person. jets machine on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm kemal santamaria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera more than 90 fatalities in the last 24 hours at the epicenter of china's corona virus outbreak the death toll has jumped to above $1800.00 the world health organization says the current corona virus outbreak is less deadly than previous outbreaks like sobs that is more factious. also in the news the european union says it will try to enforce an arms embargo in libya with air and sea patrols heavy clashes reported between the saudi military

and tribal forces in the east of yemen. and at least 4 people have died in the u.k. after 2 storms caused some of the worst flooding in full shields. so the number of people have died after contracting the corona virus has now surpassed 1800 there are new figures just released from health officials they are saying that 98 more people have died in just the past 24 hours and china that is mainly in who by province the epicenter of the epidemic with more than $1800.00 new cases detected there on monday as well and so beijing has taken some drastic steps to contain the virus it has deployed more medics from the military today and for the 1st time in recent history the ruling communist party is considering delaying its annual congress its biggest political meeting that was interesting the world

health organization says according to new data the chinese coronavirus which is officially if you don't know it is called coded 19 it is actually less deadly if contracted than previous uprights light solids even though it is more infectious. the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously turned 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 din is not as diddly squat and i viruses including service and murders more than 80 percent of patients have mild disease and will recover. well some countries like the united states and canada and france and

thailand they have evacuated their citizens from china others that include pakistan and uganda have chosen not to where we're joined on skype now from by gabrielle a dylan who is a ugandan student there and really thank you for your time i know this is a difficult time for you the 1st thing i want to try to understand is what is what does quarantine maine for you you are there in your flat in your apartment can you get out at all. ok the pictures frozen they get real i don't know if you can still hear me but our picture with you has frozen and just having a look. doesn't look like we've got it's the 2nd time this happened yesterday look we're going to move on and we're going to try to reconnect with gabrielle because obviously she's got some really interesting firsthand information to tell us i

think gabrielle can you hear me i think the pictures just going to black ok we're going to reconnect and try again but we will get her back in a moment ok. now the americans who have been stranded aboard the diamond princess cruise ship let's look at them this is the ship that was quarantined in a japanese port the people have now arrived on evacuation flights to the united states. but some of them are carrying the coronavirus the flights had been chartered by the state department and repat treated more than 300 americans all up all of them now in government courting the support. and all in the norm for the u.s. government original plan had been to keep off the planes anyone suspected of or known to be carrying the coronavirus but that's not how things turned out the state department says all 338 americans evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship had appeared healthy when they disembarked but during the 40 minute bus ride to the

2 awaiting cargo planes the japanese health ministry called with news that 14 passengers had tested positive for corona virus american officials then decided to allow those passengers to continue with the evacuation isolating them behind white curtains near the plane's tails other passengers then boarded the route we're down here or on the morning or there for good we go through pretty miserable where there's a massive row and everybody had to go to the ramp or i'm on the far side of this with revising their private 5 hours away to get off for a. crazy crazy while on the buses the infected and apparently healthy passengers had mixed given that they were still on a learning curve well iris i think you have public health missions and they could recognizing that the alternative leaving them on the ship was not. by the time they

landed in california and texas 5 apparently healthy passengers had developed infection symptoms now all the evacuees are in coron teen with 13 high risk cases transported to the university of nebraska medical center well there's been no documentation that came with them so everything is been sort of passed along and passed along you know and they've had a very long journey so i think we're not going to make any assumptions about anything that's passed along virtually we're going to go ahead and just test everybody by the government's numbers 5 of the evacuees who tested positive in japan are being treated at undisclosed hospitals near military bases meanwhile a number of americans still remain aboard the diamond princess in japan they had turned down the offer to vacuum wait and instead hope to complete their corn teen on board the ship then news now that they were 14 infected people on the flight with everyone else has just confirmed to us that they were really providing

a safe method of transportation back to the united states the u.s. state department has completed a half dozen evacuation flights from asia since the coronavirus outbreak began those other evacuations happened as planned but this latest incident draws scrutiny to the u.s. government's response and nearly double the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. overnight hi joe castro al-jazeera washington right so those are the stories of the americans who have been evacuated as we point out there are people who haven't gabrielle are dealing with us hopefully now on skype from the ugandan student can you hear me right deborah. good to talk to you right so we want to understand from you as best as possible what is quarantine mean for you you're there in your apartment can you get house of the asshole. as of last week

monday their rules are met must treat we are allowed to move out of apartments once a week you need to get permission from. the. landlady before you can move out and all the investments are being sealed off you're not allowed to go on campus if you don't stay on campus so we currently locked in our houses even look at the downstairs in the photograph apartment. buildings so they are and that's how that's what parenting is for and that actually locks the gate so you are physically locked in yes that's extraordinary and then when you do get out what are you able to do i mean you're obviously only got a short period of time what have you managed to do in the time that you have gotten out the times i do get to go and look for food from down your a supermarket because there's always

a supermarket mean that area that's open on the up while i'm in the area right now way i'm there's only one spot market that's open so when everyone when you get your permission to go out and you find like a long lost probably go find when the vegetables they don't so you need to go up. now what about medical checks i mean you're under quarantine are there officials or medical staff from anywhere and will harm coming to you to check on you to i don't know take temperatures see if you are showing any signs. they have given us numbers hard lengths that we don't call me this year feeling unwell so that's what is going on so far. i haven't felt well so i mentioned he reached out for help here so i really don't know how they do that but if you are willing number that you can call this you feel i'm up for any of your friends affected i mean are they ok.

i'm just wondering if anyone is is under quarantine and under any juris anyway from from illness or from anything i mean it's just it just sounds like a very difficult situation for anyone yet it's difficult during our prayers to be egos all the time but none of my friends are effected we're all looking we're just always a little you know apartments which is. staying indoors all alone all the time but that's what we have to do is stay safe now tell me about efforts to get out as we pointed out there are governments that have repatch reacted the citizens and your government the uganda government is one that hasn't what sort of contact have you had with anyone representing the ugandan government. will have gone through. the embassy they are going to never see it as a sort of being brought up in the parliament in uganda and all that means those are

aware of what's going on and they are well we are praying for evacuation but we say they come to book you wait that's because they don't think they are able to contain the virus in case it broke out in uganda so they decided to send us money but money 'd is not really what we need i know the other hand is that they were able to quarantine the other ministers who came from china and went to uganda so get your books pointing to. the me he says but i don't understand why they don't do the same thing for us the students think it's ok we can still pointing and so we went up to the media so i only know about the situation. and how does that make us sorry this sounds like a stupid question how does it make you feel when you see other foreign nationals who have governments who are helping the citizens honestly makes me feel i'm green makes me feel like i don't like that to the country oh my legs don't matter they

don't care i mean. yeah. it's not actually the best decision and if you look you were going to still be mitt and it's best look at mendo is they have been don't treat us like that if we get. you said the government's talked about sending money and you say obviously that's not actually what you want but if you seen has anyone seen any of that money yet no we haven't received the money it. so no money locked in your apartment and no sign of actually getting out. do you mind if i ask about your sort of your mental state at the moment and that of your friends just trying to understand what it's like i missed leo. go ahead go ahead of the moment. as of last week no less to close feeling down could you feel it shut up do you feel like you quote do anything

you have in your parents call you every minute and get worried about you and really come to nothing about it you know here you can put going on you don't know if they're going to be next if you're doing it don't know if it's really cement you don't know if you're going to fix it if you just wait. it's really the main thing to us and what sort of information are you able to get we talked about officials who might come by and check in there's a hotline but i mean i guess you're sitting in your apartment reading about it online or watching television and is that all you can do. yes that's all i'm going to eschew the vision exercise eat cool. well that inflammation the school sends us the information they send those give us the numbers that we've been calling needle the chip on that so it teaches chiclet nice big clothes and see if we need anything well look i've really hope things improve for you and that

you do get some sort of progress with the ugandan government and really thank you so much for your time today for telling us what we lost the signal anyway fascinating wasn't hearing from deborah and i did on a ugandan who is in. on able to get out of the city under lockdown let's move on to other news the european union is to launch new sea and air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop more weapons from reaching libya's warring sides this is a major breakthrough after weeks of negotiations as our diplomatic editor james meigs reports from geneva. 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 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 and 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 area and where the withdrawal areas are these are things that are still and good discussions and are not clear yet at the munich security conference the u.n. has its deputy special representative in 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. i spoke to jason pak a little bit earlier founder of libya analysis which is a consultancy focusing on the shipping and oil industry there he told us the new e.u. patrols will have no impact without proper surveillance if they were actually serious about using the new operation quote 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 they not the correct latitudes were going to crack down on all of the arms shipments coming into libya but since that point there have been more our shipments the u.a.e. fly jets and benghazi but me not and the turks using naval assets to get money to get weapons to misrata and tripoli and those have been more our shipments since the berlin conference here in banning them then were happening before what's important is actually doing surveillance in other words not just blocking things by boat but this ship is one actor is caught you need to do sanctions on all actors because it's not like you just petrik turkish naval ships and you punish the turks that won't work that would just reward them or audition the russians so if you're going to enforce the blockade you need to catch all actors and the un's humanitarian coordinator for libya says the latest diplomatic push to end that conflict there

will amount to nothing unless the international community names and shames the countries who are helping to prolong the war. singled out the united arab emirates russia and egypt for van support the world honey for have to. and lest we start naming and shaming we will have their resolutions but their reality on the ground will remain appalling is patiently for civilians and but to killers for children and for women and for people who yes they live because they have done absolutely no wrong except being libyan in their country so as the sides prepare to resume their talks in geneva libyans have been marking 9 years since the start of the revolution that ultimately led to this very conflict and as the fighting drags on people are finding little to celebrate charles strap that has that report from misrata. thousands of people flooded into martyr square in

central tripoli a place named in honor of the many fighters who were killed in a revolution that eventually topple moammar gadhafi. that tater who ruled libya for more than 40 years after the kremlin 1st of all i'd like to congratulate all our libyan brothers and sisters on the anniversary of the revolution a 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 far 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 ceasefire calls ignored hundreds of civilians killed will no 150000 people forced to flee their homes. in misrata east of tripoli the city proud of its role in ending gadhafi is rule and 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 i want peace for libya i want good for the people of libya we don't want any more war long haul it never left our 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 forced the close today because of what authorities say was shelling close call a bike off the school says despite the celebrations on these very special day marking the start of the revolution that overthrew the no i in the years ago libyans remain very afraid for their future because there seems to be no last thing

political solution to this most recent crisis in sight charles travel al-jazeera misrata is what's coming up for you on this news on leaks of records showing how chinese officials choosing to target weaker muslims and putting them in mass detention centers also a massacre in an already tense english speaking part of countering separatists blame the army the army denies responsibility and the top team in asia impresses in its defense of the champion's league title football action and the rest of the school with. a quick look at yemen now where there has been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in the province in the east i had happen in the omani border saudi troops attempted to storm the town of shah and but they have been repelled attack helicopters and armored vehicles were deployed as part of the assault this

region of yemen has actually launched the escapes the worst of the fighting that's the gulf the rest of the country since 2015 we spoke to sami ham the editor in chief of the international interest magazine about this he told us the saudis are in a difficult position with 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 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 early the way to the mediterranean and it believes that it's an convince saudi arabia to abandon this idea of responding 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 of purportedly 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 today 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. 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 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. now leaked records reveal china is detaining many weak muslims due to their religious activity and not for political extremism as beijing has claimed the danger includes detailed profiles on hundreds of weekends in the region and shows officials taking a keen interest in their daily activity tracking their prayer habits even if they've grown a beard the chinese government has previously said the camps are quote vocational training center we've got louisa greville with us now director of global advocacy at the we get human rights project on skype from alexandria virginia louisa 1st of all tell us about the information how's it been collated because to get the sort of

insight is quite rare it is quite rare these are of these documents somebody took a lot of big risk for instance and brought the risk the 100 birds major 311. but altogether almost 3000 people because he 1st them as a list who were the earth and anything that they were apart from that record goes into their memories his files so it seems in many ways the ways that it confirms what a lot of people suspected i mean as we say that the government's called these vocational training centers and said these people are political extremists but well it's been the way the muslims have been targeted there was a clear difference and that they are muslims in this kind of just confirms that in some ways it absolutely can prance and so now we have. several a handful of survivors who actually met out of our work force for an impressive

break. be taken away but all of the not this document shows a lot of people in a very small town and this is a small town and programs at a press conference. record as they're being monitored whether they be properly i've met. with them are well and i make and this is a document proving that life where we are one of a number of like you know we talk about a week of muslims being detained how many approximately are detained out of the population this well that's also a government secret good estimate that of that and where between athens 3000000 and those who are not actually under lock and key are forced to report for political and maybe. even classes and there are reports that many people are working in factories against their will or slave or so there are many forms of inclusion

basically there is no such thing as normal life so what can be done with this sort of information obviously your group is advocating on behalf of the weaker muslims with the sort of information out there how can it be put to use to to to to challenge the chinese government on what they say about vocational camps the chinese government is permitted massive human rights violations under treaty that we did to remember and is to abide by the. rights of the right council human rights council of us in the all in geneva and we believe the u.n. security council needs to act this massive crimes rise to the level our crimes against humanity are occurring and we would like to have a legal judgment that means the government of china brought to bear and brought the book in front of the international community is a great joining us from the human rights project thank you so much for your time.

more news to come on this news hour we'll go back to corona virus actually and from manufacturing to shipping a look at the economic impact the outbreak is having on the global supply chain also bosco's is in the sky a close look at the facial recognition system approaching fears of big brother and in sport the best women's cricket is enjoy some down time ahead of the big t 20 world cup. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast all of the next few days things are going to be changing here across northern parts of japan a little bit messy here as we go towards tuesday and the reason being is we have a system coming out of the russian maritimes and into the northern part of japan

that's going to bring a lot of snow over the next day particularly in the overnight hours but really just lasting one day by the time we do get towards wednesday the system pulls out quite quickly into the pacific it's going to be a little bit cooler but it's going to be a little bit brighter across much of the area tokyo at about 12 degrees here on wednesday and a sucka at about 11 greece you there well down towards indonesia it's going to be a lot of rain over the next few days you can see that quite clearly on our satellite that will continue we're talking about jakarta up here towards parts of singapore as well but we are watching a rain system a storm system pushing through parts of thailand that's going to be some heavy rain maybe towards book at as well bangkok you'll be on the northern end of that we do expect to see a tempter on tuesday of $31.00 degrees but it is going to be warming up as we go towards when say to about 34 degrees for you there and then here across india and down torture lanka things are very quiet they were made quiet over the next few days plenty of sun not a lot of clouds over the next few days up towards new delhi temperatures are on the

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a taste of independence on al-jazeera. you're in the news aren't al-jazeera these are the top stories the death toll in china's corona virus outbreak has now come past $1800.00 the world health organization says it's actually less deadly than previous outbreaks like sars but it is more infectious 80 percent of those who contract the new virus apparently only suffered a mild it's nice the european union has to launch new sea and air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop weapons from reaching libya decision aiming to

uphold a barely recognized u.n. arms and bunker hill is months of negotiations. and there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in yemen sound for a province in the east near the omani border saudi troops attempted to storm the town and the shopping but they have been repelled. and i have a closer look now at the economic impact of coronavirus one example apple has just announced it will not meet its revenue forecasts due to the outbreak just one of many companies feeling the impact lot of big players operating in china have been forced to shutter their businesses for now there are fears car giants focus on toyota would have to cut production major airlines have stopped flying to china which affects demand for jet fuel would hits the tourism industry not just in china but around the world of course china is they say the factory of the world and so with so many factories shot multinationals fear the supply chains could be hit that could eventually have

a knock on effect on the availability of goods around the world we've got some expert analysis on this from robert scott's director of trade in manufacturing policy research at the economic policy institute and he's looked at the impact of other epidemics and explains how long lasting the economic fallout might be. well i think the economic impact is certainly been strongest within china itself for example them announced today that they're going to delay the annual auto show in beijing this is a big disruption and it reflects the fact that industries that have big complex supply chains like on the beales and electronics with thousands of parts going to each of those kinds of products and i phones and 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. i've looked at

some of the previous major epidemics and environmental disasters and the evidence is just doesn't support the view that it's going to be a very big impact. over say a year or 2 we've really expanded the dependence on china with the supply chains about a quarter of i think all 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 disruption the 2nd thing though is that we see in this case of china in many ways contributed to the crisis by suppressing information and rejecting offers of international help to control the spread of the virus and so i think this illustrates to china's an unreliable partner for many countries and something we haven't thought about and as we've allowed china's growth so rapidly. the united nations says 900000 civilians have now fled the fighting in northwestern syria

since the beginning of december and it is calling it a horrifying new level of humanitarian crisis a syrian government offensive to retake the last rebel held areas created the biggest single civilian displacement of the whole 9 year war half of the $3000000.00 civilians living in italy province had already had to leave other parts of the country despite the crisis though syrian president bashar assad has promised to press on with the offensive in a rare address on state television he congratulated his forces for gains that made recently syrian government troops are backed by russian warplanes in the air and iranian backed militias on the ground in and out in time 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. correspondent near

the turkey syria border he says while it is 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 aleppo and also the southern part 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 would no longer in 2014 or 13 when the syrian government was on the verge of collapse and when the syrian opposition was making stick. tackler gains across the country all those games were just confined to it which is their last stronghold but president bush

said also told his people that they have to wait or this is not the end of the world and i think he was hinting to the fact that with the growing turkish involvement with turkey sending more poor boys into into it they've taken over it it might take some time now it's no longer up to us yet to decide what happens next and i think this is something which will boil down to 3 key players russia turkey if you have been holding talks in moscow to defuse tension iran is also another regional player the 3 iran russia and turkey will decide the future of syria in the near future. cameron's army is being blamed for killing at least 22 people in a village raid in the country's 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. the resulting firing 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 into the village while in the morning and we have verified is that we have 22 civilian casualties there could be more the moon confirmed 22 this is in the context of. crisis which has been going on for almost 4 years between independent seeking. the homes of fighters and the current government a correspondent nicholas hot is in the car and has been speaking with witnesses in cameron about this. 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 on my salute that incident scenes that i'll settle down with crises this incidence 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. a stamp a stampede at an aid facility in new jazz killed at least 23 people refugees from neighboring nigeria had been queuing for food and clothes in differ in the southeast crowds pushed forward on the gates to the facility opened crushing those waiting including women and children and the suicide bombers killed at least 7 people and wounded dozens of others in pakistan police in question the provincial

capital of blood to stand say a teenager detonated the bomb when they stopped him heading towards a religious rally so far no group has said it was behind the attack. the afghan taliban says it could sign a temporary truce with the u.s. by the end of the month the 2 sides been holding talks to find a political solution to america's longest running war have agreed on an initial week of reduced violence and it's hoped that could lead to a full peace deal that would see the u.s. troops pull out of afghanistan. we had fruitful meetings with the americans we agreed at the end of the negotiations to sign a peace agreement by the end of this month in the qatari capital of doha immediately following the signing the agreement and releasing 5000 taliban prisoners direct talks would stop between us and the afghan government. over shopkeepers on baghdad's oldest street months of anti-government protests in iraq's capital been bad for business and at the center of some of the worst violence between security forces and demonstrators demanding change despite the opening of

nearby roads and bridges business owners i try to hasn't yet improved rob matheson has more. otherworldly hammad ali says that foot decades his family has had a shop on baghdad's street now the store and all his stock of sportswear have been destroyed during anti-government protests. these were not demonstrators there was sabotage the ones who throw molotov bombs and attack our shops and heritage are not demonstrators the want to destroy property throw stones use catapults are not demonstrators. there's been a street here since the ottoman empire paved in 1910 it became a hub of baghdad's cafe society particularly during the iraq oil boom of the 1950 s. when it was lined with restaurants clubs and cinemas but because of its strategic importance it was blocked during the 2003 iraq war and stayed closed for 50 years it

finally reopened in january 2019 only to become a battleground months later as protesters fought with security forces concrete barriers blocked roads the nearby seneca anough bridges across the tigris were closed a lot of them around $400.00 shops were burned this is the core of iraq's economy shop owners here have lost millions of dollars and they've stopped doing our jobs for the last 5 months. the buildings which have been renovated as part of a regeneration project now like gutted and empty. the demonstrations have really had an impact on the projects they've stopped all repair work including geological surveys and the assessment of the traditional houses there with counted $32.00 houses either burned or damaged. the bridges are open again and the barriers are being removed but business is still slow i'll just 0 was here on that day in january 29th when all of us in st reopened after 15 years businesses were telling

us that they were optimistic the trade was going to be improved the government at the time was hoping to. this was going to send a message that iraq was safe again but after months of protests business owners and obviously street say that there was where i think that just because rage is reopened and these concrete valar just started. the business is going to get any better. husayn ali sunglasses shop lies in the shadow of those barriers. the front we had to empty the store and close it came in to check on the shops and want to bring drinks by fire hoses it has been burned the holyrood has been damaged people still worried about coming over the sonic bridge. once again times are hard for the shopkeepers of st loved madison al-jazeera baghdad. hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the u.k. after some areas recorded the highest water levels 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 a report from chants. hangry season dangerous swollen 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 became flotsam borne away by the waters because storm had already saturated the land dennis's heavy rain swiftly turned roads to tarantulas rivers 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. tonight i mean. everything that we put up on boxes last night is.

serving. hot water 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. it's been revealed 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 government spokesmen have described the details as shocking the 12 men were detained in police raids across germany on friday. french started debating the government's controversial

pension reforms in parliament the process is expected to take weeks with a final vote later this year the unions have criticized president in one year micron's bid to streamline various retirement schemes triggered a 6 week long public transport strike back in december. now activists in russia are concerned that government plans for one of the world's largest facial recognition systems and they're taking legal action they fear the surveillance system is being used to pinpoint critics of president vladimir putin. but police say law abiding russians have nothing to fear. has been given exclusive access to police headquarters in moscow. mosco 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 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 a warrant they've been defied if he is a caught on camera russia is taking the phrase big brother. to a new level. seemingly available at nearly every 3. criminals say they'll keep a close eye on opposing the putin 3 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. she was arrested after taking part in a protest in 2018. she filed a case against the police but

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 collected user biometric data and they don't have a right to do so they must stop. but the company that designed it acknowledges sas 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 basically i have when you when you do from the like from the government perspective so 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 mismatches can happen and aims to improve the system. not only to systems and base of news 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 a lot easier step al-jazeera moscow. still ahead for you on this news al sports with farai and the comeback queen makes her gritty return to professional tennis up to nearly 8 years it's.

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welcome back it's time for your sport with our. 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 sport see what. is back as danny champions pack the core have also made 100 percent start the beach 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 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 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 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 you 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 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 i 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 opportunities livy's 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 him 7 others in a helicopter crash last month bron james's western conference team won this year's

game. it was very special like i said not a relationship with him. you know and no words can explain i have a i am floored you know able to put their children. in my room my trophy room and just to be able to see you know call the name and there it just means a lot to me. he's a big inspiration i'm in my life and. 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 the tournament begins with the host playing india on a friday in sydney certainly are also the defending champions. well cops every time starts on 0 points and on any day you know anything can happen so you know we're very aware of what about looks walk and we know that we need to buy extremely well to do and. it's a great challenge i think tony 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 were turned to action at the dubai championships but after a hard fought mat she was beaten by the pride of being with the risk that this is the belgian a former world number one second comeback after having 1st retired in 2007. 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. a role at a time on this news are as well coming up 300 hours g.m.t. top of the i join you for the latest crossing live to beijing for the latest on the coronavirus.

there on the parliamentary election will intensify rival with its political establishment but ducked the escalating things of the u.s. i continue to protest the results to a new direction for next year's presidential election join us for coverage from them as they were on all to. australia's unchristian aged 5 season has killed more than a 1000000000 and a. one to one east to get the budgets. on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was

powerful if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 2030 or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world i cannot walk my phone with my face you can access your bank account with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification by metrics are far from perfect convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cop's most crucially our privacy. on the 4th of a 5 font series radio addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics all hail the algorithm on a 0. 0

. every. more than $95.00 in the last 24 hours at the epicenter of china's corona virus outbreak the death toll jumps to above 1900. a questionable evacuation of a dozen americans and said to the coronavirus are allowed to travel with hundreds of healthy passengers. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. the european union says it will try to enforce an arms embargo in libya with c.n.n. patrols. at least 4 people have died in the u.k. of the 2 storms.