as in current affairs that matter to you. a saudi fighter jet crashes in yemen shoot the rebels a video which they say proves that they shot it down. there on the stand today and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up i want to focus on the pentagon's top concern the people's republic of china the u.s. describes china as the biggest threat to the global order as it steps up efforts to persuade european countries to bar tech giant huawei. a visitor france has confirmed as the fast coronavirus death outside asia as the world health organization calls for more action scene. and fighting back against the tide of

plastic a popular tourist spot is leading the way for the rest of indonesia. now the saudi led coalition has been found one of its planes has crashed in more than yemen and turkey rebels have claimed that they set down some according this a game changer in the country's long running war nicholas gage reports. this is the mormons yemen's who 3 rebels say they shot down a saudi air force typhoon fighter jets the rebels in this video on saturday the saudi u.a.e. led coalition confirmed one of its planes went down in government in the country's northeast booties also broadcast vision of what it says is the aftermath of saudi led in strikes in the area followed which the rebels claim were retaliate tree attacks the saudi coalition released a statement saying there was

a possibility of what calls collateral damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. several of the. american drones over the skies of yemen in the last 3 months now it seems to be that they are able to slow down those fighter jets and they can say that if they start at this stage this means that we're going to end that and use stage of the lot of these claim the plane was downed with an advanced air to ground missile some analysts say if that's true it would be a very significant development in yemen's long running war this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling incapable of winning the war and now

perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war. the conflict in yemen has killed tens of thousands of people and brought millions to the brink of famine it's estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting there's no sign yet when it will end because a gauge al-jazeera. qatar's foreign minister says recent efforts to resolve the gulf dispute was suspended at the start of january mohamed been on the run and al tani told a security conference in munich that discussions began back in october to try to resolve the dispute the blockade began in 2017 when saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt 7 political trade and transport ties with cat-o. i think now it's been almost 3 years since the crisis started we were not the perpetrator of that crisis and we've been very open and very clear that we are open

to any genuine intention to resolve this problem and we have been we demonstrated this in fact when there was an opening in october here in november and of last year . and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and spears suspended at the beginning of january but would remain at the same position that we are often well we spoke to david mack a former u.s. ambassador to the u.a.e. who was one day's house and just how fathers talk scott. well there was a little bit of progress there wasn't there was a g.c.c. summit in riyadh. in december the qatari prime prime minister attended they agreed that they would start talks. and there was after that a what you might call a confidence building measure in the sense that saudi and other

regional football teams went to doha for a football tournament and that so they seemed to be on the track toward easing their relationships. but you normally the united states should have been involved in pressing all the countries involved. saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain egypt and qatar to come to some kind of detente we have very very extensive relationships with all 4 of these governments all 5 of these governments and really it's a failure of u.s. diplomacy it is very much against the interests of all the arab gulf cooperation council countries and it's against the interests of the united states which was trying to organize a strategy of maximum pressure against iran and there is only one country that

benefits by this stalemate and that iran well the u.s. defense secretary used his speech at the munich security conference to label china the biggest threat to the global marchesa says the government in beijing tops the list of potential vast areas of the united states ahead of russia and iran and he again other countries to stay away from chinese tech giant kuala demands that's been rebuffed by european allies. under present cheese rule 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 china has more from that conference. well the world's 2 most powerful nations squared off against one another here in munich 1st the united states secretary of state mike crapo and defense secretary marc esper giving notice firing the starting gun essentially on what could be a new era of u.s. defense and foreign policy. china as enemy number one the pentagon's top priority said mark s. but because of its more aggressive military posturing in the region its trade economic and territorial ambitions further afield he said we do not want to conflict with china we want china to play by the rules abide by international norms in short we want china to behave and making the point in no uncertain terms that the u.s. expects its allies to view things likewise noting in particular chinese telecom giant huawei some european allies the u.k. in particular in talks with huawei to help build their 5 g. networks where the u.s.

of course sees huawei as a trojan horse for chinese intelligence well it wasn't long before china had the opposite opportunity here to respond when you the foreign minister saying china will not follow the western model and seek a germany in the world but rather choose a policy of peaceful development working for shared prosperity and he had this very pointed response to those u.s. comments. 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 so china emerging here presenting itself certainly as an unlikely standard bearer for multilateralism the very policy plank and pillar upon

which western diplomacy has been built and practiced for decades and the very thing that many here and elsewhere would say that the trumpet ministration has abandoned . well the corona virus outbreak has also been a major topic of discussion at that munich conference that the head of the world health organization told leaders he was concerned about the lack of urgency among the international community we throw money at an outbreak and when it's over we forget about it and do nothing to prevent the next $1.00 the world spends billions of dollars preparing for a terrorist attack but relatively prepared for the virus which could be far more deadly and far more damaging economically politically and socially this is frankly difficult to understand and dangerously short sighted on the outbreak has killed more than 1500 people now in the 1st death outside asia

has been confirmed an 80 year old chinese tourist has died in france the man had been in hospital in paris since january 25th after being turned away from true previous hospitals his daughter was also infected but her health is improving and an american passenger from a christian that docked in cambodia has also been confirmed with the corona virus the 83 year old woman feared to malaysia on friday along with $144.00 other passengers from that ship the n.s.a. westerdam had been turned away from 4 countries before docking in cambodia well there are growing concerns over the shortage of protective gear for frontline medical workers on the chinese mainland adrian brown reports medical workers in china are fighting a battle for the world in some cases without adequate protection more than $700.00 nurses and doctors have so far been infected several have died many of them look so

exhausted in front of the camera when you're exhausted you get infected because you just. lost your. head off all the guys. 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 is 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 missed 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. still ahead on al-jazeera they were some afghan taliban agreed to reduce violence for a week and what's being seen as the fast up towards peace. and were on patrol with the congolese army as soldiers struggle to stop rebel at tux.

welcome back we'll start our look at conditions in australasia this is the remnants of a tropical cyclone you see there that continues to move through bisecting new zealand and australia but certainly is going to some impact across new zealand with some heavy rain expected here some strong winds along the western coast of the south on and i think for a straight of the well be some rough surf at times also nurses some showers on coastal parts of new south wales some showers also across northern parts of western australia into the northern territory and so if the cape york peninsula could be some welcome downpours at times as a move the forecast on and you see begins to move away still a circulation close enough to the south island to give some problems elsewhere weather conditions looking largely fine over western australia with highs of 32 degrees expected in perth moving up into northeastern parts of asia all looking pretty unsettled here at the moment lot of rain moving out across eastern parts of china low pressure system across japan that's going to continue give some very

heavy rain maybe just flirting with tokyo it times snow on the north and at you know says the temperature contrast between sendai that 7 degrees and sapporo minus one is ahead on through into monday that could be some really heavy rain affecting parts of honshu. but. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize 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 pose was proud as asian on anybody if they really killed. those people who seemed ever to have something to invest the profit of they want all up to the last drop on al-jazeera. or.

again i missed a reminder of our top stories this hour the saudi u.a.e. led coalition has confirmed one of its tornado fighter jets has crashed in northeast yemen the rebels have aired video which they they say which they say shows them shooting down the royal saudi air force plane on friday. foreign minister says recent efforts to resolve the gulf dispute was suspended at the start of january mohamed but not the ramadan tani's told the security conference in munich that discussions began in october to try to end the blockade of qatar by 4 arab states. and the u.s. defense secretary has described china as the biggest threat to the global order mark s. but accuse the chinese government of seeking advantage across the wilds by any

means chinese foreign minister one year has called the accusations and lies. ending almost 2 decades of violence in afghanistan has been high on the agenda at that conference in munich now a provisional agreement between the united states and the taliban and to reduce violence for one week how does there is diplomatic editor james bays reports. the war in afghanistan continues to claim a lawyer who is prepared to bury those killed in the u.s. airstrike the u.s. started counting civilian casualties in 2000 years into the conflict the decade since then over 100000 civilians were killed or injured. in munich the u.s. was explaining the deal its now struck with the taliban an effort to try and end the war we have on the table right now a reduction in violence proposal that was negotiated between our ambassador and the

taliban it looks very promising we have now been for a few days now in the process of consulting 1st with our congress i've had many conversations and then secondly concurrently with our nato allies in brussels now the u.s. has done it steal its partners must follow other nato countries still have 8000 personnel in the country serving alongside of 12000 u.s. troops we are not leaving 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 compromises cut out of the negotiations with the taliban that they've gone on for over a year with the afghan government president ashraf ghani had demanded a ceasefire be put in place before any deal in the step the taliban have only agreed to what's being called

a reduction in violence the critical test is going to be will be will the exam in election as the mechanism the crucial mechanism of referring to that one people in the still have the view come of course afghanistan's last election is still not been formally decided ashraf ghani has the most number of votes but he's not been declared the winner that is going to make things difficult in the coming days because afghanistan needs to choose the delegation for those talks that it now needs to have with the taliban james bays out just 0 munich. now south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromise and meeting the deadline to form a unity government solve a kid is now cutting the number of states from 32 to 10 that's a major demand of the opposition to formally end the civil war care and rivalry a question i have 8 days left to agree on

a joint government for the while the youngest country after 2 failed attempts the decision was reached by the presidency. and we thought this latest compromise will preserve the unity of the country and move the people of south sudan out of this imposed senseless conflict we can affect it the livelihood of men knew about what citizens. now rebels are continuing the attacks on the democratic republic of congo despite an army of soldiers and un peacekeepers trying to stop them the threat to villages in the eastern region of beni is forcing many people to seek safety close to a 1000 civilians have been killed since the start of a 4 month military offensive to root out the democratic forces catherine so why has

this exclusive report. up a trail by congolese soldiers and un peacekeepers in the region and no one to be seen in several villages. people say they're facing unprecedented 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. fighters then crossed the border into the neighboring. where they've remained for nearly 20 years human rights campaign as more than 400 congolese have been killed in the last one month alone hundreds have fled their homes are still you know there's no one here because of the attack that happened last week people are afraid to come back 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. fighters including top commanders they say ah the fighters have been captured and their bases destroyed completely wrecked the new transit we must defeat the terrorists we call upon all 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 un base was banned down and peacekeeping operations in the city were paralyzed for nearly 2 weeks commanders say troops are now working even more closely with congress soldiers to target the a.d.f. says the crisis we have it has our activities.

troubles but also with us. continues. as we. work with continued 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. the wall come if i have to have again shelled residential areas on the outskirts of tripoli it's the latest bombardment i have 10 month campaign to take the capital and civilians are constantly in the firing line as child stratford 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 at this 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. 1 the situation is that we are maintaining our positions on these sporadic shelling from have to post his dining and 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 are 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 on controlled munitions in libya. meanwhile yesterday for general health. and food you lost to. continue until in his words you took control.

of tripoli and a u.s. army representative says there will be no investigation into an officer who was a key witness in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump left and colonel alexander vind men was critical of trump's handling of military aid to ukraine he was fired less than 40 years hours after the senate acquitted the president on tuesday trying to suggest of the pentagon review of indians conduct and said any disciplinary action would be up to the military. anger is growing in mexico over the treatment of women following the recent publication of images of a murder victim there police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of people who gathered on valentine's day the protests were sparked by the killing of 25 year old ingrid escamilla in mexico city and the publication of graphic photographs of her new slated corpse and newspapers. while hundreds of russians have pushed back against plans by president vladimir putin to change the constitution people joined

protests from across the political spectrum from ultra nationalists to communists and left wing activists putin has suggested giving extra powers to the parliament but it's been widely seen as an effort to extend his hold on power beyond his presidential term. now an annual cleanup of beaches in bali is underway last july the island became the fast province in indonesia to ban plastic bags and other throwaway items but environmental campaigners say bali beach is all guessing that still more progress needs to be made jessica washington has the story. it's early morning but these volunteers are braving the heat and spending their weekend picking up plastic for years bali's beaches have attracted millions of tourists but plastic pollution has spoiled the natural beauty oh to chain age sistas up behind the push to cut down the island's waste it's the 4th year they've organized this

annual mass clean out this is to say the beaches are clean and since a ban on many single use plastics began with this more work to do we saw a definite overnight shift change in modern retailers in bigger businesses but when it comes to you know smaller family owned businesses or you know the traditional markets it's definitely a longer process the ban applies to plastic bags straws and some packaging but there's no penalty for businesses that breach it food wrapping and bottles make up most of these plastic waste at this market traders start their day early selling fruit vegetables and traditional sweets all of it is still covered in plastic. sometimes people forget to bring bags so we have to get them out we also need plastic to repost. a lot myself i think that's it but i've noticed bali is cleaner since the ban started but sometimes i differ get to bring a bag but it's still new here. away from the tourist hot spots locals come to this

speech on the islands south east coast to fish and cool off the situation on the beaches can change from day to day when there's heavy rain the incoming tide often washes in a deluge of plastic waste the local government here has set an ambitious target of reducing marine plastic by 70 percent by the end of the year but not all of bali's plastic comes from bali itself a large proportion comes from other internation islands. indonesia is one of the world's worst marine pollution is one recent study found around 15 percent of marine plastic around the world is thrown away in indonesia bali is the 1st province in indonesia to introduce anti plastic regulations but environmentalist here hope it won't be the last bali was definitely i think the pioneer island in the ship going past the bag but we did see commitments crap from jakarta you know wanting to go plastic bag free as well in the next 6 months in other places as well

and we definitely see a ripple chain effect it's a message even bali's youngest on getting behind just to washington al-jazeera. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the saudi u.a.e. led coalition has confirmed one of its tornado fighter jets has gone down in northeast yemen crazy rebels say in a shutdown the royal saudi air force plane on friday will hear the media also says at least 30 civilians were killed in retaliatory as strikes in that same region a coalition statement conceded the possibility of what it called collateral damage to civilians. is foreign minister says recent efforts to resolve the gulf dispute was suspended at the start of january after beginning in october mohamed bin abdul rahman al tony told a security conference in munich that discussions that began back in october were trying to end the blockade of cast by 4 arab states. i think now it's been almost 3

years since the crisis started we were not the perpetrator of for fear of that crisis and we've been very open and very clear that we are open to any genuine intention to solve this problem and we have been we demonstrated this in fact when there was an opening. here in november and of last year. and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and speed suspended at the beginning of january but would remain at the same position that we are or. the u.s. defense secretary has called china the biggest threat to the global order also speaking at the munich security conference but accuse the chinese government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and at any cost and here again to other countries to stay away from chinese tech giant huawei and demands that's been rebuffed by european allies an elderly chinese tourist in france has died of the

corona virus he's the 1st fatality in europe in china the death toll is now more than $1500.00 and an american woman from a cruise ship that docked in cambodia has now tested positive for the virus in asia checks of passengers on that ship found no trace south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromise aimed at raising the deadline to form a unity government saw the kid is cutting the number of states from 32 to 10 that's a major demands of the opposition to formally end the civil war care and rival rick michel have 8 days left to agree on a joint government after 2 failed attempts well those are the headlines to join me for more news here after rewind stay with us. gives you a deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances are very true one thing to cheat somebody on 5th

avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human calling the issues join me many hot sun as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. hello and welcome to rewind we're back here at doha as iconic museum of islamic art for another look back at some of the best documentaries we've brought you over the past 10 years this week we're returning to the united states and 2013 at that time cleveland ohio was experiencing.