is beginning to realize it too. as china records a may just spike in deaths from corona virus officials announce a 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 be republicans stood up and said enough is enough the u.s. senate passes a resolution limiting president comes out to order military action against iran because the lives. of. south africa's economic freedom fighters walk out

of parliament off to disrupting president cyril ramaphosa state of the nation speech. and drama on downing street why persons finance minister unexpectedly resigned just weeks before the budget. welcome to the program we begin with the global corona virus outbreak is a 3rd death outside of mainland china has confirmed the victim was a japanese woman she was in her eighty's and lived near the capital tokyo has 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 now the record rise comes after who bay province the at the center of the virus applied a new diagnostic system using computer imaging instead of waiting for the portrait

test results meanwhile for communist party officials and who have been sacked over the handling of the outbreak and the city of wang gungwu one of china's worst affected areas is sealing off all residential complexes from friday in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus or the world health organization says that despite that spike in cases inside of china the profile of people contract in the corona virus remains the same. we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter this disease is still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher sorority 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 a pieces in other areas i would say to be katrina you brings us more now from beijing on that new testing method we were mentioning and how it compares to the

previous system of identifying the coronavirus we know the doctors relied of 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 this 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 they'd have to 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's happened now is that they're giving doctors on the ground more flexibility in want to scratch and as to how they confirmed that

a patient does have the krona 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 seem 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 bay. adrian brown brings us more from hong kong where 5 senior communist party officials have been fide amid growing anger over the handling of the crane virus epidemic. when who days party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days were numbered jiang charley 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 cold 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 of 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 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've 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 calls 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 leon 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. well a cruise ship turned away by 4 different asian countries over fears of the corona virus 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

a process in oakville in southern cambodia. as the sun said 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 worrisome 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 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 of them when they eventually disembarked. and return home to the brain hey al jazeera cambodia. a rocket attack is hit and 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 that was blamed on hezbollah will and lead to retaliate for u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander qassam ceremony some 40 days ago the official mourning period for him ended early and with protests in iraq crowds of demonstrators gathered at baghdad international airport a solemn mani and iraqi paramilitary commander. were killed last month they chanted anti-american slogans call for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq. well the u.s.

senate has passed a resolution restricting president donald trump's ability to unilaterally order military action against iran the war powers resolution forces the president to get approval from congress to clear any strikes on iran it's been backed by several members of trump's own republican party resolution was introduced after the u.s. strike which killed us and said the money last month the president trump 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 we're going overreaching executive branch all $47.00 democrats 8 republicans stood up and said enough is enough let's get more on this now from shavar chancy in washington and so it is very rare in washington these days for us to see this cross party

effort but that's exactly what happened. right then and there are number of factors without that bipartisan vote anyway i mean let's face it there's public opinion in the us is against against and lost wars and more wars in the middle east that's why trump ran on that in 2016 and got a lot of support for that for that policy he has not ended the endless wars whenever he's presented with a chance to reduce the military footprint in the middle east he tends to just get bullied by neocons and generals in the military industrial complex as prized president would say and he tends to back down maybe there's some movement in afghanistan who knows but certainly in the middle east you know he hasn't lived up to that promise that's one thing but secondly the republicans who voted for this kind of 2 camps of the libertarians have long said look these endless wars have to end and the constitution has to be respected which firmly quite clearly says that the ability to wage war is in the hands of congress not the president but also there are a number of republicans are following the assassination of generals on the money

but rather peeved at the briefings they got the kind of contemptuous response the kind of contemptuous attitude of the white house where they were saying look the president can do whatever he wants by even asking about really got the goat of some of these were conservative republicans it is interesting though that this does factor into the debates in the democratic party as well which is coming to the fore in the 2020 a lecture it's interesting to see chuck schumer take a victory lap that but actually the current debate in the democratic party has been the progressives and the centrists like chuck schumer and the progressives are saying look what does the democratic party actually stand for you when you do these symbolic actions when you know you're probably going to fail and this will be vetoed by the white house but when it comes to say donald trump's almost $700.00 trillion dollar defense budget you just rubber stamp it in fact now the last time around you actually add more because i want to show how bellicose you are and you have the power of the purse why don't you use that why don't you in the senate something repeal the authorization of use of military force passed after 911 that

president obama used countless times to in all my. expand the military footprint of the military bombardment of countries around the world despite the fact that most of these people didn't exist in 2001 the groups that you think is going over to one who are people that are not willing to do that so does factor into some of the debates both in the republican and democratic party but at least i guess the centrist like chuck schumer who may face primary challenges from progressive could say look we do care we. thank you very much you can see in washington. in the united nations is saying more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in northwest syria since december vast majority of them are women and children from it lip 140000 which is biased in just the last 3 days alive and they've ended up in temporary camps near the border with turkey but conditions there are very difficult as the cold winter weather sets in and storms blanket the area with snow relief workers say 10 children have died in the last week. there are

27 families living in 14 towns are things are stealing cars we don't have board the situation is very difficult it's impossible for anyone to rent a home on that. moment that the situation here is very difficult as you can see it's not being in a temperature is below 0 you can see it so we're staying in a tent because the brand cost 100 or 200 dollars and there's a lot of displacement going on now. you know watching out is there a life from london much more still ahead hundreds of demonstrators stay to the streets in malawi demanding the resignation of the electoral commission chair and bring you that story and in the new on the run towards a rapidly disappearing brassiere in val's to restrict access to more long.

hello and welcome back but stop by look at weather conditions across australasia this is tropical storm you see the cycle is continue to move south which actually bisecting both straight via and new zealand so it shouldn't cause too many problems elsewhere we've got some showers in the border between north and territory and western australia such a cloud around to parts of new south wales the stunning towards bruce but if you look at the forecast we got a few showers still showing up around the coast there between bruce been done towards sydney and a few further south as well but weather conditions many areas not too bad or that is very hot in places there you can see how this coming in at 41 degrees celsius as we had on through into the weekend temperatures still excess of 40 degrees in places on the site and continues to move further towards the south and west for hobart to that southerly when temperatures have just 19 degrees and that's what's perth weather conditions geria looking to about 28 degrees as the high moving into northern. parts of asia you can see this weather system coming across eastern parts

of china bringing some storms with it that's going to continue to move away and it'll have fake southern parts of japan during the course of friday with more heavy rain expected to push in across southeastern parts of china and some heavy showers are expected to wards on calm. to get a strategy a b. is a wise thing about china's growing influence on university campuses. what i want to use to investigate beijing is getting probably reported on al-jazeera. i'm a drawing attention to increasing conflict libya. since a revolution down longtime dictator want to conduct al-jazeera explains the complexities of libya's civil and potential political solution special come on al-jazeera. over

the world. come back look at the headlines now has been a surge in the number of deaths and reports of cases of coronavirus on mainland china as officials in who by 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 ordered military action against iran it comes after the assassination of an iranian military commander last month and the u.n. says more than 800000 syrians most of them women and children have fled their homes in provinces since december the 1st. or now to south africa president several rama poster is used to state of the nation address to defend his economic record but the

speech was disrupted several times. during the man who was there but remembered that i don't really know what i wanted to talk to members of the economic freedom fighters party were angry that a former president for the apartheid era was in parliament for the address from oppose it began his speech an hour and a half late and stressed that the recovery of south africa's economy it stalled because of the system power shortages he also warned the public finances were on the severe pressure. our country is facing a stark reality. 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

to words unsustainable levels for me to miller was following on a speech for us from johannesburg now 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 rollouts 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 these addressed 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 houses of parliament in that he was an apartheid apologist. also in all the stories we're following hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in southern malawi demanding the chairwoman of the electoral commission resign a top course in all the 21000 presidential election vote citing widespread systematic and grave irregularities or about a nanny has more. the i mean if you're going to protest as i'm allowed to seal off the building of the electoral commission of a right i was a man who loves me. hundreds marched through the streets of the southern city of blantyre only a few managed to get past police barricades call him 2 a protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commission's

chairwoman jane answer and has started resign. they get so nick cause or what we need this this little in this office should be so we don't want them to get inside this room. in the capitol 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 inconsistent sees that included using correction fluid on ballot sheets janan saajan eyes accusations the results had been altered and the materials that we sent. we indeed did not include the pics. and even the doing a training we toured we toured with the trainees that the 2 pixies madonna out but in court one election commission member pointed the blame at

police instructions were given by this year to this. i determined that this it was a good research and this it will not even involve 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 will be a rerun of this presidential election i have will be the new chairperson of the electoral commission and they will need to be close scrutiny about the process but from mastic observers but also international ones the quarter given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process manly al-jazeera. ahead has been

shocked at the heart of u.k. politics and westminster following abrupt resignation of the finance minister or charts or the exchequer sajid javid was due to present his 1st budget in just 4 weeks' time but rejected an order by the prime minister to fire his team of aides is said no self respecting minister could accept what boris johnson was demanding and chose instead to leave his post a move one of a number of ministerial changes is being seen as an attempt by johnson to take full control of the treasury and a passing shot the prime minister had warned johnson that he would still need colleagues who could offer him clear and candid advice or a challenge has more from downing street. so what i had been anticipated to be a pretty mundane cabinet reshuffle had its 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 that was expected javid would keep his position but that was until number

10 gave him all this to essentially sack 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 would have to say about that the conditions that were attached was a requirement that every place or my political advice is you know 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 acca 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 it. now the german city of dresden has been marking the 75th anniversary of its devastating well war 2 bombing . and these present front will to my a joint the residence to form a human chain around the center of the city more than 25000 people were killed by british and u.s. bombs on the 13th of february 945 historic center of the city was flattened in an attack which still divides world war 2 historians. now large areas of australia hit by recent bushfires now experiencing heavy flooding with more wild weather forecast the town of nona glen around 600 kilometers north of sydney has been one of the worst hit areas that many residents still welcome the

rain which is extinguished a large number of the most serious 5 is on our french president emanuel mark owen has vowed to restrict access and all along the highest peak in the alps in an effort to protect its biodiversity not going to announce new rules during a visit to the resorts of chamonix way he also saw how france's largest glassie has shrunk dramatically over the past 20 years a new protected zone will be established around the mountain well now emergency services are saying that for tourists who were stranded near the top of the u.k.'s highest mountain in blizzard conditions on monday a lucky to have survived they used a new app which picks 3 seemingly random words to pinpoint the location as jessica alder now reports rescue services see it as a lifesaver. 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 a call comes in it's not always clear where the people are who need rescuing or for the control of it ask them if that a mobile phone on them and who doesn't know what is literally ask them can you just please download this app and tell us what the 3 way it say those 3 words identified an area on the river behind me called whole shop and so that meant from time of cold download in the app to rescue was about 11 minutes and that is fantastic what 3 words is a free app on your phone the company is divided up the globe into 3 meters squares each specific location is then given 3 random words purple nightingale jumping could be the front door of your house it's an updated laundry tootin latitude system for

a voice activated world and it's in 40 languages they make money by licensing the technology to companies like delivery services or car manufacturers the idea came out of a musician's frustration chris sheldrick spent hours lugging guitars amplifiers microphones around festivals searching for the right stage or entry gate we've written a mathematical algorithm which actually distributes the 3 word addresses across the world and that and it's replicated in every new language that we bring you we literally cover the whole world even the north pole south pole the oceans there is a 3 way to dress for everywhere there are lots of places that are hard to pinpoint if you want to meet a friend at a beach or out in the remote desert it's not so easy. mongolian nomads by their very nature don't stay in one place so they need to update tourists who come to experience temped life of the 57 trillion squares i met david shark

which is great if i want to meet a friend or get a delivery but it's not all about convenience if i were to get hopelessly lost or 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 . a recap of the headlines before we go the 3rd coronavirus death outside mainland china has been confirmed in japan it comes as the number of deaths inside china surged with another 254 announced bringing the national total to nearly $1400.00 more than $15000.00 new cases have been reported up from just $1600.00 the day before a record rise comes after who bay province the epicenter of the virus adopted

a new method of diagnosing the infection we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter of this disease are still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher severity profile that increases actually with each decade after that and predominantly 2 that's a rarity use amongst men rather than women then we have to see the significant shift that profile is very much a pieces in other areas i would say to base. a rocket attack has hit an iraqi air base in kirkuk province where u.s. troops are stationed a previous attack on the k one base in december killed a u.s. contractor starting a chain of events which caused a rise in reasonal tensions there are no reports of deaths or injuries so far but the previous attack was blamed on a type of hezbollah and led to retaliate tree u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander qassam sunday

money meanwhile the u.s. senate has passed a resolution restricting president donald trump's ability to unilaterally order military action against iran the war powers resolution forces trying to get approval from congress to clear any more strikes on the country it's been backed by several members of trump's own republican party and the united nations is saying more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in ablett province since december the 1st of all the majority of them are women and children they have ended up in displacement camps near the border with turkey 100 is coming up next investigating china's use of australian universities we'll have more news from doha in about half an hour's time. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what you see al-jazeera will bring you the needs and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera.

i want to strengthen his university campuses tensions are rising and not a chance hey her heart she has got to carry. it was at that moment that i was attacked. at universities billions of dollars a year from chinese student fees and research projects with china. but now fears are growing that these lucrative arrangements made. his academic institutions even national security at risk struggling universities not being sleepwalking the brain in a kind of it's astonishing there is no.