Still ahead on aljazeera tears for the innocents as the u. N. Raises the alarm at the rising number of child casualties in syria. Russia tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience turbulence on the horizon for georgia flights from russia and grounded. The heavy downpours continue across a good parts of Southern China seen some a huge dunderheads draped across the region pushing over towards that eastern side of china been tipping down for days for some here and that wet weather will stay in place they will tend to not a little further south was so the main thrust of that wetter weather will just ease its way down towards hong kong as we go on through wednesday to the increasingly wet here temperatures getting up to around 29 celsius really lose a degree of 2 off the top temperatures in the heat of the day plenty wet weather to into south asia the monsoon rains accosts doing quite nicely still a little bit hard up towards the northwest if the trees but obviously plenty of s
pointing have reported that they have a. turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria s last rebel stronghold it s pro-government forces claim a crucial town. is being accused of seeking revenge after removing 2 officials who testified against him at the impeachment trial the firings come just 2 days after trump was acquitted by the republican majority said it. was the u.s. ambassador to the european union. colonel alexander had been the top ukraine expert in the national security council both officials testified to a house committee about the president s efforts to pressure you crane to investigate political rival joe biden all hours earlier trump said he wanted alexander vinland gone. well i m not happy with the guys supposed to be happy with the bombing they ll make that decision you ll be hearing they ll make a decision. the top democratic senator chuck schumer was quick to respond to the news on twitter he said the pentagon assured me patriots and whistleblowers like the tyr
the corona virus outbreak shows no sign of slowing us authorities in china continue efforts to bring the epidemic under control this embassy in china has also now confirmed the death of a citizen in the cornered city of han in while hong kong the start of a 2 week orange chain for people arriving from mainland china to try to stop the spread of the virus across china at least 722 people have now died the divisions are present even china says there are signs of progress but it s still too soon to predict when this outbreak will be contained. our understanding is growing impossible to predict where it is going but i can tell you. at least where we are watching the we are seeing the positive signs and with the adduction and the last couple of days and we are watching carefully the epidemic in other provinces in china the epidemic is far from over we see good signs and we see signs of control but we at this point the best thing rather than crystal ball gazing is vigilant thousand
defends firing 2 officials who delivered the most damaging testimony during the impeachment investigation. and in supporting a new american football league set to rival the n.f.l. is about to kick off the accept valorie launches in the united states jack aides on from it senate shall failure. or tight security forces have raided a shopping center where dozens of people have been held hostage by a soldier who went on a mass shooting the suspect is still somewhere inside the mall in a city northeast of bangkok he went there after 1st opening fire in a house and an army base live there it s away in haiti he joins us from bangkok where a dramatic pictures reaching us from what more can you tell us about the situation as it stands this hour. well things seem to have quietened down a little bit the more certainly it is an ongoing situation the gunman as far as we understand is still inside that shopping mall but over the course of the past couple of hours or so we did see many peop
ahead of the island s general election. alloa our top story this hour china s government is battling to contain a wave of grief and anger after a doctor who was punished for raising the alarm about the coronavirus died in hospital hundreds of thousands of people have used social media to pay tribute to dr lee when young who reportedly fell ill after treating a patient many accuse chinese officials of trying to stage a cover up and of putting politics before public safety the government in beijing is saying that it will investigate while also racing to contain the epidemic that so far killed more than $630.00 people on the chinese mainland and been to other deaths reported in the philippines and in hong kong more than 31000 people have been infected on mainland china with at least 320 cases and 27 other countries and territories meanwhile the world health organization says that demands of mosques gowns and gloves have shot up by more than $100.00 times causing a supply glut of