this is state of the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes mass mobilization in malawi thousands have taken to the streets demanding the country's election commission be sacked this off to a court upheld a ruling to cancel the results of last may. get a report from the language. and will take you to a far east in kenya. women are earning a livelihood farming by supplies it's also saving the environment. they're trying to keep your head above water in a failed state we speak to a teenager determined to make a go off life in the impoverished guinea-bissau. hello i'm christine will go well come to deeds every news africa it's good to have your company but always presidents people with that it has been dealt another blow the constitutional court has dismissed his appeal off a courtroom ling that an old he's may election win last week judges ruled that the 2900 had been mocked by irregularities and nominees which they described as being so widespread and systematic that the integrity of the results had been seriously compromised now it's the 1st time a presidential election has been c

the outcome of the president's appeal is likely to have major implications for malawi both politically and economically. al-jazeera. a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in the occupied west bank the shooting happened in hebron the palestinian health ministry says 17 year old muhammad was killed when a bullet went through his heart the israeli military says its troops opened fire after a palestinian threw a fire bomb. at least 6 people have been killed in the southern iraqi city of najaf when supporters of the shia cleric walked out of saddam's stormed an anti-government protest camp now sutter has at different times both supported and oppose the protesters who want the removal of iraq's ruling elite so wonderful to has more from baghdad. this is just the latest in a series of confrontations between the sudras who supports the nomination of mohamed tawfik allow as prime minister designate and other protesters who reject him until recently the sudras supported the protesters providing important logistical support protection as well as political cover bu

more political uncertainty in malawi the president plans to appeal a court decision overturning last year's election results. hello china has recorded its biggest jump in the number of corona virus deaths 65 more were confirmed on tuesday as efforts to go on to hold it spreads a cruise ship has been quarantined in hong kong as authorities test all those on board for corona virus so far 3 crew members have been taken to hospital to be placed in isolation and there are around 8800 people on board the vessel was earlier denied entry to taiwan brown is in hong kong with more on what prompted all 40 used to quarantine the ship. just on the far side of the harbor in the distance that's where this giant vessel the world dream is now docked it arrived in hong kong on wednesday morning but the passengers are not being allowed to leave for this reason on a previous full wage at the end of last month it seems that 3 passengers became infected now those passengers of thought to be from the mainland because the alert has come from health officials in china they contacted officials from hong kong'

that link it to mainland china in response to the corona virus an election victory overturned the malawi's constitutional court to nullify is the 200-1000 results saying a new vote must be held in a 150 dates and the lifeline for yemenis in need of urgent care center i report is partially reopened so sick patients flown out. to the thank you for joining us a turkey says its military has hit dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the province turkey's the fence minister has arrived at the syrian border he says his forces have killed 76 syrian soldiers in rebel held its leap but syria's main ally russia has contradicted those claims turkey and russia are in opposing sides of the fighting in a glib president had the one says he's told russian officials they should quote stand aside in the conflict. you know. how it's all of us and what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces and it'll it would result in people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacce

malawi's president says he'll appeal against a court decision that are now all these controversial reelection last year. started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside in eastern turkey has now turned into a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 26 people have been killed after 2 avalanches swept down on to a road near the city of violence some of those killed were part of a rescue team they've been sent in to find survivors from the 1st avalanche which happened on tuesday night we'll go live to hashem our. correspondent who's in this stamboul and. has what is the latest we understand the inevitably the death toll is rising. indeed martin the death toll is rising and it is because no rescuers are with tweeting more bodies from under the snow in. district in one province the all started yesterday when an avalanche hit. a bus carrying passengers and it along with a snow clearing vehicles rescuers along with civilians went to an affront to 4 survivors and they managed to retrieve 5 bodies then the rescue operation continue it for the whole throughout the whole night through toda

malawi's president says he will appeal against the court decision that an old his controversial reelection last year. so we begin with breaking news coming in from eastern turkey that's where more than 50 people are reported to be missing after a 2nd avalanche many of them are rescuers they were trying to get to people breed by an avalanche on tuesday night 5 people were killed in the 1st avalanche and 2 are missing it's happened at a small talon near the city of van close to the border with iran let's speak to has some heard about it he's our correspondent standing by for us in istanbul speaking to us by telephone hashim what are you hearing about this. wales started yesterday when a bus was struggling in a mountainous area in back just a lie in vine province when there was a blizzard snow fall the weather condition was was very bad as the bus was stuck and the snow when the violence pit the area there's been a massive rescue operation underway the rescuers managed to. risk you dozens of people fortunately 8 people were killed in that incident but how was it when the rescue operation was

still to come here at al-jazeera i'm adamant in malawi after months of government demonstrations of a disputed election people accused of rape and sexual abuse have still not been prosecuted and. how low the way in the survey slightly across northern parts of europe for the time being but there's more wet and windy weather coming in as we go on through the next couple of days you see this little rich here that see a slightly quotes weather for the next system arose sorry i will bring some more wet weather small wintry weather as we go on through thursday snow would normally parts of england through scotland would be possible as well west the weather further south up to around 101112 degrees celsius here that said white in the wings that's got the storm dennis that's something for you to watch out for for the weekend ahead of that comes out latest band of cloud and right tended to snow as it moves across central parts of europe through the high ground i will continue to drive its way further east which as we go on through friday down towards the balkans and easing down towards the sout

the outcome of the president's appeal is likely to have major implications for malawi both politically and economically. al-jazeera a long way. the african union summit is looking at the disputes which in cairo khartoum and this over ethiopia's ground bringing so on stand several attempts to resolve the crisis have so far failed as mohamed phone reports. there is no shortage of issues to debate at the african union summit even the host country ethiopia has its own dispute with neighbors while the construction of its multibillion dollar hydropower dam over the blue nile river continues it remains at odds with egypt over some major aspects of the project egypt initially opposed the giant dam itself now it's opposing the plan for the filling of the lake that's going to hold up to $74000000000.00 cubic meters of the rivers waters if the filling spreads over 3 years as ethiopia once egypt expects to face probably the biggest manmade reduction in its share of the nile waters in recorded history. in 2015 if the o.p.'s sudan and egypt signed the declaration of principles aiming to resolve the

simeon fama stand to do says an ike we call troll trade disputes with israel begins to bite and malawi's president says he will appeal against a court decision that i know is his controversial reelection mafia. hello soul going downhill again in the eastern med that means the levant you see the cloud across turkey which might give you a clue that something's going on if you're right to think that the picture answers is an increasing breeze in the eastern med bringing rain through cyprus and then pro-drug there the day you start to feel it in some parts of syria or lebanon for the sides there is a bit of cloud there's not much of a breeze so dark $25.00 meccas up to $29.00 you might spark a shower too in the mountains of western society but noble or not this is where the action will be and that rain spreads all the way science to sinai and you see the breeze coming behind is even stronger so this is still wet and windy and the need tell in damascus gives you an idea of how it might feel if you're further north or further up it's now not particularly pleasant but then again it is february

gets off to a confusing start the results are delayed celebrations in malawi as the constitutional court cancels the results of the presidential election paving the way for a new vote. air pollution in believe is basically resulting in a public health crisis with elections on the horizon a call for action from residents of one of the world's most polluted cities. but 1st hong kong is recorded its 1st death from the corona virus outbreak a 39 year old man becomes the 2nd person to die from the a miss outside of mainland china the health officials say he was ill han last month and was also suffering from an underlying illness or a 15 confirmed cases in hong kong a south korean woman's also been confirmed to have the visit i have the virus after she went to thailand she becomes the 1st foreign tourist to be infected. after going to that country although it's not clear if she'd also been to china in china itself 2 more cities outside who bay province have gone into lockdown the death toll now stands at $425.00 more than $20000.00 people are infected and a cruise ship carrying more than 3 and

that's teaching people to build and fly drones it's the continent's 1st we'll tell you why it's in malawi. comes to africa it's good to have you have. the president often. has told he's country is facing and president an opportunity for change in the wake off corruption allegations against the former president's daughter the billionaire isabel dos santos is accused of stealing hundreds of millions in public funds while head off the state run oil company in angola the allegations were published by a team of investigative journalists insists she's the target of a smear campaign. ad to increase set down with and go in as president for what is the 1st interview on the scandal and began by asking about rumors that those santos is negotiating a deal to pay back part of the allegedly stolen money. as infamous or strong pouring from the. most information is unfounded. we would like to make clear that there are no negotiations. or. there will be no negotiations and there was an opportunity to do so. the very people who were the golden knights of corruption benefited from a 6 month period of grace

gets off to a confusing start the results are delayed celebrations in malawi as the constitutional court cancels the results of the presidential election paving the way for a new vote. air pollution in believe is basically resulting in a public health crisis with elections on the horizon a call for action from residents of one of the world's most polluted cities. but 1st hong kong is recorded its 1st death from the corona virus outbreak a 39 year old man becomes the 2nd person to die from the a miss outside of mainland china the health officials say he was ill han last month and was also suffering from an underlying illness or a 15 confirmed cases in hong kong a south korean woman's also been confirmed to have the visit i have the virus after

in the news ahead questions over malawi's presidential election in the constitutional court nullified the results. and no laughing matter film stars tackle the issue of diversity head on and britain's top movie aborts. hello again it's good to have you back what we have seems a very nice conditions across the philippines over the last week things are going to change though as we go towards the beginning into the middle part of this week we're going to be seeing a tropical wave just to the east of the philippines now we don't expect this to develop into anything significant but what it will do as we go from tuesday into wednesday is start to bring some heavier showers here along the eastern part of the philippines most likely by the time we get towards wednesday night notice so showers big need to develop on the coast and some of those could be quite heavy

hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in malawi's capital a long way demanding the chairwoman of the country's electoral commission resign the top court last week an old 29 teams presidential election vote citing widespread systematic and grave irregularities floor manley reports. the i mean if you're going to protest as i'm allowed to seal off the building of the electoral commission if i was a man i do not believe. hundreds marched to the streets of the southern city of blantyre only a few managed to get past police barricades. a protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commission's chairwoman jane unsought and has stopped resign. the guests of mic because all what we need is this little in this office should be so we don't want them to get inside this room here . in the capital a long way people also march towards the offices of the electoral commission. is

an election victory over turn malawi's constitutional court not in 5 of the 29 years old and old is a rerun. we begin with breaking news out of hong kong which has reported its 1st death from the coronavirus it's the 2nd fate talented from the virus outside of mainland china but on monday hong kong closed 10 of its 13 borders with mainland china in a bid to stop the spread of the virus but medical workers have been demanding that the border be completely shut well 425 people are now known to have died from the virus within china and there's more than 20000 confirmed cases the virus is continuing to spread elsewhere with more than 150 cases confirmed in 23 countries with agent brown joins us live now from hong kong adrian so confirmation then that one man in the territory has died from the virus what more can you tell us. well according to hong kong officials that this man was certainly 9 and he was the man responsible for the 1st person to person transmission here in hong kong which was confirmed on monday evening the other person being his mother now the person who has died had an un

more political uncertainty in malawi the president plans to appeal a court decision overturning last year's election results. hello china has seen the biggest jump and deaths from the coronavirus as the outbreak continues to spread their respects to 5 more confirmed deaths bringing china's total death toll to 490 and the number of global cases has now hit more than 24000 officials with the world health organization has called on all countries to improve data sharing on the coronavirus more than 2 dozen countries have reported the virus and 10 people who were on board a cruise ship in japan are confirmed to have the virus there more than $3000.00 passengers on that vessel and all are now facing up to 2 weeks of. orenstein over in hong kong around $800.00 people are being held on board a cruise ship there while health authorities carry out tests for corona virus the vessel was earlier denied entry to taiwan just to washington is standing by and that's to an island that's where indonesian citizens returning from china are under quarantine but 1st let's get more on the developments in ho

bad malawi's president. with that he has been dealt a blow by the country's highest court now that means the election victory has been nullified will the next vote incredible. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company kenya is mourning the passing all former president daniel arap more he it was the 2nd all the country's 2nd leader after independence ruling from 1970 eight's to 2002 and 24 years the country was an island off political stability in africa but that came at a cost his role was authoritarian kenya was a democracy but in name only. daniel iraq moyo came to power in 1978 when president dilma kinetic died the former schoolteacher in the national legislature had been handpicked vice president and 17 yet as long shadow. 4 years into his rule most of via a coup attempt that stock a transformation from a cautious in secure leader into a tough blow to the crux of the supressed opposition and consolidating power in the one party state he said to torture chambers in a

malawi's president says he will appeal against the court decision that an old his controversial reelection last year. so we begin with breaking news coming in from eastern turkey that's where more than 50 people are reported to be missing after a 2nd avalanche many of them are rescuers they were trying to get to people breed by an avalanche on tuesday night 5 people were killed in the 1st avalanche and 2 are missing it's happened at a small talon near the city of van close to the border with iran let's speak to has some heard about it he's our correspondent standing by for us in istanbul speaking to us by telephone hashim what are you hearing about this. wales started yesterday

malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the result of the court it given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process laurels munley al jazeera. ag science is head of africa program at the time house he joins us now live via skype from london what do you make of this alex i mean how anyone can fail to see that. such excessive use of a well known correcting fluid on the ballot sheets could could possibly be linked to the problems is beyond me. yeah i mean at the time. actually observers were were very puzzled by this and saying they felt that the presidential election particularly. was contentious this march you were waiting for professor to rehearse president. it is strange that for the election monitoring the observer groups the the commonwealth. african union in all of them gave the elections a pretty good bill of health then actually results and again this is another example i think of the chall

i'm adamant in malawi after months of anti-government demonstrations of a disputed election people a case of rape and sexual abuse have still not been prosecuted. as dead dozens of missing after a caring range of refugees capsizes in the bay of bengal. hello again welcome back to the national weather forecast for the coming days we're going to seeing a lot of wind here again across parts of northwestern europe now we have 2 areas low pressure going to be watching very closely the 1st one not so much of an impact that one is pushing across parts of ireland northern ireland it will be poor pushing into parts of scotland in the u.k. today we could be seeing some winds are going to sing some clouds as well but it's really going to be the one on the back side so a look at the rate we're going to be seeing that is going to be clearing up as we go towards thursday night the rain will extend over here toward central europe as well most of clouds will be left behind here across much of the u.k. on thursday night but it is the system that you see in the atlantic that is the one we're going to

malawi's president says he'll appeal against a court decision that an old his controversial reelection last year. i'm joining us go with the sports tokyo olympic organizers say they're seriously worried about the coronavirus outbreak impacting this year's games. with origins in hong kong of announced new border restrictions to try to contain the coronavirus anyone now travelling from mainland china will go into compulsory quarantine for 2 weeks. the here's some of the other developments on cheese day china's or its largest spike in deaths from the virus that was 65 in one day and that brings the total number of dead to at least 490 thousands of passengers on 2 cruise ships one in hong kong another in japan they've been quarantined the japanese authorities have confirmed that there are 10 cases on the vessel that's being held in your karma while evacuations continue in who bay province at the center of the outbreak on wednesday was becky stan flew out 84 of its citizens and then put them in quarantine where the chinese government has opened new facilities for those infected with the vir

celebrations in malawi as a top call cancels the results of the presidential election paving the way for a new phase. a warning from the world health organization the number of cancer cases could jump more than 60 percent if current trends continue. the hong kong has recorded its 1st death from the corona virus outbreak the 39 year old man is the 2nd person to die from the outside the mainland health officials say he was in bali hand last month and was also suffering from an underlying illness there were 15 confirmed cases in the territory a south korean woman's also being confirmed after visiting thailand she is the 1st foreign tourist to be infected after going to that country although it's not clear if she d'orsay been to china meanwhile in china itself to most it is. outside of who province have gone into lockdown the death toll in the country now stands at $425.00 more than $20000.00 people are infected and a cruise ship carrying more than 3 and a half hours in passengers and crew is currently under quarantine in japan's yokohama bay that's after an 80 year old man who left the

combat but his state of the union address highlights the country's deepening political deficiencies malawi's president says he will appeal against a court decision that unowned his controversial reelection last year. thank you very much for joining us what started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside in eastern turkey has turned into a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 33 people have been killed after an avalanche swept on to a road near the city of rescue workers are among the dead and they were searching for victims of an earlier which killed 5 other people on tuesday let's get the latest from our who's in istanbul for as a tragic situation in no doubt what what is the latest on the rescue operations. the front tick rescue operation for this still underway about a thing the chances for finding more survivors are now fading away and this explains why the death toll has been climbing over the last 2 hours particularly those who were trapped in the 2nd of a large that took place they all started on tuesday when an avalanche hit a road in an area in van province a bar ca

malawi is such a hole the new presidential elections less than a year off for people voted for a leader big constitutional court has an old last year's disputed presidential vote citing widespread irregularities her which also has more from the council the longer. the capital the long way is an opposition stronghold and some people will say that they would be violence things didn't go the way but like the one thing the constitutional court now that i may have election was out and frankly the blatancy been out within $150.00 days obviously supporting the gathering. on the meeting by the way is going to be the mood is that he didn't think in the ruling box he had any design with that in a statement and from that's the big people would know when they going to appeal the ruling at the supreme court's if they do that it could plunge the country into a nother crisis all of it would just say that they and the country that will make. me the end will be in the needs of the living thinks one day is going to me and they're going to dictate for each side what to do with the electoral commission tha

malawi's president just to appeal against a court ruling overturning his reelection and with every can now really want to 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations of vote rigging on monday judges an old the result saying it had been compromised by vote stuffing and altered ballots they ordered a new election within 150 days the president's spokesman scald the decision a miscarriage of justice. has the latest from a long way. well the president is going to address the nation on wednesday and he's going to tell people what he's going to start with senior officials in the ruling party stated what he thought of organizing the paperwork the legal documents for the appeal village malawi's know when they plan to file the paperwork at the supreme court the supreme court to either say there is no case and throw the matter out or they could set a date to hear the matter what does this mean because the constitutional court has ordered that a french election has to be held within $150.00 days this appeal could delay the procedure so what will the opposition do the head o

now malawi's constitutional court will decide in the coming hours whether to. last year's disputed presidential election results the vote in may return the current president to power sparking widespread protests by the opposition the support from hard. opposition supporters in malawi say last year's presidential election was rigged to favor peter who narrowly won reelection of opposition leader lazarus chocola 4 months they've been demonstrations in several parts of the country including the capital long way government officials say at least one police officer was killed civil society groups accuse the police of using exists a force to disperse protesters demonstrators insist there were lots of irregularities any vote tally sheets were altered using typewriter correction fluid let's let's try as much as possible to have elections that are free and fair where nobody feels you know that cheated because i think that's that's the thing these people were not just demonstrating for the sake of demonstrating they strongly felt that they had been cheated the system had

malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the results there will be a remark this presidential election i have there will be a new chairperson of the electoral commission that will need to be close scrutiny of that process but from mastic observers but also international ones the court had given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process manly al-jazeera. messaging service what's up has returned to a california court as it presses ahead with a lawsuit against them is really a surveillance company it's suing n.s.o. group for allegedly hacking into the messaging app to spy on more than a 1000 people the company denies the accusations in a separate incident in 28 seen the saudi arabian crown prince was a curious they're using and so group technology to hack the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos the company again denying any involvement john scott railton is a senior researcher at the university of toron

still ahead on al-jazeera the wait for justice in malawi police are accused of failing to investigate a series of rape allegations against officers and the century long fight to enshrine equal wives in the u.s. constitution is on the very success. hello again it's good to have you back well here across asia we are watching storm after storm making its way from the southwest up here towards the northeast and with a lot of rain when those storms do roll through then we get a little bit of a break and then the next storm will be coming in as well so for japan expect to see the rain increase here on friday as that storm pushes up towards the north down towards the south though very heavy rain across much of china over the next few days and we're going to be seeing the very heavy rain across the northern part of taiwan as we go towards saturday that area of heavy rain starts to make its way towards japan for the next round of rain and that's going to affect much of the ricoh islands as well as into southern japan for toga though here on saturday i nice day with a temperature of 17 degrees

malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the an old result will be a rerun of this presidential election i have will be the new chairperson of the electoral commission and they will need to be close scrutiny about the process but from mastic observers but also international ones the quarter given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process manly al-jazeera. ahead has been shocked at the heart of u.k. politics and westminster following abrupt resignation of the finance minister or charts or the exchequer sajid javid was due to present his 1st budget in just 4 weeks' time but rejected an order by the prime minister to fire his team of aides is said no self respecting minister could accept what boris johnson was demanding and chose instead to leave his post a move one of a number of ministerial changes is being seen as an attempt by johnson to take full control of the treasury and a passing shot the p

and election victory over time malawi's constitutional court none of finds the time to 19 results an old as a rerun more nuts than us. how the weather's laci set fabric cross the middle east basin places a cloud rolling across afghanistan pushing towards northern parts of pakistan a little western disturbance here just filtering some rain some sleet and some snow but the rather more unsettled weather that's coming back across the eastern side of the mediterranean turkey says some rather nasty weather as we go towards the middle and latter parts of the wake winds really picking up around the middle of the week there choppy waters in that a ceasar of the mediterranean with that's a very nasty weather pushing through some heavy rice and heavy snow as well across the middle east across the nation it's laci dryly you might just catch one of 2 rogue showers into central i was to saudi arabia they were down to a solemn and off the red sea and across the water to just stay around the ethiopian highlands paces the shabby way coming in here various showers will be towards uganda maybe some sho

well i'm people in malawi were preparing for another election after the constitutional court nullified last year's presidential vote saying it was mobbed by white sprayed irregularities but now they've been told is going to be an appeal at the supreme court one can face may 29th. we're into an election. out there we know. that time all along go underground agree that we had a piece through free fair and credible election. explained upward where i saw. and. the court. the may 21000 presidential election results showed metallica beat this man opposition candidate. 515-9000 votes a lead of just over 3 percentage points secularists is he's not worried about the appeal they have a right to do that if they know they have a case but you cannot really think you can succeed against 5 judges who had a unanimous decision. the constitutional court judges said to several people may have voted more than once there was evidence of ballot stuffing and some think this was changed using typewriter correction fluid is the 1st time a presidential election has been challenged on legal grounds in malawi for

are somewhat independent but there was that allegation a few days ago a prominent banker here in malawi is a lawyer so tried to bribe the judges it's alleged his banker is linked to the president and the investigation currently going on now in terms of that but the key thing of course malarky this election result is not a high what does that mean it means of course of the a fresh election that will be history for this country the 1st time will happen in malawi is the 1st time i believe that would ever have happened in fact in africa in fact the most recent time it happened in africa was in kenya in 2017 when of course they wanted a rerun because there were irregularities in that election so a lot of people will see what happened of course the opposition parties are saying that if the judges are all that the president i recall one amazing election because saying how some of its supporters are going to react some of them are grouping of the neighborhood's listening on their radios where you can see what the judgement is going to be a loss of course and appeals for calm but of course someo

could the results of malawi's presidential election be known or finds the country's constitutional court is set to decide. and football fans are in miami with us is biggest sporting event the super bowl. well we begin in china where a surge in the number of coronavirus cases from city officials to impose severe restrictions on a 2nd just city residents in the eastern city of one show will only be allowed to send one family member out of the house every 2 days to buying the cess it sees well the illness is not responsible for the deaths of at least 360 people in china within 17000 people are infected with the virus a man from 100 became the 1st to die outside of china at a hospital in the philippines or a number of african countries including botswana and go all the. have reported cases and a growing number of airlines are suspending services to and from china south korea the philippines new zealand and the u.s. of all bands people who've recently traveled there from reentering the country where barbie laws in manila this is the death of a chinese man in the philippines has caused alarm a

and malawi's constitutional court has overturned the results of last year's presidential elections citing widespread irregularities incumbent president peter. claimed to have won the vote narrowly months of violent unrest followed as opposition candidates challenge the result the government hasn't yet said if it plans to appeal the ruling to the supreme court which. now what's a good way to monitor crops and how do you get medicines to remote places that are inaccessible by road well more and more people are turning to drones because they're becoming cheaper and more reliable and that means more trained operators are needed our next report takes us to malawi which has opened africa's 1st drone academy. takeoff. a control covering and a steady hand to get the spinning propellers going in the right direction here in a long way 26 children's practice for 12 weeks until they mastered the art of flying drones. or war and it's not just about being able to pilot the machines to back arms venable have. been able to get this drone because this drone it did wrong which i made from my own aims throu

malawi's president peter beutel rica is to appeal after the country's constitutional court and know of his victory in last year's presidential election which rica's spokesman called monday's ruling an attempt to circumvent democracy the court said there were grave irregularities in the vote in may last year. china says the number of people infected by the corona virus has now topped 24000 almost 500 have died several cities in china are on lockdown notably the city where the virus was 1st detected all efforts are being made there to tests and treat patients but it seems the not all is going as smoothly as the chinese government wants its people to believe. a conference center converted to an enormous makeshift hospital part of who hands response to the flood of new infections. chinese state television broadcast footage of recently completed hospitals with multitudes of doctors taking care of few patients. but secretly recorded videos from hospitals paint a very different picture body bags containing the dead lying close to patients even in waiting areas the citizen journalist visited f

celebrations in malawi as the top court counsels the results of the presidential election paving the way for a new focus air pollution and believe is basically resulting in a bubbly case it's the old and a call for action from residents in one of the world's most polluted capitals. the ecu for joining us the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak that's killed hundreds of people in infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has not caused a pandemic the global death toll stands at 427 all but 2 of those have been recorded in mainland china more than 20000 people have been infected there now examples of 2 people contracting the virus without being in china one got sick in thailand the other in singapore and a cruise ship is under quarantine at a port in japan a passenger who got off the ship in hong kong was later confirmed with the virus that brings the total number of cases in hong kong to 17 as a city reports its 1st death from the outbreak and in an unprecedented move the world's biggest gambling have been neighboring macau has announced all its casin

hundreds of demonstrators have protested in malawi's capital a long way to demand the chairwoman of the country's electoral commission resign this comes after the top cold overturned the results of the 29000 presidential election citing widespread systematic and grave irregularities lower. oh i mean if you're going to protest as i'm allowed to seal off the building of the electoral commission and it was a man i do not believe. hundreds marched through the streets of the southern city of blantyre only a few managed to get past police barricades. 2 of protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commission's chairwoman jane and has start resign. because all what we need is this. office should be in so we don't want them to get inside this room. in the capitol a long way people also march towards the offices of the electoral commission. is a given present peter moore tarka a narrow win in last year's election but the court accused the commission of numerous inconsistent sees that included using correction fluid on ballot sheets jane and sergeant nice accusations the result

lots more to come here at out here including back to the celebrations in malawi is the constitutional court the results of last year's presidential. evolution in his basically result in a company's health crisis. why residents of india's capital want pollution to top the political agenda. of. some cooler weather pushing into europe over the next couple days after incredibly mild weather so far as a class still tumbling in from the atlantic weather systems will introduce some clout and brightness this next system makes its way across the british isles just starting to see something more of a north westerly wind feeding in as we go on through the next couple of days and that will drive its way down across the low countries through a good part of germany snow there over the alps some parts could see maybe 70 centimeters a slice of quite a bit of it and that will make its way down into their accounts as well the balkan states and right state and snow will push this way all the way over towards the black sea so we'll see some wet weather coming into rumania temperatures falling away in the

malawi's constitutional court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. to metallica to suspend the result. the court had given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process manly al-jazeera. south africa's president has used his state of the nation address to defend his record on the economy members of the opposition economic freedom fighters or f f repeated they disrupted the speech and when it resumed sirena poser acknowledged more needs to be done to kickstart economic growth and he admitted debt was reaching unsustainable levels our country is facing a stark reality. economy has not grown at any meaningful rate for over a decade even as jobs are created the rate of unemployment continues to deepen we need to fix our public finances low levels of growth mean that we are not generating enough revenue to meet our expenses our debt is heading towards unsustainable levels. the u.n. says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in italy province the

now malawi said to hold a new presidential election less than a year after people voted for a leader at the constitutional court has the knowledge last year's disputed presidential vote citing widespread irregularities has more from the capital in. the capital is an opposition stronghold and some people worried that there would be violence things didn't go the way. the constitutional court. made election results and. within $150.00 days obviously supporting the gathering. is going to be the mood is very different in the ruling can. only lead to a statement and from that people will going to appeal the ruling at the supreme court if they do that it could plunge the country into a nother crisis or they could just say they accept the thing and the country will. be the $1800.00 is going to mean that it takes 40 let's decide what to do with the electoral commission that's the new kings of the siding. i think all going to be 50 if they're not going to be. put in place to make sure the issues that sold out in a maze election won't repeat themselves. libya's warring leaders are free to separ

after kenya malawi is not the 2nd country in sub-saharan africa to recently have a presidential vote overturned the court has ruled that peace america stays in power until a new election takes place parliament is expected to meet within 21 days set a date for that election from allowance it means more political and economic uncertainty. the opposition is still celebrating monday's court ruling and many are preparing for a new election opposition leaders want election officials fired what the judges of done is to give parliament an order to make sure that what they have. in terms of the fresh election in 150 days should happen and so we will look to parliament now to make sure that these things are more valid as are put in place and that it is actually possible but i don't believe that anybody will have confidence in this electoral commission. ruling party officials say they are considering the options they have 2 options. to stick in follow the ruling. and get ready for a fresh election. and that means a lot of politicking within the party. with the press in the candidate who will co