Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWS LIVE - 30 20200213

. the battle of the baby shark one of the world's latest catchy songs at the center of a south korean courtroom drama. the 1st has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone and that's up from 1600 just the day before that 200 $54.00 more deaths have been announced and that brings the total to almost $1400.00 there for officials from her bay province at the center of the virus have been sacked over the handling of the outbreak and that includes the province's communist party chief jan shall yang. when $60000.00 people in $26.00 countries have now been infected in japan for instance $44.00 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship that's currently docked in yokohama and that brings the total on board on that ship alone to 218 then there's vietnam 10000 people in a community just outside of hanoi they've been placed under 20 day quarantine 5 people there have been infected and that brings the total number of cases in vietnam to 15 let's go live now to our correspondent who's in hong kong adrian brown agent quite a few developments then in this coronavirus drama. yes martin it's been a day of scary statistics and political disgrace the man who's been replaced is of course the boss the party boss of wood of a province the most powerful politician in that province he's going to be replaced by the mayor of shanghai who said to be very close to president xi jinping now the removal of the party boss is not going to end there they're expected to be more heads rolling in the coming days and weeks we've already seen several 100 officials at the local level removed from their posts but analysts say it's unlikely that anyone near the very top of chinese politics will be affected by this it's local officials hope being punished and made to blame for what's happened now this dismissal of calls came on the day that there was a huge surge in infections and the death rate that's because china is now broadening the criteria for diagnosing people with this disease thursday was a very dark day for china and a reminder that politics is not very far is always very close to crises like this. when who days party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days were numbered jiang charlie yang is the highest ranking political casualty so far his dismissal is in response to mounting public anger over the chinese government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and follows the sacking of 2 senior health officials on monday and while the purge looks set to continue analysts say it won't bring down those at the top of the party in the way the company's policy works is sacrifice a few small fry to keep the big fish swimming in the pond and this is worked i mean this is what happened in the last great time of the sars epidemic 17 years ago the dramatic jump in deaths came after a team from the world health organization arrived in will hand. the head of the w.h.o. those lauded china's containment efforts including the isolation of 60000000 people and urged countries not to cut off travel and trade with china health officials say the reason for thursday sharp rise in death and infections is because the testing criteria has been broadened chinese virus experts say the epidemic should peak in china this month before subsiding what officials don't know though are the number of people who have not been tested because either unable or unwilling to visit overwhelmed hospitals. the government continues to put out a reassuring message to the outside world that it has this virus under control. in facing it we have always adopted an open transparent and highly responsible attitude not only for the sake of china but also for the world at large. state t.v. is stressing the positive showing patients who recovered and gone home. it's all reminiscent of them our era with a mass mobilization of medical workers who volunteers and soldiers the nations being encouraged to fight war president xi jinping pools of people's war against the devils virus and there's another virus his government is trying to contain growing cools to protect freedom of speech and online campaign led by academics who are demanding an end to media censorship seems to be gaining momentum that amounts to explicit criticism of the leadership which is rare in today's china in hong kong as in mainland china the death of dr li one leon has increased that anger he raised the alarm about the virus 6 weeks ago for doing his job he was reprimanded by police and forced to sign a humiliating confession he died from the virus on friday. martine it's worth pointing out that it was the death of another man hailed as a hero 31 years ago that was who we are bang a liberal politician his death brought hundreds of thousands of students out onto the streets of beijing i don't think we're going to say that again this time but certainly there is a lot of sustained anger online and it's possible that the government is allowing that anger to happen it's a sort of pressure valve allowing people to let off steam in the hope that that anger will peter out. adrian brown there live in hong kong thank you very much indeed well from china let's go to cambodia because this is the scene live just off the coast of cambodia at the port of seattle that is where the cruise liner the westerdam with more than 2000 people on board is preparing to dock now cambodia is the country that has given permission for this cruise liner to die after for at least 4 different asian governments turned it away we've got the very latest from our correspondent who's there in c.n.n. for wayne hey immigration officials are on board the ship now methodically going through which the very slow process given that there are so many people on board giving them cambodian visas so that they can disembark the ship into cambodia before they leave on chartered flights to their home countries the other issue of course is despite the fact that we have been told time and time again that there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus on board the ship everyone needs to be medically tested for the most part that just involves temperature checks and of course an overwhelming majority of the people on the ship are passing but we are now told that there are 20 people on board the ship who are unwell now it's still a very small number when you consider there are more than 2000 people on board but the symptoms of those people are enough to warrant further examination so they have given blood tests those 20 samples have now been flown to the capital phnom penh military helicopter for further analysis so we will wait to see whether or not they are positive or negative and that will certainly shape what the next move might be . now we're going back to china and we learned that beijing has sacked its chief of hong kong and macau affairs jang these are missing is the most senior official to be removed from his post since mass and government protests began in hong kong last june he's to be replaced by the deputy chairman of beijing's top political advisory body the protests that started over an hour scrapped extradition laws have turned into a movement for greater autonomy. that turkey has sent in more reinforcements to its observation posts in northern syria president has warned that he'll strike back if syrian forces in italy a province attack turkish troops syria's ally russia accuses ankara of making the situation even worse in this the last rebel held region by having its military on the ground. and there's been confrontation between american troops and government supporters in the north east of syria. has more on that. a russian patrol in north east syria near a missionary after u.s. troops in the area opened fire killing one civilian. the u.s. issued a statement saying they came under attack and had to open fire the incident is now under investigation. that attack came on the same day turkey's president issued a warning to the syrian government and its russian allies. of the move the president was up to her and has given damascus and till the end of february to pull out beyond turkish observation posts it. says if talks with russia failed to stop syrian troops targeting turkish forces will respond harshly she was very strong the color we are determined to remove the syrian regime to beyond the boundaries of the thought she agreement that is behind our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation without wavering on land and by air. damascus has dismissed the comments saying turkey is out of touch with reality but despite his anger and frustration president is still hoping he would be able to narrow differences with russian president vladimir putin the 2 signed agreements into $1018.00 which allowed for save lives and respect of the rebels movements the deals also prevent a syrian president bashar assad from launching a military campaign to take over the last stronghold of the rebels. as turkish russian relations remain strained the u.s. has stepped in during a meeting with turkish officials u.s. syria ovoid james jeffrey delivered a sharp rebuke of russia iran and the syrian government which the us blamed for the escalation. us tension mounts turkey sending more troops into it live. out opposed to the 12 by the established after that agreement with russia and iran 2 years ago. the syrian government has been increasing its offensive in the north taking over highways and towns from rebels but he can only do this with a close support of russia's military and it's up to the russians and to the turks to decide what happens in syria next house about al-jazeera istanbul. we've got a lot more to come here it out there including a purge of reformists in iran more than 80 members a prominent bod for running for reelection. and what 3 words retrieval of the phone app helping rescue services save lives. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here in asia we're going to be watching system after system making its way from the southwest all the way up here towards the northeast you can see one system right now exiting japan a little bit of a break few as we go into friday but notice down here across you go islands this system is now coming in so by friday evening osaka you'll be seeing the rain maybe by saturday morning it will be parts of tokyo as well across much of southern china though these are where those systems are beginning it's going to be very wet across much of the area and really the same picture here on saturday another system rolling through well for the northeastern part of china we are seeing once this a pushing through this is going to be making its way towards korean peninsula and with it we'll be seeing some snow as well as a drop in temperature not looking too bad here for seoul here on friday clear skies plenty of sun temporizing on saturday but a big drop in temperature by the time we get towards sunday and here across india things are looking quite nice across. much of the area not a lot of rain to talk about on our forecast map so clouds across much of the south we did have some clouds and some rain across parts of sri lanka still staying rainy as well as cloudy we do expect to see attempts there of $32.00 degrees but up towards kolkata it is going to be a sunny day at $29.00 and for new delhi $23.00 degrees for you. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that really what's going on the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school even know what the noise is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. the all the. the. prices have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera there's been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections in china most of them in hoop a province the center of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases of wednesday across the country 254 move people have now died. and a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 asian governments because of fears of the virus as just dr is talking by the looks of it in cambodia that's the scene live at sihanoukville the port city of cambodia 20 passengers are already being tested for corona virus. and turkey has said more reinforcements to its observation post in northern syria the syrian government's ally russia accuses ankara of making the situation even worse by having its military on the ground. now in iran a group responsible for approving candidates for parliamentary elections is released its list voters will cast their ballots on the 21st of february $290.00 seats are up for grabs overseeing his stance is the guardian council that's a body historically dominated by ultra conservatives that's already barred more than 80 employees from running for re-election in most of them a moderate and reformist candidates. is a correspondent in tehran. there's been quite a sense of shock and surprise many people believe that the purge that has taken place by the guardian council is in direct response to what has been going on with this government and specifically president hassan rouhani he himself has criticized this governing body for using the their own politics in disqualifying a number of candidates that registered to stand in this election and also as well as getting rid of the current m.p.'s that are most of them supporters of president rouhani over 16000 people registered and just over 7000 people have been approved to stand in the election what will happen next is the candidates will have until next thursday to campaign and to try and convince ordinary iranians that they should go to the voting polls on friday that is something that is very important for not only their candidates but also for the establishment system here believes that a strong voter turnout will be seen as a show of force of support for the regime that's in place and a direct response to the international community about how strong iran is as a country and as a nation. that saddam has signed a settlement deal with the families of american servicemen who were killed in the bombing of a u.s. warship 20 years ago 17 americans were killed when al qaeda suicide bombers rammed into the side of the u.s.s. cole in yemen and sudan was accused of providing support to al qaida compensating the victims' families is the latest effort in sudan's bid to be taken off the u.s. sponsor of state terrorism list. thousands of women are marching in the iraqi capital to protest against recent calls for gender segregation and the announcement was made by cher cleric. earlier this week in support of separating male and female protesters iraq has witnessed months of anti-government rallies calling for a complete overhaul of the political system. or more and government protests are expected in guinea in west africa say against a referendum to change the constitution opposition parties are threatened to boycott the vote they fear president alpha condé will use the changes to extend his mandate while the 30 people have died since the demonstrations began in october mohammed as more. scuffles broke out once again on the streets of guinea's capital as a national strike became the latest weapon to be used against president alpha condé protesters in conakry have been demanding the revoke his plans to seek the term led by a coalition of opposition groups calling itself the national front for the defense of the constitution people threw rocks and barricaded roads. white police fired tear gas and used slingshots to try to push the crowds back. we've put as you can see very strong security measures since midnight from the 8th november bridge to cut been learned covering every kilometer with the help of other security departments the situation is under control. the riots resulted in many shops being closed residents say the protests are affecting daily life so when i come out to do business if there's peace it's better there's no peace in the country i have 2 children to feed it's not easy. we are very tired there's no business and no money all shops are closed most shops are becoming empty without food our children are not going to school. peace. demonstrations began after president condi and nouns plans for constitutional reforms last october. current constitution and allows a maximum of 25 year presidential terms but condy wants to extend that he 1st came to power in 2010 and his mandate should end in december but. the government will hold a referendum in march on removing the 2 term restriction but opposition party say they will boycott the vote and continue to rally until the decision is called off mohammed al jazeera. the u.s. attorney general william barr has agreed to testify before the house judiciary committee next month to answer questions about president trump's close ally roger so democrats have criticized barr and the department of justice for overruling federal prosecutors for soma sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to congress but the justice department said it would reduce the sentence. a century old effort to enshrine gender equality in the u.s. constitution is on the verge of success the house of representatives is considering whether to extend the deadline that would allow the equal rights amendment to be added to the constitution now if it's successful it would prohibit the government from denying equal rights to a person on the basis of their gender i did castro reports. it's been 100 years since american women got the vote almost 50 since they gained access to abortions but as for getting equal rights protection under the u.s. constitution the clock is still ticking why has it taken this long. you know it's a great question i find it very confused heidi schreck is a pulitzer nominated playwright i thought i had just been left out of this document from the beginning her work what the constitution means to me tells the history of domestic violence in her family for their benefit the rights and i met when i was 1st was i guess what kinds of music. i believe that the law was related to domestic related to sexual assault and. what happened was i believe that. the women in my family would not have needed to suffer the way that. the proposed equal rights amendment was drafted in 1923 it took 50 years for its language to clear congress but it wasn't ratified by 2 thirds of us states which is required by the constitution until the year 2020 in january virginia became the critical final state to ratify the equal rights amendment for the women of virginia and the women of america the resolution has finally. but there was just one hitch the deadline for state ratification had come and gone in 1982 and the trumpet ministration says that makes the proposed amendment void democrats in congress are pushing for its addition to the constitution regardless delays and distractions will not slow our progress because there can be no expiration date on equality this is a clear message to the international community that we embed in our constitution equal rights for women and that there cannot be discrimination based upon. general extending the deadline for the equal rights amendment would also need approval in the republican controlled senate where it will likely face opposition. some conservatives fear it could lead to more abortions or even outlaw separate sex bathrooms as for heidi shrek the playwright she's expecting twin girls in april i want their future to look very different from our past she says she hopes to soon show her daughters a u.s. constitution that guarantees their equality how did your castro al-jazeera washington. the 4 people were rescued from a blizzard on scotland's highest mountain just earlier this week thanks to a free phone app and it's called what 3 words the new system to identify people's exact locations jessica boardroom reports. a rescue drill on the river tease the cleveland fire brigade are called out frequently by people stranded on boats or in trouble in the water time is critical but the river tease is more than 135 kilometers long. and when a call comes in it's not always clear where the people are who need rescuing or for the control of it ask them if that the mobile phone on them and who doesn't know what is literally asked them can you just please download this app and tell us what the 3 way it say those 3 words identified an area on the river behind me called whole ship and so that meant from time of cold download in the app to rescue was about 11 minutes and that is fantastic what 3 words is a free app on your phone the company is divided up the globe into 3 meter squares each specific location is then given 3 random words purple nightingale jumping could be the front door of your house it's an updated laundry tootin latitude system for a voice activated world and it's in 40 languages they make money by licensing the technology to companies like delivery services or car manufacturers the idea came out of a musician's frustration chris sheldrick spent hours lugging guitars amplifiers microphones around festivals searching for the right stage or entry gate we've written a mathematical algorithm which actually distributes to 3 what addresses across the world and is replicated in every new language that we bring you we literally cover the whole world even the north pole south pole the oceans there is a 3 way to dress for everywhere there are lots of places that are hard to pinpoint if you want to meet a friend at a beach or out in the remote desert it's not so easy. mongolian nomads by their very nature don't stay in one place so they need to update tourists who come to experience 10 life of the 57 trillion squares i met david shark edgy which is great if i want to meet a friend or get a delivery but it's not all about convenience if i were to get hopelessly lost or fall and break my leg it could be life saving more than 80 emergency services in the u.k. now use what 3 words they've been able to find people trapped in their cars lost hikers and some drifting in the river tease jessica baldwin al-jazeera pembury angle and. now it's a song that became an internet sensation and triggered a lengthy legal battle now copyright lawyers in south korea and waiting for a court to decide who owns the rights to baby shark from sole bryant has a story. it is the annoyingly catchy ditty that became a global phenomenon and got stuck on repeat in millions of heads over and over but just spawned a slew of spinoff parodies. even finding its way into screen protests for its south korean producers baby shark has been up and. because i believe baby shark is one of the top intellectual properties dominating all media these days is a great present and blessing for us. but not their intellectual property according to the creator read this song. sounds familiar produced in 2011 by u.s. musician johnny only it predates the south korean version and his lawyers are now baring their teeth there claiming plagiarism rejecting the defense that baby shark is actually based on an old campfire song that no one owns. originality and ever deeper tea to the public domain song and we think that they copied our originality. and there seems no stopping that baby shark juggernaut. the latest spin off baby shark and fellow animation pink funk go on a space romp it's a single long movie and yes guess what shoes they're singing to. try to find anyone who doesn't know it. when the case was 1st brought last summer the district court ruled that careers copyright commission get involved to study the 2 versions side by side and give its opinion since then the commission has due to flee and probably painfully been listening over and over to the do do do do do brave restructuring when the court hears the commission's decision it could have big implications in the world of copyright i think it's a very. interesting case in korean copyright and or international copyright law as well but will do nothing for the estimated 4000000000 of us on this planet to have heard it and might never be the same again probably right al-jazeera so. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera there's been a surge in the number of korean a virus infections in china most of them are in a province the center of the outbreak there were more than 15000 new confirmed cases on wednesday and 254 more people have now died adrian brown has more. the man who's been replaced is of course the boss the party boss of the of a province the most powerful politician in that province he's going to be replaced by the mayor of shanghai who said to be very close to president xi jinping now the removal of the party boss is not going to win there there expected to be more heads rolling in the coming days and weeks we've already seen several 100 officials at the local level removed from their posts but analysts say it's unlikely that anyone near the very top of chinese politics will be affected by this a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 different asian governments because of the fear of coronavirus has now been allowed to dock in cambodia 20 of its passengers though are being tested for the virus turkey has sent more reinforcements to its observation post in northern syria the syrian government's ally russia accuses ankara of making the situation even worse by having its military on the ground sudan has signed a settlement deal with the families of american servicemen who were killed in the bombing of a u.s. warship 20 years ago 17 americans were killed when al qaeda suicide bombers rammed into the side of the u.s.s. cole in yemen sudan was accused of providing support to al qaeda compensating the victims' families is the latest effort in sudan's bid to be taken off the u.s. list of states says of terrorism. but coming up next here on our air it's the bottom line. hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question has the corona virus gotten out of hand in china and spread so far and so fast that it just can't be contained how vulnerable are we to global pandemics let's get to the bottom line. by the time we all heard of a mysterious new virus spreading in china the panic it spread worldwide with scientists rushing to figure it out millions of chinese citizens are under quarantine factories there are shut down and the virus has popped up in 26 countries as we speak it's killed more than a 1000 people and infected more than 40000 a whole crew ship is quarantined off of yokohama japan right now and people are pleading to get off that ship so what's next and how afraid should we be fortunately we have 4 people with us today who have all the answers let me start with the 2 scientists.

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