adrian, scott hyde, the reporting, live from bangkok scott, many thanks. indeed, iran's leader is urging the u.s. president elect to condemn the last 4 years of american foreign policy. rouhani says that the trumpet, ministration, has committed terrible crimes against iran. he says that joe biden needs to correct and compensate for the past government's decisions. let's go live wrong, said what else to the president? well, it was an opportunity for him to really attack the trumpet ministration, but also reach out to president elect joe biden, and encourage him to return back to the joint comprehensive plan of action, which is the 2015 nuclear deal president hassan rouhani has said that great crimes have been committed against the iranian nation by the trumpet ministration, including denying them a $5000000000.00 loan from the international monetary fund to combat the covert pandemic. now he said that iran's policy was clear that a reduction in tensions would be met with rejections intentions, actions for actions commitments for commitments and respect for

might see it as a setback for them but they say they're going to continue with the fight adrian al-jazeera scott heide to live for us in bangkok many thanks scott. 3 of hong kong's best known pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to prison joshua one will spend around 13 months in jail while at this child will spend 10 months for their role in last year's protests another activist ivan lamb will be in prison for 7 months month's demonstrations outside hong kong's police headquarters and 2019 were triggered by the introduction of a controversial extradition bill which has since been shelved live to hong kong officers adrian brown is there talk us through the sentencing. well adrian the the latest chapter in hong kong's unfolding political drama has today been a west kalou magistrate's court where 3 of hong kong's most high profile political activists joshua wong agnes child and ivan have received jail sentences they have received those sentences over events that happened outside hong kong's police headquarters in june of last year joshua one received 13 and a half months for organizing and

each masters event at least twice this is unwelcome news for him after his duties did adrian balkans which was scott talk to him 3 other players tested positive for. cycling is delayed top of france has begun in nice despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases across the country fans were allowed to line the route on the 1st of its 21 stages on saturday riders will face covered test 2 out of which ends in paris on september 20 and eating the records more than one positive test will be expelled from the rice stage one was won by norwegian sprinter alexander christophe . and let's finish on a really good 2 story japanese olympic hopeful. has returned to competitive swimming after having treatment for leukemia for more than a year the 20 year old won 6 gold medals 2 years ago at the games in jakarta and was a favorite for the olympics in tokyo before she fell she's not expecting to try to qualify for niche matches delayed games but could target the 2024 olympics in paris . marked a competitive return to the pole of the 50 metres freestyle heat in a local weight in tokyo and more than 2 seconds slower t

or oh thanks so much for that update there from scott continue this though with adrian brownies in hong kong outside a theme park has now been shut down to prevent the spread of coronavirus so clearly the economy they're taking a hit. that's right some eon not actually outside that theme park i mean anymore we're actually in the center of hong kong where a short time ago officials from the hospital authority and the health department met the media to provide an update and they say in fact that the number of suspected cases has now gone up by 77 taking it to more than 380 suspected cases and the number of confirmed cases have risen from $5.00 to $6.00 also another confirmed case in macau taking the total there to 3 the hospital 30 also say they are readying another quarantine center turning a former holiday camp into a quarantine center and we've also heard from a microbiologist who was talking yesterday he says that he believes there are number of undetected cases in hong kong now some experts are now warning the incubation period for this virus could be up to 14 days so it's possible t

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

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people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong and for more on that public acknowledgement adrian was mentioning let's bring in scott heiler he's joining us from beijing so the leaders in china as we're hearing they're calling this epidemic as a major test the china system what were they saying and what are we to read into these comments scott. yes absolutely the top 7 leaders of this nation led by president xi jinping had another very rare standing committee of the pullup euro meeting and out of that they said they were short comings and that there were difficulties in the early stages of dealing with this coronavirus crisis and they're carrying the way through they're trying to correct as much as they can they said that and they say they there are systems that need to be corrected and improved that's quite a rare admission from the very top government officials here in the central government here in beijing that what's going to be interesting moving forward ok they are saying this this is they say this is a difficult situation what are they going to do to change things we do know now what they're trying to do is b

they've ignored it before let's see what they do in the coming hours adrian 00 school heidi reporting live from bangkok they thanks scott. the governor of afghanistan's helmand province is accusing the taliban of working with al qaida and other foreign fighters. says that the armed groups are supporting the taliban and attacks against government forces fighting has been escalating in recent days raising concerns that stalled peace talks may collapse completely lived out of kabul filio contraflow is for us what are we to make of the the governor's comments . well you know i demanded to important to say at the moment that the fighting heavy fighting between government forces and the taliban in the south and province of helmand and its 7th day we contacted the governor's office and he's in helmand and he spokesman confirmed to us what the government has been saying that. and other foreign fighters have been supporting the taliban offensive in home on it when we asked where are they basing this he said that they have all the evidence however it sensitive information that cannot release at the time now should this turn out t

be punished that amounts to a public acknowledgement that they failed the people adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong scott hyder is in beijing he explains how chinese officials are reacting to criticism of their response to the virus. you know they've said that their short comings and difficulties in the way that they've dealt with this so far you know that that kind of goes from the low levels of government all the way up to the 7 most powerful leaders here in china know 2 times since this crisis has really surfaced over the last 10 days the pope or a standing committee has met that's the 7 most powerful leaders in this nation led by xi jinping the president and they met just within the last 32 hours 24 hours and they said that there were short comings and problems with the way that this was handled so obviously that's a big admission now later in the day we heard from the health commission the national health commission and they said that they do not yet see what they called a turning point a century when the numbers of those infected and deaths related to corona virus they haven't plateaued or they hav

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and eugene scott, reporter for "the washington post." adrianwhen i covered your campaign, there were clinton supporters said i don't know if i can vote for bernie sanders. there were plenty of bernie sanders supporters that said i don't think i'll vote for hillary clinton. this sort of throws that favoritism on its head. it is not that they don't have favorites, it is not that they don't have even democrats they would prefer not get the nomination, they're just determined to beat donald trump. how significant could this be? >> it is so significant, chris. i think we saw this play out to an extent in the 2018 midterms when trump wasn't on the ballot, but there was a huge protest vote against trump. a lot of people took the vote for granted in 2016, of course not only do you see bernie sanders supporters not support hillary clinton, you saw people throw away a vote on a third party candidate like jill stein. that's what's impactful with swing left and other organizations are doing. they're not only organizing for the general, but to people in dee

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

outbreak and overcrowding hospitals there continue to plea for more supplies and staff scott either al-jazeera beijing. adrian brown is in hong kong hey explains what messes the territory is taking. the number of suspected cases has now gone up by 77 taking it to more than 380 suspected cases and the number of confirmed cases have risen from 5 to 6 also another confirmed case in macau taking the total there to 3 the hospital 30 also say they are readying another quarantine center turning a former holiday camp into a quarantine center and we've also heard from a microbiologist who was talking yesterday he says that he believes there are number of undetected cases in hong kong now some experts are now warning of the incubation period for this virus could be up to 14 days so it's possible that somebody who was in 2 weeks ago is now in hong kong and could have the virus now in response to the spreading virus the hong kong authorities have announced that a number of big tourist attractions in hong kong are going to close for the forseeable future that includes the ocean park theme park and also the big disney them

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

hello i'm adrian should i get this is that live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes scott put the brakes quarantine mandatory for travelers from spain as the corona virus infection rates triples catalunya. packed up and leaving china u.s. diplomats to park close to consulates in chengdu as relation.

scott roxboro for us on location there and joining me now in the studio is my colleague adrian kennedy hi adrian back up there just for a 2nd because obviously there's no such thing as the socially distant sex scene it's pretty much the end at least for the time being of intimate scenes in movies i really don't think so karen for one thing you couldn't socially isolate the production crew. but also the 2 or more participants in this hypothetical scene could also take a test and then things should be alright instantly we saw there that invisible per specs screens were being used to separate act and extras i think the interest of full disclosure we should point out there is a person scream between the 2 of us and if i move my arm in this story you can actually sometimes see it so it's the magic of film it's all illusion indeed it is now a film productions are going ahead albeit with a lot of improvisation but is the key to this simply minimizing all contacts for everyone involved outside and on set and they take that quite far in bulgaria they are also express experimenting with remote d

scott roxboro for us on location there and joining me now in the studio is my colleague adrian kennedy hi adrian back up there just for a 2nd because obviously there's no such thing as a socially distant sex scene it's pretty much the end at least for the time being of intimate scenes in movies i really don't think so karen for one thing you couldn't socially isolate the production crew. but also the 2 or more participants in this hypothetical. scene could also take a test and then things should be all right instantly we saw there that invisible. screens were being used to separate act and extras i think the interest of full disclosure we should point out there is a person scream between the. ass and if i move my arm in this story you can actually sometimes see it's. the magic of film it's all illusion indeed it is now a film productions are going head albeit with a lot of improvisation but is the key to this simply minimizing all contacts for everyone involved outside and on set and they take that quite far in bulgaria they are also express experimenting with remote directing feel. po

scott roxboro for us on location there and joining me now in the studio is my colleague adrian kennedy hi adrian back up there just for a 2nd because obviously there's no such thing as the socially distant sex scene it's pretty much the end at least for the time being of intimate scenes in movies i really don't think so karen for one thing you couldn't socially isolate the production crew. but also the 2 or more participants in this hypothetical. scene could also take a test and then things should be alright instantly we saw there that some invisible per specs screens were being used to separate act and extras i think the interest of full disclosure we should point out that there is a screen between the. us and if i move my arm in this storage you can actually sometimes see it's. the magic of film it's all illusion indeed it is now a film productions are going ahead albeit with a lot of improvisation but is the key to this simply minimizing all contacts for everyone involved outside and on that take that quite far in bulgaria they are also expect experimenting with remote directing it

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

host: scott is from adrian, michigan. caller: thank you. also thank you for letting the people voices be heard. sometimes every once in a while a good idea will get out there, and when you hear it, you think, why didn't we think of that? i actually watched a youtube video last night that lined up with what i kind of thought all along, and in these times, kind of seems like a crazy idea, but i really believe that 20 years from now, that we're going to see social distancing as an impediment to solving this problem rather than the solution to it, because the idea of trying to quarantine everybody, not quarantining throughout history in these situations, they've always quarantined the people that have the disease and not the people that didn't have the disease. and in this case it's impossible to quarantine millions and millions of people without massive negative effect, which is what we're seeing right now. if we concentrated on the people that actually have the disease and the ones that we know have the disease and the ones that are susceptib

eugene scott from "the washington post," and msnbc contributor and former clinton adviser adrian anrond former rnc chairman michael steele. kay, first, let me delve into something about iowa that seems different this time, that is this desperation of the iowa democratic party to create a set of rules to appease national democrats and progressive democrats that this will be a much more open process, much more diverse process, and they've done so much with it, that it's possible we have two different winners on caucus night because they're going to track delegates and turnout. how confusing is all of this going to be? >> it may be very confusing. or there could be a really significant result if one of these candidates sort of sprints out ahead of the rest of the pack. there will be delegate decisions released first and then we'll see the raw vote totals. we'll see the raw vote totals from the first alignment where people go into parts of the room and support a candidate and a group. then we'll see this second raw vote total if there is a realignment on a second round of voting. so actual

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

on saturday to give all those people time as i say to prepare adrian brown live in hong kong thank you very much indeed well al-jazeera scott. sideline has been speaking to one particular family from shanghai they're currently stuck in and because they're not able to leave let's hear what he found out. trying to make the best of the lockdown. and his family travel to hahn for them or new year even once the coronavirus locked down and they were face an additional 14 day quarantine when they get back home to shanghai like millions of other chinese across the country the children might be smiling but the adults are very concerned. how you feel what do what do you want to tell people out there how you feel and what it's like so i think every 60 is just the 1st to want to since it's funny. as it was and not. just don't. know that you know no you know it's doctor. 2 to 2 treaty and that's something he has had to speak with these children about age 2 to 13 i'm going to answer is serious and this is always hard to do. since. this is the 1st schools photos to show the empty streets of will haunt but the shelves in the supermarkets a

to be said no deaths in hong kong all right thank you for that adrian brown in hong kong well from hong kong let's go to beijing now scotthyder is our correspondent there he's got the details on the restrictions that are being put in place on the mainland. 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 know that the united states is evacuating its consulate in the coming hours by aircraft they're also going to let citizens and he says that they can fit in wha

scott: well, let me give you an example. the city bought a piece of property in 1980 for $5,000, one acre. we just went into contract to sell that for $378,000. adrian: we have two buildings. we call them brad and chad. lemonis: okay. adrian: they're named after the guys who built them in the 120-degree heat. lemonis: if you grow pot outdoors, you get two harvests a year. but indoors, a high-tech climate-controlled environment can triple that. adrian says canndescent will soon be selling about $75 million worth of weed annually. photographer: that's gorgeous. nice, nice. your smile's great. go for it. lemonis: with a slick advertising campaign, he's pitching his pot as a luxury brand. woman #2: with us, you and the flower will always come first. we are canndescent. adrian: call us the courvoisier of cannabis, or mayors of cannabis. we're going after that high-end adult use. lemonis: well, that's just packaging. look. packaging is one thing, but price is another. adrian charges hundreds more per pound than the market rate. to me, that's a very risky strategy. you said to me you can get $3,000 a pound. adrian: correct. lemonis: how do you actually dif

scott it looks pretty calm behind you at the moment what's happening. yes is quite calm and what's very interesting about how things unfolded adrian you know we saw tens of 10000 today come out to the streets. thursday night in an intersection that's about a way behind the camera now they said the protest organizers throughout the day that they were going to do that again at 5 pm local time which is about an hour ago so the police and the authorities locked down that entire area very central important part of the shopping district here in central bangkok they locked it down because that's where they thought this protest was going to be the protesters held up behind me about half a kilometer away from where that cordon was set for where they thought it was going to be where it was announced so what's interesting is then within 15 minutes after they announced that it was going to be here. here and this intersection over a 1000 people showed up we're looking at probably well over a 1000 possibly 2000 are already here within an hour after they said it was going to happen now what's also happened is. to get around bangkok if you ever been here you know the sk

hello i'm adrian for the get this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes scott put the brakes quarantine mandatory for travelers from spain as the corona virus infection rates triples couple india. packed up and leaving china u.s. diplomats to pop their closed consulate in chengdu as relations the deteriorates. the u.s. military says it has proof that russia is violating the u.n. so the u.n. on's a brother in libya. but in russia's far east protests present a rare public challenge to president vladimir putin and his 4 west indian hopes of a 1st series win in england for more than 3 decades if he can hit the home scene moving into a strong position on day 2 of the deciding test. breaking news this hour scotland is to reimpose a 14 day quarantine on travelers returning from spain 1st but a cynical assertion says that she's advise in caution about all non-essential foreign travel as guidelines can change at short notice this is night clubs at the vent holes are being closed down again in barcelona and elsewhere across the spanish region of couple odia have been more than $

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

scott roxboro for us on location there and joining me now in the studio is my colleague adrian kennedy hi adrian back up there just for a 2nd because obviously there's no such thing as a socially distant sex scene is this pretty much the end at least for the time being of intimate scenes in movies i really don't think so karen for one thing you couldn't socially isolate the production crew. but also the 2 or more participants in this hypothetical. scene could also take a test and then things should be alright. we saw there that invisible. screens were being used to separate act and extras i think the interest of full disclosure we should point out there is a screen between the. us and if i move my arm in this storage you can actually sometimes see it's. the magic of film it's all illusion indeed it is now film productions are going ahead albeit with a lot of improvisation but is the key to this simply minimizing all contacts for everyone involved outside and on set and they take that quite far in bulgaria they are also expect experimenting with remote directing it is theory. possible f

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

adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. ...with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ jon: live from america's news headquarters i'm jon scottterrorists overrun a military base in kenya killing a u.s. servicemember and two american contractors. it happened at the manda bay airfield. the al qaeda affiliate al shabab claims responsibility but says the attack has nothing to do with escalating tensions in the middle east, comes two days after u.s. forces launched an airstrike on the group in somalia. first known al shabab attack against american forces inside kenya. in iran massive anti-american demonstrations accompany the funeral of general soleimani who was killed by a u.s. drone attack last week in baghdad. tehran is promising harsh retaliation and is now completely abandoning the controversial nuclear deal. president trump warning iran with threats of his own that the u.s. is prepared to strike again. i'm jon scott. see you at the top of the hour for "the fox report". now back to greg gutfeld. greg: all right "cnn" held their annual new year's eve ride cast and the hosts got are loaded than a wendy's baked potato. >> wow. >

to touch a bottle standing by for us in paris adrian brown is live for us in hong kong which is just to clear the health emergency but 1st let's go to scott hyla who is in beijing scott chinese new year celebrations going ahead despite the threat from this corona virus but they will be muted to say the least this year. absolutely yes and we've been to a couple of parks in here on the streets here in beijing and it's a very very quiet day this would normally be a time when people would come out they did their spending time with their families but they would come out for these festivals and in fairs that normally would be held at the parks and around here the capital beijing but that is not happening today here it's not happening across the country as well obviously because of the concern of this coronavirus being spread even further and what's raising part of that concern is that there are indications strong indications that people can be asymptomatic yet still carrying this coronavirus another words so it might be carrying it in unwillingly pass it on to others before they know they actually have it so obviously taking every precaution he

scott where are you what's happening. major know i'm right out in front of constitutional court and this reading the session where we expect a verdict in this case that you just described adrian just began in the last 15 minutes we expect this to run about an hour and what we're waiting for is a verdict on this ruling on what something the main opposition party submitted back in march and so that's something that we need to note is that this process against the prime minister started well before we saw the surge of people the surge of the anti-government protesters coming to the streets over the last several months this was even before that and what it focuses on as you mentioned adrian the the current prime minister was the chief of staff general in the army when he led a coup in 2014 overthrowing that then democratically elected government he stayed in his residence the chief of staff of the army would be in it's on an army base he stayed there then he resigned from chief of staff and became the prime minister that you described he stayed in the residence so the crux of this argument brought up by the main the main opposition party is that he get legally stayed in that resi

scott had an al-jazeera beijing. well let's go live to hong kong now our correspondent there is a.j. and brown and adrian behind you is that cruise liner is this the cruise liner that was turned away by taiwan that is the same one yes under leaden skies here in hong kong sits the dreamworld here in hong kong harbor this festival is at the center of the latest virus scare because of the previous 4 digit made between january the 21st and 25th when the vessel returned on january 25th authorities had no idea that on board with 3 people who had in fact been infected with the virus that confirmation came from mainland authorities on wednesday morning so the alert went out what we don't know martine which is what concerns the authorities in hong kong right now is the fate of 200 people from hong kong who got off the cruise liner on the 25th of january so that was before we had confirmation of those 3 infections now as you pointed out in your introduction hong kong is now basically invoking the emergency powers to prevent anyone coming into hong kong from the mainland that includes incidentally thousands of hong

now scott thank you scott hyla there live in beijing well leading for all ages in hong kong there warning that the outbreak is was some what the chinese government is saying adrian brown has more. we've been hearing the softer noone from caprio long he's a leading epidemiologist he is the head and he's the dean of hong kong university's medical medical faculty and he basically says based on commuter computer modeling that they've been using as other experts are around the world right now he estimates that in fact 44000 people have been infected by this virus in who hand and he also says that the rate of infection will double every 6 to 7 days so again this is based on computer modeling it doesn't mean it's necessarily going to happen but he said it is their forecast as sort of worst case scenario you might say so these are alarmed words coming from hong kong and they appear to in a sense contradict what the world health organization has been saying because the world health organization so far hasn't felt compelled to declare an international public health alert the experts in hong kong are saying that draconian measures will be needed not just by hong kong's gov

all right scott by thanks indeed scott i live in beijing let's go to hong kong when i was there as a dream brown is the what's happening where you are a drain. well adrian to set the scene for you i'm at a flower market in causeway bay in central hong kong this is an annual lunar new year event but as you can see saw fewer people here this year various reasons is that the virus of course and also the ongoing political protests here in hong kong now we do have more than $200.00 suspected virus cases here in hong kong we have 2 people confirmed with the virus and we've been hearing today from the hospital authority of hong kong outlining the challenges they face in trying to ensure they have enough beds to cope with demond if indeed this fire is spreads and continues to spread here. yesterday we have more than 5000. and 10 this. medical been see rate is 97 percent and she is quite full but not as full as the peak of the winter so right now is slightly better but we are we perceive that after. the long holiday usually there will be for this. amount not just from the isolation that but from the other things like the fruits in terms. of the kind of the seaso

scott either al-jazeera beijing. hong kong hong kong has declared a health emergency over the outbreak of the virus let's go live there now as a tree and brown can tell us more adrian about what exactly has been declared. yes indeed adrian kerry hong kong's chief executive has decided this health crisis is serious enough to raise it to the emergency category now that followed a meeting with key advisors including some of hong kong's top medical experts that meeting was convened just after kerry am i arrived back from davos in switzerland where she's been attending the world economic forum now in addition to the various measures announced today kerry didn't decide to impose a temporary closure of the border between hong kong and china even if she had wanted to it's doubtful that her political masters in beijing would have allowed it instead she's decided to embark on other measures including requiring all visitors from the mainland to sign and fill in health declaration forms this will apply to people entering hong kong by rail train plane and boat she's also going to extend the school holidays for universities kindergartens and schools until the middle of february