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A new york Court Sentences Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison 2 weeks after being convicted of rape and Sexual Assault. That the deadly fight for cameroon our exclusive interview with the man who says he is behind many of the separatist attacks. In sport coronavirus threatens the opening race of the formula one season 3 f one c. Members are placed in quarantine in melbourne ahead of sundays race. The corona virus crisis has been declared a pandemic making the declaration World Health Organization officials said the number of cases globally is just going to increase 118000 people have now been infected in 114 countries as the number of cases outside china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks Charlie Angela begins our coverage. This is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing Patient Protection and distance all Good Measures that countries should practice according to the World Health Organization but not enough as a declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. Has been seeing this outbreak around the clock and were deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread severity and by the a lot of mean the level is action. We have that for the med the our system and that 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic. What started in china has now spread to more than 100. 00 countries the possibility of containment is gone in italy the government is not ruling out further restrictions beyond the nationwide quarantine to slow the spread of the disease this is a crisis not just for the countrys creaking Health System but also its economy and italys Prime Minister Just Announced more efforts to prop it up. We decided to allocate the exceptional amount of 28300000000. 00 as we are aware of the difficulties the country is facing in this emergency it wont be used immediately but it will certainly be used to help mitigate the impact on the economy there is fear too in france as the number of cases creep up children still in school are encouraged to wash their hands by the Health Minister himself but the virus has already reached the heart of the government the culture minister is infected and 5 others are being tested president mccall avoided shaking hands as he prepares to move the country to phase 3 of its response closing more schools and risk to transport across the continent classrooms are emptying spain france and germany have shut schools in their most affected regions while italy greece romania and ukraine have sent home their entire student populations. As germany confirmed its death from the virus the governments message was that people must make sacrifices to their social lives to protect the elderly warning coded 19 will test Health Care Systems across europe in the us view will start this kind when the virus is out that the population has no immunity and author b. Exists and 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected as long as this situation continues to exist in the u. K. A Health Minister has tested positive and is self isolating despite being in contact with her last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he does not need to be tested his message its business as usual and to help the annual budget promised 39000000000. 00 toward off a coronavirus recession. The w. H. O. Says countries still have the power to change the course of this pandemic but what is inevitable is that cases will continue to climb. Out as here. Dr eric toner is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security he welcomes the w h os move to the find a virus as a pandemic i think. Any ambiguity about. Situation this disease is spreading around the world it will continue to spread around the world every country will be affected and so i think this clears up any confusion. I think theyre saying to all governments you really need to get ready you really no kidding need to implement a measure is to slow the spread in your d own country and so some countries have. Been denying that their country the risk or same they have no cases when thats probably not that not actually true so i think the issue is saying to them really you have to get ready pandemic literally names of people and but commonly with and Public Health we talked about a pandemic meeting Infectious Disease that spreading person a person a multiple con so thats been the case for several weeks so this disease seems to have a. 6 or 7 day doubling time that means twice as many cases each week so the most people are sick have a mild illness much like influenza and theyre not going to come to the attention Public Health authorities its not until you get hundreds of cases that theres any chance that a country would recognize that they have cases as probably not until there are thousands of cases they were really become quite obvious im joined now from rome by italys deputy Health Minister pierre paolo a sea lady as minister thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera were just hearing a little earlier that the w. H. O. Has recently just a few hours ago the cleric that the Coronavirus Crisis a pandemic what is your reaction to that clinician and how do you think its going to affect the situation that italy finds itself in. Thank you for the invitation you know i was waiting for these since few days ago because we know that these i mean these in several counties the little virus we know these is a new virus i mean there are all the characteristics to to have a plan b. So we were waiting for for this decision so what we have done in either the right now we have more than 10000. 00 pieces and close to me just a bit more than 800 people died for this obviously we have a huge flare up of. Outbreaks in either in the north of italy and now is a very very slowly spreading the center in the south of italy but you know in the center in south there are only few cases of the present time so what we have done we basically we did a lockdown of the entire nation resident. 3 the restrictions cooler there are tracks. And there is a balance of all Public Events and we believe that d. D. Is the most important thing to contain the virus spread. We learned this from china i mean china in the way and one they closed basically everything and they had a good control of disease disease after. 2 months i mean we know that right now there they have all the few cases they offer that they built are closing and this is what every count 3 right now when the outbreaks true i believe they should do it its interesting that actually w. H. O. The chief executive mike ryan also said that italy and iran are in the front line of coronavirus but actually other countries will be in that situation very soon what would your advice be to other countries that dont have the similar rate of infections and thats that italy has but that are seeing their numbers climb. I think you need to google step by step so at the beginning the most important thing is surveillance after d. C. If you have cases you need to do a contact precinct after these after Contact Tracing you need to track how many new keys you see you have an there are outbreaks that are not under control you need to close that area mean you start with the area where there is no control and then you may extend this area we did this the need early in the not of either the we had to out bricks one invented on the other to lumber d. And we did close to our as the one was a very little town of 3500 people and the other more than 55000 people and from there then we had to extend the area and this will slow down the spread and do you know if it is worth your os do you know if the fire spread has actually if that containment is preventing people from moving around in parts of the north especially where the lockdown had been in place for a while has that worked so far. Ok i can tell you that. Was the main police were these old brick started yesterday there were no cases so no dogs the disease the only way to contain and reduce as much as you can divide. Spread i mean i believe that cannot be deer or but you can slow down saw so well that then you can you cannot have your Health System under pressure like we have right now and in north of the the i mean if you can contain these waves obviously you will have a list of missions lets use you stress of you know know which is what a lot of invaded a lot of the European Countries right now are worried about a final point do you feel that italy has had enough support especially from its European Union partners in dealing with this or do you think news that have leaked out for example the fact that protective gear that medics use and that our stocks are running low in italy is not being sent over by other countries would you how would you describe the sort of support that italy has had so far and. Thank you for thank you for for your question i mean right now in our we are in the middle of in warsaw i cannot say that there was no soup or to what im what i can see that probably deploy was very overlooked by the majority of us of the majority of the west kountry so and so we need to be prepared to see when we have the outbreaks either we had a lot of erupts in the north and you know somebody will seeing ok that is the new china and its spreading all over the virus is that thats not true because we know that probably the part of entry of this virus was not either but maybe with germany i mean we would see this but see there are photographs of these all over in europe and now even in the United States you know with the new cases there with no patient 0 saw nobody will trap how devices are out there i mean this is a worldwide problem so 2 things mean mainly 2 things to do 1st meeting closing things and the other thing be prepared with your ass people in i. C. U. With bats and machine and medical doctors and nurses and whatever be ready with these because d. S. Will stop the wave and on the other and we treat the patients even mild disease we know these i mean its a disease that in 8085 percent of the cases very mild but there is a 1015 percent that may require a better edition and among those 510 percent may need. Only ice you bet especially needle in you know you have a 7 percent of the population that is more than 80 years old so this may explain also the number of that when we had it here paolo ciliary italys deputy Health Minister we look forward to hopefully speaking to you again so that you can give us an update on the impact of the travel restrictions apply to italy for the moment thank you. Ok well for more of our i guess International Overview were joined in the studio by need barker it was interesting listening to the Italian Deputy Health Minister there kind of talking about the help that he would want to the kind of coordination giving advice the w. H. O. Finally declared this a pandemic in a sense what is it what difference does it make well well lets start by breaking down the word epi in the word epidemic basically means surface it applies a virus that exists within a contained area whether they be a country or region for instance and its the least case part of the word pun demick means all so the implication of course meaning that the virus the illness affects all people there is a corner of the world that would potentially be exposed to corona virus in in the coming days and weeks we know there are 81. 00 countries that are currently not reporting any cases but the message from the w h o is basically expect those those cases to to emerge and be as prepared as possible a clear cut message to treat this robustly aggressively and connect the dots and implication perhaps that countries perhaps need to Start Talking to each other when it comes to sharing information in interesting the words that were used by dr pederasts you know that he was concerned by the spread and severity of the virus of course but also by what he called an alarming level of it in action are we seeing this connecting of the dots between countries you think. Well it depends on where you are if youre looking at the European Unions response we have seen the last couple of days efforts by the leaders of 27. 00 countries all of them have cases of the current virus just to add they are now talking to each other to coordinate joint action going Going Forward because they know quite simply that this is much more than a Health Crisis its going to affect the economies of all of the countries in the e. U. And certain economies like italy were already teetering on the brink of recession anyway there are many Vulnerable Countries in europe that need support theyre going to be looking to the likes of germany and france some of the biggest most powerful economies in europe but of course these nations are affected by the coronavirus will they be turning their attention inwards or will they be reaching out to support the rest of the block to leave parker for the moment thank you were mentioning there the threat of recession well the declaration of pandemic has hit the stock markets chris a saloon is in new york joins me now live it hasnt been a great couple of well certainly we can even these before for the stock market how bad has it been impacted now. Yeah its been extremely up and down for the last 2 weeks and today what started low has gone even lower on the news that the w. H. O. Is now calling this corona virus a pandemic Dow Jones Industrial average now more than 1300. 00 points lower more than 5 percent as investors worry that the coronavirus continues to spread that more people are staying home less people are traveling and theres even a mandatory containment zone in new york now north of the city an area where theres been an outbreak they are keeping people in and one mile radius from having large gatherings and going to school and so forth so the concern is getting very real and investors are worried about the long term impact on the economy there was a slight improvement in the markets on tuesday after the president suggested that there would be steps taken to mitigate the response on the economy but the problem is there have been no concrete plans for the coming there was some suggestion of a payroll tax cut there was pushback against that from democrats and republicans alike in congress the payroll tax might have given more money to employees and employers but at the expense of the Social Security fund which its meant to. Fund and that was a no go for a lot of lawmakers theres talk about targeted believe for Certain Industries that cruise ship industry in particular has been very hard hit by this this pandemic now. President suggested that they might be a veil may be a place where the government gives some relief but again not a lot of specifics what about the Airline Industry thats suffering the Energy Industry also down again today as its dealing with these low oil per. He says thats another concern for the economy across the board Lower Oil Prices that is affecting the finance industry less demand for oil because people are traveling less and so on so all of this is weighing on investors minds even as a con a mess from Goldman Sachs and other places are lowering their earnings expectations and lowering Economic Growth predictions for the year some experts even going so far to warn that a recession may be around the bend and all of that is whats causing the markets to tumble theyre looking for some reassurance from washington d. C. In particular and so far theyve yet to get it. Christine salumi it with the latest there from new york kristen fame q lets go to Kimberly Halkett at the white house kimberly were just hearing kristen there saying that the markets really like some kind of reassurance coming from the white house what is being planned there to stabilize the markets but i guess more widely how prepared to do do people think the u. S. Government thats actually is to you know for a potential coronaVirus Outbreak to the scale were seeing elsewhere. To give you a sense of what it feels like in washington around the United States right now really comes down to this every moment the headline is changing a lot of them arent even accurate because there is just so much uncertainty thats not what the markets are going to want but even just in the last hour i spent the last hour trying to confirm whether or not the president was going to address the nation from the oval office only to find out the if that was the case its no longer the case thats how quickly things are changing people are reacting quickly theyre reacting to things theyre seeing on social media which may or may not be true what we can tell you right now is there are a lot of different aspects of the Coronavirus Task force that are having various meetings for example delayed but we expect now under way is a meeting with Vice President mike pence with Hospital Executives in this country we know later on the u. S. President s schedule to have meetings with wall street executives what were seeing is planning on all fronts whether its Public Health whether its economic kristen talked about some of the ideas that are being floated on capitol hill in terms of relief for the ordinary american essential what it comes down to is this in terms of the planning there deciding how to spend the money where its going to come from we know that there is in the works and idea thats being floated to declare a National Emergency that would free up about 40000000000. 00 in emergency funding to help local communities deal with the spread of coronavirus and to contain it were also as kristen touched on watching as at least one community in the United States has put in place fairly draconian measures in terms of this containment zone a quarantine that is being enforced with the National Guard but we are hearing that the Coronavirus Task force headed up by the health and Human Services secretary alex a czar is floating that idea for a number of communities across the United States but again a lot of this is rumor hard to nail down and that is just adding an fueling to the uncertainty not just on wall street but also on main street can really help with the latest from the white house thank you. Katharyn ministry of Public Health has registered 238 new confirmed cases of corona virus the infections were confirmed in Foreign Workers who live in one residential complex and who had been quarantined as a precautionary measure after coming into contact with 3 other people had the fire was cut out and now has a total of 262 cases well meanwhile a surge of new cases in south korea has reversed 4 consecutive days of the climb the discovery on wednesday of a large cluster of infections has the hopes that the country had its outbreak under control scott heide love reports. Despite ongoing disinfection efforts throughout south korea theres been a reverse in the downward trend of corona virus cases the largest cluster yet discovered in the capital seoul at least 90 workers at a call center tested positive they worked in a building near a transportation hub in the southwest of the city home to 10000000. 00 koreans from epidemiology and so city officials are conducting an investigation they are also taking measures such as cell phone scene and diagnostic checks on those who are in close contact with the infected and in australia the Prime Minister announcing that italy joins china south korea and iran on its travel ban list australians and foreigners with residency visas returning from italy will face a 14 day self quarantine italy itself has effectively put itself into lockdown with travel now and this largely causes that loop we already had the enhanced screening measures the replies and a remarkable rescue in southeast china after being buried for 69 hours a man pulled from the rubble of a hotel for a virus patients in coron team the hotel in the city of jenin joe collapsed on saturday killing at least 26 people the 24 year old survivor is in a stable condition in hospital scott heiler aljazeera. My. Former libyan Intelligence Officer ive been on the ground he was found guilty of mass murder in 2001 for his involvement in the bombing of pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie in scotland all 259 people on board the flight from london to new york died as well as 11 people on the ground now a scottish review commission has referred the case to the high court the reports. Abdel baset tell mcgraw his family have long pushed to prove his innocence now 8 years after his death and more than 30 years after the lockerbie tragedy i got a chance the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has decided the conviction can be referred to the high court for appeal for the 3rd time we had identified 6 graves for referring the case to the appeal court and the commission has gone on to deliver a damning indictment of the process and they believe that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred by reason of an unreasonable verdict and the grounds of nondisclosure pan am flight 103 was blown up over the scottish town of lockerbie in december 1908 it was on route from london to new york and most of the 270 victims were american the us relatives were satisfied when in 2001 former libyan Intelligence Officer abdul basset tell the girl he was jailed for life for the attack he always said he was innocent and some scottish victims families have campaigned for years to clear him and find out who was involved on wednesday jim swire whose daughter was killed gave a written reaction read out by his lawyer for me this case is about 2 families mine and abdel baset behind their name who are seen to lie the needs of 25 of the families in applying for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the truth. He 1st appeal his conviction in 2002 but this was refused by scotlands high court the next year as the west started to rebuild trade ties with libya then leader Muammar Gaddafi accepted his countrys responsibility for the bombing he paid compensation to the victims families but all along some believe there was stronger evidence iran was behind the bombing months after 290. 00 died when a u. S. Warship brought down an iranian passenger plane. In 2009 he dropped his appeal and was allowed to fly home on compassionate grounds he had terminal cancer he died in 2000. 12 mcgraw his family have always described to us the 271st victim they say his last words were about fighting for justice now that fight has been given a new lease of life. Former hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and Sexual Assault weinstein was convicted of the offenses by a new york court last month the allegations helped spark the global need to movement and more than 100. 00 women have now accused the 67 year old of Sexual Misconduct back several decades weinstein has consistently denied any wrongdoing and his lawyer says he will appeal. That was just handed down by this court was. That number was a noxious there are murderers who will get out of court faster than Harvey Weinstein will that number spoke to the pressure of movements in the public that number did not speak to the evidence that came out at trial that number did not speak to the testimony that we heard that number did not speak nor did it speak to justice. Joins us live now from what we heard Harvey Weinsteins lawyer there speaking is it a view that is shared by anyone beyond his immediate legal circle do you think in the United States. No no i think theres very little sympathy for Harvey Weinstein lets just take a step back and just see how we got here in the movement she was talking about after the election of donald trump we saw the largest march in the history of this country throughout the country and through the world it was the womans march well then the next stage in this Movement Many people believe was when the new yorker and the New York Times published expose ace their investigative reporting into Harvey Weinstein there were very famous people who gave their name and said he sexually assaulted me they had dozens of allegations it also detailed the links you went to over decades to intimidate these women need a heart to hurt them and their family members their parents hiring and spotty firm to befriend the women to dig up dirt on them so this is the news was shot it was earth shattering really because we saw people take to twitter and actresses say if youve been assaulted if youve been harassed reach wheat with me too it lit up social media it created a movement and there were a lot of questions how would this movement end well were seeing now one possibility hes probably going to die in prison Harvey Weinstein sense that we weinstein sentenced to 23 years who is facing between 5 at the low end which is what his lawyers wanted to 29. 00 he probably didnt buy himself any favors from the judge when he said that he was confused that this was wrong and you thought it was all consensual and he said thousands of men are losing their due process im worried about this country of course Harvey Weinstein had to process he had a really really expensive loss in law firm representing him and he went to trial and he was convicted so a lot of people on social media especially the people who named him claiming this as a hands down victory for them today. And with the latest on that case from washington d. C. Thank you. U. S. President ial hopeful Bernie Sanders says that he will fight all despite another heavy defeat to joe biden in tuesdays them across the primaries sanders is now a long way behind biden in the race to take on donald trump for the presidency in the embers election but he says hes ready for sundays televised debate with this Party Opponent donald trump must be defeated and i will do everything in my power to make that happens. On sunday night in the 1st one on one debate of this campaign the American People will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal. Still to come this news hour were going to have more news on the coronaVirus Outbreak plus. Anger outside australias highest court as the popes treasurer fights is child Sexual Assault convictions why sri lankan authorities hope a type of bacteria carrying. It help reduce the spread of banking fever. Thats exactly the thing i dont like that you sit here and ask me discretion but fly from madrid to here every manager vents his frustration over coronavirus questions as one of spains biggest teams gets ready to play in england. Welcome back well start to look at the weather across the Arabian Peninsula and levant region here in qatar and around the gulf states the weather is fantastic 26 degrees in the sunshine i would turn my back on that region because really this area of low pressure developing across parts of egypt is going to be quite intense and its light to produce some extremely heavy rainfall and flash flooding in this part of the world is always a big house in these situations where you have got rain the could be a lot of lift the dust around where i think really significant accumulations of rain are going to cause some real problems across northern parts of egypt extending into the sinai and indeed the front associated with this really standard the parts of saudi arabia so expect some flooding rain here and again the could be really a risk to life and limb as that rain begins to fall down the brain itself extending into parts of iraq during the course of the day so lets head up into northern and central parts of africa where. Associate of this low pressure system weve got a northerly wind which is drawing there not just through the coast of libya but always down into more southern areas and into northern parts of china and so there will be a significant drop in temperature here and probably a fair amount of lifted dust as well developing over the next few days across parts of west africa see some heavy showers abidjan and they are a coasts of press cars here 29. The shocking treatment of disabled people in Eastern European state run cabins in these cages you cannot have access to a toilet or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight he has his hands and his fates tied to the bed 5 years after 1st highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europes recurring shane hart one on al jazeera in 2014 and aljazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear fear will be in bone a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked our lives they didnt allow you to hospital knowing we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread ebola and caused that devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on aljazeera. Welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera the World Health Organization has declared the corona Virus Outbreak to be a pandemic that classs it as spreading globally not just an epidemic of smaller localized outraised officials said it wouldnt change that response to criticized alarming levels of inaction by governments. June has been has just seen this outbreak around the clock and were deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread and severity and maybe are not mean levels. We have the format to be our system and that article did 19 can be characterized as a pandemic. Under me is a note awarded to use lightly. Carelessly. Italy has announced just under 30000000000. 00 of spending to fight the coronavirus the outbreak there is the largest outside china britains finance minister meanwhile has pledged more than 38000000000. 00 of measures to support his countrys economy. Profits have plunged at Cathay Pacific after months of political unrest in hong kong and now the airline is one of the many suffering as the spread of the coronavirus disrupts Global Travel calls National Carrier says its brace for substantial losses this year it slash 2 thirds of its International Operations and plans to cut most flights to may. Inland china korean air 2 says its fighting to survive its cutting 80 percent of its International Capacity and is telling employees to take voluntary leave the australian car carrier quantas is slashing a quarter of its International Operations for now saying the slump could cost it up to 100000000000. 00 and low cost Airline Norwegian air has cut 3000. 00 flights between march and june warning of temporary staff layoffs well Matthew Driskill is editor of asian aviation a Civil Aviation magazine he says some airlines will be more affected by the crisis than others. The carriers that do not least aircraft are probably a little bit better off because they dont have to make those lease payments airlines that have a lot of least aircraft. There and if they can negotiate. Different Payment Terms with the lesser wars a lot of whom are in ireland. And they might be in trouble. There are airlines like cathay d the big airlines. That have consolidated in recent years a lot of the American Airlines is basically 3 big carriers there. A lot of those are probably going to be fine theyre definitely going to take revenue they may lose money for a quarter or 2 again it depends on how long this is going to go on the International Air transport association has basically called for blanket slot relief around the world they have this 8020 rule where you have to fly 80 percent of the flights in order to maintain the slots the interesting thing is the Airport Council international which is the trade group for the airports they say no it should be on a market by market basis because if airlines quit flying to those airports in those airports start losing money so theres a little bit of an argument going on between the 2 entities. And again if Airlines Just quit flying i mean thats going to be a huge problem for a 15 year old palestinian boy has been shot and killed by Israeli Forces after they tried to forcibly break up a protest near the city of nablus that demonstrators had been trying to fend off illegal settlers who were eyeing the area as a future outpost he the abraham reports from the occupied west bank. Account so much it made it wasnt even born when the fight over his village of people started. The 15 year old. It was killed defending his home. This video appears to show him being shot at the head by Israeli Forces with this is save a teenager was killed from close range. Another protester remains in a Critical Condition dozens of others were injured in the confrontations. Palestinian protesters gathered at a jumble of army and mountain near the city of nablus early on wednesday protestors say Israeli Settlers are trying to seize control and build another illegal outpost israeli media reported that right wing israeli archaeologists were planning to tour the area but the israeli army refused them permission 1st is c. Is really is used different ways to lay claim to the land and organizing tours is one of them they say the fight over judgment about me dates back to the late 19 eighties illegal israeli settlements are usually built on health taught and an 890 meters general of autumn is one of the highest in the area posed it is see its another way of projecting power and control over palestinian surroundings. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly promised to annex parts of the occupied west Bank Palestinians say the only way to fight israeli expansion plans is by protesting them on the ground. 0 the occupied west bank. Israels president has urged the countrys opposing political leaders to form a unity government to avoid a further election Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu center right bloc failed to win a majority in last weeks vote the 3rd in less than a year his main rival benny gantz also has no clear past one majority despite the support of the Left Wing Alliance and that the joint arab missed herefore set is in west jerusalem he says councils bid to form a minority government has become more difficult. If benny gantz can shore up the support of all those within his own block plus the support of all 15 of those palestinians really parties from outside the government not join a coalition but support a minority government from outside that would give him 62 and that is what hes trying for but to get there 1st he needs to beat netanyahu bloc of 58 by at least one seat and that has become much more difficult given the approach thats been taken very recently of the leader of the good ship party one of those within his bloc only levy because his she says she will not submit to a government wont support a government that is itself supported by palestinian israeli parties from the outside so the president rivlin is still trying to get the 2 main parties he couldnt do like to join a unity government that didnt work last time its very unclear as to how it might work this time and one other interesting thing that the president said he quoted an arabic phrase about the virtues of patience so that there was no such thing as a half citizen of israel and given what has been said by both the cusses and Benjamin Netanyahu when he was talking about the support of only 47 zionist parties supporting benny gantz essentially ruling out the vote of more than half a 1000000 you supported the palestinian israeli joint list an Important Message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have a votes counted in the presence. Separatists in cameroon have launched a series of deadly attacks over the past week its the latest escalation in a 2 year battle between armed groups for the English Speaking and bizarrely region and Government Forces in an exclusive interview aljazeera spoke to the leader of the amazonian the fence force who are claiming responsibility for the latest attacks. The moment just before sundays attack. Prison guards from the womens jail where armed separatists are locked up are marching to governor takes to the podium praising camerons government and then this. Panic as an improvised explosive device detonate one soldier is killed instantaneously scores are injured mostly members of the Security Forces armed separatists from the English Speaking region claimed responsibility for the attack they want to break away from cameroon to create their own country amazonia there are more than 20 armed separatists groups active in the English Speaking regions of cameroon at the moment rarely do they make public declarations very they can get detected by cameroonian Security Forces the leader of one of these groups the members only in Defense Force has agreed to talk to us. We just show lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameroon holders we have a right existence with our right to protection of Human Dignity and life and come. To me the. Object of the crimes against. Human rights watch accuses camerons Rapid Intervention brigade operating in the English Speaking regions of killing civilians and burning their homes there were people who were burned alive and many of them with women and children. Like killed so its i think is the brutality in the manner in which it happened it seems like the we have been it was deliberate its just casualties all. The force is trained in managed by former Israeli Naval forces officers stationed inside the presidency the government denying any wrongdoing. Which started off as a Peaceful Movement against the government insisting on having french teachers in schools in the English Speaking regions has turned into a violent separatist. More than a 1000000 are displaced and thousands have been killed with many others caught in a spiral of violence because hawke. While the world is focused on the coronavirus donkey fever remains a serious problem in many countries the disease is spread by mosquitoes in sri lanka has seen a significant increase in infections but authorities they are now fighting risky toes with as well fernandez reports from. Health officials like. On the prowl part of a larger effort to fight against a viral disease spread by mosquitoes hes part of the team releasing a different type of mosquito to fight its spread. The eightys egypt carries the day. Which is infecting moshe lankans every year the head of the National Control unit says expanding cities have led to an increase in breeding sites it is. A burden for. System. Cost. Money. So we need to know. This problem says a primitive agrees his 14 year old daughter was treated in hospital after she got sick with dengue last year. She couldnt go to school for months she was told not to. But she was too meek to do that anyways. Distributing boxes containing specially bred musky to eggs produced with the assistance of the world musky to program the eggs from the eightys egypt are infected with wild baccy a bacteria a bacteria found in 60 percent of insects but not the mosquito and they will be. Present in the. Proliferation of. Being a very this is in the region so their body. Will be most ketosis but i want to be right this is the most to do with these mosquito eggs are produced by the World Mosquito Programme using sri lankan mosquitoes the eggs are then sent back to be packed into capsules which are then distributed with the mosquito boxes filled with water to allow them to have. The 2 trial areas in the capital colombo are divided into grids and a box containing a capsule with the eggs is hung up in every 50. 00 to 75. 00 metres section. This process will be repeated by teams for 12 to 20 weeks with tests monitoring the newly emerging musky to population reaching mosquito against mosquitoes is how the project aims to combat the virus some skeptics including scientists and people in these areas say that this will increase the number of mosquitoes with those behind the project insist that those carrying the bacteria will help reduce the transmission of the virus so there will be an increase in the mosquito population while we release mosquitoes but once we start releasing population comes back to normal so its a minor inconvenience for a time but the mosquito population is saying dr mongomery insists this is not a gentle modified organism but one that uses natural processes 1st tried in australia in 2011 the world back in a method is now being used in countries which have reported reductions in the number of infections sri lankan Health Authorities see they will monitor the results over the next 5 years with the hope it to cheevers the same success here. Fernandez. Australia is the highest court is hearing a final appeal for the scrapes from one Catholic Cardinal over his sex abuse conviction former vatican treasurer george palace serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys ical a gauge reports for camera. The final step in a long Court Process thats been followed closely across the world george pell the most prominent catholic figure to be convicted of child abuse wasnt in court to hear his final bid for freedom but some of his supporters and opponents were. Running high and opinions divided and here. In georgia the catholic church. Approach the fact an acquittal of a man and. In late 20 a teen was found guilty of sexually abusing 2 quiet boys in the 19 ninetys he served one year of a 6 year prison term and has continued to maintain his innocence. Lost in appeal last year to or the turn his conviction over the next for arguing to the high court that that ruling was unreasonable his team is focused its argument on the credibility of a witness and the timing of the offending lawyer lisa flynn who represents Abuse Victims is concerned that if the High Court Overturns his conviction it might stop other Abuse Victims speaking out. And victims. It. Could come. Despite being a convicted sex offender george pell is still a cardinal but so far the pope has declined comment until all avenues of appeal are exhausted that moment may not be far away now gauge aljazeera camera. Still to come on the news hour 2 Football Teams say that they travel to play there. Is this week s. Corner virus continues to hit sport. Or. Ok now here is the sports news with andy. Thank you so much barbara the Golden State Warriors will play in front of empty seats on thursday as their game against the Brooklyn Nets becomes the 1st in the n. B. A. To take measures against the coronavirus pandemic last years n. B. A. Finals announcing on wednesday bills events at their chase sensor home in San Francisco would then be off and so on march the 21st in california the city has banned all gatherings of more than a 1000 people it comes just as team owners are meeting with League Officials to decide overall policy in the n. B. A. Including the possibility of moving teams to cities without confirmed cases of the virus. Now one of the u. K. s biggest horse racing meetings is going ahead regardless more than a quarter of a 1000000 race fans will attend this weeks chapman festival with no restrictions in place about the size of public gatherings at the moment last years runner a little over a spring surprise here so when the days feature race the queen mother champion chase or wednesdays amish premier league game between man city an arsenal was postponed also players came into contact with the m. P. R. Costs a minor at last weeks Europa League game and he since tested positive for corona virus the club confirmed some squad members who havent been identified have gone into self isolation somewhat ironically elim p. R. Cos all still being allowed to play games they take on english team walls in the roper league on thursday no fans will be allowed at that match in greece and footballs not the most of course its because what makes everything in seems of principles in the grand us what we play for thats what we play to do to entertain supposed to make sure that their votes are just the biggest disappointment book at the same time sort of numbers could work for the whole season so its something were looking forward to in terms that tie a bow when you look at it without our fans who were part of this was it was a disappointing move. As you can see no lack of crowds gathering for liverpools hosting of lets come adrift in the Champions League shortly at lets go fans being escorted to anfield in their thousands back home in spain schools are closed amid a major spike in the virus liverpool manager at your good club where hes been repeatedly asked coronavirus in recent days vented his frustration at a journalist who travels to england from madrid. We are not to society we are part of the society and we should all be worried in the same time and thats exactly the thing i dont like that you sit here and ask me this question but fly from madrid to here to stay there to close schools and universities but by the end would you opus because thats thats a question but you think no football is worth it to treble or whatever so thats the situation thats our problem our common problem we cannot solve it with football people play football thats our part of what we have to do your job is to transport information and i hope it would better than you ask questions to be honest wednesdays game in paris between Paris Chamber sure the men will be played with nonfans needs i would senate see one deficit and ive never progressed to the next stage of the Champions League after losing the 1st leg of a knockout. Round of ours making its presence felt the head of the opening rice at the formula one season in melbourne 3 same workers are in self isolation one mclaren staff member and susan same house have been tested after showing symptoms organizers gave the green light to sundays race in australia around 300000 spectators are expected to attend practice qualifying in the race itself the chinese girl praise being cancelled and we know fans of the 2nd race of the season in bahrain we spoke to f one journalist Phillip Duncan hes in melbourne. The news today that 3 people are being tested for it is not in anyones mind. One bosses who are already under a bit of scrutiny that are going to have the right spend across the world weve seen a lot of sporting events cancelled drivers who have to meet exclusion zone around them when they conduct their media duties to murder drugs been told not to take any selfies with fans whilst theres also scrub sessions at the drive is usually to with fans they will say being canceled as stephanie is feeling of amit i think in the paddock coming youve got people from all over the world travelling here its events of its or its a melbourne for this weekend when most countries are advising against travel youve got members of seems from the silly ferrari out sori. Who are also in the types of supply perelli theyve all flown in from italy and tonight the Israeli Government now banned all. Travel probably sleep so its not a usual sort of that sort of Party Atmosphere that we usually have to pay for this race it being the 1st group create the seat and all the president s of tokyos Olympic Organizing Committee insists no change in plans is taking place there due to coronavirus sharing mari whos a former progeny Prime Minister had been undergoing hospital treatment himself he left a response from n. Z. Given by one of his Board Members are you can talk to hashi he said the game should be delayed. Then you need to have us but there is no guarantee you will be able to use the venues again if we postpone it one or 2 years if mr takahashi will guarantee the use of the venues that would be nice but that isnt going to happen is it. Well strengthen womens Football Team have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after a plath victory over vietnam coronavirus restrictions meant there were no funds saved at the camera for stadium and shortly after kickoff the light saw either right there. When there was a power failure delaying things somewhat they did come back on eventually australia going through to tokyo with a 71 win on aggregates whether or not well get to play at the olympics you know the question. Ok that is high schools looking for now lets get back in london thank you very much and that is it for they say news hour stay with us till our in taylor well have more news in just a its a lot of. 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