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prompting people to imagine a very different reality in the future. hello there a flight evacuating u.s. citizens who were stuck on that cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board has now left japan but those who are infected have been left behind it's the diamond princess ship that's been quarantined in the port of yokohama on sunday 70 more cases were confirmed on board bringing the total number up to $355.00 among them 40 u.s. citizens they will be treated in japanese hospitals. people who have symptoms will not be able to get on the evacuation plane others are going to be evacuated starting imminently to air force bases in the united states if people on the plane

start to develop symptoms they'll be segregated within the plane so there's a very firm plan with this $747.00 that is going to take these passengers now who have been there let's look at mainland china of course where the government is times and its quarantine rules for beijing 100 more deaths just reported in province and coming up for 2000 more infections as well also beijing says more than 1700 people have died most of them in mainland china but taiwan has recorded its 1st fatality while an elderly chinese tourists in france also became the 1st to die outside of asia right let's start with covering things from washington for us hi she had the latest from you if you wouldn't mind on this repatriation of u.s. citizens. around the sun both planes have left to california a military base in california and one to texas in fact we just heard from dr chee

that the number of those showing symptoms of the current virus in japan from the ship was raised to 44 going to doctor found shortly after he gave that he gave that interview as he said there are plans for those who are returning home but actually 100 americans chose to stay on the ship because from what we have some were reluctant to get all freezing cold windowless called her plane for this long journey only 2 and up in quarantine on a u.s. military base and rather the surroundings of a cruise ship but they have some interesting issues that we understand that they will be let off the cruise ship on february 19th but they would be let into the u.s. until march the 4th as so that's quite interesting that as well but certainly these the repatriation is now underway and so is there a certain level of concern in the u.s. now about the virus this is as we know the global problem now. there is as you can imagine that this is an easy general sense of unfocused an ease but as far as

we can tell. there is a sense that something is happening over that and there appears to be confidence that u.s. authorities are doing everything they can to keep this from spreading in the u.s. there are 15 confirmed cases in the united states there are also several 100 maybe 600 or so people who return from who bay who are in quarantine either one on military bases or at home and actually there are also concerns there because this isn't the kind of thing that happens very often the american civil liberties union so it's raising some concerns about well what rights do they have exactly and you know will they get lost wages reimbursed and so on but beyond that there seems to be confidence in what the authorities have been doing recently in fact we were looking for a poll an opinion poll only what we could find was was taken last weekend which in itself suggests a lack of huge concern and that poll showed 66 percent of americans say the coronavirus will not impact that personal lives we were looking through the news

bulletins something now that americans are involved the fact that the evacuation did you know what was the headline in the evening news but when we looked at the sunday morning debate shows which shows the sort of agenda that at least the media the media class was pushing and it was barely mentioned in fact the interview we saw was the only interview on all the networks on the morning shows about grown a virus that the main concern i think that we are hearing from the asian american community in the united states this country has a long history of sort of phobia against the asian american community we've had reports of chinatown businesses and chinatowns and new york chicago l.a. city leaders are trying to calm people say that it should be business as usual this isn't an ethnically defined virus in any way so that appears to be perhaps the major concern that was a great ok thank you for those updates she had her chances in washington there now just to build on what she had was talking about we've got the virus tracks and john's hot. university in the united states admittedly these numbers are from

a few hours ago but will give you a good idea you see the cases in north america more sort of on the west coast some more in the northeast obviously the vast concentration is in china and across asia as well at this point almost 70000 confirmed cases but i think the interesting thing to look at over here as well yes nearly 1700 deaths 1670 but also 9871 cases of people recovering so something is going right in that sense but clearly if you're in the as your region there is a very big concern about the spread going on we've got dr ali khan to talk a little bit more about that spread he is the dean of the university of nebraska medical center is college of public health previously served as a senior at minister at the centers for disease control and from omaha nebraska dr thank you for making the time for us today just as i went through that is looking at you know the spread across the world they are these cases everywhere but given

this has been a new virus and it spread very quickly. we actually almost in a good position that it hasn't spread even more at this stage. i think we need to be very careful about making predictions but there is no doubt that this is a global emergency in china and they've instituted a containment strategy an over the last couple of days we've been seeing a decline in cases in china too early to say whether or not that's permanent or not and across the world people have put in various layered public health measures to try to protect themselves they seem to be effective so far but we do know that there are hotspots even outside of china such as singapore is a good example where we are seeing local transmission within the community what do you know about treatment you know the world health organization was saying yesterday that beijing is gone i think it was 82 trials going on to try to find a treatment for and you know they're expecting results within weeks again positive

sign perhaps i take your point that you don't want to get into the predictions business too much it's absolutely a positive point that they're trying to systematically about you wait what good options may be to treat patients starting with the existing drugs that we may already have on the shelf and that's the reflection of these 8082 trials there's also a trial underway to try to look at plasma so this is people who've recovered can you take their blood and use that have the therapy for people who are sick so there's also a trial trying to look at the plasma probably people who have recovered from the disease we're just watching pictures from hong kong you see the people with face masks on you see people being tested their foreheads being tested for for temperatures are these ole effective measures. you know i mean there's been rushes on face masks all over the world you wonder how effective all of this can be. so there's all sorts of layers of measures that people are using so the 1st

obviously is sort of temperature monitoring as people come in and outside of countries other measures i clued these mandatory quarantines that we're seeing as part of travel restrictions people are proving their sort of finding of people who may be sick with respiratory elong infections testing them so these are all sort of multiple layers to try to protect countries as long as possible to delay the. introduction of the disease within to their communities hopefully long enough to get a good therapy or a good vaccine but again we'll see how this plays out over the next couple of weeks can i just ask you finally about the big picture here because obviously people have made comparisons with sobs which happened many years ago that was sudden acute respiratory syndrome i remember as well middle east chris richardson these things will happen one day you know mutations changes new outbreaks i mean can you get

into the preventative business here so without a doubt this is sars let's not confuse our audience it's just are closely related buyers and sars mars apolo all of these have a common theme which is these are animal says that in fact people and then if you don't have good infection control and other practices and good public out they go on and in fact other people so we've seen these ads for over 10000 years of these diseases coming in from animals and then going from human to human some have been successful like measles they remain human pathogens and some like sars on mars or ebola we'll be back into the bush our hope is that this version of sars we beat it back into the bush also but we need to be careful about live animal markets in the future ok dr really interesting talking to very informative as well thank you for your time thank you. now one other note on this the publication of

a recent speech by china's president is raising questions about why the public wasn't alerted about the corona virus outbreak earlier adrian brown explains why. china's president xi jinping knew about the our break of the corona virus in early january that was 2 weeks before the government confirmed the 1st person to person transmission of the virus and more than a week before dr lee one liang was silenced by the government for alerting colleagues the president delivered a speech to the politburo standing committee china's most powerful political body that was on february the 3rd but details were only released by state media this weekend those details amount to an official timeline of what the president knew and when on january the 20th she says he issued special instructions to try to contain the outbreak 3 days later the city of woo han was locked down

a measure praised by the world health organization some analysts say china's leader appears to be covering his back after mounting criticism that he didn't respond fast enough on one hand. chinese leaders who would like to demonstrate that it had not the late in reacting in taking action to contain the epidemic that it had not tried to conceal the facts from the puppy but then are obviously the cover up conspiracy is very much in the minds of chinese people president xi also accused regional communist party leaders of not carrying out orders from the government in beijing and vowed to punish incompetent administrators this is the greatest crisis to come from president putin playing since he came to power more than 8 years ago because it indicates the top leadership were aware of the potential for verity of a virus weeks before the public were told of both dangers at beijing's new

international airport the economic impact from the virus is clear with few airlines flying to china one of the world's busiest travel hubs is it a virtual standstill. desolate scenes too across the border in hong kong on a sunday the city's world famous harborside would normally be teeming with tourists but this weekend just 3000 visitors arrived deepening the sense of isolation here as well adrian brown al jazeera hong kong let's have a look at what's coming up here on this news hour is this the quiet before the storm indonesia has so far staked any coronavirus cases but it's feared it could be spreading undetected also selling u.s. policy in africa sectors that might pump a makes his 1st visit to africa and support the reigning italian champions just a big boost in their fight to retain the title the details coming up but a little later.

we're looking at libya now though a u.n. envoy to libya says the weapons embark on the country has become a joke the issue was discussed at the security summit in munich foreign ministers agreed not to interfere in libya but many of them have been deeply involved in the conflict and support from a diplomatic at the james base. this was deployed overseas groundhog day. foreign ministers and other representatives from 13 countries repeating the same thing their leaders said exactly 4 weeks ago that is summit in berlin but despite their words arms have continued to flow to both sides in libya and showing what some might call great hypocrisy the countries who are breaching the embargo are actually all among those here mr foreign minister you talk about a deplorable breach of the arms embargo we know who is breaching the arms embargo

they were in the room with you what did you say to them no one else those who continue to breach the embargo need to know that they will be detected and they will be named we will discuss that with the e.u. council on foreign affairs tomorrow and we will discuss the contribution the e.u. can make the arms embargo has become a joke and so it you know we all need to step up here and. it is complicated because there are violations that are happening on land sea and air and that all needs to be monitored and there needs to be accountability ultimately attention will now move to geneva the other problem apart from the breaches of the arms embargo is the lack of a ceasefire talks at the un's european headquarters between representatives of general haftar and those of the internationally recognized government resume on tuesday the un have ambitious plans to keep the diplomatic momentum moving they put

in a diary a date of the 26th of february for talks with all the libyan political parties and then the plan is for elections brokered by the un that if there is a cease fire and that remains a very big if james pays out jazeera munich. with us now on skype from washington is mohammad ali a ballet he is a senior advisor to the libyan government of national accord for us if it is also previously served as a libyan congressman thank you for your time so i think james put it perfectly in that report when he said countries showing what some might call great hypocrisy i mean what do you do about that when all these countries say right we need going to abide by this an arms embargo and then basically they don't. good evening come out there that's absolutely the case what the crisis in libya for the last 10 on going on 11 months now. ever since 25 that on april 4th decided to abort any

hope for a political reconciliation process that was also led by the un at that point and blatantly attacked the capital of tripoli on the day of the arrival of the secretary general of the u.n. and since then he just continues to. make a mockery and a joke as the only a mission today of not only the arms embargo of the entire international community and it's a physical the u.n. mission so this is a continuation of the same thing that we've seen for the last several months and the international community seems to be thinking that maybe one you know some magic potion will will appear at some point and have you know how to have some changes behavior or his backers possibly change their behavior without any kind of consequences were actually worse off today come all than we were at the berlin conference thousands of tons of. thousands of tons of weapons have continued to

flow into libya since january 12th reports by international monitoring groups and media reports as well as just you know applications that are available on the internet that any person can access are showing these military flights that are nonstop just a few hours ago another military cargo jet landed in benghazi that came from bringing weapons and to have some militias from so you can say anyway. is there a way or maybe a phrase that is different is there no way to win in force on some bunga. there is there is a 3rd is the will there is the way the problem is i'm not sure that the political will is there there are sanctions that can be imposed on these parties that are bringing in these weapons there are sanctions that can be imposed on hostile himself being a u.s. citizen just a few days ago there was a hearing held at the us senate foreign affairs committee where u.s. administration representatives basically stated that this guy's carrying out work right and that he is continuing to violate all of these resolutions and all of

these international laws however no one has showed any kind of initiative to step in and actually take action against him and against the packers and this is something that today or tomorrow libyans are celebrating the 9th anniversary of the february 17th revolution a day that libyan folk out said we were alone longer except your and he will no longer accept oppression we will no longer accept dictatorship and libyans of paid thousands of lives and a lot of sacrifices towards this objective and this will continue to libyans have our persistence we are committed to this goal the d.n.a. has a mandate to see through this transitional process regardless of what i have thought of what his backers think or say this is something that will we will achieve of libya is the question is will the national community support this or not so you feel there is room for. a political solution of some sort i only say this because in any conflict in the region that we think at the moment if it was yemen in effect in syria the international community always speaks and says there has to be

a political solution the political solution is the only way is it possible absolutely absolutely a political solution is possible and is within reach however there has to be an end to this outside meddling if it becomes a libyan problem and something that we were about to approach on the 14th of april and the city of alarm that this is something that is reachable and i think the political track at the u.n. is trying to initiate is definitely an opportunity however calling for help that it needs to be at the hague to be facing consequences for its war crimes he is not a part of the solution he cannot be part of this negotiation libyans are not about $25.00 said it's not about you know how do you have the rules libya or there is no solution this cannot be a process international community if the international community can wake up and realize that back then i think yeah the political solution is within reach the differences between libyans is not something that is far fetched we are able to reach a consensus and this is what the d.n.a. is mandated to do to oversee this working with the international community

including the united nations and then till that those elements until the you know the international community and the u.n. actually support this process genuinely with the right political will we'll continue going in circles and repeating the same a safe and expecting different results is like dr lee you know i think what some of the pavior from the international community describe something as the europeans and the british were resilient after world war 2 rejecting this kind of tyranny in this oppression the libyan people have that same spirit you will see tomorrow and that on the streets of tripoli and on the streets of malacca and other cities the celebrations where libyans will come out and repeat the same message that they came out with a 9 year ago we were not a dictatorship regardless of what the price isn't regardless of how long it takes something that we are in a mission that cheap mohammad ali abdallah joining us from washington we thank you very much for your time sir. thank you. now the yemeni government backed by the

saudi led coalition has agreed to a large scale prisoner swap with the hooty rebels the u.n. says it will be the 1st to exchange all of its side since the conflict began there 5 years ago the timing the number of prisoners them been announced yet but the u.n. special envoy to yemen is urging parties to move forward urgently in a deal brokered in 2018 the warring sides agreed to exchange about 15000 detainees . and now syria where state media is reporting government forces of seize most of the rebel held province of aleppo russian planes have been bombing the region in the northwest president bashar assad's forces have made significant gains in the past few days seizing the strategic m 5 highway which links aleppo but the capital damascus turkey has sent thousands of troops to shore up its observation posts in libya is well well turkey is trying to stop that advance into this last rebel held area its foreign minister has told his russian counterpart ankara will take quote

necessary steps if diplomatic efforts with russia fail made the cover so you and sergey lavrov held vigil again at that conference in munich the syrian government with the help of its ally russia is advancing in that last rebel held region which is mostly made up of vaguely problems turkish soldiers are on the ground and several have been killed. well as the syrian government tightens its grip in the north rebels have abandoned strategic areas in aleppo and what is turkey's involvement in syria increases those fighting bashar al assad's forces see a chance to regain some ground. has the support now from have a tie on turkey's border with syria. these are fighters from the national liberation front a rebel alliance backed by turkey outgunned and outnumbered the fighters secret behind in you directed embankment on the other side government troops are stepping up their campaign. thought more. we are consolidating our defense lines

setting up small flexible command centers and most of the factions are coordinating their operations and our image to drag government forces into our own area fighting has surged over the last few days president bashar al assad's forces have regained control of many areas in and live. their advance infuriated turkey which accuses us of violating the terms of a cease fire agreement turkey signed with russia and iran 2 years ago. has sent more troops into it and expanded its military outposts despite that damascus insists its campaign won't stop turkey's growing involvement in the syrian conflict is welcomed by the rebels who see it as an opportunity for a cold. we are still fighting to prevent assad's army and the militias backing

him from destroying our villages and evicting civilians the morale of our fight is high and we are all determined to defeat assad the rebels have been weakened by internal fighting and divisions the national liberation front is one among many operating in rebel held territory but hey at the us. is the most powerful it's an alliance of many groups with a strong presence in it. the rebels have no hope of defeating assad's troops who are making more gains and determined to take over the last area held by the opposition now their last chance is that turkey increases its military presence in syria stops the government offensive and imposes a ceasefire but such an agreement will be decided by 3 key powers russia turkey and iran. the tie on turkey's border with syria. just one more note

on syria at least 2 people have been killed and 5 others injured by a car bomb in a turkish controlled town in syria it detonated in the in the north of iraq a province dozens of civilians have been killed there by a number of car bombs since the turkish bank forces drove out the kurdish y.p. g. militia back in october turkish state me is blame the attack on the white beaches. at least 40 people been killed in a road accident in democratic republic of congo local media reports say a truck drove into at least 8 other vehicles in the capital kinshasa several other people were injured. saddam's ousted president omar al bashir has appeared in court in khartoum accused of corruption and killing protesters and as well as those charges saddam's attorney general said bashir was also being questioned over money laundering corruption and financing terrorism is the latest legal problem for the former president who was overthrown following mass protests remember the i.c.c.

the international criminal court has been pursuing him for more than a decade back in 2009 he was charged with 2 counts of war crimes and 5 of crimes against humanity a year later the i.c.c. added 3 additional charges as with the genocide all of this to do with bushy is role in the darfur conflict fighting between pro-government forces and i think rebels going back to 2003 left thousands of people dead and displaced 2 and a half 1000000 people the thoughts now of focus again on who is an international criminal lawyer and counsel for victims out the international criminal court he thinks there are questions about whether sudan can hold a fair trial. it's not clear exactly what's going to happen from here on and so is the prosecutor of the i.c.c. fatima bensouda has already raised the possibility of a trial before sudanese courts in sudan that's what she raised as a possibility with the un security council in december the principal obligation to

carry out an investigation and prosecution does rest with sudan but there will be a very big question mark as to whether sudan is not just able but also willing to carry out a full and proper investigation of prosecuting prosecution into the full range of the crimes at issue it concerns of fast company of ethnic cleansing and genocide in darfur so it remains to be seen whether it sudan is is willing to do that within its own courts and could a trial take place safely in khartoum that's a big question and if justice in this case is really to be delivered close to where the victims live well then arguably it should not take place in khartoum which should be in darfur under the security situation in dar for in visit the holding of the trial there probably not so these are these are some of the issues so the the security is often one of the main reasons why these trials are not actually held

in the country where the hostilities are taking place coming up for you on this news hour on a wing and a prayer stone dennett's calls us avoca across the u.k. and in western europe like a mass and then sport later as well far a will tell us about the ugandan running in itself into the record books. good news. welcome back it's time to take a look at the weather across the americas this time now in north america who have got an area of low pressure developing across parts of the upper midwest so me standing towards the great lakes we've got snow on its northern side there so temperatures hovering just one degrees from minneapolis further south is largely rain and that system is expected to move northward and eastward into the ohio

valley cheering the course of choose day further north courser eastern parts of color some heavy snowfall is likely for a time out across western parts of the u.s. it's looking generally find some francisco that a bright day and highs of 18 degrees heading down into the caribbean is a largely fine picture we've got one or 2 showers for particularly the dominican republic and also down through parts of costa rica and panama but elsewhere it's looking fine plenty of sunshine much from temperature of 27 rising to 28 on tuesday and by and large the showers again still largely effect in the caribbean side of the isthmus now as we head into south america i think the main feature side from the heavy showers across the basin which is what you'd expect we have got this area of low pressure further towards the south into parts of argentina paraquat some heavy rain here and all around the river plate is going to be pretty wet highs of $28.00 when it's aries.

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to. go the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories a 100 more coronavirus deaths reported in china today province the epicenter of the operator. and also a flight evacuating seen us citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship has now left japan is on board the jet and positive though for the virus the state of. a u.n. envoy is the start of the arms embargo on libya joke foreign ministers from 13 nations discuss the issue at the munich security conference and syrian state media is reporting government forces backed by russian warplanes have elsie's most of the

rebel held areas of aleppo province part of the government's offensive to take the northern region near the turkish border including it prompts. more on coronavirus now you know there's been a lot of rumors and hopes is that have done the rounds regarding the outbreak. for example a website publishing claims that china's government plan to euthanize more than 20000 patients to the viruses spread a false sokal that was shared hundreds of times through facebook twitter and read it you choose been cracking down on videos they say among other things that the virus is an engineered bio weapon and misinformation is also been floating around about false cures that doctors warn could be harmful if they are tried here's what amanda you think she's an academic specializing in medical anthropology and cultural perceptions around disease and health she spoke to convene earlier about how fake information means that certain populations are unfairly targeted. i think

these sorts of articles really picked up steam because there. is like a racialized element to the corona virus panic. americans tend to have like a bit of historical amnesia when it comes to emerging infectious diseases and the public reactions around them but every time. a new infectious disease emerges there is there are certain populations which are targeted as objects the public moralizing as vectors of carrying this disease like contaminating the public in the body politic. a very recent. example a parallel would be bola corona virus and ebola are very similar in that they are both 0 and not it diseases in that they are transferred from animals to humans and they both 3 animated like these old lingering stereotypes of non

white people as. you know uncivilized barbaric vectors of disease and. that would in fact places like the us other people out there do you think who pepper sprayed putting this information out or is it just a matter of the information sort of becoming you know like chinese whispers the further it goes down the line the did more in correct it become i do think there are people that are deliberately putting out this racist information in the beginning of this panic there was a video circulating online of a chinese woman eating i think what was that soup and so this. really. took off and it was shared you know like thousands of times on social media and. it created this idea that chinese people.

you know that they like bats and that's how they can tell that's how they got the coronavirus but in reality that video was actually films for a travel show and the girl was in polish. i do think these sorts of racialized panics hender the chinese government's response and the world health organization's response. because it makes it really difficult for people to separate like facts from misinformation. now extremely for a virus that's been detected in more than 2 dozen countries one of ages most populous nations as yet to report a single case indonesians who were evacuated from the chinese are present and have been released from court in with a clean bill of health. just to washington but this report now from one of

engineers is most important tourist spots. it's quieter than usual on bali's beaches tens of thousands of chinese tourists who would have spent their winter holidays on the island have had to postpone their plans because of the corona virus outbreak who visit is from china who landed here before the outbreak escalated there were 2 choices return home or extend this stay at least 300 out of the 5000 who are here have applied for visa extensions but you and her husband are ready to go home the couple say they're confident chinese authorities and governments around the world handling the situation you know what we need to go back to our jobs and our children need to go to school so in our holiday we will immediately return home every year around a 1000000 chinese tourists visit bali and they would direct flights from where the outbreak began until they were stopped

a few weeks ago as many ask how indonesia has seemingly avoided this outbreak for now this concern the virus is present here but undetected somewhere in this vast archipelago a recent study by harvard researchers looked at data around the outbreak and its link with a travel volume it calculated the risk of an outbreak in countries with direct flights to holland when the outbreak began and found the disease could already be in indonesia some say indonesia is vulnerable. there are many ports of entry into the country so many airports and ways for people to get in and some areas don't have the right equipment to take to the virus. but authorities here are defending the measures taken by indonesia. we've been mapping the spread of what would happen if there was a right we have 100 hospitals ready now and getting ready the facilities and personnel are prepared. the world health organization also says the country is

taking the right steps to detect the virus and prepare for cases. have. and. it's been confirmed one chinese national who traveled to bali has constructed the virus but it's not clear whether that happened in bali or elsewhere authorities are looking into the case and on this island many are anxiously waiting to know jessica washington al-jazeera. but the u.s. secretary of state might pompei it's arrived in angola after concluding his trip to senegal 1st visits to the african continent since he took office more than 2 years ago but compares trip comes at an awkward time as well explains explaining chum's policy towards africa it's the challenging mission set to secretary of state mike pompei on

a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house and now and a travel ban on 4 african nations and a withdrawal of troops from west africa clobbers terrorism which endangered 350000000 people right here in west africa. it threatens americans to. we are counting on it is an important ally in this fight my shirt our friends that the u.s. will keep up this fight as well. according to the u.n. attacks by armed groups like the islamic state in the greater south and book doubled with 4000 deaths in the last year we know those are key roles actually united states plays into the june surveyance and training i think it just demonstrate the fact that africa isn't a priority for the us and for top administration despite tribes travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including nigeria the continent's biggest economy pompei 0 insisted that the u.s.

is open for business. and warned against china's growing influence since 2000 china has invested over $280000000000.00 in africa and now it seems that the investment is paying off chinese investors are using african nations to avoid u.s. trade tariffs imposed on goods made in china. we have the trade deals in place with the u.s. we can export to the u.s. duty free and that's what is attracting chinese investors to come here in senegal and more generally to africa also it takes just 14 days from the car by ship to get to the u.s. compare that to shanghai where it takes 2 months and it's a lot more expensive. after senegal pump it was heading to angola then 3 countries benefiting from chinese investments compare calls that a debt trap saying american investments are a lot better the challenge for the secretary of state is support word into action and on that china is one step ahead and it was hawk al-jazeera deckard. one of.

preface. try again professorial lecturer at the school of international service at the american university in total so you might compare he was in africa to counter the influence of china u.s. policy towards africa was articulated in the speech 2 years ago by bolton at the hudson institute and it's mostly about sort of less government spending for more better outcomes in terms of trade and investment and countering chinese and russian influence now china is the biggest state investor and the biggest lender in africa and that's increasing but the u.s. is the biggest private sector investor and that's increasing too so it's 2 different models of engagement private sector led where the terms are sometimes better but it's not necessarily as much in the public interest except in terms of job creation and the chinese model which creates

a big debt burden which is what pump it was referring to but may reach sort of national objectives in terms of say building housing with the african urbanising population certainly the chinese one is succeeding because they're investing more and so that's that's the trap that pump is referring to because you if you find someone who will lend you lots of money on disadvantaged just terms then the problem is a long term problem not a short term problem the main problem for us investment is that companies are a bit skittish about going into africa the trump of mr asian has a number of mixed signals including over these travel bans and other things and so that's making us companies not as let's say interested in taking risks in going into africa but with these moves of a number of other sort of africa investment cond conferences of the u.s. has been organizing there is some forward momentum and u.s. investment in africa is up and that's the point of pumping. at least one person has

died as storm dennis riggs havoc across the united kingdom extraordinary pictures here from london's heathrow airport is this a 380 battled strong winds struggling to land. at least $500.00 flood warnings issued as well across the u.k. flooding has forced hundreds of people from their homes across wales and england midlands storm dennis also reaching parts of western france flood warnings are now in place there and ocean foam inundated the coastal streets of london earlier in the region of brittany thousands of homes lost power as strong winds battered the area. 12 men have been detained in germany suspected of a far right plot to overthrow the political order they were planning attacks on politicians asylum seekers and muslims the group calls itself the hard core had been under surveillance with some of its members arrested last september they were using whatsapp to organize their attacks earlier in the year the pro refugee

politician well to look was shot dead by a far right supporter stefan ernst luko was a member of angela merkel's christian democrat party and a few weeks later it was revealed german intelligence spent years tracking another far right group called an old and cross with reported links to the police and the military this group plan to target senior political think is how your finger works at the institute for political science at the free university of berlin and told us that there are multiple fronts where far right extremism is a problem. we have 2 factors the one is. like a f.t. who is in the bullet struck in the national parliament and who is instigating and developing rage against minorities so they create to a degree an atmosphere through which the other groups the violent runs and courage

to do more violence is a dangerous situation especially for those who are threatened we have some elements within the security services and institutions but the more difficult thing is to detect those who are doing preparing things via internet. messages or services the other. groupings in some cities and towns who have face to face contact and can be also very dangerous i won't do any east german bashing that's a problem in german debates but defacto a lot of these crimes and organisational groups are in eastern germany because of the problems since the unification economically culturally and before in the or

thora tehan phases and decades they went through in east germany. us democratic presidential hopefuls are campaigning in the voter ahead of the 3rd election for the party's nomination nevada will hold its caucuses on saturday if i hate being up as candidates try to stay in the race vice president joe biden has called on the front runner bernie sanders to condemn what he calls quote vicious malicious and miso genetic rhetoric being used by his supporters. now the role of design in the challenges that humans may encounter in the future is the subject of a major exhibition at the philadelphia museum of audits called designs for different few chips and this cable is on the report it's meant to provoke people to imagine a future much different in the reality of today it's an art exhibition not about the past not about the present but about imagining the future of everything like

this 25 collaged passports proposing a system to allow people to temporarily exchange citizenship a critique of a world where goods and services freely cross borders where humans often can't it's one of more than 75 exhibits by designers tackling issues of the future and the human condition at a major new exhibition at the pill adelphia museum of art it is a fashion show that tries to ask a lot of questions without necessarily giving answers. when you come to an exhibition about the future you might expect to see things like this robots and there is one this is corey that looks at the interaction between robots and humans and artificial intelligence but this exhibition is also about a lot more these faces were created from d.n.a. extracted from discarded cigarette ends and gum on the streets the designer using the genetic information to render the portraits. there are several pieces related

to food like these 2 salmon a larger genetically modified one next to a smaller organic one and a replica of steaks grown out of human cells from hospital waste both provocative ideas we flecking a future where food resources are strained the idea is to make people think about food as a cornerstone of human civilization and think about what will happen to food and the future of human diet as we start thinking about the big challenges that are lying ahead like climate change diversity loss and environmental pollution einstein once said he never thinks of the future because it will come fast enough in this exhibit designers are the ones bringing bare ideas for the future and not telling people what to think rather what to think about gabriel's on doe al-jazeera philadelphia sports coming up here on this news hour and it did not end well for

this swedish skier at a world cup slalom events will do details coming up on. the controversial leader of the islamic jihad has cut he is one of the most one internists street is really coming to terms with and his alleged extra judicial killings by israeli intelligence and the sudden sense of being caught in the buskins the outcome is only this if someone tried to talk to scott immediately sunni television was shut down the borders. to kill him in damascus on al-jazeera. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no

limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to because the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. we could look at a sport now with far. thanks very much home favorite sergio greta has won the 3rd edition of the tour of colombia the 22 year old came 2nd on the 6th and final stage behind compassionate daniel martinez on the last week we to seal the victory have to relieving from the 4 stage this is the 3rd time the tour has been part of the

u.c.i. calendar are puerto alexandra ramp yet he has more from dell of their own it was a spectacular and to the 2 a columbia $2.00 and as expected it was a shoot out among the top colombian and equipped oriana riders climbing the most emblematic of a climb above the capital of columbia from 2600 meters all the way here to the peak at 3290 meters the 1st one to cross the finishing line in this last stage was a dynamite who ended up 2nd over all but the the leader of the 2020 tour of colombia in the end there was a 22 year old said here you can maybe come with me as a you know it means so much it's my 1st general classification i want classics and stages but never before general the team gave me confidence there and jonathan

casey the came in 3rd position followed by last year's winner of the tour de france again who came in for to the europeans riders were participating had a very hard time dealing with the high elevation of all of this stages but the average was of at least 2500 the meters and so there's only one european among the 1st 10 riders in the general classification overall this has been a very successful tour and this tour is shaping up to be the premier of competition in latin america interim a land has failed to recapture top spot. in syria they were beaten 21 by lot c.-o. who now lou above them into seconds it means eventis and the day on top after their win over brusca even went into the match having lost their game but some impressive goals 1st by paolo di bella and then one would rather go help them secure the when

to know the final score you venters have a one point lead to the napoli are showing signs of recovery in what's been a disappointing campaign though up to 83 smart and one no win over calley read the victory follows them up subbing interwove nail in the 1st leg of their copa italia semifinal on wednesday taught them a boost in their chances of qualifying for next season's champions league they left it late to beat aston villa sunday in men scoring his 2nd goal of the game in stoppage time sealed is 32 when the result moves spurs into sift which is expected to be enough to reach the champions league with man city barred from next season's edition when we speak about the 5th i think that she should know for sure wolves shifu manchester united arsenal everybody looks to the table and week after week they say we can do it and they can so it's going to be very

hard. arsenal held their outside chances of sneaking into the champions league they crushed newcastle for now at home when leaves them temp 6 points off the top newman 5th the gunners have only been beaten once in all competitions since mackellar tata took over in december. we talked about putting those 'd into wins and those margins could improve translate into more points and it was going to need an important message to break his game at home instead of gaining confidence and never assume there and we've known connection and many people celtics stretch their winning streak to 9 games the glasgow job in speech aberdeen 21 callum mcgregor and christopher i are scoring the goals for the win means they now have time point lead at the top of the table celtic are trying to win the league for a 9th street time oh. well some impressive goals helped a north to

a 43 comeback win over sport in the dutch flight robert goes in a kick getting the winner in the 18th minute to victory leaves them 3rd. you go on as joshua chip t.v. has smashed the 5 kilometer road world record the 10000 meter world champion took an astonishing 27 seconds off the previous record of this race in monaco the 23 year old running the distance in which 12 minutes and 51 seconds. france's gael morphy's has won his 2nd tennis title of the week the rotterdam open off the streets canadian teenager felix simmie in straight sets to retain the title the 19 year old who made history by becoming the youngest finalist in the event missed the chance to clench his folks 80 i don't i get the 10 career titles to work.

over in russia kiki burton's got past alaina read the kenya how does it stand to successfully defend her seat is for total number 8 seed for the netherlands down to 2 opponents 6163 it's the 10th w.t. singles title for the time their kids. better go home. has won her 3rd straight women's world cup slalom as a lackey and has now overtaken american mckayla schaeffer and on top of the discipline we're standing just so we don't lose an aspiring larsson had a huge lead after recording the fastest time in her 1st line and then this happened which took her out of contention for holders when kids are on top of the stone ranking schifrin who is taking a break from skiing since the death of her father 2 weeks ago still leads the overall world cup standings. and that's all your sport for now more later. thank you for that far and we are back in just a couple of minutes time another full bulldozing of news here on al-jazeera the

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babies every year in the united states. also and on the same day. the baby is african-american. this is twice as likely to happen why. rewind america's infant mortality on al-jazeera. illustratively f.b.i. is a wise thing about china's growing influence on university campuses. one o one east investigates how beijing is glued to our report on al-jazeera.

heading home special flights carrying hundreds of u.s. citizens quarantined to the coronavirus on a cruise ship left japan. but in mainland china 100 more people have died in the epidemics epicenter province almost 2000 new infections reported on some. other once again from doha and come all santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera the united nations says an arms embargo in libya has become a joke as diplomatic efforts continue to find a solution to the conflict.