united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes as china records a major spike in deaths from coronavirus officials announced drastic measures. but a cruise ship stranded at sea for 2 weeks because of the virus is finally allowed to dock in cambodia also coming up. all 47 democrats 8 republicans stood

up and said enough is enough. the u.s. senate passes a resolution limiting president trump's power to order military action against iran tonight. in south africa's economic freedom fighters walk out of parliament after disrupting president several run the post as state of the nation speech. and on pietersen in doha with all your support organizers of the 2020 lympics say they are not considering counseling or postponing the upcoming games because of the coronavirus. we begin with the global corona virus outbreak as a 3rd death outside mainland china is confirmed the victim was a japanese woman she was in her eighty's and lived near tokyo there's been a surge in the number of deaths in mainland china with another 254 announced

bringing the national total to nearly 1400 and more than 15000 new cases have been reported up from just 1600 the day before the record rise comes after who by province the epicenter of the virus applied and new diagnostic system using computer imaging instead of waiting for the tree test results meanwhile for communist party officials in who baby. i've been sacked over the handling of the outbreak and this is you know one gun one of china's was to affected areas is sealing off all residential complexes from friday in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus well the world health organization says that despite the spike in cases inside of china the profile of the people contract in corona virus remains the say we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter this disease are 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 the women and we haven't seen a significant shift that profile is very much a piece of it in other areas outside who base katrina you know brings us more from beijing all the new testing method and how it compares to the previous system of identifying coronavirus. we know that doctors relied on one type of testing kit in order to confirm that people did have the corona virus but there were number a number of problems with this testing kit 1st of all people had problems accessing it there simply weren't enough to go around secondly this testing kit takes about 2 days for people to get results so you'd have people for example going from villages to to towns and cities lining up to get tested and they were told they have to wait or that if they if they did get tested that after wait around for 2 days but potentially without accommodation which led to many people going home and this is

put a lot of people what's being tested and then thirdly there were problems with the validity of the tests doctors have actually been saying that these tests were only about 30 to 40 percent accurate so what has happened now is that they are giving doctors on the ground more flexibility in want to scratch and as to how they confirm that a patient does have the corona virus so they're able to to use this testing kit as well as other methods such as c.t. scans and lung x. rays to be able to confirm this so what this has done though is no muddy the waters a lot because now that we've had such a big jump the numbers after a period of what seemed to be like a stabilisation of figures experts say it's really hard to get a clear picture of how serious or how what the situation is on the ground in who they were adrian brown is in hong kong and says that it has more on the 5 senior communist party officials who were fired over growing public anger on the handling of the current virus epidemic. with who they party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks

ago he must have known his days were numbered john 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 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. the head of the w.h.o. those 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'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 volunteers and soldiers the nations being encouraged to fight war president xi jinping cools a 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. there's also concern in the northwestern chinese province of gin jan when a 1000000 muslim week as detained in camps so far 55 cases have been reported that the weak activist groups fear overcrowding malnutrition and a lack of resources in the camps could worsen any outbreak louisa greve is director of global advocacy at the week a human rights project the weaker us and other target muslims cossacks even when a chinese muslims who are in the camps are helpless they're already in unspeakable conditions unsanitary conditions overcrowded this would be like a breeding ground for immediate affection across the population and there's a blanket of secrecy so we need international inspection to make sure that people are kept safe. and all the developments a cruise ship turned away by 4 different asian countries of affairs of the

coronavirus has finally been allowed to dock in cambodia after 2 weeks at sea as a precaution health officials took blood samples from 20 passengers who felt ill but all tested negative when he reports now from the port of sand oakville in southern cambodia. 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 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 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 travelled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allowed 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 chips are mistakes in that context

a bit you'll really appreciate that the station and the highest level government leadership to receive this ship cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west dam when they eventually disembarked. and returned home and wayne hale just era see an awful cambodia. or i'm joined now via skype by chris smith consultant for ologist and the presenter of the naked scientists podcast 1st of all can you help us to understand this change in methodology in diagnosing the virus in a province yes hello until now one form of testing one criterion was being used to confirm whether or not someone had got this virus now what they did was to change that case definition today or in the last 24 hours and said that rather than just calling a person positive if the test or they were positive what they're going to do is to

use the clinical diagnosis clinical diagnosis means the person has the symptoms and if you look at their chest x. ray or their c.t. scan for example you can see the characteristic changes on there that we know signify a person has this or a very similar infection and given by and large that the majority of the cases are going to be this those are reasonable criteria so not surprisingly we went from about 2 and a half to 3000 cases a day here or 2 to today declaring 15000 new cases so it looks very alarming but in fact actually it's a statistical measurement it is not reflecting a sudden up scale in the spread of the infection right so it's a retrospective thing in other words we were already suspecting that there were thousands of additional cases it's just that those cases that are suspected have now been confirmed in this new way of counting it. yes and i think why it's interesting is that right along throughout the course of this we've been saying well the numbers that are being reported they're the numbers ok we know about those

but what's the reality out in the community how many people really have got this how many people are part of this clinical iceberg where the numbers we're seeing and being reported to us they're the tip of the iceberg but he had none to the waterline what's the reality this gives us a closer idea as to what that likely reality is perhaps there really are $15000.00 people per day being diagnosed with this thing there probably are there's $1400000000.00 people in china and this virus has been spreading there for a couple of months now it also points to the reason why we're seeing a slow upswing in the number of cases internationally because there were lots of people leaving ground 0 and city right from the get go and traveling internationally and therefore inevitably there will have been people who had this infection with them just to be clear we might be getting closer to understanding what's going on. that the true scale of the outbreak but we might not be there yet

. well time is going to tell countries around the world including the u.k. are now beginning to introduce their own local level testing we've had testing for quite a while now but there was a bit of a mock bottleneck with that because there was one single group of people in one laboratory that were doing those tests we're now in a position where that test has been rolled out across the country so lots of laboratories can begin to do these tests and this will mean that rather than just focusing on small groups of people we could begin to widen our inclusion criteria and test more broadly and that will be interesting because it would tell us whether or not the agent is lurking out there surfing along under the radar because that's the big worry it looks like some countries are not got new cases but there may well be because they're not looking and if you don't look you're going to find so that the next step will be to begin to explore in other countries to see what the real genuine background level of infection is that seems to be all about that testing capacity as you say thank you very much dr chris smith rachet

a pleasure. you're watching the news hour live from london snow blankets makeshift camps for some of the 800000 syrians displaced by the recent fighting in we'll have that story also the iranian candidates allowed to run in parliamentary elections kick off the campaigns head of next week's vote. and then later in school upon james powers the l.a. lakers into a commanding lead going into the all star break. now a rocket attack has hit an iraqi province where u.s. troops are stationed another attack on the k. one base in december killed a u.s. contractor starting a chain of events which caused a rise in regional tensions well that was blamed on the could type hezbollah group and led to retaliate tree u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander some ceremony 40 days ago the official mourning period him has ended it was marked by protest

gatherings in iraq crowds of demonstrators gathered at baghdad international airport a solemn money and iraqi paramilitary commander hundreds were killed in that u.s. drone strike last month they chanted anti-american slogans and called for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq let's cross to rob matheson now who is live for us in baghdad any more information on this rocket attack on that one base. well according to our twitter feed from the iraqi police it does seem that it was a single style rockets that landed in the cave on base no casualties have been reported so far but we're line we understand from the police that a search of the perimeter was carried out and they found a makeshift rocket launcher which contained 11 unfollowed rockets which had been had been stored in the tubes of the rocket launcher but had not ignite it no i do

say this is significant because the k. one base houses u.s. troops it was as you mentioned the one that was attacked in december there were solve those of rockets fired there and a u.s. contractor was killed that began a chain of events between the u.s. and iranian linked groups here in iraq and subsequently ended up with the drone u.s. drone strike on the convoy in baghdad airport that was carrying iranian general hossam sort of money and also. the hundreds the leader of some of the armed groups the popular mobilization forces here in iraq now of course the next question that we're all really asking now is how is the u.s. going to respond to this latest incident well since that attack in december there have actually been several rocket attacks many of which have happened here in baghdad but the u.s. has not responded principally we understand because nobody has been injured and

there has been very little damage but it is significant that this is coming towards the end of the mourning period for some silly money and there are still many of the his followers here in in iraq in excuse me in iraq but also those members of the popular mobilization forces as well all of whom are determined to get foreign particularly u.s. troops out of iraq who saying that they did the killing of. the money has not yet been avenged and further attacks will should take place of course no information is given about what those attacks are likely to be or plan but there's another section which is saying well actually the the fact that iran carried out a rocket attack on the al assad base here in iraq was enough to avenge the death of customs for the money and they're happier for a diplomatic a government process to be gone through in an effort to try to find

a diplomatic solution to moving the foreign troops out of iraq having said that there are still those who believe that mohandas is death has not yet been very injured and that action has to be taken in order to deal with that so we're going to be watching over the next few days to see how the u.s. responds to this but also also how parts of the popular mobilization forces here in iraq are going to take this forward for toll thank you very much from baghdad rob matheson well now cus the senate has passed a resolution restricting president trumps ability to unilaterally auden military action against iran the war powers resolution forces the president to get approval from congress to carry any strikes on iran it's been backed by several members of trump's own republican party the resolution was introduced after the u.s. strike which killed custom ceremony last month the president drunk or any other president cannot plunge the united states into an endless conflict in the middle

east today or constitution worked exactly as the framers wanted to work senators work together to assert congress's authority and serve on the check of an overreaching executive branch all 47 democrats 8 republicans stood up and said enough is enough let's get more from chapter 10 c n washington and so should have why i did then senate republicans decide to join democrats in passing this resolution. the 2 main blocs who support this resolution of the republican party the libertarian wing of the republican party who have long said we have to scale back the endless wars of the us has been undertaking since since 911 but also some conservative republicans who apparently were rather enraged by the briefings they got from the white house following the attack on. white house to talk about imminent attacks and they were also vague and

also they were patronized the suggestion that congress had no business in even talking about the president's right to wage war and you can sort of see why the white house might take that take that view because this is the congressional constitutional role this has been trouble over for decades by presidents not least by president obama who would use the you know the you know what was right for the use of military force in 2001 after 911 to expand the military's bombing crossing over 100 countries and his time even though the many of these people he was bombing would mean we exist after $911.00. there is some hypocrisy that is being being being leveled against chuck schumer and others by the progressive wing of the democratic party which is becoming an election issue in fact where they say well when obama was doing all this what do you mean out right waged war on libya in 2011 without congressional approval the democrats did nothing now you've suddenly dusted off your constitution and by the way when donald trump he punted to pass all of his

defense budget 7070000000000 dollars 700000000000 dollars democrats line up in fact want to add more i mean if you have the power of the person you really mean the stuff that maybe you should you should actually wage flex your flex your muscles and there's that suspicion that when congress does talk about waging war in the end it's democrats are trying to line up to show how tough they are and actually rather rather you know want to show that you know no one that they have tough on us as enemies and let's face it the military industrial complex as president but it does pay as democrats and republicans but still symbolic worth it's not going to go any . it will be vetoed by the white house eventually but certainly something i guess the democrats will use in the forthcoming election as well to show that despite donald trump's promises and 2016 he isn't ending the endless wars thank you very much you have shavar chancy with all the latest on that from washington we want to get more on this story now with bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general also in washington and braces we're hearing from their resolution fell short of the required majority to avoid

a veto by president nonetheless tell us why this measure was important in terms of the constitutional powers granted to congress on matters of war. well in some sense it's a perf lewis the constitution clearly in trust congress alone with the authority 'd to initiate war that was the universal understanding of the framers of the constitution it was the universal understanding for 150 years that understanding was broken by president harry truman in korea which he called was a police action involving millions of soldiers and he did not ask congress for any authorization and didn't receive any and ever since then the true meaning of the declare war clause meaning only congress can take us from peace to war has been usurped and tortured by presidents and congress has not pushed back now why is this

particular resolution it's rather important politically because it's the vote of members of congress who are uncomfortable with the idea of extending our perpetual war into a country of 8090000000 that's a real country iran beyond the others who we spent 11 trillion dollars over 18 years making us less safe by egger of aiding the international terrorism issue but as a matter of pure law it doesn't really mean anything and this is why there is no sanction for a violation the president who has already said under article 2 i can do anything i want his attorney general who is openly stated the president can do whatever he wants they would flout the resolution even if it were passed to just to scare the hell on the way to check that he has limitless power that the has been from what you're saying throughout history there's been this tussle between presidents and congresses of the control for war powers but we have seen perhaps in the last 1020

years as an expansion of presidential powers on this and it predates president trump. it certainly does predate president drop by it began with harry truman 70 years ago there wasn't any tussle for 170 years everyone understood only congress could take us from peace to war the so-called tussle began when presidents beginning with mr truman both democrats and republicans it's not a partisan issue began to assert the power of an empire to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy now i have worked with congresswoman and now presidential candidate told sigebert to introduce a resolution warning the president that if you initiate war without congressional authorization we will impeach and remove you from office the war power being the most important power of all in the united states constitution and that is the only real teeth you can give into the declare work laws and the members up there simply aren't willing at this time to do that so they take

a political stance against the war but don't do anything meaningful that would in fact handcuff the president's ability whether it's iran or china or venezuela or russia or anywhere else i just want to ask you this take us to war you know i want to ask you about another story which is sort of separate but related that it's about. the president's willingness perhaps this president's willingness to push the constitutional boundaries is interference in the criminal sentencing of his longtime adviser now how would you how would you describe this behavior by the president even by his standards perhaps. well under his own standards i did some degree i think the problem has been exaggerated for this reason the department of justice is not independent it's a cabinet office the attorney general serves at the pleasure of the president those particular prosecutors serve as executive officials and remember mr trump did not

prescribe any sentence for roger stone we have an independent judiciary and the judge amy berman jackson will decide what the punishment is because mr trump scolded and almost rebuked early the likelihood is high she will give a very stiff sentence that he cannot change although he could pardon mr stone now surely in terms of political ethics it was a gross violation this is the only time in the history of the united states that a president has reached down to the granular level of a sentence and overrode the decision of the local prosecutors and it seems quite obvious that this is part of the larger phenomenon that we witnessed since the acquittal of mr president of high crimes and misdemeanors in the impeachment trial of going after his enemies and sending a signal but if you're my friend i will do your favors this is clearly an act of petulance it's not something that ought to be done politically or legally but i don't think it would rise to the level of a legal violation something he can do but he shouldn't do congress can certainly

bring view came for that that particular fact but it's not a isolated issue he's clearly going on today to gating his former chief of staff mr kelly everyone who doesn't agree with him 100 percent becomes his personal enemy and he will use the government machinery to try to hurt them that larger issue is something clearly that should awaken congress to the need to remove him from power it's not his personal toy to play with as he wishes thank you very much for his fine from washington. the u.s. secretary of state says an important breakthrough has been made in talks with the taliban over the last few days but my pompei are also warn that the trump administration wants to see a significant reduction in violence before starting why did discussions a week long partial truce with the afghan taliban has been negotiated which it's hoped will deescalate the fighting and you can achieve mark estimate the male summit in brussels during the meeting of nato defense ministers. well now to syria

the united nations is saying more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in the northwestern part the country since december the 1st a vast majority of the women and children from the province 140000 were displaced in just the last 3 days they've ended up in temporary camps near the border with turkey but conditions a desperate as the cold winter weather sets in and storms blanket the area with snow where he swept to say 10 children have died in the past week alone. so. there are 27 families living in 14 terms all things are still in because we don't have the situation is very difficult it's impossible for anyone to rent a home. over the situation here is very difficult as you can see exploding in the temperatures below 0 you can see it so we're staying in a tent because different cost $100.00 or $200.00 and there's a lot of displacement going on now. much more still to come for you on the news

alex hundreds of demonstrators take the streets in malawi demanding the resignation of the electoral commission chad. i'll tell you about the drama on downing street why britain's finance minister is unexpectedly resigned just weeks before the budget. and then in sport the manchester united player kept away from the rest of the squad due to coronavirus this. hello and welcome to international weather forecast let's take a look at weather conditions across europe 1st of all and really we've got these intense areas of low pressure has been a really stormy week across europe low pressure systems driven by really intense jet stream and that's going to continue this area of low pressure really exception over this time of the year and it's going to be driving some very heavy snow into wards ice and in particular and i think over the next 48 hours you could well see

flight disruptions for reykjavik in fact blizzard conditions here the heavy rain is going to be pushing into wards the u.k. as early as friday certainly for western areas and that will continue to head on through into the weekend so really that stormy weather set to continue and other north sea coastal regions likely to be affected you're in the course of the weekend running up into southern parts of scandinavia with also there you see picking up some snowfall across more central eastern parts of your weather conditions are looking dry and fine in fact not too bad at day in vienna with highs expected to reach 10 degrees celsius as you move into northern and central parts of africa weather conditions here are largely fine but we will find the wind picking up during the course of saturday so cross the mediterranean sea it's like to be pretty stormy at times temperatures coming down as result coming in off the sea with highs of 17 expected in benghazi.

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come back a look at headlines has been a surge in the number of deaths and reports of cases of corona virus in mainland china as officials and the bay province adopt a new method of diagnosing the disease the u.s. senate has passed the war powers resolution restricting president donald trump's ability to unilaterally or the military action against iran it was introduced after the assassination of iranian military commander us insulin money in a u.s. strike last month. and the united nations says more than $800000.00 syrians most of them women and children have fled their homes in l.a. province since december 1st government has launched

a military offensive backed by russia to retake the area last year. south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has used his state of the nation address to defend his economic record but the speech was disrupted several times. 2 during the man with the body being i'm not out on the not moving i don't really want not going to die but i know why not the lord members of the economic freedom fighters causing one angry that a former president of the party era was in parliament for the address and opposed it began his speech an hour and a half late and stressed that recovery of south africa's economy had stalled to supply system power shortages also warned the public finances were under severe pressure our country is facing a stark reality. the economy has not grown at any meaningful rate for over a decade even as jobs are created the rate of unemployment continues to deepen. we need to fix our

public finances. low levels of growth mean that we are not generating enough revenue to meet our expenses our debt is heading towards unsustainable levels while he's there is for me to mellow was following rama post a speech from johannesburg. well the president when he finally was able to begin that address did say that what's referred to as low trading in south africa these power cuts these rolling blackouts would indeed continue and this of course wouldn't be you know of any a consolation to investors and businesses in this country who are already struggling with the unemployment rate is at 29 point one percent so the president did say these role of these blackouts would continue but they would also allow room for the use of independent power producers in speeding up licensing and regulations

easing to allow for there being options for energy production in south africa but just going back to the economic freedom fighters that these this address by the president was delayed by almost an hour and a half that's the extent of the disruptions at that time the economic freedom fighters 1st saying that they wanted the removal of the former president f.w. de klerk from the setting of the 2 houses of parliament in that he was an apartheid apologist for sanish an idea is a political analyst at the institute for global dialogue joins me via skype from capetown can i ask can i pick up on that point then about the scenes we saw in parliament today what does all that. say about sentiment in the country and i suppose the state of politics in south africa. being a big credibility to be careful in terms of what happened probably look at destruction

. the economic freedom inside since and whether that is a kind of actual correlates to reflection in terms of the mood of the state of the citizenry i think. convicted of trying to was to try and use the occasion to continue to destabilize the president and this is not something that was just of the spoke of moment they've been intimating to the media to the interactions that they're going to do this what really makes a big difference is that to an understanding of them and yes i think the mood of the country has not been one of optimism there's been a sense of somebody as there's been a sense of apathy i think people are feeling the feeling that the economic and the social economic challenges that date today haven't really moved in what particular majority majority of south africa's lou in public unemployment and of course

the levels of inequality i think that's the point is i mean i always say the economic freedom fighters might have been using this opportunity for their own political ends but the bottom line is that many people in south africa are feeling the effects of poverty a lack of economic growth and a lack of jobs. absolutely i think the president prefers a slow response to say but in the very beginning of the speech i mean e.d. he kind of you know in a way in terms of the fact that you know we've tried the we've tried to create jobs as the economy sitting in the in the state of perilous it's essentially the burden of all of those falls on the shoulders of the citizens he's trying to then we need into that space this concept of a social compact that will separate the jobs cannot improve the situation but it needs to have a social compact and then we start to see

a theme develop in the speech where he talks about inclusive growth he talks about social compact and social partners a plan for esko in terms of what the low chatting it is is going to be almost a acknowledging that low chatting is going to become a reality for most of all of us in the country in the next couple of months in the next 18 to 24 months depending what went on but he also talks about the fact that we need to be resilient so use quite interesting in the way he tied the release of nelson mandela this week and the speech that president mandela made both at the steps of city hall in cape town but also in these inaugural speech as becoming president of the republic after $94.00 talking about dignity and bringing those things together but i think what was interesting for me in the speech was that it was also trying to ease the cost of doing business because i think for the president he's very much about how this investment to be eco that he's put together that he's talked about in the speech that needs to find traction with regard to the

structural conditions that actors impediments to the investment coming in so you had a great you had a big broad speech at one network talking about integrating and managing and because highly some of these these stocks who weaknesses that you find ourselves in but at the same time how do we need to use that in the cost of business that licensing and so forth i think given the situation that is given the context of where the country is. the. the speeds that he could have been he could have made best he talks about a decisive action but i also think that one of the challenge of the who decided to action is that we need to see a bit implementation is good in a shoot off policy and definitely be a pretty good them engine come the budget speech in 2 weeks time thank you very much appreciate your analysis on this center there on the president so around the post the state of the nation address today saddam's transitional government has agreed to compensate the families of 17 u.s. sailors who were killed when al qaeda bombed that warship 20 years ago it's

positive efforts to have the country removed from the u.s. list of states as of terrorism the u.s.s. cole was bombed by al qaeda a port in yemen in 2000 the u.s. ruled that saddam was behind the attack because the 2 suicide bombers were training . now hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in southern malawi demanding the challenge of the electoral commission resigned last week top court and now the 200-9000 presidential election vote citing widespread systematic and grave irregularities or both unmanly has mall. uh i mean if you're going to protest as i'm allowed to seal off the building of the electoral commission if you like i was mad enough. hundreds marched to the streets of the southern city of blantyre only a few managed to get past police barricades and call him 2 a protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commission's

chairwoman jane and socks and has start resign. the guests of mic because all what we need is this little in this office should be so we don't want them to get inside this room. in the capital a long way people also march towards the offices of the electoral commission. is a given present peter moore tarka a narrow win in last year's election but the court accused the commission of numerous in consistencies that included using correction fluid on ballot sheets janeane saad denies accusations the results had been altered and the materials that we sent. we indeed did not include the pics. and even the doing it training we toured we toured the trainees that the 2 pixies no doubt but in court one election commission member pointed the blame at

and police instructions were given by this year to this see all. the time that this year was getting sexualization we're not even involved this commission i think it just happened by literally. malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the an old result that we have iraq this presidential election i have there will be a new chairperson of the electoral commission and they will need to be close scrutiny of that process but from mastic observers but also international ones the quarter given the country just 150 days to ordering a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process nor does a manly al-jazeera. campaign is underway for the running candidates approved to run

in next week's parliamentary elections but thousands of moderate reformist candidates have been left off the list and out disqualified from running as a bag has won this now from to iran. 290 seats over 7000 candidates campaigning has officially started but the attention has not been on the candidate standing but those disqualified from taking part by iran's guardian council the constitutional body that oversees the parliamentary elections and claims that the disqualifications have been politically motivated now you're turning i deny this the guardian council has the duty to verify the qualification of candidates and the council has never had a political view over them those who have not been approved can come to us to see the issue in their cases many of those disqualified are politicians linked to the iranian reformist movement one of those who standing again is reformist candidate 40 to mousavi therefore. it was an unfortunate event some of our colleagues and

friends from the past 4 years who have been cooperating with us were not given the chance to run in elections some of them have been treated unfairly. but out in the streets it's hard to tell there's an election taking place although campaigning has officially started for now iran's capital isn't showing signs that it's an election mood yet here in one of the city's central squares there's no banners no posters and no candy that's kind of missing the lack of interest has been blamed on the current economic situation last november so widespread protests against the fuel price increase other areas of the economy are reeling under punitive u.s. sanctions politicians are trying to relate to people's economic woes. i am aware of the difficult situation and economic hardship that today parts versus side you're struggling with the path to change this condition is neither silence nor staying away from voting we should come together to the center of events to be able to trigger change there's been called by some to boycott the elections while leaders

of people to come out to vote a good turnout will give legitimacy to the iranian political establishment something iran wants to use to silence its western and domestic critics aside big al jazeera that iran. oh he has been shocked at the heart of u.k. politics and weston so following the abrupt resignation of the finance minister sajid javid was juice to present his 1st budget in just 4 weeks' time but rejected an order by the prime minister to fire his team with aides he said no self respecting minister could accept what boris johnson was demanding and chose instead to leave his post the move one of the number of ministerial changes is being seen as an attempt by johnson to take full control of the treasury or a challenge brings us more on this now from downing street. so what i had been anticipated to be a pretty mundane cabinet reshuffle had his doors blown completely off by the shock resignation of the chancellor. although there have been differences between him and

the prime minister particularly over boris johnson's plans to increase government spending and was expected that job would keep his position but that was until number 10 gave him all this to essentially suck his team of advisors and accept a new team appointed mostly by number 10 itself this amounts basically to a power grab on treasury autonomy and let's listen now to what i have to say about that the conditions that were attached was a requirement that i replace all my political advisors these are people that have worked incredibly hard on behalf of not just the government but the whole country did a fantastic job i was unable to accept those conditions i don't believe any self respecting minister would accept such conditions and so therefore i thought the best thing to do was to get his replacement is really soon akka 39 year old relative novice a bricks and a johnson loyalist he is unlikely to give too much trouble. johnson and his team

but he takes this position at a very tricky time for the united kingdom is just a month away from a budget that the he has to deliver and then of course there is the very difficult negotiation period on what the u.k.'s new relationship is going to be with the european union and the rest of the world after brics that coming out. a song so catchy it went viral and a good way why baby shark is now at the center of a court battle. and in sport hats off to this ice hockey player and boston's peter will explain what was going.

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pieces here now with this ball. marion thank you take officials have criticized 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 order controls for chinese arrivals and has so far only reported around 30 virus cases on the mainland you more than anyone hugo there are many irresponsible rumors about coronavirus but i would like to make clear once

again that we're not considering the cancellation or 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 comely . manchester united's new signing audi on a garlow has been working out away from their training ground as a coronavirus precaution rogerian was signed on loan from a chinese club in shanghai 2 weeks ago and did not go on united's foreign training camp due to fears of travel restrictions he could make his debut against chelsea on monday. switzerland 4 ways will have to wait another week so you claim a 3rd straight world cup down a little of he was narrowly beaten in austria the skiers were meant to have been at olympic test events in china this weekend but found themselves in the austrian alps in state after they were moved over coronavirus fia's germany's thomas almost lost

control midway through his run but a flawless final section so in time victory by just 200 ths of a 2nd. or 2 of africa's biggest clubs will face off in the calf super cup on friday in doha to newsier esperance will be up against egypt's zamalek the match puts the winners of the african champions league against the victors of the confederation cup esperance are the current holders of the champions league. the club has won every title the only one missing for the current team is the african supercuts we prepared for this into new zealand we're ready to face the other team and god willing we will take the title i keep on. of course we're here for one goal we're going to play a great team that's won 2 consecutive continental titles but we have an advantage the huge presence of our fans here in cata who have been very welcome and supportive i can't describe how lucky we feel to have them we're very excited to

play for them. israel folau is set to make his highly anticipated return to rugby league off to be named in the catalan dragons squad for saturday's super league game against castleford the controversial australian was left out of the dragon squad for the opening match last weekend amid fitness concerns allows last game of rugby league was 10 years ago and he has not played any form of the rugby game since being sacked by rugby australia 8 months ago after posting homophobic comments on social media. the los angeles lakers extended a lead in the western conference with a win over their nearest rivals le bron james and anthony davies were on top form away from home against the day of the nuggets james hardie's 12 triple double of the season. but the nuggets made the move a card for the win jamal murray was their top score with $33.00 points with shots like this helping them force the game into overtime but it was davies proving the

difference for the lakers as they went on to win by 4 points. one of the warmest winters in sweden for decades is causing major problems for would rarely. this is only will be only truly when so rarely in the championship and drivers are usually confronted by a large snow banks but as you can see on this year the opening stage of ready sweden was due to be held on thursday but was cancelled them replaced by a practice session because of the lack of snow that's after the roof had already been cut from 18 stages to relive the last week. so i saw here in a nice moment of appreciation by boston bruins fans for one of their players david pasternack scoring a hat trick to lead them to a 41 victory of the montreal canadiens and fans responded in the traditional way by throwing their hats on to the ice that is past the next for their trick this season no bruins player has done that since 975 so that's where we'll leave it for now more sports news coming up again later handed back to merriam in london that's

great thanks very much peter and here's something you might like if you've heard of the baby shock so who hasn't heard of it certainly why i've forgotten it but now the catchy tune from south korea has found its way into the courts as an american singer says he came he came out with it years ago rob mcbride has more from seoul and a word of warning that you could be humming this sound time. 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 are now baring their teeth claiming plagiarism rejecting the defense that baby shark is actually based on an old campfire song that no one owns. originality and craig ever did to the public domain song and we think that they copied our originality. and there seems no stopping that baby shark juggernaut. the latest spin off baby shark and fellow animation pink funk 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 was. on.

when the case was 1st brought last some of 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 the do do do do do brain restructuring 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 of us on this planet to have heard it and might never be the same again probably cried al-jazeera so i've not heard it and i don't want to look at it funny is our i'm

back in a couple of. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 8 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. the story is just sound since it had lied some media angles in this story are

numerous for cops to separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism the listening post on al-jazeera. the centuries it was the remotest of brazil's indigenous communities that protected them from the rapacious outside walls now is what shields those who are encroaching on protected indigenous territory starting fires and threatening the residents of the county when i had the 1st contact with the outside walls in 1978 and what i. talking had a native language translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they brought diseases that decimated her community but that me a couple years we had a lot of land and we lived peacefully relief with fear that are very few firsts the invaders are coming closer it's difficult to gauge why a place so remote so tranquil should not so so munch to the rest of the walls

indigenous people who live here with realized it but now as the smoke fills the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it's too. as china records a major spike in deaths from corona virus officials announced drastic measures but a cruise ship stranded at sea for 2 weeks because of the virus is finally allowed to dock in cambodia. oh i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. will $47.00 democrats beat republicans stood up and said enough is enough the u.s. senate passes

a resolution limiting president trumps power to order military action against iran because. it is.