in afghanistan and now confirmed their 1st cases in kuwait has reported 3 while in italy a 4th person has died from the virus china's president in its annual gathering of parliament for the 1st time in decades as the struggles to contain the growing a virus outbreak top communist party leaders including president xi jinping reset to attend the annual national people's congress on march 5th to rubberstamp government business a new day has not been set the outbreak has infected nearly 80000 people globally. malaysia's prime minister manouchehr mohamed has offered his resignation to the king and his political party has quit the coalition government decision to shock relation comes amid plans by march or supporters to team up with opposition parties to walk the transition of power to his name successor anwar abraham let's go live to florence louie in kuala lumpur for us what else have we learned since this news broke. well mahathir in a state role is the same as when the prime minister's office confirming that

mahathir had indeed tended allows letter of resignation to the king well there was no reason given for the resignation but we've since heard in the last couple of minutes the finance minister coming out and saying that mahathir attended his resignation because he did not want. you to not want the party to have to work with i'm not now i'm you know is the party that was in power in malaysia for decades it had ruled malaysia since the country gained independence from british in 1957 and it was only ousted in the last general election in 2018 its leader was its former leader was a former prime minister of this country not your brother who's been accused or who's been charged and is on trial for corruption he's been accused of stealing billions of dollars from a state investment fund now we're not sure whether the king has accepted the resignation letter from my heart that mohamed but many constitutional experts say the king because his role is largely ceremonial he has no choice but to accept the resignation it's also not clear what's going to happen next did mahathir asked the

king to hold to dissolve parliament and announce fresh elections well we haven't heard anything on that front yet but according to the constitution the person who is prime minister in in the late the person who will become prime minister and his country is someone who commands the confidence of parliament noun if all things had remained the same then this person could 10 could well have been on what it brought him but because not this party has left the ruling coalition and because some members of on was party have also either resigned or been sacked from the party on what it's doubtful that anwar will have the numbers to actually back him to be the next prime minister of this country so it's very unclear what's going to happen next we don't know who will be in charge of this country next who or who is going to form part or which parties are going to be part of the ruling coalition but many civil rights groups have already said that. if that governing coalition includes i'm know the party that was outed in the last election then this is clearly wrong

it's contrary to democratic principles and it's not what people in malaysia had voted for back in 2008 ok one flew with the latest on kuala lumpur florence thank you donald trump is in india on his 1st state visit to the country as president has met prime minister narendra modi and about abiding his right state and addressed a crowd of about 100000 people at the largest cricket stadium in the world on strip is designed to go into business ties and trade but also his reelection chances by wooing 4 and a half 1000000 indian american voters tomorrow our representatives will sign deals to sell over $3000000000.00 in the absolute finest state of the art military helicopters and other equipage to the indian armed force. i believe that the united states should be india's premier defense partner and that's the way it's working now together we will defend our sovereignty security

and protect a free and open indo-pacific region for our children and for many many generations to come it was a from joins us now from goes right so let us what else do we hear the president say. richelle it was a president trump who heat a few sort of praise to this in front of the 110 or 20000 people in this crowd in gujarat preys on india on indians on prime minister in that in the more d. on how you know his humble backgrounds from a t.v. bend to where he's at now when he. everything from you know one of india's founders mahatma gandhi whose home he visited earlier was his 1st stop was to mahatma gandhi's home mahatma gandhi is from good to right so was prime minister and then the more you saw the something like one 3rd of indian americans have connections to

good rock he praised the bollywood film industry cricket stars but the biggest cheer was when he spoke about working with pakistan to fight what he called terrorism and that gives you an idea about the feeling here you know about india's rivals so that was what he spoke about as you heard on security on defense on the 2 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of helicopters that india is going to. buy from the u.s. not a lot of talk about trade which is the biggest sticking point between these 2 countries they have huge differences when it comes to trade they were rounds of retaliatory tariffs on each other in 2018 and in fact there's been so little progress on that that the u.s. trade representative robert light. can see that what has trip ahead of president trump's visit and donald trump did touch on that a little bit he said that they are going to sign the best trade deal ever they just

haven't got the get because you know prime minister modi is very tough so today was very much the big well for the u.s. president he's on his way from good to see the hollande he end up in the capital new delhi tonight and tomorrow is when the 2 leaders along. with president trump's 12 member delegation including the common secretary national security adviser will sit down and have those bilateral meetings on things like defend security and and trade lizzy if you study you know put a lot of praise out for prime minister newman in the interim odeon how much he personally liked him and how much the u.s. liked him but there's been no mention made of the fact that for quite some time before he was prime minister he was not allowed in the u.s. let's remind our viewers a little bit about that. you know that's right michel when prime minister that in the more you was chief minister of good your wrath

state they were you know very early on in his chief minister ship they were dead leaves riots some of the worst communal riots in india since its independence from british rule 70 years ago where a 1000 people most of them muslims were killed and prominence in that in the more he was actually banned from entering the united states because the united states believed as many others that he tests at least supported those responsible for the mob violence prominence and that in the more he is from the ruling baath of the the party he the party are hindu nationalists and they has been real concern over the treatment of indian muslim since this prime minister and government have been and power in fact they have been protests for the past 2 months of the citizenship law which fast track citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries that excludes

muslims there's been a lot of concern of that nor nationally and internationally and a u.s. official said that this is something that president trump would raise would the prime minister more on this visit but again given president trump's history of the way of you know his stance on immigration on minorities or on the travel ban you know against muslim majority countries people are expecting president trump to put a lot of pressure on prime minister modi over this all right elizabeth ron i'm with . liz thank you. israel in military is carried out air strikes in syria killing at least 2 members of the palestinian armed group islamic jihad and also bomb the gaza strip warning at least 4 people the army says the strikes from response to the group firing rockets into southern israel very fast as in wester us and says it is unusual for israel to admit targeting syria well certainly the

strikes inside gaza are relatively standard for this kind of escalation the kind of which we've seen many times in the last couple of years certainly of rocket fire such as this is typically met with an israeli round of airstrikes inside gaza the israeli military saying dozens of targets belonging to palestinian islamic jihad have been hit also saying that they struck what they said was a rocket team in preparation potentially for a launch of the palace in health ministry inside gaza saying that a group of 4 people were injured by a drone strike and that among the injured were among the group were a man and his wife less typical is the strikes that these women choose also rarely admitting to having carried out inside syria it did however in november at a time when it assassinated a rocket team commander inside gaza as well as trying to carry out

a strike against a senior islamic jihad figure in damascus it said at that point there would be further strikes against islamic jihad leadership in in the syrian capital if rocket fire continued so the immediate thought for many was is this a sign that they were doing just that in response to this latest round of rocket fire so far the israeli military is just saying that it struck a site which it's calling a hub for islamic jihad activity south of the syrian capital one used for weapons research. the emir of qatar has visited jordan and a sign of improving relations king abdullah welcome shake to maiman home it all fanny to the capital amman the meeting is the 1st sense the imposition of this out of the saudi led blockade 3 years ago when jordan downgraded relations with katara correspondent has more from the jordanian capital on the significance of the visit . this is the 1st visits by the i mean of qatar to jordan since the 2017 blockade

that was imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain jordan didn't blockade qatar however it did participate somewhat in the early stages of that's crisis by recalling its ambassador from qatar those relations have improved with full diplomatic representation being restored over the past few months rather than sending a resounding is somebody that a true. reciprocating but what's making this visit so significant isn't just that it is both the regional files that are going to be discussed as well as bilateral relations with regards to the regional issues at the top of that is the palestinian issue in the struggle for freedom there both jordan and qatar opposed the deal of the century as it's been billed that the trump peace plan they say it's a unilateral. plan that does away with the rights of palestinians the rights of return the right for them to have their own state and therefore they are looking

over ways to maybe come up with an alternative solution to this decades long conflict jordan obviously very concerned because of the amount of palestinian refugees here on also its historic role in palestine with regards to the bilateral relations there are going to be focusing on economic and business ties between the 2 countries as well as security and military cooperation with regard to the economy the virginian economy had slowed down over the past couple of years which resulted in several protests taking place in the streets and qatar has already invested more than $500000000.00 in 2018 into the economy here in jordan it's offered more than $10000.00 jordanians jobs in qatar and is looking to boost that as well something that has been received very well by the government here as well as the people in terms of security while there are discussions that the jordanian police and civil defense will be assisting with their expertise and man power to help secure the 2022 world cup as well as other. experience sharing programs that will be

signed between the 2 leaders here in amman. so head on al jazeera capital under siege i want work with hot sauce assault on tripoli is bad for business. migrants in uniform volunteering their labor to appease locals and combat the anti migrant sentiment. people in power travels to the north of italy where a bold experiment is underway. with an unconventional approach to integration. italy's migrant boot camp on a. talk to al jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and the can we listen so if you

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of parliament for the 1st time in decades as the struggles to contain the brunt of virus outbreak top communist party leaders including president xi jinping were set to attend the annual national people's congress on march 5th to rubber stamp government business a new date has not and said the outbreak has now and back to nearly 80000 people clovelly. at least one person has been killed and 13 hurt in a gun battle between police and armed forces at the presidential palace in haiti's capital port au prince the fighting broke out as police officers were protesting low pay and local people were preparing to stage a carnival has more. this was meant to be the 1st of several days of carnivals and celebration. but it turned into a gun battle off duty police officers were protesting over low pay and the firing of $5.00 officers who tried to form a union. close by locals prepared to celebrate the lead up to the christian fasting

period of lent. some supported the protests i know about that oh we don't one calling of will say can we support the police protests who are demanding their union the lack of security in this country is the fault of the president he uses the all me to destroy the police as people crowded into a square in front of the presidential palace gunshots and tear gas it's not clear who fired 1st the police or the military a stayed. built by the army and guarded by soldiers was set on fire it was the most violent fighting in haiti since protesting began at the end of last year the police say the government should not be funding carnivals while their pay conditions benefits and jobs are being cut. we will send a clear message to this government because we are tired of the situation. the president has made many promises and so vertically to his supporters but not with

us we don't need negotiations we will continue demonstrating until we have created a new president quote an illinois has been ruling by decree since january with gang violence and high levels of crime and corruption international organizations are struggling to deliver aid haiti is the poorest country in the americas and shortages of food and essential goods are common so is political unrest the police are not the only ones who are angry. acting prime minister is leptin says the government can't immediately raise officers pay but he has offered housing and insurance incentives something that's not likely to placate the protesters and many fear violent scenes like this may not be the last we'll harding al-jazeera. president for in the same day has won a 4th term in office according to a pulmonary results it takes 7 percent of the vote far ahead of his main rival the

opposition alleges fraud took place during the election following the story for us from. with a massive win of 72 percent of the vote as declared by the independent national electoral commission president is set to extend his 15 year rule on the state of the west african nation and effectively solidifying the group the family had on power in this country for more than half a century now with this result there will be no need for a 2nd round of voting or on off between the top 2 candidates the results will now have to be forwarded to the constitutional court for it to ratify within the next 6 days however that one opposition figure who had already declared himself elected president is saying that he is not agreeing to the results as announced by the independent national electoral commission we knew he proceeded to change the to change the result is somewhere there is none of the former head of state

over the new people who write their name on a pool so we know and there are some of them in the know and mind we. do have a power we do it broods we do it problem. as we. do it is gold. people and to leave and to give back to the power now a lot of people were watching closely to see the reaction of people on the streets and what will be the response of the security forces libyan prime minister of iraq says that the united nations in geneva to draw attention to the forcing humanitarian situation in libya as the conflict drags on the human rights council he showed the members pictures of children who have died and recent attacks he also call khalifa haftar who launched an offensive on the capital and april he calls him a war criminal. the 10 month battle to capture the capital of libya is bad for

business shops in tripoli city center are struggling because their street to street fighting in the suburbs or has that story. this is the entrance to the old city in tripoli people have been coming to shop in the market here from all over north africa for centuries. but business now he's not good. it's virtually impossible for customers to travel across the front lines of fighting in the suburbs to get to tripoli the capital reveals an increasingly under siege since warlord khalifa haftar his military offensive against the un backed government started last april its winning season in libya this is supposed to be one of the busiest times of the year for. the jeweler makes the. traditional necklace and a must have for libyan bryants on their wedding day. he says sales have haul in

recent years and the fenwick lost a cent to look after the revolution around 20122013 so we had lots of customers since the war started and people want to hold on to whatever pennies they have to be prepared for the worst food to be shopping with her daughter who's getting married soon. that's the on the actually there of illusion we hope that the government would be more engaged in helping the young generation find jobs even in the private sector that's helping them settle but that hasn't happened this current crisis is making things worse. after the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 there were hopes that libya could use money from its vast oil resources to try and stimulate in diversify its economy but here is a political instability and conflicts have made that i personally impossible to achieve. forces trying to surround the city and county of the capital

his loyalists of closed all facilities in areas they control depriving the u.n. bank governments of around $50000000.00 a day. of their aggression against us means we've had to stop our $21000.00 development initiative which focus on investment and the private sector this had an effect not just in tripoli but the whole country that we cannot diversify away from oil and help the private sector until this aggression against us stops. despite efforts to agree a ceasefire there's little sign of a meaningful solution to end libya's crisis ha shem says none of the hopes he had for a prosperous future after the revolution 9 years ago of come true. tripoli . the trial of former french presidential candidate france off on a search of began a paris security paying us wife more than

a 1000000 euros in public funds for a fake job a scandal which came to be known as protect penelope gate emerged during the 2017 election campaign and destroy if you aren't political career tosh about were reports from paris. only 2017 and fossil fuel was riding high the strongest contender in france's presidential race he was the candidate for france's conservative party the republicans after winning its primary with a landslide a former prime minister he was politically experienced well connected and confident he would win. i do not want to change my beliefs or my goals according to people's lives or the language of the planets. things seem to be going feel this way until the scandal broke a french newspaper allege that feel had misused taxpayers' money when he was an m.p. to pay his wife penelope as

a parliamentary system for years for no work the couple was placed under formal investigation feel denied the accusations and said he was a fictive of the political smear campaign on sees only the british 36 years of political life 36 years without any judy show problems today i am the target of a ruthless one sided attack 7 days a week 24 hours a day for all the facts is this fair its decision france has a history of corruption and nepotism in politics some so feel as a symbol of both and public pressure mounted on him to step down he refused and forged ahead with his campaign but the damage was done for fail to make it past the 1st round of the presidential election losing out to the far right smearing the pen and emanuel who went on to win 3 years after the so-called free scoundrel brogue for also for your his wife's role in paris if found guilty of misusing public forms

could face up to 10 years in prison his wife could face up to 5 years for complicity. the high profile case prompted president mccall to post an anti corruption law targeted to cleaning up politics a few months after he was elected feels kept a low profile in recent years in a t.v. interview in october he ruled out a return to politics for one of france's best known politicians it's been a spectacular fall from grace natasha buchla al jazeera paris all right when you get a moment visit our website there are a lot of stories that are developing throughout the day here on u.s. president is in india also the numbers can change on corona virus outbreak we have our ear to all of that so when you get a moment that are upside down to 0 dot com in the meantime keep it here you have a news hour at the top of the hour a talent for your. step

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a time believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha i'm hallum i hit it with the al-jazeera news are coming up in the next 60 minutes china is for spawning its national parliaments as it struggles to contain the corona virus outbreak. iran reports new deaths from viral i break its neighbors are taking steps to contain it spreads. your nation is doing so well we are very very proud of india donald trump visits india to confirm a $3000000000.00 weapon.