20 u.s. election. on this is. china accuses some countries of causing panic over coronavirus as it demands everyone returning to beijing for entry in themselves for 14 days or face punish. follow bochum to al-jazeera live from doha i'm a fiend and it's also coming out. the u.s. and the taliban agree a deal that would reduce violence in afghanistan and could lead to the withdrawal of u.s. troops. on patrol with un peacekeepers and the congolese army in east india see if they try to stop rebel attacks that have already cost

a $1000.00 villages their lives. and what started a fire at a haitian orphanage killing more than a dozen children and investigations underway. in the latest move to stop the spread of coronavirus the chinese government is demanding that everyone returning to beijing from the new year holiday to isolate themselves for 2 weeks more than 2600 cases were recorded in china on friday about half the number reported the previous day foreign minister wang ye admits the outbreak is a challenge to china but criticizes some countries for causing panic. some countries have stepped up measures including quarantine measures which are reasonable and understandable but some countries have overreacted which has

triggered an unnecessary panic. well meanwhile several protests are being held across hong kong against the government's plan to set up coronavirus clinics demonstrators are angry that officials have chosen locations for the clinics without consulting the public 1st let's go live that sarah clarke our correspondent there in hong kong so is it the fact that these clinics are being put up in the 1st place or is it the fact that the authorities have not consulted with the public that subsetting them. i think there are a number of complaints from the set of these communities where to aberdeen where there's about 100 couple 100 people behind me they've had a much up to one of those locations where that coronavirus treatment clinic will be set up now what they're saying is i don't want a committee outbreak to happen in an overpopulated quite a highly populated area like where we are now they're also complaining that by side there's been a lack of public consultation with the government with these communities where

these particular sentence will be set up now there are 5 rallies across home home at the moment where on one poll island there are others the new territories as well as color and we just have reports that one of those and the new territories one of those sites which is just close the border with israel whilst 65 by some of those protesters that we have on the scene. here for the people behind me they are angry and they're saying we don't want to do the outbreak and these of these areas easy districts like where we are in admitting. only the mainland sarah fairly draconian measures being taken by the authorities there. this of beijing is put in place this 14 point scale self isolation for those people returning to the capital now this of course comes after the lunar new year holiday which was extended comes to an end so we expect needs of people to be returning to beijing which has a population of around 21000000 people now some people are suggesting it's economy

and but those who try to bought by those. particular laws face heavy penalties now when as you mentioned earlier we've got china's foreign minister who's done an interview in berlin and he's defended china's handling of this outbreak process and he said their missions have be timely affective and strong but he said that the interagency task force that's being set up and they have conducted vigorous assessments as a result is pretty much a keys other countries of overreacting but we also mention there's been a job and the right of infections with inside china setting guys figures if they are accurate it's a good sign that the infection numbers are on the decline potentially all right sara thank you for that sarah clarke there live in hong kong. now it's a deal that in the 1st instance lasts for a week but u.s. officials say that if that's a success it could lead to the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan and the taliban and american negotiators have agreed to a reduction of violence in the country a senior u.s.

official says if the deal holds it could be followed by a more permanent arrangement with that taliban agreement was announced by american officials at the munich security conference on friday the 3 day summit is one of the world's top gatherings it focuses on security and foreign policy issues well the $35.00 world leaders along with hundreds of politicians and diplomats are expected to discuss ways to address the state of conflicts around the world well let's go live now to munich our correspondent there is jonah how so it's no small task is it that these gathered leaders and diplomats and others and going to have to address the world's all the world's conflicts and basically what's what's worrying them all. yes and particularly precarious sort of world security outlook if you like martin this year with wars 'd

in yemen and syria ongoing libya as well of course the headline issue is shaping up at the moment to be this deal that you mentioned announced last night here in munich over afghanistan for a 7 day period of the reduction of violence by the taliban though this was a rived in talks that have been ongoing for over a year between u.s. officials and negotiators and the taliban the taliban don't talk of course directly to the afghan government do they see as a puppet of the united states the deal was communicated last night here in munich to afghan president ashraf ghani who's also here and therefore it seems will go ahead a full sort of range of detail has been to. clearly something still to be worked out the idea behind this though is that this 7 day period would see a reduction in suicide bombings roadside bombings rocket attacks on u.s. international and afghan forces in afghanistan monitored by u.s.

military officials on the ground if it's deemed to be successful well then they grow into a period of all afghan talks possibly beginning within 10 days after the end of that 7 day period with a view to striking a more comprehensive peace deal and setting up a road map for afghanistan's future and also 'd a deal for the phased withdrawal 'd of u.s. troops from afghanistan a key demand of course of the taliban at this stage with no official response from the afghan side from mr ghani or his delegation here they will be treating this with some caution that not having direct talks with the taliban as i said the taliban also do not have great form in respecting these sorts of agreements and crucially from the afghan side this is not the full ceasefire that the afghans government at least has always said is an absolute precondition to any further talks right and as far as i understand it jane and the the details such as it is as come from a senior american official of even the defense secretary in munich. what about

afghan government responses have been any have you had could we expect any more details to come from pump am i pumpin secretary of state who we are expecting to address the conference in the little while. well as i said no direct confirmation of this or did response to it from the afghan side they may be waiting themselves to see more details emerge that we may get very shortly in fact because there is to be a 3 chair panel discussion featuring mike compared the secretary of state and mark esp of the defense secretary alongside jens stoltenberg the secretary general of nato nato of course also heavily. gauged in afghanistan with $60000.00 troops i think their level range of subjects are discussed but this topic will likely be the top of their agenda and of course question marks that hang over all of this 1st of all 1st and foremost trust in the taliban can they be trusted to stick to their word they don't have a great record they broke the deal that had been reached last september just as it

was about to be signed at camp david they launched attacks on nato and afghan forces forcing donald trump to call the whole thing off other question marks that hang over it of course quite when and how the withdrawal of u.s. troops might take place down from 12 or 13000 now to 8600 by the end of the year the u.s. side say regardless of whether a deal is in place well if there is a deal with that speed up and by how many and of course the other big question is when does this 7 day period actually begin the top taliban suggested it should be yesterday friday when the deal was announced u.s. officials here saying only that it will begin quote really suit all right jonah offend now thank you very much indeed and we'll take you back to munich of course as soon as some of those species get underway that rebels in northern syria have claimed responsibility for shooting down a syrian government helicopter on friday everyone on board died government forces are trying to take the last opposition held areas in an operations that displaced

more than $800000.00 people since the start of december has holes now from the turkey syria border this is the moment another syrian military helicopter shot down in aleppo province none of its crew survived they were taking part in a military operation to recapture opposition held areas on the outskirts of aleppo city that's the 2nd helicopter downed by rebels in the same area this week. fee's fighting continues in neighboring province it's a critical time for the rebels who are constantly retreating after losing ground. is their last stronghold if they are defeated here the war will be over many syrians are continuing to flee their homes this woman has been forced from the countryside of aleppo province she feels abandoned by everyone that it. it's

very cold and no one seems to care about what's happening to us the situation is more than tragic no one is helping look at the people leaving i don't know of any safe area where i can take my family almost 150000 refugees have fled to was the border with turkey in the last 4 days joining more than a 1000000 forced from their homes since the start of the syrian army's offensive in it live last april. has been forced to flee his village. as well as refugee camps at least 4 times over the last few months. i recently moved with my family to the city of bin ish think you will be safe far from the fighting then the syrian army stepped up its offensive a week ago we packed and left i don't know where to go next i feel like my next move will be towards the unknown. as the humanitarian crisis deepens turkey is

deploying more troops into it live. accuses damascus of violating the terms of a cease fire agreement that was we 2 years ago between turkey iran and russia the deal established safe zones and implemented a cease fire but violence never stopped the syrian army seems determined to defeat the rebels and continue its advance towards the city of idlib that's a red line for turkey it's ramped up its military presence in and has given the syrian army until the end of this month to pull out behind turkish observation post or face a tougher response has. delivered as a one turkey's border with syria lots more to come here it out is there including. the sound of the ferris saving one of the world's oldest musical instruments has become this transpersonal mission.

once again the giant storm building in the north atlantic is about a week off the last one's course so much damage in the british isles this one temporaries heading for iceland is already generated when speeds of over 250 kilometers for a yes i did say that correctly and when ways of something like 20 meters now this is over the water admittedly and it looks like today's destruction is heading for ice and which might take away some of the power from the british isles have others just today and the winds are certainly going to strengthen as they did last weekend and eventually to france the low countries in scandinavia but it could well be that sunday is the worst day as the winds start to strengthen really sunday and is again northwest you that down the southeast corner as equally relative these strong winds

they are going to cause some blustery conditions in the in the adriatic and bring some colder air down across libya overlaid these colors to show you relative temperatures of this readies hold if it's not it's not bengazi to visit 17 degrees this is the highest temperature in the south today and that cools pushed it such that is 1925 still last well but the real he has pushed a long way down into this part of africa and that's quite a strong wind and quite a dusty wind. big stories generated thousands of lives maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives of things never really being believed deep faith and money in the war to even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism is so clear and it

sounds to me and here people just think that with the listening post on out 0. some of the top stories here about the chinese government is demanding that everyone returning to beijing from the new year holiday isolate themselves for 2 weeks this comes as the foreign ministers criticize some countries for over reacting to the corona virus outbreak. u.s. officials say they've reached an agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the deal is to reduce violence in the country for a week and is the result of going peace talks in catalonia. rebels in

northern syria say they shot down a military helicopter on friday killing everyone on board damascus is trying to take the last rebel held areas in an operation that's displaced 800000 people since december. the government soldiers alongside u.n. peacekeepers are struggling to stop rebel attacks in eastern democratic republic of congo almost a 1000 civilians have been killed since the government ordered the army to root out the a.d.f. for the allied democratic forces and the fighting is forcing villages to leave the eastern region catherine soy has this exclusive report. a patrolled by congolese soldiers and un peacekeepers in the beni region and no one to be seen in several villages. people say they're facing and pass a dent in attacks by the democratic forces the a.d.f. originated in western uganda in the 1990 s. to fight for the creation of an islamic state their rebellion was crushed by

ugandan forces. a.d.'s fighters then crossed the border into the neighboring biase where they've remained for nearly 20 years human rights campaigners in beni see more than 400 congolese have been killed in the last one month alone hundreds have fled their homes in the world. no there's no one here because of the attack that happened last week people are afraid to come back only soldiers are patrolling. security forces have increased patrols in remote areas where the attacks have been happening 64 people were killed in this village of more than last week. that talks are happening at the same time as a government offensive against the a.d.f. security forces says since their campaign started last october they've killed dozens of a.d.f. ita's including top command as they say are the fighters have been captured and their bases destroyed completely right near frenzy we must defeat it here they are

terrorists to call upon or people to support us so we can neutralize the enemy and help civilians return to their homes. thousands in beni protested against the u.n. force known as. accusing peacekeepers of not doing enough to protect them a u.n. base was banned down and peacekeeping operations in the city what paralyzed for nearly 2 weeks when the school commanders say troops are now working even more closely the congolese soldiers to target the a.d.f. says the crisis we have it has our activities. ourselves doing the trolls but also with us. she continues a little different as we just worked with continuing violence it's increasingly dangerous for health workers to reach people possibly affected by the ebola virus benny's the epicenter of the latest outbreak in the d.r. c.

it's also where many of the rebel attacks have happened recently making it even more difficult footballer respond is to do their job safely catherine saw a. the protests as in mexico have marched to the presidential palace to condemn violence against women martyrs were outraged that a newspaper published photos of the body of a woman murder victim she was killed earlier this month the mexican government says 10 women were killed every day last year in gender based attacks thousands of people angry with the government of once again gathered in chile's capital santiago demonstrates is a calling for action over the ailing economy and social inequality the police response is also being criticized by rights groups more than 30 people have been killed since protests began last october a fire has spread through an orphanage in haiti killing 15 children candles were

being used because of problems with the generator in the children's home that was run by a u.s. religious group and the gallagher reports the fire broke out on thursday evening quickly spreading through the unlicensed orphanage run by a u.s. religious group just outside haiti's capital authorities say 7 of those who perished were babies or toddlers along with 6 who were roughly 10 or 11 years of age. it reportedly took firefighters around an hour and a half to reach the scene in the museum prosecuted cos it was a little. we did not have the means to intervene all the way up the floor we were taking out the children who were conscious and making sure to get them to the hospital unfortunately when they got to the hospital they did not receive any help . other place started is still being investigated but a worker at the home said candles were being used to light after a generator failed the church of bible understanding is reported to

a failed senator inspections in the past because of overcrowding and a lack of trained staff pennsylvania organization which runs this and another home in haiti says it houses close to 200 children in what it calls a christian training program. in haiti orphans are often children of families can't afford to feed they come to places like this to get an education and safe housing workers from the home are in shock. that i was eating soup and i run fast to get there when i arrived i did not find any of my children i saw only 3 or 4 of the younger ones alive. the government has closed around 160 orphanages in the past 5 years and hundreds more operate without official authorization haiti's president job namo east tweeted his condolences saying i'm deeply saddened by the death of about 10 children as a result of a fire last night at the orphanage i urge the authorities to urgently investigate in order to establish the causes of this tragedy the authorities say they're

seeking shelter for the children that survived and gallacher al-jazeera. the conservationists of criticize the show and can government for distributing shotguns to help protect farmers and crops from elephants shrinking habitats and growing human populations are bringing people and elephants increasingly into confrontation when our finance reports now from north central sri lanka. unknown the production is struggling to cope with the loss of her husband the 31 year old special task force policeman was killed by elephants here in aid whoever just over a year ago it was a half but it was his last day of a 5 day break at home we were both getting work done around the house in the evening he went to buy provisions as he would only be coming back to money it was while returning home that he ran into a herd of elephants. last year was the worst year for conflict between people and

elephants 121 tree lankans and 405 elephants were killed sri lanka is home to around 6000 wild elephants 70 percent of them live outside protected areas which means they share their habitat with people pharmacy they are vulnerable when travelling to their fears to work or when protecting their crops from night raids this family was rushing to harvest their paddy before the elephants got to it but the elephants are threatened with 500 shotguns handed out by the government the minister of wildlife has given the guns to civil security personnel to protect farmers and their crops he told al-jazeera the weapons will be used under wildlife department supervision only to scare the enablers of morning sunday we have issued birdshot you can shoot and kill elephants with these they

will fire up into the elephants are scared of guns because they have been used by villages for many years these guns will be used in a disciplined way conservationists say the guns are a bad idea and will only make things worse for the pointers only point in this. bill if one turns against you you're going to run. a bird really reinforces our vision in elephants and the next time the elephant comes in contact with somebody who doesn't know that that person doesn't have a gun and is not going to shoot you're probably killed or 4000 kilometers of electric fences have been built to deal with the elephant problem but the barriers are mostly in the jungle and are no obstacle for hungry and determined elephants instead he says fences must be used to protect villages and crops

these farmers are doing just that. going to guarantee the you know make it this middle post will have electricity running through it like the base and other wires the elephants can pull it out at any point now we can get some rest at night earlier we had to stay up. deaths on both sides of this battle are rising every year and a national policy to conserve wild elephants is yet to be fully implemented 14 years after it was introduced but protecting these farmers and their crops is the biggest challenge for the government one that carries important votes in a finance as al-jazeera arrow ever not center sri lanka. the united states is stepping up its transatlantic trade dispute with the european union by raising tariffs on aircraft imports says the rise from 10 to 15 percent is illegal and u.s. airlines and their passengers will be harmed the u.s.

has long argued that has an unfair advantage over boeing because of e.u. subsidies the u.s. also imposes 25 percent terrorists on all the european products including wine whiskey and cheese. the president tom's former advisor roger stone has asked for a new trial on charges of lying to congress and witness tampering it comes just days after trump's criticism of his proposed jail sentence parked an uproar of the political influence in the justice system earlier this week the federal prosecution team quit the same case after the justice department said it would reduce their recommended sentence charges against him were part of the investigation into possible russia interference in the to the 16 presidential elections. that are one man's mission in jordan to revive a favorite musical instrument of the pharaohs 3000 years ago he took him to the

banks of one of the middle east mrs story 3 important rivers as natasha can name now reports. it's the sound of the wind skipping across a desert campfire or the waves on a tranquil beach as the sun sets the naive or read flute is one of the world's oldest musical instruments paintings on the walls of pharaohs tombs show ancient egyptians playing it. coming directly from nature we just clean it make it straight and it's an instrument rated to use this idea for me was kind of magical in that the as giving us an instrument to hear that and. that up being a cots passion for the night is rooted in his reverence for the arabic music of his ancestors 5 years ago he decided he wanted to learn how to play the ny however he

couldn't find the instrument or a teacher in jordan even though the reeds grow in the valley of the jordan river he was saddened that an instrument that literally grew from his country's land and was a joy by generations of jordanians was in danger of becoming an artifact he spent days searching for the reeds in the wild and learned how to make and play the ny. with me that is more because there is no moving like the other ivory that is like a different personality to each 3 than using. the record co-founded the house of ny in 2017 to revive the instrument through lessons and concert don't be fooled by this simple looking instrument. i still haven't been able to make a sound come out there a cot says he wants people to feel comfortable picking this up and playing it

without aiming for perfection to spread this traditional arabic music the house of ny has been holding workshops in and outside of the men reaching hundreds of jordanians 16 year old tarek rabat attended one of those workshops in the small town of as rock now he teaches other children and is hoping to become a cultural in basad or. visual but it doesn't look at fear and i want to attract tourists to enjoy the environment of acid rock teaching them to play the 9 is giving them a window into the musical culture of. connecting the past with the present crafting something from nature and savoring the music across the generations zurich and hopes he's reigniting an appreciation of an art form that transcends music and can continue 'd for many more millennia natasha getting 0 i man.

all right let's have a look at the top stories here down to 0 in the latest move to stop the spread of corona virus the chinese government is demanding that everyone returning to beijing from the new year holiday isolate themselves for 2 weeks more than 2600 cases were recorded in china on friday is about a reduction of about 50 percent of the number reported the previous day for miss a one year has admitted the outbreak is a challenge to china but he's criticizing some countries the calls in panic and several protests are being held across hong kong against the government's plan there to set up coronavirus clinics so a club has more. what they're saying is i don't want a committee out right now to happen in an overpopulated quite a highly populated area like where we are now they're also complaining that they

say there's been a lot of public consultation in the government with these communities of awareness on particular center is set up now there are 5 rallies across one home the moment we're on long island other others the new territories as well as kelowna we just have reports that one of those new territories one of those sites which is just close the border with israel might well for us it was fired by some of those protesters the taliban and american negotiators have agreed a proposal for a reduction of violence in afghanistan it's a deal that lasts in the 1st instance for a week but u.s. officials say if that successful it could lead to withdrawal of troops from the country jonah hall has more from the munich security conference where the deal was announced the idea behind this though is that this 7 day period would see a reduction in suicide bombings roadside bombings rocket attacks on u.s. international and afghan forces in afghanistan monitored by u.s.

military officials on the ground if it's deemed to be successful well then they grow into a period of all afghan talks possibly beginning within 10 days after the end of that 7 day period with a view to striking a more comprehensive peace deal and setting up a road map for afghanistan's future and also a deal for the phased withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan a key demand of course of the taliban rebels in northern syria have claimed to have shot down a military helicopter on friday everyone on board died damascus is trying to take the last rebel held areas in an operation those displaced 800000 people since december the listening post is next.

with every new. chinese doctor who sounded the only one from mars guy that it sees fit check out that trick out of health but. what about china trying to show you a shot. at all ready at any sense to shut me down hello richard gere's but if you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week transparency the manage time beijing's approach to controlling the narrative on the corona virus remains a work in progress and trying to keep fear of the pandemic contained. in places like germany they're allowed they can bully they call themselves nationalists and they are some of india's most watched news actors plus the new terror tape government in.