all jews in. libya's un recognized government pulls out of ceasefire talks in geneva after war not only for have task forces attacked the tripoli court. down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up free at last the coronavirus quarantine is lifted for some on board a cruise ship in japan but the number of dead in mainland china surges past 2000. a 2nd term to ashraf ghani as afghan president but the opposition is calling his election win a move against democracy. and u.s. court rejects chinese telecom giant while his appeal to these restrictions on doing business with government agents.

efforts to restore peace in libya have suffered another setback the un recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after the port in the capital tripoli was targeted by forces loyal to warlord honey for half tal well last month after he had refused to sign a cease fire deal brokered by russia and turkey are diplomatic editor james bays reports now from geneva the porch in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fate of the peace efforts in jeopardy. it's now 10 months since general haftar appended the international community's peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u.n.

secretary general antonio good terrorist who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary general's envoy was determined 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 that it is being implemented was patience and determination and this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i'll bet there have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement there were needed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripoli's seaport which is the life

artery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and food supplies in this context we announce the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the presidential council reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the un is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all the political factions in libya would use take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts james bays out 0 geneva but top diplomats involved in the talks have reacted with dismayed to the sudden turn of events. i only saw the hope of course. of these talks which will resume and quickly as possible to serve. what is just started to engage including the military committee which is the most important thing for this is

a little supposed for the political trick to start sometime in the near future to serve that they were recalled that step they will return berkeley to. al-jazeera is marking up the warhead is in tripoli he has more on the attack at the port the government has notified the united nations support the mission in libya that it's suspending its parts. in the talks in geneva the government says that it cannot continue in any peace talks with. the capital is under attack the state facility is the region that is the areas and also the port which is the government describes as the lifeline not only for the people in the capital city but all libyans because this is the main and major port in the capital city and then you see that the state oil further has declared that it has just moved

and evacuated all tankers that are loaded with fuel and gas in the port in order to prevent humanitarian and in fact environmental disaster due to the multiple attacks by have to the forces on the port on tuesday or james maran is from the center for european policy studies he says it's not the 1st time the ceasefire talks have been suspended. yes he's doing doing it on a number of occasions of course so we also saw that in moscow couple of months ago when the g.n.a.s. siren. mr hu a prominent move was sponsored by one of his main backers that is there russia is. record as a man of peace got to be in doubt of the moment and one would very much hope that there will be condemnation from all sides of this attack today coming from the

international community including the european union which i think must now be a little bit more. robust in pushing back against this sort of thing especially up to the bar and ministers the e.u. yesterday decided at the political level anyway now to move on with this idea of trying to please the u.n. arms embargo the number of people have died due to the corona virus in china has now crossed 2000 who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak reported 132 deaths on tuesday that's a 33 percent rise in fatal it is since tuesday the number of new infections though has fallen marginally more than 74000 people are confirmed to have contracted code 19 on the mainland meanwhile in japan some passengers and crew on board the cruise ship diamond princess who'd been under quarantine and now being allowed to leave there were about 3700 people on board as of tuesday at least 542 of them were

reported to be infected well we'll get the latest with rob mcbride in yokohama in japan where that cruise ship is but 1st katrina you is in the chinese capital beijing with the latest katrina so the death toll has now passed this 2000 mark just put that number into context for us and what more health officials have been doing. that's right well in the last 24 hours we've had more than $130.00 deaths including the 2nd confirmed death in hong kong some positive news is that outside of who a province the numbers in mainland china of new confirmed cases seem to be fully but inside have a province itself it remains very grave there are about 12000 people who are in critical condition fighting for their life and all in all in about in who a province or more than 61000 patients and this system that is really struggling to cope we know that there have been about 10000 medical workers sent into kuwait province from all over the country to help with all the hospitals but we've also

received news that they have building 10 new hospitals in the lower end so it seems that there is still a shortage of medical workers and the government has actually announced new incentives for health workers who choose to go to so we know that there are some financial incentives depending on where you go from you get an additional $1000.00 u.s. dollars to about $4000.00 u.s. dollars for going to but there seems to be that it seems that they're the financial incentives are limited and so the government is using other ways to sort of try to incentivize health workers to come into it and they've offered these other social credit kind of incentives for example if you are a health worker coming to her on your child if they're in high school will get a to extra 10 points on their junior high school exam to enter so they will get perhaps a better points to have more access to better senior high schools and if your kid isn't in school if they're just they've they're young they'll get better access to

public kindergartens and they're also offering. this other incentive that if you are unfortunate enough to pos away from the current virus while working as a health worker you will be given national status now in china this is a huge on of this is one of the highest honors that you can be given as a civilian and basically that will guarantee your family. a number of. a number of benefits after you pass away so regular allowances you your children will be given piracy access to schools you'll soon be given piracy access to a number of government services so these are 2 ways that the government is trying to morph health workers to who they make may sound strange from the outside but in china these are quite common sort of social credit incentives given to to reward people for good behavior or to katrina you that in beijing katrina thank you let's cross over now to the yokohama port where that cruise ship is and talk to rob mcbride so rob we understand some passengers have been allowed to leave the ship

just bring us up to date with what's been happening there. absolutely this is a day that they have all been looking forward to and as you mentioned this several 100 passengers from this cruise ship are expected to leave today this is the end of this 14 days of quarantine and there is a lot of activity here at the quay side the media has been pushed well back and it's understood that passengers are now being processed through the main terminal there's been an awful lot of movement of buses which will be taking the lucky several 100 or so who are coming off the ship today to various transport hubs to yokohama railway station we understand one bus has already arrived there also taxis have been seen coming out of the port presumably taking passengers with them and chased it seems also by a number of major there is a as we know very widespread international attention in this developing story it's especially given the number of infections that we have seen several 100 or so

over the past couple of weeks during the time that this vessel was locked down that the quarantine was under way and it has caused a certain amount of a law here in japan and also internationally now what happens to passengers who are being released from warranty depends on who you are it's understood that japanese citizens have been told that they are in the clear but no lesson priorities been given to older citizens people who have proved negative from this coronavirus they are being told they can go home but they have also been told that they should basically undergo a kind of self quarantine for several days avoid contact with people outside their families and so on while the health authorities follow that condition check they haven't developed any fevers so it does bring into question the kind of quarantine that we've seen here and whether the local authorities have confidence in it certainly from the international community's point of view they have far less come

. but it's because countries like australia and the united states are telling its citizens that even if they come off the ship they don't want to see them come home straight away they've got to leave it to weeks if they do come home right now they face quarantine for that 2 weeks as soon as they land or it's a robot bride in your port in japan rob thank you for the update. to afghanistan now where ashraf ghani has won another term as president after being declared the winner of last september's disputed election results have been delayed for months due to attacks and polling stations allegations of vote rigging and technical problems really challenge. since september afghanistan's election commission has been sifting complaints and contested votes trying to work out whether ashraf ghani has the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff he does it's finally announced but only just but that she has said i had to open according to the constitution we declared mr ashraf ghani who recovered

923592 votes which is equal to 50.64 percent of the country's total vote in the election as the president elect of the government of the islamic republic of afghanistan. the incumbent is naturally celebrating. the matter. but i'm dedicating this victory of the people to the people and as the 1st servants with our united seem we will always safeguard the rights of the afghan people but although the decision puts months of electoral uncertainty to rest it opens a new chapter of danger just like when gandhi was ruled the winner in 2014 his main rival abdullah abdullah is calling the result illegitimate that's. the result they announced today was the result of election of a coup against democracy the betrayal of the will of the people and we considered

it to be illegal. in 2014 the u.s. brokered a power sharing agreement with garni president and of diller chief executive. this time around the u.s. is doing deals with the taliban there near an agreement in doha which could be announced soon if an initial reduction in violence is successfully observed the u.s. wants to bring its troops home. with the taliban also says gone these reelection is illegal and contravenes the peace process will reach alan's al-jazeera. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back find out why and dismiss groups in canada a block most of the country's rail network and the cayman islands the u.s. switzerland find out who else is topping the list of countries helping the super rich to hide their money more in the stay with us.

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thirty's just a few days ago we're going to see you at about $29.00 possibly some rain showers in the forecast you johannesburg it is going to be a nice day partly cloudy afternoon at 25 but a little bit better by the time we get towards thursday but over towards madagascar we are still seeing a lot of rain in the forecast and for the capital we do expect to see 23 as your forecast high. when they're on line like probably recovering being one of the worst ramps in mainstream media. or if you join us on sat there is a difference between diversity and inclusion and overseas sometimes isn't always sincere this is a dialogue sanctions and the ways in which they're tied to iran are an act of warfare everyone has a voice we as a society that is simply to victims range need to sit down and listen join the colobus conversation on out to 0.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera libya's un recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva that's after the port in the capital tripoli was targeted by forces loyal to warlord early for after all of these 3 civilians were killed. the number of people who've died due to the coronavirus in china has now passed 2000 that's up to a new baby problems at the epicenter of the outbreak reported 132 new deaths on tuesday the number of new infections a 4th. and in japan some passengers and crew on the cruise ship diamond princess who'd been on the phone to not being allowed to leave there were about 3700 people

on board at least 542 of them are reported to have contracted the virus. while many countries a phone out their citizens from china's who by province some have failed to do so among them is pakistan an estimated a 1000 pakistani students are in who right now and joining us on skype from the provincial capital is russia to look carney's a student of medicine that told us we understand you've been under lockdown since around the 22nd of january tell us more about your situation there and what you're doing and. actually riyad here in ohio. and when she hears. yesterday you know hon i am medical to join in i am from pakistan in. the us supposed to be. starting our internship in the theory and we were ready to go to pakistan but. due to their luck in our own since $22.00 after generally in. the

generally under the law we cannot go. in and. inside our rooms. just quickly let me just let me just jump in quickly and say i mean i understand that also one of the dormitories next to you has been turned into a makeshift hospital do you think this is putting your health and your life at risk yes sure we have gone into a did to now the patients are being shifted to our dormitories in it's really a big problem for us even we can go even if we don't go out still we can get infected is the con artist going through the air assault so it's really a difficult in terrible situation for us. because we can begin tricked into it or sold in. a mentally problem for us now we are not afraid of well in good being in train getting interested but the problem is now we are mentally worried in we had

like. a problem now we are suffering mended in this this this ordeal you know has been terrible for i mean we've been speaking to you know to a number of people who've been in we'll hand under lockdown and i'm going to ask you and how you're coping mentally and physically with the ordeal because that's that's very difficult being on a lockdown isn't it. yes but the chinese government in our you know city is cooperating with us they're for ending us that we need to think but if i talk about my government pakistan they're come they're continuously they're continuously ignoring us and they have this on us we are continuously in contact with them but no one not under sponsible us and came in contact us in. some embassy. city in the country maybe some a few students in their mid pictures to show them and the t.v. is in newspapers but then they were contacted us and then they were ahead of us

only the chinese government is helping us and they're cooperating with us in this situation but our government is completely neglecting neglecting the. pakistanis so let me just get a final thought from you i mean so so what is your message then to the pakistani government because presumably there are many other pakistani nationals like yourself in one as well. my message to pakistani government is that our countries have been. on the hunt in riyadh the only ones we're staying in or hunt in if they're not. who it was because we are pakistani it's our constitutional right to be evacuated from here in only our family that aren't assessment or due to us saw or. situation for us in you know of what our families are right to. a pakistani medical student under lockdown in the city

rattle to thank you very much for sharing your experiences with us. now the u.n. says nearly 300 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of the years the government tries to capture the last rebel stronghold. the united nations says schools hospitals and camps for the internally displaced have been hit it's call for the immediate creation of humanitarian commodore to allow civilians to escape. the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. would suggest they can't all be accidental. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows a lack of proportionality necessity precaution and so on. all of which can contribute to something being an attribute if 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 are being bombed now us just thrown out chinese tech giant who always challenge to a more restricting its business case relates to legislation which bars who are away from doing business with federal agencies and contractors many in the usa that could use its networks to spy on behalf of the chinese government while away which is one of the world's biggest smartphone makers denies this. castro has more in the case. well this certainly is a win for the american government and its campaign against while way which we've seen unfold since president trump took office his administration as you said believes that huawei may allow the chinese government to essentially use its infrastructure and equipment to spy on american users which is something that huawei adamantly denies and today's a ruling from a judge who essentially threw out while waves argument that

a law passed last year which had for him a good while way from doing business directly with the federal government or with contractors while we sue saying that was unconstitutional but the judge today ruled that the federal government has a right to spend money however it wants to and huawei has expressed its disappointment and it very likely will appeal this court decision this lawsuit alone is only one of many fronts that huawei is facing in its conflict with the u.s. government we know that just last month the u.s. justice department indicted while way for conspiring to seal trade secrets from american firms which weiwei denies and there's also another lawsuit pending the federal communications commission has also banned american telecommunications firms from buying weiwei equipment using federal subsidies and while waves of that law is unconstitutional as well no knowledge of chemicals rail network of ground to hold

as people protest against the construction of a natural gas pipeline the planned route runs through to the snow indigenous slams will carry natural gas from dawson creek in the canadian province of british columbia to a refinery to mt from bay will be shipped to asian markets al-jazeera as alan fischer reports not so ontario. in the chilling cool this small protest camp stands a little threat that the local people have been bringing supplies showing their support in the most practical. they brought hot food didn't vegetables and even firewood what they see is a vision that's bigger than us and the vision i think that they see bigger than us is protection of the environment for too long we've allowed corporations in for example big oil is just one of them but too long we've allowed those of those folks to run the show i was driving through. it seeing as i'm driving by i have to.

show my support can it is mean real roots have been virtually shut down for 2 weeks protests near the tracks forced the country's biggest rail company canadian national real week to suspend most operations those protests sprung up key locations after police forcibly cleared camps near the route of the proposed coastal gas link pipeline it crossed the line of canada's indigenous people known here as 1st nations the demonstrators were trying to block access to construction sites the one and moving the new protesters will create an even bigger reaction essentially freezing candidates realigns has a greater impact than the 100000 passengers that may have been affected food isn't getting to distribution centers that may lead to shortages export of light farmers can't get their goods to port and there is a shortage of gas getting to consumers with weeks of winter still to go in the country's capital ottawa the 1st nations leaders say they're willing to discuss an

end to the protest but years of being ignored has to be addressed when governments ignore 1st nations rights title jurisdiction it creates conflict and court cases when governments respect 1st nations rights entitle. it's a path to peace progress and prosperity prime minister justin trudeau is trying to find a solution he insists he's no power to direct police operations but says talks are the way forward it is time. time for this situation to be resolved. but what we are facing was not created overnight it was not created because we have been barked upon a path of reconciliation recently in our history it is because for too long in our history for too many years we failed to do so several groups are seeing the real blockade is creating a real crisis across canada and the longer it goes on the longer it will take to

recover alan fischer time deny go on tiriel the best places in the world to hide and launder money and avoid tax have been revealed the tax justice network has released its annual list of the worst offenders the cayman islands has the number one spot for the 1st time coming in 2nd is the u.s. for enabling financial secrecy some american politicians are pushing for reforms to tackle the problem and switzerland is now in 3rd place the other top 10 nations include hong kong singapore luxembourg and the u.a.e. well alex cobb is chief executive of the tasks of the tax justice network he says countries have become better at tackling financial secrecy but some like the us a lagging behind. what we're talking about here is the secrecy that extends to things like the ownership of companies and we've seen that anonymously and companies appear in really all of the big scandals from the loo and the leaks to the locks leaks the panama papers but also it's about the opacity of corporate

accounts and that features a lot in the looks leaks that's about multinational and tax avoiding and about the unwillingness of jurisdictions to exchange financial information with each other so it's about whether people and companies can basically go off shore and hide hide from regulation and hide from tax so what we see is that you know corruption isn't a problem of poor countries or sometimes it's presented it's actually a global problem that's driven by what are typically high income jurisdictions like the cayman islands but also of course the united states itself which is the the biggest provider of financial services to normal residence so these countries are basically making money at the expense of everyone else and as they undermine the system we have seen for the 1st time real progress clue believe this year something like a 7 percent reduction in global financial secrecy as we count later but what's needed now is for some of the big dances and that really was the european union i think is

the only actor that big enough to stand up to the united states and say it's not ok for you to be going in the wrong direction to be driving a race to the bottom when everyone else is really focused on making progress. of the headlines here on the al-jazeera libya's u.n. recognize government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after the ports in the capital tripoli was targeted by forces loyal to warlord ali 5 top at least 3 civilians were killed after has been trying to take over the capital tripoli since april. the number of people who have died from the corona virus in china has now passed 2000 after a province the epicenter of the outbreak reported 132 new deaths on tuesday but the number of new infections has fallen meanwhile in japan some passengers and crew

under quarantine on the cruise ship diamond princess are being allowed to leave about 3007 people were on board at least 542 are reported to have contracted the corona virus and an infectious disease expert who visited the diamond princess during its quarantine period has described the conditions on board and then had a fear of getting infection myself for it will have a south. because i know how to protect myself back in set pieces than once every 3 or scared i was so scared of getting caught between 90 because there was no way to tell where the pharisees no green zone no red zone everywhere could have virus and everybody was not careful about it there were no single professional infection control person

in the shape the u.n. says nearly 300 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of the year almost all of them in attacks by the government and its allies russia is denounced offensive as cruel beyond belief the government's been trying to capture the last rebel stronghold u.s. judges thrown out chinese tech giant who are always challenge to a law restricting its business as the case relates to legislation that bars away from doing business with federal agencies and contractors many in the usa who are way it could use its networks to spy for the chinese government that's why the world's biggest smartphone makers denies this. so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream statue of desolation but that. their own we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption. we listen so if you really put place china as an enemy of the listen that's really that we meet with global news

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