but this place has become a complete trust you have to hear all of them into treatment listen to the scene respects. disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein is found guilty of rape and sexual assault we'll have a live update from new york. i'm kinda dell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up from actually to iran the rapid spread of corona virus infections across continents forces the world health organization to raise the alarm. the israeli military pounds islamic jihad sides as rockets fired from gaza. and love with india donald trump announces a $3000000000.00 weapons deal as he ends to boost his reelection chances with india

and merican vote it's. we begin with breaking news out of new york hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault and 3rd degree rape but he's been acquitted on the most serious charges christensen he is live for us in new york kristen just tell us a little bit more about these charges and about the verdicts. right well as you mentioned the 2 most serious charges predatory sexual assault he was found not guilty but he was found guilty. rape in the 3rd degree and a sexual assault a criminal sexual assault those 2 charges relate to allegations of 2 women one an actress one a production assistant who said that they were forced into this relationship with harvey weinstein the defense had argued that this was

a consensual relationship and they pointed to e-mails and other evidence that showed that both women maintained a relationship with harvey weinstein after the alleged attacks occurred even at times of flirtatious relationship and a sexual relationship with him but the jury took the prosecution's argument and their account into their point of view as they decided that he was in fact guilty of those charges the predatory sexual attack the predatory sexual assault charges would have required that the prosecutors showed a pattern of abuse over the years and the jury was not willing to go that far we found out on friday that they had questions on that charge and that they were split on that today they came back unanimously to say that they did not have enough evidence to find him guilty that would have required that they believe the story of an actress who took the stand annabel askew aura who allege that she was raped back

in the ninety's in her hotel room by having harvey weinstein she testified emotionally before the court very high profile actress who played in the sopranos but her situation occurred in the mid ninety's which is before the statute of limitations so it was quite some time ago and too long ago to bring charges against weinstein for that case in particular but the prosecuting it was hoping that her story along with 3 other women who also testified that they were raped. or assaulted by him would give them enough evidence to convict on this hire charge which carried up to life in prison for weinstein and now he's still likely to do some time and he's not clear of charges either there is also charges pending in los angeles against him. as a result but so not the full verdict that prosecutors were hoping for but certainly

some time behind bars is now likely for for this famous hollywood producer and also kristin interesting lee weinstein was found not guilty of 1st degree rape big guilty of 3rd degree rape was thought was an interesting outcome tell us about the complainants in this case i believe there were 2 women whose accounts were being considered in the trial. yes the 2 guilty charges relate to a an aspiring actress and a production assistant who they say were forced into these relationships. as you know and this case against harvey weinstein really prompted a national movement known as the me to move men there were countless women who came forward after reports began surfacing in the media there had been rumors about harvey weinstein being this letteris producer for years it was kind of circulating

that a lot of media outlets did not want to touch the story because he was just so powerful but when some women came forward including the actress rose mcgowan and started talking about it on social media it prompted women around the country to talk about their own cases of sexual abuse we saw people coming out in droves outside of the courthouse when harvey weinstein showed up women's groups chanting and taunting him . because of this movement that he inspired it really helped expose some of the dirty secrets of hollywood in many industries where men of power had taken advantage of women and caused so many women to speak out that this case really resonated and continues to resonate for women around the country and around the globe but again he will not face the most severe charges the most severe charges the. jury found that there wasn't enough evidence to convict him but

a partial victory for women who are looking for some justice for harvey weinstein my colleague. joe actually has more about the history of weinstein's case and the movement that he inspired. the one state was not just the producer but maybe one of the most powerful ever many of the greatest actors or actresses over the past 40 years have worked with him in some capacity either directly or through his movie studio. throughout his career weinstein has 81 academy awards to his name and his power extended into politics at the very highest of levels from bill and hillary clinton who called him a personal friend to brocken michelle obama one of their daughters briefly worked for weinstein to donald trump who often was at the same new york events but it was weinstein's influence in hollywood and his ability to make or break an actor's career where he had his most power and according to prosecutors he wielded that

power by sexually exploiting women. he's been on trial in new york for allegedly raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and sexually assaulting another woman in 20064 other women testified against him saying they too were victims more than 100 other women many anonymously have come out publicly and said they too were assaulted by weinstein during the 4 week trial prosecutors told the 12 person jury weinstein was a serial rapist and manipulator his defense argued otherwise if you look at all the evidence the evidence shows consensual relationships in 2017 the new york times 1st reported allegations of abuse against weinstein sparking women to come forward and talking about abuse at the hands of more powerful men actress alyssa milano tweeted if you've ever been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as

a reply to this tweet thousands did and the movement took off. and. then. there were protests throughout the u.s. and hollywood celebrities launched a campaign to fight sexual harassment in the workplace time's up on the pervasive culture of silence that is unable to abusers like weinstein the me too movement born out of weinstein but the question now is where does it go from here as for weinstein himself it's not over prosecutors in los angeles have charged him with rape and sexual assault of 2 other women gabriel is on to al-jazeera new york. the world health organization is sending a medical team to iran where the coronavirus emergency is growing around health ministry says trials people have died of the disease and deny the total is closer to 58 afghanistan bahrain kuwait soem on iraq are all reporting infections of travelers from iran to more people have died in northern italy raising the total

there to 6 almost $200.00 cases are reported in europe the highest concentration outside of asia stock market indexes fell on monday as traders sold shares in reaction to the krona virus news companies doing business in china as well as tourism an airline suffered the heaviest falls in share prices and the national people's congress in china has been postponed for the 1st time in decades a 20 year begins our coverage from china where more than 2 and a half 1000 people have been killed across china the coronavirus outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijing's great hall of the people. every much the venue puts the country's most important political event the national people's congress but china's top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gathering urging its 2000 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting

the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing cases over the weekend bringing the total to about 400 many are still too afraid to return to work. as best their 100 employees. we already have iraq to people ok the office. i thought a subway to work was going to be packed but there actually weren't many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have a originated in a $100.00 wildlife and seafood market. new current virus cases and teletubbies have been concentrated in who 24 of china's 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered emergency response levels president xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and he's encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart

operations repost of. industries which of the national economy and people's livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operation resumption are working at a full swing to increase production it's the 1st time china's national people's congress has been delayed in decades so far no new date has been set but analysts say when the missing is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally won its so-called war against the corona virus outbreak. al-jazeera. as we had earlier the number of deaths in iran has increased the health ministry there has to be transparent with the situation. we need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions i'd like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have

a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter or to treat and we will see everything in a clear way let's go live now to madame jerome who's in milan because of course mohamed we've seen 6 people dead in islay 200 cases milan is the closest city to the outbreak there what's happening there how is the outbreak being felt there. well kim here in downtown milan we're just in front of the central railway station it's not really a sense of panic people are taking precautions there is a sense of alarm but there are people out and about now it's much emptier this time of day on a weekday event it would usually be but there are still out and about in a lot of them some of them are wearing masks but a lot of them are not all that being said though 'd people are 'd concerned because just in the past week you had just a handful last week of cases of corona virus cases in northern italy and just in

the past few days it is spiked and now we're told just in the past few hours from authorities that number is now over 225 people who've been infected now the mayor of milan has urged people not to panic one of the reasons for that is because there have been videos going around of social media today purporting to show grocery store shelves that have been raided panic buying essentially going on the mayor of milan earlier in the day stated that people should not panic why should not read shelves here but he also stated that their main mission right now is to try to contain the spread of the virus and he conceded that yes there have been a spike in numbers but that he says that's probably because more health officials now are testing more people so you should expect to see more numbers emerging more people infected in the coming days now one of the things that's been going on here is that schools have been temporarily shut down major tourist attractions like the

scala opera house as well as the landmark cathedral here in this town have also been shut down temporarily but officials say that they will reopen within a matter of days also the carnival in venice that had been closed earlier than anticipated and earlier in the day the governor of the netto province told the press i never thought i would have to sign an order to shut down the venice carnival i never thought we'd. i have to close the schools churches museums and all public places i know i'm asking a lot from our citizens but i know that when things get hard we can pull together we just need to think about our health and that's really the message coming from all the officials that are speaking to the press here across italy they are saying that people should try to be calm try not to panic and try to understand that the officials here are doing their utmost to contain the spread of this virus. the law says latest from milan thank you thousands of people have been injured in central germany after a car rammed through a con of

a parade in the town of folks mawson police say the driver has been arrested. so ahead on al-jazeera libya's internationally recognized prime minister takes his case to the world's highest human rights body. and saying farewell to a superstar thousands gathered to pay tribute to basketball legend. however rain is returning from the eastern med spreading across the levant and expanding the cloud are goes back into north east africa through egypt into sudan but i think that in the power of want to shout it's going to be drawing on that for egypt and then through jordan into northern sorry that looks like quite sherry stuff with the heaviest red light to be in iraq and then trading down towards kew

wait this could include baghdad to the potential for flooding is there and it's true iran as well as snow only the very top of the highest ground on the iranian side of the border behind it all sunshine and shout out as breezy as it could have been 16 in a river that raises the question across saudi arabia and in contrast what light southerly means warm for the u.a.e. for qatar riyadh's at 33 degrees as well that will change a bit as the winter's into a northerly everything passes through in the weather and i was caught in the rain goes towards iran sunshine is left behind and it's warmed up more in beirut 17 degrees most in north africa seen a bit of a chill particularly in egypt and in libya behind this cold front potential are slowly on the rise now and the breeze that went offshore and brought the orange weather to the canaries that's changed now as well.

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. week . you're watching our desire on her mind of our top stories this hour hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of criminal sexual assault and

a 3rd degree rape by a jury in new york he has however been acquitted of the most serious charge which could have meant a life sentence. the world health organization says it's sending a team to iran for a spike of cases there around health ministry says 12 people have died from the virus kuwait bahrain oman and afghanistan have all reported cases of infected travelers coming from iran. china is delaying its biggest political event of the year the national people's congress because of the coronavirus gathering of thousands of communist party officials usually takes place at the beginning of march. the islamic jihad group in gaza says it's ended its military response against israel after 2 days of cross border violence israel carried out another round of airstrikes on sunday injuring 4 people the military says it was a response to dozens of rockets fired into southern israel it also carried out

strikes on the armed groups in syria on sunday night killing 2 members in damascus harry forsett joins me now live from west jerusalem harry so islamic jihad says it's ended its military response to you know why. well it's says that it is carried out the military response that it has promised to do after the start of this escalation which really began on sunday morning with an israeli fire on to pass an islamic jihad fighters which israel who is or said have been planting an i.e.d. an improvised explosive device near the border fence and then an attempt by israel successful one to use a bulldozer to recover the body of the one of those 2 fighters who was killed in that attack. that was video which was very. seen as really outrageous by many in gaza and led to palace of islamic jihad pledging revenge there was an

escalation on sunday in terms of rocket fire and israeli air strikes including strikes in syria which kills 2 further islamic jihad fighters leading to a day today monday of really quite heavy cross border exchanges some 50 rockets the israeli military saying coming from gaza into israeli territory numerous airstrikes across the gaza strip targeting islamic jihad sites in response type fire as well coming from israel there was a pretty. finally worded and explicit warning from the israeli prime minister this evening monday evening saying that there would be a return if there was not an end to this rocket fire to a policy of targeted assassinations against senior armed faction leaders inside gaza that something has been hinted at in recent weeks but not put in quite such

bold terms by the israeli prime minister up until now so question with a valid warning and potentially the earlier warnings of not being afraid to go to war despite the fact there's an election coming up from the israeli prime minister whether that made any difference as well i have just seen. the israeli ministry is saying that there are further strikes carrying on so it could not it might not yet be the very end of this round but it does seem that things may well be calming down to some extent and there are other other incentives at play as well as i say there is the election coming up a risky broader conflict with gaza is always seen as something that benjamin netanyahu tries to avoid before a vote and hamas has a vested interest as well the the group in charge of the gaza strip has been engaged in trying to get a longer term truce or cease fire least with israel in return for easing of the sanctions and the blockade that israel imposes against gaza so there are

interests at play to try to calm things down it may be that some kind of a front has now been found harry forth that there live from western thank you. u.n. sponsored talks on libya's conflict are under pressure in geneva the delegation representing warlord holy father says it's suspending its participation internationally recognized government based in tripoli is also expressing doubts namespace has more from geneva libya's prime minister came from tripoli to address the most important annual meeting of the un human rights council fires elsa raj gave an impassioned speech focusing on what he says is war crimes directly ordered by the man who in recent months has tried to depose him general holy for half the a c. that was said of her daughter many have lost their lives men women children families have been displaced children have been orphaned because of degradation were

perpetrated by the war criminal khalifa haftar karma be more on how to have to. meanwhile military talks which have also been taking place here in the u.n. headquarters in geneva have concluded for now they've come up with a draft cease fire agreement but issues still have to be resolved and no actual cease fire has been agreed according to the u.n. envoy gas and salami the next stage is for wider political talks starting a wednesday but will they go ahead i try to get clarification at a news conference from surat she's foreign minister do you think it's now likely or unlikely or do you think they will happen or be perspire on the political talks what's your thought as we stand now up to my knowledge that's a sense i am is insisting actually to have been is and when izzy why some of the even the last invited they believe it's very short of time they have to prepare this amp so i'm not sure is there any word from u.n.

envoy salami himself well he hasn't spoken to the media since giving an al-jazeera interview on friday we believe that the libyan case is difficult but we don't believe it's a mission impossible the day i come to the conclusion that this mission is impossible you want that the government of national accord say they note mr salamis optimism they just can't work out what it's based on james berets al-jazeera geneva . u.s. president donald trump has been welcomed by more than 100000 people in the indian city of my bed i met about and good for us his 1st visit to the country is designed not only to boost ties and trade but also his reelection chances by appealing to 4 and a half 1000000 indian american vote is elizabeth pronto reports from i met about.

on his 1st foreign trip since his impeachment trial donald trump could not have looked more pleased with the reception he received it wasn't the $10000000.00 people trump said would greet him and before leaving for india bought more than 100000 people packed into the south bothered by patel stadium to hear the u.s. president praise all things indian from one of its founders mahatma gandhi to cricket stars in the bollywood film industry his greatest admiration was reserved for prime minister the day of the movie you are living proof that with hard work and devotion indians get a cop lish anything anything at all anything they want the prime minister mori interns spoke of what he called the 2 countries shared values i. believe that said what is today you are the one india which is full of diversity with thousands of languages are spoken with just thousands of costumes cusins and several

religious groups and communities all rich diversity and unity is a strong foundation of india u.s. relationship. but president trumps the visit comes at a time when that in the body and his hindu nationalist bought at the junk the party of facing criticism for the treatment of indian muslims i bust confess that i heard him. not to be disbelieved. he talked about. india's peacefulness yesterday. but these are all the 3 things that have been under threat for the last 6 years. they have been 2 months of nationwide protests against the citizenship law which fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims one police officer was killed in violence between pro and anti-government protesters in that happy new delhi as president trump was just a few hours away in visiting the taj mahal white house official said president trump

will raise concerns over the citizenship law with the prime minister morty the 2 leaders will discuss defend security and trade in new delhi on tuesday while there's no progress expected on their big differences when it comes to trade president trump believes the happy man after the warm welcome he received it might not be the country's most populous state but nearly a 3rd of all indian americans have connections here and 9 months ahead of the u.s. presidential election trumps hope in coming to. help boost his popularity among the 4 and a half 1000000 indian american voters elizabeth al-jazeera. the staples center in los angeles is hosting a public memorial for basketball legend kobe bryant $20000.00 people are expected to attend the event the 41 year old was killed in a helicopter crash in california along with his 13 year old daughter jana and 7

other people last month. from brennan's feelings now live from outside the staples center in los angeles roberts the plan for the memorial fantasy thing. well kim behind me you can see some of the people lining up to enter the 20000 seat staples center basketball 'd arena sometimes called the house that koby built the place where he thrilled fans and helped lead his l.a. lakers team to 5 n.b.a. championships over 2 decades of play now a large number of tickets to this event were made available to the general public for a relatively modest price of those proceeds the proceeds from those sales will go exclusively to the mom and mom sports foundation newly renamed to include giana bryant along with kobe bryant this is a foundation dedicated to uplifting and inspiring used in disadvantaged

communities through sports now it's not clear at this point who is going to speak or perform in the ceremony we do know that kobe bryant's wife the nesa will attend also sports legends basketball a heroes such as shaquille o'neal and remodeled your bar and there's a certain significance also kim to the date set for this memorial is very interesting that in the notation used here in the united states today is 22420 now 2 is the number that yana bryant wore on her jersey it when she played on her sports league bass basketball league 24 is the number that colby wore for the lakers and 20 is the number of years that he played for the team colby. retired from professional basketball in 2016 he was only 41 years old when he died

and his daughter giana was just 13 him from france there thank you. the prime minister of this suit who has been in court 3 days after thomas to body felt that they had to face allegations of murdering his strange wife there were a lot of ani was shot dead just before his inauguration in 2017 to ban his new wife has already been charged with murder. this is all just there and these all the top stories hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of criminal sexual assault and of 3rd degree rape by a jury in new york however he's been acquitted of the most serious charge which could have meant a life sentence kristen salumi is in new york following the harvey weinstein case and the 2 most serious charges predatory sexual assault he was found not guilty but

he was found guilty of rape in the 3rd degree and a sexual assault a criminal sexual assault those 2 charges related to allegations of 2 women one of the actress one a production assistant who said that they were forced into this relationship with harvey weinstein the defense had argued that this was a consensual relationship and they pointed to e-mails and other evidence that showed that both women maintained a relationship with harvey weinstein the world health organization says it's sending a team to iran after a spike of coronavirus cases there around south ministry says 12 people have died from the virus kuwait bahrain oman and afghanistan have all reported cases of infected travelers coming from iran china is delaying its biggest political event of the year the national people's congress because of the coronavirus the gathering of thousands of communist party officials usually takes place at the beginning of munch. the islamic jihad group in gaza says it's ended its military response

against israel after 2 days of cross border violence israel carried out another round of air strikes on sunday injuring 4 people the military says it was a response to dozens of rockets fired into southern israel u.n. sponsored talks on libya's conflict or on the pressure and geneva a delegation representing more not only for half dos says it's suspending its participation the internationally recognized government based in tripoli is also expressing doubts dozens of people have been injured in central germany after a car rammed through a con of a parade in the town of folks mawson. the news continues here on al jazeera off the inside story.

iran this general election deals a blow to the religious establishment the conservatives did win the vote but the turnout was the lowest in 4 decades so how will turn around deal with what seems to be growing public discontent this is inside story. our welcome to the program i'm adrian sort of hard line does set for sweeping gains in iran's parliamentary elections but they appeared to have less popular support voter turnout in friday's polls was the lowest since the islamic revolution in 1979 that's despite the supreme leader urging people to cause the ballots as a religious judy to show resistance in.