people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on. al-jazeera. hello i'm not matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the world health organization sends a team to china to investigate the corona virus outbreak as the number of dead keeps climbing. and a quiet commute in a day when millions were expected to return to work in china's capital plus. bangladesh along the indian border where there's been a significant increase in illegal crossings since india introduced a controversial citizenship bill. a new force in irish politics left wing

nationalist party fein is in a powerful position after the general election. it's. a good thing. and brad pitt's wins his 1st acting oscar for playing a stunt man and once upon a time in hollywood. the global death toll from the corona virus outbreak has reached 910 only 2 of the deaths are outside mainland china most are in a province where the virus is believed to have originated the world health organization says it remains gravely concerned more than 40000 people are now infected and w.h.o. team of experts is heading to china to investigate the government in beijing says it's allocating 10000000000 die. to fight the outbreak it's facing growing

criticism for its handling of the warnings of buyouts the new virus meanwhile millions of people what expected to go back to work on monday as an extension to the lunar new year holiday ended but one community commuters recording of their right to work showed fewer people on public transport than normal what not what would normally be the peak time let's go to katrina new in beijing for the latest katrina was slightly i think it's about 10 o'clock where you are in the moment is it a surprise that there are so few people that seem to be heading into work. well it's a surprise in a sense that this is supposed to be the beginning officially the beginning of a new chinese year but it's not surprising how quiet it is given that we're in the middle of this krone virus crisis i think the last few weeks have been eerily quiet in beijing and today we know that government offices have opened and officially as you mentioned it's the start of the working the working year but on the streets

it's still very quiet there more more cars slowly there's a bit of traffic some people on the streets or people rowing but definitely nothing like a normal working day in beijing the capital of china with a population of some 2122 1000000 people and we've just gotten some figures from the government that really will show for example how much they life here in beijing has been affected now in the last week compared to last year we saw capacity in flights have dropped by 42 percent passengers going in and out of the airports some of the busiest airports in the world have dropped by 63 percent and railway passengers railways one of the main ways that people travel back and forth after the chinese new year holiday that's down 73 percent beijing subways only operating at 10 percent capacity and buses are 70 percent down as well in terms of the passengers numbers so this virus it has has had a massive impact on life across the country even here in beijing which is very far

away from the epicenter in hubie province and of course while some people are going back to work the government is encouraging private companies or any companies as much as possible to encourage their staff to state harm if they can if they must go to work there encouraging them to sort of stagger the start dates or the start time so perhaps get stuff to work in batches as to try to minimize crowding and prevent the spread and we know that many schools are still shut and at least until the beginning of march the dinners are mentioned before the chinese government is allocating that enormous sum of money to try to deal with this virus bridge do we have any more details about how it's planning to spend the money. yes so as far as we know that they have said that about $10000000000.00 has been allocated to fight this illness and we know that actually some of that money has already been spent and it's going to want much more basic much needed things on the

ground so getting patients making sure patients are transported to the the right the right areas be courtin areas or testing areas making sure that they're not testing kits to go around making sure that patients who are on the ground have accommodation if they're not coming from if they're going to cities whether they don't live it's also that money is paying medical staff we know this weekend i'm some 6000 medical stuff from around the country were flown into hahn to help support some of these struggling struggling overworked and understaffed teams so of course that money will so go towards paying them the money is also being being spent on supply is there was a much a desperate shortage of basic medical supplies for team so mosques gloves hazmat suits so that money is also being spent on boosting factory production of those essential items and it's also being spent on i guess the indirect impact of this virus it's had a massive economic impact on on businesses for example so the government is also

using that money to subsidize small and medium sized businesses and giving them also some preferential policies so they can delay paying things like rent and insurance so it's it's really going that money is really being spent directly on the effort to fight the virus but also the impact that the virus has had on communities across china to turn to thanks very much and. bangladeshis living in india have told al-jazeera there are beings threatened with being sent to detention camps if they don't leave many fear there is now a growing climate of hostility towards muslims after a new citizenship law came into force that gives priority to non muslim immigrants from neighboring countries bernard smith reports from the bangladesh side of the border with india. along bangladeshis border with india people smuggling has suddenly become a booming business those orange lights are in india the traffic is all one way to

bangladesh held up the learning they say they've been living over there for a long time but now there are problems there and they're being forced to leave sometimes smugglers are necessary and these are indian border force officers handing people over to their bangladeshi counterparts they're all muslim they say there is a new hostile environment towards them in india in decades past bangladeshis left their villages and crossed the rice paddies to india more than 2000000 are there now according to the government in new delhi. in december india's parliament passed a fast track citizenship act for people from neighboring countries that explicitly excludes muslims now it's impossible to say exactly how many people are illegally crossing the border from india into bangladesh but we do know that the border force has detained more than 500 people just in the last couple of months and the smugglers tell us they're crossing between 40 to 60 people every night and that's

just along this 45 kilometer stretch of a border that runs for more than 4000 kilometers the indian government says its new law is for persecuted religious minorities living among its muslim dominated neighbors that's not convince these bengali speaking muslims they say they face terrorism and from police in new delhi and bangalore who told them to leave or risk being sent to a detention center near how lada says he was just 18 months old when his parents took him across the border 26 years ago they will know what they have been cracking down and there'd been no arrests 60 people from our community were detained and we haven't heard from them this caused panic and we decide it's time to leave and head for bangladesh cookie begum says she been in india with her husband and daughters for 11 years that saw her indian work permit. there was a lab it's absolutely clear the ruling party in india doesn't want any bangladeshis living there anymore they're only allowed bengali speaking indians to live where we

were what can we do we have to live with our dignity and honor so we came back. bangladesh prime minister shaker sr says she doesn't understand the purpose of india's new citizenship law our government is already struggling to cope with 1200000 reading or refugees from in march it can't afford another influx from its largest neighbor bernard smith al-jazeera on the bangladesh india border. the 1st results are in for ireland's general election a left wing nationalist party has won the most 1st preference votes sinn fein has won 24.5 percent of the votes compared to 22.2 percent for fianna fáil and 20.9 percent for finn a gale counting continues but it looks like no one party will win enough seats for an outright parliamentary majority albrighton reports. chin fein leader mary lou mcdonald was welcome to the dublin county like

a hero 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 demolition parties fiona foyle and fiona gale could see the sequence of change she said makes statements this is now free to ferry system you see things that people need to fix like confidence to keep every confidence in us and i i think we're going to miss 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 a 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 looking for them 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 at the count center in dublin. but the

party has evolved i think one thing to tickle the great clever things one was gerry adams party when he did mary lou mcdonald is in no way associated with troubles in the north and dots the terms of marketing communication cuts work really 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. coalition not for us. is not an option but we are willing to talk to other parties. you 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 county corkey to describe chin fein as incompatible for a coalition to teach a cliche thing may prefer to buy the time rather than be a minority party in a coalition government but with the outcome of this 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 dublin. was about john's ruling parties claiming victory in a parliamentary election but the opposition says the poll is a sham exit polls suggest the new azerbaijan party of president has won a majority in the national assembly and several parties have boycotted the vote there accusing only ever of persecuting political opponents and silencing the media . ok let me take you back to our top story the global death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in china which is now reaching $910.00 is a senior scholar and johns hopkins center for health security is joining us by skype from pittsburgh pennsylvania we appreciate your giving us your time so i'd like to ask you 1st of all about this world health organization team that is flying to china in order to be part of the process of dealing with the virus what kind of

expertise will that team be bringing. that he will be greeting some of the world class epidemiologist from the w.h.o. that will be able to really understand the transmission dynamics going on understand the severity of illness understand the challenges that china is facing with this outbreak and it will really give the world hopefully a good glimpse of what's going on in china because there are a lot of unanswered questions in mysteries about how this outbreak is unfolding there the actions of chinese government is taking and i think it will help us to risk stratify this for the rest of the world in terms of containing it within the rest of the world we spoke to a guest earlier who said that the response from many other countries in the world have been quite robust that obviously airlines have been restricted from flying in and out of transport and and links and so had so on had been prevented i want to ask you though about north korea north korea has a porous border that it shares with china we obviously don't have a great deal of information about what goes all in north korea what are the risks

do you think that north korea could be suffering from the influx of this fire is and might not be able to deal with it we know that north korea is a very secretive totalitarian dictatorship and there is an intent of not to report these types of events we know they were the 1st to close their borders but we do know that there are rumors now of cases in north korea so it would not be surprised if there are cases there and that they are being covered up by the government and i think it's important for all countries to be transparent about the cases that they have including north korea because it could become a challenge if you have this spreading in a country that is really secret in not open to any kind of outside outside help so i do think that this is an important question that needs to be answered one of the references that we've been using in the media generally is to compare this to the sars outbreak in 20022003 but do you think that that there's

a legitimate comparison to make. not in the sense that sars was not community transmissible sars could not transmit very well between people who really relied on health care centers to transmit so in that sense it's not comparable obviously some of china's reactions to this novel coronavirus are are comparable to what happened during star as you can you can make comparisons there what were better what were less better in their situations but i do think that trying to completely think of this is another sars is wrong because this virus has cleared different transmission characteristics and it is clearly not as stable as ours was in terms of case fatality rate in terms of transparency obviously there are elements of the chinese authorities particularly in a province for example and will hon where it originated twits who have been accused of trying to cover up the initial findings when the virus emerged do you think that that is going to stand in the way of any investigation that the w.h.o. or any other organization is going to try to carry out i do think that there may be

some issues with local communist party officials there to not be as forthcoming about what happened we already have heard about how they have silenced doctors how they have silenced journalists and of scrub the internet all of that is something that we already know about so i do think that that will be a challenge for the chinese government to explain and i think the w.h.o. team actually knows this already because the world knows that what happened in china we're seeing that so many people are returning to to work now off to the extension to the chinese new year holiday presumably they're one of the 1st things that the investigators are going to be doing a watching to see if there's a noticeable bump in cases as people return is that a reasonable assessment. yeah i do think that that's something that will be important to watch we know that there is a spectrum of illness there are many mild ulysses' we know that workplaces transmit infection so there may be more interaction between people in the virus may find

more people to infect but it's important to remember that the vast majority of people who get this iris have my own disease doctor and i said i was i thank you very much indeed for your time for joining us and al-jazeera thanks for having me plenty more ahead on the news hour including. a blast off for girls in boston iranian rocket falls short of all boats find out why it could raise tensions with the u.s. . and also why a lebanese woman protesters say now is the moment to finally get their voices heard . and in sports pakistan's teenage bowling sensation makes history all the details coming up. in northwest syria government forces have taken control of more villages that advancing in the southern part of aleppo province towards the rebels' last stronghold of

a live. report from neighboring turkey. 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. going to. back over the past few days. 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 a new outpost near we have a. 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. its 2 year. since turkey russia and iran agreed to establish d.v.d. to rise. but tension between russia and turkey has increased following the deaths in italy of 8 turkish soldiers in a recent syrian army attack by deploying more troops into syria turkey sending a clear message that it stands ready to retire early 8 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 passionate about al-jazeera islam board egypt's military says at least 2 soldiers have been killed in a rebel attack on a security facility it happened in the north sinai region sources on the ground have told our dizzier that up to 8 soldiers have died egypt has struggled to

contain armed groups in north sinai since former president mohamed morsi was ousted by the military in 2013. iran space program has suffered a setback after a satellite launch failed the rocket carrying that one communications satellite blasted off from the launchpad as planned according to state t.v. but it didn't reach the speed required to put its cargo successfully into orbit i said big as more from the heart. 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 quite speed and wasn't able to launch a satellite into orbit but iran says it was successful most of the gold in fact 90 percent of the gold so they 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 expect to get this morning we've been watching it all day but the news finally came that they had launched but what unsuccessful now this was a domestic satellite made inside iran i think and it is and 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 here are some bastard to israel says israel shouldn't an ex-parte so the occupied west bank before the trumpet ministration completes the middle east peace proposal david friedman says no such move should be made without america's consent the plan maintains that israel should keep swathes of occupied territory between 167 and 2017 israel built more than 200 settlements considered illegal under

international law and the west bank and estimated 620000 israelis live in them and about 215000 israelis are in an enclave built in palestinian neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem where the trump plan was unveiled last month israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he'd push ahead with annexation plans within days but is now more vague about the timetable. i was about voting as secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he says the u.s. ambassador has been a strong supporter of the annexation of the occupied west bank and has never entertained any palestinian demands friedman has been one of the most supportive people of land illegal and exertion of the west bank on the 8th of january we remember how he advocated that israel has the right to annex a big part of the of the west bank he said the same thing in an interview which was

published by new york times at the same time and he has been an advocate of an exception but all he's saying is that there is a committee that consists of americans and israelis only that will map the process of an exception to give it an american legitimacy and he wants the israeli side to coordinate with the american side but he's practically promoting the annexation he he promoted and held the annexation of east jerusalem the recognition of the exertion of redo the limb and the extreme rapid building of settlements and now he's brought in the again an exertion only who wanted to be called the need to do the united states and in other also he is helping his friend not to now because netanyahu is bombarded with criticism that he promised to start an exertion and so he's giving an excuse to not and you know in the election process that there is a need to deliver than exists in but there is no doubt that he and tramps

administration are supporting the an exertion of no less than 50 percent of the west bank. a trade war between israel and the palestinian authority has entered a new phase israel has now put a ban on palestinian agricultural exports through jordan israel's defense minister says the new measures a response to a palestinian boycott on israeli cult traders here in the hall and reports. palestinian farmers working on this state farm in jericho have been preparing their harvest to export to 26 countries ahead of the holy month of ramadan in 2 months time but production has been hit by an israeli decision to stop international exports via jordan this includes dates and all of oil dates farming is one of the most important sectors of palestinian agriculture in the occupied west bank and the ban is raising concerns for farmers here. we expect these companies to

make a loss an estimated $11.00 to $14000000.00 are in the merchant storage they won't be able to export them if the crisis stays as it is last week israel's defense minister imposed a ban on all palestinian agricultural produce from entering its markets this prompted palestinian authorities to cut down on some israeli imports but the crisis started last september when palestinians decided to stop importing beef from israel with the aim of becoming more economically independent now the israeli military says it will block palestinians from transferring their shipments through the jordan crossing it's the occupied west bank only direct export route to the outside world and strains are already being felt as palestinian goods are being sent back here this is a systematic policy in the retaliation that came at the height of the agricultural season and to strike the sector that is the backbone of the palestinian economy in the jordan valley trade tensions have escalated in recent months and have been

further aggravated by fears of violence in the region over a controversial middle east plan put forward by the united states the pan. sunny no authority is a calling on israel to revoke its decision but israel's government says normal trade will only resume if the cattle ban is lifted but meanwhile the harvest here continues but the border remains closed to exports and the farmers have no way of getting their projects to market mohammed al jazeera. how they can force winds a lashing britain on parts of continental europe a strong cuba said saying flood warnings have been issued for several areas saying again as more. sounding the sirens warning residents in this northern english town of the young coming flood across the region storm care lashed with hurricane force winds rain more than 100 kilometers per hour accompanied by torrential rain as police closed the roads

people scramble to avoid the worst 149 flood warning alerts were issued but for some residents the response was not enough to look at the for even so really been focused with the flow. over here moving over. or go from the u.k. to the north continental european coast all shipping was suspended but it's not just sea transport that's been affected rail travel to this central london station forced to close because of overcrowding canceled services and disruptions caused by the storm. as well as air travel as across northern europe many flights were canceled the effects of kira will likely continue until choose day fanning out further over central europe but less rain and more violent windy conditions across the continent sunny diag al-jazeera. so had

a knowledge of 0 we're in jordan for another tax increase is left people wondering how they'll be able to make ends meet. why chinese so-called mega drives has reached a critical phase. and a special gold piles on even more misery for nothing action from italy's top division in the sport. hello again it's good to have you back well i do want to start this hour here across parts of north and eastern parts of asia we are seeing one system pull away from japan right now so better weather conditions but cooler weather conditions over the next few days here across much of japan sendai at 4 tokyo at 9 maybe some snow entering into the picture by the time we get towards monday night mostly on

that west coast over here toward shanghai though on tuesday your rain is beginning to develop that will continue as we go towards wednesday as well but we do expect to see a temper there of about 12 and for seoul plenty of sun in the forecast at 12 degrees as well well borneo plenty of rain over the next few days really on monday that's where the heaviest rain is going to be and you can see on the satellite image that will continue up here towards the north on monday we will get a break though as we go towards tuesday better weather conditions across much of the area for the philippines though it is going to be a nice day in a warm day for manila where the temperature of 30 and we have had plenty of rain across much of central india over the last few days that is beginning to dissipate and we're going to be left with a lot of clouds across much of the south and hyderabad we're going to see attempt a few of about $31.00 degrees with clouds in the forecast kolkata though plenty of sun at $25.00 and for new delhi sun for you as well with the thames there of 22.

big stories generally sounds like the media angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things going to really bring relief. money to war to separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from just this so it's clear and sounds to. hear people's think that the listening pst on 0. in japan thousands of men and women vanishing without a trace what i want to investigate is why me. engineer their own disappearance. 0. 20. every.

you want to know is it a reminder of our top stories this hour the one cardinal virus death toll has risen to $910.00 worldwide 2 of the deaths are outside mainland china experts from the world health organization are on their way to china to investigates the epidemic. the 1st results are in for ireland's generally election left wing nationalist party machine frame has won the greatest number of 1st preference votes counted continues but it looks like no one party will win enough seats but an outright parliamentary majority. syrian government forces have taken control of several villages in aleppo

province as part of an ongoing offensive in the last rebel held areas activists say 17 people have been killed by airstrikes on sunday. lebanese woman say they won't be silenced anymore about laws they say discriminate against them they've been at the forefront of nationwide protests that started in october and led to the resignation of the government led by prime minister saad al-hadi umberto of salah hideouts met some of those leading new projects. 70. new well and michelle assists is making their voices heard. so music cannot criticizes the political elite corruption and raises social awareness monitored lot of them what it is it isn't and this is their latest collaboration and initiative with kafka which means in nothing against gender violence and discrimination they wrote this song about people unable to speak up for themselves. the years lebanese women

have fought for equal rights and against social prejudices and they've been at the forefront of nationwide anti-government protesters started in october came on up and with in remote areas women were marginalized and was silenced but with this revolution women were able to find their voices within the city as revolutionary songs play out meals are being made right in the middle of a muslim and a christian area the people here 40 each other during the civil war and this project is the brainchild of a group of women who came together during the protests and call themselves on. grassroots initiates such as these are keeping the protest movement alive and many of them are led by women who feel that they've been excluded by the government and even the society and they're saying if there's ever a time to challenge the status quo and create change then it's now. these meals are bringing dividers communities together mainly through mothers and

daughters by creating dialogue everyone is invited regardless of social class or wealth everybody must believe it was it was not them so this is what i like the idea of and i will not stop it i like to go on kicking sheltie lebanon now has its highest ever ratio female ministers including the arab world's 1st female minister of defense. but activists done no harm mord who was arrested after a standoff with a police officer says the political system needs a radical change in its view of women. here i told them i would rather die than live in the country where there is such police officers. if someone disrespects me even if it's a police officer i'm not going to shut up. lebanon has a new government and people are waiting to see if it will deliver on its promises of change. and one thing they're all united on is that they will always fight for their right. side of.

hollywood's biggest event of the year the 1002nd academy awards is underway in los angeles the 1st major prizes of the night and gone to brad pitt for best supporting actor and law down has just won the oscar for best supporting actress stephanie stanton is there for us now so give us some more of the headlines stephanie. hi rob you named those 2 actors right there and that is kind of how it's been going at least so far it's been pretty predictable you know both laura dern and brad pitt have basically swept all the other awards shows up and to this point so it was really not that big a fuss of a surprise when brad pitt one and laura dern as well but i was in the press room when brad pitt gave his acceptance speech you know he was he was a little nervous which is kind of funny because you think about it he's one of the biggest stars in the world but as we also may have seen during the show itself and

his acceptance speech he did get did get a little political taking a jab at the republican party so it's been an interesting night so far we also had toys story for winning for best animated feature so that was kind of fun both all of the people involved in that production basically were so happy and said that they did it for their family and you know that's such a great family show there but it's been it's been a great show so far we had i mean who just performed that was a bit of a surprise and then we also had a deal in the dow who is saying into the unknown from frozen to and she sang with several elsa's from around the world they're doing several productions of frozen to around the world so that was just a beautiful beautiful performance but so far i would say that the awards have been pretty predictable we're going to continue to watch the show of course it is a 3 hour program and it is also hosts list this year robin that's something that they are repeating as they did last year so that's what's happening here in

hollywood we are on the red carpet all is quiet right now but we're going to start to see things pick up a little bit later on we'll send it back to you stephanie the oscars of course never without its control over syria and this year we're back to the control of the city over discrimination and diversity and so on who is the playing of their being reflected on the red carpet there. well indeed you know the oscars has been criticized for its lack of diversity throughout the years and this year is no different still facing the same criticism there were several snobs for the nominations this year but i do want to point out one thing that i think i think people are very happy about it was the best animated short film that went to hair story and that was one of its producers former n.f.l. player matthew cherry he actually saluted kobe bryant as well during his speech and you know kobe bryant did win in that same category 2 years ago for dear basketball they were also in the press room after their acceptance and they did talk

a lot about why they wanted to make this film and they said they wanted to make this film to have representation in cartoons especially to children who are black who have black hair and so that that has been you know a sort of $100.00 of no here at the academy awards with regards to diversity stephanie thanks very much and the long as it was also nominated for an oscar the film the son louis superman was in the documentary category it's a story of bruce franks jr an activist and battle rapper who runs for state office you know it's going 5 go you know if i have to would. it's not heard about your singing something else happened on august 9th. it's going to be some sort of you're supposed to meet some my son easy to.

use that i mean to. not feel like you know it is my time to stand and you can watch some of those superman in full on a witness that's no 930 g.m.t. on monday february the tense our u.s. viewers can watch witness edith and addie. jordan has brought in another increase in taxes when the hikes were 1st announced in 2018 to widespread protests this is the final phase and though the response has been more muted many people are worried they're not going to be able to make ends meet the reports from amman a man has consistently ranked as one of the arab world's most expensive cities yet clothing salesman matty l. nimer says people's salaries aren't keeping pace with the high cost of living this month jordanians will begin paying between 5 to 40 percent more in income taxes more than you would cry for jordanian citizens even without paying taxes we're not

living we're in 700 to 800 dollars a month and it's not enough why would we pay more taxes. when the law to raise taxes was announced in 2018 jordanians protested in the largest numbers since the arab spring nearly a decade ago the prime minister was forced to resign jordan has high levels of debt and relies on foreign aid in 2016 the international monetary fund or i am led to more than $700000000.00 now the country is waiting to see if it will receive another $1300000000.00 from the i.m.f. to try to stimulate the economy and create jobs economic analyst. says about 80 percent of the government's revenue is generated from taxes and fees and that severely limiting what people spend and who hate the only solution is to

tackle corruption and this in the government needs to get back to the national companies it sold to the private sector so it's guns in that it's more money. hermes mccann says this has been the worst period in his 30 years of owning a clothing store he was forced to lay off several employees. the economic and political situation in the region is and papering us negatively but we're trying to work as hard as we can to maintain our business that we have inherited from our fathers and grandfathers the government says the tax hikes are needed to reduce public debt it's a condition set by the i.m.f. as part of its bailout package but many jordanians say when it comes to public services they don't see where their tax money is going and they're fed up with being used as the government's cash register natasha going to name. a man vote counting is underway in cameroons municipal and parliamentary elections for

the 1st in 7 years but the poll comes at a time of deep political divisions and security concerns it was boycotted by separatists from english speaking when gins nicholas haq reports from the economic capital. too scared to vote this is by men down home to more than 2000000 people in the heart of the english speaking of cameroon as polling stations opened most people kept their doors closed outside heavy gunfire echoed in the distance. armed separatists don't want these elections to take place the government is trying to counter those calls. i ask all of my compatriots to do their duty and go out and vote contrary to what some of these little parties are asking you to do democracy is working in our country and we are moving forward. but separatist who want to break away from cameroon and form an independent english speaking country they call amazonia in the run up to the polls

they attacked election officials rallying calls for a boycott of the vote from opposition leader most he's come to know he believes the vote is rigged in favor of the ruling party. mark my words these elections will not resolve any of our problems. 3000 people have died in fighting between armed groups and government forces forcing almost a 1000000 people to flee the violence so my fled to neighboring nigeria others are seeking refuge in the economic capital douala away from home they were unable to vote in these elections a low turnout for those calling for the boycott is a success but it will certainly give the majority of the votes to poll b.s. party the more democratic. a party that's been in power for the last 36 years and so the change that so many had hoped for from this election is unlikely to. see is an opposition m.p. from douala he's hoping to get reelected saying the fight against the government

should continue but by the ballot and not the bullet of the mayor some councils that will come out of this election for the 1st time we will have a little more policy and we will still have it's an important election even more so important because half of the country's at war and we need a strong representation to bring about peace. for the people living in the english speaking regions it's the armed groups and security forces not elected officials that are in charge these regions ignored for so long have lost trust in what feels to them like a broken political system that cannot be fixed with elections alone nicholas hawke al-jazeera. there you african union summit 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 the conflict in libya is high on the agenda as well as growing instability in the sahara region hammad vall has

more from the summit in addis ababa he says has been a lot of talk about a global 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 libya of course since yesterday since that meeting yesterday afternoon by the by the united by the african union security. council they have been talking given big statements about what should be done in libya about the need for africa to join african leaders to join the global effort to find peace in libya the secretary general of the united nations also spoke both yesterday and today about this particular subject saying the united nations is here to express a message of solidarity and support to whatever the africans want to bring to the table and he says it's time for africa to join and he praised the peacekeeping

efforts already deployed by africans in this 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 a severe drought in central chile is entering its 10th year it's the country's longest ever dry spell animals are dying many reservoirs of dry and almost half a 1000000 people have no direct access to water for drinking and domestic use a latin america editor to see a new woman reports from till till. every tuesday this cistern truck makes its way through rules. it delivers water to communities that haven't had any for at least 5 years. francisco candia is relieved every time the truck arrives

he used to grow food trees and raised goats and donkeys to. 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 drug destroyed everything i had to reinvent myself so many a 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 in one year. it's been more than a year since you saw the mom 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 there 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 taken. up despite the increasing water scarcity chile's central valley is still used for high intensity agriculture those who can afford it are freight more than 100 metres over exploiting aquifers. and taking the little water that's left. and in the capital santiago no effective 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. chile. still ahead an all just 0 in sports a 10 year undefeated st annes for this french judo bar is going to have all the details coming up from.

his time to the sport there is far. thanks so much pakistan's teenage cricket sensation dizzy made history on sunday the 16 year old bowler has become the youngest player to take a test hat trick came in the 2nd innings of the 1st test against bangladesh. breaking a record that stood for 17 years held by bangladesh then or a local harley he did it at the age of 19 parkinson are now in firm control of the match with the tour is ending day 3 trailing by 86 runs with just 4 wickets left. standing. it was an outstanding 2nd spell by enough to ensure it teenager produced the best performance and i really enjoyed watching him bowl in the field the best

thing about another scene is that he bowls according to the plan and he's learning fast. as he wasn't the only teenagers celebrating on sunday over in south africa bangladesh's youngsters won the under 19 world cup it's the 1st time the country has won the title they beat defending champions india by 3 wickets in the final of the 4th louis stern method. and general and have moved to top spot in italy syria they lead you bent his on goal difference after coming from behind to be a symbol and for 2 lads c.-o. are also in the title picture they beat parma one no away to break a club record lancy who have now gone 18 games unbeaten in syria that's their longest ever undefeated run in italy's top league in now sit in 3rd one point off the top spot. napoli are heading for their want to finish it for over a decade but she scored some impressive goals to beat them 321 sunday the result

leaves napoli 11 in syria the last time the end of the season in the bottom half was 2009 when they finished down in 12. spanish league leaders around the jared have extended their legal winning streak to 6 matches they recovered from a goal down to thrash also soon a $41.00 on sunday this victory comes on the heels of a home loss against real sociedad in the copa del rey on thursday. says. this because if yesterday we needed to win the points after losing in the copa del rey and in a very difficult venue where it is never easy to win i think the whole team worked very well in the game and i think we deserved to win the match. fran said move top of the rugby 6 nations standings after beating italy in paris they blew who's done world cup runners up in the last week scored 5 tries to defeat italy 3522 on sunday they now lead the table with 9 points ahead of ireland on points difference france

are looking for their 1st 6 nations win since 2010. the united states ever came to unexpected singles defeat advance of the fed cup finals sophia cannon and bethany my take sans teamed up to be awesome pengo and a says yes of a story in the decisive doubles match australian open champion cannon making amends of her falling short earlier on saturday in her cymbals blocks against awesome go at the 21 year old bounced back to help put her country through to april's new look finals stuff that was match really well but i was ready to fight for the team you know we got the job done i was hard up and probably volley the best of my life today so you didn't think she was going to have yeah. former houston astros manager a.j. hench has admitted he didn't do enough to stop his former team from cheating an investigation found the astros' used in a legal sign stealing system during their 2017 championship winning season the

scheme allowed astros players to still pitch signs from the holes in catchers bench was hit with a one year ban and fired by the astros speaking publicly for the 1st time since he left the franchise he accepts 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 the door. as a group and in that question i may never be and so we may never know. when we're going to have to live and move forward to be the better. koreans a terror has secured her 1st career win in a women's world cup super g. event in germany italy's sofia goes or suffered a heavy fall during her run she got tangled up in the netting but managed to get down and won pete's sake. it was the juror who won this race a month after clinching her 1st downhill competition is with us is 5th in the overall standings with mckayla shifrin of the united states still top the defending

champion is taking a break from competition after the death of her father last week. and now a nearly 10 year unbeaten run has finally come to an end for french judo grades a teddy bear it be champion and 10 time world champion was beaten by quarrelled together of japan in the round of the paris ground slam on sunday before the defeat the 30 year old clinched $154.00 straight wins during a run dating back to september 20 tons. of though is still expected to defend his title at the tokyo 2020 summer games. and that's all your sport for now more later. of course there's much more on the web site the dress for that is al jazeera dot com some is a dime's going to be here in a couple of minutes with the latest on all these stories including more of course on the war on the coronavirus death toll bango bothersome but for not.

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