on al-jazeera. 0. 00 am fully back to all of this is a news hour on al-jazeera 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 corner virus increasing concerns about a shortage of medical resources empty streets sand only and little food we hear from a resident living at the center of the outbreak also this hour intense fighting in syria's province rebels say they have shot down a government helicopter. in iraq criticism of the u.s.

president attorney general bill bar says trump squeeze on making his job impossible . coming up in sports 2 joints of african football players one of the continent's major titles away from home soil supercoach kicks off in qatar. thank you for joining as the chinese government has confirmed that 6 healthcare workers have died from corona virus more than 7500 others have been infected most of them in a province the epicenter of the outbreak this increases concerns about a shortage of medical resources. which it was in the national health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and we've given

a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these documents we have imposed special requirements on hudson the personal protection of medical workers. meanwhile 218 people on board a cruise. in japan have been in. a ship in japan have been infected with the virus making it the largest cluster of confirmed cases outside of china but 11 vulnerable passengers have been allowed to get off the ship and complete their corn gene on land in vietnam 10000 people from villages northwest of the capitol hill noid continue to be isolated 11 people there have been infected bringing the total number of cases in the country to 16 the chinese city of one has been under lockdown for 3 weeks now says it was identified as a source of the outbreak millions have been ordered to stay at home as the government tries to stop the spread of the virus journalists also restricted from

traveling there but al jazeera obtained exclusive pictures from one of the residents trapped katrina you has our report from beijing. empty streets and an increasingly empty fridge there are plenty of vegetables but not much meat for the one family's next meal during the coronavirus lockdown speaking via video call from who pay one should told us his family was doing its best not to panic when we go home with this infection all over our bodies so we go out we wear masks we don't know if we go out we come back with a virus stargirl clothes so we do see in fact every day he lives in ching mn a city neighboring will hunt the epicenter of the virus outbreak for 3 weeks the family's been ordered to stay indoors movement is increasingly restricted once every 3 days one family members allow to leave the house to pick up groceries supplies and

a limited shop to stand in lines one meter apart waiting to enter. it's been almost a month since one saw his daughters who are staying with relatives in southeast china. does it i feel relieved that my wife and daughters are not me who by now we chat online every day they're doing ok just worry about me the vast majority of confirmed coronavirus cases will than 50000 are in a province. patients have been sharing videos and social media of life inside makeshift hospitals and quarantine sentence at least 1700 medical staff are among the infected. elsewhere in china people taking any chances. want shin hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. at the beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone so it was under control until it

was too late. and looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end katrina al-jazeera beijing well it sounds speak to dr mohamed more near has a viral a just that lanka say diversity joins us live from there thank you very much dr money for being with us i want to start off by looking at the big picture they are around $65000.00 coronaviruses coronavirus cases around the world but the bulk of them $64000.00 and a bit more are at the epicenter and hope a province what does that tell us for us about how the outbreak has evolved and how it where it's headed. well if we just look on to how the virus has started and from it started to spread or globally i think the majority of the cases those been our own the word they are directly or indirectly associated with the law and order who bear prevents because probably that was the reason that

the majority of the efforts were really to contain and to isolate and to lock down the people in that province and since the application of those approaches though what are the number of cases that we see. are in their own the word start to decline and all those cases that appear off to or were through indirect routes through light from singapore or from other countries where infected people have transmitted the virus so it appear that the control of your that was put in place they started to work and therefore know what our impact is decreasing day by day but the w.h.o. the world health organization has criticized as some has criticized some of the measures saying for instance that you know borders should be closed and so on all the restrictions being placed on who are not effective in containing the outbreak. well if we really look on to the impact of those restrictions those are pretty fruitful however as we have seen the number of cases are not declining within china so this also indicates that there are still

a pressure on to the to the government authorities to really take a little more cautionary. you know scenario to we're controlling the infection within within the vulnerable population so there are still a lot to be done to really claim that all 'd the control milieu of that needed to be put in place or being placed because until we start significant decline in the number of cases we call and really say that all those are really up to the mark so far the number of cases has declined but most people who have been sick seem to be recovering on their own so i mean what does this say about just how lethal this virus is is it as lethal as it's being made out to be. one thing is pretty clear that if we compare this call the 19 of it was back in 2003 this why this appears to be less lethal is killing less people compared to the

virus but it is infectious at the same time so the number of cases that we have seen this within one and a half month is over $60000.00 compared to the sorts grown a lot is a bit rich as only 8000 patients in one and a half a year so overall this wires appear to be very infectious is contagious is transmitted between the communities affected really luckily this appeared to be less lethal to overall impact on to the mortality is relatively low dr mohamed money thank you very much for talking to us on knowledge is there. now in cambodia it was all smiles as passengers disembarked from a cruise ship that had been turned away by 4 asian governments because a fears of the coronavirus there no confirmed cases among the more than 2000 people on board the westerdam when harry for some santa vale port where the ship is stopped. there was celebration and relief as passengers finally received word they were allowed to begin disembarking from the west a dam a ceremonial welcome in cambodia marks the end of

a 2 week journey around asia as port up to port rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew were spare untasted 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 my remote say on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew it was no illness at book. cambodia's prime minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus 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 aust 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 tests

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 force 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 earns 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 the 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 when hey al jazeera sent a fill. in other world news in syria rebels say they've shot down a government helicopter in the north west seoul 4 crew members have reportedly been killed government forces have been trying to retake the country's last rebel held territory in the province only of friday syrian state television said several missiles had been fired over damascus they reportedly flew from the southwest over the israeli occupied golan heights let's bring in hashem forest's who's monitoring rather situation for us from the turkey syria border 1st what do we know about this

helicopter incidents that the rebels are claiming to have brought on. 40 the helicopter was part of a ongoing military operation to take over areas of the northwestern askers of the fighting has intensified earlier today by midday the the helicopter was shot down now we're getting do conflicting reports about exactly what happened the rebels say that the managed to don the helicopter sources affiliated with the syrian government quoting the syrian the russian army based here say that the helicopter was downed by a turkish military outpost in it live and this is a major setback for the syrian army because helicopters were crucial in the push that started about a few weeks ago by the syrian government to take over areas in the northwestern

southern parts of aleppo and also parts of live from i think the syrian government is going to take into consideration all those recent developments before committing helicopters and fighter jets into those areas as syrian government forces fights hashim to retake. area. etc billions of course are once again bearing the brunt of this all just how bad is the situation on the ground for them county. tragic situation as many activists on the ground in many refugee camps have been telling us over the last few days and also 2 days in in many places. on the border with turkey it's a very delicate situation we're talking about the u.n. estimates that more than 100 of 140000 internally displaced moved to the border

area with turkey over the last 4 days bringing in the number of the refugees in those areas to almost 1000000 refugees because since the start of the syrian army's offensive to take over. those people fawley have left their homes were forced out of their villages living in tents it's observed. temperature they have no blankets they have the bare minimum to survive and they are pretty much concerned that if the situation continues that could lead to more fatalities in the coming days and we're asking the international community to step in and help the problem as you see on the ground folly is with the space in violence in syria now particularly around it it is going to be extremely difficult for humanitarian aid agencies to redeploy in those areas and provide help to those people who are

facing cold overcrowding disease and also. strikes by the syrian government are very desperate situation indeed for those civilians thank you hashem for bringing us the latest there on the conflict in syria from the tech a syrian border. plenty more ahead on this news hour including digging for the cho families of mexico's drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the safe for their loved ones. protesters take to the streets in algeria promising even bigger demonstrations to mark the one year anniversary of their anti-government. and tiger woods is back on the course where he feels most at home as he tries to creature record breaking weight on the of the t.t.c. to express. the i am . now more than $35.00 world leaders have joined hundreds of politicians

and diplomats and germany for this year's munich security conference the 3 day summit is one of the world's top gatherings focused on security and foreign policy issues on diplomatic editor james spaces covering the summit forests from munich joins us now live so what's on the agenda this year. well it's what's on the agenda and also what is discussed when all of these important people all of these senior politicians diplomats from around the world are in the same place at the same time but let's talk about the agenda 1st and discuss it with me is dan smith he's the boss of set free the european think tank west of the snus is what they've come up with as the theme for this year's security conference no i know you're not the boss of this conference but tell me what you think that means well i think it's got 2 angles caught up in the pun restless west

so the 1st one is there's a lot of discomfort the munich security conference obviously there's a quite diverse participation but at its core is what you could call the your atlantic security community these are the sort of the traditionalists of european and indeed u.s. politics who believe in transatlantic solidarity and transatlantic cooperation and frankly since president trump has come in since he's been elected there's been increasing worries about that corporation about that solidarity really being able to continue and at the same time you've got the fractiousness within europe itself you have breaks it you have the rise of more populist nationalist leaders you have complete uncertainty now about who will follow angular machall is the chancellor of germany so there's all of this discomfort caught up in restlessness so that then west lessness is the west actually losing its influence and its power not necessarily as hard power as

a military force it remains to be reckoned with but its soft power its influence its ability to persuade to win arguments before they're even had that seems to be deteriorating and that's also one of the wire is behind this and with this backdrop you obviously have efforts to try and sell solve some of the world's leading conflicts this is going to. clearly make it worse and i think we've seen it getting worse in recent years with the war in syria the war in yemen let's talk about some of the areas where there may be discussions among those that are attending here where perhaps they could be praised progress when ashraf ghani the president of afghanistan is here as are the american secretary of state defense secretary s. but those conversations will be interesting because it looks like the u.s. is getting closer again potentially to a deal with the taliban yes and i mean one of the sore points in this for the

afghan government is that the taliban refuses to negotiate with the government of president bush afghani so there is a in a way they are spectators to a process which is going to define their future and that has not been so far as i'm aware a great deal of coordination between the u.s. administration and they the afghan government i think the afghan president has spoken quite openly about their fears of essentially being just thrown off the train as a peace train departs from the station i think they're very worried about that so these talks will be extremely important now the other issue where perhaps there could be progress but only anyone's holding out too much hope is libya it was almost 4 weeks ago that world leaders came together in berlin with a new plan for libya a cease fire and then the idea of talks among all the libyan parties and after that big meeting in berlin it seems those who were actually supplying arms to the

various sides completely ignored what was said now in the margins of this conference we believe on sunday they're going to have another ministerial meeting to try and get everyone on the same page do you have any hopes that will work well you know one always has hopes that it will work but the odds i think are not very favorable at the moment on the one hand you have the u.n. . that government in tripoli on the other hand you have general after in his forces more to the in the east of the country and they're backed by by turkey and by other external forces who are there for all this with their allies both within the u.n. but also turkey at odds with nato allies over this so if we go back to the agenda if we go back to restlessness and west listeners are actually unfortunately the the libya negotiations the libya prospects are a really vivid demonstration of what the problems thank you very much for that as

a say folly the libya part of this is not actually happening in the main conference but on the sidelines taking place on the sunday ministers trying to get everyone back on the same page and then things move to geneva next week where representatives of the 2 sides the tripoli jna government and general have to his delegation of 5 plus 5 military commission meets again to try and work out the details of a cease fire in geneva james thank you for that james diplomatic editor live there from munich. in a rare rebuke of donald trump u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized the president's use of twitter as after a series of tweets by trump calling for a reduced prison sentence for his kill sylar i want to stone stone is chum's former campaign advisor who has been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice all 4 federal prosecutors quit on tuesday after the justice department said it would reduce their recommended sentence of up to 9 years in

prison. i have public statements and tweets made about the department about. people in the department our 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 let's fix our white house correspondent kimberly of this committee just how surprising is it for someone like bill to come out against a president like. it's enormously surprising it's very rare public criticism from one of the president's biggest defenders and so that's what makes it so on usual because donald trump is a president that while he doesn't offer it he demands loyalty we've seen others in his cabinet who have sort of broken ranks eventually quietly being dismissed

sometimes not so quietly the former attorney general jeff sessions also the former chief of staff john kelly so there's a lot of speculation in washington right now about why william barr might be doing this is it to protect his own reputation were simply left to speculate but there is some thinking that perhaps this was coordinated and calculated given the fact that william barr has seen the departure of 4 attorneys from the department of justice that he oversees as a result of that stone case that you were talking about and whether or not there's concern that more attorneys might leave and what that could do to the integrity of the department so there certainly is some concern but we're also watching very carefully to see what donald trump says in return because he often will still about these types of things for days and then lash out we do know that the president is scheduled to leave the white house later on this afternoon here in washington he does have the opportunity to speak to cameras whether or not he'll choose to

respond to his attorney general publicly is still unclear thank you for that committee how can i force in washington d.c. . government leaders in mexico are being accused of giving only half hearted support to families of people killed in the drug cartel war as money arapaho reports on better coals heartbroken families say they're forced to rely on volunteers to search for the remains of their relatives buried in secret grace. a search party has assembled on the grounds of a catholic church in vera cruz who said the volunteers of 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 in recent years it's become commonplace for the families of the disappeared to participate in organized search its proposed 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 of us will not come. up but it's 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 the family that fragment can mean some months parents or children can finally have peace. false alarms are not uncommon. but a few volunteers like that have gotten quite good at spotting clues. he says he can't remember exactly how many bodies he's helped to uncover in that time. and up and deal 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 find new 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. 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 clandestine graves discovered in better coups in recent years. that accuse. time now for a check on a wild weather wave of broadband this time in australia the story. rather than via has been for a couple of weeks now i've been to serendipity really crunching the forest but it also produces floods sort of anywhere from just north of brisbane than to be on

sydney now this is a fairly common site sort huge about surveyed it's just an awful lot in a short time all over the place and it's a good part of new south wales it was queens and it's moving down to victoria now so many ways it's a good thing that we're feeding in moisture from this swirling cloud here which is an old tropical syco then coming from the west and i was banned the shells which were of course eventually put in cells that not current conditions are still in the twenty's it's night time of course the forty's have been pushed inland this will talk about high temperatures and you will the disick elation is like if you simply dangerous conditions on the coast of new south wales obviously being extra will cycle out there wouldn't have been strong and it whips up the surface so you go to a good swell heavy waves big ways dangerous surf now in new south wales because it will ease over the next 24 hours indeed the cycle will slowly disappear the weather overland will produce another good trunk shows in victoria and do so as far as what you want to briefly follow where that thing's going starts of course cyclists in

a very deep wells and really which means a huge amount of rain for the west coast new zealand and strong winds conversely nice warm sunshine on the lee side fairly rob thank you very much for that and when we come back record setting temperatures in on talk to get the macquarie biases to more than 20 degrees also ahead on this news hour i show of unity journalist in the philippines said that a series against government bans are shut down the country's largest t.v. network and sport the n.b.a. playoffs emulating his amended gold medal winning system with this long range basket holder has more to do stay with us we're back after the show was. get a strategy a b. is a wise thing about china's growing influence on university campuses. one o one east investigates how beijing is moving power operate. on al-jazeera.

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the and. you're watching the news our knowledge is iraq of reminder of our top stories the chinese government has confirmed that 6 health care workers have died from put on a virus sent 1700 others are infected it raises concerns of opposite shortage of medical resources a syrian government helicopter has been downed in the country's northwest all 4 crew members have reportedly been killed government forces have been trying to retake the last rebel held territory in italy. and in a rare rebuke u.s. attorney general william bar has criticized president donald trump's use of twitter to trump commented on the sentencing of his close ally iran or stolen earlier this week. now larger than normal friday protests are taking place

across algeria this friday these pictures from the capital. it's the 1st anniversary of the beginning of the mass movements that ousted him longtime president to fake he was removed from power in april but protesters are still demanding freedom and democracy as well as the removal of those they call the ruling elite victoria gets me has. every friday for the last year they've been demanding an overhaul of algeria's entire political establishment. to feed them to the many algerian say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government here to make the others who do it really remove this regime from its roots this country belongs to the people not to the thieves and cares this country is for algerians in the. algerian 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 2013 the after 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 are his replacement was accused of corruption very triggering and poor governance and seen by many algerians as belonging to the same elite and salah cools for unity as well as transparent and fair elections but discontent continued with protesters determined to push for genuine change. the presidential election of originally shared jewels for last july finally happened in december and with boycotted by many algerian. million's described the election as a sham and less than 40 percent of the $24000000.00 eligible voters took part. in.

the election was won by abdul majid to boot a former prime minister the military backed interim government hoped he would end months of protests say fall that hasn't happened. in 58 years after independence from france many algerian say they're still fighting for freedom they want a clean sweep of the political establishment and a national unity government to bring democracy victoria is there but. let's speak about this now to use of one dale who is a professor of political science at qatar university joins us on the news hour thank you for coming in and a year after the anti-government rallies began in algeria a lot of things have changed there's no i think denying the scope of this protest movement have meant of this protest movement but have things necessarily change for the better what things have changed

a little bit obviously. we'll today we'll see the plates in the 52nd fly the of the algerian protest if we look back over the last 52 weeks we will see that some changes have been achieved obviously put the is no longer the some of his top politicians top military officers and businessman. in so this very important achievement hold on the other hand there's so many things that need to be done for instance the president is seen to be illegitimate and is to do shows that would put in place like the parliament is still the and that's why the iraq is continuing. to send a strong for a signal to the authorities that small changes need to be done on the positive side for instance we see that the diplomacy no is very very active since the appointment of the current minister for the 1st and i'll tell you has been very much involved

in the libyan. case here aka that you mentioned is a name of course of the protest movement in algeria the protesters wanted though a complete overhaul of the political system but today as you said some of the main pillars of this establishment remain in place as they call it the powers that be it seems that they have outmaneuvered the protesters have they not the you could look at it that way but obviously the demands of the protests like it's not how. everybody has to go. was not this is the. true it cannot be achieved obviously the. very very few but the autolog is on the other hand not in the headlock we have a president who has been close to what we call for the last 20 years or so he made several promises but until now not in has been done for instance in a new t.v. interview he said he knew well the money was and if he was if he were to be elected

president he would bring the money back not even a cent was blocked in the institutions of which they. set up like the parliament which is perceived as illegitimate the government is going to the pleasure of the parliament to seek its approval over its policies well many people in the whole lot believe the future to develop. these all right. also. the. officials are still in place during the year that the fight against corruption did not go far enough for deep enough in algeria and the economic social problem still does when we when we look at these pictures of protests yesterday we saw the live pictures earlier of you know big crowds on the streets of the algerian capital but the numbers have gone down it was saying over the last year does this protest movement iraq have

a viable future in your opinion opinion because there seems to be divisions within the protest movement itself on what direction the country should go in judging from from the last election of course we didn't know the number the number of the people who were taken from in the hillock. obviously. some sections in the are. very comfortable with the elections and they feel that the auto it is. have managed at least to set up some sort of. gover. it was in transition government we have a look at because of the storm and so forth and so little people or some people are happy with that but as we see today even the president himself and all the politicians will say let's go for elections but the hillock must continue. in my opinion as watchdog over the government the police is over the president it's

like an unofficial in a problem and it will to put more pressure on the depots than on his own. to initiate phone bill for the reforms obviously the president established a commission to look at reform in the constitution what sort of constitution we will have in the next couple of months that remains to be seen thank you very much of bundle for your insight on this is just vandalism cateye university here and thank you. now in iraq women have been marching in baghdad. in support of a leading shia cleric protests should be segregated no doubt asada says anti-government demonstrations including men and women have become riddled with nudity drinking and drugs rob matheson is at the rally in baghdad protests across iraq as usual this one on the fighting against unemployment against corruption and for services we had inside our city in baghdad that's the heartland the support for the leading shiite cleric. he has called this protest on those subjects but this

one is different he's determined that this protest should only be held by a woman he wants protest to be segregated that the reason for that is a few days ago he tweeted that the demonstrations that have been going on in iraq since october have become. problematic because they are mixed between men and women he says there is drunkenness there's drug use he said there is nudity and that as a result all the protests are known to be held by men and women but not. together now on thursday in baghdad there was a demonstration and it was in protest at those remarks men and women were protesting together the woman saying that they refused to be told to stay at home and they wanted their voices heard the men on thursday were forming a ring around the woman to act as protection as they marched dugald soccer once his female supporters here to show that they are in support of what he wants the gender

segregation of the protests the interesting thing that we will also be looking for is the number of people that turned up on friday several weeks ago look on little saw the hope for in a 1000000 person 1 march against corruption and unemployment but the numbers who turned out weren't anything like what he had hoped for people are going to be watching this protest very closely to see if there is a change in the numbers if the numbers are beginning to drop the numbers of course as are beginning to drop generally but if the numbers for this protest are down it may be an indication of a change in the influence of mctaggart also in iraq. and another rocket attack has targeted an airbase in northern iraq where u.s. troops are stationed there no reports of casualties in chemical province said previous attack on the same base in december a killed a u.s. contractor triggering the chain of events that led to the money's assassination the

iranian general and caused regional tensions to soar. to the philippines now a journalist demonstrating against attempts to close down the country's largest t.v. network and government noya filed 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 rodrigo tatay demeanor linda then was at the rally in quezon city. they're calling this the red friday protests hundreds of journalists and activists are taking to the streets right outside basically the main headquarters of the biggest media network in the country calling on the public to support and for the government basically to respect the country's and the people's right to press freedom and freedom of speech over the last few years to charity has basically threatened to shut down and not bring you the franchise of abia c.b.s. he has accused it of bias and impartiality and for not the airing his campaign videos during the 2016 elections now activists and journalists they remain defiant

and they remain committed to doing their very best in providing and reporting the very best possible of information to the public it's another tool really. the best. somebody. even. most come most logical. kumba and always with really no observers say the philippine government and the president in particular has grown intolerant of critical media and dissent people say basically that the efforts of the government our calibrated attempts to him to mediate the press now this is not the 1st time that the a.b.s. c.b. end has been threatened it was shut down during the martial law years of former president ford in a market and was reopened after the people coward revolution happened since then evie a c.b.s.

has grown to become the biggest media network in the country covering every single important piece of history over the last few decades no journalist say they can who can sing you to remain committed to reporting the truth they say and they were basically calling on the government to remain committed to its mandate basically to respect freedom of speech and the right to information. in malawi the chief organizer of elections is under pressure to resign following what john just described as grave irregularities in last year's vote for president nor birdman lee has more. uh i mean if i was going to protest as i'm allowed to seal off the building of the electoral commission if i was a man of. hundreds marched through 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 answer and has stopped 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 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 janeane saajan eyes accusations the results had been altered and the materials that were sent. we indeed did not include the pics. and even a doing a trainee we taught we told the trainees that the 2 pixies madonna out but in court one election commission member pointed the blame at

and saw police instructions were given by this year to this. i determined that this who was getting search in the city were not even involved as commission i think it just happened by laterally. malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the results there will be a rerun of this presidential election i have will be a new chairperson of the electoral commission and there will need to be close scrutiny about the process but from mastic observers who are 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. rail passengers in canada are going nowhere because of nationwide protests against

a gas pipeline demonstrators a forced the closure of a main net train network in support of an indigenous school fighting the construction through their traditional lands nicola gage has a story. it may look like a small protest but groups like this in ontario and all across canada have brought north america's 3rd largest rail network to a standstill protest is angry at the building of a gas pipeline have blocked trial lines for 6 successive days forcing sea and rail to shut its network in the country's east hundreds of passenger and freight trains have been cancelled it's true that it. be the last route to do it but. this isn't we have to take the approved pop line owned by t.c. energy corps is planned to carry natural gas from dawson creek in british columbia southwest were a fine or a new key to mat for shipment to asian markets the pop line is central to

a $40000000000.00 export project it's all sorry runs through traditional indigenous lands who have been sort of signed agreements where they don't have the authority and so on the greens they play the game that the province in canada played for years in nova scotia in canada's far east demonstrators block telephonic city hall prime minister justin trudeau has recognised the right to protest but he's pushing for a swift resolution industry groups are worried about the cost to canada's economy and are urging the restarting of train services i'm not here to advocate for a project i'm here to advocate for a process that make sure that we don't fail to allow canadians to be heard effectively through the examination fair and full of these types of how to cations . if the pipeline outcry continues c.n.

rail says temporary layoffs are possible nicola gage al-jazeera. now antarctica has had its 2nd record breaking hot day in a week brazilian scientists say the temperature on seymour island roast almost 21 degrees celsius that's what have degrees higher than argentina scientists recorded at their base a week ago at i'd say melting ice on the coldest continent is accelerating rising sea levels worldwide. still ahead on al-jazeera. a. bit. of a bomb he does them of the funny been just in stadium for the caf super cup match featuring esperance upton is here and some other of egypt. business leaders is both to buy no bras paul.

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time for sports has been falling thank 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 club much is actually being held in asia cats are the hosts as esperance often is a take on egypt's zamalek in a showdown between the winners of the african champions league and the holders of the confederation cup this is the 2nd year of a 3 year deal that sees doha hosting a match some alek 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. all right peter stamets is that the funny been just seen stadium in doha head of the game for us peter lots of people there already this is an african match in the middle east what's the benefit to cattle and to african football of having it here. pool that's a very decent question actually why come and play an african match in the middle east what's the it's again on either side and quite frankly if you look at it from cutters point of view the host nation in this case well there is a little thing called the 2022 feet for world cup that is happening in this country

now in less than 3 years time so you look at this as a bit of a tasty but in time and consider that just 2 months ago there was the fee for club world cup so this is just part of a series of events taking place in the country helping the the organizers and the various stakeholders get ready taste facilities that sort of thing even though the stadium where this is being played funny been just them is not actually one of the stadiums that will be hosting world cup matches but you can understand from the logistics point of view training etc etc that sort of thing that from caps point of view you look at this it's the winners of the african champions league against the winners of the calf confederation cup so those 2 sides playing each other now they could have played in tunis they could have played in cairo they would have got a good crowd anyway but if you have a look at other countries like say it's really for example in spain there's another one where they play they super cup outside of those countries now taking it to another market and then you can see is what catches doing here taking it to another market and in this case it's

a very wise choice when you consider that though her hair is one of the largest expect communities in the world and i can tell you that this match is a sell out call and tell us a bit about the head degree of these 2 very big african teams. europol that's exactly right 2 very big african teams giants of football on the african continent let's start with bronze they have won the national division title $29.00 times in case you're not familiar with african football that would be comparable to it by in munich doing germany or would you venter still in italy that is the kind of dominance that we're talking about here they are the current african champions league holders and of course they in their opponents' zamalek let's have a look at them they all want to 2 clubs that dominate in egypt along with a cairo rivals are largely going to talk about are largely today was all about them are like they've won the title in egypt on 12 occasions they've won the african

champions league 5 times between these 2 sides they've won it 9 times and that is the kind of pit agree that we're talking about in just on another note in terms of the match itself one player to look out for perhaps from his amalek point of view might be more stuff than 122 year old exciting young striker and i'm not just pointing him out because the years an exciting young striker but don't forget that we talk about the country that has given us muhammad sylar and in years gone by people like muhammad. the whole somehow son you know these are the kind of players that we've seen from that country so no doubt to join sort of football on the african continent coming head to head here in doha excellent stuff peter peter stone that will hear more from you as we get towards kickoff later on liverpool manager yogen club says no decision has been made on whether mohammed so it will play for egypt at this year's olympics in tokyo summer was named in egypt for provisional squads but if liverpool give him permission to go to japan they'll be

without him for the 1st few weeks of the next premier league season they've already complained about losing players to the africa cup of nations next january. sticking with the olympics the i.o.c. remains in close contact with the world health organization about the coronavirus outbreak chinese athletes will be monitored for signs of the virus and the i.o.c. says there's no need for a back up plan for the n.b.a.'s number one pick zine williamson how does best scoring night since his league debut last month but was overshadowed by a player not known for his shooting skills williamson scored 32 for the new orleans pelicans as they took on the outside of city thunder. but most of the games came right on the half time buzz a new zealander stephen albums as having a pop from long range. doing it as well credibly this was the 1st 3 pointer of his career from that winning this 123219. 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 the new york yankees who twice lost like playoff games to houston when the astros were stealing pitching signs from their opponents houston sat by manager and have been punished but many yankees players and officials believe they should be stripped of their 2017 world series title that didn't go down well with houston when they tried to clear the air on thursday yet the few comments out there you know are pinion is you know that this didn't impact the game we had a good team. we won the world series in louisville. tiger woods is looking for his 1st ever win on the coast where he made his debut as an amateur all the way back in 1902 woods was 5 shots behind the leaders off the 1st day's play at riviera country club on thursday shots like this on the 8th putting him in contention but

it was his very 1st part of the round that had resonated most taiga's eagle putt of 24 feet and 8 inches mirroring the 2 jersey numbers that is christ franco drawing toward the l.a. like his before his death last month. it's ironic in that. it was a nice way to start i don't know but the pub in that long. and i said very ironic that i have read those 2 numbers you know that no matter what we do fighting for for a while that they will always remember colby and what he meant and specially here in so cal and for the entire sports world and as i said very ironic that i happen to have. those numbers on those holes in those exact measurements all right that's all your sport for now joe will be back fully poll thank you very much for that bassett for this news hour on al-jazeera we have plenty more world news coming up after this very short break thanks for watching.

the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. orbits a remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a jazzier water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad to watch privatization on anybody say articulate. those people who seem ever to do something to invest

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paradise there is a glimmer of hope but the truth might finally see the light of day. china says 6 health workers have died and over 1700 are infected by the corona virus increasing concerns about a shortage of medical resources and d. streets and not enough fools we hear from a residents living at the center of the outbreak. the air well you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the bad old sore heads a syrian government helicopter is shot down a bit intense fighting in providence train services are destructive across canada by protesters opposing a gas pipeline.