a celebration for saddam a source of shame for others the national day that is dividing australian society. death toll from the chrono virus outbreak in china has risen to 56 with almost 2003 president xi jinping says the country is facing a grave situation as cases of the virus accelerate its prompt a travel or strict chanson the closure of major landmarks across china an effort to contain the spread cases of chrono virus have now been reported in canada australia france and the united states as well as several asian countries scott heiler is in beijing with more on how the chinese government is trying to contain the spread of the virus we're at a long distance one of the long distance bus stations here in the capital beijing no midnight early this morning all service long distance bus service was. shutdown the main reason they're concerned about that is that the it's less regulated than say the high speed rail as well as the airplanes so they want to be able to track people because the high speed rail in boarding aircraft airlines they have to show people have to show id so with the bus service it's less regulated so you don't really have to show your id all the time so the concern about that is people couldn't be tracked if they needed to be that's why this is one of several bus stations long distance bus stations here in beijing that's why this one was shut down let's go back to xi jinping and his concern grave concern as he said with the coronavirus no it was very interesting a move a rare meeting for the politburo standing committee happened on the 1st day of lunar new year that is very rare the 7 most powerful people in the government here in china met and what they decided is that they're going to form a special group led by one of those 7 people to oversee the corner virus action if you will and we know that they're going to have a special group that's going to go down to will haunt the epicenter of this so it's really elevated to the very highest levels of the government here overseeing this coronavirus situation. has raised its threat level in an effort to contain this outbreak at least 5 cases have been confirmed on the territory and one of its major attractions disneyland has been closed popolo and yet the. response has reached imagine sea level person a chav into department to meetings and we have a command center so we can get the views from the experts and come up with strategies and initiatives when we deal with this public health event i think you'll understand that we need to be quick in making decisions when we can make decisions for the society of hong kong a turn brown joins us now from hong kong where there is growing pressure to close links with mainland china. yes indeed carol lam so far has ruled out a temporary closure of the front here between hong kong and china and you know even if she wanted to i think her political masters in beijing simply wouldn't allow her to go ahead with that we would be seen i think as being too much of a political decision but here in hong kong we've had a another reminder every day we get a reminder of course of just how serious this virus is now being viewed hong kong disney has now shut its doors temporarily for the foreseeable future also ocean park another big theme park here in hong kong is also shutting its doors temporarily it wants to of course avoid any chance of this virus being spread and of course theme parks are a very popular with children they want at all costs to avoid the virus being spread to children as a result of that they get the school holidays and are being extended from now until the middle of february but of course it's 17 years since hong kong was hit by the sars virus which killed 300 people here so what lessons if any have been learned 17 years on finding out. china's leaders appear to have learned an important lesson from sars don't try to cover it up so this time honesty has been the strategy that's what president xi jinping has been demanding from his officials especially in the city of new hand with a virus 1st emerged in late november and this time china does appear better prepared across the border in hong kong with 300 people died during the sars outbreak important lessons also appear to have been learned all arriving in poor passengers have the temperatures checked suspected virus sufferers are immediately quarantined those who refuse face jail and there's better protection for medical workers age of whom were killed by some beyond 17 years ago when you are working in those normal medical was surgical what no one read minds. today wearing a face mask is standard procedure but some things haven't changed the market believed to be the source of the virus is now closed but the trade in wild animals goes on elsewhere in china at chinese new year 17 years ago when the sars epidemic was just starting to take its toll the mood was very subdued it is today and the question then as now is this how worried should i be china's failure to be open about the sars outbreak damaged its international reputation which is why the leadership hopes to convince the international community that in some precedented containment measures are working but some hong kong medical experts remain skeptical i don't think they have much improvement in this as presently i think even it may even more window dressing that before baby because of the political climate in mainland china analysts say president xi jinping is confronting a huge challenge of what is already a testing time for his leadership so people realize also that siege and pain is the . power content and and he basically has to be responsible for all its chief mond's and setbacks experts say this new disease may be harder to control for one important reason 17 years ago few chinese travelled overseas today they fly to destinations around the world. well sunday's decision by hong kong disneyland to shut its doors temporarily is another reminder of the damage that's being done to the economy here is shell because many of the tourists who went to hong kong disneyland were visitors from the mainland and those visitors simply aren't coming in the numbers that they once did so this is going to hurt hong kong's economy even further when hong kong was once branded as you know asia's world city that is no longer the case of the moment they have a virus outbreak. and of course the protests that began 8 months ago here all still going on and the virus and cools is also feeding into the growing and the mainland china sentiment here and we're seeing something of that also in south korea where most of the 200000 people have now signed a petition calling on the government to stop the arrivals from mainland china during the lunar new year holidays and because more than 200000 people have signed that petition the presidential blue house is compelled to respond to reshow. white house lawyers defending donald trump at the senate pietschmann trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine it's the 1st time his legal team has addressed the trial it'll have 2 more days to argue trump's case trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress i did have castro reports from washington d.c. the opening argument of president trump's attorney saturday focused on 2 main points that trump did nothing wrong when he asked ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden a potential rival in the upcoming u.s. elections and that it's the democrats who wish to steal back the white house by hurting trump politically they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot in an election that's occurring in approximately 9 months they're asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative. take that decision away from the american people. polling this week shows trump's approval rating is the highest it's been since he took office 44 percent of americans say he's doing a good job higher than when the ukraine allegations 1st surfaced and most instances when there had been political crises of course the president's popularity is a numbers go down in this case i think the president will actually be strengthened by this and specially after his acquittal acquittal is likely given most members of the senate jury are republicans and it takes a 2 thirds majority to convict yet potential new evidence against trump continues to emerge harness and indicted ukrainian american businessman says he shared this audio recording with investigators that are a little over a year after the or whatever they were. to go out ok that's the way it appears to be trump's voice ordering the firing of the u.s. ambassador to kiev democrats say corrupt ukrainian officials had wanted her gone those same officials then began smearing biden if you really want the truth you want witnesses you want documents we hope our republican colleagues will agree with that democrats hope to convince at least 4 republican senators to agree to open the trial to new witnesses including some of president trump's closest advisers who have not yet testified the senate is expected to vote on that question next week if their answer is no then president trump could be acquitted within days time castro al-jazeera washington. listen lebannon has fought with protesters who tried to storm the government headquarters in the capital security forces used tear gas and water cannon to push back the demonstrators saturday marks 100 days since the protests began people are demanding an end to corruption and want the government to tackle the economic crisis a new cabinet was announced on tuesday but protesters have rejected it because they know who has more from outside the government headquarters she says protesters are determined to continue their fight. another night of unrest antiestablishment protesters at this time tried to storm a government. over recent days they tried to storm a parliament building they managed to briefly breach the security behind us they moved a metal fence and now as you can see security forces are trying to secure it to reinforce security around government how those people are and a few 100 protesters were involved in the confrontation security forces that were very careful this time around they did not use rubber bullets they have been criticized by international human rights groups for using excessive force for firing rubber bullets at close range but this time around. excessive amounts of tear gas water cannon so they managed to disperse protesters quite quickly in fact they deployed hundreds of anti-riot police and the lebanese army you can really see and feel the change in tactics and this new administration seems a more militarized let me just show you what they've done around the parliament square they have set up. concrete slabs barbed wire closing really every road leading to parliament square in a really a message of defiance we are staying in power but this is angry this is causing a lot of anger a lot of protesters say you cannot hide behind those walls we will continue our struggle. boeing has successfully completed the 1st test flight of the world's largest twin engine jet liner the triple 7 x. is a larger version of the triple 7 mini jumbo with room for $406.00 passengers will be boeing's 1st major aircraft be certified since the crisis began over it 737 max it's remain grounded after 2 fatal crashes reveal software flaws which are still being resolved. so head on al-jazeera cope among the problem turkish rescue teams find a reason to celebrate. the scale of the devastation in brazil is emerging after record rainfall. hello there we've had some very heavy snow across some sections to the north in the middle east but we have got some common weather conditions over the next couple of days but as they not be full this amount of snow is produced in eastern turkey so it has taken a while to dig out from that but conditions a fine unclear overall for the next couple of days tentacles cooled by day cold in the overnight hours since scottish snowfall is working the east eastern sections of iran and also pretty strong down the goals so taking the top of these temp does not warm anyway just 18 celsius and sunday on the at this 14 degrees in riyadh and we will see it will feel colder than that with the wind that is actually in place monday really notice any woman but as i say still a fairly quiet picture beginning to see some showers maybe just pushing into those western areas of cape bend down into southern africa 1st of all madagascar we have had some flooding rains here but the last few days it has been light of that rain the heaviest rain has pushed away the austral some more showers in the forecast and of course you've got the usual seasonal rains the tickle the heavy across into and go into and against the more pretty have to thunderstorms in the eastern sections of south africa that the strong on shore breeze with those as well but sunny and pleasant in cape town with a high of 21 celsius. a healthy environment depends on the healthy insect population but across the world. numbers are dwindling. countless creatures are declining as a result of human activity. people in power investigates the extent of the crisis and asks what can be done to abate it. insect to get in on al-jazeera. you're. watching officer and let's recap the top stories right now china's president xi jinping says the outbreak of corona virus is becoming grave at least 56 people have been confirmed dead hong kong asked to clear an emergency and dozens of infections have been reported outside china. white house lawyers defending donald trump at the senate impeachment trial say the u.s. president has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine because democrats of using the trial to interfere in this year's presidential election. and security forces and levanon used water cannon and tear gas to stop protesters who tried to storm government headquarters in the capital saturday marks 100 days since demonstrations began they want to overhaul of the political system and then to corruption. flooding and landslides in southeast brazil have killed at least 30 people 2 days of torrential rain in belo horizonte in the capital of minas gerais states have left 17 people missing and more than 25 other 2500 others are now homeless more rain is expected in the region as well as other parts of brazil at the memorial's been held to mark a year since brazil's worst industrial disaster 270 people were killed when a dam collapsed sending talks acquaintance of the city from a genial relatives attended ceremonies and released balloons to commemorate those who died in iraq below is in permitting you know where he says people are still very emotional. apart from the sadness in the morning from the residents of brazil there's also a lot of fear a lot of trepidation given the ongoing rains and the heavy flooding that's taking place in the state of minas is it as we unfortunately can confirm that at least 30 people have died within the context of these floods and you if you see behind me if you can see behind me this is the river that flows through downtown but you can see that it's already spilled it's spilled it's its banks here some houses are already flooded here and not only that there's there's a concern given that there are other dams this disaster that took place in 2019 reminds people that there are other dams that are categorized as at risk by the brazilian government so many people here fear that the question of of if there could be another disaster like the one that took place in 2019 many people here fear that it's only a matter of time before another disaster can take place and that's something that's very much on the minds of residents of burma doing something that people here in the state of maine as it is' and the people of brazil very much want to avoid. as a person southeast turkey are searching for survivors from friday's friday's earthquake which killed 31 people and injured more than 1000 and this 5 year old girl and her mother are among the latest to be pulled alive from the rubble of the collapsed buildings but it is feared the number of dead will rise the 6.8 magnitude quake was centered near the town so reach a sit in costello reports from the nearby city. this man is happy and relieved as his relative is pulled out alive from the struggle she had been stuck under the rock and debra's of a collapsed building for nearly 20 hours after a magnitude $6.00 earthquake hit to accuse is some province of. it is my mother the son rushes back through the rubble there are still 4 more people stuck down there. there have been more than 400 aftershocks in the region hundreds of emergency teams and security forces have been mobilized to provide aid and assistance. and the onlookers some of them are all macarius while others hope to hear from loved ones and so i think all buildings have to be replaced by new ones we need to tell each crushes risk areas have been working here looking for and survivors buildings that have collapsed like this one were either badly constructed or older that damaged would have probably history of earthquakes men to say turkey needs to do more now to ensure building safety turkey is among the world's most suspect reactive countries and sits on several active full lines dozens of minor earthquakes and aftershocks up here nearly every day. quakes themselves don't kill we know when they're going to happen but it's the engineers and construct a duty to build compatible buildings for now on the 5 buildings have collapsed but there is no record of the damaged buildings and. that's why many people are afraid to go inside their homes and given the freezing temperatures it will be difficult to seek shelter in sports or other large places so you know al-jazeera and turkey. rescue charity ship has saved 78 migrants in the mediterranean off the libyan coast earlier 59 others were rescued as they attempt at the dangerous journey hundreds of people have died in the mediterranean sea trying to reach europe. fighting a start up again in libya despite a surge of diplomatic activity international conferences were held in berlin and algiers last week to try to end the conflict a rockets have now been fired in the capital internationally recognized government blames forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar are a little ahead has more from tripoli. one moroccan man was killed by a random rocket landed in the vicinity of m 80 get airport the only operation an airport in the libyan capital tripoli the only look at night is the government says that half the us forces landed the attack the tripoli based health ministry meanwhile says that civil other civilians were injured by random rockets that landed in densely populated areas and will launch it by half the forces many of these rockets launched by half the schools and landed in neighborhoods densely populated area in the city center of the rockets landed in our other neighborhood near the city center now the tripoli based government is accusing hafter forces of committing war crimes by targeting these residential areas it also says that these attacks are violations of the truce or the peace talks and the cease fire accord that was proposed by both turkey and russia it also says that these violations by half their forces are dealing deal a ling the peace talks that are the youth to be held in february engineer for now the latest report by the united nations secretary general until you get turkish revealed that nearly 300 civilians were killed since the beginning of the military offensive long said by half their forces to take control of the capital tripoli back in april and nearly 400 civilians were wanted now the same report also revealed that about 140000 people left their homes because of the fighting. 5 more protesters have been killed in iraq as security forces crackdown on anti-government demonstrations one person died in the capital one for nasri at a place in baghdad moved into the streets surrounding 2 or square after a large group left camps in an area of the capital they had been occupying sense october some of those leaving that area are supporters of populist sautter who went through his support for the protests some of the age of 8 has reaction from protesters to government efforts to end their sit in. this is when the flash point of scores of saturday's protests where protesters have been trying to stop the government forces opening up the offer a bridge this is the bridge that leaves do you square and we've been meeting people and talking to people who feel that they've been betrayed by the sudras who left these they're saying they're going to continue their protests there have been multiple reports of injuries and some are saying that people have been wounded by not just lie fire but also by tear gas canisters that the government forces are aiming towards the head. we are protesting against corrupt government the iranian government sucks speak they doesn't represent us we didn't vote for them the militias they are. they are iranian they are iranian cocktail the shots we called on the united nations to intervene and help us from them so if you see they are assassinating could not be. killing. on the marks of our activist political activists are disappearing every day we want the health of our of that world please help on the. very thought of terrorism the. wrong thing the word erection over the cut of the many. not the other place around the since right in security forces have been opening up the road with bridges this is one of the towns which was allegedly burned by the forces him in the words star you square those are the allegations by the by the protesters here who say that they will continue their protests they're going to stay until their demands are met. artists are being held in australia calling for the national day to be changed or scrapped altogether. so called invasion day events are commemorating indigenous people who were killed in the conflict with white settlers as well as others who have recently died in police custody australia day officially marks the arrival of the 1st fleet of conduct ships from britain and 788 calls for change have been growing louder over the past decade but as enter thomas reports australia's current government is unlikely to take action. but i see these protest of ants happening each year and in a sense the government here is a right of center conservative government is almost down to the find itself as in opposition to the sorts of protests they're standing up for the quiet australians who want no change and i think doing down australia as they see these kind of protests events will that is unpatriotic and they're trying to fight their political opponents in support of changing that i guess and that's something they think will alienate the voting population so in the eyes of australia's government no and i think it's fair to say they want to serve to govern the government but will be no date change but given time that may change these events all growing in this becoming something more more talked about in australia's national media was barely mentioned a decade ago now in the run up to january 22nd every year you see more and more opinion pieces more and more articles by more and more people saying why can't we change the day it is so insulting to a big section of the population to have it on january 26th why not change lives today that all australians can celebrate so you know short term like the hood of change but in the longer it may well happen. bangladesh's economy is growing but so too is any quality one in 5 people live below the poverty line and the average wage is less than $5.00 a day obvious errors tunbridge project reports one of the poorest areas in the capital dhaka to see how people are surviving. hungry begum lives with her husband in a small one room shanty hot in dhaka stage goslings their only child died recently she works in a bottling factory and struggles with her monthly expenses without her husband's income it would be hard for them to get by despite the hardship but managed to save the small amount of money each month. was but there are many problems here in this we have to buy water feed rent the money to use the toilet even buy food for cooking it's hard it's not a clean place to live. often get sick here and there's no help from the government i decided to follow longer a big them based on their daily needs and see how far i can go on $5.00 for the next 24 hours i brought basic food item that's needed to cook and a daily mail i brought some vegetable some onion potatoes buys green chili coriander i'll call the flour and couple of fish grocers cost me $4.12 i had a simple breakfast consisting of dry cake and milk tea at a local tea stall which cost me $0.35 and i still have to buy water for drinking and cooking and pay to use the toilet and bathing facilities for a day a day when needed in the slum which all together cost me around $0.40 at the end of the day i'm now left with barely $0.13 after meeting my basic daily needs in the slum. daily chores don't end till late at night after she finishes work she has to clean and cook she can always afford a healthy meal some days it's just rice and lentils. and going to. most of the slums i congested overpopulated with poor drainage and vase management kids and adults live in a very unhygenic conditions parents are unaware about the importance of healthy diets for the kids nor can they afford it. to bangladesh economy has been growing recently but with the prices rising for food and other essentials it's getting increasingly more difficult for wage earners like angry to survive on the minimum wage said by the government al-jazeera dhaka bangladesh. the world's largest democracy india celebrating its 71st republic day president was the guest of honor he signed 15 deals with india to trade marks the day of the constitution came into effect after an independence from british rule. chuck berry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera china's president xi jinping says the outbreak of the krajina virus is becoming grave the number of people killed as a person to 56 with almost 2000 confirmed and factions on kong's leader has declared an emergency but as under pressure to do more adrian brown has more carol so far has ruled out a temporary closure of the from 2 between hong kong and china and you know even if she wanted to i think her political masters in beijing simply wouldn't allow her to go ahead with that we would be seen i think as being too much of a political decision but here in hong kong we've had a another reminder every day we get a reminder of course of just how serious this virus is now being viewed hong kong disney has now shut its doors temporarily for the foreseeable future also ocean park another big theme park here in hong kong is also shutting its doors sometimes lawyers have opened their defense at his senate impeachment trial they say he has done nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine and the charges are politically motivated they're asking you not only to overturn the results of the last election but as i've said before they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot in an election that's occurring in approximately 9 months they're asking you to tear up. all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative take that decision away from the american people. floods in southeastern brazil have killed at least 30 people in 2 days of record rainfall and then yes can i state and more downpours are expected protests are being held in australia calling for the national day to be changed or scrapped altogether so called invasion day events are commemorating indigenous people who were killed in 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