so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. the in the end. china replaces its top officials at the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak as a number of new cases surges to more than 15000 in a single day. i am. plan fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead cambodia has allowed a cruise ship to finally dog after several asian governments turned it away over fears of the koan of virus a surprise shake up in british politics boris johnson's most powerful minister unexpectedly quits his cabinet and the us senate prepares to vote on legislation to

curb the president's powers to use military action against iran. i am. thank you for joining us has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone from 1600 the day before chinese authorities say the testing criteria has been changed $254.00 more deaths have been announced bringing the total to nearly $1400.00 meanwhile for fishel stronghold a province the epicenter of the virus have been socked over the handling of the outbreak and that includes the provinces communist party chief john child young more than 60000 people in 26 countries have now been infected japan has reported its 1st death a woman with no record of traveling to china or contacts with. chinese visit is

elsewhere in japan $44.00 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship docks in the yokohama port bringing the total on board to $280.00 and in vietnam $10000.00 people in a community near had no we have been placed under a 20 day quarantine 5 residents there have been infected brain the total number of cases in the country to 15 adrian brown reports. when who days party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days were numbered gian charlie young is the highest ranking political casualty so far his dismissal is in response to mounting public anger over the chinese government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and follows the sacking of 2 senior health officials on monday and while the purge looks set to continue analysts say it won't bring down those at the top of the party in the way the company's policy works is

sacrifice a few small fry to keep the big fish swimming in the pond and this is worked i mean this is what happened in the last great time of the sars epidemic 17 years ago the dramatic jump in deaths came after a team from the world health organization arrived in will hand the head of the w.h.o. 1st lauded china's containment efforts including the isolation of 60000000 people and urged countries not to cut off travel and trade with china health officials say the reason for thursday a sharp rise in death and infections is because the testing criteria has been broadened chinese virus experts say the epidemic should peak in china this month before subsiding. what officials don't know though are the number of people who've not been tested because either unable or unwilling to visit overwhelmed hospitals.

the government continues to put out a reassuring message to the outside world that it has this virus under control. in facing it we have always adopted an open transparent and highly responsible attitude not only for the sake of china but also for the world at large. state t.v. is stressing the positive showing patients who recovered and gone home it's all reminiscent of them our era with a mass mobilization of medical workers who volunteers and soldiers the nation's being encouraged to fight war president xi jinping calls of people's war against the devils virus and there's another virus his government is trying to contain growing calls to protect freedom of speech and online campaign led by academics who are demanding an end to media censorship seems to be gaining momentum that amounts to explicit criticism of the leadership which is rare in today's china in hong kong

as in mainland china the death of dr li one liang has increased that anger he raised the alarm about the virus 6 weeks ago for doing his job he was reprimanded by police and forced to sign a humiliating confession he died from the virus on friday president xi jinping has offered condolences to the families of medical workers who died but he's yet to publicly mention dr lee by name adrian brown al jazeera hong kong and harris is the spokeswoman of the world health organization she says the shop increase of cases can help stop the virus from spreading. the authorities know who they have now widened the definition so that they can include people who have symptoms that are suggestive of corona virus and that's a good thing because that means they can get everybody who could possibly have coronavirus seem to care and also to keep them from infecting other people so it's

not surprising to see such a jump when they've widened this definition and started reporting people as having cases of corona virus using that definition we are finding that the chinese authorities are indeed being fully transparent but when you look at the number of cases they're dealing with what we're looking at over 51000 cases that's a vast amount of information coming in that's a vast amount of information that people have to move forward and we're receiving that information it's a lot easier to give absolutely all the detail when you've got 5 or 6 cases 50000 that's an enormous amount of work you're asking people to do but we are certainly receiving good information and they have welcomed the mission into the country to look further and deeper into the into the more complex questions. meanwhile that spin at sea for 2 weeks has docked in cambodia was turned away by 4 other governments in the region the no confirmed corona virus cases on board but

everyone's being tested before they can this symbolic way in harry or storm center in cambodia. as the sun sit the wish to dam at last arrived in welcoming waters after receiving permission from the cambodian government it docked in cynic ville but no one is allowed off yet medical tests had to be conducted to confirm they were free of the corona virus al-jazeera spoke to one of the passengers on board about the conditions inside it's very disappointing to be told time after time that we're that we're going to dock and that you know then to find out that you know you're not going to be allowed into that country so that's worrisome but i should say that you know life on board the ship is is just fine and normal there are no restrictions there were 20 people on board who were on well so blood tests were flown by military helicopter to the capital

phnom penh for further analysis on a measure to get from the ship so we had to test the 20 that they feel that they might have something but again i talked to. someone. and i was all my might be say ok so does all of this concern from governments about the west a dam stemmed from an outbreak of the virus on board another cruise ship more than 3 and a half 1000 people have been quarantined on board since it arrived in the japanese city of york a hama on february the 3rd while it was at sea for nearly 2 weeks the west a dam had no confirmed cases but was turned away by japan the philippines taiwan and thailand the arrival of the ship may also be viewed as a public relations win for the cambodian government led by prime minister who sought to downplay the. but of the virus and emphasize his country strong relationship with china where the outbreak began. last week he travelled to beijing

to meet xi jinping china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia in those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization. but that's not to recommend child when the chip the restriction in that context the bit you really appreciate the decision and the highest level government leadership to receive this shape cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west to them when they eventually disembark and return home when hey al jazeera cambodia. now it was meant to be a minor cabinet reshuffle has turned into a major shake up after britain 2nd most powerful minister resigned cited javid was the chancellor of the exchequer and was expected to remain in his post however he stepped down a short while ago chalons tells us why from london. there had been differences between such a job it and boris johnson although they did have

a pretty good relationship maybe over over government spending the prime minister wants to kind of open the taps and have a big splurge in government spending where is such a job it is the holder of the purse strings was wanting to be a bit more cautious about this but was that the reason why he was probably not the this is not official but what's being talked about here in the u.k. is the number 10 the prime minister's office have basically said to sajid javid we want you to keep your job but you have to accept a new team of special advisor is that is going to be shared between the treasury and number 10 downing street and what this would have meant is a lowering in the autonomy of the treasury and great oversights from number 10 over the treasury's business is basically a power grab from number 10 the man who is paying name just the kind of architect

of this is dominic cummings a name that is pretty familiar if you will watching the u.k. politics of the moment he's boris johnson the chief advisor a hugely divisive man in the u.k. and what he was asking of such a job it is something that he can accept and he resigned. the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that because severely restrict president donald trump's ability to take military action on iran the war powers resolution would force donald trump to get congressional approval before he could order any military operations against the country it was introduced last month after trump ordered the strike that killed top iranian general cuss and cinema. as been vocally opposed to the resolution tweeting it's very important for our country's security that the united states senate is not vote for the iran war powers resolution we're doing very well with iran and this is not the time to show weakness and he says if my hands were tied iran would have a field day sends a very bad signal

a white house correspondent kimberly hocket has more from washington. well the president is tweeting that this is going to send a message of weakness to iran members of his own party and this is what's so striking about this are saying just the opposite saying you campaign to get us out of foreign entanglements and that's exactly what we're doing here this isn't projecting a message of weakness this is in fact showing unity on a campaign promise but still it is remarkable in divided congress that just last week really essentially voted along party lines with regard to the impeachment and whether or not the president was abusing his presidential powers this time we expect to see at least 8 republicans standing with democrats on this measure well what this means is this is another attempt by congress to limit the president's power now we've seen a similar measure that in essence is largely symbolic very similar to this one that happened back in march of 21000 that's when the congress voted to limit u.s.

involvement for the saudi it's a poor for the saudi led coalition in yemen now the president vetoed that measure he's expected to do this again but what this is doing is sending a message to the president that he is the fear from congress is that he is increasingly acting unilaterally and what this vote is saying essentially is look at we're watching you and we're looking for ways to limit your power. and protesters in iraq have gathered near the airport in baghdad to mark the end 40 days of mourning for the iranian general hossam son the money the rocks the road close to where he was killed in a u.s. drone strike last month president trump as we mentioned ordered the killing saying he posed an imminent threat but protesters are accusing the u.s. of having committed a crime and let's bring in simone a fonteyn who is in baghdad for us at that protest side tell us about what's been happening simona. well we're here at international airports and we are in fact exactly at the spot where customs

soleimani and his iraqi associate of hundreds were killed on the murli morning hours of january 3rd and the events that have been taking place in baghdad over the past 3 days mark the end of the 40 day mourning period as you can see behind me there are some crowds that have gathered here composed mostly of members of the popular mobilization forces which is of course is umbrella group of mostly iranian backed armed groups which were led by monitors who was the 2nd in charge of the group and they have been chanting anti-american slogans they have been asking for u.s. forces to leave but overall the situation here in baghdad has stabilized since the killings of somalia and the hundreds i've actually spoken to one member of parliament from one of these groups and what he said was that they are currently waiting for the government to negotiate the withdrawal of american troops but that if the troops in the end would not draw out of that there would be

a reaction from the so-called islamic resistance groups which includes one of the groups that he is representing which is called aside how which is one of the groups that initially threatened retaliation following these events or so overall it appears that these kind of threats have subsided the numbers we have seen over the past few days have been relatively moderate so it appears that overall the situation here is stabilizing but there are. one big question that remains unanswered and that is related to the current political situation in iraq it is currently. this caretaker government who is negotiating with the americans about the future terms of their presence here and it's uncertain whether the prime minister designate mohamed tawfik allow who is still in the process of forming his new cabinet will continue those negotiations or whether he will take a new direction altogether simona thank you for that update simona fulton live for us in baghdad. still ahead on al-jazeera the wait for justice in malawi police are accused of failing to investigate a series of rape allegations against officers and the century long fight to

enshrine equal wives in the u.s. constitution is on the very success. hello again it's good to have you back well here across asia we are watching storm after storm making its way from the southwest up here towards the northeast and with a lot of rain when those storms do roll through then we get a little bit of a break and then the next storm will be coming in as well so for japan expect to see the rain increase here on friday as that storm pushes up towards the north down towards the south though very heavy rain across much of china over the next few days and we're going to be seeing the very heavy rain across the northern part of taiwan as we go towards saturday that area of heavy rain starts to make its way towards japan for the next round of rain and that's going to affect much of the ricoh islands as well as into southern japan for toga though here on saturday i

nice day with a temperature of 17 degrees while heavy rain is going to be the big problem here across much of borneo over the next few days some severe weather could be seen with those pop up thunderstorms some of them quite hard and heavy with the rain we could be seizing localized flooding as well but up towards the philippines things are looking quite nice over the next few days particularly over here towards manila a few clouds in the forecast on friday but on the saturday and sunday a lot of sun in the forecast with a temperature of 31 degrees and then very quickly over here towards india and sri lanka we are going to be seeing more clouds down here towards the south and for colombo $32.00 degrees and partly cloudy conditions. where their on line like father got to be one of the worst grasses in mainstream media about being president or if you join us on saturday there is a difference in diversity and inclusion and they were sometimes is it

a listen see air base is a dialogue sanctions and the ways in which they're tied to iran are and i'm a wife and everyone has a voice we as a society that is simply to convey to just sit down and listen join the colobus conversation on how to 0. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections in china maybe it will be a province the epicenter of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases on wednesday at a loss and treatment and 254 people have died in while

a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 asian governments over 3 years of the virus has docked in cambodia there are no confirmed cases on board westerdam so far but as you just haven't been allowed to get off the ship. at tokyo lempicka officials have criticize what they call irresponsible rumors that they will postpone the games because of the outbreak of the coronavirus major sporting events within china have been canceled or delayed but with 162 days to go japanese organizers remain positive after meeting members of the international olympic committee on thursday japan strengthened its border controls for chinese arrivals evolutionary wish to look there are many responsible rumors about coronavirus but i would like to make clear once again that we're not considering the cancellation postponement of the games let me make that clear we have set up countermeasures and we're sharing information with the national institute of pictures diseases as far as tokyo 2020

is concerned would like to continue coordinating with the national government and respond calmly. firefighters in australia say all the bushfires in the state of new south wales have been contained but residents are now worried about floods that's because the area was sold with rain over the weekend while that's helped extinguish most of the fires it's the heaviest amount of rainfall the state has seen in almost 20 years water supplies in the region have also been repaired after years of drops . hundreds of women have been marching in the iraqi capital baghdad to protest against recent calls for gender segregation announcement was made by shia cleric matar solder earlier this week in support of separating male and female protesters iraq has witnessed months of anti-government rallies calling for a complete overhaul of the political system. human rights lawyers in malawi say police are taking too long to investigate officers accused of rape and sexual abuse

at least 17 women have told rights workers that they were attacks last year al jazeera is how has more from sindh way which is around 40 kilometers west of the capital a long way lucy doesn't want to be identified because she is scared the 25 year old was 2 months pregnant when she was raped last october she says a man wearing a police uniform came into her bedroom while she was sleeping she says the husband sometimes asks why she didn't fight back i mean i would he asked me where my husband was i said i didn't know he called me a liar but he said my husband was one of the people organizing the protests and the towers hiding him he forced me to undress and then he raped me. human rights lawyers say police aren't doing enough to investigate a series of allegations of rape and sexual abuse against their officers the attacks happened during months of protests in several parts of the country following the result of the presidential election last may at least one police officer and a civilian were killed in some other violent protests but only 17 women. one was

actually sexually assaulted and. abused this includes. breast grab or kind of stuff. then we have. 8. i mean morris did through the red fires police say the allegations are still being investigated and no arrests have been made we even indicated. that we see this for community just to get shawn's or things being equal before in 2 weeks. or things with which they were some of the investigators i mean some of the implements of this of a vase where not forthcoming when they were needed but i want you to get us to get more from them how that issue has been sorted out investigations of one small 3 and

we have that i'm assured that in a day from now with the criminal investigation put out. privilege with some of the women live so some of the worst violence following the election the police station was destroyed during an anti-government protest late last year since then it's been abandoned people here say they don't trust the police and they don't want them to return the constitutional court recently and now the results really. because of what judges said well widespread irregularities metallica disputes that and is appealing to the supreme court to overturn the verdict is an easy column in malawi but opposition supporters and human rights activists i threatening more protests if things don't go their way how do we toss al-jazeera. century old effort to ensure and gender equality in the u.s. constitution is on the verge of success the house of representatives is considering whether to extend a deadline that would allow the equal rights amendment to be added to the

constitution if successful it would prohibit the government from denying equal rights to a person on the basis of their sex ideas or castro has a story. it's been 100 years since american women got the vote almost 50 since they gained access to abortions but as for getting equal rights protection under the u.s. constitution the clock is still ticking why has it taken this long. you know it's a great question i find it very confused heidi shrek is a pulitzer nominated playwright i thought i had just been left out of this document from the beginning her work what the constitution means to me tells the history of domestic violence in her family for their benefit the rights and i met when i was 1st was i guess what kinds of music oh. i believe that the law was related to domestic related to sexual assault and. what

happened was i believe that. the women in my family would not have needed to suffer the way that. the proposed equal rights amendment was drafted in 1923 it took 50 years for its language to clear congress but it wasn't ratified by 2 thirds of us states which is required by the constitution until the year 2020 in january virginia became the critical final state to ratify the equal rights amendment for the women ever jinyan the women of america the resolution has finally. but there was just one hitch the deadline for state ratification had come and gone in 1982 and the trauma ministration says that makes the proposed amendment void democrats in congress are pushing for its addition to the constitution regardless delays and distractions will not slow our progress because there can be no expiration

date on equality this is a clear message to the international community that we embed in our constitution equal rights for women and that there cannot be discrimination based upon. gender extending the deadline for the equal rights amendment would also need approval in the republican controlled senate where it will likely face opposition. some conservatives fear it could lead to more abortions or even outlaw separate sex bathrooms as for heidi shrek the playwright she's expecting tween girls in april i was. very future to look very different from our past she says she hopes to soon show her daughters a u.s. constitution that guarantees very quality castro al-jazeera washington canada's prime minister is calling for a swift end to indigenous protests blocking trains across the country the protests stories of water of a group currently fighting the construction of a natural gas pipeline through

a traditional indigenous lands demonstrators of rocks rail lines for days now forcing hundreds of passengers and cargo trains to be canceled. don has signed a settlement deal with the families of american servicemen who were killed in the bombing of a u.s. warship 20 years ago 17 americans were killed when al qaeda suicide bombers rammed into the side of the u.s.s. cole in yemen so don was accused of for violating support to al qaida compensating the victims' families is a native effort in sudan's bid to be taken off the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism. that's a song that became an internet sensation in trade. copyright noirs in south korea are waiting to waiting for a court to decide who owns the rights to baby shock from. the story. it is the annoyingly catchy ditty that became

a global phenomenon and got stuck on repeat in millions of heads over and over but just spawned a slew of spinoff parodies. even finding its way into scream protests for its south korean producers baby shark has been up and. i believe baby shark is one of the top intellectual properties dominating all media these days is a great present and blessing for us. but not their intellectual property according to the creator read this song. sounds familiar produced in 2011 by u.s. musician johnny only it predates the south korean version and his lawyers and now baring their teeth claiming plagiarism rejecting the defense that baby shark is actually based on an old campfire song that no one owns. and is some originality and ever deeper to to the public domain song and we think that they

copied our originality. and there seems no stopping that baby shot juggernaut. the latest spin off baby shark and fellow animation pink foam go on a space romp it's a single long movie and yes guess what they're singing to. try to find anyone who doesn't know it. well. case was 1st brought last summer the district court ruled that careers copyright commission get involved to study the 2 versions side by side and give its opinion since then the commission has due to flee and probably painfully been listening over and over to be shocked to do do do pray be shocked when the court hears the commission's decision it could have big implications in the world

of copyright i think it's a very unique and interesting case in korean copyright and or international copyright law as well but will do nothing for the estimated $4000000.00 overzealous planet to have heard it like never be the say look at robin wright al-jazeera so. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera there's been a surge in the number of corona virus infections in china mainly in a province the epicenter of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases on wednesday across the country and 254 more people have died as a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 asian governments over 3 years of the virus has docked in cambodia the country's health ministry says all 20 blood samples

taken from passengers have tested negative for corona virus. the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restrict president trumps ability to take military action on iran the war powers resolution would force donald trump to get congressional approval before he could order any military operations against iran meanwhile protesters in iraq have gathered near the airport in baghdad to mark the end of 40 days of mourning for iranian general monny the rocks the road near baghdad airport where he was killed in a u.s. drone strike last month president trump ordered the killing say so many poles and imminent threats but protesters are accusing the u.s. of having committed a crime similar fulton is at the airport in baghdad with more the events that have been taking place in baghdad a little past 3 days to mark the end of the 40 day mourning period as you can see behind me there are some crowds that have gathered here composed mostly of members

of the popular mobilization forces which is of course is umbrella group of mostly iranian backed armed groups which were led by a man who was the 2nd in charge of the group and they have been chanting anti-american slogans they have been asking for u.s. forces to leave and firefighters in australia say all of the bushfires in the state of new software have been contained but residents are now worried about floods that's because the area was sold to with rain over the weekend while that's helped extinguish most of the fires is the heaviest amount of rainfall the say to seen in almost 20 years those are the headlines on al-jazeera from me fully behind the whole team thank you for watching coming up next it's a story stay with us. the race for the white house has begun. to 04 states have their say their wants to please don't try. to last throughout to continue. to pick 2025 u.s.

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