physical shape so they can make that journey out just how they'll make that journey though adrian we don't know. scott many thanks to don sisko hyla reporting live from china ryan all the time. jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled a government offensive in southern syria the u.n. says that as many as three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes by the government offensive to recapture the dead of province jordan is sending food and aid supplies but despite a plea from the u.n. it says that its border will remain closed so how to reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. jordan israel won't let them in and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian government offensive and that our province now into its third week has displaced more than a quarter of a million people according to the united nations some are living in makeshift tents many others out in the open they have little food water or medicine or protection from the heat there is a humanitarian crisis and the united nations is calling on jo

well for a number of reasons adrian as has been reported in scott's piece a few moments ago the boys it's hoped knew the cave system fairly well they most of them anyway had been inside it with their coach a few times before so there is hope that once the water level began to rise on saturday when they went in there that they were able to push forward to an area that they would hope would be dry because it is very. inside that cave system but inevitably in these situations you eventually get questioned you get to allegations that perhaps the process to begin the search and rescue operation hasn't been fast enough and we are seeing that already from some people in this community saying that look the alarm was first raised on saturday afternoon late on saturday when one of the boys failed to return home the navy divers didn't arrive on the scene until very early on monday morning so some people are saying that just simply wasn't fast enough the governor of chiang rai province has responded to those questions to those allegations saying that they are moving as fast as they can the reaso

adrian brown al jazeera singapore. let's bring in our guests in washington d.c. scott snyder senior fellow for korea studies and director of the program on the u.s. korea policy of the council on foreign relations in singapore time a junk research fellow for the east asian institute of the national university of singapore and joining us on skype from beijing. director of the china national association of international studies thank you all for joining us. scott isn't this an historic meeting by all stand. it was definitely an impressive and historic event this is the first time in seventy years us the north korean leader have match it was certainly well stage and i think a change in many respects in the international environment in east asia. first of all u.s. president was willing to meet with a north korean leader but secondly i don't think that sort of meeting could have occurred without the facilitation and support of south korea and president in which has been who has been the most active supporter in trying to put these two together time who would have ever thoug

from the protests which marred what was never going to be a day of celebration adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well scott hi-lo is live at the queen elizabeth hospital in hong kong where the protester who was shot is being treated to a custom by asking you whether off to this upsurge of violence you think that this is something of a tipping point in the protests where do we stand up to this critical much. needed could very well be a tipping point because as we heard in agents report there this is the 1st time that a protester has been shot wounded by a police bullet we know that live rounds had been fired in the past as warning rounds this is the 1st time a protester was actually hit a teenager in the hospital behind me he was initially brought to a hospital the other part of and then brought here to queen elizabeth for specialty services especially treatment we know that he no major organs were hit but he is still in critical condition he underwent surgery when he arrived here late on tuesday we know that his lung collapsed and he was hit in the chest earlier police said that identified it more as lay i

going to be a very increased concern here in china all right good stuff there from scott let's cross over now though to adrian brownlee is live for us in hong kong with the latest right now there in adrian as we look at the headlines more cases in more countries it looks like a virus that spreading right. that's right here in hong kong the seriousness of the situation was underscored on saturday afternoon when the chief executive carrier addressed the media she had arrived back in hong kong just several hours earlier from the davos world leaders' economic forum she announced that she was basically. changing the government's response to this crisis to emergency that's a very high level and that and as i say reflects just how serious the government is now taking this she setting up no less than 4 task force to look at various aspects aspects of how to contain this spreading virus other measures she announced did not though include the temporary closure of the border between hong kong and china that's what many people here in hong kong had wanted her to do instead she's going to insist that all people arriving f

amounts to a public good knowledge meant that they failed the people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong all right let's go live to scott hyla now he's in beijing and these are missteps in the extraordinary times not just in china but in the region as a whole absolutely martinez when you look at what's happened over the last 10 days or so you've had a couple of high level highest level admissions of missteps of challenges of problems things that need be corrected from the top level of the central government here in china you've had you know local governments admitting that they fumbled things at the very beginning but what we've been seeing particularly on state run television here a lot of images of this new hospital that has just opened up and there's another one that's going to open up tomorrow lot of images of supplies coming in but again there's this call from outside of china that they need these medical supplies as we heard in adrian brown's piece right there but one thing that's interesting we have all those challenges but also there are other challenges too and the world health organization just last hour kind

really good insight there from adrian brown in hong kong on those border crossings thank you and now scott hyde there in beijing on how china is working to treat the thousands of people infected. 1400 army medics are now in ruhani ready to work in a newly built hospital for coronavirus patients completed in just 9 days the images of supplies on the way and more medical help on hand the chinese government wants its people and the world to see china has criticized the united states for no substantive help with the outbreak and accuse the u.s. government of spreading fear and panic the new facility is modeled after a similar hospital built outside beijing during the sars crisis 17 years ago the number of dead from the corona virus now exceeds that of sars a 2nd hospital is expected to be finished by the end of the week together they will have 2500 beds for those infected with the virus there is frustration and anger on social media over conditions for the infected and doctors and will han china's central government the 1st day back for essential workers after the prolonged holiday focused on

main mouth of the cave is slow going right now adrian the prime minister was there yesterday urging the families of the boys to keep the faith look scott it's been a week now these these boys and their coach they have supplies with them survival gear how much longer can this go on. well that's a very good question and you know when we see you know they're still family members here have been here for a week now they actually are in two different locations just up the hill from where i am now there's a tent area where they have been most of them for the week but now there's a structure part of this national park complex is a structure in the back that is now blocked off that's where they're able to sleep they've been staying here again for a week there's always been a buddhist monk every time i walk by they're holding up prayer you can see on their faces that it's very very draining week for them emotional week for them we have been in touch with for fathers who are working together we saw them a couple of days ago they've gone up into the hills on their own they want to see how this rescue operation is going on they feel as though it's

scott hodler al-jazeera bangkok. it is really good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines when i was there a the u.n. secretary general antonio has condemned an israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank he told a security council meeting that the move would be a serious violation of international law 14 of 15 members oppose the plan protests taking place in gaza the occupied west bank the palestinian government says the israeli plan risks security in the region and beyond the un special envoy to the middle east peace process is urging israel to reconsider. in the middle east is dramatically all the lebanese during instability across you know by palestinians . and maybe beyond this call has been marked by periods of the extreme violence but never in the risk of escalation in somebody might include school ryan so this isn't an economic situation so it runs around in the region. in this crucial role steeples the action that enable the parties step back from. kosovo as president has been indicted for war crimes along with 9 other us prosecutors at the hague say the president

in order to contain this virus al-jazeera is adrian brown is in hong kong he's standing outside a theme park that's now been closed but 1st let's speak to scott heiler in beijing cannot they do what's going on in mainland china scott another day more restrictions this time on wildlife tell us about that. yes you know this ban just announced as you said some in the last hour on wildlife trade and those establishments that previously conducted trade in wildlife are going to be isolated and disinfected so a big move here in china just in the last hour and as you mentioned we're going to be hearing from the health ministry very soon a press conference to be held this is something they did just a couple of days ago so i think right now what we're going to hear is probably an update on exactly what happened what is happening here in china when it comes to dealing with this coronavirus obviously what's what's been going on in will han and who province but one thing to note here you know even in the capital beijing there are some travel restrictions new travel restrictions being put into place long distance bus stations here in the city have been shu

adrian brown will join us from hong kong in a moment where measures have been put in place to prevent infections we'll speak to right after scott heiler who give us an update from beijing scott and you'll just bring us up to speed about what you know on the current restrictions that beijing has put in place as well as the international evacuations. yeah the restrictions continue to strengthen and being you know where we're looking at almost $50000000.00 people on a lockdown in central china we're hearing too that some of the train service here into beijing is going to start to be limited even further now this is a concern because we're looking at you know an extended lunar new year but it's coming to an end toward the end of the week and when you look at the train stations here a lot of people are coming back early even though that holiday has been extended because they're worried that there's going to be even more restrictions on the train service here into the capital so that's a concern to the what's becoming to look like an airlift by some nations of their citizens out of the epicenter of this coronavirus and will han we kn

adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. live for us from the school of the teenager who was shot by police during tuesday's protest so scott and set the scene there for us and give us the latest on the teenager. what amazing here the secondary school would be here you know before about an hour before we came on air there were hundreds of people out here on this roadway just in front of the entrance to the secondary school some of them alumni some of the people from around the area some of the protesters and what was quite interesting is the principal of the secondary school came out spoke with them briefly and then they went into the assembly hall and were having a dialogue and there was quite interesting that very quickly the principal came out and brought them in now we spoke to a friend of this 18 year old who's injured in the shooting incident now we need to say that he's now in stable condition we're hearing operation tuesday evening now he's in stable condition but to one of his friends here we asked him you know what do you think he's thinking now what do you think one of the 1st words out of his mouth when he wakes

to syria scott hides in beijing scott what's the latest well right now really the focus is you know we heard from the ministry of national health and as you mentioned adrian the big concern now is it spreading faster this virus faster than it has been and there's still a lot of questions not many answers as to how it spreads why it can be asymptomatic and some people and really work quickly in others put them in the hospital so there's really a lot of questions around the and they really don't know the answers yet so that is really kind of the frightening factor growing frightening factor to this coronavirus and one way they want to try to curb it from spreading further is the clamp down on transportation systems in the cities in the provinces. yet more measures to curb the spread of the corona virus outbreak everyone entering the beijing subway system is checked for symptoms and subway cars are disinfected every hour still concerned about infection some head out any way they try i'm really afraid that the virus might infect me or my family members i'm supposed to go back to work in a few days and my son will go back to school soon well there's no more ma