3 others not for another week. hello there i missed and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a plane from the saudi led coalition crashes in yemen they say they shot it down. no time for complacency over the coronavirus the world health organization has countries to step up preparations as the fast death is reported outside asia. china accuses the u.s. of spreading lives after the secretary of state costs beijing as a rising threat to the world order. bride it at that point in queensland where

millions of tons of coal are shipped out of australia every year find out why some communities remain divided a coal mining and climate change. now it's an attack the united nations is calling shocking and strikes by the saudi led coalition and more than yemen have killed at least $31.00 civilians and comes off to saudi arabia confirmed that one of its planes crashed in the same region who rebels say they shot down the aircraft they can gauge 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 the country's northeast butties also broadcast vision of what it says is the aftermath 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 are 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is a big deal knowing that already the partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and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 0. well let's speak to hannah porter she's a research analyst specializing in yemen at the research firm data a global and she joins us now from washington d.c. how that let me start by asking you about 2 things that she capability i mean that was just reported that it sounds like an advanced to ground missile that took down this plane and marwan there was talking about how this could be a game changer is it yes it absolutely could be i mean this is unprecedented that

these have downed saudi coalition aircraft before but not at this level typically it's drones and there's a few reports of them down in helicopters as well but this level is certainly an advancement terms of their capabilities and it's worth noting that this news comes around the same time as the u.s. is reporting an interception of iranian made missiles including surface to air missiles coming into yemen how know where all the weapons coming from when we talk about the war in yemen on both sides so for those who have these there are certainly it's widely understood that there are weapons coming from the iranians though the extent of that is unknown certainly who these did overtake the weapons stocks that belong to former president ali abdullah saleh and those that existed in northern europe and of course the coalition has. much much larger weapons capabilities that are coming from the united states the u.k.

and many other countries and that goes for the herat use as well and i we've also been saying this escalation in violence really over the last month or so what's been driving it. so i would say that for this escalation in violence in the past month the main driver at least the main turning point was the attack on moderate last month and of course that killed over $100.00 pro-government soldiers and the attack was attributed to behoove these those a very serious escalation because it came on the heels of one of the most optimistic periods of yemen's war course in november and december we saw the lowest levels of coalition attacks on the hoof these and we also saw that the these had abstained from attacking saudi territory as they promised and they held that promise now that escalation with in yemeni territory on the pro-government forces seem to change the playing field at least for the saudis so that they began up in air strikes again unfortunately and then the who feeds went ahead and started

targeting saudi territory and now of course down in the plane i would say that another important thing to note is that the who these have been making incursions into territory east of sun are both in a job where this downing of the jet happens and also and so i assume that the saudis are present in that air space because of what is happening with the incursions i would also say that it was even though it was so optimistic last year and of course there were also negotiations between these and saudis in riyadh that i think the saudis more than ever really do want out of this war and the movies of course also want and the problem is that for now all of this of the saudis it's very hard for them to extricate themselves from yemen and as the these continue to make gains had imports have ever sat to analysts to specializing and then at their level thank you for joining us on out of there hanna thank you. now katter's

foreign minister says recent efforts to end the blockade against the country have not succeeded saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all cut political trade and transport ties with cattle back and 2017 has this report. for months says been speculation that the blockades of cats are by its neighbors could be nearing an end the foreign minister announced at the munich security council that talks to ease the tension came to an end last month in 2017 saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt cut all diplomatic and economic ties with qatar 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. here and november and of last year. and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and spears suspended at the beginning of january but. remain at the same position that we are often before blockading

countries accused katsav supporting terrorism which it's repeatedly tonight it's also rejected a list of 13 demands which include closing a turkish military base downgrading ties with iran and shutting down the al-jazeera media network. in december cats all sense its highest representation since the blockade then prime ministership. there any to the annual gulf cooperation council summit in saudi arabia at the time capsule had said that been positive talks with saudi leaders his attendance came after the national football teams of saudi bihari and the u.a.e. all took part in the arabian gulf cup in cats on november reversing an earlier decision not to participate. cattle is home to the largest u.s. military base in the middle east and gulf region the u.s. has called on its gulf allies in the future fearing it might undermine its efforts to contain seize iran's growing influence in the real. 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 3 years after the blockade began the 6 nation regional bloc is still struggling for unity so hideouts al jazeera doha. the world health organization is warning countries against complacency over the corona virus which has now killed more than 1600 people the head of the agency is adding countries to step up preparations for the virus he insists the outbreak is still an emergency in china where the epidemic started it's impossible to predict which direction

this. will take we are concerned about the levels of rumor and misinformation that. the response will concerted by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china used to the number of those workers who have been infected or done now on saturday the virus came to its fast a victim outside asia an elderly chinese tourist and fronts more than 69000 people are infected world wide most of them in china an american woman who was a passenger on a cruise ship docked in cambodia has been confirmed with the virus she fears and lives on friday she was one of the 1400 passengers that disembarked from the n.-s. westerdam in cambodia a day early. well we'll be speaking to adrian brown who's in hong kong in just a moment but 1st let's go to wayne hey who's in the cambodian capital when what's happened to all of these chris passengers now that one of them has tested positive

. well there are a lot of people now in limbo again we have 236 passengers still on board the ship filled in cambodia according to reports from passengers on the ship have been told by the skipper that they cannot disembark that ship until another test is conducted from the 83 year old woman in malaysia we have people stuck here in the capital phnom penh as well those who have disembarked the ship in sihanoukville have been brought here to the capital and then from here the plan is that they hop on charter flights to other destinations now on saturday. 2 other charter flights that were to leave phnom penh to kuala lumpur they did not take off so there are people stuck here in the capital with one passenger tweeting that they have been told by cambodian health authorities to stay in their hotel rooms pending further medical

checks also people stuck in the malaysian capital as well with reports they're suggesting that around 11 passengers were prevented boarding a kale am flight that was bound for amsterdam out of concern that they may have been in contact with the american woman who has tested positive we've heard from the cambodian health ministry as well they have sent a letter to their malaysian counterparts requesting that this test be reexamined for a 2nd to be conducted and also holland america line that is the cruise ship company that operates the west of them they put out a statement stressing that this is a preliminary positive test result and we have to wait for a 2nd before any conclusions can be reached when hey with an update for us live from phnom penh thank you very much wayne well let's go now to adrian brown who's in hong kong for us adrian a stand that's now in light of the chinese president xi jinping actually started taking action about the virus earlier than previously thought what does this do to

the government narrative now about how this is all played out. well what you're referring to is an article that appeared in a bi monthly magazine that's put out by the party and it refers to a speech that president xi jinping made on february the 3rd but it's only now just been made public and what this speech does it gives a sort of timeline if you like of what the president knew and when did he know it i mean a lot of analysts are saying it looks very much like a sort of back covering exercised by the chinese leadership but certainly this article says that on january the 7th president xi jinping was aware of the virus and issued certain instructions on january the 20th when he went public with what he knew he also issued what he said were further special instructions what we don't know is by january 20th was he aware that there were cases of human to human

transmission in hand and also in the rest of who pay province remember a group of doctors as early as early january had made that warning in a group chat on social media that human to human transmission was indeed taking place so this meeting on february this speech which refers to that meeting on january the 7th was in fact a meeting of the politburo standing committee this is the most powerful political body in china it meets in great secrecy but certainly what it does seem to me is that the chinese leadership i think has been stung by the international criticism of the past couple of weeks over its handling of this crisis but if you read this article quite clearly president xi jinping makes clear that you know local officials have to be held to account and punished so the blame is being laid squarely at the feet of the local government in not the leadership at the very top so this was she jumping i think trying to show that the leadership had been

proactive and was very much you know on the front foot now a lot of people are saying commentators this is all the beginning of the end of the communist party i don't. i think we've reached that tipping point yet i think if the party can get this virus under control then we can spin that as a victory to the people adrian brown there live for us in hong kong thank you very much adrian well now let's go to japan where 5 islam is at the yokohama port where another cruise to another cruise ship that's been quarantined is docked fadi the diamond princess behind you has been stuck there for days and now it seems that americans are going to be evacuated what about the rest of the passengers. the bus injures the u.s. passengers 416 of them and 60 and 16 other. u.s. . citizens working on board of the ship they will be flown back to the. 'd

evening as we get the information to a chartered planes are arriving today evening 200. a way from here and. the crew members u.s. passengers and crew members would be taken by bus to morrow. as you mentioned. increasing on board of the. private ship docked here very near from the time on princess and it will be used as a 2nd base for the set of the fence forces i don't do 150. times of defense forces are engaged in activities on board of the sheba trying to help to manage that. because some of the cases were among the crew members on there that trying to substitute their work on their mission there trying to help them and. getting more and more tense. the u.s. action is actually raising now many questions why the u.s.

is flying back its citizens on the 17th of this month. on the 17th of this month when the. video is ending at $919.00 some are saying that this means that they couldn't embody it maybe maybe they knew would to another few days or maybe even for a week and that is raising concern among passengers and also taking into consideration that the bus injures on board of the ship from $56.00 countries it would be a nightmare for the japanese government to deal with all that of course from other countries to take back their citizens and. thank you. anything on that and the u.s. defense secretary has labeled china as the biggest threat to the global order

speaking at the munich security conference china's government tops the list of potential of vast areas of the us ahead of russia and iran and he again european countries to stay away from chinese tech giant huawei a demand 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. and how has more from that conference in munich. 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 anxiety america's retreat from global affairs has been a key issue at that conference. from the eurasia group. and he says that anxiety is likely to continue even after the presidential elections and. the west listeners that they that they're using is the theme here is really about a united states and a europe that not only is much more conflicted about leaving but also has populations that increasingly don't believe that their own political institutions are fit for purpose so how could they possibly want to spend time telling other people what to do or trying to fix or change those countries systems when you speak to people from around the world here i guess one of the questions you're hearing is what is going to happen in november almost assuming for now the trouble be reelected they are i would say it's certainly very far from you know in the can

they mostly most american allies would prefer if trump actually were to lose and i think that there's a presumption that somehow the next american president will go back to us leading multilateral institutions in the u.s. led multilateral order and actually the reasons for american unilateralist in which we started to see under obama we see more of under trump have a much more structural i mean they have to do in part with the fact that a lot of americans just aren't into it but also because america has an awful lot more power viz a viz its allies the u.s. and the chinese are the big powers the allies are nowhere the americans are the big energy producer middle east is less important the americans have a geo political buffer from all of this instability in places like syria and libya and trump and others are saying why do we have to deal with em. now as much of the developed wild moves away from fossil fuels astray ilia is pressing ahead with the expansion of its coal industry but after a catastrophic bushfire season raised concerns over climate change opposition is

growing to a controversial new mine and next year bryan reports. claremont population 3001 of australia's mining heartlands most of the work here is a cult following and they keep paul wilkes motel business going as well possibly 70 percent of their of of business would be call related in one way or another whether it be the shoe salesman all of the shampoo cycles men feel salzman claremont's the closest town to the controversial comical mine and it's still 160 kilometers away. the mines are owned by the indian company adani and got the go ahead from the government last year after more than a decade they've been holed up so the environmental approvals and funding problems for the mines be scaled back from its initial plans however it will still be among a strain his biggest exposing at least $10000000.00 tonnes of coal a year this is the workers camp for the mine which is under construction just

a few kilometers away we weren't allowed to film inside and wouldn't talk to us on camera for this story the mine lies here in the galilee basin which is home to one of the biggest coal deposits in the world there are fears the mind could push an endangered bird species towards extinction while the land also holds spiritual significance to some indigenous groups adani will be the 1st mine in the basin and that's made it a flashpoint for protests it's madness to actually lead it to that it's got this far in the stein age with what we know about climate change and. one of the biggest. deposits because it had this shouldn't happen in the mining industry and the role of fossil fuels in the climate crisis have been in the spotlight in australia after months of devastating bushfires and he has a drought and strain is the world's biggest exposures call and the government's being accused of not doing enough to reduce emissions or protect the planet. their

generation called mana and local union chief steve smyth says he. open to change but it's got to be realistic if they expect mourners and their families and communities come along on this journey and i'm going to provide something more than what they were born now which is rhetoric and words and the fact that people are not convinced that renew the renewable sector can be avoid the siren call the employment so i'm going job security and a future for about them and they could be a dolly mine could be exporting its 1st call as soon as next year in the meantime mr lee remains deeply divided over where the minds of purely sources of money and opportunity all scars on the landscape that take more than i provide. al-jazeera queensland australia. still ahead on al-jazeera courting the minority vote us democratic presidential hopefuls turned their attention to the state of nevada. may go on patrol with the congolese army and

a region where rebel attacks have killed almost a 1000 people in a matter of months and we'll show you how this pole vaulters set the bar even higher for a 2nd time in a week. hello once again as we look at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia you see is massive cloud moving across the east china sea up towards japan and we're expecting some pretty heavy rain and indeed snow for across japan of lace 24 hours and see the rain there across the honshu further north across the colorado we're looking at snow and some heavy snow about quite a contrast in temperatures 14 degrees there in tokyo which is one degree in sapporo so move on through into monday really for sapporo it is going to be a snowy day it will turn drier later on further south better conditions for much of

japan 17 there in tokyo and dry bright conditions across southeastern china as being quite white should be a good day in hong kong with a nice room temperature there 16 degrees heading down into southeastern parts of asia but the thunderstorms here should expect a particular across more western parts of java and deja carter will see further showers during the course of sunday morning is looking pretty wet as well much as you would expect and then as we head on through into monday not a great deal of change certainly for malays in borneo it could be quite wet coaching there look at highs of $32.00 degrees is a largely fine pretty picture across much of india and also down towards sri lanka although that could be wanted to share is affecting the south of the islands. on count jim acosta coronavirus of its impact on the gas market spending billions of dollars to save trillions later from new york to chicago we look at the cost of

rising sea level food oceans warm up values improve our risk you don't. convict off on al-jazeera. 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 through the european commission would be very very true those would be privatization on anybody it's the only field. those people who see every 2 years something to invest a profit of the $1.00 up to the last drop on al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the pond so no matter how you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. all the all the all the way.

again i missed us here today and a reminder about top stories this hour as strikes by the saudi led coalition and more than yemen have killed at least $31.00 civilians and comes after saudi arabia confounder one of its planes crashed in same region where the rebels say they shot down the aircraft. qatar's foreign minister says recent efforts to end the blockade against the country have not succeeded saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut all political trade and. transport ties with castro 2017. the head of the world health organization has warned the international community it's impossible to know which direction the coronavirus epidemic will take europe recorded its fast deaths when an elderly chinese tourist died in france.

now rebels are continuing their attacks in the democratic republic of congo despite an army of soldiers and un peacekeepers trying to stop them the threat of further attacks on the eastern region of beni is forcing many people to flee close to a 1000 civilians have now been killed in a 4 month military offensive to root out the allied democratic forces al-jazeera went along one of the army patrols and catherine sawyer has this report. a patrol by the 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 on 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 campaigners he and benny see more

than $400.00 congolese have been killed in the last one month alone hundreds have fled their homes their children you would 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 hopping at the same time as a government offensive against the a.d.f. security forces pain started last october they've killed dozens of a.d.f. fighters including top command as they say are the fighters hoping. and the bases destroyed the new threads 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 beyond down and peacekeeping operations in the city were paralyzed for nearly 2 weeks when the school commanders say troops are now working even more closely with colleagues soldiers to target the a.d.f. says the crisis we have it has our activities. but also with the horrors. continues. as we just worked 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 sawyer al-jazeera well to the u.s.

now where democrats are starting to cost early votes in nevada's presidential caucuses now the still crowded field of contenders has been campaigning in las vegas ahead of a 3rd nominating contest next weekend and often the chaos of the iowa caucus results pressure is on nevada to do better and also the fast test of candidates appeal in a state with a more diverse population well let's figure out joins us live from washington d.c. she had been talking about this very different demographic in nevada very different from the fast track states where we've seen primaries so how do we expect this to play out here. aside about diversity is the ballots that are being issued to those voting in the primaries come in 3 languages english spanish and tiger log the philippine national language that's about a 30 percent latino population here 9 percent african-american or an 8 percent asian american that might help explain some of the figures we're looking out in the

1st poll we've had for ages from from nevada but the soul is in the lead 25 percent he has a really strong latino base in nevada and now actually by the way that all that lead to the house right now does that is reflected in the national polls are going to last national poll we had on thursday hit a double digit lead over joe biden he was at 29 percent joe biden at 19 percentage but he started looking very good at the moment joe biden 18 percent in the other he has to do well now after his disastrous performance is in new hampshire and iowa where he's got he's going to continue to say that he's the electable one he has to start winning or at least vaguely doing well in elections he's hoping that the african-american base that he's always hoped for will come out but there is evidence in the polls that even that is declining now as what we were told in the polls of the main reason why the african-american community is is coalescing around him is you know maybe they do prefer other policies from bunny's on of someone else but they feel that he can beat trump but if that is the priority and he can't win

elections it's not doesn't look good for him and there's a bit more in 3rd 13 percent told him start now this is a really interesting one as well make or break for him perhaps as well so what we haven't heard off much before. is another you know billionaire businessman and his pitch is look i can beat trump because i can be the sort of centrist trump win and i can beat him on his own on his own ground and so on he's put huge amounts of money in nevada if he doesn't do well here he's probably going to be out of it and then peter amy close 10 percent each this is their opportunity these are on the on the rise of the democratic party as their opportunity to pad. sure that they have any support whatsoever amongst ethnic minorities because certainly if they determined that it doesn't look good for them moving forward certainly the evidence right now is that they have minimal support amongst the democrats diverse bangs tansey there for us in washington d.c. thank you she had well let's dig into this a little more with peace and matthews he's a professor of political science at cypress college and he joins us now from los

angeles peter i do want to get to the candidates in a moment before we do that i want to ask you about the process because i see nevada was supposed to get a similar to iowa that caused the whole debacle there but that's unsurprisingly been scrapped so what's the plan here how are they going to avoid a mess here will there are about a caucus very different i was there 4 years ago as an observer it's much more organized and it's just more supervised and i think it's much more accurately counted and it's done immediately so it should be much better than the iowa results and the formatting is much better we are seeing caucuses for the 1st time that this year right. yes for the 1st time about is actually allowing people to caucus today starting today actually 15th he will the actual caucus of the formal date is the 22nd they can actually start this today and go out and caucus today and or voter early in the voting place which will count as a caucus vote so high places he said very very same time the result is there are

some some people couldn't. well hopefully see some pretty timely results then from nevada the counting of the assuming that it was going to be a clear reception and he said again please and i was just asking you about the the time us of the results obviously there was some contention about that in iowa and new don't expect that to happen this time around in nevada. no no not the counting will do as it should be just fine in the vatican as it was 4 years ago because of the process and procedure and i believe it will be this kind of problem like in iowa and they're excited to see what will happen with these contenders that the numbers are shifting so quickly and bernie has a pretty solid lead over here and we'll see if he can hang on to it though and that's the real thing peter let me ask you about that nathan bennison is why is he so popular particular with a teen of ages and young ones at that. he's done no major outreach toward the latino voters in the african-american voters much more than in 2016 and that has

paid off actually in latino voters want the issues these for universal's you know single payer medicare for all that appeals to the because many of them are not insured or fully insured the same thing with education tuitions for education is very good for all working class people and many of them are in the working class as sort of the african-american people who need to have as are all the other people working class whites they want to have guaranteed medicare for all and also tuition free education sound is offering that and seems to me that's really attracting a lot of people peter i do want to ask you about one candidate who's not actually contesting nevada nor the next primary in south carolina that's michael brown bag but he is already making a dent in the national polling so do you think this is all about his ad spending his that has made a dent in the national polling however in south carolina it's one 3rd or so the primary voters are african-american and numerous come down with bloomers been under fire for what he has said about african-americans in the stop and frisk policy when he was mayor he actually supported it and that was seen as being sort of racist or

even policy against african-american young men especially that's put a dent in his climb upward toward the argument the other guy who wants someone to win against trump that's why they initially have supported bloomberg to some extent but he's got to show he's not he left those policies of racism back behind him and we have to see how you can we can do that or not well speaking of the african-american demographic i mean it's now essentially do or die for joe biden and elizabeth warren. it certainly isn't especially joe biden and warren's numbers have been going down on quite a bit but. we saw joe biden that was his major base of support the are feeling very he has to hold on to them and you know their main quest was they want someone who can be trump and yet joe biden has not won a primary yet or a caucus and that's putting a dent in his support because you know having doubts about him being able to win that's a real problem it's a do or die contest right now for us matthews there professor of political science at cypress college thanks you thank you for joining us on al jazeera peace and. now

for the 2nd year in a row the world's busiest route from migrant smuggling is from north africa to yemen the u.n. migration agency reports that $150000.00 people made the voyage across the gulf of aden and 21000 i think to reach saudi arabia that's 28000 more than across the mediterranean sea to europe 9 out of 10 travelers through yemen with ethiopian all crossed from tbilisi and somalia and smugglers boats risking war zones kidnapping torture for ransom exploitation and trafficking and many face deportation if they do manage to reach saudi arabia while yvonne and ajay is the spokeswoman for the east and horn of africa and the international organization for migration and she says despite being sold a dream of a better life many are being explosives. there is a lot of reporting about the 10s of thousands that we see crossing the mediterranean trying to get europe but in this part of the continent there has been an exponential rise in the number of migrants trying to get to the gulf countries

normally as you said in the intro path to the small country of djibouti in the whole of africa crossing the gulf of aden taking the dangerous ship across the the gulf and trying to pulse yemen and into saudi arabia many of the people are young people from countries like ethiopia looking for opportunity many of them spent a week walking through the mountains the desert 100 out food sometimes without water like you rightly said sometimes they are confronted by smugglers and traffickers some do go along the way and all to get in pursuit of this better life for this to see better life and in the last year or so there has been this exponential rise we estimate anywhere between 135-210-8000 but the place for that is the horn of africa just last year and we also estimate around every

single month around $11500.00 trying to make the crossing now might compare has arrived in senegal and has fast track to africa as u.s. secretary of state is expected to discuss security and economic cooperation with president actually south now ahead of his visit he warned african states against china's influence on the continent compare says chinese investment fees corruption and undermine someone isn't all bad as nicholas hackett fans not everyone sees it that way. in the trade war between the united states and china a small garment factory in west africa sees an opportunity chinese owned but made in senegal 200000 sports have been shipped to the united states for sale in the wal-mart supermarket chain after delivering the goods a month before scheduled the senegalese workers have been sent home to wait for the next order of the loss of them we have good trade deals in place to us we can export to the u.s.

treaty free and best way to tracking chinese investors to come here in senegal and more generally to africa also it takes us 14 days from dakar by ship to get goods to the us compared to shanghai where it takes 2 months chinese investors have found in african countries a way to avoid u.s. trade tariffs imposed on goods made in china in the past 20 years china loaned 180000000000 dollars to african countries including senegal some of the money's being spent on building a new city on the outskirts of the capital where chinese manufacturing companies are setting up operations in general u.s. secretary of state might pump warned against chinese investment in africa. it's tempting to accept easy money from places like try there's a better alternative we all know it and we can all achieve it together. western firms american firms operate according to values proven to produce good deals and quality work bumppo is trying to change the perception that the world's leading superpower has no clear strategy for a continent that's home to over

a 1000000000 people namby is health system isn't donald trump has shown little interest in africa so far is the 1st president since ronald reagan not to have visited the continent despite strong historic and economic ties compare this with his predecessor barack obama who's visited senegal twice and in fact on this road where tens of thousands of people lined up chanting the name of the united states president now for mike pompei oh look at it now those special arrangement he's being received like any other foreign minister and that's because for many senegalese and many africans across the continent america's influence on the region is waning. it's 2 years since the white house announced a pullout of u.s. troops from the saheli region of west africa where armed groups are attacking regularly and gaining ground in african states will find themselves weakened in the face of armed groups like the islamic state or boko haram who are regrouping in the region and soul we are seeing russia and china trying to take position the us

administration is sending mixed signals open for business but close for many africans washington is imposing a travel ban later this month on 4 african nations amongst the confusion fast growing economies such as senegal regard china as a more reliable partner nicholas hawke al-jazeera to car now south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromise and it raising the deadline to form a unity government salvage care is causing the member states to 10 that's a major demand of the opposition to form a as the civil war now can his rival request i have 8 days left to run on joint government for the wilds youngest country after 2 failed attempts. now protesters in mexico have marched to the presidential palace to condemn violence against women demonstrators expressed outrage after a newspaper published photographs of the body of a murder victim 25 year old ingrid as camillia was killed earlier this month while

femicide is on the rise around the globe with women calling one governments to do more to combat gender based violence in france at least $138.00 women died at the hands of their current film apartment just last year protests in dozens of cities last november put pressure on the government to announce a raft of measures to deal with domestic violence while gender based violence has also led to protests in south africa where nearly 3000 women were killed in 2018 that works out to a woman being murdered every 3 hours and in mexico a record high of more than 3800 women were killed in 2019 up 7 percent from 2018 well earlier i spoke to tanya pansie she's the executive director of amnesty international in mexico and she says one of the problems is a lack of action on preventing violence. the situation is that we are not having public finances in order to prevent violence and all the conversation is always

that the conversation for the garment means around the criminal criminal i know we already have our crack you know we're criminal law and we are we are not preventing preventive action. so now. we have been from all over all over the country we are asking the government. to have a really public body. and. violence against women i think most important things that is happening in mexico is the commission of our culture mckee's more so when men are not having the power and so. our men and putin really have to think that in mexico mexico. and other crimes that. they just they are the.

hundreds of russians have rallied to voice their anger at president that in a person's plans to change the constitution protesters from across the political spectrum expressed their opposition to the proposed changes president has suggested giving extra powers to parliament but it's widely seen as an attempt to extend his hold on power beyond his presidential term. still ahead on al-jazeera and sports we head to the south american country which is fast becoming a breeding ground for the wilds top cyclists. luck. plays. the controversial leader of islamic jihad has cut you loose one of the most one internist street of israel you can turn on his alleged extrajudicial killing by israeli television and assad says being caught in

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now it's time to support history. thanks very much israel folau has scored in his controversial super league debut for capt lance dragons the 30 year old took just 6 minutes to get on the scoresheet against castleford in his 1st game of rugby league for decade after conservative christian joined the french side after being fired by rugby australia following a homophobic post on social media fans of other teams have promised to protest his signing. a good player value to the team on and off the flu. not judging him on any political or religious beliefs those god we said in the stem of what was said he will not repeat anything that was said whether you like the dog like you whether you agree with the with it we call it quite clearly do not agree with it we said so that's it english football giants match city say they will appeal their 2 season ban from the european champions league a $30000000.00 fine for breaking financial fair play rules european governing body

wafer said on friday that the premier league champions committed serious breaches of its regulations on overspending the club refutes the claims pulled under werth reports. 29000 was a case of another year another title for manchester city but 6 weeks into 2020 and the big spending in the quest for trophies could have left them even further away from the one they really want most the city will lose up by around $100000000.00 euros a year alone in prize money that they would be getting for reaching the champions league is an unprecedented ban of this level to season the champions league for one of the richest clubs in world football and the world sport when this all began and 2018 when the allegations were 1st raised in german sports magazine der spiegel at that time manager pip 20 dollars city had full trust in the club's actions and of course want to follow the rules on the way for the future all this team is in the

premier league. they do what it wants to do so a part of that believe me completely honest either nor would happen because of a manager. the 1st prospect of a ban was raised last month when you a 4 opened an investigation city welcomed the investigation into what it called the illegal hacking and out of context publication of its emails and that the accusations were entirely folks in may city were referred to you wafers financial watchdog where there were reports that its members were pushing for at least the one year champions league ban the club's chairman had back at the. as i'm claiming rivals would jealous of this success i will not accept for this club to be used as a diversionary tactic on poor investment. from other cause we've managed ourselves well. and we will be touched by facts manchester city filed an appeal to halt the investigation but the court of arbitration for sport last june but that was thrown

out in november with cast saying the appeal was inadmissible their latest appeal could be crucial if while the old is mission to win a 1st champions league title for the club is to indian success provender with al-jazeera meanwhile mention city's rivals liverpool a payoff unstoppable in their run towards a 1st english premier league title in 30 years they be no rich one no on saturday meaning the nail on the beaten in 43 games but offs that win manage a young top source return to city's punishment and the german admitted he was shock's to be honest i feel for have been the players because it while they did for sure nothing wrong and has played football and sensational football have was he he helped each league through to 2 to improve football and. then in the end we all have to respect our rules and i have no idea if they did or not but obviously if i was it like this that and we would see what well over in

italy a team that hasn't had much of a winning run of late is genoa until now that is the struggle is pulled off a shock 3 male win over 9 men belong here in city at antonia's center but he had dribble the ball more than 70 metres to score one of their goals is generous 1st away win of the season. now this is armand diplomatists last week when he broke the pole vault world record he's just done it again the 20 year old was competing at the glasgow indoor grown prix and needed just the one attempts to vault 6.18 meters with room to spare beating his previous record by a centimeter. now some of the world's best cyclists are taking part in the tour of colombia which finishes in the capital bogota on sunday colombian cyclists are increasingly dominating on the world scene. than current tour de france champ that mel asunder he has been following the race i was 2nd to last stage of the

tour arrived at the hometown of tour de france winner. sits at more than 2600 meters of elevation yet the rarified air did little to stem the excitement of fans waiting to see the city's most famous son o'connell i met him when he was riding with his 1st colombian team and started winning pan american bases and then i followed him when he went to italy it's very exciting to see him here because people adore him and this is his 3rd edition of the world tour competition has attracted the roaster of cycling greats and is positioning itself as a premier race in latin america for overseas riders it's an opportunity to compete at the beginning of the season at high altitude with each stage averaging above the highest peaks of the tour de france while for colombians it's an opportunity to shine at home. i think growing up in busy narration for me it's pretty special.

others for this country because they're. colombian cyclists star take over to a world one comes along after training everyone you speak really one of the country despite being a cycling loving country until recently colombia didn't have a you see. race the traditional 2 are known as well as long been bogged down by terrible infrastructure and accusation of widespread doping. the tour 6 stages are in colombia straight dition was cycling regions of. also home tonight looking tana cycling expert says colombian riders are going from strength to strength after an hour came. one after another you know one of the china drips and drabs but now those trying to choke on the words all very fashionable their economic old versions are stored on the engine which in nearly all the world

saw them and are coming through as well so latin america is really changing the face of words on on sunday the last stage will reach the capital and its most emblematic climbed the horn at 3266 meters alison the deep. space isn't cyclists have been taking part in an insurance race on top of the world's deepest freshwater lake baikal in siberia russia freezes over every winter with temperatures dropping below minus 14 degrees celsius but those are the perfect conditions for the 205 kilometer race the record for completing the ice still marathon is just under 8 hours but for most just finishing is a major accomplishment and for now i have more fuel later and that's also it from me in the start. in the next with more of the day's news.

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and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. get a straight leader feels a wise thing about china's growing influence on university campuses. one o one east investigates how beijing is getting off. on al-jazeera. the dazzling display of opulence and fantasy fun to campus fashion it is not only a lesson in creativity but also in sustainability all these clothes are made from recycled fin teach all riposte fabrics we're leading the way to make sustainability the new normal because that's what appears to be some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses are based in paris most say that they're trying to pick up more environmentally friendly changing a multi-billion dollar industry is a challenge but in and fire meant driven by trends where responsibly make clothes may be company ultimate fashion statement.

but warplane from a saudi led coalition crashers in yemen the who thiis a value shot down. below and down join the stars there are live from doha also coming up casals foreign minister says efforts to resolve the gulf crisis have been suspended. the world health organization urges countries to step up their efforts to deal with the coronavirus is the 1st death was reported outside asia. caught in the minority vote u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls turned their attention to the state of nevada.