holding the powerful to account as we examine the ulysses world in the world on al-jazeera. a saudi tornado fighter jet crashes over yemen beauty rebels say they shot it down . but i mean this is out there a live from doha also coming up i want to focus on the pentagon's top concern the people's republic of china the united states describes china as the biggest threat to the global order that steps up efforts to persuade european countries to bartek john while away. the 1st death from corona virus is confirmed outside a zoo is china's foreign minister accusing some countries of causing panic. plus

why a german community is having to make way for expanded coal production now the industry's jus to be replaced by renewables in 2 decades. so then the saudi u.a.e. led coalition has confirmed one of its planes has gone down and al jaffa governance in northeast yemen the rebels say they shot down the role saudi air force plane on friday and who the media said at least 30 civilians were killed in coalition air strikes in the same region let's cross live now to mohammed who's in sinai mohammed what more do we know about this the saudis say that their plane just simply went down whereas he's a claim that they shot it. yes conflicting reports by both sides of these that the. claimed sent. a release of statement by the home of these army spokesperson. knights that their

forces have been able to shoot down a saudi turn a 2 fighter jet while we have just recently received this latest report from the saudi arabia that we have admitted. their attorney to were plane has crashed in the in the region of jove were while while the host these they have said that the they have targeted this tornado were fired just as. it was conducting or carrying out hostility. to lety works or acts in the original fall jove the spokesperson also promised that the in the coming hour or 2 hours that they will release a new fathers or for their for their for the attack on the tornado fighter jets that proves. their claim but so far we are still waiting for this

voted even though that the school could be also. refuted by the other side but on the ground on the reality that we have fighter jets down on the ground and also the saudi arabia have carried out after aftermath of the attack several are numerous strikes minimally on the ridge in this and the scene at the scene of the tornado fighter jets it's it's one of out of 72 fighter jets that have been bought by the saudi arabia the. time the whole of these claims also in $20000.00 that they have downed to nato. made a fighter jet but this time they claim that they have already developed a new kind of messiah that they had to have domestically they've loved it this according to experts could prove that the whole fees have become capable to

safeguard the sky of the the region of the. their control. this could be proved if the we are serious about this one the whole he's already won saudi arabia the yemen skies i'm not safe anymore i'm having thanks very much indeed mohammed atta with that update we can speak now to maher bashar who is al-jazeera senior political analyst and he says this incident shows that saudi is a losing in the ongoing 5 year war if the whole thing is. if they would have such a capability. missiles batteries or. land air capacity against the saudi air force that would be quite the disability thing to the saudis and that will actually be a game changer in yemen clearly. if all the reports prove correct the saudis are

sort sat in fact from such an upset by the yemenis that what you saw after that are basically revenge attacks basically losing their minds if you will because of the loss that the current and this is a difficult thing this has been going on for 5 years now and clearly the saudis are not winning and clearly this sort of incident means that they are losing and this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know how for all practical purposes with drone left and now the saudis there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war the u.s. defense secretary is calling in china the biggest threat to the global order speaking at the munich security conference a short while ago mark s.

but accuse the chinese government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and that any cost and here again is european countries to stay away from the chinese tech giant weiwei it's a man that's been rebuffed by european allies under president she's ruled the chinese communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture. it is essential that we as an international community wake up to the challenges presented by china's manipulation of the longstanding international rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades. now from china's foreign minister who spoke a short time after us baron called the u.s. accusations life was not actually. before i came here my colleagues told me about what the 2 american senior officials said and they have been once again repeating

their smears and criticism of china it has become a common scenario they basically say the same thing wherever they go about china and i don't want to waste our time responding to each and everything they've said what i want to say is that all of these accusations against china are lies they are not based on facts or also munich ending the violence in afghanistan has been on the agenda a provisional agreement between the united states and the taliban aims to reduce violence for one week u.s. officials say if it's a success it could lead to intra afghan peace talks and the eventual withdrawal of troops but speaking earlier at the conference nato secretary general jens stoltenberg insisted there will never be a hasty withdrawal of forces from afghanistan 16000 nato troops are training the afghan forces so they can fight terrorism and create the conditions for peace we are not even afghanistan but we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taller bar on them assert their

will and the ability to deduce violence and make it really compromises. that could pave the way for negotiations among afghans sustainable peace and ensuring the country is never again a safe haven for terrorists well even as the provisional deal was reached being held for 8 people in eastern afghanistan who were killed in an airstrike gone wrong afghan officials say the attack in the east of the country was meant to target taliban fighters but hit civilians instead it's unclear who launched the attack but the u.s. and afghan militaries are the only ones conducting air strikes in the region witness said a truck carrying a family home from a picnic was struck killing everybody inside syria's military offensive on the lawless rebel held region is causing the largest single displacement of people since war began one years ago 800000 have fled the fighting since the start of

december most destroyed in freezing temperatures near the border with turkey. is the. is burning her own clothes to try and keep family members warm they recently arrived in this freezing makeshift camp in the town of atma in italy a province where very nearly we fled our homes in aleppo we couldn't live anymore under constant bombardment and airstrikes we start children dying in front of us we came here it's tough i'm sick i have leukemia and the smoke from the heater is suffocating. her and her family are just some of the many war refugees suffering cold overcrowding and fear of what might happen next in the last 4 days alone around 150000 syrians fled their villages as government forces close in to capture rebel held. the military campaign that started in april has seen more

than a 1000000 refugees stranded on the border with turkey they are feeling increasingly betrayed and abandoned by the world. has 10 children but only to live with her the others are dispersed across province one where is it's very cold i have no place to serve my kids' meals there's no furniture snow is everywhere i'm hopeless and there's nothing i can do i pray god will help us. as a humanitarian crisis. aid agencies are overwhelmed with growing demands for tans blankets stoves want clothes and for the internally displaced have often been forced to move many times over the last few months and each time they were hoping this would be their last that they would finally settle and start and your lives but the 9 year war grinds on and the rebels are losing ground and for almost

$4000000.00 people in and on the outskirts of aleppo it's probably just a matter of time before they pack and run away. in another shelter in a safe area but there may be no more safe areas in it province government troops and their russian allies are determined to defeat the opposition civilians who are trapped they have little option but return to government held territory but fearing retaliation many prefer to stay near the border with turkey hoping tomorrow might be a better day has about al-jazeera went to his border with syria and tell you what we're going to head back to the munich security conference as we can speak live now to our diplomatic editor james bays and james all manner of things on the agenda there in munich not nice as we were hearing a little bit earlier afghanistan yeah i mean as ever when you've got this many world leaders in one place a lot of different subjects under discussion you're going to see in the next 24

hours a lot of attention on libya but yes you're right right now we're watching afghanistan closely because in an hour's time we're going to hear president i'm sure afghani speaking at the conference that'll be the 1st comment from him and from the afghan government after news of this deal between the u.s. and the taliban now he is being cut out of those negotiations and to be going on for over a year he also had made it quite clear that he was on happy with any sort of deal that didn't involve a cease fire and clearly robin the cease fire we have to have a reduction of violence is what's required from the taliban for the u.s. to start pulling out troops so he's expended quite a lot of political capital demanding a cease fire so it puts him in a difficult position we'll watch very closely president gandhi's comments in the next hour or so watching things here at the munich security conference with me is thomas kind of broke off from the german marshall fund thomas it's interesting what

you will talk about what's all new gender but in some ways a lot of the business here is what's not all new gender what's gets discussed when you have so many important people in the same place. this i would call the plumbers department of the munich security conference because in all these rooms behind us there's bilat some conferences going on with so many world leaders you usually have the crisis of the day that gets all the attention and that is the attempt to fix some things during the time in munich in addition to the fixing there's that big picture discussions talking about the direction of the world in the at the direction of global policy west notice is the theme this year where has the west gone where is the western leadership and connected to that who is actually the leaders in the willed is china in some places to displacing the united states how do you see figs that. the term west lessness comes from restlessness and i think

that's exactly what we're seeing here the world is in transformation so is the west the very notion of what the west is is under attack or under a definitional fight you could see this on stage today when the american foreign minister pompei oh directly addressed and i would have to say attacked the german president for his definition of what the the american version of that west is so i would say there is a sovereign this nationalist definition of the west as put forward by poem pale and and lightman values version that was put forward by the germans as the ultimate status quo power now many of us is our allies have been concerned in the last 3 years and the trumpet ministration with the america 1st policy and not the same attention on allies as that had been in the past and to be many thinking germany would be the country to step up but of course this is a time when chancellor merkel is coming to the end of

a long term in power and now you have a situation that there's no successor well 1st of all that expectations was overblown from the outset this is a. a middle sized country that cannot step in where other step away that is a there was a fantasy from the get go now we're coming in this country to the end of a very successful political cycle and that comes with a price after in year 14 of this chancellor and that is the confusion between stability and stagnation and we're nearing to the end the stagnation front but that doesn't mean that germany's going to stay. as stagnant as it is today in this foreign policy by next year we have a new chancellor some people say even even earlier than that and i would expect it to catch up to the business of the world at that point thelma's thank you feel should come and so on global affairs from the german perspective clearly we will be

watching in the next hour that speech from the afghan president and updating you nick james i will afford to that scene shortly thanks very much now south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromising didn't meeting the deadline to form a unity government salva care is counting the number of states from 32 to 10 and that's a major demand of the opposition to formally end the civil war care and rivalry have a days left to agree on a joint government of the world's youngest country well to 2 failed attempts. still ahead here in odds are trying to take tripoli civilians in libya are exposed to increasing danger as the battle for the capital continues it will.

hello japan's been a magnet for rain for the last several weeks and this is no exception what's started in china has run across the water suggests a pretty wet sunday for most of honshu the top edged it was really cold will be snow that's particularly true of of her car but it also kills back in 2 hours north korea if you more snow here and a high temps of any 0 in so which has beaten by beijing where you might see want to snow showers that should end up with wet streets in hong kong but the dry end the day a whole lot moves east was bout time we get to monday let's leave this area now jump science words to where the rainy season is officially of course slowly moving know what snap it shouldn't really exaggerate it so yet in malaysia or in southeast asian mainland but if you watch the full cost the winds are picking at around the coast of vietnam i'll bring a few showers in those showers but you're also for me of the water then tucked back up into central tolland by the tommy get to monday

a little bit early to see rain here but it's starting all the same for the biggest showers to look like before the south mostly through it denise which is no big surprise most of india and pakistan these dry at the moment for there are still showers in sri lanka in the case in the pool. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but 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 0. the .

alleghany what yards or a remind of our top stories the u.a.e. led coalition has confirmed one of its tornado fighter jets has gone down and governance in northeast yemen with the rebels say they shot down the royal saudi air force plane on friday. the u.s. defense secretary is calling china the biggest threat to the global order gasper accuse the chinese government of seeking advantage across the world by any means the chinese foreign minister has called the accusations lie. u.s. officials say they've reached a provisional agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan to reduce violence in the country for one week.

now than an elderly chinese tourist in france has died of the coronavirus to become the 1st fatality in europe in china the death toll is at least 1500 new american woman who had been on board a cruise ship that docked in cambodia has tested positive for the virus in malaysia its government says she's in a stable condition so you have $67.00 more passengers on a cruise ship docked in japan bringing the total to almost 300 infected some american passengers a jew to be flown home on sunday meanwhile the world health organization says that chinese scientists are carrying out trials on more than 80 treatments of the virus while of the head of the world health organization says that global leaders aren't doing enough to prepare for the deadly virus outbreak we throw money at an outbreak and when it's over and we forget about it and do nothing to prevent the next one the world spends billions of dollars preparing for a terrorist attack but relatively little prepared for the utter of

a virus which could be fired more deadly and fire more damaging economy politically and socially this is frankly difficult to understand and dangerously short sighted. well china's foreign minister while he has accused some countries are very very acting in causing panic over the outbreak he says that china is confident determined to defeat the virus but as a brown reports there are growing concerns over the shortage of protective gear frontline medical workers medical workers in china are fighting a battle for the world in some cases without adequate protection more than 700 nurses and doctors have so far been infected several have died many of them look so exhausted in front of the camera and when you're exhausted you will get infected because you just lost your alegate snus and you cannot follow the guidelines well.

last week the chinese government conceded there was a shortage of essential medical equipment including protective clothing but state t.v. says that's changing now it's been showing pictures of army medical teams arriving at the epi center with specialist gear further proof says china of its intensifying efforts to control the virus a virus that the country's foreign minister says has created excessive alarm among some governments really good winter will pass and the spring is sure to come china's vigorous and thorough measures are paying off the epidemic has posed a severe challenge to china's economic and social development none the less the difficulties will be temporary and short lived the latest official figures from china's national health commission offer a crumb of comfort these latest figures don't show a significant drop in the death rate but the number of new infections in who by province is falling they were half what they were on thursday but experts outside

china urged caution saying these figures can be independently verified analysts say it's become a pivotal moment for china's leader xi jinping if this works and it looks like this thing is contained and they get thumbs up from the world health organization and other you know epidemiologist it's going to look like they've done the right thing and he could come out of this looking well but at the moment it's such a go on saturday china's government extended its quarantine restrictions to the capital beijing anyone returning to the city following the extended lunar new year holiday miss now isolate themselves at home for 14 days state media says those who don't will be punished without specifying what that will mean in hong kong the infection rate is under 60 with one dead now the chief executive kerry lamb says the government has to spend more than $4000000000.00 of taxpayers' money helping workers affected by the virus she says around. $200000.00 low income families will

be given a one off grant of more than $600.00 each but there's no help yet for many small to medium sized businesses which are reeling from the effects of this public health emergency adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. a libyan fighters loyal to the warlord who leave for have to are again shelling residential areas on the outskirts of tripoli it is the latest bombardment in have to 10 month campaign to capture the capital so millions are constantly in the line of charles stratford now reports. this is one of the southern neighborhoods of tripoli an area that has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent months we've heard in the last few minutes or so sounds like outgoing and incoming shelling we've also heard what sounds like small arms fire despite this push for a cease fire there is ongoing fighting here we heard last night one civilian was killed very close to here the majority of this area now is completely clear of

civilians they have left of the what the u.n. says around 160000 people that it is being displaced by this conflict many of them staying in schools in other areas of tripoli the been a number of schools that have been hit by shells as well according to the u.n. around half a 1000000 children have been affected by this conflict now we spoke to one of the field commanders operating in this area and this is what he had to say this but. the situation is that we are maintaining our positions on these sporadic shelling from have to post his denting in residential areas and killing civilians in a neighborhood we are steadfast on the front lines we had gone to the last couple of days in a number of areas for now we are awaiting orders to advance again. so despite those efforts by members of the international community to try and get both sides to sit

down and agree on a last things things far those efforts of thus far failed the commander was also telling us reminding is that many of the 4 inches here all volunteers they're not being paid any money by the u.n. backed government in tripoli the united nations is very concerned about what it describes as on registered or uncontrolled weapons in libya trying to hold that supply of weapons they say that there could be up to 200000 tons of owned controlled munitions in libya. meanwhile yesterday friday general have to this point these efforts to try and forge a last thing ceasefire vowed that his forces would continue until in his words he took control of all of tripoli a coal fired power stations in germany 0 due to be closed within the next 18 years but the government is accused of breaking its promises to replace coal with more environmentally friendly sources of electricity and coal mining is threatening some

communities the mccain has this. the guts violent mine has been here for decades producing lignite all brown coal to fuel the nearby power station which produces more energy than any other in germany a symbol of the country's continuing dependence on fossil fuels in 2019 brown coal and hard coal or anthracite provided more than 29 percent of the electricity used nuclear provided 14 percent renewables accounted for 46 percent but ministers are committed to combating climate change by reducing emissions and spent much of the last year deep in discussions about how to meet those commitments eventually they found a compromise we have both forms of coal will be phased out within the next 18 years that's hard these are tough negotiations they took a long time in my view too long but you can see the result where the 1st country with a binding agreement to exit coal and nuclear power and that's an important signal

internationally. felix martis was a member of the commission which advised the government to prioritize a steady phasing out of coal he says they've not taken that advice and broken their promises in doing so their violator to does recommendation of the study phase out the pathway at the moment is to wait until the year 2013 and to wait until the year 2038 and shut down the major share of the lignite plants shortly before abuse that alliance one of the consequences of that will perhaps be felt most here bare for heart just down the road from guts failure with the mines immediate future guaranteed its owners want to expand it by buying the properties in bear the heart relocating the residents and then destroying the houses to mine the coal underneath already some people here have taken the money and moved out but not litter cox

whose family has lived here for 6 generations she is fighting to stay. we need to go back onto the streets we must show people above all we must show politicians that what they're planning to do is absolute in that we must show them that we won't put up with it ministers are clear that mines will one day disappear and that renewable sources of energy are. the trouble for the people living round here is there will have to go 1st of all despite the government stated commitment to a green future dominic kane al-jazeera yacht surveillance well germany is planning to an end to call astray or is committing to a massive new mine brian will have that story for us on sunday. after retiring in 2016 this year was the 1st that kobe bryant was eligible to be

a candidate for the basketball hall of fame and the lakers the greats was judy confirmed on the shortlist on friday we sure wish he were here today colby bryant. is a short his place comes just a short time after he was killed in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter as young as the hall of fame is will be announced on april before. so just a recap of the headlines here on al-jazeera and the saudi u.a.e. led coalition has confirmed one of its warplanes has gone down and al draft government in northeast yemen if the rebels say they shot down the role saudi air force plane on friday mohammed al a top has more from the capital. we have just received this latest report from the saudi arabia that we have admitted that the their attorney were plane has

crashed in the and the regional for. while while the host the we have said that the they have targeted this tornado fighter just as. it was conducting all carrying out hostility. to lety works or acts in the regional for joe for the u.s. defense secretary is calling china the biggest threat to the global order mark i spoke used to chinese government of seeking advantage across the world by any means chinese foreign minister he has called the accusations lives fearing that funerals have been held for 8 people in eastern afghanistan who were killed in that strike gone wrong afghan officials say the attack was meant to target taliban fighters but hit civilians instead a witness said a truck carrying a family home from a picnic was struck killing everybody inside. an elderly chinese tourists in france have died of the crater virus to become the 1st fatality in

europe in china and the death toll is at least $1500.00 an american woman from a cruise ship that docked in cambodia has now tested positive for the virus in malaysia earlier checks of passengers on that ship found in a trace south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromise aimed at meeting the deadline to form a unity government salva kiir is cutting the number of states from 32 to 10 that's a major demond of the opposition to form and the civil war kiran the rival rick machado have 8 days left to agree on a joint government for the world's youngest country after 2 failed attempts. throughout europe stay with headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up right after people buy from.

2018 a new government came to power in the media amid widespread optimism that its leader the coke machine young put in decades of corruption and the economic dismembered but now his administration faces a major dilemma whether to proceed with a huge be defined mining project that some oborne ing will cause enormous environmental damage and one of the world's rarest animal species.