Of failing in the search for their relative. To the Chinese Government has confirmed that 6 Health Care Workers have died from corona virus more than 1700 others have been infected most of them in a province thats the center of the outbreak the announcement raises concerns over the shortage of medical supplies and protective gear for doctors and nurses who are treating patients it adds as well to the growing public anger a good seal surratt is following the death of the doctor the doctor who was reprimanded for raising the alarm about the virus back in december lets go live to hong kong our correspondent there james brown its amazing isnt it those expected to take care of the sick are themselves falling ill and even dying. And the same thing happened during the sars epidemic 17 years ago so questions are being asked about why lessons have not been learned but as you pointed out in your introduction yes there has been concern over the fact that many medical workers like adequate protective clothing there have been reports online of doctors and nurses saying just that now we know as you say that the number of doctors and nurses whove been infected with the virus has now risen to more than 700 but lets also remember 6 medical workers have died we dont know whether that figure includes dr lee one leon the whistleblower a doctor whose death was confirmed last friday he died from the virus after of course 1st raising the alarm more than 6 weeks ago about this virus for doing his job he was punished by the Police Forced to sign a humiliating statement well now his his warnings are starting to to bear fruit. Well the World Health Organization is saying that outside of who by province there hasnt been a drastic rise in the number of new infections not a sharp rise anyway so thats i guess offers a crumb of comfort in of course worldwide the World Health Organization says the number of infections still stands at below 500 and its for that reason that they have not declared a pandemic of course and with this this huge said that we were reporting it there gallus a age and this is down to the fact that theyre extending their definition the criteria by which you are determined to have their virus or not is now being why. Thats right and really its hard to fathom these figures you dont know whether to read too much into them or not as you say china has now brought in the criteria for the way the diagnosis patients who are suspected of having this far as yet this same criteria is not being applied to the rest of china or indeed here to hong kong but certainly that spike on thursday caused a lot of alarm in china and indeed more confusion because the day before we were starting to see a trend which suggested that the virus may be starting to stabilize and suddenly we saw that great jump in the figures on thursday and thats left people in china and elsewhere feeling confused not knowing what to believe for right age and thank you for that adrian brown there correspondent live in hong kong but now we can speak to see environs is a journalist and author of Hong Kong Chinas new colony hes also in hong kong and is joining us live now as he then thank you very much indeed for joining us we are almost drowning arent we in this a c. A torrent of statistics im wondering how much confidence how much faith do you have in the transparency in the reporting of the numbers by the chinese authorities. Well i mean as we just heard from adrian brown there is definitely skepticism over these figures when the criteria for all seeing the figures was changed or lets say the number of cases rose 9 sold only monogamous rights in the number of cases there is an enormous question around the credibility of these figures also theres a question around the number of people who have died because theyve been told to leave hospitals even people with critical diseases to make way for these coronavirus patients so i mean are they part of the same sense of the cystic are they Something Else the fact of the matter is theres a lot more people dying than the reflected in the figures that weve seen from the chinese authorities and yet that that element of skepticism that youve just outlined that seems to be completely absent in the w. H. A. For instance the w. H. O. Has the sink wished itself in a way by by pouring praise and lauding the efforts being taken by at the chinese authorities. I have to say this is a cause of some considerable mystery. The director of the w. H. O. Seems to miss no opportunity when he makes public statements to law of the chinese authorities for their competence and skill in handling this matter there is now a call so its resignation theres a big petition circulating around. And there is a feeling i think growing the w. H. O. Is not on top of this job because its claims too much site paying too much concern to politics rather than the strict medical requirements which after all is what its supposed to be doing and date another example of course id like you to think about is that that creation that was allowed to dock in cambodia after being turned away by it was it 4 or 5 different ports in the asian region but it was it seemed very much as though one send the Prime Minister was actually wanting politically to show support for the chinese authorities rather than acting upon what may have been the best interests of his own people. Well again this is something that has certainly been serving embedded itself cambodia is extremely close to china very havilland very heavily reliant on china for investment and there is always a suspicion particularly in International Fora where cambodia or temperature is now alone or that what its cool these days is number one i liked and always be relied upon to support the chinese point of view whats very interesting though is that chinas closest ally north korea immediately shut its borders to chinese visitors once news of this bus became known so the politics here are devilishly complicates it and i suppose youve raised north korea i reckon that if there were to be any kind of evidence of coronavirus this coronavirus having entered north korea a we wouldnt get any information about it and b. Would be devastating given the infrastructure the Health System being in such a poor state but this is the problem with one party states who make it their business to control information and obviously the situation in north korea is its really difficult to get information out of north korea narry difficult for citizens within north korea to know whats going on and in china itself theyve been tightening the screws again on the internet having allowed the small window where there was quite a lot of criticism might actually say a big volume of criticism of the local off on it is in his base province so you know this makes a Health Crisis also encircled its a crisis theyve invited talking to us live from hong kong thank you very much. Well as we just mentioned in cambodia it was all smiles as passengers disembarked from a cruise ship that had been turned away by 4 asian governments because of fears about the virus there have been no confirmed cases among the more than 2000 people who were on board the westerdam wayne a reports from sihanoukville thats where the ship is docked. There was celebration and relief as passengers finally received word they were allowed to begin disembarking from the west a dam a ceremonial welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around asia as port up to port rejected the ships request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice its nice to be able to get home feels very good but my remote say must be on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didnt suffer at all and we knew it was no illness at book. Cambodias Prime Minister who flew in for the occasion hes consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus and did so again on the dock in sihanoukville when other government said no to the ship he said yes and he wasnt about to let this opportunity slip by. People aust if there are people on the ship that have coronavirus would combine them to doc i can respond very clearly that if there are people with this virus on the ship i would allow them to dock as soon as possible but there were no confirmed cases on board blood tests taken from 20 passengers who were unwell when the ship arrived in cambodian waters on thursday tested negative these are among the 1st passengers to disembark and sit force on land for the 1st time in 2 weeks the whole process of getting everybody off the ship is expected to take around 3 days so for many on board the frustrating waits will continue. The plight of the westerdam was another blow to the cruise ship industry which is being hit hard by coronavirus its own a carnival is the largest cruise operator in the world and says its share price may tumble this year by more than a half because of cancellations it also warns the diamond princess which is docked in new york a hama japan with thousands quarantined on board and many confirmed infections among passengers and. Crew experts say the potential for transmission of the virus on a ship is high so theyre not surprised the industry is suffering so if you are in a confined environment like in a cruise ship or in a train then if you are exposed to like you know within the family or with your next to the cabin of the infected person then you can get infected for those on the wish to dam a bizarre cruise around asia is over ending with a welcome and a farewell in cambodia dont never forget when hey Al Jazeera Center phil. The u. S. Senate has voted to limit President Trumps ability to go it alone and launch war with iran the move to reduce his president ial powers was backed by 8 members of his own Republican Party the war powers resolution means trump would have to seek congressional approval to launch any future strikes well this was prompted by the assassination of Iranian Military commander kasim the money in a u. S. Strike last month he said to a counter strike on u. S. Soldiers President Trump is expected to veto the measure and the u. S. Attorney general william barr has criticized President Trumps use of twitter that after mr trump tweeted about the sentencing of roger stone earlier this week that roger stone is the former Campaign Advisor hes been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice in an exclusive interview with a. B. C. s Pierre Thomas barth a chance comment undermine the work of the justice department. You have public statements and tweets made about the department about. People in the department our men and women hear about cases pending in the department and a bad judges before whom we have cases. Make it impossible for me to do my job to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the in the department that were doing our work with integrity were going to. Find out why. The countrys top election official. Messaging app is back in court trying to get security. Hello the rains appear to be coming rather more widespread that weve got lighting on here as well to show you where the deepest showers are so borneo so the way i see it most indonesia is like to get further showers now and in the forecast and if you see the orange top thats where the heavy showers on the senate come straight in sumatra in western java but theyre coming off into Southern Thailand now as well spot right in the sense thinking about coming north of the rains will follow it there is a massive blue stuff a few showers stuff in the water and just coming down the vietnamese coast as evidence as well the showers there in the philippines are rather less frequent than they were a couple of days ago however in australia we have more of the same that part from this cycle in which will probably affect the surf surfing conditions on the beach for example as for rain well thats not an effective by the psycho weve got showers in victoria New South Wales and you see the result of those so far theyre pretty big ones theyve been useful but also cause flooding thats true in queens and carry on in that vein temp is about right 21 now in 32 it brings been dry percys about 28 there are in the showers in the west as there were before the picture on sunday sees a repeat performance in the showers a good concentration in the eastern side of New South Wales. But. You know strangely a fee is a wise thing about chinas growing influence on University Campuses. When i want to east investigates how beijing is building operate. On aljazeera. Aljazeera. Every. The up. To. The. Conference is a can of the top stories here about his or the Chinese Government has confirmed that 6 Health Care Workers have died from the karuna virus and 1700 others are infected and it raises concerns about the shortage of medical supplies protective gear for doctors and nurses treating patients in the. U. S. Attorney general william barr has criticised Donald Trumps use of twitter thats after the u. S. President commented on the sentencing of roger stone earlier this week but the same is the former Campaign Advisor has been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and the structure of justice. The u. S. Senate has passed legislation requiring the president to seek congressional approval for any future strikes on iran this fall is the assassination of the top iranian commander kassam son of money he was killed in a u. S. Strike last month. An iraqi air base where u. S. Streets station has been targeted in another rocket attack it happened in the northern province of kirkuk so far there are no reports of casualties a previous attack on the same base in december killed a u. S. Contractor and that led to a chain of events that caused regional tensions to soar. Iran is warning its ready to strike both the u. S. And israel if they give it any reason to do so the head of the revolutionary guards made the statement during a ceremony marking the end of 40 days of mourning for class and tsunami large crowds marked the occasion to remember the former iranian commander in both iran and iraq with some demonstrators in baghdad blocking the road close to the airport where he was killed last month President Trump altered the killing claiming he posed an imminent threat. Meanwhile in iran the list of approved candidates allowed to run in next weeks parliamentary elections has been unveiled but many moderate and reformist candidates have been disqualified and as i said big reports from tehran the Guardian Council which oversees the approvals is historically dominated by ultra conservatives. 290 seats over 7000 candidates campaigning has officially started but the attention has not been on the candidate standing but those disqualified from taking part by irans Guardian Council the constitutional body that oversees the parliamentary elections and claims that the disqualifications have been politically motivated now youre turning i deny this the Guardian Council has the duty to verify the qualification of candidates and the council has never had a political view over them those who have not been approved can come to us to see the issue in their cases many of those disqualified are politicians linked to the Iranian Reformist Movement one of those who standing again is reformist candidate 40 that mousavi. It was an unfortunate event some of our colleagues and friends from the past 4 years who have been cooperating with us were not given the chance to run in elections some of them have been treated unfairly. But on the streets its hard to tell theres an election taking place although campaigning has officially started for now irans capital is showing signs that its an election mood yet here and one of the citys central squares theres no banners no posters and no country thats kind of the lack of interest has been blamed on the current Economic Situation last november so widespread protests against the fuel price increase other areas of the economy are reeling under punitive u. S. Sanctions politicians are trying to relate to peoples economic woes. I am aware of the difficult situation and Economic Hardship that today parts versus side youre struggling with the past to change this condition is neither silence nor staying away from voting. Should come together to the center of events to be able to trigger change theres been called by some to boycott the elections while leaders of people to come out to vote a good turnout will give legitimacy to the iranian political establishment something iran wants to use to silence its weston and domestic critics aside big aljazeera the. Government leaders in mexico are being accused of giving only haul falls in support to families of People Killed in the Drug Cartel War heartbroken families say theyre forced to take the lead to recover remains from secret graves. Has met volunteers helping to pick the bodies in vera cruz. A search party has assembled on the grounds of a Catholic Church in vera cruz most of the volunteers of the Family Members of missing persons nationwide more than 60000 people have disappeared since the start of the war on drugs in 2006 most are believed to be the big domes of criminal gangs or corrupt authorities theres no doubt in recent years its become commonplace for the families of the disappeared to participate in organized searches for possible clandestine gravesites. The recent discovery of a human bone fragment in this field means other human remains could be hidden nearby. Might yet that is traveled nearly 2000 kilometers from her home in sonora to join the search. So this is one of. The sometimes for a Family Member being given a small piece of bone can make them feel better because. That fragment can mean some months parents or children can finally have peace. False alarms are not uncommon. But a few volunteers like that have gotten quite good at spotting clues. He says he cant remember exactly how many bodies hes helped to uncover in that time. The families of the missing that have learned and are now teaching the government how to conduct a search these families dont have forensics training but were the ones finding the bodies this should be an embarrassment to the Mexican Government. There are fishel observers and police keeping watch over the search brigade but its the volunteers digging holes and sifting through the soil that seem to be doing most of the work. One of the most common things that weve heard from members of the search brigade is that its the Mexican Government that should be out here in the heat and the sun searching for human remains. This is the 5th time a National Brigade has gathered for this kind of search and its the largest one to date. By the end of the day authorities arrived to examine the scene and determine whether or not this site will be counted among the more than 600. 00 clandestine graves discovered in recent years. That a cruise. The chief organizer of elections in malawi is under pressure to resign following what judges described as grave irregularities in last years vote. The president lower bad mentally has mall. The i mean if youre going to protest as im allowed the seal of the building of the Electoral Commission and if like i was mad enough. Hundreds marched through the streets of the Southern City of blantyre only a few managed to get past Police Barricades and call themselves 2 a protest the to says he will only take the chains off when the commissions chairwoman jane answer and has started to resign. The guests of mic because all what we need is this best scenario in this office should be so we dont want them to get inside this room. In the capitol a long way people also march towards the offices of the Electoral Commission. Is a given present peter moore tarka a narrow win in last years election but the court accused the commission of numerous in consistencies that included using correction fluid on ballot sheets janeane saad denies accusations the results had been altered and the materials that were sent. We indeed did not include it depicts. And even the doing it training we taught we told the trainees that the 2 peaks is no doubt but in court one Election Commission member pointed the blame at and saw plainly the instructions were given by this year to this year. And the time that this who was getting section the city were not even involved this commission i think it just happened by literally. Malawis Constitutional Court on wednesday threw out an application by president p. To metallica to suspend the result. The court had given the country just 150 days to order a new election with many now concerned that may not be enough time to restore confidence in the electoral process manly aljazeera. South africas president has used his state of the nation address to defend his record on the economy members of the opposition Economic Freedom fighters or f f repeated they disrupted the speech and when it resumed sirena poser acknowledged more needs to be done to kickstart Economic Growth and he admitted debt was reaching unsustainable levels our country is facing a stark reality. Economy has not grown at any meaningful rate for over a decade even as jobs are created the rate of unemployment continues to deepen we need to fix our public finances low levels of growth mean that we are not generating enough revenue to meet our expenses our debt is heading towards unsustainable levels. The u. N. Says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in italy province the last remaining rebel held area since december the 1st the vast majority of them are women and children never ended up in displacement camps close to the Turkish Border but conditions there are desperate says the Winter Weather sets in and storms blanket the area with no relief workers say 10 children have died in the last week alone. There are 27 families living in tents are things are still in cars we dont have good the situation is very difficult its impossible for anyone to rent a home. Without the situation here is very difficult as you can see its not being in a temperature is below 0 you can see it to be staying in a tell because the brain cost 100. 00 or 200 dollars and theres a lot of displacement going on now the messaging Service Whatsapp has gone back to a California Court to continue its case against an israeli Surveillance Company its suing n. S. A. Group for allegedly hacking into its app to spy on more than a 1000 people there the separate incident in 2018 the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin sound man was accused of using n. S. A. Technology to hack the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos the company is denying the allegations joel Scott Railton is a Senior Researcher at the university of toronto and he actually helped whatsapp investigate n. S. A. Over the alleged breach and he says the case reflects a wider trend. I think were really living in sort of like the gray areas of International Law and certainly the gray areas of oversight and it should come as no surprise that when there is a Technology Like this thats so powerful thats so invasive and so unregulated its going to get abused and the whats app case is a perfect example of this a lot of governments took this technology and they abused it to spy on dissidents human rights defenders journalists and others i think whats unique about this case is that its a window into what happens when states think that they can behave without a lot of oversight the way to look at this is every technology that we use on a daily basis has vulnerabilities and with enough effort and time and resource can probably be hacked the question is really what happens when technology does get hacked what do companies do to protect their users what do legal structures provide by way of protections for users whats interesting about this case is that Many Companies have had their technologies hacked but whats have to respond in this case to go after and so is muscular for years and so has showed up being abused to target journalists and others and for the most part theyve kind of been the bully on the playground whats different here is that you know whats out somebody is big cousin has showed up and said not so fast and not on our platform. I am. I am. Toughest take a look at the top stories here at aljazeera the Chinese Government has confirmed 6 Health Care Workers have died from the corona virus and 700 others are infected is raising concerns about the shortage of medical supplies and protective gear for doctors and nurses it adds to the growing public anger against chinese authorities following the death of the doctor who was reprimanded for raising the alarm about the virus in december the u. S. Senate has passed legislation requiring the president to seek congressional approval for any future strikes on iran it was backed by 8 Republican Services this follows the assassination of a top iranian commander kassam salami who was killed in a u. S. Strike last month u. S. Attorney general william barr has criticised Donald Trumps use of twitter that softer the us president commented on the sentencing of roger stone earlier this week roger stone is the former Campaign Advisor hes been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice and iraq here base where u. S. Troops are stationed has been targeted in another rocket attack in the northern province of kirkuk so far there are no reports of casualties but a previous attack on the same base in december killed a u. S. Contractor triggering a chain of events that calls regional tensions to soar. The u. N. Says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in italy province the last remaining rebel held area since december the 1st the vast majority of them are women and children and theyve ended up in displacement camps near the Turkish Border the conditions are desperate as the cold Winter Weather sets in and storms blanket the area with no relief workers say 10 children of already died this week messaging service whats app is gone back to a California Court to continue its case against an israeli Surveillance Company its suing any group for allegedly hacking into its app to spy on more than a 1000 people and in a separate incident in 2018 the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin saleh was accused of using n. S. A. Technology to hack the phone of the us jeff bezos one of the east is next. Tensions could cut global Economic Growth by point 8 percent. The stories in developments that are changing the way. China be a drag on the Global Economy try to. Come. On aljazeera. I want to strengthen his University Campuses tensions are rising and there are a lot of chan hey her heart she has got to go. But it was at that moment that i was attacked. At universities billions of dollars a year from Chinese Student fees and Research Projects with china. But now fears are growing that these lucrative arrangements made. Academic institutions Even National security at risk struggling universities not being sleepwalking that brain in a kind of its astonishing there is no excuse anymore. One want to use to invest