he was wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an hour a leg is a 2nd finds we have to like just this country. china sacks the top officials dealing with the corona virus outbreak as the number of new infections increases dramatically. alive adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a cruise ship docks in cambodia after being stranded at sea for nearly 2 weeks over fears of the coronavirus but its passengers are not disembarking just yet. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says it's beginning to try those accused of human rights violations but gives no details of the process. the sharp departure of the u.k. government boris johnson's post powerful minister suddenly resigns. there's

been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone up from just 1600 the day before chinese authorities say that the screening criteria has been changed $254.00 more deaths have been reported bringing the total to nearly $1404.00 officials from who bay province the epicenter of the virus have been sacked over their handling of the outbreak that includes the province's communist party chief jan cho line. japan has reported its 1st death a woman with no record of traveling to china or contacts with chinese visitors elsewhere in japan 44 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship docked in your common port bringing the total on board to 218 and in vietnam 10000

people in a community near hanoi been placed under 20 day koren teen 5 people there have been infected bringing the total number of cases in the country to 15 others here as adrian brown wraps all of that together for us now from hong kong. when who days party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days were numbered jiang charlie 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 new hampshire. 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 pools 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 a cruise ship that's been at sea for 2 weeks has docked in cambodia after it was turned away by 4 other governments in the region as a precaution health officials took blood samples from 20 passengers who were feeling ill but all tested negative for grown a virus and was a serious way to hey reports now from santa. as the sun set the west a 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 there we're going to dock and that you know when to find out that you know you're not going to be allowed to get to that country so that's worried but i should say that you know late fun board the ship is is just fine and normal there are no restrictions concern from governments about the westerdam stem 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 hama on february the 3rd while it was at sea for nearly 2 weeks the westerdam 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 threat of the virus and emphasize his country strong relationship with china where the outbreak began. last week he traveled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization but that's not the recommend child when the change the restriction in that context a bit you really. and the highest level government leadership to receive this ship cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west to them when they eventually decide. and return home wayne hay al-jazeera will cambodia. that of the world health organizations health emergency program says despite the spiking coronavirus cases inside china the profile of those contracting the virus

remains the same we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter and this disease is still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher for the severity profile that increases actually with each decade after that and predominantly 2 that's a rarity is amongst men rather than them women and we have seen a significant shift that profile is very much repeated in other areas outside who base protests is across iraq and iran are marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top but a trick amada custom solomonic in baghdad demonstrators blocked the road near the airport where he was killed in a u.s. air raid last month. behind iran's efforts to spread its influence throughout the middle east president on a trump ordered the killing saying he posed an imminent threat. well here's a look at what happened in the aftermath of the u.s. assassination of samadhi iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many boards of

severe revenge and the killings sparked protests across iran u.s. president on all trumped then threatened to bomb 52 iranian sites if terror ron attacked american targets the next day in iraq or so money was killed parliament passed a resolution calling on the government to expel all foreign troops from the country 2 days later a large funeral procession was held for calls himself money and in the early hours of january 8th launched a dozen ballistic missiles to iraqi air bases housing u.s. forces there were no deaths let's go live to dosage of who's wrong for us or protests earlier today in baghdad what's been happening in tehran. well there is a commemoration ceremony taking place as we speak at one of the large mosques in tehran known as the sala mosque that is where we're hearing from the newly

appointed head of the courts force brigadier general a smile who was appointed as soon as general himself when he was assassinated on january 3rd by the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei. has been reading the last will and testament of general hossam saw the money and we'll be hearing excerpts from it's in which the money instructed the nation to not abandon the supreme leader he thanked the late them on khomeini the founder of islamic revolution of 179 for putting him on the right path in his will he's also stated that he wants the armed forces to look after the nation as if they were their own family we're hearing bits and pieces of this kind of statements that so the money left behind this is an event that marks $40.00 days since his assassination and we're also expecting to hear from the head of the right level guard major general salah me and it we understand that this event really marks end of

a mourning period in the country but not really the end of what iran will do in response to the assassination we've heard from all levels of government and establishment including the supreme leader who have warned that there will be retaliation over years to come over the assassination of us insulin money who was a very close friend and confidant of the supreme leader and his death is being seen as an act of war by the u.s. government the rains have said that they will not rest until all u.s. forces have left the middle east that is a price that they will have to pay for carrying out this assassination was there are still alive in turn from 1st or somebody thanks david will of serious about a full team earlier went to the sport in baghdad where so i want he was killed by the u.s. missile strike. well we are here to bug out international airports and we are in fact exactly at the spot where customs soleimani and his iraqi associate hondas

were killed on in the murder early morning hours of january 3rd and the events that have been taking place in baghdad over the 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 for says which is of course is umbrella group of mostly iranian backed armed groups which were led by this 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 slim and 100 have 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 withdraw or 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 a cyber hug which is one of the groups that initially threatened retaliation following these events here so overall it appears that these kind of threats have subsided. the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restrict president donald trump's ability to take military action against iran the resolution will force trump to get congressional approval before ordering any military operation against iran if the senate approves the resolution it's likely that the president will veto it spent vocally opposed to the resolution tweeting it's very important for our country's security that the united states senate not vote for the iraq war powers resolution we're doing very well with iran and this is not the time to show weakness and if my hands are tied iran would have a field day sends a very bad signal more now from our white house correspondent kimberly health that in 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 2019 that's when the congress voted to limit u.s. involvement for the saudi it support 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 we're going to weather update next here on our share of the century long fight to enshrine equal rights in the united states constitution is on the verge of success. what 3 words we take a look at the front are helping rescue services saved lives. 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 that 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 me 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 and 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 seized 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 condition. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told is supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society and the impact is you typing on and there's only so much they can say before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization of the radicalized youth syrians an al-jazeera.

well again this is al jazeera let's talk about that remind you of the main news this hour there's been a surge in the number of corona virus infections in china made me and who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases of weapons to cross the country chinese authorities say that the screening criteria has been changed. protesters across iraq and iran are marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iraq's top military commander custom sum of money and baghdad demonstrators block the road close to where he was killed in a u.s.s. strike last month and the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restricts president donald trump's ability to take military action against iran if the senate approves the resolution it to the resolution rather it's likely the president will veto it. the u.s. says that it's to go see it in a week long partial truce with the afghan taliban for 7 days both sides would

deescalate violence but it can chief mark asper made the announcement in brussels during a meeting of nato defense ministers i'm here today consulting with allies about this proposal and we've had a series of productive bilateral and collective meetings about the path forward we said all along that the best if not only solution in afghanistan is a political agreement progress has been made on this front and we'll have more to report on that soon. a saudi coalition fighting in yemen says that it's begun procedures to try those have committed human rights violations but it's not made clear who will oversee the action nor given details about the process last year the u.n. said that all sides in the conflict had committed war crimes and that some western governments may be complicit reports accused coalition forces of recruiting child soldiers and committing rape torture murder it also accused the coalition of indiscriminate attacks on civilians the conflict in yemen has killed tens of

thousands of people and brought millions to the brink of famine but we'll corey is the former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in yemen he says that any coalition investigation into its own conduct will have no credibility. well it's a given that the perpetrator of a crime cannot conduct an objective investigation into his own now a criminal activity we've seen how saudi arabia has conducted investigations into the murder of their own journalist. for over a year now and nothing good has come out of that. if that is a goodwill gesture that the saudis really want to make towards yemen they should stop that war it begins with that and that is something that they are capable of doing after that you can have an independent agency international human

rights organizations conduct their investigation and any war criminals should then be referred to the international criminal court i think rather than getting out few trial investigations at this point focus on stopping the war that's something saudis can do the united states can certainly launch an all out diplomatic effort to end this war that would come 1st and that in itself would at least stop the war crimes from continuing and they are going on on a daily basis now after that we can worry about who are loud who to investigate what was meant to be a mine a cabinet reshuffle has turned into a major shake up after britain 2nd most powerful minister resigned such a job it was chancellor of the exchequer of finance minister was expected to remain in his post were a challenge reports now from london. there had been differences between such

a job it and boris johnson although they did have a pretty good relationship mainly over over government spending the prime minister wants to kind of open the taps and have a big splurge in government spending where is 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 advisors 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 being named as the kind of architect of

this is dominic cummings a name that is pretty familiar if you're watching a u.k. politics in the moment he's boris johnson's chief advisor a hugely divisive man in the u.k. and what he was asking of sajid javid is something that he couldn't accept and he resigned. sudan 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 a suicide bombers rammed into the side of the u.s.s. cole in yemen sudan was accused of providing support to al qaida compensating the victims' families is the latest efforts in sudan's bid to be taken off the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism a century old effort to ensure quality in the u.s. constitution is on the verge of success of representatives is considering whether to extend the 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 gender heidi jocasta reports. 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 interesting heidi schreck 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. would have been. i believe that. the men in my family would not have needed to suffer

the way they did 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 trouble 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 person and support some conservatives fear it could lead to more abortions or even outlaw separate sex bathrooms as for heidi schrock the playwright she's expecting twin girls in april i want their 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 which are blocking trains across the country the protests are in support of a group currently fighting the const the construction of a natural gas pipeline through traditional indigenous lands demonstrators have blocked rail lines for days forcing hundreds of trains to be counseled. hundreds of

demonstrators have gathered in malawi's capital a long way demanding the resignation of the electoral commission head chain has been at the center of attention since declaring president with very little to the winner of last year's disputed elections will always top court last week an old the votes of widespread systematic and grave irregularities with reka of the electoral commission of filed for appeal. 4 people were rescued from a blizzard on scotland's highest mountain earlier this week thanks to a free phone app it's called what 3 words a system to identify people's exact location jessica baldwin reports. a rescue drill on the river tease the cleveland fire brigade are called out frequently by people stranded on boats or in trouble in the water time is critical but the river teases more than 135 kilometers long. and when

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fall and break my leg it could be life saving more than 80 emergency services in the u.k. now use what 3 words they've been able to find people trapped in their cars lost hikers and some drifting in the river to jessica baldwin al-jazeera pembury england . it's good to have you with us hello adrian sitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera at this point a surge in the number of corona virus infections in china mainly in the who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak and more than 15000 new confirmed cases on wednesday across the country chinese authorities say the screening criteria has changed the head of the world health organization's health emergency program says despite the spike in cases inside china that's not being replicated elsewhere. we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter and

this disease is still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher severity profile that increases actually with each decade after the predominantly 2 that's a rarity use amongst men rather than them women and we have seen a significant shift that profile is very much for peace it's in other areas outside who base protesters in iraq and iran are marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran the top of the trick come out of customs so the money and baghdad demonstrators block the road near the airport where he was killed in a u.s. airstrike last month. the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restrict president donald trump's ability to take military action against iran a resolution that would force trump to get congressional approval before ordering anybody tree operation against iran the u.s. says it's negotiated a week long partial truce with the afghan taliban for 7 days both sides would

deescalate violence in chief marcus but made the announcement in brussels during a meeting of nato defense ministers canada's prime minister is calling for a swift end to indigenous protests that are blocking trains across the country the protests are in support of a group currently fighting the construction of a natural gas pipeline through traditional indigenous lands hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in malawi's capital to moderate the resignation of the electoral commission head jane has been at the center of attention since declaring president peter rica the winner of last year's disputed election alawi's top court last week of the vote. those are the headlines more news for you on al-jazeera after radicalized youth next.

spoiler ironic that one many governments around the wall declare that the fight against terrorism is their number one priority this hasn't stopped. the fia has continued with the attacks have continued we have to wonder why is this the case.