well the boat about 200 people have been rescued and more want to get on but this simply no space. 2 passengers from a quarantined cruise ship dive from coronavirus as japan defends its handling of the outbreak. denish are without jazeera live from doha also coming up. nearly a 1000000 syrians trying to end it live for us in the walls of a humanitarian crisis getting worse by the day. imagine the grief of a parent who escaped to was a missing child only to watch that child freeze to death. a gunman attacks

2 she is in germany killing 9 people. who knows what to do go i didn't know that qatar has the biggest population in the world i'm stephanie decker on the tars northwest coast walk of that story coming up. to france government is defending its handling of the coronavirus outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship cruise ship yokohama vessels been in corinth seen since early this month and in that time the number of confirmed cases on board has continued to rise it's now at more than 600 and they have been deaths 2 elderly passengers they died after being taken to hospital. near truth you can think of as we've said before the government's measures to prevent the spread of infection on

the cruise ship were appropriate the government has been holding briefings with the embassies of countries in japan and with the foreign press we will continue to explain our muses carefully to those in japan and outside through the embassies in china has now changed how it reports cases of the virus and that has led to a significant drop in the number of new infections there were 394 on wednesday and that's down from nearly 1700 just the day before but in south korea there's even a spike of 31 new cases and that brings the total number there to $82.00 our correspondent rob mcbride is at the japanese port of yokohama and as he reports has been a mixed reaction dow the authorities have been dealing with the vessel. ministry of health officials here in japan this thursday afternoon have been giving us a few more details they've confirmed that the 2 people who died

a man and woman both in their eighty's they had both been taken ill about the same time about a week ago on board the ship they were found to have a fever it didn't subside they got progressively worse they were taken off the ship as others have to medical facilities to hospitals on the shore and both sadly passed away we know of course that this coronavirus that the older you are the more vulnerable susceptible you are to this illness but there have been a range of different levels of sickness of the people who have been infected on the ship ranging from people who do have fevers cough to people who we know we've been infected they have proof positive for the corona virus they're carrying it effectively but actually don't show any symptoms as those people have up till now been allowed to stay on board the ship but as this this embark a sham process continues then we are seeing those people gradually being

transferred to medical facilities on the shore as those people who are deemed to be fates and well are gradually being released now this is very controversial we know that the international community and many countries abroad do not deemed their nationals to be past this virus that they could potentially still be carrying get powers of japanese authorities are concerned its citizens have been leaving the ship they've been going to nearby rail stations in yokohama we've been talking to some of them they are obviously very relieved to be off the ship but they are allowed to return home to their families and also 3 to be using public transport along with everybody else. right now we can speak live to correspondent katrina using the chinese capital beijing so what's behind this isn't them by the chinese authorities to refer to the original way by which they counted the number of people who have the virus. well the chinese

government have changed the screening test for the corona virus again so they've been relying on since january this are in a screening test or it's a type of test which checks for the genetic signature of the corona virus now basically they said only people who have confirmed to be tested positive using this type of test will be on the confirmed patients list no longer can you be on this list and only be clinically diagnosed by a c.t. scan or a lung x. ray for example and what that has done as seen in the list oh the number of cases of coronavirus dropped dramatically i think of originally a few hours ago we were seeing a number about $75000.00 and now that number is down to fix $56000.00 and also as you mentioned earlier we've seen the number of confirmed cases per day drop it's now just under 400 which is the lowest of movie seen in a very long time and they say the reason for this is that it gives us a more accurate mortality rate but of course what it also does is conveniently play

into this government narrative of things getting better there are a downward trend in terms of coronavirus cases as the government is a very worried about the economic impact of this coronavirus and they're quite keen to get people back out of their homes and back into work so it is true outside of who be the number of new cases is dropping we're only seeing single digits now one or 2 cases in some cities but we have to remember that the fatality rate is still remaining quite steady we've had more than 110 deaths today in the last 24 hours from the coronavirus and in who bay the situation remains very critical with more than 11000 people fighting for their life in very serious condition there were in katrina thank you but obviously going to dr patrick trang who's division do you prefer is of food or medicine here in casper and he explains why getting an accurate number of cases can be challenging. of course it's very

important to have accurate numbers whenever you're trying to track the spread of an outbreak but whenever there's a novel virus a virus we don't know too much about and and might be overwhelming the capacity of the system to detect the cases in and test for the people that might have the virus then the numbers might not be accurate so it could be a function of both the case definition how they're defining who is infected with the virus and who is not and also whether their health care system is overwhelmed with cases initially when someone comes to attention we call that a suspect case so they might have clinical symptoms they might have some link to a place a person or or a certain period of time where they may have been exposed to the virus those people come under investigation called the suspect cases and when medical authorities assess them and confirm some of these facts we call them probable cases and then at that point that's when we take the lab tests the lab samples and send it to

a lab and if the lab is able to confirm that that person is positive for that virus then they become a confirmed case so the u.n. has warned of catastrophic human suffering unfolding in northern syria people are fleeing is the government and russia target the last rebel stronghold in the northwest mike hanna has more from the united nations we have just repeated confrontations between turkey and syrian government forces who are its point the russian federation is actively engaged in support of the syrian government military operation. u.n. special envoy offers a bleak view of the political crisis in syria which in turn has resulted in a devastating humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate on a daily basis close to a 1000000 displaced people being squeezed into an ever decreasing space by

advancing front lines on all sides i am getting daily reports of babies and other young children dying in the cold imagine the grief of a parent who escaped a war zone with their child only to watch that child freeze to death many members contend the crisis is a direct consequence of russian support can only and with the plea to our russian colleagues to stop the support of syria if you tell the syrians that there is no longer military support to the syrian regime they will have to stop the onslaught on their own population so we will get one schoolgirl again to my german colleague we will not stop supporting the legitimate government of syria which is conducting a legitimate fight against international terrorists how can you justify carrying out such indiscriminate and inhumane attacks what are you doing to

uphold international humanitarian law what are you doing to protect the people who are fleeing where do you expect those people to flee to and another question posed by the u.s. ambassador the question i asked before the council today then. what will tomorrow's headline be in what are we going to do about it the answer today as it has been on so many occasions in the security council before 'd nothing the security council has been deeply divided since the very beginning of the syrian conflict russia has wielded its veto on 14 occasions preventing any form of united security council action in the face of what is becoming the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century the international community appears unable to act political interests continuing to take priority over the suffering of millions of civilians mike hanna

al-jazeera united nations. counter-terrorism prosecutors in germany are investigating the shooting dead of 9 people to shisha bars the attacks happened a short time apart in the western city of hama hour that's close to frankfurt the suspect was later found dead in his home and police say they found another body the suspects house let's go live now to john mccain our correspondent who's in berlin shisha bars in a town very close to frankfurt what else do we know about this attack. the point to make here federal prosecutors taking on this case that usually is an indication of a an extremist violent intent behind the perpetrators actions this pacific prosecuting force is looking into right wing extremism the person concerned it is alleged that the person concerned her may have posted information on social

media indicating a right wing extremist intent the facts are that 10 people are dead plus the perpetrator 11 round about 10 o'clock german time last night the person concerned made his way in a car to a bar found a way of getting inside and then fired indiscriminately left that bar that you should bar drove to another. suburb as it were of han r. and repeated the incident this time killing more people again in a shoe shop and then made off the police eventually were able to track down the address of the person concerned and and found this person dead alongside another person it's important to stress here that there is as yet no official confirmation from official sources about the suggestion of right wing extremism but there is video on social media purportedly by the perpetrator that's not confirmed but

purportedly in which the person concerned speaks about right wing extremism so for the federal prosecutors who specialize in prosecuting such matters to take over this case suggests that there is something behind that theory and what of the victims then all we know at the moment is that they frequented shisha bars what do we know about them. there's a suggestion that some of the victims came from the kurdish community in germany the other thing to say about this is that if there is anything to this suggestion of rightly extremism this is not coming out as it were of a blue yonder just last friday the police the counterterrorism police in germany arrested 12 people who were have been accused of having a right wing extremist agenda and viewers might recall that last year in 2019 the mayor of a western german town a christian democrat mare of a western german town was murdered by a person who went on to say that he had

a right wing agenda extremist right wing agenda and of course there was the shooting outside a synagogue in heller in the autumn of last year again by somebody purporting to have what would appear to have been a right wing extremist agenda so the fact that the the victims in this incident were people who frequented shusha bars but it is suggested were from the kurdish community once again would add more suggestion more power to the suggestion that the perpetrator of this of these 2 shootings did have a right wing extremist agenda we will know more about potentially more that is about the motive of the person concerned later because we understand that there will be a news conference by the police investigating the incidents in her now and as i say that will follow later in the day dominick thank you john mccain there live in belin.

apparent in the democratic presidential debates. and we look at the heated debate around abortion rights continue. hello and welcome to international weather forecast once again i moved towards the side of the screen all the weather fronts across western parts of europe to show on the weather maps we've got an active system moving towards the u.k. we've got a trough of low pressure just moving through them is a very swarthy conditions across england over the next few hours but this main frontal system is giving lots of heavy rain across western parts the u.k. some snow also higher elevations expected another system moving up towards parts of iceland meanwhile as we look at weather conditions across central parts yet not

looking too bad but you notice the north coast of france through into the low countries and indeed up towards southern parts of scandinavia seeing some very heavy rain and no way it looks to me a very snowy situation in the central part fine southeastern areas dominated by the circulation of low pressure so the subtle moment more snowfall for the u.k. during a friday we should see some brighter weather going through across parts of poland after some early rain so was so should be drawing fine but temperatures are 6 degrees celsius across northern and central parts of africa quite a temperature contrast again for the central areas is looking very hot indeed some heavy showers there for ghana and also ivory coast but again cool along the coast of libya. where there are on line like. one of the worst droughts in mainstream media about. or if you join us on sat there's

a different day for city and inclusion and overseas sometimes isn't always sincere this is a dialogue sanctions on the ways in which their website iran are an act of war fair everyone has a voice we as a society that is simply to get to blame need to sit down and listen join the global conversation on al-jazeera. the same look at the top stories ferret out his or japan's government is defending its handling of a coronavirus outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship the number of confirmed cases on board has risen to more than 600 people have died in hospital the un has

warned of catastrophic human suffering in northwest syria almost a 1000000 people have fled their homes as the government and its allies russia continue to bombard the last rebel held area. counter-terrorism prosecutors in germany are investigating the shooting of 9 people had to. be attacks later on when the sea in the western city of homs hour the suspect was they found dead in his home along with another party. the former new york mayor michael bloomberg has come under attack from democratic rivals in their debates just days ahead of the nevada caucus as a late entry to the race to take on donald trump the debate was bloomberg 1st apparence program knowles has the details. mike bloomberg came under fire from the start elizabeth warren blasted the former new york mayor over his past the such a mystic comments a billionaire who calls women fat broads and of course taste lesbians and no i'm

not talking about donald trump i'm talking about mayor bloomberg warren also compared bloomberg to president donald trump democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another bloomberg defended himself as the candidate best able to defeat trump i'm a new yorker i know how to take on an arrogant con man like donald trump has said neither front runner bernie sanders nor bloomberg could be most americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power sanders and joe biden attacked bloomberg controversy open leasing policy as new york mayor which many believe unfairly targeted young men of color mr bloomberg had policies in new york city of stop and frisk which went after african-american and latino

people in an outrageous way the policy was a port bloomberg defended stop and frisk it got out of control and when we discovered i discovered that we were doing many many too many stop and frisks we cut 95 percent of it. and i've sat down with a bunch of african-american clergy and business people to talk about this bloomberg was questioned about widely quoted massaging his dick and sexist remarks he made as a businessman he should have been prepared for the question but he deflected it i am very proud of the fact that about 2 weeks ago we were awarded we were voted the most fat that the best place to work 2nd best play. in america we are not going to be donald trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip drip drip of

stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated. by but bloomberg wasn't the only one under attack amy clo but charcot rattled when booted judge chided her for being unable to state the name of the president of mexico in an interview with let tina reporters are you trying to say that i'm dumb are you mocking me here pete i'm saying these are trivial i made an error people sometimes forget names bloomberg tried to use his business experience to his advantage perhaps not the best strategy for appealing to democrats i'm the only one here and i think the 7 start of the business is that fair you no longer submerged once and you made all that money maybe your work has played some role in that as well it was the hardest punching debate by far bloomberg took a beating sanders did nothing to hurt his position as front runner while biden continued to fade warren had

a strong showing but close with shar lost her cool under questioning from buddhist gedge now the race will continue with a caucus here in nevada on saturday rob reynolds al-jazeera las vegas. iraq's prime minister designate has promised to investigate the killings of protesters if he wins a vote of confidence next week mohammed alawi also announced that he's chosen the new cabinet this is security forces in baghdad used tear gas against protesters near tahrir square and the government demonstrators have been angry about corruption unemployment and poor services. they've been thousands of protests across argentina calling for the legislation or the legalization excuse me of abortion activists say it's a public health issue but they're facing resistance from conservatives and the catholic church has more now from the capital one a side as. was the green scarves in front of argentina's congress once again

it's a long running demand from human rights groups to legalize abortions in this south american nation. things need to change we need a law that protect women we will continue fighting until abortions are legal in this country where you know argentina abortion is only allowed in case of rape or if a woman's life is at risk and women having illegal abortions could end up in prison . he says the fight for legal safe and free abortions is a difficult one because opposing it is that powerful catholic church well i would argue. it is for the park received because according to the health ministry there are over $500000.00 abortions every year because many of them happen in a clandestine way women's lives are at risk and those who suffer the most are those who cannot afford decent health care. in 2018 the legalization of

abortion was discussed in congress for the 1st time it passed the lower chamber but the senate rejected the bill for these people legalizing abortion in this country as a matter of public health because every year thousands. as of women mostly poor are hospitalized because of complications with botched abortions many of them died because they did not make it was hospital in time afraid that they could face criminal charges. the new bill has not yet been sent to congress but reports suggest president of the fed a man this is likely to do so next month. there are conflicting reports on what type of legislation will be sent him whether he would seek to legalize abortion or only decriminalize the terminations of pregnancies. congresswoman katherine bush jr things there is a big difference between little in the for and then this in the beginning president fernandez spoke about decriminalizing abortion and we all agreed

a woman should not be persecuted for a seeking a painful solution to her problems but now we're seeing changes and he's talking about legalizing it and it's a completely different story i don't agree with abortion being legalized it is not something that would help all women because it's a traumatizing experience. but women here do not agree they believe argentina needs to advance in women's rights and legalizing abortion is one of the ways to achieve it. i'll just sit out one of scientists. hundreds of dutch farmers have driven their tractors through the hague to protest against the government's emissions policy the latest demonstration opposes plans to cut nitrogen oxide emissions farmers believe they're being disproportionately targeted saying aviation construction and other industries are all major polluters. australia's prime minister scott morrison sent out some national inquiry into the causes of the

recent devastating bushfires they started in september and killed 33 people they burned an area of land the size of south korea the prime minister says a high level investigation known as a royal commission will also look into ways to keep people safe during bushfires. the waters of catherine home to the 2nd largest population of dougal now that's a sea mammal that eats underwater grass and usually they like to move alone or in small groups but there's a phenomena that's happening off cata that doesn't happen anywhere else stephanie explains. we are heading out to sea of northwestern coast in search of something special until now we don't know what the reason we did maybe they come for feeding that we don't know until now we have thought we are. going to 30 why they came here during the time. we see dolphins. that we want to find something

much more camera shy we have in the region the 2nd largest group in the war last year around this time dr mussen captured these incredible and rare images few of us know much about the dougal or sea cow a gentle marine mammal that can grow up to 3 metres in length and way around 350 kilos research into this population here has been happening for the past few years what we've discovered is that. hundreds of do come together in one or 2 large herds just off the carteret coast and we don't see this anywhere else in the world it's a very. behaviors we don't know why they're doing it we've just been funded by qatar national research fund for the next 3 years to actually answer this very question. we didn't find them on this day. or 2 days later by a stroke of luck we get a phone call and raced back up north. they found the herd hundreds of 2

gangs. coming really close to our boat now and you could actually hear them come up ferry you can hear them breathe and you can see their tusks and also their tails as they come up and down. it's really quite amazing to see. it's so rare to see such a large herd and so nearby through history the 1st time you see them so. this is the 1st time last before 3 years with on from the helicopter that you've never been a very interesting thing costly to see when the very very close to them and i hope we can count them also is it hard to see them this close on the boat it's rare you can yeah. yeah this is. a good day and we are lucky from above a clearer view crucial for their research for dr mussen it's the 2nd time in years

that he sees them so close. but you can't be closer to them and. this is really. a huge number but the. beautiful thing to see them that close. but the reality is that these mammals are endangered. in a deserted beach in the north of cattle or a hint at why their numbers are decreasing. the majority drown after getting in tangled in a fisherman's nets. how do you stop this from happening. just to protect their feeding area where they. just don't form their people like marine mammals they are under endangered species which should protect them we should do something. it is said that the legend of the mermaid comes from sailors mistaking the dew going for a siren after many months at sea and were told to do go on fossil has been found

here that dates back 20000000 years scientists have told us much more needs to be done to protect their habitat so that these gentle sea creatures don't disappear forever stephanie decker al-jazeera on the waters of northwestern qatar. does have a look at the top stories here out to syria south korea's reported the 1st death from corona virus there more than $100.00 confirmed cases in the country meanwhile japan's government is defending its handling of the coronavirus outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship the number of confirmed cases there has risen to more than 680 people have died in hospital hundreds of passengers have been allowed to disembark. from upright has more now from yokohama port they are obviously very relieved to be off the ship but they are allowed to return

home to their families and also to be using public transport along with everybody else they are recommended that they try to quarantine themselves at least for the coming few days while officials monitor if they have any signs of fever but it is a controversial move because the people themselves while they're very grateful to be off there is a mixed opinion amongst japanese society about whether they should be allowed to be moved straight back into the community or as some people have been telling us traveling on the trains here if other countries are keeping these people in quarantine segregating them then why isn't japan. the un has warned of catastrophic human suffering in northwest syria or miss a 1000000 people have fled their homes as the government and its ally russia continue to bombard the last rebel held area. counter-terrorism prosecutors in germany are investigating the shooting dead of 9 people in 2 separate she was the

attacks happened a short time apart in the western city of homs now close to front the suspect was later found dead and police say they found the body of another person at the soffits house former new york mayor michael bloomberg has come under attack from rival democrats in their debate just days ahead of the caucus in the state of nevada it was his very 1st debate as he was a late entry to the race to take on donald trump in november's election. state those are the headlines from a ferret out as they are back in about half an hour with much more of the day's news but coming up next it's the strain. we talk about 2 of the biggest problem facing and they are the endemic corruption and the can we listen so if you put place china as the enemy of the with and that's

really then yours we meet with global news makers and tweet about the stories that matter just 0. i am josh rushing filling in for me ok and you are in the story after 17 years of war what are the prospects for peace in darfur look at the ongoing sudanese peace talks you can join this conversation live in our youtube chat. dar for is all but disappeared from international headlines but for the past 17 years the conflict in western sudan has waged on since the overthrow of sudan's former president omar al bashir 2019 the transitional council that now governs khartoum.