on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm kemel santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera as coronas corona virus infections continue to rise the world health organization says it's actually less deadly than previous outbreaks like sods however with more than $70000.00 confirmed cases china is now considering canceling its biggest annual political meeting for the 1st time in decades. also in the news the european union says it will try to enforce an arms embargo in

libya starting sea and air patrols and heavy clashes reported between the saudi military and tribal forces in the east of yemen. so the world health organization is saying the china coronavirus officially known as coded 19 is less deadly than previous outbreaks like but it is more infectious this is according to data that's been pulled from a chinese medical report it says 80 percent of those who contract the virus only have mild symptoms and will recover another 14 percent are suffering from the severe complications of pneumonia with 5 percent in a critical condition and for 2 percent of patients it is proving deadly older patients are the one of the high risk and although it is as we said less deadly than sobs because of the infection right it's ended up killing many more people in

. similar timeframe that will make sense well the world health organization had said that the data is giving us a clearer picture of the impact of the virus. the did also appear to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously trend is going to change as a 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 diddly as a record and i viruses including service and murders more than 80 percent of patients have mild disease and will recover as ever when using the johns hopkins university track where side here with an update well pending actually it's usually around this time round 7 in the morning in beijing time we

should get an update officially 1775 deaths but we're hearing of another 93 deaths confirmed in who by province with that total number of infections at 71902 concentration right through asia of course japan there with the cruise ships have been and hong kong as well and actually while we're speaking of hong kong china's military is sending hundreds more doctors and nurses to work on the epicenter of the coronavirus 10 percent of china's critical care workers and now they're of the 1st time in recent history china is considering delaying its annual congress the year's biggest political meeting a reference to hong kong is the fact about where this report comes from with sarah clarke. millions of chinese are returning to work some companies have reopened their factories as i try to get back to business as usual after being shot for weeks but it's also the 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. try for places outside of who buy a total of $115.00 new cases reported on sunday including 5 new did the number of newly confirmed cases outside of who bay has kicked declining for 13 days in a row the number of new confirmed cases remained at

a relatively low level. in here by the situation is grim inside this makeshift hospital and we're 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 we've been the world health organization is sending experts to beijing as well as to guangdong and sichuan province it's. 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 a march the 5th amazing 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 when the spread of the virus is feeling more consumer panic with price toilet paper rolls and face masks still in short supply the government is calling for calm sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. an update on the cruise ship

situation now more than a dozen americans who had been stranded to balls that aboard that cruise ship quarantined in japan have arrived on evacuation flights to the u.s. monday but they're carrying the coronavirus the flights have been chartered by the u.s. state department and repents rated more than 300 americans all up all the evacuees now in government quarantine she have pretends the following this story for us as you were 24 hours ago she had been you telling us about how these flights were being planned and crucially the people who were going to stay in japan because they were confirmed with the virus but that hasn't stopped it spreading. it was interesting actually we were speaking 24 hours ago there were 2 sets of americans who said look i didn't want to go to those who were who actually had the virus some 44 we understand americans have the virus they were transferred to japanese hospitals but those who were staying on board because they weren't necessarily convinced that the procedures in place to transport americans back home were terribly good necessarily and perhaps some of those fears have been borne out as

you look through you know the narrative of what happened 338 americans were disembarked from the ship and were being evacuated go into buses and they were making a 40 minute trip to those 2 converted cargo planes during the trip japanese authorities informed u.s. authorities that 14 of the passengers all the busses freely mixing with all the other passengers had the coronavirus they had tested positive for the coronavirus the lab test presumably had just come back and then a decision was made that those 14 should get on the flights and travel back they were isolated from the other passengers we understand they were asymptomatic and dr . who a great deal about but from the point man for the u.s. administration suggests that they were elderly that underlying conditions which is what we often hear about about the coronavirus that claim that those 2 planes on land one in california one in texas by that point 5 more passengers are now showing

symptoms of the coronavirus they have now been taken away and they're not going to be staying in the air force base with the others for the next 14 days in quarantine and with but with 40 new concern passengers with coronavirus that takes the u.s. is number of cases now from 15 to 29. and we'll see what we're talking about another 24 hours she had a in washington thank you and we will have more coverage of the impact of corona virus a little later in this news hour we'll be looking at the economic impacts widely in china but of course how that affects across the world onto other news now in the european union is to launch new sea and air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop more weapons reaching libya's warring sides this does mark a major breakthrough after weeks of negotiations diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva the 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 operations fear that used to have ships in the mediterranean from 2015 to deter migrants until the naval vessels were withdrawn as a result of a tally in 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 defiance 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 have to decide 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 noticed that there are certain elements that we look into in terms of the return of i.d.p.'s the area and where the withdrawal areas are these are things that are still and who had discussions and are not clear yet at the munich security conference the u.n. is 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 geneva and as those sides prepare to resume their talks in geneva the libyans are actually marking 9 years since the

start of the revolution that has ultimately led to this war as the conflict conflict drags on there is little to celebrate as chance strafford reports now from misrata. thousands of people flooded into baltar square in central tripoli the place named in honor of the many fighters who were killed in a revolution that eventually topple moammar gadhafi the dictator who ruled libya for more than 40 years we have at the end of the 1st of all i'd like to congratulate all our libyan brothers and sisters on the anniversary of the revolution and how message today is the same we had back on february 17th 2011 we want freedom let me say again freedom justice and a democratic civilian state. but 9 years later libya is fall from that instead a country suffering civil war. really gay general khalifa haftar is offensive to take control of tripoli with the u.n.

backed government is based goes on. cease fire calls ignored hundreds of civilians killed will not 150000 people forced to flee their homes. in misrata east of tripoli the city proud of its role in ending gadhafi is rule and for where the majority of the u.n. backed government forces come from celebrations marking the revolution also loud and joyous. but people were quick to describe general huffed as another potential dictator who is holding libya's development back said and i want peace for libya i want good for the people of libya we don't want any more war you know horton have an after is killing our children and displacing so many people we rise for this revolution with our brothers and aced for nothing else but to bring a civilian government to libya. the international airport in tripoli was again a force that closed today because of what authorities say was shelling close call

a body off the school says despite the celebrations on this very special day marking the start of the revolution that overthrew normal gaddafi no i mean years ago libyans remain very afraid for their future because there seems to be no last think political solution to this most recent crisis in sight charles travel al-jazeera misrata. with us on skype now from new jersey in the u.s. is jason paki's the founder of libya analysis consultancy focusing on the shipping and oil industry there thank you for your time jason just before we get to the issue of the. embargo and trying to enforce that just the fact that we are at 9 years now it is extraordinary isn't it to think that so little has actually changed in so many ways. well it's a very emotional moment for libyans and i would contend that a lot has changed much of it for the worse unfortunately and in a way this is the real 90 year since the revolution began 9 years ago because for

the 1st time and i'm pretty much in libya's history we have quite good force majeure of all 5 major oil courts which means the country is not exporting oil will not make it money and rather than having to rival political authorities we really have 0 with already in the country and outside actors are fighting a civil war on libyan territory it's a sad moment hopefully it's just the bottom of a trough before things get better and that's what everyone is looking at 9 years ago when there might be a little less than 9 years ago the oil it was about who could get in there 1st to get that sort of 1st mover advantage in well ostensibly helping libya with its infrastructure but also getting a slice of it yes it's really important to remember that the whole 9 years have not been civil 'd war we only look at the period 2014 to present as civil war i like to

call it the war for post copy succession what is the period 20112014 in particular 20122013 was one of great optimism because libya not only had the ability to export oil but. somewhere between 40300000000000 sovereign wealth and that sort of wealth could be used to improve human capital to build massive infrastructure that combined with a geo strategic location and small population meant that of all the arab spring countries let me have the opportunity to build new institutions and to be a success story on the global stage unfortunately the combination of all back payments joe hockey's migrants to europe to strategic location and what i like to refer to as the enduring just order meaning international relations and the age of trump has meant that libya has been a cross country for all these forces and they have carved out a centrally a vortex it which libya can't seem to get legitimate political authority and is

subject you know all of these international actors each pulling it to win for 0 and prolonging the civil war just and i'd like to ask you about the arms embargo which is in place and which wealth hasn't been effective and that's what has been discussed between the parties about how often force that the e.u. says yes we're going to start and see patrols how effective can that actually be the mediterranean sea is a big place. well you're right to be skeptical if they were actually serious about using the new operation called active surveillance to truly block arms coming in by boat they have the technical capacity to do that but these are just pretty words because last month on january 19th and berlin there was the highest level summitry ever done on libya with many prime ministers present and they said the right stags they not the correct latitudes were going to crack down on all of the arm shipments coming into libya but since that point there have been more arms shipments the

u.a.e. flying jets said you know benghazi been enough and the turks he was a naval assets to get money to get weapons to misrata and tripoli and those have been more on shipments since the berlin conference dearie banning them then were happening before so said the same control isn't going to sell its brussels sorry to interrupt at the same patrols in themselves would actually any affect the turks then because the americans are flying the arms and that's crucial yes that is a bit what's important is actually doing surveillance and other words not just blocking things by boat but it sure is one actor is caught we need to do sanctions on all actors because it's not like if you just tantric turkish naval ship and you punish the turks that that won't work that would just reward the amerada said the russians so if you're going to enforce the blockade you need to catch all actors land sea and. air jason pak

2 joining us from new jersey talking about the current situation in libya thank you so much for your time to appreciate it always a pleasure. just one footnote as well flights from the libyan capitals on the functioning airport have again been suspended after shelling by forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar flights are now being diverted to misrata which is more than 880 kilometers to the east rashid airport's has come under repeated attacks and after launched an offensive to capture tripoli in april from the internationally recognized governments ok here's what's coming up for you on this news out that massacre in an already tense english speaking part of cameroon separatists are blaming the army which denies responsibility also syria's president bashar al assad congratulates his forces for their games in the north is the u.n. warns of it i'm president of humanitarian crisis and in sport the top team in asia are in prisons in the defense of champions league title football action and the

rest of the sport with the plate. and now there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in yemen province in the east coast of the omani border actually saudi troops attempted to storm the tom the but they have been repelled attack helicopters and armored vehicles were deployed as part of the assault this region of yemen has largely escaped the worst of the fighting that and the rest of the country since 2054 it's not something handy who is the editor in chief of the international interest magazine and says the saudis are in a difficult position with the yemeni tribes now going against them. i think we have to understand the context in which these clashes are taking place it seems that there have been increasing discontent has been increasing discontent in southern yemen that the plan now from the u.a.e. in particular is to seize the proceeds 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 early the way to the mediterranean and it believes that it's an 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 the 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 essentially 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 politically involved in these clashes with saudi arabia were only a few days ago part of keeping representatives of the international recognized government safe from any potential kidnapping and the like to see them to believe attacked by saudi arabia so that they ambushed

a saudi convoy suggest that the discontent is reaching a very serious level for saudi and the u.a.e. if we talk about how these clashes 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 growing 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 to keep the cities and 1st 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 proof is. the united nations says 900000 civilians have now fled the fighting in northwestern syria since the beginning of december it's calling it a horrifying new level of humanitarian crisis a syrian government offensive to retake the last rebel held areas has created the

single biggest civilian displacement in this 9 year war half of the $3000000.00 civilians in italy province had already had to leave other areas despite that crisis syrian president bashar assad has promised to press on with the offensive this was a rare address on state television he congratulated his forces for the gains they've made syrian government troops are backed by russian warplanes in the air and iranian backed militias on the ground. and we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemy's will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later more now from hashem albo who's near the turkish syrian border he says well it's clear assad is confident of victory the country's fate isn't really in his hands. this is a delicate moment for the syrian opposition but also for the syrian government and

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. 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 terrace and this is the term that he uses. most of the time to describe the syrian opposition we're 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 games were reversed and now they're just confined to it which is their last stronghold but president bashar assad also told his people that they have to wait and 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

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. a suicide bombers killed at least 7 people and wounded dozens more people in pakistan police in quite the provincial capital of blood just on say a teenager decimated the farm when they stopped him heading towards a religious rally some thought no group has said it was behind the attack. cameron's army is being blamed for killing at least 22 people in a village raid in the country's interest speaking region an opposition group says security forces were behind that attack on friday which killed 14 children the

government is denying involvement saying its soldiers were attacked and that the resulting fire in caused several fuel tanks in the village to explode. as we understand it from one who witnesses between 40 and 50 armed men wearing military fatigues attacked the village in the morning and we have verified is that we have 22 civilian casualties there could be more at the moment we've confirmed 22 this is in the context of the crisis which has been going on for almost 4 years between independent seeking. they hold themselves fighters in the korean government. well nicholas hawke is in for us and has been speaking to witnesses in cameron about this attack. 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 and their independence from the french speaking majority of cameroon this is one of many attacks that have 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 said himself 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 town the incident in

gumbel on my salute to the incident seems that all settle down a little crises this incidents have been all correlated with increasing little regularity and each time there is no accountability for the people 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 english speaking and despite this the attacks have intensified in that region. stamp a didn't aid facility in killed at least 23 people refugees from neighboring nigeria and queuing for food and clothes in differ in the southeast pushed forward when the gates to the new facility to the facility opened crushing those waiting including many women and children. government in bikini faso have killed 24 people

in a church among the dead the church pastor in the village of poncy the attackers then set the building on fire this is the 3rd time religious leaders have been targeted in the area in just the past week. still ahead for you on this news hour from manufacturing to shipping we're going to look at the economic impact the coronavirus is having on the global supply chain. also moscow's eyes in the sky a closer look at the facial recognition system provoking fears of big brother. and sport the best women's cricket is enjoy some down time just hanging out with the koalas ahead of the t 20 world cup. hello again welcome back to you in a national weather forecast here across united states down towards the south we are

still dealing with the flooding threat we have seen over the last few days now the ground is saturated and what is happening is a lot of the water has now going into those rivers down towards the gulf of mexico some of those who have as though cannot handle the load of water over the next few days the rivers are rising unfortunately we do expect to see more rain in the forecast over the next few days and some of these areas could be at risk for more flash flooding as well up to the north though it is going to be snow across parts of canada as well as into new england that will continue to make its way a little bit more towards the east forecast though for atlanta you're going to be in that rain over the next 3 days we're going to sing about 17 degrees here on tuesday getting colder as we go towards wednesday and very cold by the time we get to thursday with the tempter there of about 8 degrees while very quiet across much of the caribbean as well as into central america over the next few days there is some showers here across central america but really nothing too heavy up towards the north though it is going to be a sunny day for half anna attempted there of 30 degrees and for nasa 25 degrees for

you there and for one side as you have seen quite a bit of activity in terms of severe weather better weather over the next few days showers just to the northeast of you 26 degrees here on tuesday and 28 on wednesday . but. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very that was privatisation on anybody it's the only field. goals people who seem ever to have something to invest the profit of they want are up to the last drop on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where after iraq. on the news hour al-jazeera these are the top stories the china coronavirus has now killed more than $1800.00 people after who their province reported $92.00 it's the world health organization says the virus is less deadly though than previous outbreaks like sars but it is more infectious. the european union has announced

a new land sea and air operation in the mediterranean to enforce the u.n. arms embargo on libya the previous naval mission to stop people trafficking and to enforce arms control could collapse last year after disagreements with italy. mean there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in yemen somalia or province in the east saudi troops attempted to storm the town of shot but have been repelled to attack helicopters an armored vehicles were deployed as part of the assault. so let's look more coronavirus the economic impact of it for example apple has just announced it will not meet its revenue for costs due to the outbreak and it's just one of many companies feeling the impact big players operating in china are been forced to shutter their businesses for now at least there are fears that car giants like volkswagen and toyota could have to cut their production in the air you've got airlines have stopped flying to china that affects

demand for jet fuel and hits the tourism industry in china and further afield huge and of course china is a global manufacture it's the factory of the world they call it and with many factories shot multinationals fear their supply chains could be hit that could eventually have a knock on effect on the availability of goods around the world. well with us on skype now from north potomac in maryland is robert scott senior international coniston director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the economic policy institute nice to have you with us robert i've just outlined maybe not worst case scenario but all the things which could go wrong at this point can you give us an idea of what actually has gone wrong i mean i mentioned apple they're saying they won't meet their revenues so this is what happens sometimes the picture phrases. so we're going to try to

reconnect with robert in a moment i just thought he was sitting very still fully reconnect with him and talk a bit more about that. asian countries of course feeling this economic pressure of coronavirus cambodia's economy for example depends heavily on beijing now its government is warning of job losses as when hate reports from from pen. 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. oh. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one who also money to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it will be tough for me to pay the loan. there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european

union will place tariffs on some footwear including 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 factories 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 heading 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 but action especially in the united states and europe importer a lot from china and when china has a problem they will how inflation they're the same thing so that is not for cambodia and for. 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 wayne hey al jazeera phnom penh. all right let's try to get back to robert scott now senior international economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the economic policy of institute can you hear me all right robert festival yes i can hear easier in the end i don't know how much you had of my speculating but we were basically painting everything that could possibly go wrong as far as global supply chains as far as tourism has all sorts of things what's actually been the impact so far can you tell us a little bit more about what we've seen concrete evidence of it of slowdowns or economic impact well i think the economic impact has certainly been the strongest within china itself for example them announced today that they're going to delay the annual auto show in beijing is a big disruption and it reflects the fact that industries that have big complex supply chains like us automobiles and elint tronics with thousands of parts going

to each of those kinds of products and i phones and computers and cars are very vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and i think this could have an impact but i don't think it's going to extend beyond perhaps one or 2 quarters. look to some of the previous major demick 7 and environmental disasters and the evidence is just doesn't support you that it's going to be a very big impact. over say a year or 2. but is this almost identify i want to say wake up call but a reminder of how dependent the whole world is on china as far as the global supply chain goes you know when we talk about it much is made in china but now we're actually getting a very serious reminder but i think that's right and i think that there are 2 dimensions to it one we've really expanded the dependence on china now with the

supply chain in certain about a quarter of i think good on manufacturing product comes from china in a form of parts and components here in the united states and that so we're really vulnerable to destruction the 2nd thing though is that we see in this case that china in many ways too should be due to the crisis by suppressing information and rejecting loppers of international help to control the spread of the virus and so i think this illustrates that china is an unreliable partner for many countries and something we haven't thought about and it is people out china's growth so rapidly what do you think of the way china has reacted so far has its i mean already its growth was starting to slow a little bit i say slow but still going to be 6 percent which any country in the world would love but is it taking the right steps to ensure that things don't get out of hand. yes you know china knows how to deal with an economic crisis and they

have jumped in with a very strong economic stimulus and markets and reacted well to that on the other hand i think they've handled. the biologic crisis poorly i think by suppressing evidence and by waiting too long to respond and then encouraging companies to start up production too fast before. people had a chance to recover from the disease and that may have it lead to further. increases in contagion a number of cases and deaths in china but i think we have to keep this in perspective so far about 800 people have died been about 60000 interactions in a typical year in the united states a much smaller country about 32000 people die from. garden variety influenza very similar to this is east so this even if it kills a you know 10000 people this is going to be smaller than

a regular flu epidemic flu here in the united states ok good point and it's been good to talk to you about this problem glad the technology worked in the end thank you. the speaker of iran's parliament has become the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since the new government came to office and they wrote alley larijani said iran stood ready to help lebanon's struggling economy the new prime minister of a house and they are the has promised to come up with a plan to ease the financial crisis but protest as still denouncing his leadership senator has a report now 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 form the new government we hope this in your government will be able to succeed and we are ready to culprit 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 old. the us administration in the rating internally how to deal with them along so there is no decision yet obviously. of the europeans they are commissioning the 2 reforms and waiting to see what the government will commit to. for the arab countries.

have more. griefs maybe against this government politically the trumpet ministration so-called maximum pressure campaign against iran is also targeting its allies in the region the u.s. says hezbollah is 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 mike pompei a won't say if the us administration will work with lebanon's new government instead he reiterated what the united nations has repeatedly said that any aid any assistance will depend on reforms like fighting corruption and tax evasion and supporting an independent judiciary lebanese politicians who have been in power for decades have repeatedly piss bownde 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. beirut. now activists in russia concerned that government plans for one of the world's largest facial recognition systems are taking legal action they say the surveillance system is being used to pinpoint critics of president vladimir person. law abiding russians they have nothing to fear. been given exclusive access to the 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 aware that there biometric data images body measurements and other characteristics are being captured real time and transmitted . 2 police monitors within moments a person's identity can be determined and his place of residence. of 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 awarded the fight if he is a caught on camera russia is taking the phrase big brother is watching you to a new level with biometric data collection seemingly available at nearly every street corner. easily catch criminals but critics say they'll keep a close eye on activists opposing the clinton 3 dream at the same time. police have been accused of using face recognition technology to crack down on peaceful protesters during a wave of anti-government demonstrations last summer. she was arrested after taking part in a protest 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. 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 awfully collect and user biometric data they don't have a right to do so they must stop. but the company that designed it acknowledges sas system is being used legally in russia an activist should be more worried about their mobile phones when you're talking about your phone. all the content is monitored which you're saying you know. speech recognition is always liked and whatever so. when you when you do from the from the government perspective this is the number one saying the company claims it can identify people even if only their eyes are visible i mean do the test we do find a loophole the company. admits that mismatch is going to happen and aims to improve the system. not only to systems and basic needs 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 would make it criminal to work on lot easier step fasten al-jazeera moscow it's been revealed that members of a german far right group arrested last week were planning large scale attacks on mosques similar to those carried out in new zealand last year a government spokesman who described the details as shocking the 12 men were detained in police raids across germany on friday. french m.p.'s and started debating the government's controversial pension reforms in parliament the process is expected to take weeks for the final vote later in the year unions of criticize president jim on your micron's bid to streamline the various retirement schemes it triggered a 6 week long public transport strike back in december now hundreds of flood

warnings remain in place across the u.k. after some areas recorded the highest water levels they've seen in 40 years 2 storms have battered version in the past week bringing heavy rain and strong winds and at least 4 people have died or a challenge as more. angry season dangerous swollen rivers dennis is the 2nd storm in a week to batter parts of the u.k. blowing in shortly after a storm chiara blew out dennis has brought floods and destruction to wales and western england. in herefordshire became flotsam borne away by the waters because storm had already saturated the land dennis's heavy rain swiftly turned roads to tarantula rivers or fields into lakes the town center of 10 bre wells in which the ship was submerged it can take months for people's lives to return to normal after this kind of event it's up to my thigh and stitching me and everything that we put

up on boxes last night is. ok so we've been serving. coffee and hot water and somebody wanted it but it was time to sort of evacuate 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 bats won't stop storms like dennis and he are of course but more warnings should mean better preparation and that could prevent future storms being so destructive. al-jazeera. still had. the fire and the comeback gritty return to professional tennis after nearly 80 s. .

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time for sport on the news hour with fox. thanks very much the holders of saudi arabia have 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 beat the u.a.e. . a great start for the family to leave gomes barring them to victory former french international getting 2 goals including the stunning winner final score to what. is back as danny champions practical or have also made 100 percent start the beach overall at home 2 goals inside 5 minutes not long after the break pretty much ending the hopes of their reigning in opponents back to court going on to win it we

. picked up their 1st win of the rounds and they did it in dramatic fashion and rowdy side scored an 88th minute to beat a rock 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 marie get used to play for seats were thrown at 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 found didn't stop him or a get made his feelings clear. he later wrote on social media that his abuses were idiots and he criticised the. 3 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 al-jazeera. 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 messi who didn't make the ceremony led barcelona to

the legal title in 2019 small sports woman 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 heart was we. during 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 and 7 others in a helicopter crash last month bron james's western conference team won this year's

game. oh it's very special like i said i don't really she said with. you know. the worst punishment for. it would have put the truth. in my trophy room and just be able to see. it just means a lot. he's a big inspiration in my life. you know he did love for me all the best women's cricket players are gathering in australia head of the t 20 world cup their term and it begins with the host playing india on friday in sydney australia are also the defending champions. well cops start from 0 points and on any day you know anything can happen so you know we're very aware of what about looks like and we know that we need to buy extremely well to do we need to game that we play so 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 and who could win this world cup so it's going to be really exciting. and 4th time grand slam champion kim clijsters 1st professional match in nearly 8 years ended in defeat the 36 year old were turned to action at the dubai championships but after a hard fought mat she was beaten by the by you. this is the belgian a former world number one second comeback after having 1st retired in 2007. so there's a feeling of excitement that finally you know the moment is there and that you know what i've been working on working towards the reason why 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 sport for now more later. ok far thank you for vats and we will be back in just a couple of minutes time all the latest headlines on al-jazeera including the newest figures released by chinese officials on coronavirus.

this is adama cinnamon's 4th trip to boozy in 2 days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as many people as he can was stranded in the flood hit area of the psycho to die struck mozambique i was up when i 1st saw women with babies on their backs crying for help saying they were dying i knew i had to do something i was late and from the dark a faint whistle in the distance alerts us to people calling for help women children and the elderly are brought on board 1st hungry and thirsty it hasn't taken much time to pull the boat about 200 people have been rescued and more want to get on

but there's simply no space. an estimated 100000 lives cruelly ended over a century ago. a distant past not to the descendants of the sultan. a tale of colonialism and racial supremacy unravels in the quest for justice and recognition of the sacrifices of tribal people to maybe. skulls of my people a witness documentary on his era. gives you a deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances it is very true one thing to cheat somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me mandy huff and as i put up from questions to my

special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. $93.00 more fatalities in the last 24 hours of the epicenter of china's corona virus outbreak the death toll is nearing $800.00. but the world health organization says cope with 19 is actually less deadly than previous outbreaks like sars but it's more infectious. welcome back everyone i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. the european union says it will try to enforce the arms embargo in libya with sea and air patrols.