storytelling around the biggest issues but. you still do it again. no shelter is now safe the u.n. accuses syria's government of targeting hospitals and schools in the northeast where almost a 1000000 civilians have fled the fighting. there on sitters and this is all just there at live from london also coming up. forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar type tripoli's port as the warring sides hold talks to reach a cease fire behind us says 3000 health workers serve now been infected by the current virus but a new study finds around 80 percent of all cases are mild and ashraf ghani is

declared winner of afghanistan's presidential election 5 months after the vote took place. the u.n. says the syrian government is hitting hospitals schools and camps for displaced people with air strikes in northwest syria as it keeps up its offensive to capture the last rebel stronghold close 290-0000 civilians have fled conflict zones in and western aleppo since the beginning of december overwhelming aid agencies 80 percent of them are women and children forced into increasingly smaller safe areas the un human rights office says it's recorded 299 civilian deaths since january the 1st around 93 percent of them caused by an syrian government and its allies in that time the un says 12 medical facilities and 19 schools have been directly hit or

damaged by syrian and russian airstrikes with 2 hospitals hit on monday. the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. would suggest to you can't all be accidental. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of proportionality necessity caution and so on. all of which can contribute to something being tributed there's a war crime it's cruel beyond belief that civilians mostly women and children living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions of being bombed. reports on the growing crisis in syria from chill. football well how bad is one of the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bomb

a key in the east of where it was taken over by government forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature cannot afford to buy a stove to heat the place. and we pray someone will defend us please help us to kill our children they targets cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are being derriere nonstop it's insane as government forces close in football has already backed the tractor outside he's ready if the situation gets worse. i have seen hopeless faces crying out of fear and humiliation i am asking the arabs and the muslims where are you why are you silent come here and see the women and children living in the open people are on the run believe it lib hoping for a better place. and his family have just arrived from the outer norman the rebel

stronghold south of. the city was recaptured by the syrian army 2 weeks ago shelling an. many civilians escaped real malaya maignan on one day we counted $400.00 rockets fired at the city in addition to airstrikes many were killed we fled under the cover of darkness it was so chaotic when you were looking for loved ones who they'd lost track of during the escape this is how more than and the outskirts of aleppo look like. long lines of syrians on tracks their destination is the border with turkey the joint hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered in small areas and empty fields hoping to cross into turkey if syrian government troops continue their advance the battle for it live might turn into the worst confrontations is the start of the conflict 9 years ago the serial army is determined there are burbles must surrender but they

are defiant civilians have nowhere to go and if it falls into the hands of the government they're likely to pay a price the millions who live in the province who are stranded near the border with turkey will have to abandon the dream they've carried for many years a syria without bashar assad has to. deliver on turkey's border with syria meanwhile a video circulating on social media shows a syrian father trying to protect his daughter from the trauma of what's happening in the country abdullah mohammed says every time a bomb was dropped he tells 3 year old sour it's part of a game. leg. because he. says he devised the game to help his only child who's only known war to overcome her fear the 32 year old moved his family to this summer the district from italy

province earlier this month when his town fell to government forces. the u.n. special envoy for yemen says he's distressed by reports of hundreds of civilian casualties from a recent escalation of violence yemen has been engulfed by fighting since 2015 that martin gryphus says not many quiet front lines are now being targeted and women and children are suffering the most we are witnessing in yemen what we have long feared since october i have briefed this council several times on the signs of hope and momentum towards peace but at the same time we have all been acutely aware that renewed violence could reverse the gains made render peace more difficult and inflict even more severe humanitarian consequences on the population. during the past month as we last met the military

situation has grown increasingly dire but its sides have. expensive military goals and exchanged fierce rhetoric forces loyal to libyan warlord halley found after have attacked the port in tripoli with the rockets they say they were targeting a turkish ship taking weapons to the un recognized government it comes as representatives from both sides met in geneva for ceasefire talks as a diplomatic editor james space reports the attack could threaten the fragile peace process. the porch in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general have to say forces carried out the indiscriminate strikes about the same time that 5 of his representatives sat down at the u.n. in geneva for talks with 5 from the g. and a the internationally recognized gump. it's now 10 months since general have to up

ended the international community's peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met the u.n. secretary general and tonio good terror's who is visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons of continue to pour into the country. despite this the secretary general's envoy is keen to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that it is being implemented was patience and determination despite the many of us the clear need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition the reason next week is important as mr salamis ambitious plan to bring representatives of all the libyan factions here to geneva those talks are supposed to start on the

26th james grows out of the united nations in geneva. the biggest study of coronavirus cases in china since the outbreak began suggests the spread of the disease is slowing but the authors warn the authorities to remain vigilant to prevent a possible rebound data from the chinese center for disease control and prevention finds that more than 80 percent of cases have been classified as mild the sickened elderly are most at risk with the fatality rates increasing gradually with a the research also points to the high risk to medical star with just over 3000 diagnosed with the disease the virus has now killed nearly 1800 people and infected more than 72000 in china and the sarah clarke reports from hong kong china now plans to test all citizens living in route. of officials go door to

door in a city wide sweep in one hand to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more quantum centers are being set up in 8 districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds but those showing mild symptoms the number of people infected outside. epicenter of the outbreak may be fulling but inside here by province the situation is still serious more than 50000 cases have been confirmed there you go should a woman being be in the house there are still a large number of severe cases in which and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of emergency care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies one of where hands most senior doctors meaning has now died after contracting the corona virus more than 3000 health workers have also been infected . medical teams from the guangdong province and to bitch and now are being sent to

the city to assist staff struggling to treat the high numbers of patients across china hospitals are also expanding clinics and opening up new centers to ease the pressure across the country but it is about and in response to the potential epidemic we have activated the hospital facilities that we built with the shanghai public health clinical center back in 2004 and we've renovated around 200 reserve beds for emergency use. on tuesday china announced it would exempt tariffs on nearly $700.00 u.s. goods from the beginning of march that's intended to avoid shortages of products including pork beef soybeans and crude oil the fallout from this album is being felt across asia with some countries describing it as an economic emergency south korea's president has flagged new measures to cushion the financial impact so too has hong kong as a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon

a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. for more than 170000 health care workers are on the front lines of the corona virus outbreak in china exhausted medics are posting pictures on social media to show the difficult conditions and discomfort they face with $3000.00 have been infected with the virus and $700.00. including 2 prominent doctors hospitals aren't a stone left and there's a shortage of supplies including masks and protective suits many are criticizing the governments for the harsh working conditions with images like these of health workers crying as their heads are being shaved well sanjay our son and i associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he says it's difficult to get a clear picture of what medics in china are dealing with. it's hard to know what's happening in china or in terms of both cases and our healthcare workers are being

treated because of the frantic nature of this outbreak what i would say is certainly in terms of the proportion of health care workers infected if you look at the sars outbreak 80 percent of the cases in china the sars were health care workers it's much less for this outbreak it's about 3 percent certainly it is very important when health care workers are engaging with people with. a serious infection that requires close look to take protective equipment that they are adequately resourced that they are fresh and that actually in mind and if those 3 are being achieved then you're not doing the right thing by doctors and nurses they're watching al-jazeera live from london still ahead fighting flares again in eastern ukraine president elect scott says it's a provocation to disrupt the peace process and federal judges meet to discuss concerns about alleged intervention by president trump and attorney general william

barr in holistically sensitive cases. hello again it's good to be back where we did see some very active weather down here across parts of toria on tuesday with thunderstorms pushing across much of the area that's all dealing with this area of low pressure in the closet you see right here now that is still going to be a problem on wednesday with very active rain across much of tasmania some winds will be a problem as well not too bad of a day though as we go towards thursday the system slowly makes its way towards the tasman sea things get better in terms of the sky as well as the rain but notice that the temperatures are coming down so melbourne only getting to about 1000 degrees there hobart at about 20 and here for sydney will. temperatures will be coming down as well a nice warm day here on wednesday with plenty of sun a little bit cooler as we go towards thursday and by friday we do expect to see

some rain in the forecast at about $25.00 degrees there well here across much of asia isn't required over the next few days the big weather system that cause most of the problems across japan is going to be making its way out here towards the pacific and we are going to be left with much better skies as we go towards wednesday tokyo a better day here at 13 degrees as we go towards thursday we are going to see plenty of sun in the forecast shanghai it is going to be a beautiful day at about 15 degrees but down towards hong kong it is going to be a little bit cooler at 19 effort taipei maybe some showers at 21 degrees. is peak needs in libya but staging current bike travels it comes with its own particular risks couldn't take part in 26 probably because we were fighting a war against isis so i'll just tell this to the libyan desert to see how school

till we can be a unifying force you know chill country video around the 400 on al-jazeera. welcome back let's get a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.n. says hospitals schools and counts for displaced people in northwest syria are being hit by government airstrikes around 900000 civilians have fled conflict zones in western aleppo since the beginning of december as libya's warring sides met for ceasefire talks in geneva shipley's port was targeted by rockets from forces loyal

to warlord khalifa haftar they say they were targeting a turkish ship taking weapons to the un recognized government and health officials in china say the spread of the corona virus appears to be slowing but they're warning the authorities to remain vigilant to prevent a possible resurgence a major study into the outbreak has found that 80 percent of cases have been classified as my old. ukraine's president says heavy fighting in the eastern donbass region will not hamper efforts to end the conflict with the russian backed separatists ukraine's military the separatists have blamed each other for the flare up which left one ukrainian soldier dead and several others wounded in some of the worst fighting seeing seen in the region since peace talks were held in december a lot of me as a landscape says the violence was an attempt to the peace process a 2nd round of talks is expected in berlin in the coming months.

we have a powerful army provocations happen but the army responded firmly the situation is completely under control because of the shah we are confident that this provocation will not change the course towards ending the conflict as one can only sit at the negotiation table with a strong army. the course forward is to go ahead and stop the war and reach peace. vasant who is in the russian capital moscow says the fighting could be a major setback for the peace process. parties both the ukrainian army and the separatists backed by russia are blaming each other for this attack as usual the official confirmation is one soldier died but the unofficial reports say that more people have died and the president's alinsky was so worried that he has convened this emergency security council meeting he sat afterwards that he won't be deterred from proceeding with the peace process immediately dismounting off to attack took

place in the kremlin spokesman said that they were unsure what was going on did they needed more details but of course russia couldn't be blamed because obviously russia is not involved and this is of course the line they have been maintaining since the invasion in eastern ukraine and the backing of discipline. ukrainian. rebels there that that's always been the line but of course there's an overwhelming evidence of that the chose the contrary it's also important to note that this peace process has been going very slowly from the beginning because russia is insisting that ukraine organizes elections in eastern ukraine and also gives a special status to dawn vice and that's something very difficult because ukraine says we can only hold elections when there's no forces there in that area and also when we have control over that border which is basically still controlled by these russian backed separatists and so this is a major point and

a major debt block to this whole process which is today gone back again very far and it doesn't look very optimistic right now. in afghanistan ashraf ghani has won another term as president after being declared the winner of last september's disputed election the independent election commission says gani took just over 50 percent of the vote with his main rival of dollar a dollar getting in just over 39 percent the results have been delayed for months due to attacks polling stations allegations of rigging and technical problems and danny has been president since 2014. but no you. are dedicating this victory of the people to the people and that's the 1st servants with our united t. we will always safeguard the rights of the afghan people that opposition candidate abdullah abdullah has rejected the result that you. have done you know

the results they announced today is election robbery a coup against democracy the betrayal of the will of the people and we consider it illegal. israel's prime minister will go on trial for corruption next month just 2 weeks after the country's elections benjamin netanyahu was formally charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust last month he'll be required to attend court for the start of the proceedings on march the 17th netanyahu is the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with a crime he's denied tenure wrongdoing the election is in just under 2 weeks time will be israel's 3rd in a year. the u.s. justice department and attorney general are in a growing dispute over the handling of the trial of one of president chums former adviser as well just start on the federal judge's association is meeting to discuss concerns about alleged intervention by the president along with attorney general william fall in politically sensitive cases trump has called for all cases stemming

from the mother investigation into rushing into ferentz in the 2016 election to be thrown out and says he has total confidence in barr. i think he's doing good actually job he's a strong guy i never spoke to about the roger stone situation roger stone just so you know that the work he did work for my campaign that might have been a time way early long before i get out where he was somehow involved a little bit but it was that involved in our campaign at all and i think it was a very very rough they get out but the roger stone let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly present job has every confidence in the attorney general campbell a bit but who indeed has the upper hand when it comes to the a cheney general or indeed the judges association. well according to the president as you played there just a moment ago he had sort of it some expanded comments and he was asked basically

that question and his answer has shocked everyone essentially he claims that he is the chief law enforcement officer in the united states i can tell you that's not the case in fact it is the attorney general who is the highest law enforcement officer or the top lawyer in the united states so there is already considerable controversy around the president's latest comments and this just comes part and parcel with some of the president's recent actions in fact pardons that he's issued for pardons for 7 individuals clemency for 4 others including a former eleanore governor a friend who was also the owner of a football team and even the new york police commissioner now why are people so upset about all of this well as you mentioned the judge's association meeting right now feeling that and alleging that the president has basically flouted the law since he was acquitted in the senate on impeachment allegations that he was abusing

presidential powers the allegations from many of the president's critics are that he's simply run amuck that he's easy sort of going wild in terms of flouting the law not only weighing in on politically sensitive cases in the case of roger stone where he has gotten considerable pushback for the fact that he. was very critical of a recommended send it so much so that the attorney general william barr downgraded that sentence that sentence to be set on thursday everyone watching that very carefully but the president unapologetic that he has been weighing in on all of these legal issues all of these judges getting together and that's why having this joint meeting could it have any impact on stern's trial. i think that it could because the fact is that they've moved this meeting up almost treating it like an emergency meeting really trying to underscore and put into the public spotlight their concerns about this case giving it that spotlight is certainly

going to have an impact in terms of public perception now officially judges say that whether there is controversy whether the president weighs in that has no impact on a judge's decision but this has an impact on the court of public opinion and the public's weighing in on this whether or not it will change this case unlikely what it will change potentially is the results come november at the ballot box but how about life for us from the white house thank you kimberly. canada's prime minister just intruder says he wants a peaceful resolution to around blockade which is shut down for its passenger traffic indigenous groups have been blocking lines in ontario and british columbia for nearly 2 weeks know they're angry over the construction of a natural gas pipeline parts of which would run through native land the canadian national railway company has obtained a court injunction to stop the blockade but so far police haven't removed protests

is alan fischer now joins us live. tell us more on what's his protest all about. well you see the protesters there up on the real line this is close as we're allowed to get at the real companies concerned that there are a number of protests across the country not on the real lines but enough to give them a concern that there could be arrest people these protests started spreading up after the original protest against the pipeline across native indian lands were moved their native 1st nations here they didn't want the pipeline built in certain parts but then the police moved in and started to move those camps all that did was create more protests in key points around the country now this is causing a real problem not just for the 5000000 commuters who have been inconvenienced because the real services have been closed but there are much bigger economic implications for it as well 1st of all food supplies and get to the distribution centers so they are going to start running low in the next few days there is also

a problem too with the likes of farmers and other export hers they can't get their goods to the coast so they're losing markets they're losing money they're losing share of the market for a few 2 years as well that's a concern and then there's the additional problem to the propane supplies are running low and propane is used by a lot of canadians to keep their houses one particularly when you get weather like this when it is subzero it is bitterly cold here and if those supplies start to go then it's going to be difficult for people just to keep warm now we've seen a string of people coming back in for during their short over the last couple of hours the reason they're doing it they're bringing supplies to the camp the brought firewood the brought food they brought vegetables and they say they are supporting the people there who are looking at the bigger picture not just this gas pipeline but what happens to the plan and particular what happens to canada. has been going on 2 weeks now what steps have been taken to trying resolve the issues that are

causing the blockades. well of course many people are saying well look the course of said these blockades have to go why don't the police move well the police know that if they did that straight away although we do like it did 2 weeks ago there's create more protests in more key points bring even more care so they're stepping back trying to let the politicians do their job just introduce a rule a country that believes in the rule of law but they want to discuss this with the various people who are involved the 1st nation tribes well they held a news conference in ottawa just a couple of hours ago and they say look we're willing to discuss ending these protests and asking these people to end the protests but the federal government has got to talk to us and not just about this but about issues we have heard for 2030 in some cases 50 years they really need to sort this out problem 1st nations have got is other groups are getting involved in these protests no they might not be

able to control them if they say look everything's got to go but there are serious economic implications for what's happening here during the entire country of canada many things and very chilly looking and fish of that speaking to us live from ontario along the base bank h.s.b.c. says it will answer around 30 $5000.00 jobs worldwide reducing its workforce by 15 percent after a significant fall in profits while announcing the cuts the company issued a warning about the impact of the corona virus outbreak in asia the bank reported a 33 percent fall in pretax profit for 2019 and anxious to make 4 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of cost cuts by 2022 inches p.c. currently operates in more than 60 countries in north america europe the middle east and asia and employs more than 40000 people in the u k. island's coast guard has warned the public to stay away from a large cargo ship which washed up after

a large storm the 77 metre vessel was abandoned in the atlantic ocean i read year ago the wreck washed up on the coast of county cork in the aftermath of storm dennis which caused widespread damage across the u.k. and ireland over the last few days the boat called the outer was left by its crew off the mujer in september 28th. a quick reminder now of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.n. says hospitals schools and campus for displaced people in northwest syria are being hit spawning government air strikes 12 medical facilities and 19 schools have been directly hit or damaged by syrian and russian air strikes me to hospital said on monday prompting a new wave of refugees. the sheer quantity of attacks on these

hospitals medical facilities schools. would suggest to the can't all be accident. that a minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of course noted incessantly caution and so on. all of which can contribute to something being attributed to a sort of war crime it's cruel beyond belief and civilians mostly women and children living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions of being bombed as libya's warring sides met for ceasefire talks in geneva tripoli's port was targeted by rockets from forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar they say they were targeting a turkish ship taking weapons to the un recognized government health officials in china say the spread of the corona virus appears to be slowing but they're warning the authorities to remain vigilant to prevent a possible resurgence and may just study into the outbreak has found that 80

percent of cases have been classified as mild ukraine's president says heavy fighting in the eastern dumbass region will not hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian backed separatists ukraine's military and the separatists have blamed each other for the flare up which left one ukrainian soldier dead and several others wounded a lot of mia's alinsky says the violence was an attempt to disrupt the peace process and ashraf ghani has won another term as afghanistan's president after being declared the winner of september's disputed election election commission says gani took just over 50 percent of the vote with its main rival abdullah abdullah getting just over 39 percent those are the headlines stay were those the stream is coming up next.

hi everyone i'm josh rushing filling in for me ok today less than 2 percent of farmers in the united states are black but that hasn't always been the case so what happened and what is their future hold share your thoughts with us on twitter or in our live chat and you too could be in the street. you know a century ago african-american families own one 7th of the country's farmland that's about 15000000 acres but they've lost more than 70.