a party motivated by a property dispute. and it's oscar's night in hollywood the controversy continues though over a lack of diversity in the nominations. as the death toll from the coronavirus hits a new milestone the chinese government has announced it will allocate $10000000000.00 to help fight the spread of the disease $814.00 people have now been killed by the corona virus that's more than the 774 killed by the size epidemic in 2003 in both cases the majority of deaths were in china both strains of the same type of virus but the new outbreak has infected far more people more than 37000 sars only at around 8000 confirmed cases but sols was also considerably more deadly killing one in 10 people and then in other developments 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew were stuck on a cruise ship have been allowed to disembark the world tree was quarantined in hong kong when 8 chinese passengers on an early a voyage were diagnosed with the virus katrina you reports to us now from beijing. more than 6000 medical workers are being sent 200 from all over china they'll help overworked and understaffed teams struggling to cope with the coronavirus crisis the number of deaths from the outbreak has now surpassed those killed by songs in 2000. 3 a lack of resources has forced some doctors to turn patients away was a hobby as a senior doctor i felt terrible when i look into their eyes but i have to control myself to continue this fight against the epidemic chinese factories have in order to boost production of desperately needed medical supplies the government says it's allocating $10000000000.00 to fight be honest but criticism over its handling of the crisis is growing a group of academics has signed a letter demanding more freedom of speech and condemning the treatment of whistleblower dr li when leon who died from the virus this week in israel citizen journalist. was forced into quarantine after posting videos of overcrowded hospitals and behind the world health organization says the number of people with the virus appears to be stabilizing but it's still too early to know whether the outbreak has reached its peak the un agency is sending return to china to observe its response to the virus as a reminder of global health authorities to remain vigilant experts in hong kong say existing measures oddly enough to prevent the outbreak spreading in the territory dozens of people that have been infected i think for hong kong definitely it will be the beginning same as other part of the world maybe for maina is in the middle of the crisis one of the epidemiologists already contacted by professor gable and of hong kong university medical school he predicted that the disease may go on and the peak in may or a pro sometime in that before the summer so we hope we think that the disease may still lingering on of film. but while millions in china remain under lockdown there was good news at least for the passengers of this cruise ship docked in hong kong 15 allowed to leave after spending several days in quarantine with al-jazeera. the left wing the pass a show. fane is expected to make an historic breakthrough in island's general election counting instead on the way with polls for dating a 3 way split between shin fein and finagle in phoenix for oil who were previously considered the 2 main parties for britain reports us now from dublin 5 sion fein leader mary lou mcdonald whose book come to the dublin county like a hero of the left wing nationalists for a campaign of eye catching pledges on housing and pensions which caught the imagination of an electorate crying out for an alternative to the 2 biggest opposition parties on fianna gael it's it takes a concession she says it makes statements that this is no longer into farsi system it's a statement he says he wants a different type of office and that people have great confidence in us and i i say that with all humility written off by some as a party just for those with short memories shin fein confounded the conventional wisdom i think because of their legacy of being connected to violence it really is quite surprising to see that they are the most popular party with every age group older than the over 65 here today was in the build up to the election people saying oh this is young people who don't remember the troubles in northern ireland and i think that we see that's not the case it's only the much older voters who stick with the reform of female so in the long run if i was seen for a female member i'd be pretty worried about what that means about your future past links to the republican paramilitary group the ira linger as evidenced by a group of jubilant shin fein supporters singing a rebel song at the count center in dublin cut etc. i feel that the party has evolved i think confined to difficult very clever things one was gerry adams party pretty good on mary lou mcdonald is in no way associated with troubles in the war on dots you know strategically terms of marketing communication cuts were pretty well it's a major setback for the current irish leader over of his feet. the gale party focused on economic growth and its success in the go see to deal with the u.k. finn a foil as leader me how martin looks most likely to become the next leader but a minority government would be inherently unstable to teach a cliché unfeigned may prefer to buy the time rather than be a minority partner in a coalition government but with the outcome as close as it seems now the wrangling could last for weeks and such is the nature of irish politics with the ballot boxes being packed away now could be back out again in just a couple of months paul brennan al-jazeera. well we've backers also following the story joins us now from dublin as paul was saying in his report that nieve counting is still underway but it looks as though shane fein has made a historic breakthrough. it does but we have to take everything with a bit of a pinch of salt at the moment because we are some way off from a definitive result largely because of the political system that exists here where the voting system is something called the single transferable vote whereby people are able to rank in order of preference different candidates from different political parties so ballot papers need to be counted multiple times before we have a final idea of the final result so about 9 hours into counting at the moment we only have an idea of just over 20 or so seats in the $160.00 seat parliament so that counting could continue into monday possibly even longer than that but saying that the talk now the moment is already about the configuration of a future government and what kind of coalitions could possibly be formed after the exit poll that came out on saturday sinn fein for a level pegging the question is whether these 2 big traditional parties that have dominated our politics for generations could possibly even consider working with shin fame already we've heard from finnick gale and its leader for rancor they of course have been in power for the past 5 years he is out rule the possibility of working with sinn fein saying that the parties the 2 diametrically opposed. have a bear in mind least 3 parties that got roughly the same share of the vote the same number of seats would all have a mandate and it was mandate needs to be respected but in order to form a government together you know nobody can be forced into some sort of forced marriage or forced coalition in order to form a government together you know you have to have the same roughly the same views around. as the courts the code justice system around the economy aside and also how democracy should and that's what makes my heart and i am not going to play but we are willing to talk to other parties about how we could form a government and give this country a government that can ask the next 5 years dealing with the problems that we. have to tackle for the last 2 years or. some of the problems in the country mean or what was it that made people want to fight back against this traditional 2 party system what was behind these unprecedented gains fashion fête. inshore housing health care homelessness those have been the key issues in this year's election and live rancor despite having an increasing presence on the global stage because of his role in intense breaks at negotiations the neighboring united kingdom back home has been accused of missing the mark completely and that is where should fame has been gaining ground poaching support from the traditional centrist party subpoena for a feed a gale with promises of being able to fix this problem champagne is on the left of the political spectrum and despite having a 40 past being regarded as being the political wing of the ira during the troubles in northern ireland they have desperately trying to rebrand try to reach out to young voters many of them affected by the housing crisis unable to afford rent most certainly struggling with the possibility of ever owning their own own homes it's these kind of voters that shem fane has really at least appears to have made some significant gains but it is early days the configuration of a future government is up in the air let's not forget the last election in 2015 which was a much less contentious election it took 70 days for a stable government to be formed thank you very much in dublin now a vigil has been held in thailand after a mass shooting a soldier went on a gun rampage and military base before seizing hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people injured dozens of others in the city of car at the thai prime minister says the soldiers motive was a dispute over a property deal why has more now from the capital bangkok. in the final dramatic moments of this 18 hour siege the last remaining people inside the mall for brought to safety they had spent a terrifying night hiding or trapped inside the building where a gunman roamed shooting at people as he went at that stage early sunday morning the shooter was still inside the building evading capture by security forces but that around 9 o'clock they killed him in the last burst of gunfire captured in this video say that. we have ended the perpetrators criminal acts at the moment we are gathering evidence and witness material to start an investigation to give justice to all sides this was the gunman 32 year old soldier . a trained sharpshooter with years of experience and he went on his killing spree he posted updates on facebook before entering the mall late on saturday afternoon he could be seen spraying bullets towards people and passing cars as the siege dragged on into the night bursts of gunfire could be heard coming from inside the building hour after hour the situation became more tense and more desperate as the wounded were brought out under heavy protection to go to the quad and i was scared i'd hear gunfire and i was wondering if he was going to come near me because it felt like it was so close to where we were hiding with confirmation that the ordeal was over thailand's prime minister visited some of the injured in hospital and he sought to shed some light on what may have motivated the killer. it was a personal conflict over a house still he had an issue with money and fought for 3 days nobody expected to turn violent. that dispute may have been the reason for the initial murders of a commanding army officer and another person but it doesn't explain why he then traveled more than 20 kilometers to the center of town entered a packed shopping mall and elevated his killing to another horrific level when hey al jazeera bangkok with al jazeera live from london more still ahead syrian troops out of right after their military advance reclaims new territory in southern aleppo and the united states want israel against any immediately statics that might last. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe the big story is still going to be those very gusty winds across much of northwestern europe now we have been dealing with them already here on sunday pushing across u.k. as well as into much of france the benelux region and into parts of denmark they will continue they may die down slightly from what they were on sunday but still going to be seeing a lot of problems in terms of flights canceled ferry service also canceled or delayed as well as we're going to be seeing some power lines down across much of this area as well we're also be seeing some rain pushing here across much of france as well as into the netherlands that will continue over the next few days as well as into tuesday the rain will also be pushing a little bit further towards the east as well and it's really not until we get towards the end of wednesday when some of these winds do begin to die down here in copenhagen expect to see those winds all the way through the forecast we also do expect to see some rain monday as well as tuesday well here cross the northeastern part of africa it is going to be a little bit colder than average for this time of year up here towards cairo we're going to be seeing a high view of about 15 degrees there clouds in the forecast across much of the area over here towards me ghazi at 15 and for tripoli 90 degrees for you. every attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens who are stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live. and moon the tragic loss of life twice a victim on al-jazeera. the or the the and. welcome back a look at the headlines this hour the chinese government says it will allocate some $10000000000.00 to help in the fight against the deadly coronavirus which is now killed $814.00 people that's more than the 774 killed by the sars epidemic in 2003 . a left wing party shin fein is expected to make an historic breakthrough in island's general election vote counting is still underway with polls predicting a dead heat split between shin fein in a gale and feed a foil individuals been held for the victims of saturday's shooting in thailand 29 people were killed when a soldier went on a shooting spree a military base and then held and then held hostages at a shopping mall. iran's defense ministry saying it's launched a domestically made satellite that it's failed to reach orbit the move risks sending tensions with the u.s. soaring again after washington previously raised concerns about the on satellite program calling it a cover for ballistic missiles but iran denies this charge insisting it's all for peaceful purposes as a break has more from tehran. from what we know the satellite was launched on this rocket it went out for about 9 minutes but the spokesman for the defense ministry aerospace division to say that at the last stage the rocket didn't reach to quite speed and wasn't able to launch a satellite into orbit but iran says that it was successful most of the gold in fact 90 percent of the gold so they're very much spinning this as a success even though they didn't achieve getting that satellite into orbit now this had been delayed we were expecting it was the end of last week but it was delayed until today we expect to get it this morning we've been watching it all day but the news finally came that they had launched but were unsuccessful now this was a domestic satellite made inside iran i think and it is an imagery satellite so it was supposed to go up orbit the earth and take pictures of iran specifically concentrating on agriculture mines possible oil fields but also also earthquakes to help iran deal with natural disasters but again it has not been successful. syrian government forces have taken control of dozens of villages in the northwest of the countries they continue their campaign to seize the last rebel stronghold but techie has sent major reinforcements to the region as well and says all options are on the table to stop the regime's advances bara has more from istanbul. the moment the syrian army seize control of the hilltop village on the southern outskirts of aleppo will give the army the height advantage to monitor and shelled rebel positions the army has also recaptured other rebel held territory in northwestern aleppo that's seen as another major setback days after the rebels lost control of the city of. the government insists it's fine it will continue to defeat what he describes as terrorist organizations syria's leaders in damascus also brushed aside warnings from turkey to halt its offensive or face bitter repercussions. over the past few days are barely an armed forces have managed to make significant achievements it troops were coming from eastern little met with the advance forces from southern aleppo and managed to regain control of the geographical area more than 600 square kilometers. as fighting shows no signs of abating civilians in rebel held territory fleeing their villages following the large numbers of already skate mostafa has is among thousands worried they have nowhere to go. but. we're 3 families i mean my brother both have 7 children we're looking for a house or a camp or something i really don't know what we're going to do. turkish soldiers recently deployed in province have been asked to set up new outposts near we have. turkey's minister of defense hosea has warned of possible military intervention in the last remaining rebel held province turkey is giving syria's leaders until the end of this month to withdraw its military units from positions near turkey's observation post in. it's 2 years since turkey russia and iran agreed to establish a d.v.d. to rise. but tension between russia and turkey has increased following the deaths. of 8 turkish soldiers in a recent syrian army attack by deploying more troops into syria turkey is sending a clear message that it stands ready to retire if syrian government forces continue their offensive turkish leaders are determined to prevent the worst scenario which to them is president bashar al assad's troops defeating the rebels and the millions of refugees trying to cross into turkey and join the many already here house of about al-jazeera islam board the annual african union summit is underway in ethiopia with leaders vying to play a more prominent role in resolving the conflict across the continent the commission chairman opened the summit with a bleak picture of africa's security situation warning of terrorism conflicts and pre and post election crises was a fact he says it will take more than military action to address the root causes of these problems which are often caused by poverty and social exclusion. well meanwhile the republic of congo also high on the a unit is a list of priorities a rebel group that has been attacking villages and towns in the east of the country for months now afghan soil has that story and another attack has happened in a village in the eastern democratic republic of congo. people in the town of are preparing once more to bury loved ones villages here say armed men to them with machetes and guns security forces blame the democratic forces or a.d.f. a rebel group in the area with roots in uganda its fighters are accused of killing at least 5000 congolese in the last few years and more than 100 in the past week. they were dressed in the same uniform as they killed my husband in our kitchen when i 1st heard gunshots i ran outside but i met them and they told me to get back inside. many homes have been deserted people are too afraid to go back. there talks are frequent and happening as a congo one of the largest when peacekeeping missions in the walled. are carrying out an offensive against the rebel group those forces are now working with a local militia called my my to help defeat the a.t.f. the other group shows us the comp and equipment they say they've captured from an a.d.f. base deep in the forests. this is our country. of foreign. people who will continue to fight. to the african leaders are discussing how armed violence can be stopped in africa and not just in this country there's a whole region has been infiltrated by groups. and al qaeda hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced in the lake chad basin african forces are fighting inside then there's conflict in the central african republic somalia. done and the least goes on impunity and lack of accountability for proper traitors of new models of violations in the context of conflicts and some of which actually rise to crimes under international law including walk crimes and crimes against humanity this lack of imputed this lack of accountability the impunity for public traitors is part of the reasons why there is a cycle of violence across the continent in ethiopia many kilometers away from benny the heads of state are gathered for a conference labeled silencing the guns in 2020 and beyond it's an ambitious lochan many here are oblivious of that and want to do anything it can achieve but like millions of others living in conflict areas across the continent they say they just want to be in safety catherine saudi al-jazeera. polls have closed in cameroon where elections have been held for the 1st time in 7 years but it comes at a time of political division and concerns over security votes reportedly been disrupted by separatists and phone or english speaking regions people in those parts say they're discriminated against by the french speaking majority and they want more independence. the us ambassador to israel has warned against unilaterally onyx in parts of the occupied west bank before the trump administration completes the middle east peace proposal contentious plan was announced last month that allows israel to addicks all of its west bank settlements a move which is illegal under international law it also allows for the annexation of the jordan valley which accounts for roughly a quarter of the occupied west bank palestinian government has rejected the american proposal. there's been protests in other countries against that plan in turkey demonstrate is a holding a rally in istanbul condemning the decision and calling on people to stand up for jerusalem which the plan and hands entirely to israel similar scenes in the moroccan capital robarts as well a range of political leaders and union members attended with protesters waving palestinian flags and chanting condemnation of the u.s. plan. now polls of closed in azerbaijan in parliamentary elections that the opposition is describing as a sham president obama called the vote in december author of placing the prime minister several position parties a boy course in the election. than his wife who he appointed vice president of persecuting political opponents and silencing independent media. so the 92nd annual academy awards ceremony will kick off in just a few hours time this is a live shot of the red carpet at the. preparations are underway for anyone to biggest night in cinema but this is also has a not without control of the sea a lack of racial and gender diversity is raising eyebrows while brands as this report. i don't know if you know extraordinary this is were not for cynthia air of those nomination for best actress in harriet in the oscar acting nominations this year would have been all white it's an embarrassing outcome for the academy of motion picture arts and sciences which has tried for several years to expand and diversify its overwhelmingly white older male membership hollywood is trying to diversify but it's slower than it should be and that's part of the nature of the film business film the film is very cautious because in television they take a lot more chances with things and so and so you see a lot more diversity in television and the emmy awards and the the oscars are still on diverse actors of color who were left out this year include aapl phina in the farewell jennifer lopez in hostler's new peter in young girl be eddie murphy in dolomite is my name and my name and so on kong hole in parasite to the puddle to my interest going to congo it's a sharp contrast to 2019 when out of the 4 acting awards only one went to a white person ollywood also has a serious gender gap the nominees for best director are all male female directors passed over include gretta gerwig for little women and lulu way for the farewell in 90 plus years of oscars just one woman has ever won best director. i think all women directors being hired for preacher films was about 6 percent 10 years ago and i think it's about 6.5 percent now so it's like i mean it's injured but not much it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy because there haven't been any in the past there aren't many being hired today and you know again it's because i think the studios are very conservative and cautious financially cautious while the academy struggles with diversity the companies that make films in the way people watch them are changing rapidly streaming services are steadily taking the lead in hollywood's most prestigious event netflix has garnered $24.00 oscar nominations including 2 for best picture with marriage story and the irishman the stage is set for hollywood's biggest night but there will be fewer awards for an industry slow to embrace diversity robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles and i'll just there is also out final skeleton nomination in the best documentary short subject and the superman you can watch it at 22 things. i've taken that. you know as you're in 5 go you drive toward the. it's night you don't learn about. something else at the knockers night he. was going to the release of the words and really we saw my son in 15 or so are you that are me to. not feel like you know at this my time to stand. but look at the headlines now the chinese government plans to allocate some $10000000000.00 to help fight the deadly coronavirus which has now killed $814.00 people that is more than the $774.00 killed by saws in 2003 meanwhile 3 and a half 1000 people stuck on a cruise ship have been allowed to disembark the world dream was quarantined in hong kong when a chinese passengers were diagnosed with the virus the left wing the politician fame is expected to make an historic breakthrough in iran's general election vote counting is underway with polls predicting a 3 way split between shin fein and finagling phina for oil who were previously considered the 2 main parties the xbox as in top then. sinn fein is so far confounded the polls completely if those exit polls are to be believed then they are currently a legal level pegging with the 2 parties of power that have dominated politics in ireland for generations fiona gale for both of them centrist parties but there is a bit of a carry out as well sinn fein is actually only fielded 42 candidates in this election and maybe that may not translate to a lion's share of the seats in the irish parliament the dollar aaron it does mean that coalition building is inevitable the discussion now behind the scenes is what kind of shape islands government will take and our other headlines a vigil has been held in thailand after a mass shooting a soldier went on a gun rampage at a military base before seizing hostages in a shopping mall the army trained marksman killed 29 people and injured dozens of others in the city of car at the thai prime minister says the soldiers' motive was a dispute over a property deal. and the annual african union summit is underway in ethiopia with leaders valued to play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts across the continent commission chairman painted a bleak picture of africa's security situation orning of terrorism conflict and pre and post election crises. he says it will take more than military action to address the root causes of these problems often or is out of poverty and social exclusion is next to stay with us. all. workers. every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history the words of samuel huntington in the clash of civilizations and it's precisely our poor understanding lack of will to understand others cultures at the world as polarized as ever the ideal of living is part of a global village is slowly fading away allowing the rise of nationalism. so can we improve relations and cooperation among nations and peoples across a society as cultures and religions. or is the clash of civilizations inevitable.