the report only through an international perspective to try keep your mobile audience how this could impact their life this is an important part of the world and our leaders very good at bringing the news to the world from here. the images from the han the china try to censor and i'll just hear investigation raises questions about beijing's response in the 1st days of the corona virus outbreak. hello i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a fire in washington d.c. sparks an evacuation and puts jittery nerves to the test ahead of president elect joe biden's and. kremlin critic alexina valmy a sentenced to 30 days in prison and a slap trial shortly after returning to russia. because of our stuff and doesn't

treat you specially so i needed to wait at australia to live as a blunt message to tennis players who are complaining about being put into quarantine. al jazeera has obtained video recorded in the chinese city of hama in the 1st days of the coronavirus outbreak the images have been smuggled out of china after police tried to prevent journalists reporting on a local health crisis that became the global pandemic they raise questions about beijing's early efforts to control of virus serious phil reese as our exclusive report. a year ago journalists from chinese state media arrived in hand to cover a story about a mysterious new virus it's 3 days before the city goes into lockdown. the few confirmed cases of the disease i want to see food market says he looks

a little bit on the want to see that if we have concealed the generally side entities for their own safety they soon realize the outbreak is much more serious than they thought it. over a reporter who we've called yang continues to film secretly after being detained by the police. called out. oh all up was a model called out of the 20200 or so deployed all the muck went on and there are learned things are there you are. yang is forced to show images on his camera to public security officers while doing so he continues to film on his phone. or knew very well china's response to the virus was late to praise the lack of openness at the beginning of the outbreak has been blamed for contributing to a failure to contain the disease 10 out of. the gang is blocked from entering hospitals to see if you have

a living human being indeed incomplete or even when it really is that it was needed in order to enter yang pretends to have a fever. like. a hospital he finds packed wards with patients waiting to get tested. this was just one week after the disease had been given a name 19 and on here on a woman brought her simply 8 year old grandfather to the gates of the hospital he'd already been turned away from one that had no more beds getting a seat on the guards wouldn't let him in the job you're not. going to come out of offices stop young filming even at the hospital gates anything is going to be going on the lockdown is announced at 2 am on january 23rd yang is told to return to beijing before it comes into force the next morning the roads to the airport and railway station are packed with taxis yang joins 300000 people who

left will hand that night the decision to provide an 8 hour window before the city is sealed off allows many infected patients to flee route and for the outside world . still race al-jazeera and you can see the investigation 3 days that stop the world in full on monday a 20 hours g.m.t. . head of the world health organization has warned of a catastrophic moral failure in the way that vaccines are being distributed around the world it's the w.h.o. has laces criticism of wealthy countries being accused of hoarding doses leaving developing countries with none of the world is on the brink of a catastrophe moral failure and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest

countries a security scare near the u.s. capitol building has tested washington d.c.'s extensive lockdown and security operations a fire broke out a few blocks away forcing rehearsals for joe biden's inauguration to be abandoned but our national mall usually packed with tourists resembles a heavily militarized police and national guard troops are working to prevent any repeat of the capitol hill riots on january 6th let's go live now to washington john hendren is our eyes and is on the ground so john this fire a real test for the jittery nerves there in washington. that's right nerves are frayed and with tens of thousands of military troops and police on the street and concerns about threats they respond quickly and rather dramatically when anything happens and what it sounds like happens here is that there was a fire under an overpass highway overpass near the capital that was in

a homeless camp and the authorities there the police decided to evacuate the front of the capitol the west front that's the one that faces the mall on the opposite side of the building you can see behind me and that's where people were going through an inaugural rehearsal this is really just a matter of caution people were told to get out away from the windows inside the capitol and to hunker down in place but it does not sound like this was actually a major threat the fire has apparently been put out but it tells you just how frayed people's nerves are and how ready to respond all of these military and police forces are and they're doing that because they want them prepared on january 6th when that capital was attacked so they're trying to make sure that nothing like that will be able to happen again and you can see the response there's a little fire not too far away they shut down the capitol of accurate people who

are outside and this is the way things are likely to be for the next couple of days as we wait for joe biden to be inaugurated in 48 hours threat integration center but he will be getting on the way 2 days ahead of that the f.b.i. says that it's going to conduct background checks on the $25000.00 national guard troops that it's brought in they have been brought in to provide the security in washington could it be done in so little time. well it's a huge job as you say 25000 people that's more than they've ever had here in terms of national guard troops that's about double the number that were here and 1968 after the assassination of martin luther king most inaugurations have about 10000 people but we are told that while we're just learning about this vetting process it's actually been going on for about a week and most of it will be probably looking through records questioning people

what they're looking for is anybody who's got any affiliation with one of these groups that might want to attack the capitol an inside job so to speak so it is possible they can do it in that amount of time but it's certainly an enormous amount of work and another threat that they really didn't want to have to deal with on top of the threat of an external attack on the capitol which is what this fire triggered a concern that there might be an external attack now they're worried about the internal attack they'll be vetting all those all those national guard troops but for the most part those guard troops are around the capital in that sort of secure zone in the capitol itself you've got a lot of capitol hill police and of course all over town you've got police from all kinds of state federal and local agencies so this is really a completely militarized zone and they're checking everything they can and that includes vetting those national guard troops out 0 as john had reporting live from

washington d.c. john many thanks indeed. at least 20 people have been killed in sudan's darfur region after fighting between rival tribes dozens of people were injured in the town. more than 80 people were killed in violence in neighboring west off or on sunday let's go live now to sudan's capital khartoum officers have a balkan is there for so when you travel slicing this time for us. well we spoke to the tribal chief of the must lead that is a dominant tribe there in south dar 4 and he said that at least 20 people happening killed dozens have been injured but this did not start on monday they started back on saturday when fighting between the 2 sides the most obvious and the arab death of one of the people fighting one of the herders in involved in the clashes and then they try to ease the tensions the travel chief said that they try to hold talks they try to restrain the situation and get it under control but failed to do

so which is why on monday morning clashes erupted between the arabs and the muslim it which led to the killings of scores of people and injuring dozens others this is not the 1st time this is happening in south are for just 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago just before the exit of the united nations african union peacekeeping mission there was more intercom and fighting that led the state of florida keys to respond by deploying additional forces they say that was too proud to contain the violence they sent the paramilitary rapid support forces as well as additional military and police to try to regain control and try to ease the tribal tensions but enter common and violence has been a common occurrence not just in south tower 4 but various parts of daraa for especially following 17 years of conflict which left the region the darfur region awash with weapons many civilians in various parts of town for have been calling on authorities to gather the weapons from the civilians and from the herders and farmers they say that's because it makes it very easy for the 2 sides the herders

and the farmers dip. despite their various tribes and various ethnicities to use the weapons to resolve their differences so the chiefs as well as the residents in the states have been trying to call on authorities especially the transitional government to gather the weapons that have been awash in the region from the 17 years of conflict they say that because they don't want the people from various tribes and various ethnicities to use that to solve differences rather than going to law enforcement officers. the death toll from the clashes over the weekend in west for has risen to more than 100. about the government's response to all of this. while the government has issued a statement on sunday evening and they said that they will be deploying additional troops and they will be investigating the violence that happened in neighboring west are for neighboring from south are for west are for a region especially in jenin and the various counties surrounding it but people

there are wondering if the transitional government has been very slow to take action since the incident started on saturday morning and the death toll continued to rise into sunday the sudanese professional associations body the central committee for sudanese doctors say that the situation right now is relatively calm and that they have been receiving bodies from other counties around and they say that the death toll has risen not because of renewed violence but rather because the situation is getting a bit calmer for them to be able to receive more bodies but people are saying that there is a security vacuum vacuum residents in the state whose will talk to syria say that they are they want the government to respond they want to see the government take control of the situation but they don't want to see the government use for as the peak of the state's authority of west are for has authorized security forces to use force if necessary to get the situation under control but civilians are saying that they're concerned this would lead to further death and not a civilization of the situation in the west are for. morgan reporting live from

khartoum many thanks didn't have. a weather update next year i was here at then the top course in central african republic and fungus president frost and resurrection when will not be enough to silence his critics and the growing push for scottish independence in the wake of briggs's and the pandemic. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways hello we've got signs of dry weather pushing back into japan i'm pleased to say but at the moment there is still more snow in the forecast a bit of cloud here the northwest the winds picking up that moisture across the sea of japan and dumping a fair bit of snow once again into that western side of conscious and on into hokkaido but it will filter its way through come wednesday as you can see it does

brighten up crisp sunshine coming in behind about 6 celsius there for tokyo similar temperature there full so what's of dry weather in so much of child of a simple some places a shabby right one of to those showers maybe wintry in nature from time to time meanwhile across south asia here it is 5 and dry we have got essentially clear skies for many still some thick clouds and dense fog patches up towards the northern plains temperatures new delhi have recovered a little to around 20 celsius a high in lahore of around and 19 degrees the further south you notice the possibility wanted to shout was coming it's the wetter weather will continue to swirl away across sri lanka so we could see some showers well the spells of rain possibility of a little bit of flooding coming in here as we go through the next day also some wet weather to into bangladesh and notice a chance of one of 2 showers into the eastern side of nepal with this stay. at ways join africa's largest trade and investment thing in room. enter african

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earliest days of the covert 19 outbreak in rouhani they show police cracking down on journalists and hospital wards full of newly infected people. a security scare near the u.s. capitol building is tested washington d.c. has extensive lockdown and security operations a fire broke out a few blocks away forcing rehearsals for joe biden's an alteration to be banned. and at least 20 people have been killed in sudan south tough for region of the fighting between rival tribes in neighboring west stuff for more than a 100 died in violence on sunday. a russian court has ruled that opposition leader alexina valli be kept behind bars for the next 30 days he's faced a hearing the day after flying to moscow from germany where he spent 5 months recovering after being poisoned the judge ruled that by traveling to germany in about he had violated conditions requiring him to report to authorities over a previous criminal case the 44 year old was in

a coma when he was flown to berlin in august or the valley is calling on his supporters to take to the streets in response to what is called a lawless trial dozens of people gathered outside a police building ways being held on moscow's outskirts i'm my own city but it doesn't behoove that they're saying this is an open court decision on the police chief's motion for my wrist why is caught in the police station why didn't they inform anyone why was i not served i've seen nonsense in the justice system before but this apparently that old men in the bunker is so afraid of everything that they define the ripped up and threw away the criminal proceedings code what is happening here is just impossible this is ultimate lawlessness i cannot call it something else if i examine the gulf war has more from moscow. well he's been detained for 30 days saw that he can spend in jail basically time awaiting for his a hearing on the embezzlement case this is the old case from 2014 when he was then

in 2014 a sentence to suspend the sentence of 3 and a half years with a probation period of 5 well then it was extended 6 years this probation period expired i have to say on the 30th to offer december so by the end of the month most probably he will face another hearing where the prison authorities of russia are there they want this suspended sentence to be changed so he actually serves this a 3 and a half years this is what comes from the official side but what the not only supporters are saying it was not only himself he's saying is this is the way to sentence him actually he used a pause in this day's proceedings to record a short video in which he says that this is a bond issue and by the power by kremlin for him for daring to survive attempt on his life in this video he urged his supporters to take to the streets saying that this is exactly world authorities are afraid people on the streets so

a power off the power of the people or several government speaking out germany describes divonne these tensions as incomprehensible while the european council's president says that it's unacceptable and u.s. secretary of state by comparison is that it's moscow's latest attempt to silence critical voices however russia's foreign minister says that of all these detention is entirely legal. on the case of nivelle me has gained foreign political resonance artificially and baselessly everything is happening to the valley in connection with his returning and detention falls within the competence of the law enforcement forces. tents sheltering displaced syrians and province filled with water during heavy during days of heavy rain around $100.00 camps have been drenched adding to the misery of those with nowhere to go after more than 9 years of war al-jazeera center schapelle reports. in camps for displaced people this is what happens when

it brains more than 100 camps in northwestern syria have been affected over 48 hours mud is everywhere hundreds of tents have been damaged or made unusable. we set up a tent on the cultural and when it rain everywhere became muddy roads are blocked we cannot meet our warden needs. already overcrowded and with many homes ruined people here keep closer together to stay dry often over night little forbid the injured than roads a bloke's when the rain comes the tents cannot protect us from rain cold and wind children and women of badly affected by 10 laws. made worse by sewage and a lack of water supplies coated 19 is spreading rapidly with more than 2000 cases recorded in the camps according to syria's response coordination group around half of those in camps are children and many lack adequate clothing for winter let alone

flooding. volunteers here are trying to make the best of the situation for them soccer tournaments really races and competitions to see who can clear water from tense the fastest. we came here today to the kaffir darian camps to be with those who are facing critical situations and to share some time with them in the cold weather and dirty mud a few minutes are tough for us can you imagine the feelings of those who live here in tents that don't protect from the heat in summer i'm cold in winter. 12000000 syrians have been displaced by nearly a decade of civil war a 1000000 children have been born as refugees last year a russian backed offensive pushed about a 1000000 people from their homes in aleppo and it lives the last rebel held area in syria 4000000 are living under turkish protection on syria's side of the border many living in the muddy camps alongside it as ceasefire by turkey and russia is largely holding and amid the rain there's a tense calm in the camps aid agencies are helping thousands of families move to

brick homes one turkish agency has handed over 14000 so far providing a degree of respite to some from the challenges outside and al-jazeera. the constitutional course of the central african republic has confirmed the president fast and. has been reelected the opposition wanted a rerun of the december vote they say the pre-election violence scared away voters fighting is still going on rebels opposed to it as re-election unsuccessfully tried to invade the capital last week welcome webb has the latest from central african republic capital own game. was no sign of the civilian political opposition in the courtroom today in the ruling very much favored the ruling party of president found since friday where the opposition it said there was widespread irregularities and that the violence in many parts of the country meant that the ball should be rerun the constitutional court rejected it just outside headquarters that building i but

as i go to there is posses a bit of a celebration going on there is a dance to that they've hired some guys standards have come to have a look but there isn't really an enormous crowd of supporters and this is one of the problems that they are faces according to a lot of analysts they say that none of the factions who are vying for power really represent the population or have a major support by the opposition who are challenging the ruling in court to just part of it the armed groups that he mentioned or another party that just outside the city before with the forces and support the government last week and they make clear their intention to come in again they've said that the government should step down on the on the sound of the build up of thousands of fighters on the edges of the capital now to help it the government have u.n. peacekeepers on the road so russian fighters from the wagner group a private military company that so closely to the state i'm reminded soldiers as

well the government here says they're just said to spots a bilateral agreement although it's widely thought that different countries may have interest in the vast natural resources on the ground here in the central african republic uranium gold and diamonds the foreign powers force over here for more than a century. the head of south korean tech giant samsung has been jailed j.y. leader was found guilty of bribery and the before moment in connection with the corruption scandal that brought down former president park and a mcbride reports from salt. j. wiley arrived at court not knowing if he would be able to walk free again as head of south korea's biggest conglomerate business groups had appealed for leniency and samsung itself has argued that li is essential to its day to day running a claim disputed by critics of the so-called chaebol system

a family run businesses that still dominates the economy here every day operation is done by the professional managers saw even in the cio use only. control korean general has full information provided by the although he's instead and even in the g.a.o. and the he or she can make it of properties in the making in 2017 lee was found guilty of bribing disgraced former president park geun hye and her longtime associate choice and so to allow the smooth transition of power at samsung from his father he was released after one year of a 5 year prison sentence the prosecution appealed and last year leap promised changes in his company's business practices in a bid to stay out of prison lies in what is new that we failed to live up to public expectations because disappointment because we did not strictly uphold the law at

ethical standards where you. were the power of south korea's chaebol system under scrutiny some song agreed to set up a compliance committee last year at the request of the court to look into its business practices to ensure a case like this wouldn't happen again it was widely seen as a bid to please the court ahead of this ruling but it wasn't enough and the court ordered lee back into custody ruling he'd concealed his multimillion dollar bribe and also committed perjury in his explanation about it to the national assembly of the bride al jazeera song. tennis players have been given a blunt response after complaining about being put into quarantine astray leah more play a subpoena ordered into a hotel isolation after arriving for the australian open another 4 participants of the tournament including a player that tested positive. on it has been a bit of a bit of chatter from a number applies about the rules the rules apply to them as they applaud everybody

else and are all briefed on that before they can and that was a condition on which like and so i went there's no special treatment he played will be traded because of our styles and doesn't treat you specially so i need to do weight briggs's was always unpopular in scotland its people voted overwhelmingly to stay in the e.u. even as the rest of the u.k. tipped the balance to leave the realities of bragg's it coupled with london's handling of the coronavirus of put new energy behind coals for scottish independence now is a serious jonah hole reports from edinburgh. edinburgh's royal mile deserted under lockdown but with just a phony deko of events that have taken place here over the past decade marching for scottish independence before a referendum in which scots voted to remain part of the united kingdom and later voting for continued membership of the european union but breaks it has changed

everything and independence is once more in the air what we were told at that time was that if we stayed in the united kingdom it would be staying in the you know in union rights as e.u. citizens would be respected and that's been completely ignore the opportunity you know as well and some rest and a referendum on independence that you could see you know to realize that it's our destiny and ask the people. on the scottish parliament in order to achieve that prime minister boris johnson treats calls for another referendum on independence with this day we had a referendum on the issue in 2014 which senior members of your party perhaps what you said was a once in a generation event it was on that basis the people voted in the way that they did very substantially to keep our wonderful union together boris johnson is loathed by scottish nationalists who see him as the embodiment of for exit and entitled englishman who pays only lip service to the importance of the union so his pitch to

build back better together after the pandemic rings hollow here among those who voted heavily to remain in the european union and who now would vote to leave the united kingdom but there's a catch the very thing breaks it that has taken support for independents to new heights is also the thing that makes independent seem economically viable so one on one hand breaks it acts as and is as an accelerator on independence preferences big . as people are not happy not being in the european union but at the same time an independent scotland outside of the e.u. but also finding that has difficulty trading with with its former trade partners in the terms and in the form of the rest of the u.k. well that also is it is a problem so it makes people want independence more but it makes in some ways the economic consequences of independence far more severe than they were in 24 team but

those arguments haven't dented voting intentions yet 18 opinion polls in a row show a firm lead for independence and an expected learned slide win for the scottish nationalists in may's parliamentary election could yet create an unstoppable democratic force jonah hold al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us hello adrian said again here in doha the headlines and al-jazeera i was there as investigative unit has obtained videos smuggled out of china that show the earliest days of the covert 19 outbreak in will they show police cracking down on journalists and hospital wards full of newly infected people.