canceling an annual parliamentary session which draws officials from around the country to beijing sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. millions of chinese are returning to work some companies have reopened their factories as they try to get back to business as usual after being shot for weeks i mean solicitor you 50 percent of our employees have returned to work bringing our production capacity to 50 percent we predict all of our workers will be back on their post by the end of february and a production capacity will return to normal. employees arriving for work a getting additional checks to make sure they're healthy and the government's offering companies tax incentives to limit the economic damage of the outbreak the government's also rolled out some measures to help enterprises and ensure their normal operation so we're encouraged and feel confident government statistics on monday showed a continuing rise in the infection right in china but the fatality right has fallen the national health commission says the situation is improving outside here by the province at the center of the c

deal with as a result but certainly protests on saturday and more protests on sunday in hong kong sarah clarke live in hong kong thank you there is a deal that lasts only a week but u.s. officials say it is a success it could lead to the withdrawal of its troops from afghanistan the taliban and american negotiators have agreed to a proposal for over duction the violence in the country the announcement is the result of ongoing peace talks in qatar a senior u.s. official says if this deal holds it could be followed by a more permanent to call but the u.n. secretary general spokesman has welcomed the agreement. if this were to succeed it would obviously be a notable step in bringing peace to the country. and the dialogue is a vital pe is of is vital to paving forward the constructive intra afghan negotiations on peace i think it's very important. to find ways to reduce the levels of violence in afghanistan is specially the violence that is harming civilians well our correspondent you have written on the is in washington d.c. and they explain how this u.s. taliban deal could possibly work. it's a

presidents of the country has been diagnosed with the vice with a virus rather let's get more now from sarah clarke she joins us from hong kong sarah just give us a sense of the general developments across asia how is it looking there. well as you mentioned south korea still has the highest number of cases out of china 256 new cases confirmed on friday now i should say of that 256 cases and 182 of them were in the area of daegu which is a city in the southeast and this is the city where the secret what the biz been described as a secret cult or the religious group in the shin changi. more than a week ago and this is true this particular case of this gathering triggered quite a large cluster of positive cases there's been a lot of anger targeted towards that church for failing to identify themselves earlier and failing to identify the situation there earlier so $25060.00 cases in total 2022 cases across south korea and now south korea has escalated its testing capacity in the last 24 hours it's tested around 9300 people about the government's top trying to track down members of that religious group

products including medical equipments sarah clarke reports from hong kong on developments coming out of the mainland. officials go door to door in a city wide sweeping to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more quarantine centers are being set up in districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds but those showing mild symptoms the number of people infected outside the epicenter of the outbreak may be falling but inside here by province the situation is still serious more than 50000 cases have been confirmed there you go shoot a woman children that being the and that there are still a large number of severe cases in who harm and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of emergency care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies one of where hands most senior doctors are moving has not died after contracting the corona virus more than 3000 health workers have also been infected. medical teams from the guangdong province and tidbit and now are being sent to the city to assist start struggling to treat the high numbers of patients across china h

sign that the infection numbers are on the decline potentially all right sara thank you for that sarah clarke there live in hong kong. now it's a deal that in the 1st instance lasts for a week but u.s. officials say that if that's a success it could lead to the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan and the taliban and american negotiators have agreed to a reduction of violence in the country a senior u.s. official says if the deal holds it could be followed by a more permanent arrangement with that taliban agreement was announced by american officials at the munich security conference on friday the 3 day summit is one of the world's top gatherings it focuses on security and foreign policy issues well the $35.00 world leaders along with hundreds of politicians and diplomats are expected to discuss ways to address the state of conflicts around the world well let's go live now to munich our correspondent there is jonah how so it's no small task is it that these gathered leaders and diplomats and others and going to have to address the world's all the world's conflicts and basically what's w

a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. israel's prime minister will go on trial for corruption next month just 2 weeks after the country's elections and human netanyahu was formally charged with fraud and breach of trust last month will be required to attend court for the start of the proceedings on march the 17th as you know who is the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with a crime he's denied any wrongdoing the elections in just under 2 weeks time will be israel's 3rd in a year. in afghanistan ashraf ghani has won another term as president after being declared the wind winner of last september's disputed election independent election commission says gummi took just over 50 percent of the vote with his main rival abdullah abdullah getting just over 39 percent the results have been delayed for months due to attacks at polling stations how negations of rigging and technical problems ghana has been president since 2014. is that those 1st lady has appeared in court for her alleged role in

stifling efforts to treat those already infected and stop the global spread of the corona virus sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. rising tension between israeli troops and palestinians has led to a series of incidents within the past 24 hours israeli soldiers are shot dead 4 palestinians these in separate attacks in bethlehem palestinians and israeli soldiers have been fighting each other interests. an israeli troops are searching for a suspect following the wounding of 12 soldiers in a car ramming incident on wednesday another israeli soldier has been injured in fighting in ramallah let's go live to our correspondent hari forsett now he's in west jerusalem and hari give us the sequence of events because there are so many different incidents having taken place across a wide region. that's right we're taking it chronologically we can start with the clashes that took place in hebron in the south of the west bank on wednesday juror in those confrontations israeli police israeli security forces say they shot and killed a 17 year old palestinian youth who they say was throwing molotov cocktails

march around asia nations are continuing to restrict travel and increase containment measures sarah clarke has more from hong kong soaping center is a sanitized and so government employees the sterilizing public transport is a south korean government stepped up efforts to stop the spread of the current virus. joint military exercises with the united states have been postponed after american soldiers stationed at a base today tested positive the containment efforts of covert 19 and the safety of walk in u.s. service members were prioritized in making this decision the largest daily increase in the number of infections has been in a city in the southeast for a church at the center of the outbreak is low tide as the virus spreads the government has postponed some annual school exams and is asking people to avoid large crowds around 40 countries and they're restricting travelers from south korea . if. it gives them you know the government feels very sorry that our citizens have gone through the inconvenience in the process of entering foreign countries due to the country's sudden entry restric

the medical supplies to cope with the rising number of people visiting those clinics all right sarah clarke with an update from hong kong thank you. now the u.s. says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula during a military operation in yemen last month president donald trump says possum remey was trying to organize and inspire attacks against americans but there's been no confirmation of the killing from al qaeda and the gallagher has the latest from washington well the news is just emerging the confirmation of this al qaeda leader's death is just emerging but the strike itself took place last month at the cia an american intelligence officials have been very carefully after previous strikes proved that their targets actually survived them so they were careful to check whether this is actually happening but all really is a significant target for the u.s. authorities he's one of the few al qaeda leaders predates the attacks of september the 11th the training camps in afghanistan before going back home to yemen where he was in prison for 5 years for plotting to attack th

other in hong kong are also in quarantine after passengers were found to be infected by the virus sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. medical workers in china stepping up their efforts to stop the rapid rise of corona virus infections spreading countrywide since wednesday more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases have been officially confirmed in china taking the total count to 28030 a new born baby by province where the virus was 1st detected remains in lockdown. in provinces reporting the highest rates of infection supplies are being delivered by all forms of transport in japan this cruise ship is in quarantine after 20 passages were confirmed to have the virus there in hospital receiving treatment the rest of the passengers are confined to the ship. to figure you know there are 4 people who are japanese nationals of the others 2 are from the united states 2 from canada one from new zealand and one from taiwan in hong kong more than 3600 people on the world dreamz cruise ship had been put into quarantine after passengers on the previous voyage tested positive for the virus the ship's med

quarantine vessel in yokohama let's get an update on how things are in hong kong that's right sarah clarke is joining us from so what more do we know about that quarantine vessel sara in the harbor and those on board. well that cruise ship is behind me it's as you mentioned 3600 passengers and stop a quarantine in lockdown on this cruise ship as of yesterday we've been hearing announcements coming out over the the ship for temperature checks for all passengers who are currently on board and this comes after a number of passengers on a previous voyage were confirmed to have the corona virus infection all the people on the previous voyage are now being followed up and checked on to see whether or not they too have been infected as a result of those passengers on board but the moment this particular vessel behind me the cruise ship the world drains cruise ship it is in quarantine people have been emerging side there they rooms to have a look but at the moment they are in lockdown this also comes with another cruise ship in japan and yokohama where we've had a number of other corona virus infe

a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. for more than 170000 health care workers are on the front lines of the corona virus outbreak in china exhausted medics are posting pictures on social media to show the difficult conditions and discomfort they face with $3000.00 have been infected with the virus and $700.00. including 2 prominent doctors hospitals aren't a stone left and there's a shortage of supplies including masks and protective suits many are criticizing the governments for the harsh working conditions with images like these of health workers crying as their heads are being shaved well sanjay our son and i associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he says it's difficult to get a clear picture of what medics in china are dealing with. it's hard to know what's happening in china or in terms of both cases and our healthcare workers are being treated because of the frantic nature of this outbreak what i would say is certainly in terms of the proportion of hea

meanwhile thousands of passengers on 2 cruise ships in hong kong and japan are under quarantine sarah clarke has more from hong kong. we have at least $3600.00 passengers and staff who are currently in isolation being quarantined as you mentioned for 14 days after a number of passengers on a previous voyage on the ship were found to be infected with the chrono virus now we know of 3 of those particular infections but they're also local reports saying as many as i people my been infected are from the ship behind us at the moment they're in quarantine and also you mentioned earlier there's also another cruise ship in japan it's now in quarantine and taiwan has announced that it will not allow any cruise ships to dock in. as of today. china says it will have tariffs on some u.s. imports from next week its parts over an agreement signed between beijing and washington last month to each ease trade tensions between the g. the world's 2 largest economies the council the boys a $75000000000.00 worth of goods a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli far during the process in the office of 5

wandong we've also got medical teams coming from tibet to try to help the ongoing outbreak ok sarah clarke with the wrap up there sara thank you very much and in the past hour japan has reported more cases of corona virus infections on board a quarantine cruise ship and yokohama so that takes the total number of cases to over $540.00 on that dark vessel and the government is stepping up efforts to test each of the medications on patients. not a proven treatment but scientists are trying various anti-viral drugs to see if any of them can and prove conditions. and south korea's government has sent a presidential plane to move some of its citizens on board that quarantine cruise ship 14 of its citizens have been inside the diamond princess for nearly 2 weeks now impacted the coronavirus outbreak has prompted south korea to declare an economic a merchant city after major disruptions to its production and shipping industry. will serve as 1st lady has appeared in court for her alleged role in the murder of her husband's 2nd wife they say it's a bonny is charged with ordering the killing of the w

and sarah clarke joins us now from hong kong so sarah what can you tell us about the latest firm death from this virus. and we've had confirmed a u.s. citizen who was hospitalized in quarantine in would hand the one hand the u.s. embassy has confirmed this it's believed to be the 1st confirmed foreign this this is a 6 year old woman who also had an underlying health conditions now we also believe this is a japanese man who's been hospitalized with viral pneumonia but later some now believe it's trying a virus he too has died away from what we think we have now the virus has killed at least 2 people outside mainland china one is here in hong kong and the other is in the philippines and china is reported id 6 new deaths as of today and the new national death toll which was mentioned before is now about 722 so the virus has spread to at least 25 countries and we've got 270 people outside of china now infected and the last hour or so are the chinese national public health commission has also given or decided to give this virus a temporary 9 they've called it the novel coronavirus pneumonia

285 cases on the princess diana were done for instance i should say all right thanks for that sarah clarke and further to what sara was saying we understand the almost 400 of those american passengers on board the cruise ship are to be flown home on sunday that's the very latest that we've got on that that particular cruise line with all of those people on board. now rebels in northern syria say they were responsible for shooting down a government helicopter on friday everyone on board died damascus is trying to take the last rebel held areas in an operation that has displaced 80800000 people since december. protests as in mexico have marched to the presidential palace to condemn violence against women martyrs were outraged at a newspaper which published photographs of the body of a murder victim the 25 year old had been killed earlier this month the mexican government says 10 women were killed every day last year in gender based attacks. thousands of people angry with the government of once again gathered in chile's capital santiago demonstrates is there a calling for action they've the a

hong kong are also in quarantine after passengers are found to be invented infected by the virus sarah clarke has more now from hong kong. medical workers in china stepping up their efforts to stop the rapid rise of corona virus infections spreading countrywide since wednesday more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases have been officially confirmed in china taking the total count to 28000 including a new born baby by province where the virus was 1st detected remains in lockdown. in provinces reporting the highest rates of infection supplies are being delivered by all forms of transport in japan this cruise ship is in quarantine after 20 passages were confirmed to have the virus there in hospital receiving treatment the rest of the passengers are confined to the ship. that you know governor you know there are 4 people who are japanese nationals of the others 2 are from the united states 2 from canada one from new zealand and one from taiwan in hong kong more than 3600 people on the world dreamz cruise ship had been put into quarantine after passengers on the previous voyage tested positive for the

price toilet paper rolls and face masks still in short supply the government is calling for calm sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. well the head of the world health organization says new data from china is giving a clearer picture about the impact of the virus the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously turned this going to change as a new populations are affected it's too early to tell if this report to decline will continue every scenario is still on the table it also appears that quoted 9 june is not as deadly as a record and i viruses including scientists and murders more than 80 per cent of patients have mild disease and will recover. japan meanwhile has confirmed that 99 further infections on board a quarantine cruise ship docked in yokohama but 300 americans who were on board the ship have arrived home on evacuation flights allow spend another 2 weeks in medical seclusion in the u.s. can really help it has more from washington. well the u.s. government set up a task force a number of weeks ago and so those efforts put in place a

now against government plans to set up coronavirus treatment clinics let's get an update from sarah clarke she is joining us from there so what are people protesting mostly concerned about sour on or what's the turnout like. we've got a couple of 100 people here at the moment in hong kong there are a number of rallies being held across the city i guess today was just said that again on sunday we've got 5 different areas that these are the communities who are angry i guess the government's decision to sit. these various coronavirus treatment clinics within these communities within these districts where we are now it's pretty much the poorer areas in hong kong it's in calhoun in the ng if we could see a couple 100 people behind me there were a bigger crowds early but some are dispersed when the right place and other places are to push them on but what they saying is that they never got any government public consultation with this community before they announced that they were going to set this up and the science the density of the it's a high open density within this particular district and

people have died from the virus and more than 31000 have been in fact let's get an update from sarah clarke she is joining us from hong kong to 1st tell us about what you're hearing out of the mainland cerro on the anger that's now spreading of the government's handling of the crisis over news of doctor in the news there. because this is a doctor who worked in the hospital to be at the center of the virus and would you send out the early warnings or was it reprimanded of course he's deaf the spot public outrage on social media has been huge amounts of criticism towards the chinese government about the handling of this epidemic as well as the handling of this doctor why he was reprimanded when he sent out those initial warnings of that is considered a whistleblower now he's also now become i said national hero as a result now twitches china's version of twitter which we refer to as why both people are saying things like is it that hard for the government to get it right or to admit it's wrong they're wanting to finding apologies from the chinese government saying to the eyes of the people th

elsewhere in asia nations are continuing to restrict travel and increase containment measures a sarah clarke reports now from hong kong. shopping center is a sanitized and so government employees a sterilising public transport is a south korean government steps up efforts to stop the spread of the current of our . joint military exercises with the united states have been postponed after american soldiers stationed at a base today tested positive for containment offers of covert 19 and the city of walk in u.s. service members were prioritizing making this decision the largest daily increase in the number of infections has been in a city in the southeast for a church at the center of the outbreak is low tide as the virus spreads the government has postponed some annual school exams and is asking people to avoid large crowds around 40 countries and they're restricting travelers from south korea if. you give them you know the government feels very sorry that our citizens have gone through the inconvenience in the process of entering foreign countries due to the country's sudden entry restriction

a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. thousands of nurses mainly women are paying a very petty personal price on the front lines of the outbreak as they are hoarding explains. the faces of the women fighting corona virus are trending online the virus is taking a physical toll on medical staff in china many have deep blinds on their faces from surgical masks digging into their skin some hospital staff and even wearing adult diapers to save time from taking bathroom breaks on we bow a social media platform in china a topic called sisters go fight the virus we've got your back has reached over 228000000 views one organization has even raise money to provide the female nurses with 180000 sanitary pads however one volunteer said those donations are only helping a 3rd of the women others are cutting their hair to avoid cross infection and to cut down on the time it takes to put on and take off their protective suits this video went viral posted by the chinese newspaper guns who daily it shows 15 women gett

products including medical equipments sarah clarke has this reports. of officials go door to door in a city wide sweep in one hand to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more kwanten centers are being set up in districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds but those showing mild symptoms the number of people infected outside the epicenter of the outbreak may be falling but inside here by province the situation is still serious more than 50000 cases have been confirmed there you go shoot a woman children that being the and that there are still a large number of severe cases in who harm and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of emergency care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies one of will hands most senior doctors meaning has now died after contracting the corona virus more than $3000.00 health workers have also been infected. medical teams from the guangdong province and tidbit and now are being sent to the city to assist start struggling to treat the high numbers of patients across china hospitals

arliss get the very latest now from hong kong and 10 other of our correspondents sarah clarke and sara and stan that the 5 or 6 day strike that was carried out hong kong's health workers is now ended does that mean they're satisfied with the measures that have been taken by kerry lam and her government. well this was a 5 day strike it started early in the wake it has just come to an end up to these health workers met the hospital 30 this evening now there are 7000 votes 4000 voted to go back to work and the other 3 want to continue the strike so those health workers will return to the hospitals to deal with the growing number of infections as of tomorrow so saturday that what these health workers wanted what they wanted a full pleasure of the board is they didn't get that they also wanted greater access to medical and health supplies in these hospitals which have been running short now on saturday we will have a some sort of a quarantine restrictions placed on the mainland travelers arriving in hong kong but certainly the health workers will resume work tomorrow after 5 days and i woul

he's the 1st hospital director at diets form corona virus hash tag on i let's get more now from sarah clarkeho reports from hong kong. millions of chinese are returning to work some companies have reopened their factories as i try to get back to business as usual after being shot for weeks. 50 percent of our employees have returned to work bringing our production capacity to 50 percent we predict all of our workers will be back on their post by the end of february and a production capacity will return to normal. employees arriving for work a getting additional checks to make sure they're healthy and the government's offering companies tax incentives to limit the economic damage of the outbreak the government's also rolled out some measures to help enterprises and ensure their normal operation so we're encouraged and feel confident government statistics on monday showed a continuing rise in the infection right in china but the fatality rate has fallen the national health commission says the situation is improving outside here by the province at the center of the crisis to. try for places outs

sarah clark, al jazeera, hong kong.mericansan a dozen who had been stranded aboard that cruise ship quarantined and japan have arrived on the evacuation flight to the u.s. monday. that flights were chartered by the u.s. state department and repatriated 300 americans in all. all of the lack uas are -- the evacuees are in government quarantined. what happened here? there were people confirmed with coronavirus, who stayed in japan and it did not get on the slides? -- those flights? >> authorities were clear. anyone found to have the virus would stay in japanese hospitals. that description. those allowed to travel as far as the authorities were concerned, did not have the virus. so 338 passengers who had been aboard the ship disembarked and got into buses on their way to two cargo planes, to texas and california. during the ride to the cargo planes, japanese authorities alerted u.s. authorities that lab results had come back, showing that 14 of the passengers on board these buses, freely mixing with other passengers, had te

sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong well the head of the world health organization says new data from china is giving a clearer picture about the impact of the virus. the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously turn this going change as new populations are affected it's too early to tell if this report to decline will continue every scenario is still on the table it also appears that quoted 9 didn't is not as deadly as a record and i viruses including scientists and murders more than 80 per cent of patients have mild disease and will recover. japan has confirmed the 99 further infections on board a quarantined cruise ship docked in yokohama but 300 americans who were on board the ship have arrived home on evacuation flights that now spend another 2 weeks in medical seclusion in the u.s. kimberly healthcare has more now from washington. well the u.s. government set up a task force a number of weeks ago and so those efforts put in place are now being implemented those passengers are going to 2 different locations either military base in

our man in hong kong will be speaking to him in just a little moment 1st though this report from sarah clarke. medical workers in china are stepping up their efforts to stop the rapid rise of corona virus infections spreading countrywide since wednesday more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases have been officially confirmed in china taking the total count to 28000 putting a new born baby who by province where the virus was 1st detected remains in lockdown. in provinces reporting the highest rates of infection supplies have been delivered by all forms of transport in japan this cruise ship is in quarantine after 20 passengers were confirmed to have the virus there in hospital receiving treatment the rest of the passengers are confined to the ship. to fit you know. there are 4 people who are japanese nationals of the others 2 are from the united states 2 from canada one from new zealand and one from taiwan in hong kong more than 3600 people on the world dreams cruise ship have been put into coroutine after passengers on the previous voyage tested positive for the virus the ship's medical team is c

638 people have died from the virus and more than 31000 are infected let's get an update from sarah clarke she's following developments out of hong kong for us to 1st tell us about the reaction to doctors lee's death. because this is the 34 year old doctor who worked at the hospital at the it be center of this new coronavirus outbreak that he was the one who made the information about the concerns he had for the coronavirus back in december i shared that with a group of about 8 other doctors which is the equivalent of 22 of. china now as a result he was reprimanded by that we have a place he was told he was scare mongering to take he's information of course january 10th was when he became infected with the virus not that doctor has now died and there's been a huge outpouring of support for him and global anger but particularly in china on social media on the likes of weibo condemning the government will basically reprimanding him and stopping him from sharing such important information that the doctor his name is trending on live on this been some chats and and criticism of the government

than 2300 cases south korea has the highest number of corona virus infections outside of china sarah clarke explains sport south korea's government is doing to curb the spread. south korea has escalated testing capacity in the last 24 hours they've done $9300.00 people have been tested for the krajina virus infection but the government is still looking for the still concerned about the lack of beds in the area but the government still trying to track down members of the church and identify those particular people at that gathering to try and contain the spread now the government has announced in the last day or so about up to $30000000000.00 it's going to be spent as a relief package to identify the areas that need help and that includes obviously the economic fallout and also boost medical supplies to try and deal with the rapidly escalating situation of the spread in south korea now in china the situation there appears to be stabilizing at the moment $327.00 new cases confirmed on friday $44.00 deaths but most of those were in the who by province the chinese government has held there or t

virus infection and that particular person is a permanent resident who is returning from iran ok sarah clarke live in hong kong thank you. well it's more still ahead so on the program including uncertainty at the top of afghan politics look at how it could rail hopes of lost in space. hello there's still a very unsettled picture across much of europe in particular once again across much of the u.k. and ireland this is an excellent system on the way this has been named jorge and this is bringing with it some widespread rain and also some snow winds will be strong with this storm system as well and there is still in place across much of england over $200.00 flood warnings and alerts coming of course from the environment agency for the state of the rivers but look at this some very strong winds as well when he funneling in this rain some rain showers beginning to push across into low countries and also areas of france meanwhile eastern europe what about a snow just working its way steadily east was pushing on into turkey as you head over into saturday but still this area of low pressure this ver

ship that sons of corn seen in japan a 2nd cruise ship has also been quarantined in hong kong sarah clarke has more. we have at least $3600.00 passengers and staff who are currently in isolation being quarantined as you mentioned for 14 days after a number of passengers on a previous voyage on the ship were found to be infected with the chrono virus now we know of 3 of those particular infections but there are also local reports saying as many as i had people my been infected are from the ship behind us at the moment they're in quarantine and also you mentioned earlier there's also another cruise ship in japan it's now in quarantine and taiwan has announced that it will not allow any cruise ships to dock in taiwan as of today at least 6 people have been killed in the southern iraqi city of know just from supporters of the shia cleric knocked out of southern songs an anti government process camp sort of has at times will supported sound appalls the protesters who want the removal of iraq's ruling elites. several missiles have been intercepted near the syrian capital damascus according to st

price toilet paper rolls and face masks still in short supply the government is calling for calm sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. still to come on al-jazeera. people don't trust the police. rage in brazil over the rise in the number of police killings. finally heading home we take a look at the price of millions of african refugees in stunning stunning for decades. how i was still got some unsettled weather in the forecast across parts of the middle east will some more wintry flowers sliding outs of foot keep pushing across northern parts of around and not too many to speak of it's more so as we go on into the middle of the week you'll see a few showers just drive in the way into the event that is to sort of the mediterranean side to sing a few showers syria lebanon jordan pushing all the way across into northern parts of syria and northern areas of iran as well to the south of that it is generally drive. around 29 celsius warm enough here plenty awards across northern and central parts of africa at the moment particularly into the central areas are getting well up into the thirty's lego's

packed areas residents say they weren't consulted on the clinics may threaten their health while sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. this is one of a number of community protests being held across hong kong this weekend but the anger here is from this community against the government of what they say is a lack of public consultation with these aires about the sitting up of a crowd of virus treatment clinics in their population in their districts down the complaint is that number one they didn't get the consultation from the government but number 2 they're being set up in these highly populated areas there's a fear of a community outbreak but you might be able to see behind me certainly around me there are a number of flags that are calling for independence and anti-government slogans this particular protest movement is now moving into the pro-democracy groups and the anti-government movement once again. and in mainland china there is controversy over reports that president xi jinping and top leaders knew about the threat of the outbreak weeks before it was actually revealed to the pub

a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. united nations says nearly $300.00 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of the year as the government tries to capture the last rebel stronghold. of the. united nations says schools hospitals and camps for the internally displaced have all been hit it says the russian backed government offensive is cruel beyond belief and it's called for the immediate creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape. the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. would suggest they can't all be accidental. and at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows a lack of proportionality necessity precaution and so on. all of which can contribute to something being attributed there's a war crime it's cruel beyond belief that civilians mostly women and children living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions are being bombed. reporting now on the plight of those displaced by these attacks he is

price toilet paper rolls and face masks still in short supply the government is calling for calm sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong well government in britain a fast so have killed 24 people in a church the quitted the church pastor in the village of pouncey come in and set the building on fire it's the 3rd religious attack in the area within the last week . the un is carrying out an urgency man a syrian assessments and cameron's english speaking region after an armed gang killed at least $22.00 people including 14 children but his attack was in the farming village of garbo in the north west the opposition is accusing the military of involvement with the un says its assistant tens of thousands affected by secessionist fighting in cameroon a suicide bomber has killed at least 7 people and injured 50 others in pakistan police and courts are the provincial capital of stan say a teenager detonated the bomb when they stop so i'm heading towards a religious rally. so they come here on al-jazeera lifesize is of candidates to be disqualified from standing in iran's parliamentary election. this was an

against government plans to set up coronavirus treatment clinics in densely populated neighborhoods sarah clarke was at one of the demonstrations and she says people are fearful of an outbreak. we've had a couple of 100 people in the calderon area which is where we are now this is a protest open eyes by the community against the government's decision to sit up these provide a virus treatment clinics across hong kong now it had play tests on saturday but had protests again on sunday we've got 5 across the city i did. you know this particular one they complaint is that they signed the government file to consult the local community before they announce this decision carry land made this announcement this week they weren't aware of this particular decision until that announcement was made they're also saying that setting up these coronavirus tripping clinics in these areas such high density aires there's a risk of a potential community outbreak as a result there where we are we've got schools we've got markets i was the large number of high rise buildings that's quite a low but a poor district and s

and paradigms administration is coming under increased criticism for its handling of the crisis sarah clarke has more. this is one of a number of community protests being held across hong kong this weekend but the anger here is from this community against the government over what they say is a lack of public consultation with these areas about the sitting up of a crime a virus treatment clinic in their population or in their districts south of the complaint is that number one they didn't get the consultation from the government but number 2 they're being set up in these highly populated areas there's a fear of a community outbreak but you might be able to see behind me certainly around me there are a number of flags that are calling for independence and anti-government slogans this particular protest movement is now morphing into pro-democracy groups and the anti-government movement once again. un's deputy special representative to libya has labeled the arms embargo aimed at reducing fighting in the country a joke stephanie williams said that those who breach it must be held to account becau

is the macau zoo highbridge these 3 entrance entrance points are still open into milan china ok sarah clarke with the latest for us from hong kong sara thank you. as president donald trump has fired 2 major witnesses in his impeachment trial barely 48 hours after the senate acquitted him ambassador of the european union gordon stalin was recalled just hours after lieutenant colonel alexander van was escorted from the white house both them are critical of president trump's handling of military 18 crain and gallacher reports gordon sunderland was considered a close ally of president trumps the 61 year old businessman gave trump's inauguration committee a $1000000.00 became ambassador to the european union and is said to have had the president's number on speed dial all that changed after someone's explosive testimony to the president's handling of military aid to ukraine was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes another pivotal witness in the impeachment korean to president trump was lieutenant