celerity ease of cultures across the world some amount of weight you can. use in current affairs that matter to you. a team from the world health organization is headed to china to help curb the rising death toll from the corona virus outbreak. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up syrian army troops take control of more villages as civilians are forced to flee the violence will be live from northern syria. a decade of drought the slow killer in central chalet shows no end in sight. and the oscar goes to. parasite was

a south korean dark comedy makes movie history becoming the 1st foreign language film to win best picture at the oscars. but the global death toll from the corona virus outbreak has reached 910 more than 40000 people are now infected 60 more people are tested positive on a cruise ship quarantined in the japanese worked and that brings the number of cases onboard to 130 more than 3000 people have been stuck on the cruise liner since it was put under quarantine a week ago adrian brown joins us from hong kong has been gathering developments from from various places so what is the latest adrian. well there is this relentless rise in these statistics coming out of china richelle more than 90 deaths as you mentioned in your introduction also on sunday china

confirming more than 3000 new infections the concern though i think now is that we're starting to see infections outside of that country the world health organization says a globally there are now $360.00 infections including now 18 in malaysia for instance and the concern is that people could become infected who haven't been to china and the world health organization is saying if that's the case then we could be seeing just the tip of the iceberg now the w.h.o. have sent high powered team to china this means we're going to start getting independent analysis from china that w.-h. team includes the man who actually led the show's response to the a bowl of viruses one of their top experts so we'll be hearing i think from the w.h.o. in the coming days about what their assessment is after what they've seen on the ground there is concern at the moment over

a citizen journalist who's been reporting on the outbreak in a province he's now vanished he apparently disappeared on friday he's been harassed by the police in the past of attempt to silence him he's been reporting on the protests here in hong kong but now he appears to have vanished also we've been hearing on monday from the mother of that whistleblower doctor who died from the virus on friday off to succumbing to the effects of it he of course sort of warned about this virus several weeks ago well his mother now says she wants a full apology from the authorities and wants to know who it was in the police who reprimanded him that video is now online so again it's another show of defiance from from people in china and we're seeing more of these individual acts of defiance by people calling for more freedom of speech in china you know a lot of people say china can contain probably this virus eventually what it may not be able to contain is you know the virus of people demanding more freedom of

speech in china richelle all right adrian brown live for us in hong kong a train thank you. that drum as a doll says a singer scholar at johns hopkins center for health security he says what the experts in china the world and a better understanding of the virus that he will be bringing some of the world class epidemiologists 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 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. syrian government forces have taken control of more villages in the northwest or banting in a southern part of aleppo province towards the rebels' last stronghold of activists say 17 civilians were killed by airstrikes on sunday. reports from neighboring turkey. the moment the syrian army seize control of telling the hilltop village on the southern outskirts of aleppo will give the army the height advantage to monitor and show 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. forces have managed to make significant achievements the troops that 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 last numbers already skate. 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 outposts near. turkey has been a so defense hosea come. 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 to rise jones there. 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 hear about al-jazeera istanbul. syria at the crossing not far from the border with turkey and what is the latest. well according to the civil defense units yesterday at night there were 17 people killed because of the syrian government spawned by arguments backed by the russians in western the countryside of other in mainly the area called al assad and over the night on 2 of the morning the death toll increase 5 more civilians were killed so right now we know that in the last 24 hours just due to the mumbai arguments and. 22 civilians have been killed in northwestern syria and that is so the syrian

government's advance to the north from south continues despite the cold so hold the aggression stop the violence but it seems the syrian government is that they cater to continue this until he they push all the civilians from inside that we know that they are they are by the city center they are in the villages around think in the city center which is not far from here whether they will be very willing to take their lives at the center is still unknown but. the interest the internal displacement continues and when the tearing conditions in the camps are even much worse then you see on the pictures on the videos that we filmed from inside people are in really bad conditions because the humanitarian aid organizations are not sufficient enough to reach all those people as you know according to the united nations just last in the 2 months 520000 more people have been displaced and now

the population and had left with the old of this place has increased to about 4000000 right right behind the border crossing between syria and turkey and what we haue witness so far in the last one week while visiting all those camps even the tents are not enough that's why people are squished into one tents there are 4 families for instance that we have. visitors are just scrambled into crammed into 11 tent which is very small and there are diseases there is disease so old most of the children are sick and they don't have enough things to cover themselves to to stay warm and sometimes it's rains have tents get flooded sometimes it snows and their access to food even just the basic which is bread is is very very low that's why they need medicine they need food they need everything here but. they

make a call for the international community to see what's what's happening here and this is the situation on the ground that besides the mandatory conditions turkey it keeps reinforcing its military observation posts inside it live and turkey is waiting for the syrian government to pull back in the areas where it is where the escalations own borders are this is the situation is getting getting more and more difficult every day for the civilians basically are. inside syria thank you very much as are russians ruling party is claiming victory in a parliamentary election that the opposition is calling a sham exit poll suggests the new azerbaijan party of president has won a majority in the national assembly several parties have boycotted the vote they accuse. or securing political opponents and silencing the media. still had on al-jazeera or in jail in jordan or another tax increases like many wondering

how they'll be able to make ends meet. the major storm batters the u.k. and northern europe and it's not over yet. hello again a welcome back to your international weather forecast war here across europe the stakes story is still going to be those very gusty winds across much of northwestern europe now we have been dealing with them already here on sunday pushing across u.k. as well as into much of france the benelux region and into parts of denmark they will continue they may die down slightly from what they were on sunday but still going to see a lot of problems in terms of flights canceled ferry service also canceled or delayed as well as we're going to be seeing some power lines down across much of this area as well we're also be seeing some rain pushing here across much of france

as well as into the netherlands that will continue over the next few days as well as into tuesday the rain will also be pushing a little bit further towards the east as well and it's really not until we get towards the end of wednesday when some of these winds do begin to die down here in copenhagen expect to see those winds all the way through the forecast would also do expect to see some rain monday as well as tuesday well here cross the northeastern part of africa it is going to be a little bit colder than average for this time of year up here towards cairo we're going to be seeing a high view of about 15 degrees there clouds in the forecast across much of the area over here towards me gazi at 15 and for tripoli 90 degrees for you. frank assessments the one good thing about these bush bars is that really what the . climate should informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping

donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the street don't even know what the story is all about this argument is astonishingly actually times an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of the new countries and the use about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now the global death toll from the corona virus outbreak has reached 910 more than 48000 people are now infected 60 more people have tested positive on a ship that's quarantined in a japanese port bringing the total on that ship to $130.00. government forces in

syria have taken control of more villages in the northwest advancing in the southern part of aleppo province towards it live activists say 17 civilians were killed by airstrikes on sunday. exit polls in azerbaijan's parliamentary elections and just the ruling party is on track to when a majority vote opposition party say that vote as a sham and accuse the president. of a persecuted political opponents. early results are in for ireland's general election and champagne has surged to take 2424.5 percent of the 1st preference votes is just ahead of the 2 center right parties john a fall and then again will that have dominated mainstream irish politics for nearly a century paul brennan reports from dublin. sion fein 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. 60 statements are changed she says it makes statements this is now not very 2 party system. it's statements that's. a different. my confidence to keep every 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 it 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 stuck with the default of getting out 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 that you're. right here but the party has evolved i think painted a couple of 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 dots you know 33 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 afine gail accept that the results mean talks with sinn fein are probably going to be necessary but agreeing a coalition not for us all this machine is not an option but we are willing to talk to other parties but australia for me government one that can lead the country forward for the next 5 years feel 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 in spain 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. egypt's military says at least 7 soldiers have been killed or wounded in a rubble attack on a security checkpoint it happened in the north sinai region sources have told al-jazeera that up to 8 soldiers are dead egypt a struggle says stop armed groups and the region a situation that after after former president mohamed morsi was ousted in 2013 jordan introduce another round of tax rises the hikes led to widespread protests when they were 1st announced in 2018 this is the final phase and the response has been more muted this time many people were worried that they won't be able to make ends meet the tosca name 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 $700.00 to $800.00 a month and it's not enough by 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 lent it 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 amr key

says about 80 percent of the government's revenue is generated from taxes and fees and that's 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 in here it's it 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 be

used as the government's cash register natasha going to 0 a man. for on space program has suffered a setback after a satellite launch failed a rocket carrying a far one communication satellite blasted off from the launch pad as planned according to state t.v. but it did not reach the speed needed to put its payload into orbits a ceremony has been held in thailand for 2 police officers killed by a soldier in a shooting spree on saturday service members pay their respects at a military airport as the men's bodies were flown home 29 people were killed after an army marksman opened fire at a military base and a shopping mall it's thought he had been angered by a dispute over a property teel. as it locus of swarmed into uganda for the 1st time since the 1960s they come from kenya ethiopia and somalia it is fair the damage they cause can leave 10000000 people short of food. hurricane force when brought by storm

sara have struck ireland britain and parts of continental europe major flood warnings have been issued in several areas hour was cut to thousands of homes and hundreds of flights canceled authorities are warning people in some areas to stay home after falling trees and flying debris caused chaos in iraq to say the worst has passed but alerts are still in effect. a severe drought drought in central chile is entering its 10th year making at the country's longest ever dry spell animals are dying in iraq as a forest were dry and almost half a 1000000 people are unable to get enough water to drink and use at home a lot america told c.n.n. reports until till. every tuesday this cistern truck makes its way through rule. it delivers water to communities that haven't had any bread least 5 years. francisco candia is relieved every time the truck arrives he used to grow fruit

trees and raised goats and donkeys to sleep you know a little give us all this area was famous for. 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 of them 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 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 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. because the measures needed to protect water in this area were never take. 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 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. chili hollywood had its biggest night of the year with actors gracing the red carpet in golden statuettes handed out for achievements and filmmaking but history has been made at the 92nd oscars as well with a dark satire from south korea the biggest surprise of the evening taking the top award best film auburn hills was there. and they are scored goes to. parasite i am knight of triumph for south korean cinema and director paul june home

for the 1st time in the oscars 92 year history a film in a language other than english one the top award surprising many critics and so-called hollywood insiders. honks critically acclaimed story of wealth class power and deceit swept best director best screenplay and best international feature film in addition to best picture. thank you i mean i think on to next morning thank you. renee zellweger the star of judy won the best actress award for brilliant and emotional portrayal of one of hollywood's late stars judy garland misguide you were certainly among the heroes he knights into phyla. as widely predicted joaquin phoenix won the best actor award for his electrifying portrayal of poverty despair and mental illness in chokher he made

a plea for social justice animal rights and love for the planet whether we're talking about gender inequality or racism or career rights or indigenous rights or animal rights we're talking about the fight against injustice we're talking about the fight against the belief that one nation one people one race one gender or one species has the right to dominate control and use and exploit another with impunity brad pitt was selected as best supporting actor for once upon a time in hollywood and laura dern won her 1st oscar for best supporting actress in marriage story this is the best birthday present ever only one person of color was nominated for an acting award cynthia in harry and she didn't win was told. there was. much criticism of the lack of racial and gender diversity

and exception is st louis superman the 1st oscar nominated film commissioned and produced by al jazeera as program series witness which has an african american as its lead character to indian american filmmakers and to producers from malaysia not felt like you know at this my time to stand the broadcast which for the 2nd year in a row was presented without a host seemed flat and sluggish at times perhaps a reflection of the uncertain times we live in but after all diversion and distraction is what the movies are all about and so the show must go on rob reynolds al-jazeera hollywood as rob mentioned al-jazeera was up for an oscar for best documentary short subject just missed altho inspector nominee for a st louis. never could we have thought that we'd come this far so hopefully this is the 1st of many many more such things to come the film is about bruce franks jr

who in 2014 was a battle rapper community a community leader and then when michael brown was killed in ferguson missouri he was politically awakened and bruce decided to run for political office so our film follows bruce as he's trying to get a bill passed to honor his late brother who died from gun violence and so in this kind of plot but it gets into all these deeper issues about mental health about the value of african-american life in the united states and you know the father's relationship with his son too probably they were most proud of is that the team behind the film and how we all came together and how we come from different backgrounds different countries different religions races all of that and came together bruce brought us together to tell his story and so we're so incredibly proud of the work that witness and al jazeera english has been doing for over a decade and it's about time this is just the beginning so just watch out there

will be many many more al jazeera english unwitnessed business films that will come to this platform our website is al jazeera dot com we have all the news there and programming notes as well if you would like to see our oscar nominated film. pick up the headlines right now on al jazeera global death toll from the corona virus outbreak has reached 910 more than 40000 people are now infected and 60 more people have tested positive on a cruise ship quarantined in a japanese port bringing the total on that ship to $130.00 more than $3000.00 people have been stuck on the ship since it was placed under quarantine a week ago adrian brown has more from hong kong. on sunday china confirming moving 3000 new infections the concern though i think now is that we're starting to see infections outside of that country the world health organization says that globally

there are now 360 and 6 is including now 18 in malaysia through instance and the concern is that people could become infected who haven't been to china and the world health organization so you found the case then we could be seeing just the tip of the iceberg government forces in syria have taken control of more villages in the northwest they're advancing in the southern part of aleppo province towards adlib activists say 17 civilians were killed by airstrikes on sunday. exit polls in azerbaijan's parliamentary election suggests the ruling party is on track to win a majority but opposition parties say the vote as shannon accuse the president and . persecuting political opponents a ceremony has been held in thailand for 2 police officers killed by a soldier in a shooting spree on saturday service members paid their respects at a military airport as the men's bodies were flown home 29 people were killed after

an army marksman opened fire at a military base at a shopping mall it's thought he'd been angered by a dispute over a property deal early results are in for ireland's general election and pain is ahead of the 2 main center right parties for the 1st time in nearly a century but counting continues in a single party is expected to win a majority south korean film parasite has made history at the 92nd academy awards that won 4 oscars for best picture director international feature film and original screenplay function hose film is a dark satire on class inequality and it's the 1st non english language film to win best picture as a headline keeper and side story is next. on counting the calls to spike valley to stop propping up straw men in africa france is backing a libyan war and china's dictator is it all about the oil plus the u.k. finally clears one brights a potent what does it mean for one of the worst performing industrial economies.

counting the calls on al-jazeera. africa's leaders way the conflicts in libya and the sun held a meeting in ethiopia's capital for the annual summit and said they want to find out how they can violence and to stop the spread of thought in the african union play a bigger role in tackling the continent's security challenge that 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 af.