he went on to become a target of the hindu for policy in. the world. this is a news hour live from our global headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes china says 6 health workers have died and over 1700 are infected by the corona virus raising concerns about a shortage of medical resources a small group of elderly passengers has left the cruise ship off japan's kohl's which has the largest concentration of corner virus cases outside china also this hour a rare rebuke from the u.s. attorney general william barr says tweets from donald trump make his job in off

simple and digging for the truth families of mexico's drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the say for their relatives. coming up in sports 2 giants of african football play form of the continent's major titles away from home soil as the super cup kicks off in qatar. thank you very much for joining us the chinese government has confirmed that 6 healthcare workers have died from corona virus more than 1700 others have been infected most of them in a province c.f. the center of the outbreak this raises concerns about the shortage of medical resources. the national health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control. corona virus infections within

medical institutions and we've given a special notice of virus controls to key areas and the fever departments of key hospitals through these documents we have opposed to special requirements on hudson the personal protection of medical workers now there are nearly 65000 confirmed cases worldwide and a cruise ship in japan has the largest concentration of infections outside china 218 people on board have fallen ill but 11 elderly passengers were allowed to continue to quarantine off the ship in vietnam meanwhile 10000 people from a village northwest of the capital hanoi continue to be isolated 11 people they have been infected bringing the total number of cases in the country to 16 and they have been mixed messages coming from the u.s. while president donald trump praises china's efforts to contain the virus his economic adviser says there's a lack of transparency we still haven't go in there and i think some of the

experts and the our public health team are quite disappointed we thought there was better transparency coming out it doesn't appear to me i know they revised their numbers of a bit they say it's a different method of counting what we just don't know it's the great unknown and i wish we did know more because you know this should not be about politics or for that matter trade this is just plain ordinary health public health help people well let's get an update now from adrian brown who is in hong kong for us adrian the fact that the people on the front line of this crisis are being infected is worrying why are so many health with this being infected. well during the past few weeks fully a number of doctors and nurses have been putting messages on social media complaining about the fact that they don't have adequate protective clothing so i

think it's fair to assume that those who have become infected those who have died have so because they haven't had the correct protective gear now china's government concedes there is a shortage of this protective clothing and of course it underscores just how vulnerable frontline medical workers are in china right now the world health organization has got more experts arriving at the epicenter today and over the weekend to supplement the team that arrived there a few days ago the w.h.o. is also saying and this is i guess a grain of good news that the rate of infections outside of who go province don't appear to be rising as dramatically as they were during the past few weeks we are around a month into this crisis now adrian and initially they're reporting on social media west quite open what's the tone now on the reporting on social media as.

well you're absolutely right when president xi jinping urged transparency in mid january suddenly it was gangbusters with the state controlled media they were all over this story covering all the angles that has now changed because they're not touching on the negative they are extension waiting very much the positive showing pictures of people who have recovered leaving hospital and also in the last 24 hours showing more pictures of soldiers and volunteers arriving in will hand there has been a mass mobilization of people and it has in many ways echoes of the maui or this is what president xi jinping has called a people's war against you know the devil's virus and of moment the problem we have fully right with this particular virus is that we're having to try to interpret figures and deeds and there are

a lot of figures to interpret thank you very much for that adrian brown life for a sane hong kong now in cambodia it was all smiles as passengers disembark from a cruise ship that had been turned away by 4 asian governments because a few years of the coronavirus they are no confirmed cases among the more than 2000 people on board the m.s. westerdam when harry for some santa fe a port where the ship is docked. there was celebration and relief his passengers finally received would they were allowed to begin disembarking from the wish to dam a serum only a welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around asia as port after port rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice it's nice to be able to get home feels very good but maybe most a must be on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table too as well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew there was no illness at book. cambodia's prime

minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about corona virus and did so again on the dock in sihanoukville when other government said no to the ship he said yes and he wasn't about to let this opportunity slip by . people asked if there are people on the ship that have coronavirus would allow them to dock i can respond very clearly that if there are people with the virus on the ship i would allow them to dock as soon as possible but there were no confirmed cases on board blood taken from 20 passengers who were unwell when the ship arrived in cambodian waters on thursday tested negative these are among the 1st passengers to disembark and sit 4th on land for the 1st time in 2 weeks the whole process of getting everybody off the ship is expected to take around 3 days so for many on board the frustrating waits will continue the plight of the westerdam was another

blow to the cruise ship industry which is being hit hard by coronavirus its own a carnival is the largest cruise operator in the world and says its share price may tumble this year by more than a half because of cancellations it also learns the diamond princess which is docked in new york a hummer japan with thousands quarantined on board and many confirmed infections among passengers and crew experts say the potential for transmission of the virus on a ship is high so they're not surprised the industry is suffering so if you are in a confined environment like in a cruise ship or in a train then if you are exposed to like you know within the family or with your next to the cabin of the infected person then you can get infected for those on the wish to damn a bizarre cruise around asia is over ending with a welcome and a farewell in cambodia they'll never forget wayne hey al jazeera send up phil. and singapore's prime minister is the latest leader to warn of severe economic

consequences as a result of the corona virus outbreak lee hence long told local media the city states could end up in recession the government is preparing for tourism numbers to drop by up to 50 percent the prime minister says economy will definitely take a hit it's a matter of how bad it will be. china has implemented the 1st round of agreed cuts to tariffs on u.s. goods says spot of a deal between the 2 countries aimed at easing the ongoing trade war the agreement signed last month only applies to a tad of same posed by china in september not on the total duties that have been levied since $1800.00 good such as u.s. crude oil soybeans beef and pork are included earlier we spoke to pauline long the managing director of asia and the analysis which conducts research on china's political economy. i don't see yet so much doubt as a training to war or even

a cold war so much as the dawn of an ice age in relations between the 2 countries the american perception now is not just that china is a rule spending competitor but that it is said that all run threat the chinese for their part sees the americans as trying to contain their rise to its rightful position in the global economy and still they are almost racing focused dominance so a little any agreements that have on commercial issues won't just deal with a part of the problems between the 2 countries for face to face rephrase for the law only be that technical the easy stuff that could be a pretty darn how much you're buying from you look how much you buy from me how much access i get here but the thing that is holding back a true agreement between the 2 countries is the fact that there

is it is very difficult for them to agree on a mechanism for compliance i mean the trade gap acts says intellectual property rights and all of that has been discussed for the past 10 years different at ministrations have signed different agreements so we're in agreement without some form of compliance mechanism that the americans will accept that the chinese can sell to their own people then it will just be you know words of violence feeling bad there's no true resolution of the dispute. the u.s. is adding new criminal charges to its list against huawei the justice department accuses the chinese telecoms company of scheming to steal trade secrets from compasses in america huawei denies the allegations the trump administration is pressuring foreign governments to ban huawei from building their telecoms networks

because of national security concerns china's foreign ministry accuses the u.s. of economic bullying plenty more ahead on this on jazeera news hour including desperate and displaced more on the plight of children forced to live in camps up to 15 fighting in syria the world's biggest messaging app is back in court in its fight against an israeli security firm and in sports the new york yankees go into spring training with hard feelings after 2 playoff defeats to a team that was made to caught cheating. donald trump is expected to veto the senate's vote to limit the u.s. presidential powers to order attacks on iran 8 members of his republican party botched the iran war powers resolution which means trump needs congressional approval for future strikes the senate acted after ordered the assassination of

qassam 7 money last month the killing of iran's military commander provokes missile attacks on u.s. soldiers in iraq 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 with an overreaching executive branch all $47.00 democrats 8 republicans stood up and said enough is enough chapter 10 see reports from washington d.c. on the politics behind the vote. multiple presidents of trampled over what the framers were very clear about that it's congress's role to declare war on a different country and the way the presidents have tried to get out of it so yeah but these are military excursions incursions were actually wars president obama very big on all of this 2011 libya. congressional approval when democrats grumbled

a bit republicans grumbling but they did nothing they didn't do anything like this for example because president obama also always using the authorization for use of military force passed after 911 the 2 and you have to go into 100 countries the military footprint to bomb all sorts of all sorts of people who groups the dream exist after 911 so this has been going on for some time now and it's only the democrats rediscover their constitution and enough is enough and they were joined by some republicans republicans who have various motives as well in that some of them were just simply rather annoyed by the briefing they got after the assassination of general sort of just too dismissive of the constitutional niceties they thought the white house should have at least paid lip service to but there are always a libertarian side who say look these endless wars have to stop in fact that you could ask why more republicans didn't vote for this given the opinion polls have been clear for years that's why don't tread on this bipartisan majority say we've

got to bring our troops back from at least we can't have anymore war iran is warning it's ready to strike both the u.s. and israel if given any reason the head of the revolutionary guard issued the warning during ceremonies in iran and iraq at the end of 40 days of mourning for. iraqi demonstrators blocks the road near baghdad airport where he was killed in a u.s. missile strike last month the u.s. president says silly money posed an imminent threat to americans in the middle east . another rocket attack has targeted an airbase in northern iraq where u.s. troops are stationed there no reports of casualties in curricle province a previous attack on the same base in december killed a u.s. contractor triggering the chain of events that led to some somalis assassination and cause regional tensions to soar. to syria now where state television says several missiles have been downed over a damascus the capital loud explosions reportedly show the capital shortly before

midnight and flew from the southwest over the israeli occupied golan heights meanwhile the united nations says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in italy province the last remaining rebel held area since december the 1st the vast majority of them are women and children they are in displacement camps near turkey's border relief workers say 10 children have died over the last week as the cold winter weather sets in and storms blankets the area with snow. you government there are 27 families living in tents all things are stealing cause we don't have good the situation is very difficult it's impossible for anyone to rent a home to. go down the situation here is very difficult as you can see it's not being in a temperature is below 0 you can see it's who we are staying in a tent because different cost 100 or 200 dollars and there's

a lot of displacement going on now. civilians remain in harm's way as hostilities are continuing it live and aleppo reports from the ground indicate the thousands of civilians are on the move from around the m 5 highway with most people moving further north and north west towards the turkey syria border inclement weather including snow fall is excess abating the situation. well let's get an update now on the humanitarian situation in speak to. on the turkey syria border of course as the syrian government forces try to retake this last remaining rebel province of idlib it's a civilians who are bearing the brunt just how difficult a situation are they facing right now very difficult for leave the activists on the ground that we've been in touch with over the last few. hours basically say that the situation is tragic

thousands of families forced out of their villages and homes seeking refuse near the border with turkey where they have nowhere to go to set up chants but with the subzero weather conditions the situation is very difficult and most of the terms became suddenly over quotas because of the growing number of people seeking shelter and roof you now over the last 4 days the u.n. says that more than 100000 people were forced out of their homes and moved in near the border with. turkey that brings the number to about almost 1000000 internally displaced syrians over the last few months here it's a very very delicate situation you can see many activists as social media basically saying that if the international community does not deliver immediate aid to us blankets basic services many many people concerned children

in particular. very vulnerable against a backdrop of this situation it's a very very delicate situation for thousands of thousands of syrians across the border with turkey and when you look at the situation all the developments suggest that we're going to see more fighting more escalation in the coming days rush is just going to further jeopardize the lives of the civilians and precisely what are you hearing about the fighting in other areas are syria. well where we stand we've been. hearing constant artillery shelling and most likely turkish artillery shelling syrian government positions to prevent them from further moving towards areas in. but as this continues as syrian government has been on the offensive taking over crucial areas on the western askers of aleppo these have been rebel stronghold for really quite some time and now they are under the

gun troll of the syrian government not long from here in turkey and the syrian government has intensified its shelling of the rebel position in a push to take over those areas and this is the reason why you have this mounting tension the turkish military has been pouring into it live over the last few days including yesterday to try to reinforce many military outposts or set up new new ones the aim is basically to prevent the syrian army for continuing its bush because turkey is concerned because they do understand that the you know that if the bush continues if the syrian the army decides to model to go towards the city of live we're talking about almost 1000000 syrian refugees who have nowhere to go the only option would just be move towards the border with turkey thank you for that life or a same had tea. now in

a raree buke of donald trump u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized the president's use of twitter that's after donald trump tweeted about the sentencing of his close ally want to stone earlier this week stone is trump's former campaign adviser who has been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice by says trump's comments undermine the work of the department of justice. you have public statements and tweets made about the department about or people in the department or men and women here about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases. make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the in the department that we're doing our work with integrity while i speak to. this is a professor of political science any studies at the university of birmingham he

joins us on skype from there thank you so much for being with us. a rare show of dissent from a top cabinet official especially bill barr who had always had the president's pocket scenes what do you think are his true motivations here for making this rebuke of the president's legal meddling. well i think we need to get the real story here because bill barr is still protecting donald trump why do i say that his criticism yesterday was very limited of trump bill barr stood by the decision to intervene to lenat and possibly prevent any prison sentence for trucks from and the dirty tricks operator roger stone which is what truck had gone on to twitter and to demand on tuesday barton decided no it was wrong for us to do this it was wrong for us to rule the prosecutors all 4 of whom resigned immediately fars 1st priority was to protect himself from a sense taking this decision on tuesday he has faced a lot of criticism from legislators and he is facing a possible revolt within the justice department by those who stand with the

prosecutors and say this is unacceptable right and his 2nd priority is to say look let's make sure we do this right in the future in other words he wasn't saying i want to actually work with the white house or work with donald trump what's happening but donald trump should announce a some twitter let's do this in a much more quieter and effective way in the weeks and months to come but no one really expects donald trump to stop tweeting to the. well there is though that's the problem for not only people like build are who have protected donald trump including over the trump russia scandal including over the trump ukraine scandal it is the problem also for senior republican legislators who shut down the trump trial last week and that is on the one hand they know that trump is unpredictable they know that he's chaotic they know in a fact and they said this last week that he does abuse power but on the other hand they continue to enable him so their political futures are tied to him so the next

time he does this bar might come up and so they are tut tut he should have done that you know right sort of majority leader mitch mcconnell might say we wish the president hadn't done this it was inappropriate but no one will stop donald trump that's been the case for more than 3 years and it'll be the case all the way to november's election so how do you expect the president to react to boss comments i mean top officials of rebuked him in the past like the former attorney general jeff sessions where sat does bof a say any reprisal wepa tensional reprisal for this view on the president no i think has been far too essential for donald trump he has been the person who has shielded trump not only from the possibility of impeachment and conviction but even from the possibility of criminal charges and that will continue to be the case what i expect to see as well here's the question will donald trump a almost handcuff him to his desk and say don't say anything on twitter today or

will trump come out and say well you know we're abortion assert that that isn't quite what happened fake news hoax and still keep this summer and because i suspect a serious as this is this exposes another abuse of power by donald trump will be on to a different story by next week and the whole thing will start all over again as always very good to talk to you and get your thoughts on this scott locus from the burning and joining us on the south thank you for your time. thank you our government leaders in mexico are being accused of giving only half hearted support to families of people killed in the drug cartel war. for some better calls heartbroken families say they're forced to rely on volunteers to search for the remains of their relatives buried in sacred graves. a search party has assembled on the grounds of a catholic church in vera cruz who says the volunteers are the family members of missing persons mission wide more than 60000 people have disappeared since the

story of the war on drugs in 2006 most are believed to be the big domes of criminal gangs or corrupt authorities there's no doubt in recent years it's become commonplace for the families of the disappeared to participate in organized search it's preposterous clandestine gravesites. the recent discovery of a human bone fragment in this field means other human remains could be hidden nearby and the amount of. money at that is hello this traveled nearly 2000 kilometers from her home in sonora to join the search which oh this is one of. the obvious about it sometimes for a family member being given just a small piece of bone can make them feel better because they'll know that that's their family that fragment can mean some once parents or children can finally have peace. false alarms are not uncommon to use those little by little but a few volunteers like mine you've got to have gotten quite good at spotting clues.

he says he can't remember exactly how many bodies has helped uncover in that time. the families of the missing that have learned and are now teaching the government how to conduct a search these families don't have forensics training but we're the ones finding bodies this should be an embarrassment to the mexican government. there are fishel observers and police keeping watch over the search brigade but it's the volunteers digging holes and sifting through the soil that seem to be doing most of the work. one of the most common things that we've heard from members of the search brigade is that it's the mexican government that should be out here in the heat and the sun searching for human remains and if it is again i guess this is the 5th time a national brigade has gathered for this kind of search and it's the largest one to date. by the end of the day authorities arrived to examine the scene and determine whether or not this site will be counted among the more than $600.00 clandestine graves discovered in bitter coups in recent years. that

a cruise. time now for a check of the world weather with rob and it's very cold. oh we have no staff and we of course it's more miserable for some people this time of day when you get snow if you happen to be living in tents so good and that's for the case in lip of course we had this snow a good part of northern syria northern iraq as well because of constraints in the hills but it's been in the ground as well for example in chemistry it hasn't started the 6 years so it's been rather more fun here you can build snowmen you can spread snowballs you can actually enjoy yourself. in the winter months i have to say well that snow has moved on that's folding in iran. so most of this part middle east is going to be in the sunshine today but the something gathering is you can see in western turkey the storm system on its way and the cold air is still there for overlay this is the the color represents the temperatures if you like and it's still in the green sub 10 degrees over night. still cold nights along with

the un that was centuries in those single figures so you lived in kuwait he said faulty to doha. i'm sure you oversee kids will buy a day it looks like we're going to see him born the way of rain and in some cases snow lot but some in northern syria are really up in the eastern side of turkey it's not extreme for any means and the sun is more dominant than the snow rob thank you very much for that still ahead on this news hour marking a year of protests in algeria demonstrators say they feel betrayed by the lack of congress in the country record setting temperatures in on topic. to more than 20 degrees and tiger woods is back on the course where he feels most at home as he tries to record breaking rain on the p.g.a. tour will have the latest coming up in sports.

progress. or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better or worse. in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the impact of they are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data. coming soon the controversial leader of islamic jihad foxconn he is one of the most wanted turns to string this recount turns on his alleged extrajudicial killing by israel challenged him assad says being caught in the bus to see the outcome is only death if someone tried to do but fish got to immediately see many times and was shot down the photos don't

kill him in damascus on al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for a reminder of our top stories the chinese government tests confirm that 6 health care workers have died from corona virus and 1700 others are infected it raises concerns about the shortage of medical resources in japan 11 elderly passengers were on board a cruise ship are being allowed to disembark and complete their corn teena shore 218 people on board the diamond prentiss have been infected with coronavirus speaking of the marshes concentration of cases outside of china and in

a rare rebuke u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized president donald trump's use of twitter as top to trump commented on the sentencing of his goes on i want just so on and here this week. to the philippines where journalists are demonstrating against attempts to close down the country's largest t.v. network and government noya find a petition to cancel the franchise of a.b.s. c.b.s. corporation on monday the network has been a few critic of president for draco to take that speak to our correspondent jimmy now linda gunn who's at the protests in quasar and city how critical is it for the station's license to be renewed. very much because if for example the supreme court's this sides. the cold war and the cold war until petition filed by the solicitor general is valid then it means basically that a.b.s. c.d.n.

will lose its rights to broadcast on the television this is a very good aspect of press freedom because fully a.b.s.e b.n. has been shut down during the bible former president ford and mark was during the time of the the ship and it was opened after guy or. right outside the broadcast networks headquarters here where there's been a noisy barrage of journalists themselves taken to the street in landing for the government basically to get its hands of press freedom and democracy now over the next few weeks it is expected that congress will hear. the franchise will conduct a series of consultations over the franchise over where whether it will be renewed thousands of jobs are threatened here thousands of people filipinos are actually dependent on a b. and c. b. and for their livelihood not to mention the broadcast rights of so many different channels also of course the country now the territory has repeatedly attacked a b

a c b n since it took office and 26 he accu sick of being unfair and fairly critical of visit ministration and also said basically the cheering the campaign season a.b.s.e b.n. did not air his campaign videos this by accepting payments so now at this point basically what a.b.s. even executives are asking activists here are asking for the government basically to respect the freedom of speech and democracy here in developing the polling thank you very much for that to me and a gun in quezon city for. back to our geria where larger than normal friday protests are expected today it's the 1st anniversary of the beginning of the mass will mention that ousted the longest standing leader as an hour. or more from power in april but protesters are still demanding freedom and democracy as well as a removal of who they call the morning elite victoria good to be requests.

every friday for the last year they've been demanding an overflow in the culture areas entire political establishment in the. many algerian say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government. to move. i'm sure we will move this regime from its roots this country belongs to the people not to the seeds and gangs this country is for algeria. algeria is political crisis began last february when president after lizzie's beautifully announced he wanted a 5th term in office the 82 year old had ruled for 20 years but was rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2030. 2 weeks of protests calling for him to step down the army withdrew its support algeria's longest serving president eventually resigned the speaker of the upper house of parliament up till cardiff and salah was appointed interim president that faced a daunting task in the of the world who took his replacement was accused of

corruption tricking and poor governance and seen by many algerians as belonging to the same elite in salah cools the unity as well as transparent a fair elections but discontent continued with protesters determined to push for genuine change. the presidential election of originally shed jews from last july finally happened in december and with boycotted by many algerians millions described the election as a sham and less than 40 percent of the 24000000 alledged. to pont. the election was won by out too much and to be a former prime minister the military backed interim government hoops he read in months of protests so far that hasn't happened. 58 years after independence from france many algerian say they're still fighting for freedom they will to clean sweep of the political establishment and

a national unity government to bring democracy to a gate to be out is there. protests over a planned pipeline in canada have forced the closure of the 3rd largest rail network in north america c n weyl announced it would shut its eastern track network after indigenous led demonstrators brock's rail lines for days the decision has forced the cancellation of nearly all passenger train services nationwide the protests are in support of an indigenous school fighting the construction of a pipeline through their traditional that it's. a u.s. charge has temporarily blocked microsoft's $10000000000.00 cloud computing contract with the u.s. military amazon is suing the government over how the contract was awarded the internet shopping giant alleges it was shut out of the deal because president trump is biased against his boss jeff bezos amazon requested an injunction bearing the project from starting until the lawsuit is settled. the messaging service what sop

has gone back to a california court to continue its case against israeli civilians company is suing n.s.o. a group for allegedly hacking into its app to spy on more than a 1000 people the company denies the accusations in a separate incident in 2018 a saudi crown prince was accused of using n.s.o. group technology to hack the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos the company has denied any involvement jon's car railton is a senior researcher at the university of toronto and held held twice up investigate the n.s.o. group over the alleged rape she says a case reflects a wider trend. i think we're really living in sort of like the gray areas of international law and certainly the gray areas of oversight and it should come as no surprise that when there is a technology like this that's so powerful that's so invasive and so unregulated it's going to get abused and the what's app case is a perfect example of this

a lot of governments took this technology and they abused it to spy on dissidents human rights defenders journalists and others i think what's unique about this case is that it's a window into what happens when states think that they can behave without a lot of oversight the way to look at this is every technology that we use on a daily basis has vulnerabilities and with enough effort and time and resource can probably be hacked the question is really what happens when technology does get hacked what do companies do to protect their users what do legal structures provide by way of protections for users what's interesting about this case is that many companies have had their technologies hacked but what's have to respond in this case to go after and so is muscular for years and so has showed up being abused to target journalists and others and for the most part they've kind of been the bully on the playground what's different here is that you know what's out

somebody is big cousin has showed up and said not so fast and not on our platform. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says it's begun procedures to try those who have committed human rights violations but it has not made clear who will oversee this action nor given details about the process last year the u.n. said old sides in the conflict had committed war crimes and that some western governments may be complicit a report accuse 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 starvation libya who really is the former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in yemen he says any coalition investigation into its own conduct would have no credibility. well it's a given that the perpetrator of a crime cannot conduct an objective investigation into his own no 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 there is a good will gesture that the saudis really want to make towards yemen they should stop that war it begins with that and that is something that they are capable of doing after that you can have an independent agency international human rights organizations conduct their investigation and any war criminals should then beauty further to the international criminal court i think rather than carry out futile investigations at this point focus on stopping the war that's something saudis can do the united states can certainly launch an all out

diplomatic effort to end this war that would come 1st and that in itself would at least stop the war crimes from continuing and they are going on on a daily basis now after that we can worry about who are lousy who to investigate. and maybe ash telling my forces loyal to warlord honey for have time has killed at least one person near the capital and he's 4 others were injured in the attack on the residential area it happened just hours after the united nations security council backed a 55 point plan for ending the war 'd in libya have task forces have been trying to capture tripoli from the internationally recognized government since last april. south africa's president has used his state of the nation address to defend his record on the economy and as of the opposition the f.-f. party repeatedly disrupted the speech when it resumes sarah on a pulse acknowledged morning to be done to kickstart economic growth and admitted

debt was reaching unsustainable levels. 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 needs 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 as some of them in a reports from johannesburg the disruption by the f.f.a. almost overshadow the president's address. ahead of president's state of the nation address his spokeswoman said the president was not concerned about any disruptions

at parliament and question what it would achieve but when the president was prevented from starting his speech much of the attention was indeed on the opposition party the economic freedom fighters who orchestrated that disruption rather than on the president the opposition party demanded that the minister of public enterprises be sacked saying he's responsible for corruption and the failure of state owned power utilities respond so for many south africans politics dominated proceedings on thursday evening so has previously been criticized for being out of touch and promising far more than he's been able to deliver when remote also finally began his address he dealt with many of the issues that concern south africans from the high unemployment rates to the ailing economy and importantly the provision of electricity the president said rolling blackouts had

hampered the recovery of the economy and that while blackouts would continue the government would support the production of wind and solar energy to ease the energy problems that south africans are experiencing. also tackle the high level of crime promising higher police visibility and he's also promised to fight corruption saying the government is working to stabilize these struggling state owned enterprises but for many south africans this may have been a repeat of what they've heard in previous years good ideas although baig on implementation. in malawi the chief organizer of elections is under pressure to resign after what judges just as grave irregularities in last year's vote for president norbert manley has been. the i mean if you're going to protest as i'm allowed the seal of the building of the electoral commission and it

was a matter of. hundreds marched through the streets of the southern city of blantyre only a few managed to get past police barricades. 2 a protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commission's chairwoman jane unsorry and her stock resign. the guests of mic because all what we need this 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 inconsistent sees that included using correction fluid on ballot sheets jane and sergeant nice accusations the results had been altered on the materials that we sent. we indeed did not include the pics. and

even the doing a training we toured we toured the trainees that the 2 pixies no doubt but in court one alexion commission member pointed the blame at police instructions were given by this year to this. i determined that this was a good research and the city will not even involve this commission i think it just happened by a letter written. by law is 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 of that process but from the rest of us who are also international ones the court of given the country

just $150.00 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. antartica has had its 2nd record breaking hot day in a week brazilian scientists say the temperature on seymour island rolls to almost 21 degrees celsius that's 2 and a half degrees higher than arjun time scientists recorded at their base a week ago experts say melting ice on the coldest continent is accelerating rising sea levels worldwide team naish a geisha expert at the antarctic research center in new zealand is not surprised by the results. 2019 was the 2nd warmest year on record and previous record holder was 2017 so we're seeing each year be at least as will or even warmer so it doesn't surprise me at all that we're seeing january

as one of the will miss mansel the will this month on record we're already seeing some pretty significant impacts on untapped ikku we know that the ice sheet is beginning to lose mass that it's me means it's noting and that no order is contributing to sea to rise and it's doing that with an extent arising right and we expect that to continue tactic the new chiller itself has always been a hot spot it's experience more warming than anywhere else on the antarctic and we see big changes that we're seeing new species coming from south america that never have lived in antarctica so it's seeing invasions of spaces with sea loss of habitat loss of sea ice. for being with us. but this is really just a small window into much greater china that will ultimately come for antarctica and will lead to significant suitable rise at the moment the science predicts

that we could get up to a meter of sea level rise by 2100 france meanwhile is setting up a zone iran will want to protect the highest peak in the alps present a man at home visited the pomp and a mountain resort to chamonix he announced cuts to the number of climate silicon races senate and so have france's largest gay she has shrunk dramatically over the past 20. and staying in france and a mccool's candidate for mayor of paris has dropped out of the race after a sex video was released on social media gave all said he was stepping aside to protect his family is a major setback for mark or head of the election in march though recent opinion poll showed leave all trailing in 3rd place. still ahead on this news hour in sport the n.b.a. pay i mean a gold medal winning sister with this long range basket. ball will have more.

time for sports his paul farley funk you so much 2 of africa's biggest football clubs will face off in the calf super cup later on friday with one of the continent's top called much is actually being held in asia cats all the host says aspirants of china's yet take on egypt zamalek in a showdown between the winners of the hour. champions league and the holders of the confederation cup this is the 2nd year of a 3 year deal hosting this much zamalek had threatened to withdraw due to egypt's

role in the ongoing blockade of qatar before relenting last week 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 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. the club has won every title the only one missing for the current team is the african supercuts we prepared for this in tunisia we're ready to face the other team and god willing we will take the title. brazilian football legend pele says that contrary to reports he's not depressed and reclusive following hip surgery a son gave an interview last week in which he said his father was reluctant to leave his house house because of mobility problems but the 79 year old dismissed that saying in a statement he was determined and confident pele is the only player to win 3 world

cups and is working on a documentary about his life. the n.b.a.'s number one pick zein williamson had his best scoring night since his league debut last month but was overshadowed by a player not known for his shooting skills williamson school 32 for the new orleans pelicans as they took on the oklahoma city thunder. to the game case right on the halftime buzzer the use ala that stephen adams having apart from long range. and nailing it incredibly this was the 1st 3 pointer of his career this kind of move runs in the family his sister valerie is a 2 time olympic gold medalist in the shop but pandit winning that's 123 to 186. the boston celtics have claimed a 7th win in a row at home in dramatic fashion jason tatum's $39.00 points for the celtics proving the difference as the game against the los angeles clippers was eventually

decided in double overtime for boston winning 141 to 133. major league baseball teams have returned to spring training with the houston astros cheating scandal still reverberating around the league one of the teams feeling most hard done by is the new york yankees who twice last playoff series to houston when the astros were stealing pitching signs from their opponents he's been sacked they manage and have been fined unpunished but many young players and officials believe they should have been stripped of their 2017 world series title that didn't go down well with houston when they tried to clear the air on thursday for me at the end you comments out there you know our pinion is you know that this didn't impact the game we had a good team. we won the world series in louisville. well i just hope that we can you know put this behind us and then you know we can go in and

just just play baseball and realize that we've made mistakes in the guise of said this is our food and hopefully people will feel this. while the plotz has they can somewhat with the yankee signing form astroids pitching garrett cole he was on the mound for houston while the cheating was going on in 2018 cole says he was unaware of it or of allegations the astros will buzz's as part of the scheme there's nobody's getting a winner out of this and it doesn't look you know very good and i guess i'm just fortunate to be able to be here in new pastored i i wouldn't have seen it or been privy to that information anyway but i believe my team and my ex teammates i believe this coast tiger woods is hoping to set a record with an 83rd win on the p.g.a. tour on the coast where he made his debut as an amateur it takes 16 woods was 4 shots behind the leaders after the 1st day's play at riviera country club on thursday shots like this on the 8th putting him in contention. that it was his

very 1st putt of the round that resonated most high is eagle putt of 24 feet and 8 inches mirroring the 2 jersey numbers that is quite as frank bryant wolf of the l.a. like has before his death last month. so it's ironic in that. he was a nice way to start i don't know but the puck been out long. and i said very ironic that having read those 2 numbers you know that no matter what we do fighting for for a while they will always remember colby and what he meant and special here and so talent for the entire sports world and as i said very ironic that i happen to have those numbers on those holes and those exact measurements. all right that's his oil spill from what we will see later thank you so much for that whole that's it for this news hour on al jazeera more news coming up very shortly with my team denis thanks so much.

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they can you tell that story is what can make a difference. i've. china says 6 health workers have died and more than 1700 are infected by the karuna virus increasing concerns about a shortage of medical resources. hello and welcome to al-jazeera life and i'm monsignor listen also coming up vulnerable passengers are allowed to continue their current genomes and after 2 weeks on board .