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senate is expected to vote on legislation to curb the president's powers to use military action against iraq. in spalls organizers of the tokyo 2020 olympics a phase of the current of ours won't delay the games and as he waits to confirm his olympic place le bron james powers the lakers and talk among lead going into the stall break. the at. the end. thank you for joining us we start this news hour in china where there's been a huge surge in the number of corner virus cases across the country more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone up from just 1600 the day before 254 more deaths have been announced bringing the total to nearly 1404 officials from whom a province the epicenter of the virus have been. socked over their handling of the outbreak and that includes the province's communist party chief john tower laying more than 60000 people in 26 countries have now been infected in japan 44 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship docked in the yokohama port bringing the total on board to 218 and in vietnam 10000 people in a community near hanoi have been placed under a 20 day quarantine 5 residents say have been infected bringing the total number of cases in vietnam to 15 edwin brown reports. when who days party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days were numbered jan charlie young 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. 1st 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 they either are 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 nation's being encouraged to fight war president xi jinping calls a people's war against the devils virus. and there is another virus his government is trying to contain growing calls 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 lee when lee young 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 president xi jinping has offered condolences to the families of medical workers who died but he's yet to publicly mention dr lee by name adrian brown al jazeera hong kong and a co shape that was turned away by 4 asian governments overthe years of the coronaviruses dalton cambodia there are no confirmed cases onboard the westerdam but none of the passengers are allowed to leave the ship yet the vessel carrying more than 2000 people had been at sea for 2 weeks cambodian officials say everyone will be tested and flights will be arranged for them to return home stephen hanson is a passenger on the westerdam coast ship he told us earlier that nobody's quarantine but medical tests are being carried out. i understand that they were examining our passports we had to hand those back in and i'm told that also the medical crew came onboard. to to i guess do some checks at this point my wife and i have not had any medical checks or or an event that except that we did have to fill out a medical form for the for cambodia which asked you know our name and reports we've been to as you can imagine it's very disappointing to be told time after time that we're that we're going to dock and that you know then to find out that you know you're not going to be allowed to go into that country so that's worrisome but i should say that you know life on board the ship is is just fine and normal there are no restrictions were e.g. well all the usual cruise ship activities are ongoing so there's no physical hardships at all just we are looking forward to a solution and to going home that's now speak to margaret harris who spokeswoman the world health organization she is live from geneva thank you so much ms harrison being with us on al-jazeera just a few hours ago w.h.o. is saying the number of new cases in china had babylon is banal we have this huge jump and you cases in the last 24 hours how do you explain this and how worried should we be about this dramatic increase. thank you for actually we hadn't actually said stabilize we we talk about numbers as having in the last few days having reached a sort of plateau but we were not saying that the outbreak had stabilized in fact we've said it was far too early to know if any idea of which direction it was going in now this number this big jump we're seeing today actually does reflect a change in reporting protocols as you mentioned earlier in your report that the authorities knew better has no widen the definition so that they can include people who have symptoms that are suggestive of coronavirus and that's a good thing because that means they can get everybody who could possibly have coronavirus seem to care and also to keep them from infecting other people so it's not surprising to see such a jump when they have won this definition and started reporting people as having cases of corona virus using that definition and this is coming this revision is coming as a w.-h. or team on the ground right now i understand how involved are they in you know giving all these estimates is this linked to the revision that we're seeing right now. so the work of the w.h.o. team we work very much with country and with the country so what we do is we send experts and the countries sense their equivalent experts and we sit together and look at all the questions that need to be looked at and that work is only just beginning and more experts are coming in later we expect either by the weekend or early next week as so with putting together a pretty large team now of course it will be discussions about widening case definitions and reporting because the idea is that the world wants to know exactly what's going on and also the chinese authorities need the best information to make the best decisions right and so as you said they're now using various methods of testing their change or national guidelines which wasn't the case before and they were actually problems i understand before with a valid ety of the tests we've been hearing from our reporters are all in china just explain to us how difficult it is for you that the w.h.o. to get a peer clear picture of what the situation is on the ground right now in whole bairn elsewhere in china are the chinese authorities being fully transparent with you. we are finding that the chinese authorities are indeed been fully transparent but when you look at the number of cases dealing with what we're looking at over 51000 cases that's a vast amount of information coming in that's a vast amount of information that people have to move forward and we're receiving that information it's a lot easier to give absolutely all of the detail when you've got 5 or 6 cases 50000 that's an enormous amount of work you're asking people to do but we are certainly receiving good information and they have welcomed the mission into the country to look further and deeper into the into the more complex questions thank you very much for talking to us margaret hiree says spokeswoman for the world health organization live there from geneva thank you for your time. in other world news what was meant to be a minor cabinet reshuffle has turned into a major shake up after britain 2nd most powerful minister resigned. was the chancellor of the exchequer and was expected to remain in his post however he stepped on a short while ago let's bring in royal challengers in london for us so this was a big surprise rory what happened. yeah as you say this with brief to the kind of softly softly cabinet reshuffle with only made lower level minister is being moved around some being booted out their jobs but yes the bombshell of the day is that the chancellor of the exchequer the u.k.'s finance minister has handed in his resignation just a month before he was due to deliver his budget there had been differences between such a job it and boris johnson although they did have a pretty good relationship mainly over over government spending the prime minister wants to kind of open the taps and have a big splurge in government spending where is such a job it is the holder of the purse strings was wanting to be a bit more cautious about this but was that the reason why he was probably not the this is not official but what's being talked about here in the u.k. is the number 10 the prime minister's office have basically said to sajid javid we want you to keep your job but you have to accept a new team of special advisors that is going to be shared between the treasury and number 10 downing street and what this would have meant is a lowering in the autonomy of the treasury and great oversights from number 10 over the treasury's business is basically a power grab from number 10 the man who is paying name this the kind of architect of this is dominic cummings. is pretty familiar if you're watching a u.k. politics in a moment he's boris johnson's chief advisor a hugely divisive man in the u.k. and what he was asking of sajid javid is something that he can accept and he resigned so what does this mean then for british politics as it tries to negotiate its balls. you know relationship with the european union. yeah it's certainly a wobble at a precarious time for the u.k. in years gone by the resignation of chancellors of the exchequer how have we can promises so much so that i haven't really survive very long when when the. lows and resigned in $1809.00 it was a such a blow to margaret thatcher that she didn't last much longer. this time around this could actually strengthen boris johnson the man who's being parachuted into the job of chancery checa replacing cited job it is called richie soon as he is a brigadier he's a loyalist boris johnson he is probably going to do the changes that sajid javid wooden's making the chancellor of the exchequer a less powerful position he has also as a bret's it's unlikely to deviate much for a number ten's prefer kind of hardball strategy negotiating with the european union . has said that the u.k. doesn't actually need free trade agreements with the european union but what have to wait and see what kind of chance of the strike and he is going to be growing challenges in london thank you. turkey has sent in more reinforcements to its observation posts in northern syria present typo on its warning he will strike back at syrian forces in a live province attack turkish troops syria's ally russia accuses encore of making the situation worse in the last rebel held region by having its military on the ground on jazeera simcoe is inside syria for us in baba how want that in the north of syria tell us 1st explain to us and remind us really what the mission of these circuits military observation posts in syria are and when turkey says it's going to be sending in reinforcements in what capacity. well follow the mission of those observations course for turkey plus the ones for the russians are to observe the possible while ations of the day escalation zone both by the syrian government and opposition who are the major actors in syria along with turkish there are also russian observation posts at the similar directions however with the latest push by the syrian government forces from south to the north to get both the m 5 highway and attacking iraq even taking the town over the turkish turkish forces they decided to reinforce those military observation posts because they thought the post could be in danger which was true or proven by. by an attack of the syrian government forces to the turkish called more last week which killed 8 soldiers and one military civil personnel who was the driver of the camorra and after that again during an offensive some 5 turkish soldiers were killed so now the turkish government thinks that the syrian government is not abiding by the escalation zone requirements which is which is actually brought by the astana and sochi agreements. that's why there is they're trying to enhance the turkish military post and create a more process special around serach of area which is a benchmark town for both the syrian opposition and the syrian government forces because it wants the syrian government to come under control it took a record under control they were they were able to control their 5 highway as well that's the situation on the ground but i have to say that on the diplomacy level things are a little bit different because yesterday u.s. on the road to syria james jeffrey was in the turkish capital ankara he met with the turkish officials and they were there were support statements coming coming from the u.s. side to turkey right now on the ground the field seems to be dictating a corporation to the turks with the russians however on the fluoresces side you see that turkey is siding or taking a position with the americans when it comes to just supposed to what did happen during operation peace supreme last october when turkey pushed for an offensive in northeast syria against the syrian kurdish fighters group and now turkish defense minister just half an hour ago delivered this statement saying that this creation's all will be will be inactive and turkey will send more troops to protect the soldiers and turkey will also be against any or any movements of the radical groups or what they call will be targets the bears well by this statement which was actually a similar statement of president don we see that on korea is cooperating with the united states on the issue but also leaves a room for negotiations with the russians ok sinan thank you very much for that scene and go see it live for us in baba amr in syria plenty more ahead on this news hour including setting the same age for a trial italy's former deputy prime minister loses his immunity and is one of the best drivers in formula one takes his new car for spain ahead of the season. the and. to the u.s. now where the senate is set to vote on a resolution that could severely restricts president trumps ability to take military action against iran the war powers resolution would force donald trump to get congressional approval before he could order any military operations against iran it was introduced last month after trump ordered the strike that killed top iranian general assembly money president trump has been vocally opposed to the resolution tweeting it's very important for our country's security that the united states senate it's not vote for the iran war powers resolution we are doing well he says with iran and this is not the time to show weakness and if my hands were tied iran would have a field day sends a very bad signal let's speak to our white house correspondent about this kimberlee hocket live from washington so what can we expect then from this vote today. and we're watching very carefully in the senate there's going to be debate but really when things will be happening with this measure is going to happen about 1845 g.m.t. that is when this vote that everyone is watching very carefully is expected to take place said well the president is tweeting that this is going to send a message of weakness to iran members of his own party and this is what's so striking about this are saying just the opposite saying you campaign to get us out of foreign entanglements and that's exactly what we're doing here this isn't projecting a message of weakness this is in fact showing unity on a campaign promise but still it is remarkable in divided congress that just last week really essentially voted along party lines with regard to the impeachment and whether or not the president was abusing his presidential powers this time we expect to see at least 8 republicans standing with democrats on this measure and again as you pointed out the fear as many in congress is when the president did act in regards to that strike on the iranian commander many felt very nervous about that that the president was acting unilaterally when the u.s. constitution mandates that the congress not the president declare war so what does this mean for the president then. well what this means is this is another attempt by congress to limit the president's power now we've seen a similar measure that in essence is largely symbolic very similar to this one that happened back in march of 2019 that's when the congress voted to limit u.s. involvement for the saudi its support for the saudi led coalition in yemen now the president vetoed that measure he's expected to do this again but what this is doing is sending a message to the president that he is the fear from congress is that he is increasingly acting unilaterally and what this vote is saying essentially is look at we're watching you and we're looking for ways to limit your power thank you kimberly committee how can live for us in washington. in iran meanwhile a group responsible for approving candidates for parliamentary elections has released its list of voters will cast their ballots on february 21st 290 seats are up for grabs over seeing who stands in the guardian council a body historically dominated by ultra conservatives is already bored more than a.t.m. fees from running for reelection moderates and for miss candidates those are barry has the details from 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. lebanon's new cabinet is expected to hold its 1st session later on thursday despite a backdrop of widespread public anger a prime minister's government won a vote of confidence in parliament on tuesday elna tackle a deep me economic crisis and propose ideas for debt repayment but protesters have denounced the absolute cabinet and say they want a complete overhaul of the political system. in iraq thousands of women are marching in the capital baghdad to protest against recent calls for gender segregation an announcement was made by shia cleric. earlier this week in support of separating male and female protester is iraq's witness months of anti-government rallies calling for a complete overhaul of the political system simona foton is that the protests in baghdad she says say the protesters accused her and his supporters of imposing conservative norms on that. hundreds of women have turned out here in baghdad 3 square supported also by their fellow male demonstrators and what they are really saying here is that there are conservative social norms that they feel are being run by shia clerics the southern while until recently it supported them stations but has since come out with a set of rules for demonstrators which include the segregation of the genders and of course this is not how many protesters here feel this is a very young protest movement one that rejects both the political and religious establishment and it also rejects the conservative social rules that come of it so we have seen here a lot of women who are very different signs rejecting this kind of calls by much but are subtler for the gender struck mix we're also seeing women bearing floods we're seeing pictures of women who have given their lives as part of this protest movement and of course this march for comes at a critical time here because we have seen quite a few setbacks. for the demonstrators they have lost the support. they feel that carter is trying to seize control of this protest movement and have also lost some strategic fight but some of the bridges over the. the numbers here come out and protest and denounce the nomination of the prime minister the comic. and to basically say that their commitment to blowing until their demands are met that is part of it is a fine. the problem is not yet over the. more anti-government protests are expected in guinea in west africa against a referendum to change the constitution opposition parties have threatened to boycott the vote they fear president condé will use it changes to extend his mandate more than 30 people have died since demonstrations began in october mohammed has 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 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 that when i know what i want we're not kamar to do business if there is peace it's better for there is no peace in the country i have 2 children to feed it's not. we have 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 we want peace. demonstrations began after president condé and now has plans for a constitutional reforms last october. current constitution and allows a maximum of 25 year presidential terms but condé wants to extend that he 1st came to power in 2010 and his mandate should end in december. the government will hold a referendum in march on removing the 2 time restriction but opposition parties say they will boycott the vote and continue to rally until the decision is called off for him mohammed al jazeera time now for a check of the world weather with kevin and it's very cold as some bases across north america it's winter and it is messy across the united states that's what you would expect it's it's a bad storm though i want to show what's been happening here this big system that's making its way right now towards the northeast caused a lot of problems in terms of winter weather here across the dakotas this is what a blizzard looks like the heavy snow the whens taking the visibility almost down to 0 course a lot of problems on the roads as well as the airports and then down across the south in mississippi they were dealing with flood of course they have seen another storm just last week it saturated the soil any rain that fell caused a lot of problems and this is what we are looking at right now very heavy rain pushing across much of the the eastern seaboard that's going to also bring some flooding possibly some severe storms today but take a look at the temperatures behind the system we're talking this is where the blizzard was minus 23 here in minneapolis mundus 25 in winnipeg when you factor in the cold when you factor in the wins you get a wind chill this is what it actually feels like on the skin minus 32 in minneapolis minus 32 in winnipeg the good news is that the temperatures are going to feel a little bit better by the time we go towards tomorrow tempers warm up to about but that's not and it's still very cold across much of that area we're also dealing with a big storm system over here across parts of europe over the next few days this is storm dennis it is going to cause a lot of problems also for parts of iceland where we are going to be seeing blizzard conditions there and then heavy rain across the u.k. so watch this system as we go towards the next couple days back to full thank you very much for that kevin still ahead on the news hour when 3 words we take a look at that phone app helping rescue sadnesses save lives. while animals. the catchy song is in the spotlight korean court. and in sports hats off to this ice hockey player in boston all be here it's been a spawning experience. i am. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really woken up the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel almost to school board lawyers on 'd a bogus argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian cult or inside story on al-jazeera . progress. or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our life. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better or worse. in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the impact of they are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data land coming soon. the owner of the and. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for the back to school a reminder of our top stories there's been a surge in the number of corona virus infections in china mainly in hoop a province yet the center of the outbreak there were more than 15 founds and new confirmed cases on wednesday across the country and 254 people have time. meanwhile a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 asian governments over fears of the current a virus has docked in cambodia there are no confirmed cases on board in the west bank so far but no passengers are allowed to get off the ship. let's bring in our guest now for more on this corona virus outbreak and how the chinese government has been handling it let's speak to martin jacks who is joining us from cambridge thank you very much for being with us sir we appreciate your time on jacks is the author of when china rules the world. there's been quite a few questions about the chinese government's transparency and this is still hanging over efforts to manage this disease what message she is saying think the beijing government is trying to send both inside and outside of china by sucking these 5 officials well i think. in the 1st that suits. things were not where they should have been in her problems than in the womb which is why they've dismissed the party secretary in the probe in the province never have a problem and also it will have a city. and and secondly i think it's also. a sort of more generalized. signal. to government institutions ready. what is required is not just a proactive response but also transparency do you think if in transparent when it comes to you know the outside world and the messages that they've been putting out is it more transparent as some iran than with the epidemic back in 2003 . no question a true chill can choose really the so does epidemic i mean it took a long time for them to admit to it to the outside world whereas this time. the admission has been much i mean much faster whether it's being fast enough well that remains to be seen but. you know that in bin january from early mid january we all knew about it. and. of course there's been criticism i think within china and china about whether or not particularly there will have no. officials. when sufficiently public about it. maybe i don't know the answer to this i mean it looks as if it could have been faster it could have been better but nonetheless it's it we got to have 2 things in mind here one is that. it was much much much better than what happened with sars and secondly. you know with the new epidemic i mean everyone else she's dealing with this on a 2nd on basis on the basis of the knowledge they've got from the chinese situation in china they would get something they didn't know what it was right and the government i mean has been a focus of course in trying to manage this outbreak but also it's m.h. what consequences do you see in the short and long term for the central government's image in beijing. well i think it's i think the reaction is green of course and you would expect this to be huge within china because. the effect of this. quarter virus is basically believed to hugely disrupt the life of the country obviously to chiquita day and we were not so but everywhere life is a think to economy as being seriously affected the repercussions globally of very profound gumede it looks as if for example europe might go into recession nosers also that because of the global supply chains and so on it so happens that a problem is exclusively in poland to these global supply chains so i think that there was a look you got to say this is the biggest problem biggest think of this of anything like this character to happen so it should cheat in being took office in 2012 and i think there will inevitably be profound reflection on what they go wrong and what they got out and what about on people's ability to to speak out i mean there's been some criticism this time around do you think that this could lead perhaps perhaps not in the short time but perhaps a to 22 and sudden change in the culture of silence that exists in china. well to judge by the social media the there's. a great deal of a culture of silence i mean the social media and been huge hugely responding to the situation and if there has been censorship between seems to me to be a large measure overwhelmed by the nature of the response so. i think. probably a prior question it is to watch extend and i don't know the old rules but to what extent was there a lack of proper reporting from the outset through hand and. and her day and the answer to that seems to be definitely yes and it's the dismissals and what was the cause of this was the cause of incompetence ineptitude on their part of a desire to cover up the image of and so on and it was a chinese new year or maybe it's not as bad as it has some people are suggesting and so on who was there also devolvement of beijing in some degree or another in discouraging. the public publicizing this. early enough i don't know the answer to the 2nd i think the answer the 1st yes clearly was a very serious problem very interesting to talk to you about this sank you so much for joining us on august sarah martin jack author of when china holds up well joining us and from london thank you now another story that's come out of china is that beijing has scientists chief on hong kong and macau affairs than shell maying is the most senior official to be removed from his post since mass anti-government protests began in hong kong last june he will be replaced by the deputy chairman of facings top political advisor a body of protest outside it over a now scrapped exhibition all have turned into a movement for greater autonomy. in italy former deputy prime minister my tail could soon be put on trial over a ban he imposed on migrants italian senate. on mentoring unity so he can be prosecuted for refusing a rescue boat with migrants to dock last year was it his interior minister at the time at least 15 people have died in iran 50 others are missing after a boat carrying rangar refugees heading for malaysia capsized on tuesday in the bay of bengal al-jazeera stan there chadri reports from cox's bazar in bangladesh. some 130 people mainly women and children were parked on the fishing trawler that capsized relatives wait anxiously outside the police station to find more information on the missing so be a big moment was one of the survivors but she lost her 8 year old daughter in the tragedy she was planning to join her husband who lives in malaysia. when the board capsized over trying to sting phil my child was on my lap so that he slipped and washed by the wave i cried out my child my child but she was gone by then marriage is another layer the smugglers commonly use 17 year old muslim a bigamous fiance lives in malaysia her fiance made all the arrangement with the smuggler she managed to survive and now regrets ever attempting the trip. at around 3 in the morning the boat carrying us hit a coral reef most of us were kept in 3 separate holes in the boat but suddenly people started shouting there was water entering please open the hatch once the boat started sinking we were let out and eventually rescued. bangladesh security services they have intercepted at least $500.00 running a refugees from around its shores since last year but security agency that made its a major challenge. we have been able to identify many of those who are involved in this human trafficking business so far we have arrested at least 8 of them after this incident and taken preemptive actions against others we also have increased patrolling and surveillance along with the other security agencies more than 730000 rohingya muslims who fled brutal military crackdown in myanmar in 2017 currently live in a crowded camp in cox bazaar facing an uncertain future facing increasing restriction on their movement communication blackout and desperate condition in the camps many rowing or refugees are now turning to human smugglers to ferry them across a broad to fit better life willing to take a dangerous journey through the bay of bengal bangladesh's government says it is working hard to tackle the problem but it meets it's a huge task tend to charge a cox's bazar bangladesh. 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 a deadline that would allow the equal rights amendment to be added to the constitution if successful it would prohibit the government from denying equal rights to a person on the basis of their ideas or castro has a story. 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 oh. 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 ever jinyan 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. gender 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 tween 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 very quality castro al-jazeera washington u.s. attorney general william barr has agreed to testify before the house judiciary committee next month to answer questions regarding president roger stone them across have criticized barr and the department of justice for overruling federal prosecutors want to stone was sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to congress but the justice department says it will reduce that sentence. 4 people were rescued from a blizzard on scotland's highest mountain earlier this week thanks to a free phone it's called what 3 words a new system to identify people's exacts locations jessica baldwin 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 control of it ask them if that a 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 that and it's 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 ts jessica baldwin al-jazeera pembury angle and. still ahead on al-jazeera in sport the manchester united's play it kept away from the rest of the squad due to call on a virus to us a lot more coming at a distance. business leaders want to buy no brush paul. business leaders want to buy no brush paul. but back it's a song that became an internet sensation and triggered a lengthy legal battle not copyright noire korea waiting for a court to decide who owns the rights to baby shock from seoul rob mcbride has the 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 scream protests for its south korean produces baby shark has been up and. 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 and now baring their teeth they're claiming plagiarism rejecting the defense that baby shark is actually based on an old campfire song that no one owns we added some originality and ever deeper t. to the public domain song and we think that they copied our originality. and there seems no stopping that baby schott juggernaut. the latest spin. baby shark and fellow animation pink funk go on a space romp it's a single long movie and yes guess what 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 gravy. when the court hears the commission's decision it could have big implications in the world of copyright i think it's a very unique and interesting case in korean copyright and or international copyright law as well but will do nothing for the estimated $4000000.00 of us on this planet to have heard it and might never be the same again probably cried al-jazeera so. fully thank you very much olympic officials have criticized what they call irresponsible rumors that they'll pass by in the perspire in the game sorry because of the outbreak of the coronavirus major sporting events within china have been canceled or delayed but with $162.00 days to go japanese organizers remain positive after meeting members of the international olympic committee on thursday japan strengthened its border controls for chinese arrivals and has so far only reported around 30 virus cases on the mainland. q there are many irresponsible rumors about coronavirus but i would like to make clear once again that we're not considering the cancellation postponement of the games let me make that clear we have set up countermeasures and we are sharing information with the national institute of pictures diseases as far as tokyo 2020 is concerned would like to continue coordinating with the national government and respond calmly. manchester united's new signing audience galo has been working out away from that training ground as a coronavirus precaution the nigerian was signed on loan from chinese club shanghai 2 weeks ago and didn't go on united's foreign training camp due to fears of travel restrictions he could make his debut against chelsea on monday mohamed sollars been named in egypt's provisional olympic football squad but it's club liverpool will have the final say if it doesn't go liverpool will be without him for the 1st few weeks of the english premier league season they've already complained about losing players to the africa cup of nations next january egypt. says they cannot force to play to the n.b.a. and the l.a. lakers extended their lead in the western conference with a win over the nearest rivals the bron james and anthony davis were on top form away from home against the denver nuggets james had his 12th triple double of the season. but the nuggets did make them work hard for the win jamal murray was that top score with 33 shots like this one helping them force the game into overtime with the scores locked at 111 h. . it was davis who proved the difference for the lakers though. 33 points 7 of them came in overtime to secure the win by 4 they now have a 4 game lead over denver heading into the all star break. the n.f.l. player suspended for hitting an apartment with a helmet has been reinstated by the league cleveland browns defensive end miles garrett accused the pittsburgh steelers mason rudolf of inciting him with a racial insults prior to this incident on nov 14th garrets was suspended indefinitely but after meeting the n.f.l. commissioner he has been cleared to return to action one of the warmest winters in sweden for decades is causing major problems for world rally championship organizers this is the only truly winter at rally in the championship and drivers are usually confronted by large snow banks and as you can see there are none this year the opening stage of rally sweden was due to be held later on thursday but was cancelled and replaced by a practice session because of the lack of snow after the root had already been cut from 18 stages to 11 last week. formula one teams continue to reveal their new calls for the upcoming season this was max 1st stop and putting the red bull of the 16th through its paces the dutchman was the closest challenger to the dominant sadie's last year and some 3rd in the driver's championship proper testing starts in barcelona next week with the 1st race in australia coming up in march. we want to fight for the chairmanship and do better than last year and be there from from the 1st race on more it's because that's already where you have to start to perform in that big year we're on the good way the team is very motivated worked very hard over the winter as well so i just can't wait to get started. to tennis on former world number 3 grigor dimitrov fell to canadian teenager felix seem at the rotterdam open dimitrov has slipped down the rankings since his a.t.p. finals victory in 2017 the 19 year old is on the up though and has passed a meter of at number 21 in the world the man at the bottom of the screen putting on a show here he reached the round of 32 with a 6462 win over the bulgarian. to ice hockey and a nice moment of appreciation by boston fans for their players david pasternack scored a hat trick to lead them to victory over the montreal canadiens fans responded by throwing their hats on to the ice the bruins team shop must have plenty in stock as lots pasternak for the trick this season no bruins player has done that since 1975 . all right that's all the sport follow paul thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera as always spend to mourn our web site at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on there more news coming up after this very short break to stay with this. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is you don't belong and there's only so much we can say before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization of the radicalized youth syrians announces the era the whole d.n.a. about syria is to deliver news of people who are subject to the decisions made by the pope but you know most of the others you feel about will the general election in december the 12th or is old anything when you see big groups of people walking through europe they're all individuals with children the lloyd's of it but stores these places become a complete truck full color or simply nowhere to put all these people you have to deal with them to treat the issue didn't you expect. big stories generally sounds like maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things never really being believed. murdered in the war to even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalists on this so it was clear and it sounds to be an engineer people just think that the listening post on al-jazeera. a unique kid endangered biodiversity lives in the heart of one of ecuador's tropical jungles. there was a lot of misinformation about the animals that we have here and now the probability is becoming by so their self conservation their communities al-jazeera journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist. to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. the. china replaces its top officials at the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak as a number of 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