bought in an environment driven by trends where responsibly make clothes may become the ultimate fashion statement. reinforcements ascend to han as china's government allocates more than $10000000000.00 to fight the corona virus which has now killed more people than the sars epidemic. hello i maryanne demasi in london you're watching out as they are also coming out. this is this is changing the shape of the multipliers on the 6 political shock waves in ireland with shin fein expected to make historic gains in the general election. syrian troops celebrate after that military advance reclaims new territory in southern iraq. and hollywood's biggest night of the year joker the

archon and $917.00 lead the way in the nominations for the oscars. as the death toll from the corona virus hits a new milestone in the chinese government has announced it will allocate $10000000000.00 to help fight the spread of the disease over a 100 people have now been killed by the corona virus that's more than the 774 killed by the sause epidemic in 2003 in both cases the majority of deaths were in china both all strains of the same type of virus but the new outbreak has infected far more people more than 37000 saw only had around 8000 confirmed cases but it was also considerably more deadly killing one in 10 people and then in other developments 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew who were stuck on a cruise ship have now been allowed to disembark the world dream was quarantined in

hong kong when a chinese passengers on an earlier voyage were diagnosed with the virus katrina you reports from beijing. more than 6000 medical workers a beast and 200 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 boast some doctors to turn patients away was a whole. 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 for a group of academics has signed a letter demanding more freedom of speech and condemning the treatment of whistleblower dr li when leon who died from the virus this week jean is

a 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 a reminder of 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 gable and 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 for. 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. in a major political shake up the leftwing partition fane is expected to make a historic breakthrough in islands general election counting is still on the way with polls predicting a 3 way split within again on sina 4 who were previously considered the 2 main parties but as paul brennan reports from dublin it makes forming a government harder i should train leader mary lou mcdonald whose book come to the dublin county like a hero of the left wing nationalists for a campaign of eye catching pledges on housing and pensions which caught the imagination of an electorate crying out for an alternative to the 2 biggest opposition parties and fianna gael takes things change this is a big statement status he says no not really too far you see system i see the

status quo was a different type of office and the people have great confidence in us and i i say that with all humility written off by some as a party just for those with short memories shin fein confounded the conventional wisdom there was in the build up to the election people saying oh this is young people who don't remember the troubles in northern ireland and i think that we see that's not the case it's only the much older voters who still could be the policy to go past links to the republican paramilitary group the ira linger as evidenced by a group of jubilant shin fein supporters singing a rebel song that the count sent in dublin cuts out that. the fact. that the party has evolved i think contain difficult a very clever things one was gerry adams party pretty good on mary lou mcdonald is in no way associated with troubles in the war on darts you know strategically terms of marketing communication cuts were pretty well it's created an ideological headache for the establishment parties the current irish leader the t.

shirt leo veronica of phoenix gail accept that the results mean talks with sinn fein are probably going to be necessary but agreeing a coalition not for us the shooting is not an option. but we are willing to talk to other parties and possibility form your government one that can lead the country forward for the next 5 years fully to me how martin looks most likely to become the country's next leader his local counting corkey to describe chin fein as incompatible for a coalition to teach a cliché unfeigned may prefer to buy the time rather than be a minority partner in a coalition government but with the outcome as close as it seems now the wrangling could last for weeks and such is the nature of irish politics with the ballot boxes being packed away now could be back out again in just a couple of months paul brennan al jazeera. you know the stories we're following at least 11 people have been killed by syrian government attacks on towns in aleppo is countryside they've taken

a troll of dozens of villages in all 4 in the north west of the country as the campaign continues to seize the last rebel stronghold but taki has also sent in major reinforcements to the region and says all options are on the table to stop the government's advance. has more now from istanbul. the moment the syrian army seize control of the hilltop village on the southern outskirts of aleppo will give the army the height advantage to monitor and shelled rebel positions the army has also recaptured other rebel held territory in northwestern aleppo that's seen as another major setback days after the rebels lost control of the city of. the government insists it's fine it will continue to defeat what he describes as terrorist organizations syria's leaders in damascus also brushed aside warnings from turkey to halt its offensive or face bitter repercussions.

over the past few days are barely an armed forces have managed to make significant achievements it troops were coming from eastern little met with the advance forces from southern aleppo and managed to regain control of the geographical area more than 600 square kilometers. as fighting shows no signs of abating civilians in rebel held territory fleeing their villages following the large numbers have already skate most of the has is among thousands. they have nowhere to go. but. we're 3 families i mean my brother both have 7 children we're looking for a house or a camp or something i really don't know what we're going to do. turkish soldiers recently deployed in province have been asked to set up new outposts near we have and must allow turkey's minister of defense hosea has warned of possible military

intervention in the last remaining rebel held province turkey is giving syria's leaders until the end of this month to withdraw its military units from positions near turkey's observation post in. it's 2 years since turkey russia and iran agreed to establish a d.v.d. to rise. but tension between russia and turkey has increased following the deaths. of 8 turkish soldiers in a recent syrian army attack by deploying more troops into syria turkey is sending a clear message that it stands ready to retire if syrian government forces continue their offensive turkish leaders are determined to prevent the worst scenario which to them is president bashar al assad's troops defeating the rebels and the millions of refugees trying to cross into turkey and join the many already here about

al-jazeera is the on board. a video has been held in thailand after a mass shooting a soldier went on a gun rampage at a military base before seizing hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and injured dozens of others in the city of car at the thai prime minister says the soldiers' motive was a dispute over property deal when he has more now from the 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

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 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 is that what happened was 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 to turn 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 into a packed shopping mall and elevated his killing to another horrific level when hey al jazeera bangkok. so news from azerbaijan the ruling party there is claiming victory in a slap a snap parliamentary election president ilham aliyev called the vote in december after replacing the prime minister several position parties a boycotting the election now calling it a sham. and his wife he appointed a vice president of persecuting political opponents and silencing independent media . iran's defense ministry says it's launched a domestically made satellite but it's failed to reach orbit the move risks more

tension with the united states after washington previously raised concerns about their own satellite program calling it a cover for ballistic missiles but iran denies this charge insisting it's for peaceful purposes said break has more from tehran. 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 the say that at the last stage the rocket didn't reach the required speed and wasn't able to launch a satellite into orbit but the 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 what unsuccessful now this was

a domestic satellite made inside iran 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. and with al-jazeera live from london last i had billions of locusts devastate farms in pakistan and what's been described as the blasts and stationary more than 2 decades and almost half a 1000000 people in chile are without drinking water as the country suffers it's known as the ever try spout.

hello again it's good to have you back here in western australia of course we did see our cycling damian make landfall we're now dealing with the remnants of that storm here still bring some very heavy rain across much of the area monday the rain is going to stay in the forecast but really by tuesday it's just going to be some scattered showers across much of the region here down towards the south eastern part of australia of course we have been dealing with some widespread flooding across much of the coastal areas the good news is by monday evening much of the heaviest rain is going to be gone we're going to be dealing with some widespread showers going forward as well as into tuesday for city though it is going to be a better day the floodwaters will begin to recede we do expect to see a terms there of 28 degrees and up here towards new caledonia we have a new tropical cyclone making its way towards you it is getting stronger as we go towards midweek and then here across parts of japan expect to see some better weather the biggest system is now moving out we're going to be seeing a more sun in the forecast in coming days that means for tokyo a better day for you with the tempter though

a little cooler conditions for 9 degrees there over here toward shanghai expect to see the rain in the forecast over the next few days this is your forecast for shanghai we do expect to see more rain coming into play tempus though expect to see into the low teens overnight lows about 10 degrees they're. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. of the stories. providing the tips into someone else's what. they want do they for. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. like a witness on al-jazeera. the

old. welcome back a look at the headlines chinese government is saying it logic a $10000000000.00 to help fight the deadly coronavirus which has now killed $814.00 people which is more than the total killed by the sars epidemic 17 years ago the left wing politician fein is expected to make a historic breakthrough in ireland general election campaign is still underway with polls predicting a dead heat with between chin fane and funa gala for oil. and vigils been held for the victims of saturday's shooting in thailand 29 people were killed when a soldier went on a shooting spree use a military base and then held hostages as a shopping mall. now pakistan's prime minister has declared

a national emergency as billions of locusts devastate farming communities in the eastern part of the country crop eating insects have ravaged cotton of wheat and maize fields raising fears of food shortages the government says this is the worst locust infestation in more than 2 decades swarms of the insects are also destroying crops in east africa kemal hiders and smiled and he's been speaking to local farmers there about how they're coping with this. very large warm of low growth drivers from out for a god. and has also moved through some of the. right now the government to war against the. border. leaving them. no i modify sideboard exonerate both the locust attacks have damaged our free crop and will cause huge losses we're trying our best to protect against

it but we're unable to get rid of them the government must do something to help us if these crops are only means for survival the pakistani prime minister had already declared a state of emergency it has already asked the agriculture department to keep a close eye on the movement of low which are traveling through much of pakistan's agricultural breadbasket it has a potential. damage the standing crop and not only the standing problem if it succeeds in getting i mean it's right here the food coming crop season it damages it but the local stuff slams their presence and. if we fail to protect these crops then ultimately it affects the production the produce michel can lead a sort of. situation the government had indeed come up with steps in solutions to solve that problem. protection given that all all war d.-i current district where

we are trying to control the spares from moving further into other carry on now there's other nations against attack will limit the damage if it wanted to some could wipe out the whole cops. even white flags in a single. day every. province and then a question as to where they're more should have been done at the early stage where the government in the province decided to leap over it and not do anything now it's an emergency situation 7 point. 8 that is almost $50000000.00 to try and control a menace that. pakistan's security. the annual african union summit is underway in ethiopia with leaders vying to play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts across the continent the commission

chairman opened the summit with a bleak picture of africa's security situation warning of terrorism conflict pre and post election crises he says it will take more than military action to address the root cause of these problems often the result of poverty and social exclusion. well democratic republic of congo is also han the latest list of priorities there rebel group has been attacking villages and towns in the eastern part of the country for months catherine sawyer reports. another attack has happened in a village in the eastern democratic republic of congo. people in the town of benny are preparing once more to bury loved ones villages here say armed men to them with machetes and guns security forces blame the democratic forces or a.d.f. a rebel group in the area with roots in uganda its fighters are accused of killing at least 5000 congolese in the last few years and more than 100 in the past week.

they were dressed in the same uniform as they killed my husband in our kitchen when i 1st heard gunshots i ran outside but i met them and they told me to get back inside. many homes have been deserted people are too afraid to go back. there talks are frequent and happening as a congo one of the largest when peacekeeping missions in the walled. are carrying out an offensive against the rebel group those forces are now working with a local militia called my my to help defeat the a.t.f. the other group shows us the comp and equipment they say they've captured from an a.t.f. base deep in the forests. this is our country will not allow a foreigner to rise our people will continue to fight. to the african leaders are discussing how armed violence can be stopped in africa and not

just in this country there's a whole region has been infiltrated by groups. and al qaeda hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced in the lake chad basin african forces are fighting inside then there's conflict in the central african republic somalia. one of the least goes on impunity and lack of accountability for perpetrators of new models violations in the context of conflicts and some of which actually rise to crimes under international law including walk crimes and crimes against humanity this lack of imputing this lack of accountability the impunity for public traitors is part of the reasons why that is a cycle of violence across the continent in ethiopia many kilometers away from benny the heads of state are gathered for a conference labeled silencing the guns in 2020 and beyond it's an ambitious lochan many here are oblivious of that and what if anything it can achieve but like

millions of others living in conflict areas across the continent they say they just want to be in safety catherine saudi al-jazeera. the u.s. ambassador to israel has warned against unilaterally onix in parts of the occupied west bank before the trump of ministration completes its middle east peace proposal david friedman says if israel does so it could put the entire plan in jeopardy israeli settlements are illegal under international law but between 167 and 2017 israel has built more than 200 illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and estimated 6 120000 israelis live there and about 215000 israelis also live in and claims built in palestinian neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem on the trump land was initially on veld last month israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he would push ahead with an accession within days but he's now being more vague about the timetable. well our severe drought in central chile

is entering its 10th year this is the country's longest ever dry spell animals a dying many reservoirs a dry and almost half a 1000000 people have no direct access to drinking water a latin america editor lucien human reports now from the town of tilton. every tuesday this cistern truck makes its way through rule. it delivers water to communities that haven't had any thread least 5 years. francisco candia is relieved every time the truck arrives he used to grow fruit trees and raised goats and donkey's. years ago give us all this area was famous for its donkeys i used them to take people's produce to market but that was before the drop destroyed everything i had to reinvent myself samoa make these donkeys to sell on the highway to remind us again we had a lot of animals. further off that highway lives

this lower the 74 year old rancher used to have more than 100 goats but the drought has dried up old the grass and bushes they needed to eat and so now she only has a few animals left see i said emanuel. it's been more than a year since you sold them off because we couldn't afford to buy them food and the water we get is only supposed to be for our personal use it's like a desert here now. for child central region known for its mediterranean climate is suffering its longest drought in history no rain in winter means that there's no snow in the andes mountains to melt in the summer to supply wells aquifers and reservoirs which are now critically low i'm standing in what was the wrong the reservoir once upon a time there were sailboats and jet skis here but now as you can see there's nothing but dried dirt and it's not. just because of the drought but because the

measures needed to protect water in this area were never take. off despite the increasing water scarcity chile's central valley is still used for high intensity agriculture those who can afford it or freight more than 100 meters overexpose measures have been taken to reduce consumption and what we need is to understand our climactic diversity we have water in abundance in southern chile but not here we urgently need a strong regulatory framework and a culture to save rather than waste water green lawns and swimming pools and parks with grass are not compatible with this new reality. the drought began nearly a decade ago and studies suggest it will get worse not better as global temperatures continue to rise that could well make this area once famous for its

prickly pears unfit even for cactuses you see in human deal de chile. 92nd annual academy awards ceremony will kick off in just a few hours from now guests are beginning to arrive on the red carpet at the top be here to in los angeles the oscars is of course the biggest night for hollywood celebrating the very best in cinema among the films up for the most number of awards are joker the irishman and 917. earlier i spoke to film critic rebecca perfect who is predicting view award for best picture category will either go to war film 1917 or south korean thriller parasite well there's such a great selection that we've got there tonight so you mentioned joker is leading the nominations with 11 nominations happening tonight the irishman 917 and once upon a time in hollywood also following close behind with 10 nominations across the board we've got a fantastic array of different nominees from actors through to your directors as

well we're hoping for some mendez to maybe pick up the best director award for 917 that would be a great win for us brits the best picture category is between 917 and parasite is the expectation harris site might be the big surprise here i think it's almost a shoo in to win the best international film award but whether or not it does make that jump and move up to picking the biggest prize of the night will have to wait and see but $917.00 is probably the front runner for that why is that well it's such a feat of cinematography and itself it's just an amazing film which a lot of people of obviously lauded some men's is picked up the path is you know it's one of those films which i think in terms of appreciation of what it actually does films if it's in one long cut it's brilliant however parricide on its own it won the palme d'or at cannes so that's why it could be the big surprise as well and it's also great if it does win that as a foreign film to be picking up you know a lot did large prize as well. one of the story al jazeera is also up for an oscar with a nomination in the best documentary short subject for st louis superman you can

watch it right after this but us in but 1st just take a look at this you know it's going to 5 do you drive toward the. or it's not you were about. something else that the no it's not you're. going through the release of the story or is it really we saw suddenly 50 or so are you that are being. you know feel like you know at this my time on the stand a. quick recap of the headlines this hour the chinese government is saying will allocate $10000000000.00 to help in the fight against the corona virus which has now killed more than $870.00 people more than the total number killed by the sars epidemic 17

years ago meanwhile 3 and a half 1000 stuck on a cruise ship have been allowed to disembark the world dream was quarantined in hong kong when 8 chinese passengers were diagnosed with the virus the left wing party shin fein is expected to make a historic breakthrough in ireland's general election vote counting is still underway with polls predicting a 3 way split with fiona galen feet a foil who were previously considered the main policies but with a complex system of sharing out parliamentary seats the task of actually forming a government could be tricky. phoners so far confounded the polls completely if those exit polls are to be believed then they are currently illegal level pegging with the 2 parties of power that have dominated politics in ireland for generations finagle for both of them centrist parties but there is a bit of a carry out as well sinn fein is actually only fielded 42 candidates in this election and maybe that may not translate to a lion's share of the seats in the irish parliament the dollar aaron it does mean

that coalition building is inevitable the discussion now behind the scenes is what kind of shape island's government will take and a vigil has been held in thailand after a mass shooting soldier went on a rampage at a military base before seizing hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and injured dozens of others in the city of car at type prime minister says the soldiers motive was a dispute over a property deal that set for myself and the team here in london witnesses next with al-jazeera as oscar nominated short documentary sent lewis superman. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation i've used the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique is this in terms

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