is reloaded on el jazeera. al jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes growing evidence of a decline in cases of corona virus in china as health officials say the virus is not as deadly as previous strains serious president celebrates recent gains by his forces in aleppo saying the fight for full control will continue. a major breakthrough in efforts to enforce an arms embargo in libya the european

union ok's a new sea and their patrols in the eastern mediterranean and russia has big plans for facial recognition we take a closer look at the legal attempts to shut it down. and far as small have all the day's sport including its 2 wins from 2 from holders our hell out of saudi arabia and the group stages of the asian champions league. welcome to the program more than 300 americans have been flown home after 2 weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship as the fight to contain the coronavirus continues the diamond princess which is docked in yokohama has become the biggest single cluster of infections outside china with more than 450 people unwell in the epicenter of the outbreak more than 70000 people have been confirmed to have the virus in china with

nearly 1800 deaths among them the people's daily newspaper reports that the high ranking director of a 100 hospital has died from the virus well the lockdown in chinese a cities is continuing and one of the country's most important political gatherings of the year may be the next casualty officials are considering canceling an annual parliamentary session which draws officials from around the country to beijing sarah clarke has the latest now from hong kong. millions of chinese are returning to work some companies have reopened their factories as they try to get back to business as usual after being shot for weeks but 50 percent of our employees have returned to work bringing our production capacity to 50 percent we predict all of our workers will be back on their post by the end of february and a production capacity will return to normal. employees arriving for work a getting additional checks to make sure they're healthy and the government's

offering companies tax incentives to limit the economic damage of the outbreak the government's also rolled out some measures to help enterprises and ensure their normal operation so we're encouraged and feel confident government statistics on monday showed a continuing rise in the infection right in china but the fatality rate has fallen the national health commission says the situation is improving outside here by the province at the center of the crisis to. places outside of who by a total of 115 new cases were reported on sunday including 5 new did the number of newly confirmed cases outside of who bay has kept declining for 13 days in a row the number of new confirmed cases remained at a relatively low level. for the in who by the situation is grim inside this makeshift hospital and will hand patients queue for food and treatment as medical staff care for the rising number of infected china's military is sending hundreds

of doctors and nurses to where hanne the world health organization is sending experts to beijing as well as to guangdong and 61 provinces. with the virus yet to be contained china's largest annual political meeting is expected to be postponed the national people's congress to start on march the 5th a meeting next monday is due to decide if the meeting will be shelved the 1st time in china's recent history here in hong kong another infection was reported on monday the spread of the virus is feeling more consumer panic with rice toilet paper rolls at. sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong well the head of the world health organization says new data from china is giving a clearer picture about the impact of the virus. the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously turn this

going change as new populations are affected it's too early to tell if this report to decline will continue every scenario is still on the table it also appears that quoted 9 didn't is not as deadly as a record and i viruses including scientists and murders more than 80 per cent of patients have mild disease and will recover. japan has confirmed the 99 further infections on board a quarantined cruise ship docked in yokohama but 300 americans who were on board the ship have arrived home on evacuation flights that now spend another 2 weeks in medical seclusion in the u.s. kimberly healthcare has more now from washington. well the u.s. government set up a task force a number of weeks ago and so those efforts put in place are now being implemented those passengers are going to 2 different locations either military base in texas

or another in california and there are more military bases around the country that are on standby if they're needed later on now the concern is for the from the standpoint of health officials in the united states is the asymptomatic spread of this virus in other words those that don't have any exhibited symptoms can still pass the virus on to another person and as a result draconian containment measures have been taken are taking place and that is that there will be an unforced quarantine of 14 days for these passengers that have just arrived in the u.s. so you have to remember they've already been in isolation for 2 weeks now the clock starts ticking for another 2 weeks bring it to a total of one month that these passengers will be separated from the rest of society. chinese authorities have detained a prominent rights activist who criticized president zuma ping's handling of the corona virus outbreak. was arrested on saturday night in the southern city of one's

who is a legal scholar and long time activists for judicial reform earlier this month as you published an essay which called on china's president to resign citing the coronavirus crisis in the mishandling of the whole call pro-democracy protests. well a growing number of asian countries are feeling the economic pressure of the epidemic china is rolling out tax incentives to encourage companies to reopen while hong kong has pledged additional economic measures in japan the economy has shrunk at its fastest pace in 5 years and there are fears of a recession after 2 straight quarters of the clyde say a force prime minister has said a recession is also possible there and analysts are predicting it could run its biggest deficit in more than a decade and then come bodie aware the economy is strongly dependent on china the government is warning of job losses when he reports now from phnom penh. the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years

buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction sector. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one but also money to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it would be tough for me to pay the loan is even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on $2.00 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear and clothing it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its spec trees will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as

90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent years china has become more influential and more invested in southeast asia from tourism to construction to manufacturing but even before the corona virus outbreak as the chinese economy was slowing governments in this region were beginning to wonder if they were becoming too reliant on china. singapore's prime minister lee hsien loong says because china is a much bigger factor in the region than it used to be his country's economy could dip into recession this year as visitor numbers drop by as much as 30 percent thailand's economy was already stuttering and may also be nearing recession with growth hitting for less than 2 percent and vietnam's manufacturing sector depends on a well oiled supply chain from china in january exports fell more than 17 percent. but some experts believe the threat extends well beyond this region all countries

in the world depends on china production especially in the united states and europe they import a lot from from from china and when china has a problem they will have inflation there the same thing soledad is a lot more demand for. asia but for the world the wealthy may be able to ride it out but it is perhaps tougher for those living on the edge of poverty who could easily slip backwards in the event of a regional or global economic shock in cambodia there are millions in that category and as corona virus spreads in china and beyond the economic contagion is also worsening when hey al jazeera phnom penh. well the number of major public events which are fallen victim to the outbreak has continued to grow in the past 24 hours the organizers of the tokyo marathon of canceled all but the elite races at next month's event meaning that $38000.00 public entrants will not run the race a major trade show for investors due to be held in geneva next month has been put

back into september as a 3rd of the exhibitors come from china and with just 6 months until tokyo is due to host the olympic games questions remain over whether one of the world's biggest sporting events will be held in a virus hot spot. or coming out on al-jazeera this news hour a massacre in an already tense english speaking part of cameroon separatists blame the army but it denies responsibility the price of peace in rio de janeiro fewer murders but police killings are at a record high and in sports in this sport ostreicher lashes out at rival fans after being targeted with racist abuse. the united nations says 875000 civilians have fled from fighting in northwestern syria since december the syrian government launched an air and ground offensive to

recapture the last rebel held areas last year the advances created the biggest single civilian displacement during the 9 year war almost $40000.00 people have fled towards the turkish border in the past 4 days alone meanwhile syria's president bashar al assad says he is committed to continuing his government's offensive until the very end his forces have made massive gains in recent days capturing dozens of villages in aleppo province and said made his comments in a rare address on state t.v. . we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war all the end of plots or terrorism. this liberation does not mean the enemy's will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemy's pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later well sure of our eyes on the turkey syria border with more on bashar al assad's comments. this is

a delicate moment for the syrian opposition but also for the syrian government at this explains why president bashar assad has been celebrating in his speech the new major gains made by the syrian army particularly on the outskirts of aleppo and also the southern parts of it live saying basically that this is just about a matter of time before the opposition is defeated this explains why he has been saying that the fight will continue until the terrorists of this is the term that he uses. most of the time to describe the syrian opposition would no longer in 2014 or 13 when the syrian government was on the verge of collapse and when the syrian opposition was making spectacular gains across the country all those gains were reversed and just confined to it which is their last stronghold but president bashar assad also told his people that they have to wait or that this is not the end of the war and i think he was hinting to the fact that with the

growing turkish involvement with turkey sending more boys into into taking over it might take some time now it's no longer up to us or to decide what happens next and i think this is something which will boil down to 3 players russia turkey if you have been holding talks in moscow to defuse tension iran is also another. player the 3 iran russia and turkey will decide the future of syria in the near future at least 22 people have been killed during an attack on a farming village in can the northwest english speaking region the u.n. says. armed men shot at women and children in none could pull and burned others in their homes english speaking separatists of blame the army for the violence but it has the night any wrong doing and says its soldiers were attacked during a reconnaissance mission al-jazeera is nicholas hawkins been speaking to witnesses in that in senegal. graphic images that's being distributed on social media too

graphic to broadcast on television these are children babies that were burnt before that they were shot in the head now we spoke to some eyewitnesses that were there when the attack took place that then buried the bodies of these children children ranging from the age of 6 months to 14 years of age there was a woman that was pregnant a disabled man this for the government is just collateral damage they acknowledge that this took place but they call it collateral damage in their fight against the separatists that want to do their independence from the french speaking majority of cameroon this is one of many attacks that are that is taking place in the northwest and southwest region of cameroon it's very difficult to go there we weren't allowed to go there it's a restricted area so it's very difficult to get some clear reporting of what's happening joining me now is temp food from the open society in west africa he's him

self in english speaking cameroonian when you hear the reports that we're seeing now would you make of this i mean it's a it's a terrible situation that has been allowed to get out of hand the incident in my selected incident seems that all settle down a little crises this incident have been known for we think with regularity and each time there is no accountability for the big picture of these he knew him through from the open society initiative in west africa thank you very much there are a 1000000 people displaced from this conflict that started off just a few years ago people english english speaking people that wanted that wanted the government to recognize their identity as an english speaking and despite this the attacks have intensified in that region. the european union will launch a new sea and air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop more weapons

reaching libya's warring factions this marks a major prate breakthrough after weeks of negotiations but as our diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva talks there on a full ceasefire may be more important. foreign ministers of the european union meeting in brussels have decided in principle to start monitoring illegal arms flows to libya however they've also actually cancelled an already mandated e.u. mission operation saffir that used to have ships in the mediterranean from 2015 to deter migrants until the naval vessels were withdrawn as a result of a talian pressure instead of retard skiing that help aeration they now have to set up a new naval and air mission which may even need fresh u.n. security council authorization it could all take months to find some of the international arms embargo isn't the only major problem affecting peace efforts in

libya in the coming hours talks will resume here at the u.n. in geneva between 5 representatives of the internationally recognized government in tripoli and 5 from general haftar side to try and get a cease fire can you give us a readout of how they went the government's representative at the u.n. in new york libyan ambassador sunny told me the previous round of talks had been far from easy there's a lot of issues that we don't need and together but there are some parts that as mentioned from the u.n. led process that could be a breakthrough but i'm still. have to be cautious because we notice that there are certain elements that we look into in terms of the return of i.d.p.'s the buffer area and where the withdrawal areas are these are things that are still and were discussions and are not clear yet at the munich security conference the u.n.

has except the special representative of libya made it clear if they can silence the guns the plan is for wider political talks in just over a week's time james pays out 0 jinnie. well meanwhile flights at tripoli's mitigate international airport have been suspended after shelling by libyan national army off lives have been diverted to misrata which is around 200 kilometers away attacks by forces affiliated to have to have frequently forced the closure of me to go airport in recent months it's the only operational airport in the capital after us forces are attempting to seize control of tripoli and the country's un backed government and this is libyans marked the 9th anniversary of the start of the revolution that eventually toppled more market duffey large crowds took to the streets of the capital tripoli waving flags and playing music for nearly a decade on the power vacuum that followed give duffy's this continues to fuel

a violent conflict where we can now speak to an asset is the director general of this of the institute a think tank specializing in libyan affairs certainly you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so let's start with what was the top story of this sequence and that is this e.u. sort of a message plan to begin to launch a new c. an air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to stop more weapons that reaching either side what do you make of it do you think it is a sort of change in the right direction or not. well as well as in something that could have been done very peacefully which was to be to monitor all of the different sides and particularly the air. of the arms embargo which is really been significantly violated since international players met in berlin only 3 weeks ago and announced that they would relieve their commitment to of course of the arms of bogarting violently since at least april 4th of 2019 last year i mean the

u.a.e. egypt saudi arabia and russia have all been moderates in the arms embargo in eastern libya but in western libya where there has been an increased naval presence by turkey it seems that anger and europeans over the last 2 months and that's really what sparked this latest move so it's weaponize it's something that could be done with an even keel notice that model or both sides as they. go but it's certainly one that seems like you are presently working up to since turkey has involved itself and the message actually is quite desperate what it looks like they're saying to the u.n. but government in tripoli will monitor you but will it out from the other side arms and bargains to continue to be while it's a present or a very dangerous sign and it's consistent with the view of europe and the european union and the united nations who have largely been and vigilance to this until turkey intervene there are 3 months ago since april of last year the arms embargo was one of the at it from from sea from land nothing was done so i'm surprised that

it's it's been a reaction now but it seems like there weaponize it's in the libya desperately needs for this humanitarian and peaceful approach as house from the european sides and we're getting from all countries as how trying to stop further immigration into europe it seems to be on the step topline of many of their policies do you think that a more united europe would help the situation in libya or do you think that's almost watched too much to ask for. well united europe at least this diplomatic view of libya would certainly help and diplomatically all they need is to go to threaten condemn all sanction one of those actors that i too was harry potter who launched a coup in april 4th 2019 who launched 2 canoes that sparked libya's 2nd civil war before this 3rd will in 2014 not almost 9 years ago to the date he launched on bet every 42014 and again and made it may 15th 2014 so we're kind of in the same boat here they reacted to the tools that we can use i said like

a broken record because for the last 5 years many people like myself have been saying that you have diplomatic options the un backed government went around europe in may of last year for all months to england to france germany asked begging in fact but then to enforce sanctions that we already have we already have a un resolution 1007 series that was passed in march 2011 that gives an arms embargo the question is do you want to enforce or or for the mechanism to enforce that but it's basically political will so europe has many options it's limiting its options or leaving it leaving and to the very last minute and to the migration crisis creeps up as it did in 2014 and 15 that can break europe but we shouldn't feel india as only a problem we could find it to be an easy solution if we use the easy that one of the tools or options like europe coming morally bankrupt i think that's one of the major problems that we're looking at and it's only giving the threshold of conflict or the threshold of a problem through a very minor moral question because when you look at turkey lebanon jordan they've taken millions of refugees libya gets thousands of refugees it's not interesting to

europe a space it is a moral crisis no real crisis absolutely and there's differences within european countries within it many of the smaller landlocked countries actually tend to be the most vociferously at migration forces but i seem to understand from what you're saying that you think that this move by europe could almost support for half that more than the u.n. recognize the government. do you think that that is intention on behalf of the european union or some european countries that perhaps they now see the have tarred as the more likely party to bring some kind of stability to libya which of course they want because mainly they care about stopping migration flows it's it's for me it's funny that we're talking about 9 years on to the day because the brutal force or terrorism that filibuster has tried to recreate fell apart in 5 hours and but it was the 9 years ago this evening when women came out in the street and chanted before there was it broke the entire system had been there for 42 years we're not

going to call computer back together again but there were 76 year old general who wants to be a strongman but is a strong enough to even take a suburb of tripoli which is not going to happen so my view is europe may want to keep itself into that it's a believe in the in the way that it consists of into believing that as a migration process it has a moral crisis it can seek to play a positive role and has the committed tools that are at the table that it can use as many options but morally bankrupt option is allowing a civil war to take place that is really unnecessary because this is manmade and we are we are the she is not the 2nd to 2020 that are not manmade climate laws that are minute but are almost beyond our hands climate change is a real this is a very unnecessary one s. out. in a forgive me and that's what i have to leave it there and a director general of the city can city which is a think tank specializing in libyan affairs sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. now at least 7 people including 2 police officers have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing in pakistan police say

a teenager detonated the bomb in the provincial capital of balochistan it happened when he was stopped by police near the city's press club the religious rally was taking place so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. at least $24.00 people have been killed after unidentified gunmen attacked a church in northern book enough the attack took place on sunday during a weekly service in the village of pansie it's the 3rd religious attack in the area in the past week. now the speaker of iran's parliament has become the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon's new government ali larijani said that iran stood ready to help lebanon's struggling economy prime minister has sunday abd has promised to come up with a plan to ease the financial crisis but protesters are still denouncing his leadership saying holder has more from beirut. ali larijani is the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since a new government took office last week iran's parliament speaker came with

a message of support from iran's leadership and his visit also seems to be a message to the international community as well lebanon is caught in the crossfire between the united states and iran and it is allies of the islamic republic who control lebanon's cabinet. lebanon managed to overcome a sensitive and difficult phase when it for the new government we hope the new government will be able to succeed and we are ready to call parade with it and give it our full backing but iran's growing influence in the cabinet through its local ally hezbollah seems to be hurting lebanon's ability to secure much needed funds from both the international community and the arab world prime minister has sandia his government is seeking all the help it can get as a deals with the unprecedented economic and financial crisis international community is more or less in the wait and see mode. the us administration in the

waiting internally how to deal with them along so there is no decision yet obviously for of the europeans they are conditioning to reforms and waiting to see what the government will commit to allow for the arabs from the arab countries maybe maybe saudi arabia. u.a.e. you seem to have more. griefs maybe against this government politically the trumpet ministration so-called maximum pressure campaign against iran is a. as a terrorist group and recently extended sanctions to target hezbollah's members in parliament that's an effort to weaken the group's control of the lebanese state and its political system u.s. secretary of state. ministration will work with new government.

forms like fighting corruption and tax evasion and supporting an independent judiciary lebanese politicians have power for decades have repeatedly postponed implementing reforms that would weaken their hold on power but they are under increasing pressure the economy is collapsing lebanon is close to bankruptcy and iran's influence in the government threatens international isolation. still to come on al-jazeera the schools now are a week of storms across the u.k. brings us some of the highest water levels in 14 years with hundreds of flood warnings still in place in sports the best women's cricket here is enjoying some downtime ahead of that peak 20 world cup.

hello again a welcome back to international weather forecast while we have been talking about storm dennis for many days now and we're still going to be dealing with it here across parts of northern europe about this front where you see here this line of clouds that is where we're seeing the gusty winds continuing as we go towards tuesday still cross parts of the baltics we will experiencing some gusty winds there is ferry service could be disrupted as well as we go towards tuesday in terms of the rain here across you case we're still dealing with a lot of flood watches and warnings in effect in terms of the rain though it is going to be lighter but that's not the end of it as we go towards the middle of the week we're going to be seeing another storm coming in out of the atlantic and this one is going to bring some more rain some more winds with it as well really we're going to be seeing the force of this as we go towards wednesday night and then the system pushes an even closer as we go towards thursday heavy rain expected across much of the area also gusty winds could be a problem there's that front pushing through london later in the day we do expect to see rain with a temperature of 11 degrees there well here for the northern coast of africa

a lot of clouds over the next few days in parts of libya as well as into egypt we don't expect to see too much in terms of rain mostly along the coastal areas but for alexandria and maybe into cairo it could be a few showers few attempts of the 20 and the guy at 16 degrees. for. a unique endangered by a giant. lies in the high. not to one of ecuador's tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the animals that we have here and now that probably are just becoming by feathers of conservation in their communities algis their journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and have teams afterwards to save the koran and for not so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. progress. or a serious mistake. intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our

lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better for all was. in a new documentary i'll just 0 explores the impact of they are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data on al-jazeera. back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera just under 100 new cases of corona virus have been diagnosed on board a cruise ship in japan has 300 americans quarantined on board return home more than

70000 people now have the virus in china serious president says he is committed to continuing his government's offensive in the north of the country until the very end. made his comments in a rare appearance on television and at least 22 people have been killed during an attack on a farming village income in northwest english speaking region separatists have blamed the army for the violence but it's denied any wrongdoing. there's been heavy clashes between saudi troops and tribal forces in yemen's al mara province it happened near the omani border saudi troops attempted to storm the town of sean they were repelled apache helicopters and armored vehicles were deployed from aldgate the airport as part of the assault or on this we can speak to the editor in chief of the international interest magazine sami handy he joins us live now from cebu in tunisia sir thank you so much for joining us here on this just happened in

the past few hours what's your initial reaction to these clashes between saudi troops and the tribal forces. i think we have to understand the context in which these questions are taking place it seems that there have been increasing discontent has been increasing discontent in southern yemen and that the plan now from the u.a.e. in particular is to seize the pullets is to back the separatist movement in the south is in order to expand this maritime policy that extends on the coast of east africa all the way to the mediterranean and it believes that it's and convince saudi arabia to abandon this idea of restoring yemen as one nation by essentially bribing it with having a stake in building a pipeline that goes in that vicinity near the border of arm and through of those posts and it seems that the yemenis in this area have been complaining for some time saying we do not want to control your power you came here to help us to restore the international recognized government stuck trying to centrally steal our resources in the midst of this conflict so these clashes are taking place in this

context we should remember that the tribes who are perplexedly in very cold in these clashes with saudi arabia where only a few days ago part of keeping representatives of the international recognized government safe from any potential kidnapping in the late to see them to believe attacked by saudi arabia police say that they ambushed a saudi convoy suggests that the discontent is reaching a very serious level for saudi and the u.a.e. and so if this growing discontent as you say could lead to more tribal clashes how does it change your reading credibly complicated balance of power between all the warring factions in yemen. i think it's difficult to say i think yemen is one of those really complex dynamics in which we always try to talk about it in black and white who things versus the coalition but in reality it seems that all of the warring parties don't enjoy much popular support and now we see southern separatists we see the ruthie's we see the tribes we see saudi arabia we had that we have the last laugh at one point if we talk about how these questions might

change things these clashes would only add to the antagonism towards saudi bombardment in other words it would increase the pressure on the saudis to start going for that negotiated solution and this is significant because in the past it's been the goofy's who have been the ones who have refused that negotiated settlement the whole of these have believed in the military victory to keep santa to keep the cities and force the entire community to recognize them but if suddenly the southerners turn on saudi arabia if the tribes start turning on saudi arabia saudi arabia will slowly and very realistically see itself being pushed more further and further into a corner and having to cede conditions to the 7 separatists and the fees because there is this all there is dynamic emerging in yemen whereby saudi is no longer the major power the separatists are firmly in the u.a.e. camp because these are firmly in the iranian camp and the saudis are sort of tagging along with the u.a.e. not quite sure what they want in yemen we should remember that the saudis were trying to open negotiations with the ruthie's not too long ago in

a bid to write down the conflicts because the saudis are looking to boost their image that they are a country that is stable and to do that they have to wind down the conflicts but this will only make things very difficult saudi wants access to those yemeni resources which has had access to in the past but it seems that it will not be able to do so without some rebellion from these a yemeni i mean these in the south some harm the editor in chief of the international interest magazine mr hamdi thank you for joining us. the human rights activists in brazil say that they're concerned about the lethal tactics used by police to try to curb the country's murder rate the number of homicides in here there's an arrow has fallen as police get tough on gangs but as john holeman reports from the city innocent civilians are often caught in the crossfire. the good news is that religion a doe's murder rates are a record low the bad news killings by police are the highest since the $990.00 s. last year an average of 5 people

a day were killed by officers the government says the 2 are linked experts are less sure one thing though is for certain in the city's poor neighborhoods favelas a price is being paid. for lesser felix's daughter agatha was killed by a police bullet last september she was 8 get a mark was it could be me i was always afraid of shootings in our area and i was afraid that i could have been shot but i never thought it could happen to her but it did. what i feared the most happened to my girl. i get his death sparked anger against what many call the heavy handed tactics of military police units. that's been going on for years but even while on the campaign now president joe you are not 0 said that he give the police even more of a free hand to hold the well i'm going to give the police carte blanche to kill 4 year old real de janeiro's governor has been equally permissive they argue the

stats say it's worked experts disagree police thinking is doesn't reflect in the direction of homicides when we look at the data the evidence doesn't show the statistics they are not correlated reso and others say the murder rate was actually going down already helped by a truce between brazil's 2 biggest gangs and the moving of king pins to high security jails giving police free rein really nerdy so argues can only be bad in the long run when police kill more people what happens is they lose their people moves they're caught bass in the police and there's a fact the capacity of police to act and to solve crimes because people don't trust the police that many brazilians think differently there's a lot of people they support the legal tactics that tired of years of sky high violence but many of them perhaps don't live in the favelas the bear the brunt of

its impact. and we're not just criminals but innocents are being mown down john home and al jazeera real degenerate you. and on tuesday will bring you part 2 of our series on violence in brazil looking at the hold that rio's militias have over some of the city's poorest neighborhoods were originally made up of former police officers and soldiers who came together to combat crime spark as much fear as the drug lords that they offer protection from. now activists in russia are taking legal action against the government's plan for one of the world's largest facial recognition systems they fear the surveillance is being used to pinpoint critics of president vladimir putin but police say law abiding russians have nothing to fear our correspondents that fasten has been given exclusive access to police headquarters in moscow. moscow fights are being watched closely

$200000.00 cameras will be installed not only on public streets but also at the entrances of private living quarters not many people are weird at their biometric data images body measurements and other characteristics are being captured real time and transmitted to police monitors within moments a person's identity can be determined and his place of residence. if the person is on the wanted list it means he is a criminal if you have not committed a crime you don't have to be worried that. if user caught on camera russia is taking the phrase big brother is watching you to a new level 'd with biometric data collection seemingly available at nearly every 3 corner. easily catch criminals but critics say they'll keep a close eye on activists opposing the putting through dream at the same time. police have been accused of using face recognition technology to crackdown on

peaceful protesters during a wave of anti-government demonstrations last summer up over sash she was arrested after taking part in the protests in 2018 she filed a case against the police at a moscow court dismissed it she will mount a not a legal challenge against a technology next month is. by using facial recognition technology the state violates people's privacy and i'm saying they're doing it illegally i'm convinced that they are collected user biometric data and they don't have a right to do so they must stop. but the company that designed it acknowledges sassed it system is being used legally in russia an activist should be more worried about their mobile phones when you're talking about your phone so your job position is always on. all the content is monitored which you're saying you know the. speech recognition is always on so. whatever so. when you when you do

from the from the government perspective this is the number one thing the company claims it can identify people even if only their eyes are visible and do the test we do find a loophole the company admits that mismatches can happen and aims to improve the system. not only desist and invasiveness and accuracy is being questioned but also its security recently russian media discovered that captured images are being hacked and sold on the black market which instead of compared to crime could make it criminals work on lot easier step fasten al-jazeera moscow for more on this i'm joined by griff faris sees a legal and policy officer for big brother watch that's a civil liberties campaign group here in the u.k. thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera let's focus on the technology because we saw there was. far from full proof how reliable do you think the

technology is i guess from what we're seeing in russia and also examples that you've seen here in the u.k. where we are the u.k. technology is has been shown to be incredibly inaccurate freedom of information requests our organization for brother watch has found that the metropolitan police is technology in london has been 93 percent inaccurate which is incredible that means you know $93.00 out of 100 people are being misidentified and as a result of that we've seen people be wrongly stopped wrongly asked for identification you know. extremely aggressive police action that report that we just saw from step last and of course focused on russia but how widespread is this kind of technologies and which countries are implementing it more so police across the u.k. have views that a number of times it's also being used in the u.s. although a number of cities in the u.s. are this technology it's been used in much more limited circumstances in germany and france and overseas being it can credibly widespread in china where

there are vast c.c.t.v. networks using facial recognition for example to oppress the ethnic we can minority life issue recognitions surveillance has been a tool of oppression in the example i suppose it would always depend on which government is using it and if it's a government it is considered more repressive it could be more of a danger to ordinary citizens but of course a lot of other governments will say well we need this for you know against crime against all sorts of issues give me the counter-argument to that well that's exactly argument that's been used in the u.k. the police have said that they need it to target serious violent crime 1st of all it's a massive and it's also it's incredibly disproportionate in that it scans thousands of people just to catch a few people. that means thousands of people have their biometric data akin to a fingerprint or d.n.a. scanned which means that it is by its nature disproportionate mass surveillance to notwithstanding that. it's also incredibly inaccurate so that means innocent people

are being identified there was a being misidentified so they're having they're being stopped by the police they're being having their identity checked that's the kind of you know authoritarian police action that we we don't expect in a democracy i mean increasingly on technology like normal phones it will have facial recognition is a sort of way of identifying with south do you think that people are away or just how much facial recognition technology there is out there that we don't necessarily agree to the way that we do with a phone no i think the way the technology has been used in the u.k. has been very untransparent you know police have been using it across london they've been using it across south wales and many people have been completely unaware about about the fact that they are being scanned by biometric surveillance to the police haven't publicized that the government have been very quiet upon it and they've ignored you know they've ignored m.p.'s david nord 26 rights groups have all come together to say that this technology should not be used in a democracy it should not be used in the u.k. why do you think it should be used it's incredibly intrusive to our individual

privacy it has a potential massive chilling effect on people's freedom of expression association it's been used to protest in the u.k. people will be much less likely to exercise their democratic rights to exercise their freedom of expression in association to go to protests to go to public spaces when they know that they're being tracked and identified by the police and the government grif areas legal and policy officer for big brother watch thank you and . now staying in the u.k. sort of hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the country after some areas recorded the highest water levels in 40 years 2 storms have battered person in recent days 4 people have died in a week of surging waves and wind for a challenge reports. hangry season dangerous while in rivers dennis is the 2nd storm in a week to batter parts of the u.k.

blowing in shortly after storm chiara blew out dennis has brought floods and destruction to wales and western england. in herefordshire cars became flotsam borne away by the waters because storm chiara had already saturated the land dennis's heavy rain swiftly turned roads to tarantulas rivers built into lakes the town center of 10 bridwell's in worcestershire was submerged it can take months for people's lives to return to normal after this kind of event it's to my thigh in situ mean. everything that we put up on boxes last night is. we've got electricity so we're really lucky so we've been serving. hot water if somebody wanted it but you know i mean people are starting to sort of evacuate now prime minister boris johnson quick to visit storm hit areas while campaigning for december's election has yet to do the same this time. but the government has

announced plans for a new $1500000000.00 supercomputer that will try to predict weather and climate change faster than ever before that's won't stop storms like dennis and here are of course but it's more warning should mean better preparation and that could prevent future storms being so destructive chalons. the world's richest man just basal says that he plans to spend $10000000000.00 of his own fortune to help fight climate change the amazon founder is says he'll give grants the scientists activists and nonprofit organizations starting later this year last year amazon which uses fossil fuels to ship billions of items around the world said it wants all its energy used to be renewable by 2030. still to come here on al-jazeera in sports the comeback queen makes her gritty return to professional tennis in nearly 8 years i.

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business leaders as well to buy the brass palm. oil. ok the sport now here's. oh thanks so much barbara holders of saudi arabia made it 2 wins from 2 in the asian champions league group stages last year who all became the 1st west asian sides in south side in 2011 to win the competition they came from behind to be the u.a.e. . a great start for the family to leave gomes barring them to victory former french international getting 2 goals including this stunning winner final score to what.

is back as danny champions practical or have also made 100 percent start the beach or at home 2 goals inside 5 minutes not long after the break pretty much ending the hopes of their reigning opponents back to court going on to win it when you. picked up their 1st win of the rounds and they did it in dramatic fashion and rowdy side scored an 88th minute to beat iraq so shorter one nil away. the prime minister of portugal is calling on football authorities to hand down tough punishments to those responsible for the racial abuse and listen. porto striker walked off the pitch in protest after hearing monkey chants during the game the country's top league and the richardson reports. some are a good school the winning goal for his was to become little more than a footnote in this portuguese league game the mali international claims he was

targeted with racist abuse from rival fans throughout the match the club in question was victoria give us a team used to play for seats were thrown the 28 year old while he celebrated. break it was then booked when he reacted by picking one of the seats up. the game did restart but the abuse from victoria fans didn't stop him or a get made his feelings clear. he later wrote on social media that his abuses were idiots. and he criticized the referee failing to help him and instead giving me a yellow card for defending my skin color moray get eventually asked to be substituted and left to pitch in protest. coach such a concept gave his full support saying after the game we are a family regardless of nationality or skin color we are all human and we deserve respect. and a richardson algy sarah. was hamilton and lena massey will share this year's loria

sportsman of the year award at winstar hamilton was at the event in berlin a briton who won his 6 world title last year was presented the award by former arsenal manager arsene bagger bessie who didn't make the ceremony led barcelona to the league's huddle in 2019. sportswoman of the year title the words were voted on by former sports greats who make up the laureus academy. to be in amongst to sit with all of you tonight some of the great rising stars but legends have watched so many of you and have been inspired by you just want to say big big thing it's mrs benz who have always been such a huge supporter they signed me when i was 13 and i'm so grateful for them for giving a young 13 year old the opportunity slip his dreams. tributes were paid some basketball legend kobe bryants at the n.b.a. all-star game in chicago and my home was. weird

joining his career bryant made 18 assurances in this contest that features the best players from the league's 2 conferences bryant died with his daughter giana 7 others in a helicopter crash last month bron james is western conference team one this tuesday. was very special like i said not a relationship with. you know. the worst punishment i had to him for you know it was a potential. in my room in my trophy room and just to be able to see you know kobe name in there it just means a lot to me. he's a big inspiration in my life and. you know he did a lot for me. the best women's cricket players are gathering in australia have of the t 20 world cup the tournament begins with the host playing india on a friday in sydney australia are also the defending champions. well everything

starts on 0 points and on any day anything can happen so you know we're very aware of what i look for arc and we know that we need to buy extremely well to do we need to go it's a great challenge i think it's only a good thing for the women's game worldwide that there are a number of teams who can compete in who could win this world cup so it's going to be really exciting. and 4 time grand slam champion kim clijsters 1st professional match in nearly 8 years ended in defeat the 36 year old return to action at the dubai championships but after a hard fought match she was beaten by despite being. this is the belgian a former world number one second comeback after having 1st retired in 2007. there's a feeling of excitement finally you know the moment is there and that you know what i've been working on working towards the reason why i decided to do it again was because i had a little bit of the belief in me that i would still be able to play some good

tennis. and that's all your support for now it's now back to barbara in london thank you now for the 1st time since the 16th century tapestries by rene since art history fail have returned to the walls of the vatican's sistine chapel the 12 masterpieces are on display to mark 500 years since the artist's death the silk wall and gold threads have been restored by called servatius over the past decade rafael's artworks have been placed where they used to hang for more than 20 years after michelangelo finished painting the chapel ceiling in 1512. and that is it from me barbara sarah for this news hour where you can get the latest on everything that we've been covering on our web site and i will also be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news i hope you'll join with that thanks for watching.

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. growing evidence of a decline in cases of coronavirus in china as health officials say the virus is not as deadly as previous strains. hello i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up serious president celebrates recent gains by his forces in aleppo saying the fight for full control will continue. a major breakthrough in efforts to enforce an arms embargo in libya the european union ok's new sea and their patrols on the eastern mediterranean.