by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice a victory on al jazeera. china's government allocates more than $10000000000.00 to fight the coronavirus as the death toll surpasses the sars epidemic. and how long it's been and this is al jazeera life and also coming up irish nationalists politician facing demands a place and thoughts to form the next government after tallies indicate a strong election performance. syrian troops celebrating after their military advance reclaims ponderous a scuffle on the surface in southern a laughable also why azerbaijan's opposition is calling the parliamentary halls

a sham. china is pitting more than $10000000000.00 into the fight against coronavirus the death toll from the outbreak has now risen to $813.00 surpassing the number of people killed in the sars epidemic 17 years ago in both cases the vast majority of deaths were in china from beijing katrina you reports on the own going efforts to bring the outbreak under control. more than 6000 medical workers are being sent to 100 from all over china they'll help overworked and understaffed teams struggling to cope with the coronavirus crisis the number of deaths from the outbreak has now surpassed those killed by sauce in 2003 a lack of resources his post some doctors determined patients away was a hold of you as a senior doctor i felt terrible when i look into their eyes but i have to control

myself to continue this fight against the epidemic chinese factories have in order to boost production of desperately needed medical supplies. the government says it's allocating $10000000000.00 to fight be honest but criticism over its handling of the crisis is growing a group of academics has signed a letter demanding more freedom of speech and condemning the treatment of whistleblower dr leeward leon who died from the virus this week. citizen journalist who was forced into quarantine after posting videos of overcrowded hospitals and behind the world health organization says the number of people with the virus appears to be stabilizing but it's still too early to know whether the outbreak has reached its peak the un agency is sending a team to china to observe its response to the virus as are winded global health authorities to ring vigilant experts in hong kong say existing measures aren't enough to prevent the outbreak spreading in the territory dozens of people that

have been infected i think for hong kong definitely it will be the beginning same as other part of the world maybe for maina is in the middle of the crisis one of the epidemiologist contacted by professor gabriel own of hong kong university medical school he predicted that the disease may go on and the peak in may or a pro sometime in the before the summer so we hope we think that the disease may still lingering on. but while millions in china remain under lockdown there was good news at least for the passengers of this cruise ship docked in hong kong 15 allowed to leave after spending several days in quarantine. al-jazeera. well those are our cinema as the presidents 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't have close contact with. the new r. horn or is in fact a patient you got 80 percent of child is to get infected and every one patient who can. be one in fact a patient can in fact a 2 to 3 person and for this disease they have very widespread trauma of presentation you can be completely asymptomatic all along or just a were a 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. don't have completely. about the disease who will go downhill or who will become our who will stay well but we know that for elderly who are above 60 years old we have some kind of

illness they're more likely to have a very. severe of course of the seas so what horrible even if you are asymptomatic you can still in fact or someone else so a silent carrier may be everywhere in our city. now a vigil has been held in the city of timelines were assaulter went on a shooting sprees a military base seized hostages in a busy shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people with dozens of others in the city of korans this our prime minister says the soldiers' motive was a dispute over a property deal when he brings us more no from the thai capital bangkok. in the final dramatic movements 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 at around 9 o'clock they killed him and 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 . a trained sharpshooter with years of experience as 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. going to the quad. 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 but. 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 the commanding army officer and another person but it doesn't explain why he then travelled 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. irish nationalist party shin fein has demanded a place in coalition talks as early election results indicates a major surge in supports tallies indicate the party which is the former political wing the ira have narrowed the security of the most votes to censor

a parsis have dominated sirish politics for a century but both have ruled out sharing power with sinn fein that's crossness in the park and he joins us live from dublin we are still waiting on final results but interesting the future for oil and claiming that they will be the largest part say what does this mean. yes i think we have to take those claims with a pinch of solves considering that the count is still going on particularly here in the capital double but also in other constituencies in areas counties across the country as well what that means is open to interpretation but if you base what could happen on the exit polls that came out of 'd saturday evening it looks as if you know for all the 2. parties that have dominated of politics for generations maybe now neck and neck which in faded shim fate has made significant

gains in this year's election that will be for the 1st time in more than irish political history with then of course after talk about possible configurations and coalitions of a future government the question is will the 2 dominant party spin again the 4 decide to work together to try and exclude shem faded from government and will alternatively potentially ship flame try to reach out to freedom for who are now making these claims of being ahead to form a government themselves or indeed could soon fail each out to parties on the left of the political spectrum or the labor party the green party to remain potentially an opposition playing the long game as it were for a future election possibly have. here's time where they may win the election outright but at the moment no single policy is expected to win the selection coalition building is inevitable it will indeed be complicated and it certainly will not least because sinn fein as you say are demanding

a seat at the table when it comes to those talks but they do have that very controversial history just how much of a game changer would you say this is that so much all of the votes this time raines has now gone to sharon fein apart see that traditionally doesn't do as well as the 2 main parties in orleans. i mean just to explain there are certainly folks in arlington who would never ever ever vote the same frame because of its history its legacy of being connected to the arch republican army during a period of violence in northern ireland most simply of the troubles in which 3 and a half 1000 people died but there is also of course a new generation for whom the troubles is not part of their lives and they are prepared to give the chance why because many people are extremely disillusioned with the work of the 2 major parties who have been in a confidence and supply arrangement between the 2 of them over the past 5 years

mainly to get. disappointed that these parties have not dealt with grassroots issues like health care homelessness the soaring cost of rent house prices in the capital don't we have gone up 86 percent in the past few years so those in a generation of young people will never be able to afford their own if these disillusioned voters who are prepared to give chances to pain of course being very keen to rebrand themselves there are very few candidates who are part of the old sinn fein who can claim a direct link to the old days and if the early results are to be believed they've done very well indeed but they've only fielded $4200.00 votes you need 80 seats to be able to form a majority of course they come to that they will have to go into coalition and so. i want us to have a government for it that i want is to have ideally a government with no faith in

a father know an ale and as i have started the contact at their parish cease to explore the next days whether or not that is a possibility but i also have to say this in any event i do dance except at the exclusion are told of excluding our party a party that represents now almost a quarter of the electress i think that's is fundamentally undemocratic. the leader of sinn fein arrived in this town center a short while ago there was a rapturous cheer when she arrived she has garnered a tremendous amount of support and what her success shows is that there is growing confidence in same frames ability to play a role in any kind of future government here in ireland ok need parker there live for as. for no thank you very much an iranian defense ministry

official says the country's 1st imagery satellites has failed to reach orbit after being launched the attempts have threatened to send tensions with the u.s. soaring once again washington has raised concerns in the past about tehran's satellite program saying it's a cover for ballistic missiles iran denies this insisting it's for peaceful purposes let's cross live now to bake he joins us from iran. what happens just talk us through the timeline of events. well from what we know the satellite was launched on this rocket it went out for about 9 minutes but the spokesman for the defense ministry aerospace division a said that at the last stage the rocket didn't reach the required speed and was able to launch a satellite into orbit but iran says it was successful most of

the goals in fact 90 percent of the goals so they're very much spinning this as a success even though they didn't achieve getting that satellite into orbit now this had been delayed we were expecting it was the end of last week but it was delayed until today we are expecting it this morning we've been watching it all day but the news finally came that they had launched but you were unsuccessful not this was a domestic satellite made inside iran i think and it is an imagery satellite so it was supposed to go up orbit the earth and take pictures of iran specifically concentrating on agriculture mines possible oil fields but also also earthquakes to help iran deal with natural disasters but again it has not been successful in even though iran is saying that they've achieved 90 percent of their goals. and what sort of impact will this have on iran's sense right program moving forwards.

well this isn't the 1st time that a launch has failed we have 2 failed launches at least 2 failed launches last year but iran has had 4 successful launches in the past have said that they will continue on this path and that's what the spokesperson said today but iran has also sent a monkey into space have said they want to send an astronaut into space possibly with the help of russia and the telecommunications minister actually tweeted out 10 aerospace suit for an astronaut so they do have plans to continue this project but there are concerns from the specially from the united states around iran's ballistic missile technology and they seem to think that that is linked to these rocket launches the united states has also claimed that iran is in violation of 2 un resolutions one from 2010 and the other one from 2015 but iran has responded by saying that their missile technology is not aimed at missiles with a nuclear weapon they don't want a nuclear weapon but also they say that one of those resolutions was to endorse the

2015 nuclear deal the one that american union that really pulled out of so they say the united states should be quoting a resolution that endorsed a deal that the united states put out of said big for us live from tehran thank you very much. so to come here and i'll just say african union leaders gathered for a summit titled silencing the gun. sounds played over ok it's a national emergency is declared as billions and cents. more coal sat at times when she whether they'd see the middle east over the next couple of days a fair bit of cloud just around turkey around the levant that eastern side of the

mediterranean we've had a fair bit of rain here actually and in fact in the northern gaza strip where 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 basin places a damp 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 very information here in doha and choose day right 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 5 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. frank assessments the one thing about these bush bars is that you really want to do . a mature and informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now the critical debate sequel on those 2 is going to be told what the law is on a bogus argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware use about still against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. to.

this is al jazeera in our minds of the top stories this hour china is facing more than $10000000000.00 into the fight against corona virus which is no killed more people than the sawers epidemic 17 years ago the death toll stands at 813 been off thousands of people quarantined on board a cruise ship and home called up no below to leave. vigils being held in the city in thailand where a soldier went on a shooting spree at a military base and seized hostages in a shopping mall it killed 29 people in the city of corrupts the thai prime minister says soldiers motive was a dispute over a property deal. and the irish nationalist party shin fein has demanded a place in the coalition talks as early election results indicate a major surge in supports tallies indicate the party which is the former political

wing of the ira have narrowly secured the most votes. here as about sitters israel has warned israel against taking any unilateral actions and exports of the occupied west bank ahead of the completion of the trump administration's middle east peace proposal david friedman added that such a move could endanger the plan last month the long awaited middle east deal was unveiled its allies 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 called the palestinian government has rejected that american proposal away from israel and the palestinian territories they're happy in process again strong plan circus demonstrators rallies in istanbul they've condemned the proposal and called on people everywhere to stand up for sure aslan. similar scenes in the moroccan capital robots where people have denies the plan has

been to pro israel. the syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the north west soldiers are advancing in the southern cross over aleppo province to major highways the offensive could open up a direct routes to rebel held areas of western aleppo and. i met going to work you know yourself how truly bastida over the past few days obviously an armed forces have managed to make significant achievements the troops that were coming from east a little above met with the advance forces from southern aleppo and managed to regain control of the geographical area more than 600 square kilometers. has been monitoring the situation from istanbul. syrian government forces have expanded their influence in western and southern outskirts of aleppo in that for a reason by retaking middle villages they want to push all the remaining rebels and

their families to move to worse and then they will focus their fight on taken over the city of the last remaining stronghold for the syrian opposition and this explains why are the same time while the syrian army is making those military gays turkey sending more reinforcements setting up more military outposts around the heart after the muslim are to prevent the syrian army from from taking over turkey is saying that syria has until the end of february to pull out its troops beyond the turkish military outposts but syria insists this is a legitimate fight against what it describes as a terrorist organization as a reference to hate the idea of a sham which is the most powerful rebel group operating in the province of it. as the fighting show no sign of abating civilians are concerned many villages have become. abandoned completely abandoned because people fear revenge attacks by the

syrian government or fear to find themselves caught up in the fighting between the rebels are actually in the government and this is something which is creating. problems also of for turkey also because it has more than 4000000 syrian refugees and is concerned that the 4000000 remaining refugees in 4000000 civilians trapped in would have absolutely no way to go except trying to cross into turkey. and you know african union summit is underway in ethiopia leaders from $55.00 african countries are set for 2 days of talks will focus on ways to end regional violence so the continent can unlock its economic potential but the conflicts in libya is high on the agenda as well as the growing instability in the region mohammad foul has more i decided the summit in addis ababa he says there's been a lot of talk about a group or response to help end the conflict in libya. it's

a series of issues quite a number of issues they 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 or so 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 sahara saying that the international community should give full support to those efforts and advocating some of those missions to

be conducted under chapter 7 so that they can have more efficiency with regards to the task at hand including combating terrorism and also for cement and keeping of peace. falls of course in cameron's local and legislative elections which are being held for the 1st time in 7 years but it comes at a time of political division and concerns over security the vote is worried people in legions of suffer violence and wants independence after more than 2 years of conflict with the cameroon army english speaking groups have called for a boycott of the foods they say they're treated as 2nd class citizens in the largely french speaking country. polls have also closed in azerbaijan but the opposition say the parliamentary election is a sham president ilham aliyev earlier voted in the capital baku he called the snap election and the summer after replacing the prime minister several position parties

of course and the votes. john is the most prosperous country in the all rich caucuses region but international monitors say it's also the most corrupt they say none of the country's elections have been free nor fair since ali if it came president's and he succeeded his father 17 years ago then azerbaijan was part of the communist soviet union hitter rule the or which country for 10 years with what was described by many as an iron fist the sun comes accused of continuing the family tradition of repressing opponents silencing critics well nicker our producer is an independent candidate running for a seat in the azerbaijan parliaments she says she's hopeful the new government will bring about some change i have never seen so many independent candidates so many people from business sector from political center and from i don't know corporate

sector participating and the elections i think that it's more of kind of free money money relation that you maybe see from that side because if you see if you just generally is that these days we have so many young people applying this i'm running for parliament i'm from that perspective again i am i want to repeat that it's a very positive dynamic again we'll see how it goes at the end and what is the result but my very strong belief is that the new born parliament will have after the elections they did was achieved and it's a it's a good dynamics that will that will see and it will definitely contribute to the old age reforms happening in the country because there will be younger people. philine there will be many young people during the parliament it campaign was open and transparent i'm going to sion was dating high we had members of the political parties both position and government we had independent camp independent candidate

as myself and the the competition was really high and intense again and it's not about the young people joining the parliament new wave of new generation maybe who need it from western universities who who had different experiences in project management different experiences in political some institutions pakistan's prime minister has declared a national emergency after billions of locusts devastated farming communities in the east coast eating insects of rubbish cosen point and maize crops raising fears of food shortages the government says this is the worst locust infestation in movement 2 decades swarms of locusts are also destroying crops in east africa has more from terra ismail khan an emergency has been declared the district administration the agricultural department the plant protection department are all

busy at work to try to can warm we have the deputy commissioner of the. leading the campaign against the warm and we talked to him about what steps are being taken to try to if the situation. we're being called in this situation a couple of weeks back but luckily we've got the dry cleaner load. we just go off to there and you have got your project or do we consider ourselves as the bread loader readline or before the locusts and i must acknowledge by. the security culture and security leave has given us a great support we have gone overboard manual operations then we go for the moderate operation and then we feel that there should be out of the box solution for this image and see situation so we go for the drawn solution as well and finally storm karen has caused widespread destruction across the u.k.

both the flooded and large parts of the country prompting severe weather warnings airlines have canceled dozens of flights and train companies have urged people not to travel. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines china's facing more than $10000000000.00 into the fight against corona virus which is now killed more people than the summer's epidemic 17 years ago the death toll stands at 813 meanwhile thousands of people quarantined on a cruise ship in hong kong half know in our lives and the vigils being held in the city in thailand where a soldier went on a shooting spree at a military base and seized hostages in a shopping mall heal 29 people in the city of caracas it's my prime minister says the soldiers most of forces disputes over

a property deal. the irish nationalists shin fein party has demanded a place and coalition talks as early election results indicate a major surge in supports tallies indicate the party which is the former political wing the ira have narrowly secured the most votes they parker has the latest on what dublin appears to be a breakthrough for shin fein if you base what could happen on the exit polls that came out of saturday evening it looks as a female are free to fall the 2 top of the parties to the domination of politics for generations maybe no neck and back which inflated champagne herb's made significant gains in this year's election but that will be for the 1st time in more than irish political history syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the north west soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province along 2 major highways. the annual african union summit is underway in

ethiopia leaders from $55.00 african countries are set for 2 days of talks will focus on ways to end regional violence so the constants can unlock its economic potential holes of calls in the us are by john but the opposition say the parliamentary election is a sham president ilham aliyev voted in the camp to baku he called the snap election in december after replacing the prime minister several opposition parties are boycotting the elections well those are the headlines stay with us here on al-jazeera its side story is up next.

africa's leaders weigh the conflicts in libya and the so held a meeting in ethiopia's capital for the annual summit and said they want to find out how they came to violence increased the spurs thought of the african union play a bigger role in tackling the continent's security challenges but has the bloc been fulfilling its mandate so far this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan the african union is supposed to be a symbol of the continent's unity it aims to empower africans to solve the own problems it has an ambitious plan to transform african states at a stop.