woo woo her to. china sacks the top officials dealing with the corona virus outbreak as the number of new infections increases dramatically. hello i'm 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. and the u.s. senate prepares to vote on legislation to curb the president's powers to use

military action against iran. 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 that's up from just 1600 the day before chinese authorities say 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 it includes the province's communist party chief japan has reported its 1st death a woman with no record of traveling to china or contacts with chinese visitors elsewhere in japan $44.00 new cases were confirmed aboard the diamond princess cruise ship docked in yokohama pulls bringing the total on board to $218.00 and in

vietnam $10000.00 people in a community they haue neuer have been placed under a 20 day koren team 5 people there have been infected bringing the total number of cases in the country to 15 al-jazeera as adrian brown wraps all 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. 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 corona virus 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 poll 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's 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 have not been tested because they 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 leon has increased that anger he raise

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 is 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 corona virus way hey reports 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 bill but no one is allowed off yet medical tests had to be conducted to confirm they were free of the coronavirus 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 chip the restriction in that context a bit you really. and the highest level government leadership to receive this shape cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west dam when they eventually disembarked and returned home when hey al jazeera sihanoukville cambodia . the head of the world health organizations health emergency program says the spike in corona virus cases inside china must be considered in context. we must take all numbers into account we must look at all numbers seriously we also must

try and interpret what those numbers mean and not react directly to the number itself the number of countries reporting cases has changed and outside. the cases on the diamond princess cruise ship we're not seeing a dramatic increase in transmission outside china protesters in iraq and iran have marked the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top military commander custom solomonic in baghdad demonstrators blocked the road near the airport where he was killed in a u.s. airstrike prost month somebody was behind iran's efforts to spread its influence throughout the middle east president donald trump ordered the killing saying he posed an imminent threat to his look at what happened in the aftermath of the u.s. assassination of samani iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony warned of severe revenge on the killing sparked protests across iran u.s. president donald trump then threatened to threaten to bomb 52 iranian sites on

attacked american targets the next day in iraq where some of 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 qassam samani and in the early hours of january 8th terror on launched a dozen ballistic missiles at 2 iraqi air bases housing u.s. forces the pentagon initially said no americans were hurt but later revealed that more than 100 troops were diagnosed with brain injuries let's go live now to teheran of zeros dorsett bari is there we have those protests earlier today in baghdad also what's been happening in tehran. well there's been a ceremony that's ongoing as we speak out to my solemn mosque in central tehran where we've heard from the newly appointed head of the courts force of the revolutionary guard brigadier general as any who replaced us him so the money after

his assassination he was appointed by the supreme leader less than 24 hours after so that money was killed in iraq and we were just also now hearing from the head of the revolutionary guard that major general salim e who's been speaking about what he remembers and what he knew of him saw the money it's a sense of a 40 day period coming to an end of mourning period that's coming to an end at the head of that let's force also read parts of the last will and testament of a money in the highlights of that was really the take away from the money that he was committed to the factory that is the system that was established in iran after the 1979 revolution led by khomeini here and he stressed the importance of the revolutionary guard and the armed forces in protecting that ideology and we've also been hearing from the head of the revolutionary guard who says that his kind of character that so the money was is very hard to explain all this comes at

a time when iran has said that they will have very strong response to the assassination there's been a lot of heightened tensions back and forth between the united states and iran since the assassination was carried out in early january and this is something that is really going to change the course of history in this region many analysts believe it will now be known as a time prior to the assassination of us and so the money and the time posts awesome solomon his assassination there's been a lot of rhetoric from iran about the fact that iran this country will no longer be in any kind of negotiations or dialogue with the united states because of this. nation this is something that was very much a red line for the rain you establish once and that's something that they will not forget easily and they say yet they are revenge that they will extract from the united states and their forces in this region will come in not only weeks and months ahead but also years down the line al-jazeera still such a barrier reporting live from tehran many thanks indeed.

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 resolution would force trump to get congressional approval before ordering any military operation against iran if the senate approves the resolution it's likely the president will veto it which been 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 but if my hands were tied iran would have have a field day sends a very bad signal a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports 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 2019 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 we're going to weather update next year on al-jazeera a surprise shakeup in british politics boris johnson's most powerful minister unexpectedly quit the cabinet. century long fight for trying to do what it should be u.s. constitution battles through its 1st round. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for this hour do want to start here in the middle east we'll watch one storm system push out of turkey and then across. iraq and into the northern part of iran and where that we have seen a lot of snow i want to show you some video that has come out across this region and for sure 5 people have died because of the very heavy snow causing an avalanche

across the region there now digging out and they do have better weather conditions but look how deep that snow is that they have been dealing with across the area so take a look the forecast map here on friday still some residual snow across much of this area and into the caspian we're going to be watching this very carefully better weather as we go towards saturday the tempter though is going to come down to about 70 degrees in tehran here across the gulf we have been seeing some very cool air across much of the region wednesday was the coldest day here in doha for the whole season things are going to get better over the next few days to go to a 3 day forecast for doha temptress coming back up to about normal plenty of sun in the forecast it will be a little breezy here on friday as well as into saturday and for the northern part of africa here across parts of algeria we have been watching one area of low pressure making its way to the north we have seen a little bit of rain coming out of the forecast system and then we're going to be seeing some clouds across much of the coast when the gazi seek attention of 19.

of. the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i'm afraid to be crossing on the 19th and great lead to these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives how much he tried to send it. to me because poor happy family on the phone joining me on dish down here on the final part of my journey when i think you become a target of the hindu flounced policy in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. well again this is 0 let's remind you of the made news there's been

a surge in the number of corona virus infections in china mainly in who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases of weapons to across the country chinese authorities said the screening criteria has been changed. for testers across iraq and iran are marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top military commander custom sum of money and baghdad demonstrators block the road close to where he was killed in the u.s.s. strike last month. and the u.s. senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restrict president told trump's ability to take military action against iran it would force trump to get congressional approval before ordering any military operation against terror however he has the power to veto it. u.s. secretary of state my comparison is real progress has been made in talks with the taliban over the last few days a week long proposal truce with the afghan taliban has been negotiations which it's

hoped to deescalate violence but you can chief marcus but 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. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says that it's begun procedures to try those who have committed human rights violations but has not made it clear who will oversee the action nor is it given details about the process last year the un said that all sides in the conflict had committed war crimes and that some western governments may be complicit a report accused coalition forces of recruiting child soldiers and committing rape torture and 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 the bill corey is the former deputy chief of mission of the us embassy in yemen and 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 that after that you can have an independent agency international human

rights organizations conduct the investigation and any war criminals should then beauty further to the international criminal court i think rather than getting out futile investigations at this point focus on stopping the war that's something saudis can do 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 turkey to send reinforcements to its observation post to northern syria president type of what is boring but he will strike back if syrian forces in province attack turkish troops syria's ally russia or accuses ankara of making the situation was

asked whether in the last rebel held region by having its military on the crown of his or assam course he only has been monitoring the situation from baba hala and more than syria. the mission for the turkish military observation forces to observe and report any possible violation of the the escalation zone agreement which was agreed by turkey russia syria and iran the mission does of the only cover a violation to report violations by the syrian government but also the opposition side as well that's why the turkish military observation the have been observation posts have been absent here by the way it's not all that turkish military post but also russians have exactly the same post almost around the same area and they are also doing the same thing over serving and reporting possible violations on the ground this is the mission but however as the syrian government has stopped

complying with the our sun and sochi agreements within the the escalations zone borders and have pushed of advance towards and 5 highway north some of these turkish posts have been encircled by the syrian government forces and last week there was an attack to a turkish call more that was that was meant to bring reinforcements to the area especially after the government forces surrounded by rocket very strategic to this town that is positioned on the intersection of m $4.00 and $5.00 highways but was meant to be a minor capital appreciable is turned into a major shakeup after britain's 2nd most powerful minister resigned so the job it was chancellor of the exchequer all finance minister was expected to remain in his post of 0 story challenge reports from london. there have been differences between

saudi jabot 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 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 that 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 being named as the kind of architect of

this is dominic cummings a name that is pretty familiar if you will watching 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 can accept and he resigned a century old to enshrine gender equality in the us constitution has passed the 1st hurdle the house of representatives today approved extending a deadline that would allow the inclusion of the equal rights amendment to the constitution if passed in the senate 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 kind of the music oh. i believe that the law was related to domestic related to sexual assault and. would have been. 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 trumpet 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 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 tends to indigenous protests which is 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 demonstrates is of blocked rail lines for days forcing hundreds of trains to be cancelled. south africa's president is facing increasing pressure to announce measures to turn around the country's economy so around oppose a is about to deliver his 2nd state of the nation address but opposition members in parliament say that they'll disrupt this unemployment is at its highest in 11 years while corruption and mismanagement of mob state owned enterprises. more

anti-government protests are expected in guinea against a referendum to change the constitution opposition parties are threatening to boycott the vote they fear the president will use the chart the changes to extend his mandate more than 30 people have died since the demonstrations began in october of 0. reports. scuffles broke out once again on the streets of guinea's capital as a national strike became the latest weapon to be used against president alpha condé protesters in conakry have been demanding a vote has plans to seek a term led by a coalition of opposition groups calling itself the national front for the defense of the constitution people threw rocks and barricaded roads. white police fired tear gas and used slingshots to try to push the crowds back. we've put as you can see very strong security measures since midnight from the 8th november

bridge to cockburn land covering every kilometer with the help of other security departments the situation is under control. the riots resulted in many shops being closed residents say the protests are affecting daily life. not kamar to do business if there's peace it's better there's no peace i have 2 children it's not. very tired there's no business and no money old shops. most shops are becoming empty without food our children are not going to school we want peace. demonstrations began after president condé and now has plans for constitutional reforms. current constitution and a maximum of 25 year presidential terms but condé wants to extend that he 1st came to power in 2010 and his mandate should end in december. the government will hold a referendum in march. 10 restriction but opposition parties say they will boycott

the vote and continue to rally until the decision is called off. al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera there's been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections in china mainly in who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak and more than 15000 new confirmed cases of weapons to cross the country chinese authorities say the screening criteria has changed the head of the world health organizations health emergency program says the spike in corona virus cases inside china must be considered in context we must take all numbers into account we must look at all number seriously we also must try and interpret what those numbers mean and not react directly to the number itself

the number of countries reporting cases has still not changed and outside outside the cases on the diamond princess cruise ship we're not seeing a dramatic increase in transmission outside china 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 would force trump to get congressional approval before ordering any military operation against iran if the senate approves the resolution it's likely the president will veto it u.s. secretary of state my pompei or says that real progress has been made in talks with the taliban over the last few days a week long partial truce with the afghan taliban has been negotiated which its hopes will deescalate violence. turkey has sent more reinforcements to its observation posts in northern syria president tom bergeron is warning that he will strike back if syrian forces in italy province attack took his troops meanwhile the

u.n. says that more than 800000 people have fled the fighting since december of last. britons chancellor of the exchequer the 2nd most powerful political position in the u.k. government has resigned during a cabinet reshuffle such a job it was expected to keep his post but stepped down after disagreements over stuffing in his office south africa's president is facing increasing pressure to announce measures to turn around the country's economy so oppose a delivering his 2nd state of the nation address right now but opposition members in parliament have been disrupting it unemployment is at its highest in 11 he is. the headlines the news continues here on of his era of the inside story next.

britain takes steps to regulate content that appears on social media it says it wants to protect users from what it is that is harmful material that is regulation the onset and can it be done without violating possible freedoms this is inside story. i know that and welcome to the program i'm the stasi attack a now it's a long running debate how should we regulate the internet and social media sites including facebook and twitter allow us to share information they've also become places for illegal and harmful content to thrive the u.k. now wants those fans to be more responsible the government will.