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 epidemic at the center of a problem this was 2000 new infections reported on sunday. but once again from doha 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. the syrian government says it's gained

control of most of the rebel held 11 aleppo province in the northwest. so a flight evacuating u.s. citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board has now left japan but those infected been left behind this is all on the diamond princess ship which is being quarantined in the port of yokohama on sunday 70 more cases were actually confirmed on board it brought the total number to $355.00 among them 40 u.s. citizens not on those buses they're going to be treated in japanese hospitals but also 100 more deaths have been reported in the epidemics at the center of china's hu by province the death toll on the mainland now close to 1700 with the chinese

government tightening quarantine rules for beijing and across in taiwan as well the taxi drivers died marking the 1st such death on the island in the 5th fatality outside of china it was also that l.t. shot elderly chinese tourists in france. he became the 1st person to die outside of asia but let's go back to those u.s. evacuees and his yapper tansey in washington to talk through what's the story on the flight she had 400 odd people evacuated where they headed. actually 2 flights which which took off while it will had to an air force base in california was to texas 300 of the 400 americans on board this imbarked of which in the latest figures we have all 44 showed symptoms of the coronavirus they will be they will be staying in japanese hospitals now the rest will head to these air force bases where they were put into a 40 day quarantine before they are before their release of the show any signs of

symptoms obviously we're told they will be taken to a suitable off base facility meanwhile 100 americans chose to stay on board the ship despite the you know this being the center of corona virus outbreak they felt as well as we can hear you some of the reasons well look i mean we'd rather not go on a going to be cold windowless cog or plane all the way to the u.s. only to be put him into quarantine on an air force but he would rather actually stay on a on a cruise line however the some strict rules for them to actually we understand they will only be let off the ship on february the 9th 10th we understand but they won't be allowed into the u.s. until march the 4th she had what is the level of interest and indeed the level of concern in the united states and just sort of remembering when we saw a whole lot of british people repatch read to the u.k. and they were people in hazmat suits and all these coaches and all that and it and it you know it raises a lot of people's concern saying those sorts of science. i wonder whether we'll

have some as in say a given that these planes will be landing on their 4 spaces so this will be our tightly controlled area where these people live i think that all of those are the general sense of unease as though it is everywhere. and what these americans involved coronavirus once again did shoot up to the top of the news bulletins you know about the evacuation but as far as this larger issue of the coronavirus in the u.s. should you be scared it doesn't seem to be out a an intense stage of tool really that seems to be confidence looking for an opinion poll on how concerned americans are we couldn't find one that was taken recently the most recent we found was last weekend which suggests that there isn't a great deal of great deal of attention on this 66 percent of americans in that poll so the coronavirus will not impact that personal lives so that's one thing this morning sunday morning news shows which are supposed to 7 news agenda and they

were they would talk about evacuations but in the main they were completely about democratic primaries and other issues there was one republican senator who was spreading some sort of rumor about the whole thing being manufactured in the chinese lab which is being developed right now will you know so as we know. i think the main concern right now actually is among americans we're getting reports solve slow down in businesses and chinatowns in new york chicago los angeles the sister this country has a long history of xenophobia against asian americans and we're saying community leaders local leaders saying look this isn't some ethnically. ethnically based virus this is. everyone should just stay come that's not the other view from the u.s. whichever tanzi thank you. on the news out not long ago we had a really interesting conversation with dr ali khan he is the dean of the university of nebraska medical center at college of public health and he told us it's not clear when the would of this outbreak will be out of. 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 instituted a containment strategy and 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 the world health organization saying yesterday that beijing is going i think it was 82 trials going on to try to find a treatment for you know they're expecting results within weeks again positive sign perhaps i'll 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 evaluate what good options may be to treat patients starting with 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 have recovered can you take their blood and use that has a 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. some positive signs there but there's been the publication of a recent speech by china's president and it's raising a lot of questions about why the public wasn't alerted about the outbreak sooner adrian brown explains why from hong kong. 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 administrator this is the greatest crisis to come from president xi jinping 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 of 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 at 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 move on to other news and 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 agree not to interfere in the conflict many of them have been deeply involved and support from diplomatic editor james bass. this was diplomacy is groundhog day foreign ministers and other representatives from 13 countries repeating the same thing their leaders said exactly 4 weeks ago but this summit in . 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 that when i was 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's a cease fire and that remains a very big if james pays out jazeera munich. in syria state media is reporting government forces have now seized most of the rebel held aleppo province russian planes have been bombing the region in the northwest president bashar al assad's forces have made significant gains in the past few days they've also seize the strategic m 5 highway which links aleppo to the capital damascus turkey has sent in thousands of troops to shore up its observation posts in it well turkey is trying to stop that advance into the last rebel held areas and its foreign minister has told his russian counterpart ankara will take quite necessary steps if diplomatic efforts with russia fail have that cover so you and sergey lavrov helpful to him you know the syrian government with the help of russia or is as we said advancing

in the province and turkish soldiers are on the ground with several killed as well so as the syrian government tighten the grip on the north rebels of abandoned strategic areas in both aleppo and it leap and his involvement in syria increases those fighting bashar allows for bashar al assad's forces see a chance to regain some ground. reports now from the 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 a new directive embankment on the other side government troops are stepping up their campaign. thought more than. we are consolidating our defense lines setting up small flexible command centers most of the factions are coordinating their operations and our aim is to drag government forces into our own areas

fighting has surged over the last few days president bashar al assad's forces have regained control of many areas in and. their advance infuriated turkey which accuses him 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 this by 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 counter offensive. 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. the rebels have no hope of defeating assets 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 agreement will be decided by 3 key powers russia turkey and iran. had tie on turkey's border with syria one other note at least 2 people killed and 5 others injured in a car bomb in a turkish controlled town in syria this is an ad in the north of a province dozens of civilians have been killed there by number of car bombs since

turkish backed forces drove up the kurdish why p.j. militia back in october took a state media's blamed the attack on the white. we'll update the headlines in a moment and then free of corona virus cases so far but fears in indonesia that it could be spreading undetected. and we'll look at some we had wonderful designs in philadelphia to people to imagine a very different reality the future. hello once again is a huge contrast in temperatures that moment across northern and central parts of japan is due to this weather system on the north would side with a lot of snow further south winds coming up from a long way south and therefore the air is quite mild that's why you've got a high of 17 in tokyo contrasting with

a matter of just 2 in sapporo and this circulation of low pressure in the northern part of the sea of japan is likely to high ground and that will bring further showers to jeer in the course of chews day but through monday southern honestly wanted to showers is fine across the korean peninsula but pretty chilly there maxim of just minus 4 in seoul but fine across a good part of china sunshine there in hong kong and highs of 16 so there's your choose day forecast you see the air of low pressure just moving into qaida the showers still there the temperatures still struggling with the winds 20 more towards the northwest then it should be somewhat cooler in tokyo heading into southeastern parts of asia here lots of showers as you'd expect certainly through java and bali and we're going to see a fair few showers across borneo certainly for malays imported looks pretty wet at times but it should be largely bright today as we head on through into choose day northwards into vietnam you see the strength of winslow on the coast there could be some big surf because for that from their highs of 33.

the controversial leader of islamic jihad has cut he is one of the most wanted turns to the string of israeli counter-terrorism and his alleged extra judicial killings by israel television shows and assad says being caught in the bus goes the outcome is only death if someone tried to do but fish got to immediately see many times and was shot down the photos go to kill him in damascus all al-jazeera. wants to on.

with al-jazeera and these are the headlines $100.00 more coronavirus deaths reported in a province in china the epicenter of the outbreak and also a flight evacuating u.s. citizens these were people stuck on the cruise ship in japan have now left those on board who tested positive though staying behind. a u.n. envoy describing the arms embargo on libya as a 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 seize most of the rebel held areas of aleppo province as part of the government's offensive to take the northern region near the turkish border including from it's. one of the go back to corona virus now an epidemic that has curbed travel and disrupted global supply chains it has spread to more than 2 dozen countries but interestingly one of asia's most populous nations is yet to report a single case indonesians who were evacuated from the chinese epicenter will have

been released with a clean bill of health jessica washington reports now from one of indonesia's most important to response. 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 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 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 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 contract to the virus but it's not clear whether that happened in bali where authorities are looking into the case and on this island many are anxiously awaiting to know jessica washington al-jazeera. and yemen the government backed by the saudi led coalition has agreed to a large scale prisoner swap with the who the rebels the u.n. says it'll be the 1st exchange of its size since the conflict began 5 years ago the timing number of prisoners hasn't been announced but the u.n.

special envoy to yemen is urging parties to move forward urgently in a deal brokered back in 2018 the warring sides did agree to exchange about 15000 detainees. details are emerging of a massacre in cameroon at least 22 people including 14 children were killed by an armed group on friday this was in the farming village of in the gaba in the north west has been fighting between rebels and the government in that area over a push to carve out a separate english speaking nation u.s. secretary state might compares arrived in angola after his trip to senegal part of his 1st trip to africa since he took office building 2 years ago while in senegal discussed security and trade but his visit does come at an awkward time. 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 as long as terrorism which endangered 350000000 people right here in west africa. it threatens americans to. we're counting on it is enough for 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 end book doubled with 4000 deaths in the last year we know those are key roles actually united states plays into the june survey ends and i think it just demonstrate the fact that africa isn't a priority for the u.s. and for top administration despite tribes travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including the continent's biggest economy from pale 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 good studio us 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 called that a debt trap saying american investments are a lot better the challenge for the secretary of state is to put word into action and on that china is one step ahead nicolas hawke al-jazeera deckard.

sudan's president omar bashir has appeared in court in khartoum accused of corruption and killing protesters on top of those charges sudan's attorney general says bashir was also being questioned over money laundering corruption and financing terrorism the latest legal problems for the former president who was overthrown following mass protests. india has rejected an offer by the united nations to mediate in the kashmir dispute new delhi says it's a bilateral issue and un secretary general antonio terrace made that offer during a visit to pakistan islamabad has been lobbying to put pressure on india withdrew the autonomy of kashmiri territory under its control and then deeply concerned about the increased tensions that we have witnessed last year i have repeatedly stressed the importance of excess sizing maximum restraint and taking steps to

deescalate militarily and verbally while regulating my offer to exercise my good offices should both sides us diplomacy and dialogue remain the only tools that get in peace and stability at least one person has died as storm dennis wreaks havoc across the united kingdom not one here for nervous flyers this is london's heathrow airport as planes battled strong winds struggling to land there just getting down there were also at least 500 flood warnings issued across the u.k. flooding forced hundreds of people from their homes across wales and the midlands in england storm dentals are reaching parts of western france flood warnings are now in place and ocean foam as you see inundating the coastal streets of sundry know in the region of brittany the us democratic presidential hopefuls are campaigning in nevada are ahead of the 3rd election for the party nomination the

state will hold its caucuses on saturday the elizabeth warren paid judges well and but former vice president joe biden has criticized the gun control voting record of the front runner bernie sanders. now still in the u.s. in the role of design and the challenges that humans may encounter in the future is become the subject of a major exhibition at the philadelphia museum of art it's called designs for a different future and everyone is on the reports it's meant to provoke people to imagine a future much different from 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 bash. 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 collecting 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 their ideas for the future and not telling people what to think rather what to think about gabriel's andro. philadelphia. past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the headlines a 100 more coronavirus deaths reported in china's hu by province the epicenter of

the outbreak 2 flights evacuating u.s. citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship pav also now left japan those on board who tested positive for the virus so they're staying behind her she had her tansey in washington on that 2 flights which which took off while had to an air force base in california was to texas 300 of the 400 merican is on board this. latest because we have all 44 showed symptoms of the coronavirus they will be they will be staying in japanese hospitals now the rest will head to these air force bases where they were put into 40 quarantine of ever headlines in the united nations envoy is describing the arms embargo on libya as a joke. foreign ministers from 13 nations discuss the issue at the munich security conference they agreed not to interfere but many countries have been deeply

involved in the conflict syrian state media is reporting government forces backed by russian warplanes have seized most of the rebel held areas of aleppo province this is part of the government's offensive to take the northern region near the turkish border including a province turkey has sent thousands of troops to shore up its observation points in libya that is to be been killed by a car bomb in the characters' controlled town in syria it detonated in in the north of iraq a province dozens of civilians have been killed there in car bomb attacks since the turkish backed forces drove out the kurdish why fiji militia back in october so to state media they're blaming the white p.g. for this 5 months up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is coming next.

the west is winning the words of the u.s. secretary of state taking aim at china and russia mike peo also sought to reassure european allies concerned by president prompts policies pot is the us stones on global politics believes that positive for the western powers poll is it undermining their alliance this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dalby transatlantic relations are not what they once were neither is the relationship indeed between france and germany and european leaders are concerned by the u.s. president donald trump's.