rescued and more want to get on but this simply no space. for. more than 90 fatalities in the last 24 hours at the epicenter of china's corona virus outbreak the death toll jumps to above $800.00. a questionable evacuation of a dozen americans fly home but apparently healthy passengers even after it was confirmed they had contracted coronavirus. jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the european union says it will try to enforce an arms embargo in libya with an air patrol. and at least 4 people have died in the u.k.

after 2 storms caused some of the worst flooding in 40 years. welcome to the program the number of people who have died in china's corona virus outbreak has now surpassed 1800 new figures released by health officials say 98 people have died in the last 24 hours and china mainly in who bay province that's the epicenter of the epidemic more than $800.00 new cases were detected on monday when beijing has intensified steps to contain the virus is deployed more medics on the military to who bay and for the 1st time in recent history the ruling communist party is considering delaying its annual congress its biggest political gathering or the world health organization says according to new data the china corona virus known as coded 19 is less deadly than sars but it's more infectious. the data also appeared to show

a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously turned to screen 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 but it also appears that quote viewed 19 is not as deadly as a record and i viruses including service and murders more than 80 per cent of patients have mild disease and will recover and katrina who joins us now from beijing katrina so the death toll is now past this 1900 mark just talk us through some of the latest steps that chinese officials are taking to control the virus that. for china it seems to be a mad rush to make sure that every case of corona virus is identified and is it is treated and we've seen the way the chinese government is doing this is by trying to

monitor and track down as many people around the country as possible to know their whereabouts to know their health status and we've seen this remarkable campaign step up in the epicenter of the virus this week what the government has started to do as starting what they've called a sort of no household left behind campaign the getting teams of people together tens of thousands of people have been mobilized government workers communist party members people neighborhood and community volunteers and in teams they're going household to household door to door knocking on the door doing health checks getting people's contact data if anybody has symptoms they're sent to hospitals for testing and they continuing to record all this information and already in compounds are in lockdown so you can actually leave the compound outside the restricted the times or the outside these restricted measures unless you have a very good reason so that's one example of what the government is trying to do in

there trying to send a clear message to the people in china that you know we've had this this virus it's been 3 weeks that will harm and who may have been in lockdown but the trying to say that they're not relaxing and actually by contrast they're actually stepping up the screening and stepping up these measures to make sure that every case is identified and of course there are the risks involved for the teams in the hospital start doing these intense screenings in the center of. it in the surrounding cities hospitals are still massively overwhelmed they're understaffed they're still stories of many people being turned away because they don't have enough resources and that there are a lot of risks for the people who are involved in these screening measures and are involved on the front lines treating the coronavirus and we know about 3000 medical staff have been infected. by the krona virus and just this this morning here beijing time we heard that the head of a very important hospital hospital no dimming also lost his life amid the corona

virus outbreak so so many risks involved in the government stepping up all these measures to control the outbreak origin country are you there in the chinese capital katrina thank you but while some come for some moving quickly to evacuate their citizens from china's who bay province others like uganda don't seem to be going to dylan as a ugandan student stranded in will hand city and she spoke earlier to my colleague come on santa maria we are allowed to move out of apartments once a week you need to get permission from the. landlady before you can move out all the best years of being still go if you're not allowed to go on campus if you don't stay on campus so we are currently locked in our houses they even look downstairs in the book up 5 minutes i mean buildings it's difficult for us to be egos all the time but none of my friends are affected well look who

we're just days a little you know our 5 mins which is. staying in goes all alone all the time but you know that's when we have to do it stick so now tell me about efforts to get out as we pointed out there are governments that have repatch reacted the citizens in your government the uganda government is one that hasn't what sort of contact have you had with anyone representing the ugandan government. we have gone through . the embassy they are going to never see it as a sort of being brought up in that podium and in uganda and all that means those are aware of what's going on and they're well we're praying for it booky ration but we say they have a q a test because they don't think they are able to contain the virus in case it broke out in uganda so the decided to send us money but money 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 there and went to uganda so it looks pointing to. the i mean he still is but i don't understand why they don't do the same thing for us the student gets us out of here they can still pointing us so we went up to the media so and they know about this situation and how does it 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 their citizens honestly makes me angry makes new feel like they don't matter to the country locally our lives don't matter they don't care. it's not actually the best decision and if you look at the evacuation going still being made it and it's best we prevent that is then having them to treat us later leaf we get the disease. and it's emerged that some u.s. citizens evacuated from a cruise ship quarantined in japan carrying the coronavirus when they were

airlifted back home they were part of a group that was on 2 flights. as a board of the planes out is a construct. of. the way the norm for the u.s. government's 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 to a waiting 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 were downstairs or out in the pouring or after difficulty pretty miserable where there's

a massive row and everybody had to go to the ramp or among the bar was revising their private 5 hours wait to get off for a. courtesy very very well on the buses the infected and apparently healthy passengers had mixed given the fact that we're still on a learning curve iris i think u.s. public health missions best decision they could recognizing that the alternative leaving them on a 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 doubt. documentation that came with found 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 evacuate and instead hope to complete their corn teen on board the ship then news now that 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 the european union set to launch new c.n.n. polls in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop more weapons reaching libya's warring sides it's a major decision taken after weeks of negotiations diplomatic james bays reports now 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 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 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 except the special representative of libya made it clear if they can silence the guns the plan is for wider political talks in just over a week's time james pays out 0 jinnie. and the un's humanitarian coordinator for libya says the latest diplomatic push to end the conflict there will amount to nothing unless the international community names and shames countries helping to prolong the violence the forces loyal to general have to and generally have there in self are supported by the united arab emirates by russia or at least private russian companies as is claimed by egypt and also by other countries and less we start naming and shaming we will have the resolutions but the reality on the ground will remain appalling specially for

civilians and particularly for children and for women and for people who just want to go about their daily lives because they have done absolutely no wrong except being libyan in their country there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in the east of yemen it happened in our mara province near the armani border saudi soldiers tried to storm the town of sharm but were repelled this region of yemen has largely escaped the worst of the fighting and some gulf the rest of the country just 2015 or some 100 is the editor in chief of the international interest magazine he says the saudis are not a difficult position with yemeni tribes not 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 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 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 so 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 forces. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back. and in iran's parliamentary elections stay with us.

hello again welcome back to in a national weather forecast well here across a live on we are going to be seeing some better weather conditions as one system pulls away tuesday not a bad day across much of the area now we are going to see some clouds along out in the region but it is going to be on wednesday in the eastern part of the med we are going to get a little bit more rain in the forecast anywhere from beirut all the way down here to jerusalem as well as temperatures coming down so interest only 10 degrees for you there baghdad a warm day at 23 but speaking of the heat across the gulf we are talking about temperatures into the high twenty's so for dubai 29 degrees is expected high but for quite city we're going to get to 30 here on wednesday so rising to 30 coming back to about $26.00 as we go towards thursday well down here towards madagascar of course we have seen plenty of rain with a cycle and that made its way across the island over the next few days the rain is going to continue we're going to see most of the heavy rain over here towards the western part of the island but down here toward south africa notice this line of

rain that is something we are going to be watching a lot of severe weather on that line over the next day wednesday a better day as that system makes its way a little bit more towards the north a weaker cells of thunderstorms but down here towards cape town it is going to be a lot of sun in the forecast we do expect to see attempt of $33.00 in johannesburg rain at $26.00 degrees for you. for. the controversial leader of this letter. has cut you loose on most one in terms street is really coming to terms and his alleged extra judicial killings by israel tell each side a sense of being called the best in the outcome is only death if someone tried to talk to scott the media you see many times he was shut down the borders. to kill him in damascus on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at al-jazeera the death toll from the corona virus in china has now passed 1900 after province the epicenter of the outbreak reported 93 new deaths in the last few hours the head of a major hospital and a couple who has also died after contracting the virus. and the world health organization says the virus is less deadly than previous outbreaks like sars part it's more infectious says 80 percent of those who contract it will only have mild symptoms and will recover. and it's a loss of some u.s. citizens evacuated from a cruise ship quarantine in japan were infected before they boarded the planes that flew them out the symptoms were confirmed as they were on their way to the air

force. so let's take a look at the economic impact of the coronavirus south korea's president says his country is facing an emergency and apple says it won't meet its revenue target many other big companies in china been forced to shut their operations car giants volkswagen in total could cut production and beijing has canceled a major. many airlines are stopped flying to the country and that's affecting demand for jet fuel and hitting the tourism industry there and around the world with many many factories in china closing multinationals fear their supply chains could be hit and that could eventually affect the availability of goods globally well robert scott is from the economic policy institute he says the economic impact of coronavirus is significant but won't be felt in the long term. well i think the economic impact is certainly been the 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 us are no beals and 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. i've looked at some of the previous major epidemics and environment was asters 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 now iran's parliamentary elections are happening on friday but much of the attention has been on candidates who have been disqualified from standing more than $7000.00 applicants were told they can't run including some current members of parliament as a bank report from tara coming to terms with life outside of politics after 4 years

as a parliamentarian that he has now been told he can't stand for reelection he says he was told by the guardian council the body that oversees iran's elections it's because he does not a baby establishment he rejects that and says he wasn't surprised by the council's decision and he didn't want to it wasn't very unexpected for me considering how the guardian council make decisions they didn't provide me with complete evidence they made notes of comments on the media and my tweets due to some of my speeches and tweets over recent incidents it seems like they paid attention to them. others say being a committed parliamentarian doesn't guarantee candidacy wildhorse the issue about the law says for example a candidate should have a good reputation and be committed to the constitution these are not issues one can prove in court the guardian council should see if one is committed to the constitution or not. out of the 81 members of parliament barred from re standing

it's many politicians from the reformist movement who have been singled out they say they want the public's political system to be more open and democratic but that's opposed by conservatives who argue change isn't needed this level of disqualifications has not been seen since the 2004 parliamentary elections when conservatives won the majority of the seats that's led to increased criticism of the council the vetting process and calls for reform and more the the guardian council's interference has hurt its position and damage his reputation and unlike what they say it's because of the interests of the establishment in parliament should reflect people's voices and people's voices have variety they should let different opinions be present in the parliament it would lead to a dynamic parliament where people's hope one of the reasons that there's a predicted low turnout is because people feel disappointed in the guardian council has rejected criticism that its decisions are politically motivated and some predict conservatives are set to make gains in this election president rouhani has put forward a motion for a referendum on the vetting power of the guardian council but if conservatives win

the majority of seats in these elections that motion is unlikely to pass and the status quo will continue setting the stage for next year's presidential elections and a possible change in political direction. al jazeera the her on. the united nations says 900000 civilians are fled 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 biggest single civilian displacement during the 9 year war but despite that crisis the syrian president bashar al assad has promised to press on with the offensive in a rare address on state t.v. he congratulates is forces for gains they've made recently syrian government troops about by russian warplanes in the air and iranian backed militias on the ground. we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism eva 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 the. cameroons army is being blamed for killing at least 22 people in the village raid in the countries in their speaking region an opposition group says security forces were behind the attack on friday which killed 14 children the government's denying involvement saying its soldiers were attacked and that the resulting fighting caused several fuel tanks in the village to explode. as we understand it from 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 confirmed 22 this is in the context of. crisis which has been going on for almost 4 years between independent seeking. the homes of

visors and the current government. links records reveal that china is detaining some we get muslims due to their religious activities not for political extremism as beijing has claimed the dates includes detail profiles on hundreds of we girls in the shin chung region it shows officials taking a keen interest in their daily activity tracking their prey habits and even if they've grown a beard the chinese government has previously said the camps are occasional training centers. afghan taliban says it could sign a temporary truce with the u.s. by the end of the month the 2 sides have been holding talks to find a political solution to america's longest running war they've agreed on an initial week of reduced violence it's hoped it could lead to a full peace deal that would see u.s. troops pull out of the country. 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 don't her immediately following the signing the agreement in releasing $5000.00 taliban

prisoners direct talks would start between us and the afghan government. a suicide bombers killed at least 7 people and wounded dozens of others in pakistan police in which the provincial capital of baluchistan say a teenager detonated the bomb when i stopped him heading towards a religious running so far no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. india's supreme court has ruled that women in the military must be given the same career opportunities as men it means female officers can now apply for permanent commissions in the army that open up command roles and also be treated on par with men for promotions and benefits in court the indian government argued that many male soldiers would not accept female superiors. flooding in the u.s. state of mississippi has forced hundreds of people from their homes weeks of heavy rain pushed a river in the state capital jackson to its highest level in 37 years about

a 1000 homes have been flooded and roads and other infrastructure damaged the river appears to pete and evacuees are being warned to stay away until they get the all clear for hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the united kingdom after some areas recorded the highest water levels in 40 years 2 storms have battered britain in the past week bringing heavy rain and strong winds at least 4 people have died there is really a challenge reports. 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 chiara had already saturated their land dennis is heavy rain swiftly turned roads to tarantulas rivers field into lakes the town

center of 10 bridwell's 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 too nice i mean. everything that we put up on boxes last night is. ok so we've been serving. hot water if somebody wanted it but people are starting to sort of evacuate now prime minister boris johnson quick to visit storm hit areas while campaigning for december's election has yet to do the same this time. but the government has announced plans for a new $1500000000.00 supercomputer that will try to predict weather and climate change faster than ever before bats won't stop storms like dennis and he are of course but it's more warning should mean better preparation and that could prevent future storms being so destructive glory chalons. for the 1st time since the

16th century tapestries by a renaissance artist raphael have returned to the walls of the vatican sistine chapel masterpieces on display to mark 500 years since the artist the silk will engulf threads of been restored by experts of the past decade. check of the headlines here at al-jazeera the death toll from the corona virus in china has now passed $1800.00 after province the epicenter of the outbreak reported $93.00 new deaths in the last few hours the head of a major hospital in the capital will hand as also died after contracting the virus . katrina us in beijing she says the government's begun an operation to assess the health of every person who one city the government is trying to do this week is not every single door if you're not answering the door the government or the worker will check your electricity meter to see if somebody is indeed living down they'll

try to track you down they'll make calls to your family to your neighbors they will see you social media and all that and also surveillance systems to try to track your whereabouts and this is to make sure that they know that they know about every single krone virus case that no case of the virus goes unreported the world health organization says the virus is less deadly than previous outbreaks like sa's but it's more infectious it says 80 percent of those who contracted will only have mild symptoms and will recover it's emerged as some u.s. citizens evacuated from a cruise ship quarantine in japan were infected before they boarded the planes that flew them home the symptoms were confirmed as they were on the way to the airport. the european union is to launch new c.n.n. a patrol in the eastern mediterranean to try to stop more weapons reaching libya the decision aiming to uphold the barely recognized u.n. arms embargo follows months of negotiations there's been heavy fighting between

saudi troops and tribal forces in the east of yemen it happened in the province near the armani border saudi troops attempted to storm the town of shot on but were repelled attack helicopters and armored vehicles were deployed as part of the assault this region of yemen has largest state the worst of the fighting and gulf the rest of the country says 2015 and the u.n. says 900000 civilians fled 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 biggest single civilian displacement during the 9 year war. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera.

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