the moon. a rocket attack on libya's main port brings peace talks in geneva to a sudden halt as the government suspends involvement. i'm richelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up hundreds of passengers finally leave a quarantined cruise ship in japan as a doctor describes conditions on board as deplorable. and say we should stand up a little scared i was so scared of getting caught between 90. and 5 months after a disputed presidential election in afghanistan the encumbered me is declared the

winner. i'm actually i guess the chief law enforcement officer of the country a group of us federal judges condemn president tropic using him up overstepping his legal boundaries. it began in libya where efforts to bring peace have suffered yet another setback internationally recognized government has suspended involvement in talks in geneva after war khalifa haftar forces attacked the capital sport at least 3 people were killed in that assault that port is a major entry point for supplies to libya after sources say their target was an arms depot he has been trying to capture the capital since april tripoli's government is now insisting that peace talks cannot continue until the world firmly responds to what it calls violations of diplomatic editor james bays reports. the

port 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 the track it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you

need a ceasefire before next week i better 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. issued this statement there were renewed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripoli seaport which is the life of archery 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 u.n. 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 the mats involved in the geneva talks have reacted with dismay to the sudden turn of events i only saw this i hope of course that then and these talks we checked she will resume as as quickly as possible said i mean the point is just started to engage the military committee which is the most important thing for the ceasefire and there are some prospect for the political ticker to. stop the sometime in the near future to serve the there was the hope that step in the will be done but duty. after spending weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of people had been allowed to leave the initial round of coronavirus quarantine is over and some of the people deemed healthy are leaving the vessel are still a large number of people on board and there's questions about how effective the

corn chain was after the virus spread over 500 passengers and while hong kong as recorded its 2nd from the virus a 70 year old man is a 6th person to have died outside mainland china that brings the total number of deaths to 2010 and infections have hit more than $75000.00 on tuesday china reported the lowest daily rise of new cases since the end of january and a moment we will go to our adrian brown who is in hong kong last more on the 2nd at their 1st let's go to rob mcbride who is at the port in yokohama so where do things stand with with passengers there. this wednesday there has been a lot of activity down here on the yokohama waterfront as you mentioned it is the end of this 14 days of quarantine for hundreds of people it is finally over there has been a steady stream of coaches of buses of taxis in some cases coming in here to the port area taking people away taking them to various transport hubs to yokohama

station and other stations around here to continue their journey many of them people being allowed to return home these are people who have gone through the quarantine have been declared to be negative there's been no trace of the coronavirus found so they have now been allowed to leave but they have. a lot of the japanese citizens priority is being given to some of the elderly more elderly passengers they've been allowed to go home but with the caution that they should monitor their health for the next few days at least to make sure there are no signs of fever meanwhile for many people of other nationality. who are leaving their countries have said they don't want to them to come home just yet australia the united states the u.k. they have all said that they should take a couple of weeks before they return to their home countries or if they do go home right now then they face being put straight into quarantine so it doesn't seem to

be a lot of confidence from the international community that this quarantine has worked and in fact headlines have been made here in japan this wednesday with an infectious diseases expert going online using social media to really raise alarm about the conditions he says are onboard belowdecks here he went on the ship in the last couple of days he says finding chaotic conditions. and in fact had fear getting into action myself. for you well no south. because i know how to protect myself but he said i'm going to have a 4th scared i was so scared of getting. because there was no way to tell where the pharisees no green zone not already everybody could have

and everybody was not careful about a. single professional infection control person in the ship. now this whole disembarkment process is expected to take several days your passengers are expected to leave if they have found to be negative on these tests for the coronavirus over the next coming days finally seeing a lens to this horrific journey this odyssey for some 3000 passengers and crew are still on the ship now we're at one gate where 'd were people have been coming out healthy passengers another gate from this port where we have been we have seen throughout the day several ambulances there sirens blaring taking away what we can assume to be further cases of people being taken sick ok right now private the latest at yokohama port rob thank you get adrian brown who is in hong kong so you

find what else do we know about. the additional death that has happened because of coronavirus and hong kong. richelle we don't know a great deal i imagine more details will come during the news conference that's expected to be given by hong kong's hospital authorities in about an hour's time but we know the man who died on wednesday was 70 he lived alone he went to the mainland on january the 22nd just before the lunar new year holidays and then he was admitted to hospital about a week ago his condition we don't know what his condition was deteriorated somewhat during the last few days and then he died on that wednesday morning now officials are saying he had an underlying condition that was also the case with a 39 year old man from hong kong who died on february 4th so both men had underlying conditions and in fact that's also been the case with many people who have died on the mainland now outside of greater china including taiwan and hong

kong we've had deaths of course in the philippines japan and also france here in hong kong richelle the number of confirmed infections stands at 62 and in the mainland for the 2nd straight day the infection rate has been falling so how is the government responding to that demand for 1st western evacuations. well hong kong's government is under pressure on 2 fronts it has more than 2000 hong kong citizens stranded in who province scattered right across the province but it also has more than $350.00 hong kong citizens on board that diamond princess mord of yokohama now 50 of them more than 50 of them have so far tested positive for the corona virus but $300.00 have and now the hong kong government wants to get those people home as soon as possible it is send around 50 officials wearing

special protective gear to japan to help in that operation 2 aircraft are on standby but so far they haven't got any word from japanese authorities as to when those home kong citizens will be allowed to leave the ship now the mainland governments also demanding that these hong kong citizens be treated as a priority because there are so many of them on board and a short time ago hong kong security chief john lee said that the way that japan was handling the passengers was in his words less than desirable ok brown with the latest from hong kong adrian thank you. card as a student from pakistan stack or lock down enron is calling on his government to help evacuate others like him. if i talk about my government pakistan they're coming they're continuously they're continuously ignoring us and they have this on us we are continuously in contact with them but no one know under sponsible us and came in contact us in yesterday some investors cantorian us city in the country

maybe some a few students in them it pictures to show them on the t.v. is in newspapers but then they were contacted us and then they were headed only the chinese government is helping us and they're cooperating with us in this situation but i won't go in which is completely neglecting neglecting us they are thinking like me and the pakistanis my message to pakistani government is that countries have been acquitted their citizens from the hunt in riyadh the only ones we are staying in no one in if they are not us will who are they will quit us because we are pakistani it's our constitutional right to be evacuated from here in only our families and to suffer and we're due to us so it's a little bit situation for us and you know for our families as attorney general william barr is reported to be considering stepping down over conflicts of

president onil trump it comes as the u.s. justice department is locked in a dispute with the association of judges over the handling of the trial of trump's former advisor roger stone is among several former trying to record up an investigation into russia's meddling in the 2016 election correspondent kimberly hawker works less than 2 weeks after being acquitted by the u.s. senate of abusing his presidential powers donald trump is once again facing similar accusations as he fights his own department of justice somebody has to stick up for the big truck is being criticized for intervening in a case involving a close friend of political ally roger stone convicted last year of lying to a congressional committee investigating whether trust political. campaign colluded with russia federal prosecutors recommended stone go to jail for at least 7 years trump tweeted the recommendation was a miscarriage of justice that same day his attorney general william barr downgraded

the recommendation prompting 4 federal lawyers to quit the case complicating things further bar took the unusual step of admitting publicly the trump's tweets don't help if i do make his job harder i do agree with that i think that's true now as trump defends bar and lashes out at federal judges and prosecutors a group representing the judges is accusing trump of overstepping the legal boundaries of the presidency with unprecedented involvement in politically sensitive judicial cases their actions trump defense i'm allowed to be totally involved i'm actually i guess the chief law enforcement officer of the country but i've chosen not to be involved in reality it is the attorney general that is the chief law enforcement officer in the u.s. not the president but that hasn't stopped trump from undoing other sentences through a series of pardons for high profile individuals including convicted financier

michael milken former new york city police commissioner bernard kerik and even former democratic illinois governor rod blagojevich convicted for trying to sell former president barack obama's vacant senate seat once obama took office and president trump says he may continue to try and influence the legal case involving his friend roger stone stone sentencing is set for thursday and trump hasn't ruled out pardoning kim kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house. so had on al-jazeera an outcry and a virus outbreak is exposing the risks of working on cruise ships. plus ranking financial secrecy the list of places helping to hide well.

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watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now recognize government has suspended involvement in ceasefire talks in geneva after world war cliff forces attacked the capital sport tripoli's government says the world must far away respond to huffed are. there reports u.s. attorney general bill barr is considering stepping down over conflicts with donald trump it comes as the u.s. justice department is locked in a dispute with the association of judges over the handling of the trial of president trump's former advisor roger stone. after spending weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of diamondhead says passengers have finally been allowed to leave but more than 2000 passengers and crew remain on board.

it's not just passengers who have been stuck onboard the diamond princess and japan cruise ship workers from around the world are also living under quarantine el al and openness in manila and spoke to the family of one filipino worker who's been held up in japan. uninvested that for victoria jo and her father every phone call lately feels as if it may be their last victoria is in the philippines her father works abroad now stranded in the diane prince's cruise ship in japan where the corona virus has infected hundreds of passengers. the danger her father continues his work as a steward she says her family's be kept in the dark about what the shipping company and the philippine government planned to do with those stranded on the ship the job you love so much and been loyal to for some decades it's

giving everything the same love that piece given. inside the cruise ship her father gets a tour of his work. but. we could. still keep serving that's why i really hard because we are still exposed to passengers and that is that they are very stressed. in this whole way passengers post their requests and comments outside their door which service workers to attend to. we will be about our immunity many of us are tired and. we feel that they are not safe here anymore. it's a sentiment shared by many here in downtown manila filipino seafarers look for jobs abroad to despite the risks around 400000 of the more than 1600000 people who work on ships globally are filipino they send back hundreds of millions of dollars

in remittances back to the country every year for years filipino seafarers have been calling on the government to help them lobby for better protection and compensation abroad now they say the current crisis has exposed the philippine government's inability to respond quick enough to the growing challenges of the global shipping industry not what was the one who. defeat dorking the ships anyway and they had their war by h. job security so we are not concerned about the bios they say they simply don't have a choice for them it's more important to adjust the uncertainty about whether they will be able to provide for their families back home. dugan al-jazeera minima. afghanistan's afghanistan's president has won another term and he was declared the winner of last september's disputed election results have been delayed for 5 months

because of attacks of polling stations allegations of vote rigging and technical problems or a 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 all 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's team 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. 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 us 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 1st 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. the u.n.

says nearly 300 civilians have been killed in northwest serious insta beginning of the year as the government tries to capture the last rebel stronghold. there to the . united nations says schools hospitals and perhaps where the internally displaced have been hurt it says the russian backed government offensive this beyond belief and his call for the immediate creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. which suggests to me they can't all be accidental. and adam minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of course no tina says that he can question and so on. all of which can contribute to something being an attribute it was 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. reports on the plight of those displaced by these attacks and the turkey syria border. is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bull murky in the east of when 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 target cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are bombing the area 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 in 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 they leave it live hoping for a better place sam and his family have just arrived from mata norman the rebel stronghold south of. the city was recaptured by the syrian army 2 weeks ago shelling a flare many civilians escaped. 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 northern italy and the outskirts of aleppo look like. long lines of syrians piled on tracks their destination is the border with turkey they join hundreds of thousands

of people who have gathered in small areas and empty fields. hoping to cross into turkey if syrian government troops continue then advance the battle for it live might turn into the worst confrontations is the start of the conflict 9 years ago the syrian army is determined the rebels must surround but 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 lost friend near the border with turkey will have to abandon the dream they've carried for many years a syria without bashar assad has to. win took his border with syria the u.s. judge has thrown out chinese tech giant why waste challenge to a lot restricting its business the case relates to legislation barring wall way from doing business with federal agencies and contractors u.s.

lawmakers say wall way could use its networks to spy for the chinese government always one of the world's biggest smartphone makers and they deny that. the place is most used by the world's richest citizens to hide money and avoid taxes have been ranked i our form group the tax justice network has released an annual list of the countries it says are helping to hide wealth the cayman islands has the number one spot for the 1st time 2nd is the u.s. for enabling financial secrecy american politicians are pushing for reforms to tackle that and switzerland is now in 3rd place among the other top 10 nations or hong kong singapore luxembourg and the u.a.e. . alex cohen is the chief executive of the tax justice network he says globally countries have become better at tackling financial secrecy but some like the u.s. are 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 looks 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 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 offshore and high need hollywood for regulation and hide from tax so what we see is that you know corruption isn't a problem of poor countries sometimes it's presented is actually a global problem that is 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 nonresidents so these countries are basically making money at the expense of everyone else as they undermine the systems that we have seen for the 1st time real progress glue believe this year

something like a 7 percent reduction in global financial secrecy as we count collated but what's needed now is for some of the big gaps and that really needs 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. i'm richelle carey let's recap the headlines right now on al-jazeera libya's you have recognized government has suspended involvement in ceasefire talks in geneva after world war khalifa haftar forces attacked the capital's port jubilees government says the world must far away respond to half time at least 3 people were killed in that assault after spending weeks under quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of diamond princess passengers have finally been allowed to leave but more than 2000 passengers and crew remain on board. i never

had to fear getting infection myself for you will know south. because i know how to protect myself but you say pieces that i want and with scared i was so scared of getting caught between 90 because dylan's no way to tell where the better sees no green zone no red zone everybody could have virus and everybody was not careful about a deal with no single professional infection control person he said a ship is attorney general bill barr is reported to be considering stepping down over conflicts with president donald trump it comes as the u.s. justice department is locked in a dispute with a group of judges over the handling of the trial of president trump's former adviser roger stone the u.n.

says nearly $300.00 civilians have been killed and northwest syria since the beginning of the year almost all of them died in attacks by the government with russian support the government's been trying to capture the last rebel stronghold afghans get a sense president musharraf's ghani has won another term after being declared the winner of last september's disputed election results have been delayed because of attacks at polling stations and allegations of vote rigging and technical problems a u.s. judge has thrown out chinese tech giant wall ways challenge to a law restricting its business the case relates to legislation barring the company from doing business with federal agencies and contractors so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to turn it over 10 side story now. we understand the difference is planted similarities have cultures across the wound so matter how you take. al-jazeera friendly the names and current affairs that

matter to you. how to 0. unprecedented human catastrophe the battle for the syrian government is adamant it will retake the last rebel held area but with turkey and russia with the how will this fight play out across the region and why does it live matter this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dobby babies and children dying of cold and serious and this suffering has been described by.