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yes it is a change. that began in china where the head of a hospital and move on the center of the corona virus outbreak has died from the disease whose dimming the head of the hospital died on tuesday morning china's health authority says over 3000 health workers sept has to positive for the virus and 6 have now died and totaled the corona virus has killed more than 1800 people 98 of them in the last 24 hours in china mainly at who they province the outbreak is affecting the economy and china's finance ministry says it's offering tariff exemptions are nearly 700 u.s. products including medical equipment. yokohama port in japan that's where a cruise ship has had hundreds of confirmed cases of the virus and there been quarantined 1st let's go to beijing worker trainee is live for us so katrina health

care workers dying from this now in particular this hospital director surely that scott to raise the concern level about whether or not they have a handle on this. that's what we're seeing seeing a lot of response on social media a lot of sadness in response to your dominguez death and a lot of shock as well saying that if the head of a very important hospital in hospital couldn't be protected from the coronavirus then who can and his death certainly does bring to the fore how grave the situation remains in china yes we've had numbers outside of a province look like they're going down but within who by itself the situation is still very serious as you mentioned about 3000 medical workers have been infected and the vast majority of cases of coronavirus are inside who a province about 60000 now and there are 2 concerns one is that they're still extremely understaffed they're the stuff you are working are working round the

clock very few breaks and also secondly that they're not given enough protective equipment they don't have enough gloves goggles suits to keep them safe from this virus so the government has responded in 2 ways they've sent about 10000 medical staff from all over china into hospitals in washington and its surrounding cities to help with the shortage of medical staff and they've also said that they're trying to kick sort of stimulate the manufacturing sector and get companies who necessarily don't necessarily have experience in developing medical supplies going to encourage them to develop medical supplies and give them subsidies to do that so there is a true way that the government is helping to tackle this but of course we're still continuing to hear a lot of stories on social media of people who are working in these hospitals simply just exhausted and of course that that doesn't help them keep healthy and keep safe from the krona virus and selves absolutely live in beijing to train e.u.

thank you katrina so let's go to rob mcbride real home the port world the cruise ship is being quarantined only talk about this crew sure prob one minute there are maybe 10 cases less than a dozen and the last couple weeks those numbers have gone up and up and now it's well over $400.00. what is going on. there is right it is quite alarming the spikes that we've seen in the number of people who have been infected as you quite rightly said 2 weeks ago when the virus was detected on board the vessel quarantine was imposed it was only a cluster but we have seen this steady increase with some quite alarming jumps so we are now well over 450 confirmed infections now some of those people the most serious cases will have been taken off the vessel to be treated on shore some of the less sick people with with symptoms that aren't as bad are understood to be still on the vessel but it is quite concerning for health professionals how the virus has continued to spread on

a ship that was supposedly in quarantine with everyone being kept in their cabins it can't be known of course until much later exactly how many of the people would be infected but only manifested the symptoms after the quarantine was imposed but it is a concern here and of course some countries have decided not to wait out the full quarantine some countries have sent in to take some of their nationals back to quarantine in their home countries and it does raise a question about whether it is the right move it's traditionally what people do when you find an infection on a ship you don't let any of those people come ashore because you don't want to spread the infection you keep people bored but there is concern here about how this virus does seem to have spread around the ship the good news for people here this tuesday afternoon is that tomorrow is finally wednesday the end of this 14 days of quarantine that we can see people who show not to be carrying the virus who have negative results and everybody finally has now been taken samples from everybody on

board this vessel until those tests are coming back over the next couple of days everyone who is found to be negative who's not carrying the coronavirus can finally c.n.n. and to this cruise ok robin private the latest from yokohama port right thank you. so it summers that some u.s. citizens move from the cruise ship quarantined in japan were infected with the coronavirus when they were airlifted back home or part of a group that was on 2 flights at this was only learned about their test results when they were already on their way to the plane's castro has more. than was already 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

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 where we're on in the morning there and after difficulty pretty miserable where there's massive row and everybody had to go to the ramp or i'm on the bus the president was revising their private 5 hours where they get off across the. currency very very well on the buses the infected and apparently healthy passengers had mixed given that they were still on a learning curve well iris i think u.s. public health missions the best decision 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 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 vacuum wait 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 have 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 there's been heavy fighting between saudi troops and tribal forces in the east of yemen the saudi soldiers attempted to storm the town of shonen amara province that's near there along the border but they were repelled attack helicopter as an armored vehicles were deployed and that assault on this particular region of yemen has largely escaped the worst of the fighting that's on gulf the rest of the country since 2015. life in the city as prime minister has appeared in court to say it's bonny has been charged in

connection with the murder of her husband 2nd wife and 2017 for more on this as bring it to me to miller she's outside court in the capital ms say russo what happened in court today the media. well it was a very short appearance my theatre barney was in court as part of a bail conditions and just to conform to some of the regulations around that but no trial date has yet been hit police say they're continuing their investigations and that it's likely more people will be a risk to be also can't rule out that the prime minister thomas to bonnie himself could face his own charges given the link that police say they've established between him and the crime in the murder that killed his 2nd wife but we do know they have been a lot of concerns around. bonnie having been granted bail that people consider her to be a flight risk that's also the police but also members of the to bonnie family they

say she's dangerous that she also had links to gangs in the suit to who may have been responsible for the murder we know that she also. when police previously tried to question her and it was only when she returned to listen to that they were able to arrest and charge are but here's a quick look at some of the events that have led to my seat to barney's appearance in court today. police have charged the city's prime minister thomas to find his wife my cea seen here with the murder of his previous wife almost 3 years ago reportedly refused to divorce the husband of after he had begun a new relationship with my c.e.o. intreat has not only caught the attention of the nation of more than $2000000.00 people but it's also lead to political tensions police commissioner says it's a bunny instructed that he be sacked as the investigation gains momentum

a quarter later ruled that his job be protected from. but off. to give us information and intelligence my cea has been released on bail but some members of the to bonnie family want that decision reversed they say the brutality of the murder shows she's dangerous it was here in hama sana de paulo to barneys home that people say she realized her life was in danger just days before her death someone tried to break into our home but to the attack of flared when her neighbors were alerted within days deeper level 0 was shot and killed on verse road while traveling home with a friend witnesses say 4 men fired at a vehicle they're too afraid to speak to us on camera saying they fear for their

safety both my c.i. and a lawyer declined requests for an interview but in court papers she's denied having anything to do with the murder and says the police have acted maliciously prime minister bonnie has been linked to the crime too but hasn't been charged police say a call was made to his mobile phone from the scene of following the murder he is not the kind of guy who would plot have been and still i stand to be corrected but i have different convictions in a slow and his new wife is concerned the scandal has worsened divisions within the governing all of us who to convention party are some within the party supporter bernie others want him to resign for people to listen to these developments may be unprecedented but remain a test for their democracy and the independence of its courts for me to miller al-jazeera a serial a suit to. i still have on al-jazeera the u.s. and the taliban being one step closer to a possible story in just

a bit also offer support from iran as lebanon's government works to find a way out of the economic crisis. but. the weather remains very unsettled across year opposes the scene in northern spain yesterday as the remnants the remains of storm dennis made its way across the southern part you see this long line of clouds this is the weather front associated with dennis is starting to weaken still some very strong winds mistral when setting up across that western side of the mediterranean so it will be very choppy across the western side of the med that wessel weather that wintry weather that will slide its way up towards the western side of russia moscow on the mild side once again temperatures here getting up to around 6 degrees celsius but it back up across the

northwest where concerns remain in place more blustery showers rolling through for the remainder of choose day and then we have this next system which will slide its way in for wednesday so turning increasingly wet and windy not as bad as over the weekend but a small rain on top of saturated ground and that is likely to cause for the flooding then across parts of the british isles showers continue into central past few showers that into italy things that's windy down across the western side of the metaphor you show was there into the eastern side of the mediterranean across no the parts of africa it is generally fine in try temperatures in algiers at 17 degrees. join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channel morning talkers and focus on how they

report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public the state media reflects the. climate change their editorial shows take a joint believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera. and watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now the number of people killed by the corona virus has now passed 1800 after china reported 98 more deaths in the last few hours the head of a major hospital in were on the center of the outbreak has also died of the virus cited ships and eastern yemen had been pushed back after trying to storm

a town near the omani border with all the tribal forces in amara province after launching an assault involving helicopters and armored vehicles such as 1st lady has appeared in court and connection with the murder of the prime minister a 2nd wife to say it's a body has been charged with ordering the killing of the pillow to body and 2007 to . their opinion as planning to launch a new c an air patrols in the eastern mediterranean to stop weapons from reaching libya's warring sides it took weeks of negotiations for a u. nations to reach an agreement on the new force talks to try to establish a lasting cease fire and libya order to resume on tuesday that medicare james bay supports 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 side to try and get a cease fire can you give us a readout of how they went the government's representative at the u.n. in new york libyan ambassador sunny told me the previous round of talks had been far from easy 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 buffer 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. 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 0 jinnie. the taliban in afghanistan says it could sign a temporary truce with the us by the end of this month but inside 7 holding talks to find a political solution to america's longest running war they've agreed to reduce violence over a week it's hoped that can lead to a permanent peace deal that would see 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 terry capital of don't immediately following the signing the agreement and release some 5000 taliban prisoners direct talks would stop between us and the afghan government. and then secretary general has says rather creating a safe and stable afghanistan will make it possible for millions of refugees to return home and try to get terrorist says economic prosperity can be achieved through cooperation between afghanistan and pakistan and the international community the terrorist is attending a conference and islamic recognizing 40 years of afghans living as refugees more than 2000000 of them live in pakistan while hyder has been speaking to refugees in the city of the shower he says there are concerns the talks won't lead to any real change. in the last 3 days we have visited the refugee camp started on the outskirts selfridge what's to date we have brought good people

extensively they have seen even end up off. their dead from the international community that day will be held better arriving and. better men however there are a lot of people who are skeptical. because of the conditions that they're living in and because of the fact that they've lived there for 40 years now most important in order the pakistani foreign minister would also tread saying on the need for that. framework which word of god fertility did that favorite on it are bitter tone of the record use today country on the card that district be a part of. be said to the main day in all it's very important the pakistani foreign minister saying that stability and peace and everyone is on granola story and they're redoing their drill head again i'll make development it's really brutal

connectivity although that is just a bridge mode as far as the government and the united nations is concerned there are grades of agents by many to your good who have seen such prominence in the box however there is a ray of hope that dogs were the taliban are bearing fruit. the speaker iran's parliament has become the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since a new government came to office and beirut ali larijani said iran stood ready to help lebanon struggling economy the new prime minister haass and d.s. has promised to come up with a plan to ease the financial crisis in lebanon but protesters are still too now saying it's leadership they heard a report 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 formed the new government we hope the new government will be able to succeed and we are ready to cooperate with it and give it our full backing but iran's growing influence in the cabinet through its local ally hezbollah seems to be hurting lebanon's ability to secure much needed funds from both the international community and the arab world prime minister has sandia his government is seeking all the help it can get as a deals with the unprecedented economic and financial crisis international community is more or less in the wait and see mode. the us administration in liberating internally how to deal with them along so there is no decision yet obviously. of the europeans they are conditioning to reforms and waiting to see what the government will commit to. for the arabs from the arab countries. saudi

arabia and. you we have more. 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. like fighting corruption. and supporting an independent. lebanese politicians who have been in power for decades have repeatedly postponed implementing reforms that

would weaken their hold on power but they are under increasing pressure the economy is collapsing lebanon is close to bankruptcy and iran's influence in the government threatens international isolation. the u.n. says nearly 900000 civilians have fled fighting a northwestern syria since the beginning of december and warns this humanitarian crisis has reached what it calls a horrifying new level a syrian government offensive to retake the last rebel held areas has created the biggest single civilian displacement during this 9 year war half of the $3000000.00 civilians living in the province have had to leave for other areas already and despite that syria's president bashar al assad has promised to press ahead with the offensive and it led in a rare address on state television he congratulated his forces for again save made recently syrian government troops are backed by russia's air force and iranian backed militias on the ground here lebanon and i'd be fully understand if 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 turkey syria border and says while it's clear all side 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 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 tower said this is the term that he uses. most of the time to describe the syrian opposition would normally in

2014 or 13 when the syrian government was on the verge. of collapse and when the syrian opposition was making spectacular gains across the country all those gains were reversed and now they're just confined to. which is their last stronghold but president bashar assad also told his people that they have to wait or that this is not the end of the world and i think he was hinting to the fact that with the growing turkish involvement with turkey sending more people voice into into taking over it it might take some time now it's no longer up to us 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 a stamp a detonator will still be in the chair has killed at least 23 people refugees from

neighboring nigeria had been queuing for food and clothes and deferred that's in the southeast crowds pushed forward when the gates to the facility opened crushing those people waving and included many children. more than 200 flood warnings remain in place across the u.k. after some areas report of the highest water levels and 40 years 2 storms have better in the past week at least 4 people have die there are warnings of more heavy rain in the coming days chalons reports. angry seas and dangerous swollen rivers dennis is the 2nd storm in a week to bassa parts of the u.k. blowing in shortly after a storm blew out dennis has brought floods and destruction to wales and west in england in herefordshire became threats of borne away by the waters because storm chiara had already saturated the land dennis's heavy rains swiftly turned roads to

tarantulas rivers fields into lakes the town center of 10 bree wells in which the ship was submerged it can take months for people's lives to return to normal after this kind of event and it's up to my thigh in situ mean and everything that we put up on boxes last night is. so we've been serving. hot water somebody wanted it but you know it was time to sort of evacuate now prime minister boris johnson quick to visit storm hit areas while campaigning for december's election has yet to do the same this time. but the government has announced plans for a new $1500000000.00 supercomputer that will try to predict weather and climate change faster than ever before that's one 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 0. our website is al jazeera dot com take a look when you get a moment. richelle carey let's recap the headlines right now on al jazeera the number of people killed by the corona virus has now passed 1800 after china reported 98 more deaths in the last few hours the head of a major hospital when will the focus of this outbreak doctors also die katrina you has more from beijing there's been a lot of sadness and a lot of shock as well chinese social media in response to the death of your dreaming he was a man in his early fifty's and they're saying that if the head of a very important hospital which on hospital could not be protected from the coronavirus than then who can and i think it highlights to many in china that this

is still a very serious situation yes we've seen on state media the pushing of this positive news that cases outside of who they seem to be dropping steadily but we have to remember that inside who bay medical system is very much still overwhelmed and from what we can see under-resourced saudi troops in eastern yemen have been pushed back after trying to storm a town near the omani border if the tribal forces and el mar mara province after on showing an assault involving helicopters and armored vehicles it's a region that so far had escaped the worst of the violence and yemen's 5 year war was it is 1st lady has appeared in court in connection with the murder of the prime minister 2nd wife to say it's a body has been charged with ordering the killing of the polo to bonnie in 2017 the taliban in afghanistan says it could sign a temporary truce with the u.s. by the end of this month the 2 sides have been holding talks to find a political solution to america's longest running war they've agreed to reduce

violence over a week and it's back to lead to a permanent peace deal that would see u.s. troops pull out of afghanistan. the u.n. says nearly 900000 civilians have fled fighting a northwestern syria since the beginning of december and warns the humanitarian crisis has reached what it calls a horrifying new level comes after syria's president bashar al assad said the country had achieved victory at the fight wasn't over a syrian government offensive to retake the last rebel held areas has created the single biggest civilian displacement during a 9 year war those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera another bulletin is coming up in the meantime we're going to hand it over to the stream. was there are we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption . we listen so if you replace china's enemy the world with and that's really been

yours we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories that matter just 0. i am josh rushing filling in for the irreplaceable family ok china is fighting what its government calls a people's war against a deadly coronavirus but it's also battling to diffuse public anger over its handling of the crisis is china putting party before the people so your thoughts through twitter and you tube and you too could be in the street. the corona virus spreading across china has now taken 1800 lives but as cases mount chinese authorities are scrambling to address criticism that they should have been more open about the crisis on saturday the chinese government took the rare step of .