold and the control of the syrian opposition the problem this time is that compared to past evacuations the rebels always found a place where to go this time they have saluting nowhere to go and turkey is concerned it has already 4000000 syrian refugees there are 4000000 refugees inside those people might try to force their way into turkey which bike with severe. humanitarian situation this explains the ongoing and repeated warnings by the turkish government that it won't allow the syrian army to move towards ok.

live for us in istanbul thank you polls have calls to an answer by shan but the opposition say the parliamentary election is a sham president ilham aliyev verily a vote in the capital barcoo he called the snap election back in december after replacing the prime minister several opposition parties or boy course in the election the keys have earned his why he appointed vice president of persecuting political opponents and silencing independent media. well as a bunch of the most prosperous country in the all rich caucus region bert's international monitors say it's also the most corrupt and they say none of the country's elections have been free nor fair since became presidents when he succeeded his father 17 years ago then as a bonus john was part of the communist soviet union hades are they have ruled the

all rich country for 10 years with warts was described by many as an armed fists his son hands accused of continuing the family tradition of repressing opponents and silencing critics. while neither are per day he is an independent candidate running for his seats in the azerbaijan parliament she joins us now from the capital kids have you weather this here on al-jazeera critics are saying these elections aren't free they aren't fair how do you fancy your chances of election under these conditions. thank you very much for the question i actually want to highlight that it's a the we are going syria thing interesting process now as a country and i think that it's a kind an interesting transformation of society and of the political situation in the country as a myself i'm the independent candidates and i sing that there are so many

independent young people who live this time around for parliament and we have actually more than 10 people for one seat and it's a really kind of a new generation coming for me as you know it's it's the really interesting and very positive process for the country and the dynamics is really good and i'm sure it is it will be interesting to see who is selected through this process but it's hard to argue that not everyone is able to participate in this process opposition parties are boycotting these elections why are you taking part. but again i think that it's very fair and open process i have never seen so many independent candidates so many people from business sector from political center from i don't know corporate center participating at the elections i think that they need some more of kind of money money relation that you maybe see from that side

because if you see if you just generous that these dicks we have so many young people and i'm running for parliament it's time from that perspective again i am i want to repeat that it's a very positive dynamics again we'll see how it goes at the end and what is the result but my very strong belief is that the new lead born parliament will have. the elections they did was achieve and it's a it's a good dynamics that will that will see and it will definitely contribute to the old age the forms happening in the country because there will be young people hopefully there will be many young people joining the parliament but just by just by having young people as candidates it doesn't necessarily mean that all of these young people are going to be elected so you're expecting all of these independent candidates to get elected why does that equates to be a fanfare election. again from what i see the canteen this 3 weeks that

we had i am the one of the candidates the canteen was open and transparent i'm going to sion was very high we had members of the political parties both position and government we have independent can be independent candidate as myself and the the competition was really high and intense again it's not about the young people joining the parliament it's a new wave of people new generation maybe people who need it from western universities who who had different experiences in project management different experiences in political. institutions and all the other people joining again the competition for now for the time being me being the independent candidate what i see is that the community should was high and intense there is all it will be seen in few hours and few let's say a few days but again even this can be decent competition that i see now is quite

a good and positive change for the country ok so if you're elected what sort of policies are you going to bring in tackling corruption one of your priorities what sort of thing are you hoping to achieve if you're elected since the parliament of us. well if you ask me i have actually. put all my efforts and my champions was based on data on this so show the challenges on the social how does a social requests of people it's what people request that i have done a story i know what my constituency people living in my constituency are our lives are you expecting from the from government i will be mostly concentrating and focusing on education basically. geisha is important for me because i am presenting a central constituency and it's. to many people many. let's say people leaving at

the same place it's the woman mahmoud and i'm repairs and things so i will be actually trying to soak some social requests and social problems and desires of people presenting my constituency so that's my. being that was built on that platform and i will be raising and i will be actually. building up my marketing department if i'm elected ok thank you very much for taking the time right so if your campaign to speak to us here i'll just say that's our. a parliamentary candidate in azerbaijan. what's worse still to come on this news are including the election that looks to have put ireland on the brink of a big political shift. pakistan's prego of locusts a national emergency is declared as billions of insects warm. and unsworn there was

a lot of drama on the slopes at this year's world cup ski event in germany find him a good time but then when. we got more cool wet sad at times when she weather and see the middle east over the next couple of days a fair bit of cloud just around here around the levant that eastern side of the mediterranean had a fair bit of rain here actually and in fact in the northern gaza strip well we have seen some localized flooding some really nasty conditions going on here with some outbreaks of heavy rain and i think we may well see a few more showers as we go on through the next day or so as a base and places of that weather wintry weather pushing over towards iran just 5 celsius there for tara sixes and sevens for jerusalem and for damascus shippey into the mid teens so it is certainly on the cool side let cooler weather will make its

way down across the right information here in doha and choose day around 80 degrees celsius be lucky to get to 1516 as we go on into wednesday with a brisk setting in so it's going to feel a little on the cool side here as well meanwhile across northern africa it's generally fine and dry plenty of sunshine coming through the showers there into central areas of africa democratic republic of congo pushing over towards the gulf of guinea and notice wanted to shells also stretching their way up towards mali could see the shouty just around sierra leone and liberia. but. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence lives erupt in muslims facing the stark reality of being

ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and on al-jazeera. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most inventors species. but a remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the might of the country's investors and putting high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out. on a jersey are. you. holding.

this is al jazeera a quick reminder of our top stories this hour china is putting more than $10000000000.00 into the fight against corona virus which is no killed more people than the sars epidemic 17 years ago the death toll stands at 813 meanwhile thousands of people quarantined on board a cruise ship in hong kong of ny being allowed to leave. thailand's prime minister says a soldier who went on a shooting rampage was motivated by a belief he'd been cheated on a high steel the soldier was shot dead by security forces 18 hours after he killed at least 29 people. and polls of course in azerbaijan but the opposition say the parliamentary election is a sham several of position parties have boycotted the vote accusing president. of paris accusing little opponents and silencing independent media. by local and

legislative elections are being held for the 1st time in 7 years in cameroon pants it's a time of political division and concerns over security the ruling. cameron peoples democratic movement supports president paul beer has rules for 37 years and is one of the world's longest serving leaders the main opposition party has refused to field any candidates its leader morris come to was jailed for 9 months after his defeats in the 2018 presidential elections he lives abroad and then there's the ongoing conflicts in the english speaking north west and south west regions 4000000 people out of a population of 23000000 live there and they want to break away and form a new country called near 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 more well shortly we'll speak to nicholas hard because in the city of douala but 1st here's reports on how some opposition groups are calling for a boycott of the vote. fearing for children's lives patients may come packed your bags and travelled 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 her. 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 arm separatists here called this embassy they see it as an english speaking country struggling for independence from a french speaking nation but for the government this is an armed insurgency in the country's north and southwest region 3000 people have died human rights organization accuse both the armed separatists and security forces of torture killings and kidnappings for 4 years in china house went to school not.

so much what we have. we need. to wipe. out every day. keep on a movie night on the lawn how peace. head of municipal in parliamentary elections poll b.s. government passed a new law for more autonomy to the regions but this falls short to the separatist ambitions who want full independence or at least a federal state they've called for a boycott of the elections fearing more violence many are leaving the english speaking regions some have fled to neighboring nigeria others are coming here to the economic capital of the norwegian refugee council estimates that there are about a 1000000 people that have been displaced from this conflict calling it one of the most neglected displacement of people in the world people here 400 people share this small corridor people are suffering from malaria tuberculosis now most of the

people here cannot go back home and so they cannot vote and yet they have the most at stake in this election. where the main opposition party boycotting the vote the government is urging people to take part in this election. going to schools probably last week the president does quote also could be forces to be deployed so that people feel safe to express themselves and so they will keep a watch before during and after the vote. the englishmen regions are on lockdown airports and borders are closed cameroon is on high alert because in this vote at stake is the credibility of the country's democracy in the asian looking for unity . let's cross live now to nicholas hard nick was 13 or no it's and and just from a story some of the issues behind these elections. well hala we've

been observing these elections not just in this polling station here but across the economic hub and really it's been an underwhelming experience because there's been really a slow trickle of people coming out to vote bear in mind this is a stronghold of mores morris come to the opposition leader and he had called for a boycott of this election saying that given the situation in the north west and south we southwest region the english speaking region that an election like this cannot take place at the moment we're hearing in those regions and mend that earlier during the day there was heavy gunfire that could be heard people are in lockdown staying indoors a city of 2000000 people most people were too afraid to go out to vote or they are boycotting the election because separatists have threatened those that come out to vote even election campaigners or election commissioners that have been abducted by the separatist group now the president who has who has been reelected just 2

years ago congratulated the people of cameroon for taking part in this election take a listen to the border. i have accomplished my civic duty and i'm happy about it i seize this opportunity to call on my compatriots to do the same despite calls to boycott by some small political parties in any case democrats are on a forward march in cameroon and i congratulate cameroonians for this. now since we've come since he's come to office he has passed a bill in parliament that gives a special status to those region also a bill that really following up on the constitution that this country is a bilingual country that recognizes both french and english speaking people but for the separatism for the millions of people that have. displays in those english speaking region that's just too little too late at the hoards of this issue is not

the issue of language french versus english it's an issue of economic grievances because 4000000 people live in these phone region it's the bread basket of this country it's also where the oil comes from the oil in which the government of holby has been able to profit and people there feel that they are the most destitute that they have not been able to reap the benefit of living in these areas in which most cameroonians benefit from so at stake is economic grievances and so here is the test in this election will this election be. accepted will the results be accepted by all because for the moment those that oppose it those have boycotted say that this is in the legitimate election and for the ruling party and paul b. it seems that they're on the way to regain control of the parliament and they've been in power in the polls be as party has been in power for the last 26 years so

we'll find out in the hours time what has come out of this election and we'll keep you posted on that ok thanks very much indeed nicholas hunt there live for us in. their social media has played a critical role in promoting the boycott all of these elections as li are hard to explain. the conversation online in the english speaking region conflicts with what the government is saying that angle phone say there is no election in 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 cameroon renaissance movement was the 1st to announce a boycott of the elections modi 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 traveled to find a signal to keep their conversations going online hashtags like bring back our internet started trending 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. elections to be mockery of democracy i don't need a finger to the international community organizing relations of our own way genocide we the people of south. the young to get on to. the elections are just a hoax by the. people that everything will run us yes to keeping our people burning down the pieces there is no political elections. in this nationalists reason because. we see not to feed elections with a lot of people it's really. well

a boycott of schools the 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 since and the message this time is to stay away again from voting and polls their leaders say offer them no representation no vote counting from saturday's general election and arland says on the way with the result expected to cause a major political change exit polls show the left wing nationalist party shin fein in a toy with the 2 sensor right parties which have dominated irish politics for decades but the ruling phin a gale and rivals phina foyle are both ruling it's a coalition with sion fane wife no 2 need barker who joins us from dublin ne of the exit polls were suggesting a 3 way tie was some marching from the vote counts. what's

emerging more more questions to be shows about it we are at the main count here in dublin things that are taking very long indeed it is an arduous process because of the political system this employed here it's called the single transferable vote whereby voters get to rank in order of preference different candidates from different parties we've seen those that came top already counted now 2nd 3rd and subsequent places are also being counted and all of this will have an impact on the final result but it does mean that the ballot papers need to be counted multiple times so we may not have a definitive results and possibly until the start of the week but as you said those exit polls that came out on saturday evening gave a shock indication of the changing political landscape here in ireland a political landscape that for generations has been dominated by 2 centrist policies finegan of 4 but with growing disillusionment towards those 2 parties

over issues that many people have not been properly dealt with here at home some of voters have now decided to turn their allegiance to shim fate a party that was once viewed as being the political wing of the raging a period of troubles and violence in northern ireland 30 years ago but as i said arlen's political landscape is now doing something unpredicted and very different indeed well to help me understand more about this let me introduce dawn wallace from the school of politics at university college dublin thank you for joining us dawn so how do you explain this a power and growth in support for shin fein and what does it mean for irish politics going forward ok well i think that one of the main reasons we've seen they think 3000 support is that the current government led by finegan has we focus a breakthrough that on insulating our land from particular the economic impact of practice but they've taken their eye off the ball on their issues about housing homelessness and health care in aren't the focus really feel when. i have not been

addressed by this government and they have turned to shane fein in an effort to say that these are the issues they want to draft a gluey should train must have done something to be able to redress people's concerns about their. about them of course having links to the republican army i mean how to successfully have they been able to rebrand themselves to now have this age in this election this year well there are couple of reasons firstly if they have been in government in the devolved administration instruments and got back up and running recently so they can show that they have been a party of government and also as time goes by of course you have more and more candidates who don't have that history young people who were not involved in the ira i'd also you have an issue here where people are looking for an alternative and chin fein have a good grassroots campaign on are able to take those voters who are disenfranchised with the 2 main parties and when it comes to finagle when it comes to prime minister lee override can't you think this will come as a great surprise this apparent disillusionment with his leadership and synagogues

leadership relating to the party as well pointing to that in fact even 2 weeks ago it looked like it would be a race election his party so they had been able to call some grand buy off but i think it does show that their focus on bright said i'm not making him high status on the international stage has really done them a disservice in terms of attracting voters here at home ok thank you very much for joining us well no single policy will is expected to win this election outright coalition building is inevitable the question now arises of course is to walk the kind of configuration islands future government will take will the 2 traditional centrist policies decide to pile up to keep shin fein a bay will soon feign reach out to one of those centrist parties a look to the smaller parties instead to form a future alliance it is very unclear at this current station it could be many more days before even closer to be able to answer that question with any great

conviction ok barca there joining us live from dublin thank you. that pakistan's prime minister has declared a national emergency after billions of locusts devastated farming communities in the east the core piecing incents of ravaged cotton points and maize 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 destroying crops across east africa . now the 92nd academy award ceremony will take place later on sunday this year a lack of racial and gender diversity in the nominations this cost an outcry it's a reminder of 20152016 when the hash tag oscars so points was trending well reynolds reports night from los angeles. i don't know if you know extraordinary this is were not for cynthia heir 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 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 conch hole in parasite.

in the puddle not too much. to call it's a sharp contrast to 2019 when out of the 4 acting awards only one went to a white person ali would 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 ago and i think it's about 6.5 percent now so it's like i mean it's end 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 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 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 al-jazeera is out for an oscar the film's st louis superman is nominated for best documentary short subject it's the story of bruce frank's chain you're a ferguson activist and battle rapper who runs for state office and now is flying doing 5 job yes i have to would like to say it's not you don't learn about using something else happened on august.

18th it's going to play when you see something like this i saw me i saw my son in 15 i saw things that i mean. and i felt like you know at this my time to stand. and you can watch st louis superman info on witness 2030 g.m.t. on sunday february 9th for us here is can watch of the witness edith and of course we wish them all the best still to come in the sports pakistan's teenage boy who sensation makes history all the details coming up just over a minute's time. frank assessments the one thing about these bush fires is that really wiped them out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's

keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel of those 2 school children know what the law is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera when the news breaks. when people need to be heard the general situation of course is affecting both of any of the land here indefinitely and the story needs to be told with exclusive interviews as a country do so used to in polaroids and in-depth reports movie have i thought i'll just be around as teams on the ground there saying that they're against the united to play in the world who documentaries and live.

it's time for the sport here's fara however thanks so much pakistan's teenage cricket sensation is made history on sunday the 16 year old bowler has become the youngest player to take a test hat trick think came the 2nd innings of the 1st test against bangladesh and raul pindi breaking a record that stood for 17 years held by bangladesh been a highly we did it a shot at 19 roxanne are now in firm control of the match but there sure is ending day 3 trailing by 86 runs with just 4 wickets it's. one of the biggest matches in world football happens later on in italy it's the melanne darby and it's an important one that's because enter have the chance to go top of the table if they be ac milan who are down in 10th in syria antonio conti's side haven't been in the

best of form of late having drawn 3 of their last 4 league games the showdown at the san siro will also be the darby debut for interest new star signing christian eriksen for surely needs a beatle time and to understand and the to go on into what i do feel to be and it's important for him to understand what i eat right and won't even sleep and often sleep in the the game but we're talking about an engine player a smart player we understand very well your. football and. as i said before and we have video of humor we've. well and her have the chance to go top because leaders event has stumbled on saturday used a suffering their 3rd league defeat of the season going down to verona and the richardson reports. events is all talk getting and 9th straight italian it leaked but in samoan by have determined championship rivals but on saturday i was throwing

a produced huge upset was the warning signs were there throughout this game for you very her row with the 1st team to get the ball into the net and to have what they thought was a goal ruled out for offside i. missed john or an elbow and did his best to reassure his and use age control to hit the post just before half time. then after the break he set a new eventis record by scoring an attempt consecutive game that takes the 35 year old sarie autonomy for the season to 20 was. but for on a ball from the 1st fabio borini drew the level. on a humble by leonardo been a cheat day of jump powerplant c.v. the chance to hit home a famous winner. she wants of

a road to the final school a result that reignites the seri are talking race and the richardson al-jazeera. united states ever came to unexpected singles defeat said that's a fed cup finals so here canada and bethany metaxa hands teamed up to be elaine awesome panko and the status of a story in the decisive doubles match australian open champion can in making amends have to falling short early on sunday saturday and her singles match against penco the 21 year old bounced back to help her country through to april's new look finals . stuff that was played really well where i was ready to fight for the team no we got the job done i was hard up and probably probably the best of my life today so. here's a man of god. earlier serena williams stumbled in her singles encounter the 23 time grand slam champion was beaten by you start a sawyer in 3 sets it was the 1st time williams had ever lost but absent match.

mando deployed looks set to be one of the stars to look out for at this year's tokyo of the x. the 20 year old swede does broken the pole vault world record the world so over medalist successfully cleared 6.17 leaders and all in 7 new global mark the. former houston astros manager a.j. hench has admitted he didn't stop to do enough to stop his former team from cheating an investigation found the astros used an illegal sign stealing system during their 27 team championship winning season the scheme allowed astros players to steal pitch signs from opposing catchers and was hit with a one year ban and fired by the astros speaking publicly for the 1st time since he left the franchise except 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 answered we may never know. we're going to have to live and move forward and be be better. the terror has secured her 1st career win a women's world cup super g. event in germany italy severe get geas suffered a heavy fall during her riding she got tangled up in the nagging but managed to get down in one piece it was or who won this race a month after clinching her 1st downhill competition this with us is a sense in the overall standings with the caley shifrin of the united states still top the defending champion is to give a break from competition after the death of her father last week. and that is all your sport for now back to you how that thank you so much far out what it's for the best news are to stay with us here on al-jazeera though i'm back after this very short break to bring him all the latest on tonight.

in japan thousands of men and women a better she without a trace when i want to use investigates why people engineer their own disappearances. at al-jazeera. across the united states indigenous families are searching for their loved ones for relatives of people who go missing finding closure is often impossible people are meeting here to raise money for the search efforts of the young woman advocates and family members have started to raise awareness about the high rates of violence that

disproportionately impact indigenous communities most tribal police departments are understaffed and under resourced another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non-native americans for all crimes there but a lot of concerns of the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously a lack of evidence is the main reason federal officials give for declining to prosecute crimes on reservations that should be the end of the discussion. there should be then a ok let's see what we're wrong in this case why the is no evidence or why the evidence isn't good enough and make sure that doesn't happen again. to al-jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing them they all the endemic corruption the gun we listen so if you really put clothes on as an enemy or a problem with another really beggars we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories the back to 00. the you.

the or. china's government's allocates more than $10000000000.00 to fight the coronavirus of the death toll surpasses the sars epidemic. hello there i'm hala my head's in into ohio and this is al jazeera also coming up information emerges about the motive of a toy soldier who went on a shooting rampage in a mall killing 29 people. eagerly awaiting results in arlen's for an election that is so far too close to call.