See has won her 1st saw a little of the year both she wouldnt be Adelaide International she builds up the seasons opening round swimsuit. Now u. S. President donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and among them are 3 high profile lawyers ken starr led the latest in the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton and he was also a part of the legal team for a convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein robert w. Ray has also joined the team he succeeded star as independent counsel and negotiated a settlement with clinton as he left the white house and then theres also celebrity lawyer and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz his clients have included o. J. Simpson mike tyson and Harvey Weinstein while our correspondent cable elizondo is in washington d. C. And he says trump isnt taking any chances with this legal team. Trump is taking this very very seriously i mean these 2 lawyers that he brought in to be part of this team are celebrity lawyers that are very very well known in washington and have a long history in this city and really in the nation 1st looking at Alan Dershowitz a long time a law professor at harvard hes considered one of the preeminent constitutional lawyers in the u. S. Dershowitz is actually a democrat voted for Hillary Clinton however he has come out very strong over the last 3 to 4 months or so even if before that saying that he believes that this impeachment trial is something that should not be pursued constitutionally and that there are no high crimes and socalled misdemeanors and so thats really caught trumps attention and i think thats probably why he brought dershowitz on his team also dershowitz is piers on television here in the United States as a legal analyst a lot so hes very adept with the media spotlight and i think thats something that trump probably appreciates also you have ken starr who was from the late ninetys where youre well known in washington d. C. As you mentioned briefly he was the independent counsel that helped to prosecute or bring the trial impeachment trial against event president bill clinton and so i think starr is very well known to and i think thats why he was probably brought on this team as well i think you can read into this that trump wants the absolute best people that he can get his hands on. Bruce fein is a constitutional lawyer and a former u. S. Associate Deputy Attorney general and he says despite hiring a top to legal team its likely Trump Supporters will rely on distracting people from the proceedings. The strategy of the republicans is as follows they will hope that the American People will get bored after the opening arguments in the presentation of the evidence thats already in play and after several weeks theyll say we just need to get to a verdict the 2nd element that militates in favor of delay on mr trumps part is that i believe as happened in the nixon and clinton impeachment there will be a National Security crisis that will develop and mr trump will maybe assassinate someone like saul the many theyll be an escalation of tensions in the middle east or a strait of for most it will be said that we cant afford an impeachment trial we need to bring this to closure remember thats what mr nixon did in the yom kippur war he put us on def con 3 that was the highest Nuclear Alert stage with the soviet union mr clinton bombed iraq for 6 months hoping to deflect attention from his impeachment ordeal and i believe mr trump will not be reluctant to follow those examples so of look for a National Security crisis in the next weeks now 3 u. S. Airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from rouhani in china for a new virus that has so far killed 2 people new yorks j. F. K. Airport along with those in a sanchez and San Francisco or a noun taking passengers temperatures and asking them about symptoms china says almost 50 people have been infected but resents by Londons Imperial College suggests that could be more than a 1700 cases. I have read some news about it and heard about the. Problems and i think. That the fact others its. Just too late cashews about it and make sure its a real thing dont spread it around a little bit. Nothing no verse but you know i dont know because i got to go to china maybe who knows. I might get the flu. But im going to be careful well our correspondent katrina you joins us now live from beijing katrina clearly mounting concern about this virus beyond chinas borders what do you now hearing from the Chinese Government. The Chinese Governments message has very much been as is not surprising that everything is contained and under control so theyve released figures saying there are 45 people affected 100 people continue about 100 people continue to be monitored 600 who were initially quarantined have now been let go because they have no symptoms of this coronavirus so the Chinese Government they are very much trying to keep a lid on any sort of widespread panic theyre trying to say that everyone who is associated with this particular seafood wholesale market which seems to be connected all the people who have been affected so far have been been closely watched or have been tested and that everything is is under control that theyve said that everyone who is affected is from is from one and so far it hasnt broken out into other areas now of course the government is trying to do this because were entering the Chinese New Year period is not a small city 11000000 people live there and during this period there are about 2000000000 trips made across china and if there are real for this if theres any panic sparked around this corona virus then it could lead to all sorts of kills so the government is very much interested in trying to spread the message that it is all ok if you have any symptoms get tested because were not ruling out human to human transmission but at the same time dont panic and just go about a business thats thats the message there for katrina where already seeing these screening measures that u. S. Airports now when youre talking about people going home for Chinese New Year what kinds of procedures are being put in place to try to limit transmission inside china. Well thats the thing theres no no similar measures have been formally implemented i think all hospitals have been alerted the government says that if you have any of these symptoms for years go directly to the hospital to get checked but we havent seen any sort of limits on travel no sort of public scans or anything like that in that and thats led some people to be concerned because of course weve had the Chinese Government saying all the cases in china has so far restricted to the province of the studio but then weve had cases even weve had those cases in japan and in thailand so people here are starting to ask questions how is it that the virus could end up in thailand and japan but not end up in any other places in china but so far there have been at least 8 people who have actually been arrested for spreading rumors about the seriousness of this of this virus so there are concerns i think people so far because there havent been any formal measures put in place they tend to say ok well lets just go about our business but they are there are mounting concerns and we do see that in social media as we had the sols outbreak in 2003 and the government wasnt honest at the beginning of that outbreak and we had hundreds of people die from that so there are concerns as well and people are really making their own personal precautions but nothing on the governmental scale as yet katrina you there across that story for us from beijing thank you katrina well lets take a closer look at this mystery virus its being identified and a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but can also be as serious as saw as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and that killed nearly 800 people worldwide back in 2003 chinese authorities suspect the virus originated in the Seafood Market in the city of new harm its thought the virus has spread from species to species chinese Officials Say there are no cases of it being passed yet from one person to another there is a 10 day delay between infection and detection thats made up of an incubation period and then a further delay before hospital admission. Lets find out a little bit more about this with dr mohammad to me at his electra and bio med center at Lancaster University and he joins us now via skype from lancaster dr when i went out saying cases a pair in other countries outside china katrina was just saying thailand and japan there how quickly could this spread and how worried should we be so the virus is as weve been discussing is similar to like to be a c. Or d. Most of their lives to suit lives have a Great Potential to mutate and to evolve into something that would lead to transmission between one person to another person and therefore if they have potential to move between communities so definitely at the moment there is no confirmed report of human to human transmission but if you really look into the history of the. Most of the cases that we have seen so far have some direct or indirect links with one city and the big has been in a smaller between family members so there are evidence of the last week between one person to another person so there is no reason to believe that these kind of autistics have a bit im sure it will last maybe like a few minutes let me ask you a bit more about that documentary because china has been denying that theres been person to person transmission as weve been saying that there are some experts who are saying the opposite and presumably that makes it incredibly more difficult to contain and could any delay in admitting that could could that wesson the spread. Oh absolutely because these kind of viruses they are highly contagious they can force which from one person to another person very quickly in the short possible time and with lethal impact so arguably detect them better prepared we will be any action against them to any delay in detection would be grammatically neato and as you can remember there initially we didnt know the cause of this one therefore probably the largest has moved on to more places than if we knew the pause then we would have done something about it and well were already beginning to see deaths so let me ask you how infectious when you say very infectious but how dangerous is this virus how likely is it for instance that youll die if you get infected so please warn the larose is soon it is our own 80 percent similar to the sauce or the loss that has caused problems of more allergies and took them to where it was this week so if you really look at the genetic maybe makeup they are very similar to each other and if we look onto the communicants followings because the previous source and this warm source for life says they do cause a similar kind of disease so the kind of information we have at the moment theyre all highly likely that these viruses have a Great Potential to cause a much more equal infection that what we are seeing at the moment but more information is coming all which will probably have a little more in the coming weeks well i understand this virus jumped the species barrier thats the current theory and by my understanding it becomes much easier to contain that once you identify which animal it came from and as were saying this began at a market in one hand so there are a number of different possibilities here how is that process going to try to identify that animal. It even if we identify them animals once it is already transmitted to the human population then its the record for containing within the human population because we have many to force the warm city which patients have never been tempted to see for supermarkets so this means that the lives of living among humans somehow so once even if we knew we are the lightest as we can really being started at this moment a major concern was how to stow transmission between the human and also spread from one of them to do another country so it is a no no well benefit at this stage to really investigate where the virus has come from however that would have great benefit in the future emergence of the disease and there is some seeming disparity when it comes to chinas official think is about infection and what else experts at estimating a huge difference in fact what are the dangers of beijing trying to downplay or if this is what it would be a little too early to say that bone Clinical Program has been that in the beginning when the disease of merge and from the 1st 31st of december at that time we didnt know really the cause of this why and said that because of this one we didnt know how to detect and were going to find there because of that since the wife says we didnt get fired by isolation now we have a detection at safe so that when we can we please easily and a broad scale kind of by those tests to detect build infection so therefore i think in big in coming few weeks the number of cases with exponentially not just because we have more tools and resources to look into but also the i mean thats right a lot more than it has been before absent and lots of travel coming up lots of paper in china dr mohammad ling is that from Lancaster University thanks for joining us on aljazeera. Plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including we speak to libyans about what they think about the prospects for peace ahead of an International Conference to try to end the fighting. In the danger zone and well have the latest from the erupting volcano in the philippines. And sport a new hire for the ultimate fighting championship biggest commercial draw. Hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the libyan capital tripoli against world Khalifa Haftar they say he shouldnt be included in an International Conference being held in germany on sunday to try to end the war protesters held signs calling have the devils messenger but there was support for house to in the eastern city of benghazi people chanted and he took his slogans there and demanded a halt to oil exports they say oil revenues only benefit the tripoli based administration Libyas National Oil Corporation has warned any disruption will have far reaching consequences for the country and preparations are underway for that peace conference in berlin on sunday representatives from a number of nations will meet in the latest effort to end months of fighting in libya diplomats are expected to push for a truce agreement and a u. N. Monitoring mission on the ground well lets go to mark without the wahid who joins us now live from tripoli would give us a sense of the feeling that people presumably do want an outcome from this conference but they also dont want to have to go. Well remember this is a long time conflict and Everybody Knows that disses not going to be solved that soon here in the western a camp led by the you and the government of National Accord people have been calling for calm but at the same time the r. Rated rating that they are calling for the International Community to put pressure on have started to pull out his forces from southern tripoli as a prerequisite for any peaceful settlement to this conflict but meanwhile the our people took to the streets yesterday they have been. Welcoming the military cooperation between turkey and the government of National Accord but meanwhile the government here the government of National Accord is trying to stress. Is trying to stress on the fact that both tunisia and qatar should be invited to take part in their meeting in berlin because of the fact that the other to delegate the other camp led by have has it supporters key players taking part in the berlin talks including the United Arab Emirates egypt france and russia but on the other side only turkey the only country supporting the government of national called the invited to this conference in berlin so the government here gives a pretext for inviting qatar and tunisia saying that qatar has been always supporting the freedom revolutions that ousted 44. 00 decades of dictatorship of them and money and the government also says it believes that qatar is a key player in achieving peace in libya and as for tunisia the government says that is not only an able in country that has a right to be part of the n. E. P. For settlement to the conflict in libya but also tunisia has been hostile in the thousands of libya refugees and as a neighboring country has been impacted and affected by whats going on in libya here and the worst of the country and National Oil Corporation has rated that the oil sector should be neutralized it should not be used as a pressuring tool in this conflict thats following the blockade of the Oil Terminals and. Oil port in the east of libya. Head to there for us in tripoli thank you. Well jason pak is founder of the consultancy Libya Analysis and he explains why the conflict now involves so many countries ever since have to attack tripoli in april 29th. The nature of the civil war in libya changed for the last 4 years before then you had a proxy war the different libyan coalitions were fighting with outside actors supported one side or the other but now whats happened is