i have to get to. the others and. i believe count the story and make a difference. the palestinian president tells the un security council the donald trump's middle east plan a would end the hopes of a palestinian state as israel questions his commitment to peace. about matheson this is all just a lie from doha also coming up a short lived victory for syrian rebels against government forces as they show they won't give up without a fight. pose begin to close in the u.s. state of new hampshire results could make all break a presidential challenge for democratic party candidates. the world health organization says that china coronavirus poses

a great threat to the world and should be considered public enemy number one. the middle east plan that will bring neither peace nor stability and leave palestinians with a fragmented state that's palestine's president made his case at the united nations security council has urged the world to reject u.s. president donald trump's proposal our diplomatic editor james bays begins our coverage. this was the day the palestinians chose to fight back against the trump plan in the un security council president mahmoud abbas describing it as a way to completely destroy the idea of a palestinian state. not really natural this is the summary of the project that was presented to us this is the state that they will give us it's like a piece of swiss cheese really who among you would accept

a similar state in similar conditions the palestinians had wanted to get the security council to vote on the trump plan isolating the united states but washington fought back in recent days to new series the current arab member of the security council in the chair for the meeting there deputy ambassador that's because their ambassador who'd been working on a draft resolution with the palestinians was fired last week on the u.s. pressure. after the security council meeting a bizarre media event president obama asked with former israeli prime minister olmert the president made it clear olmert was the kind of man he could do business with even though the former prime minister jailed for corruption hasn't been in office for a decade president abbas left without taking any questions olmert stayed with the palestinians might have preferred he didn't he said he wouldn't criticize the trump

plan even suggesting it could be a good starting point for negotiations there is here economy. in the play of president trump. who studies the necessary for. the palestinians didn't get the security council vote they wanted ambiance reilley figure they invited to help make their case didn't in fact back their position this isn't today that pushes the palestinian cause forward james 0 of the united nations that are being protests in support of the palestinian president in several areas that abraham was out with the demonstrators. but the news of gathered here today and i'm a law in the occupied west bank their main aim is to support the palestinian president mahmoud abbas in his speech at the united nations security council but they also want to voice their rejection of the u.s.

proposal i mean these peace plan they're calling it here the deal of same. goals didn't say that the plan doesn't meet any of their experience and specially the issue of east jerusalem which they say should be the capital of the future palestinian state. and there's even the issue of refugees injuries an american citizen core issues not one palestinian they are more old can give up those rights and if we do so then we will be abandoning our demands heritage and homeland then as. we have been promised for decades that u.n. security council resolutions will be implemented we as palestinians are calling upon the security council to implement the already approved resolutions. many of those who live here today feel left out by the international community they say that the us i think pressure and you are against people who i support. turkey's president is warning of swift revenge of his troops in syria continue to be

attacked those are the ones comments come as syrian opposition rebels recaptured a village and it led problems as they try to regain territory lost in government forces and reports. were against the syrian rebels forced to retreat and abandoned their strongholds in the move these fighters have suffered may just setbacks over the last few days but then they launched a sudden counterattack and within our was managed to overrun government positions in may that the rebels also shot down a syrian army helicopter. but there were no match for an army backed by a russian fighter jets the opposition's military victory was shot lived and president bashar al assad's troops soon regain control of the town. although a nadir holds no strategic importance the rebels needed

a small victory to reassure the millions of civilians trapped in it live there the fight is far from over. the rebels gains in and they were largely due to turkey's growing involvement in. the turkish military has intensified is shallowing of syrian army defense lines in a nailer and. more turkish troops are pouring into establishing military outposts their aim is to prevent syrian forces from advancing towards the city this. order the syrian regime got what it deserved but that's not enough it will pay a heavy price for attacking turkish soldiers i will announce the actions to be taken about the syrian issue after i meet with my parliamentary group tomorrow. as fighting intensifies civilians are abandoning their villages. is a ghost town its population of 80000 has largely left for safer

areas around 700000 people have been displaced over the past 2 months as the syrian army continues its offensive of the escalation is raising fears of a broader military confrontation. main onli russia has called on turkey to stop its artillery attacks 2 years ago russia and turkey played a crucial role along with iran in establishing a safe zone in. the us syria only void james jeffries expected to meet with syria turkish officials on wednesday to discuss the governments of funds have been in the u.s. accuses iran russia shia militias and the syrian government of undermining international efforts to implement a cease fire that would allow millions of syrian refugees to return to their homes . is on board well it's

a closer look at where that military offensive is taking place in northern syria president bashar al assad's forces are now firmly in control of almost the entire country but that doesn't include opposition controlled areas marked in green and the kurdish held parts in the north locked in yellow there are reports that for the 1st time in syria's nearly 9 year civil war government forces have seized control of the entire m 5 highway driving opposition fighters out of that area west of aleppo and that's important because it's the main trade route running from north all the way to the southern border with jordan it connects the commercial hub of aleppo with major cities like damascus kongs and hama it will make it easier forces to move in to capture city. voting is wrapping up in the 1st primary in the u.s. presidential election people are casting their ballots in the new hampshire these are live pictures from there there are 11 democratic candidates and the vote could

bring some clarity on who the front runners are no democrat has become the party's presidential nominee without finishing 1st or 2nd in new hampshire ok we've got 2 correspondents on this story christensen is standing by in nashua 1st let's go to pass equal again in munches surpasses what we is at stake here. what's at stake is just some sort of clarity about where the democratic party is so its polls have started to close and so what we see then is all of these different networks have been talking to people as they leave the polling station and that's when we get the 1st indication of what the voters think in this was a really striking figure to me quoted to n.b.c. news exit poll 62 percent of democrats who cast a ballot today said that the most important thing to them was fun i did a democrat who could beat donald trump that's more than the 30 or so percent who said what matters is that they agree with the candidate so here's what the democratic party is right now and i think why you've seen so many voters say they

just couldn't choose right up until the last minute it question is how is the best way to be tried what is that path so you see candidates like bernie senator bernie sanders senator elizabeth warren they're saying it's time for a revolution that you need to have expanded free health care free college education and they really are talking about really big bold progressive ideas then you have the senator senator amy klobuchar sure the vice president joe biden people to judge they're the more moderate camp where they're saying we do need to fix health care but we can't take everyone's health care away 'd from the country we won't win an election that way so here in new hampshire we'll get the 1st indication of which camp might have the edge going to the next contest in nevada this is a party that is really conflicted we heard that from the voters we've seen the candidates making that desperate last attempt to try and convince them that they can in fact in fact be donald trump because when you talk to democrats that really

is what they care about the selection but it thanks very much indeed ok let's bring in kristen salumi she's joining us from a watch for people to judge in nashua one of the voters being saying to you there. well i've spoken to a lot of people who attended rallies over the weekend to check out what mayor people to judge had to say he's a relative newcomer to the political scene but created a lot of excitement after his unexpected finish in iowa and people that i've spoken to here who saw him were very enthusiastic about what he had to say but really there's a lot of indecision among voters here as patty was just alluding to on one side the voters that i've spoken to are very excited about president even among new hampshire's notorious independent voters some 40 percent of the electorate here is neither democrat nor republican they do not affiliate officially with any one party

i spoke to one gentleman who identified himself as a working class union guy but said democrats couldn't count on him any more they'd they'd taken his vote for granted he didn't feel like they were looking out for them and he was casting his vote for china because don't forget the republicans also have a primary here just not a strong competitor for president chunk but a lot of enthusiasm for him on the other side you have people who really don't like the president at all and as patty was alluding to their main concern is overturning him finding someone who can beat him in the election and when you talk to them even those people who are at the blue to judge rally were excited about him they're really indecisive they were really indecisive even some of them walking into the polls today that i heard from had not yet decided who they were going to cast that ballot for they want someone who can bring the country together they tell me they are tired of all the partisanship character is very important and you know so 'd

amy clubbish our of senator of minnesota people who judge they like what they hear from these candidates they think. they're good people. and that is almost more important than the policy issues but where policy comes in is on electability and some money too far to the left or too far to the part of the left to get the mainstream vote and defeat donald chaat so with all of those things going through everyone's head i have to say that the most enthusiastic supporters that i've seen so far here in new hampshire have been the bernie sanders supporters we attended a rally yesterday with thousands of chanting and holding signs they are very energized and they've been here in vermont for some time he's got a history with the voters here he comes from a neighboring state in 2016 he won the primary he beat hillary clinton by 20 percent so. he is expected to do well here tonight and it's not hard to see

why based on the reaction that i got from those people at his rally and based on the indecision and the uncertainty of all the other characters they're going back to the man they may be going back to the man that they supported back in 2016 person thanks very much and. still ahead in al-jazeera accusations of interference the u.s. justice department over rules sentencing guidelines for trunk associate after the president criticizes plus. i'm way high in phnom penh where i will tell you why a trade announcement from the european union could have a major impact on the cambodian economy. we call more heavy rain into central parts of china at the moment and that's

squeezing its way across the east china sea south korea seeing some big downpours is because through the next day out say and that wet weather will extend across q shew into southern parts of honshu possibility of snow localized flooding in the system makes its way across the war says there what i've seen a fair bit of heavy rain down towards the southeast of chad and that set to continue over the next couple of days now is it go on into were a way to stay there we go with spells of heavy rain down into the south little clear a little drier into western parts of japan by this station by the end of the day we should see bright skies gravity coming back into tokyo temperatures here at around 15 degrees celsius the some late sunshine plenty of sunshine meanwhile across southeast asia certainly into the philippines a size 5 and sunshine in showers as per usual further south some lively downpours so the possibility into malaysia into indonesia and it really is a case of spot the difference as we go on through thursday and we also got some

rather heavy showers pushing into sri lanka over the next day or so on the northeast the monsoon so some very heavy rain coming in here further north it is generate dry but it's also some mist and fog. in india. identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of politicians in coats and loads of the across the country and there's the dark side is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the fish into something more like the team i didn't know the british were doing i meet with victims of violence and discover would life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera.

here watching on his ear a reminder of our top stories this hour the palestinian president has rejected the u.s. president's proposed middle east plan at the u.n. security council mahmoud abbas says trump's proposal would bring neither peace nor stability to the region. turkey's president is promising swift revenge against syrian government forces in italy after they killed 5 turkish soldiers on monday there are reports the syrian army is now captured the entire m 5 highway that links damascus with aleppo. poser due to close soon in the 1st primary in the u.s. brace for president voters are choosing between 11 and democratic candidates for mayor of people voted james law really won the last vote in iowa. china's

government announced another 94 deaths from corona virus that brings the total number to more than 1100 people mostly in mainland china earlier the head of the world health organization said the virus should be viewed as public enemy number one given the grave threat it poses to the world under subpoena reports. as the 1st patients were released from temporary hospitals and city on tuesday there was a glimmer of hope that china's efforts to contain the corona virus may be succeeding reassuring perhaps for the 50000000 people on lockdown under quarantine measures meant to stop the spread of the disease now known as coded 19 the world health organization has praised china's response but it's worried it could spread to poor countries if this virus makes it to a week ahead of systems it will crave hubble it depends on how. really we need this response and how least how we respond to the outbreak. the

scientific community still doesn't know a lot about the virus and the vaccine probably won't be ready for another 18 months but china's leading epidemiologist says the outbreak will soon plateau at least in china. the rate of new infections is gradually declining according to the analysis of our mathematical model the epidemic will reach its peak in the south regions after the middle of february or in the 2nd half of the month but no one really knows for sure and thousands of coping 1000 patients are in critical condition in the epicenter of. experts say the incubation period could be longer than 1st thought up to 24 days before patients show any symptoms chinese officials have launched a mass disinfection campaign in cities far away from the epidemic to keep it at bay . and in on itself patients are doing what they can to pass the time before they too can walk out of quarantine. enter chappelle's al-jazeera lebanese prime

minister haas on the new cabinet has won a confidence vote in parliament 63 out of 84 m.p.'s voted to support an 8 hour debate but protesters who spent months calling for a political overhaul are rejecting the new government is in a hold of reports. anti-establishment protesters are up against a state that has become increasingly militarized. they tried but failed to stop lebanon's parliament from convening to give a vote of confidence in the new government. security forces who had already heavily fortified the central beirut district confronted the demonstrators the parliamentary meeting came as lebanon faces its worst economic and financial crisis in decades it's actually not. that you know how many the army is blocking our way they are protecting the premier. believes instead of protecting the people they

should put those beliefs in jail for stealing the country's money instead of putting people in jail. officials defied popular anger hundreds of military and security personnel were deployed to ensure politicians reach the parliament building some of their convoys were harassed demonstrators have for months been trying to topple a political class they blame for corruption and mismanagement they are against the new cabinet since it was appointed by the same parties that governed for decades the government does not. like. the government received a vote of confidence in the ruling on lyons controls parliament it is now trying to convince the lebanese to give it a chance by promising to fight corruption implement reforms and prepare an

emergency plan by the end of the month. for. every day that passes without the implementation of the government's plan the country and its people will suffer more losses could be a complete collapse which would be hard to get out of it it is out to be honest with the lebanese people some of the measures will be painful trying not to affect low income. many lebanese believe the new government's economic and policy is are no different from previous ones. but the new government has consistently shown its willingness to use force to stay in power but it is not helping it gain that credibility many lebanese say they won't give up in their struggle against the authorities and it's not just them who don't have any faith in the new cabinet reform plan. this confidence vote may not mean much if lebanon doesn't get the billions of dollars to get out of the crisis the united nations says there will be

no blank checks until there are serious reforms. beirut all 4 prosecutors investigating a close ally of president donald trump have quit the case after the u.s. justice department overruled their sentencing recommendation roger stone was convicted on 7 counts of lying to the u.s. congress obstruction and witness tampering the change came after the president criticized the proposed sentence of 7 to 9 years as a miscarriage of justice is joining us now from washington d.c. good there's been a lot of back and forth on this case just bring us up to date about where we are on this. yeah it's really remarkable and unprecedented here in washington to see something like this transpire as it has on tuesday we basically have a revolt with top prosecutors in the justice department and we have fresh allegations by democrats of president donald trump again potentially partaking in

abuse of power of his office now this all stems from roger stone a very controversial figure someone who's been called a provocateur to or and most importantly he was the real mastermind behind trump's political image that he's built up and the one that encouraged to trump to run for president and may perhaps most importantly has been a close personal friend of donald trump for decades he got caught up in the special counsel robert muller his investigation into the 2016 russian interference and in the 2016 election he's as you mentioned was indicted on 7 different charges he's been awaiting sentencing and that's when on tuesday federal prosecutors finally said they recommended a sentencing of 7 to 9 years as soon as that came out trumped tweeted that that was a miscarriage of justice and then president donald trump went so far as to say this . i thought the recommendation was ridiculous i thought the whole prosecution was

ridiculous and i look at others that haven't been brought us a kid or i don't know where it is now but when you see that i thought it was an insult to our country and it shouldn't happen and we'll see what what goes on there but it was. it was a horrible aberration. these are the i guess that the same people that put everybody through hell and i think it's a disgrace no i have not been involved with it at all now after trump came out on tuesday said that he disagreed with the 7 to 9 years the real remarkable part about all the this is that the justice department then came out and said ok wait we're going to reconsider this 7 to 9 years and that's when late tuesday all 4 of the prosecutors on the case reportedly resigned from the case in protest now this is unlikely to affect any of trump's supporters will probably just brush this off as

a trump doing nothing wrong however it's probably going to be seen much differently with top democrats we've heard already from the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer who has come out and said that this is a disgrace and has left open the door to the democrats and congress possibly opening up an investigation into this as well so this story far from over carol thanks very much indeed. sudan's government and darfur's rebel groups have agreed that those wanted by the international criminal court for crimes in the darfur region should appear before the court announcement was made during peace talks in juba from a long time president omar bashir who was toppled after a mass protest last year is wanted by the i.c.c. but the minister did not specifically name him hit the button. in the us is that. we agreed on 4 key mechanisms to establish justice insure for the 1st that all

those who have arrest warrants against them shall appear before the international criminal court i am seeing this very plainly justice is served by justice we cannot bury our heads in the sand against the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against innocent people in darfur and elsewhere justice will not be served unless those with the rest of warrants appear before the i.c.c. that is why we agreed today that they will appear before the i.c.c. we also agreed on a special tribunal for those crimes committed in darfur it will be a special court entrusted with investigations and trials in these cases including the international criminal cases spanish coast guards have rescued nearly 200 refugees in migrants off the coast of gibraltar the number of people trying to cross from morocco has serbs recently more than 60000 people attended across last year that's after roots and other parts of europe are restricted. cambodia is set to find out on white and state whether the european union will scrap its

preferential trade agreement under the deal cambodia can export most goods to europe tax free but concern about workers' rights and democracy is put in that a risk when he reports. it's closing time after another long tough day in a factory making clothes and shoes for some of the world's biggest brands cambodia's garment industry employs around 800000 people and is the driving force behind its economy but their jobs are under threat because of a decision by the european union which is cambodia's biggest customer that could make it 12 percent more expensive to send products their workers say they haven't been warned about the announcement but the prospect of factories closing all reducing their hours is worrying. it would affect me a lot because i need all that money to spend on my family especially for daily expenses like food my small daughter needs milk so if this factory closes it won't be easy to find not a job a year ago the e.u. signalled that it would end cambodia's preferential trade arrangement that allows

most goods to be sent to europe tax free the announcement came after the government launched a crackdown on dissent banning the main opposition party and charging its leader with treason among the demands from the e.u. is that the case against can be dropped and it wants better protection and rights for workers in factories according to leaked documents from the european commission and parliament but unlikely to walk for a partial withdrawal of the agreement rather than a complete cancellation with one of the main concerns being job losses and communities like this in the e.u. may also be trying to limit geopolitical space for china which is becoming increasingly assertive in southeast asia according to a cambodian government official chinese president xi jinping urged cambodia's prime minister hun sin not to bow to european demands when they met in beijing last week but china would also lose if the trade. remit is cancelled most of the investor are

from china they can import all the woman here from china it seems certain the e.u. will want to follow through and punish the cambodian government to some extent when the final announcement is made any changes to the tariff free trade deal would come into force in 6 months which could have a big impact on hundreds of thousands of cambodian workers wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. this is all jazeera these are the top stories the palestinian president has rejected the u.s. president's proposed middle east plan at the u.n. security council says trump's proposal will bring neither peace nor stability to the region. this is the summary of the project that was presented to us this is the state that they will give us it's like a swiss cheese really who among you will accept

a similar state and similar conditions this deal ladies and gentlemen includes instructions and the entrenchment of occupation and annexation by military force and the strengthening of the apartheid regime turkey's president is promising swift revenge against the syrian government that's after 5 turkish soldiers were killed on monday turkish backed rebels are reinforcing positions in the province after the syrian army to keep positions along m 5 highway at least a mask this with aleppo. the syrian regime got what it deserved but that's not enough it will pay a heavy price for attacking turkey soldiers i will announce the actions to be taken about the syrian issue after i meet with my parliamentary group tomorrow. china has confirmed another $94.00 deaths from corona virus that brings the total to more than $1100.00 people the world health organization has officially renamed the virus covered 19 and says it poses a grave threat to the world polls have started to close in new hampshire in the 1st

primary of the us presidential race there are 11 democratic candidates and no clear frontrunner all 4 prosecutors investigating a close ally of president donald trump have quit the case after the u.s. justice department overruled the sentencing recommendation roger stone was convicted on 7 counts of lying to the u.s. congress and obstruction and witness tampering sudan's government says it's agreed to hand over war crimes suspects to the international criminal court former president obama's she is wanted by the i.c.c. but it's not clear if he's part of the handover those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the bottom line life in our.

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question has the corona virus gotten out of hand in china and spread so far and so fast that it just can't be contained how vulnerable are we to global pandemics let's get to the bottom line. by the time we all heard of a mysterious new virus spreading in china the panic it spread worldwide with scientists rushing to figure it out millions of chinese citizens are under quarantine factories there are shut down and the virus has popped up in 26 countries as we speak it's killed more than a 1000 people and infected more than 40000 a whole cruise ship is quarantined off of yokohama japan right now and people are pleading to get off that ship so what's next and how afraid should we be fortunately we have 4 people with us today who have all the answers let me start with the 2 scientists.