in india has ground to a near hopes. the philippines has reported the 1st death from the corona virus outside of china a 44 year old man from hong died there on saturday after developing the madia of the philippines in new zealand have now joined the us and australia in banning foreign tourists from entering if they've traveled to china in the past 14 days and hong kong calls a growing for its border with mainland china to be closed hospital workers have voted to go on strike from monday to pressure the government and more countries around the world flying their citizens out of china russia is the latest with the military sending planes on monday and tuesday within china $304.00 people have now died from the virus has asked the e.u. for urgently needed medical supplies as it struggles to contain the virus has more from beijing. it's been confirmed by the philippine authorities that a 44 year old chinese man from han died on saturday he developed pneumonia while he was in in the hospital in quarantine with a companion a 38 year old chinese woman who traveled with him they landed in the philippines on the 21st of january they connected through hong kong on their way to the philippines yes this is the 1st death now from the corona virus outside of china and now it's interesting you know it came comes in the philippines and that's when as you mentioned one of the 4 nations that are really kind of clamping down on allowing non-citizens to come in who have traveled to china who have been to china the 1st announcement of a procedure like this is restrictions like this came from the united states and it didn't it was not received well by beijing here they said that it did was not a show of good faith in the united states said that that wasn't their intention but they were just being very protective there was no big threat in the united states they said but they wanted to be as protective as possible for the united states citizens so what it what it really is is that any person non citizen from the united states coming to the united states who's traveled to china who is not a relative a close relative of an american citizen or has a green card that legally can be in the united states as a foreign national they will be turned away in a straw you had announced a similar situation similar restrictions the philippines and then new zealand to new zealand said that there is going to go into a place into place on monday the u.s. has confirmed it's a case of the virus software man fell and ball stitt elizondo has those details. there are 3 in the state of california 2 in illinois one in the state of washington and one in the state of arizona the latest confirmed case comes from the state of massachusetts particularly the city of boston that's where officials there said it is a. man in his twenty's a college student who is a student at the university of massachusetts at the boston campus who had come back from china showed signs or symptoms of being sick was tested in the test came back positive he is now being held in isolation at his home in boston and being closely monitored 24 hours a day by medical officials there we also have from the city city of new york city the mayor bill the blast to confirming the 1st suspected case the u.s. is preparing potentially for hundreds if not thousands of people that they're repatriating from china or visitors that they need to quarantine and where they're going to put them or the department of health and human services has requested that the military set up some sort of quarantine areas on military bases and the pentagon confirm that they are doing that they're having beds if you will for as many as 2000 people to be quarantined they've already identified 3 different military bases where they will put these people that potentially could have coronavirus should this be necessary in the coming days all 3 major u.s. airlines united american and delta have canceled all of their flights to china however there are flights from chinese carriers that are coming to the u.s. still and those flights are all being diverted to 7 different international airports in the u.s. where there is going to be extensive extra scoop screening of all passengers who are either coming from china or could have come through china to the u.s. all of this is going to be starting on sunday. the given is from the university of washington medical center he says china has responded well to the outbreak but the virus has proved almost impossible to track you know i have to applaud the chinese government because i think they've learned the lessons of 2003 with sars because corona virus this current virus is behaving very similarly to sars it kills elderly individuals more so than younger otherwise healthy individuals it seems like it's actually more transmissible than sars that if you are asymptomatic or if you're recovering from this illness you're so likely to transmitted that's why it's so concerning and frankly even more concerning than sars so i would say the chinese government has done has learned the lessons of the past they've there are some concerns that maybe they delayed their detection or weren't issuing red flag warnings as soon as the should have but they've done a lot and if it's true that if you're in asymptomatic individual that you can still transmitted and major studies in major medical journals have confirmed that then then the transmission patterns of corona virus are unlike anything we've ever seen previously with a droplet or airborne transmitted disease like flu or sars or murders this is different and this is concerning that's why our pentagon in our military services are setting up quarantine beds because what else are we going to do but the fact is you can't quarantine everybody's so i think we should all be prepared that case loads will increase i think i'm hearing numbers of 75000 just in who pay province we should expect that number we should expect the number of dead to increase we should think spec the number of suspected cases here are confirmed in the united states to increase as well and i think that should not be surprising to anyone of us. china is also struggling to contain bird flu an outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of show young and hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds died the government has called a further 17000 $800.00 chickens the h 5 n one strain of bird flu can be transmitted to humans but that is rare and you a political leader in iraq but signs that it won't satisfy protest president barham salih has named former communications minister mohammad alawi as prime minister designate but his appointment hasn't been welcomed by demonstrators have camped out for 4 months demanding political reforms simona faults and reports from baghdad. the streets response to iraq's prime minister designate came fast and it was loud and clear. the hum of the law is rejected protesters in tahrir square chanted on saturday night after 2 months of political deadlock president barham saleh chose mohamed allow it to replace other loved the mahdi who resigned 2 months ago amid widespread anti-government protests days prior to allow his appointment we spoke to protesters into here who saw him as another incarnation of a political system that has failed them. hold for sure he's rejected any person who has a relation with the parties from close or far is reject from all the people in general because for 16 years we haven't seen anything from them just destruction. indeed alawi is part and parcel of iraq's post 2003 political establishment a cousin of former vice president and prime minister ayad alawi he served as a member of parliament and communication minister but resigned in 2012 after he accused the government of sectarianism upon his appointment allowing addressed iraqis in a late night speech pledging to address their demands. i want to point towards the necessity for the peaceful protests to continue that support reforms until they achieve their legitimate demands on the government start stage genuine reforms. just like his predecessor allow a promise to create jobs and fight corruption and he vowed to bring those responsible for the deaths of over $600.00 protesters to account. that we're going to investigate some bring those responsible for the violence against peaceful demonstrators to a town which is. the prime minister designate has 30 days to form a cabinet which must be approved by a parliament that has been deeply divided over how to handle the latest crisis some factions have rejected allowed his appointment but influential shiite cleric mokhtar sutter threw his weight behind him. i don't think he has support from all the political blocs but there are important political forces and i expect that the surge wrists movement will stand with him and if that's the case the other political blocs will do the sign it. for 4 months protesters have asked for a complete overhaul of the political system and then independent head of state who isn't beholden to any domestic or foreign powers allow is appointment doesn't fulfill either of these demands but it could and the months of deadlock and pave the way for early elections and gradual reform. al-jazeera but that. the arab league has rejected the us president donald trump's middle east plan at an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas attacked the proposal saying his people will never accept its need to abraham reports that. palestinians were banking on the support of the arab states and they got it. from the ministerial council confirms the palestinian government's rejection to the so-called deal of the century in its current form the council stressed that the acceptance of such a deal would mean waiving the historical rights of the palestinian people because it's considerably less than the legitimate ambitions of the palestinian people president obama with a back detailed at length the reasons why the u.s. mideast plan should be rejected saying it adopts the israeli position in full leaving little or no room for any negotiation u.s. president donald trump has given the palestinians 4 years to engage with the plan but the best that is rated we use that time to push ahead with policies which are contrary to international law and further sort of defy the occupation and we're going to have the will and approach the moment they said jerusalem is and next to israel i knew i have to say it loud and clear we will never accept that under any circumstances i will never sell jerusalem the arab league has presented the arab peace initiative from 2002 as a solution for the palestinian israeli conflict. it calls for the end of the israeli occupation before arab and islamic states normalize relations with israel. and the influence of the regional conflict led some states to go along with the us administration for me brown pushed them closer to the main enemy who accuse israel reflected negatively on the obscene of the official level the palestinian leadership hopes that diplomatic pressure could help keep israeli plans in check up on us things we spoke to here today say that they've been hearing similar statements from different organizations for decades and their lives under occupation have only been getting worse could not do it if the arabs are with us the u.s. and israel won't do this to us. i'm not waiting for the arabs they already sold us thought if we are split amongst ourselves what are we expecting from the palestinian officials say the arab league's position helps them rally support especially as the israeli prime minister promised to push for an extension as early as next week i do believe that the the dejection of this plan must must be come from the community because it is illegal and it's undermines the international law not only undermines the rights of the palestinian people the palestinian leadership is also looking for the backing of the african summit the organization of islamic cooperation and the united nations security council officials here say it's not the u.s. plan itself they fear it's how israel can use it. the occupied west bank. still ahead on al-jazeera i owe the out oh oh. why protesters from across lebanon have gathered and it's forests. and firefighters hold back flames around canberra now the day of high temperatures brings in a new threat. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across turkey things are improving now we did see a lot of snow as well as rain this past week with a storm system that is now beginning to pull out you can see that on satellite image making its way towards the northeast we're still going to be dealing with some coastal snow as well as rain here as we go towards sunday really on the north coast but things are looking a lot better as we go towards monday as well we are expecting to see better conditions here across parts of iraq as well as into iran much of the snow is making its way over here towards the east here in doha though we do expect to see some breezy conditions over the next few days mostly as we go starting on sunday that could bring some blowing dust as well as we go towards monday it is going to be mostly breezy in the morning but tempers are going to be dropping we do expect to see tempers coming down to about 20 overnight lows though down to about 12 degrees here well over here towards madagascar of course we have been dealing with a lot of heavy rain and flooding across much of the north things are better across much of the region as we go towards the beginning of the week though we're going to be dealing with some coastal showers over here much towards the east things look better to the north a lot drier across much of the area but down here toward southern africa and cape town expect to see a temp just coming up here on sunday at 30 degrees and as we go towards monday $31.00 degrees for you. explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libel reigns influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist away feel castro is a feudal eastern not a communist just or wanted his country che wanted international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face on al-jazeera . why the. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the philippines has reported its 1st death from the coronavirus outside of china a 44 year old man from will han died there on saturday the philippines and new zealand have now joined the u.s. in australia banning travelers who have recently been to china. iraq's president has appointed a former communications minister mohammad alawi as prime minister designate but he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters who want greater political change. the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's proposed plan for the middle east at an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept it . india's economy is slowing down it's affected the textile industry in particular and led to hundreds of workers losing their jobs any of them say cheap imports are reduced export markets and higher taxes are to blame for the decline so how raman reports from the siana and india's region of punjab. there's an eerie silence at the textile factory the wheels of industry have come to a day a grinding halt. the majority of lubes have been silent for 18 months it's spoke to us on the condition of at liberty to protect what little he has left in terms of a business for us to follow the implementation of g.s.t. was not too many hassles and then economic downturn all over the world not just india but all over the world and too much change in government policies too many trade barriers coming up in export markets. his concerns are shared by many of the 40000 textile factory owners of the city many say they've seen their profits plummet by 25 percent and had to lay off workers. for one industry leader the whole system needs to be looked at he says industrialists are having to make hard choices about where to invest and how many staff to employ. the government rushed to apply g.s.t. and hasn't got it right that's the funds are needed to complete the financial circle and keep businesses afloat they're not refunded and stuck with government so business men are dipping into profits to run their factories until they are remembered sed. factory produces clothing that is running smoothly despite the financial headwinds he told me it's tough to juggle both the new taxes keep products competitively priced and his $250.00 staff employed those in the textile industry are not the only ones concerned about the impact the economic slowdown is having the international monetary fund says the indian government needs to spend in areas that just construction and infrastructure to kick start the economy and they need to be evaluate their relationship with other nations and economic blocs to make their exports attractive. to the aurora has been designing high end we've been sweating clothing for 20 years profits are down and she's had to lay off 20 percent of her seamstresses people must have read us there are pending power on clothes they have been the failing one you know one of the one putting up and investing on the right lot of the right time people don't worry about that they need a hand where they may even go for a commercial production. if you look fancy but it should be that is what people are looking for. the textile industry continues to discuss its financial woes with the government hoping both sides can find a way forward to secure jobs of the economic future with global demand down of the domestic market cautious about spending the future doesn't look too promising so robert al-jazeera looked down on the job. protesters in lebanon. and have converged on the poorest city to show the government they're united in their calls for political change many people are angry over corruption and mismanagement the latest march comes ahead of next week's confidence vote to approve a new cabinet so our current reports from tripoli. revolutionary songs play out says activists board buses taking them to tripoli it's the 1st time they've come together from different parts of the country to meet in the poorest city in lebanon on that we came from able to thank tripoli for all the birds everything she did for beirut and all every single egypt game yet also. that the mosque today is hand in hand so we're putting i would hunt together the fellow to handle one heart one blood and one heart. just weeks ago protesters nationwide said it grated forcing former prime minister saad heidi these government to resign but they're still unhappy. they're concerned the new government is caught out of the same cloth a political elite that won't meet their demands and time soon if i take it is no love lost levon or maybe a different religious and even facial backgrounds but they are here in tripoli to show you and they have one message for the new government is that they'll be stronger than ever and always fight over like. the new cabinet is gz receive a vote of confidence in parliament next week but protesters don't trust those at the helm and a worried about the future. they've suffered for years from deep rooted corruption power cuts and the lack of basic public services they say their revolution is not dead yet despite dwindling numbers there are more of the coalition who are really really urgent this is one is the economic crisis the is that and the benghazi of the court system 1st it's not that suburb and i hear more that the strip the city going to be hard to come in there's a real sense of community. this down straight from free soup kitchens to a discussion forum bringing together different movements and civil societies that the mind of they talk about wanting a government that will be held accountable and despite the diversity here they all agree on one thing they need to work hand in hand in challenging the government and making sure their demands are met. al-jazeera tripoli. air strikes and fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are escaping towards the turkish border as hospitals and aleppo come under attack after nearly 10 years of war government forces are back in control of large parts of the country mark herron rit opposition fighters are confined to the northwestern province of idlib with forces backed by turkey and surrounding areas after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts and now surround it back a good deal reports on the dire conditions people in the northwest of facing. it's difficult to imagine what they might be left to salvage from this destroyed neighborhood in western map of homes and a hospital shattered by bombs dropped by what were believed to be russian warplanes in the town of poor. russian defense ministry usually denies it's involved it's the new frontline close to syrian opposition fighters main supply lines in neighboring province. their government forces are advancing fast capturing towns and villages and the 2nd largest city of martin amman the violence has once again driven families out of their homes into syria's harsh winter. i have nothing with me we fled with just the clothes we were wearing because of the heavy bombing airstrikes and the airstrikes were so intense that we could only take the clothes we had on our backs for people like mohammad concrete blocks like these in a glimpse city is home for now the cold flows offering little comfort for the children the situation here is catastrophic because we can't find a place to live in we are here for families in this place where there are no windows or doors you don't even have water more than 3000000 people live in it live half of them i'm tired of displaced businesses are suffering people say they simply cannot cope. the trade is badly hit in the city the displaced people don't have money to buy anything they can barely find a place to live we need a place is for these people apartments or houses without windows and doors are hosting 4 or 5 families now can you imagine 30 people living in one room we can't even find tents for the displaced at least 11 hospitals and health centers came under attack from government forces backed by russian air power in italy blasts month the surgeon numbers of those displaced has stretched the health workers to their limits and the most important. unity challenge for us they make us sick that against our best it is our and our because so we. as you know american medical society or we document it 82. against the health care services starting last april. the president bashar al assad. the short term goal is to secure serious made highway that runs from north to south of the country the larger plan is to capture the entire province of if you live the last major storm of the rebels. but the people of the mood remains one of defiance. the u.s. says rollback restrictions on the use of land mines that have been banned by more than 100 countries arms control proponents have been quick to criticize the move that will allow the use of anti personnel landmines in exceptional circumstances and chevelle has more. a weapon of war that most countries believe should no longer be used and cannot be justified morally. anti-personnel land mines maim and kill thousands of innocent people each year often in places where fighting ended decades ago and while most of the world has banned them the us says it's planning to use them again after more than 30 years a land mines are one of very many other important tools that our commanders need to have available to them on the battlefield to shape the battlefield and to protect our forces but the change in policy u.s. forces will be able to use anti-personnel mines in future conflicts in certain circumstances. mines the pentagon says will be able to self-destruct or self deactivate without threatening civilians unlike the millions of mines that dot the korean demilitarized zone the obama administration committed the u.s. to destroy landmines stockpiles except those intended to defend south korea the last thing which we need is more land mines is an incredibly reckless move as a very dangerous and even people will die as a result of this move it just for her normalizes peace is an obscene weapon they're not designed to be safe they're designed for one purpose and that is to kill after princess diana's walk through an angolan minefield helped galvanize the world to take action 80 percent of un member states have signed the mine ban treaty and destroyed more than $55000000.00 of them yet thousands of people continue to be killed and injured each year more than half of them children mostly in a handful of countries including afghanistan syria and ukraine the u.s. is unlikely to ever use landmines on its own soil and campaigners say the change in policy will put civilians at risk in future conflicts no matter how smart the minds become and al-jazeera. another shooting is being carried out in india at a protest against a new citizenship law at least a wrist of a gunman who opened fire at demonstrations in the capital new delhi there are no reports of casualties it happened just 2 days after a student was injured during a shooting at another rally in the city allows minorities from 3 neighboring countries to get citizenship but excludes muslims. strong gusts of wind in soaring temperatures a fueling bushfires now the australian capital firefighters have managed to prevent the flames reaching the outskirts of canberra but uncontrolled fires in the territory have spread across at least 350 square kilometers on friday the astronomy and capital territory declared a state of emergency more than 65 is the burning in new south wales and a 3rd of them have not been contained. the issue we have with the fire activity is that the fire itself is generating its own with a passion and that combined with the wind direction is what is driving that intensity in the fall and we have created an environment with air attack and ground based and shaping of the fire that is the fire particular comes out of man tenant on the grasslands it is t.j. interest to put half i thought is into those more remote areas and so we're actually waiting for the fire to come out there are believed to be extinct spurred 2 species of giant tortoises have been rediscovered by scientists on an expedition to the galactica $29.00 examples of the 40 on a tortoise were found on the largest of the galapagos islands but the real excitement came with the discovery of a single since a tortoise it's a relative of a tortoise called lonesome george true it was thought was the last of its kind when he died 8 years ago scientists are now obviously keeping a close eye on the new discoveries headlines the next. result is there and these are the top stories the philippines has reported the 1st death from the corona virus outside of china a 44 year old man from well han died there on saturday he was being kept in quarantine and a middle of hospital along with one other coronavirus patient the philippines and new zealand have now joined the us and australia and banning travelers who have recently been to china. if you enjoy looking for but you're all buried yesterday. what were the words of the preacher and me sure he developed a beer. in your very. big bro and showed. however the can do short of the be sure that your 8 bow would know what they were worth being in his reverie. hong kong hospital workers will go on strike on monday for 5 days demanding their government to close its borders with mainland china amid the outbreak within china at least 304 people have now died from the virus after dozens more deaths were confirmed overnight china is also struggling to contain bird flu an outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of sharia young and hunan province where 4 and a half 1000 birds died the government has called for $17800.00 chickens iraq's president has appointed former communications minister mohammed alawi as prime minister designate but he's already been rejected by anti-government protesters have been out on the streets since october demanding for the school reform and a message posted on twitter allow it promised change and said he stood with the demonstrators. the arab league has rejected the u.s. president's plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept the proposal put forward by donald trump protesters in lebanon have converged on its poorest city tripoli to show the government they're united in their calls for political change comes ahead of a confidence vote next week to approve a new cabinets. those are the headlines and news continues on al-jazeera after people in power. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. migration whether for safety and freedom from conflict and repression or for economic benefits has become one of the dominant things of our time but this huge flow of people isn't toby aimed at europe or the united states many from central asia and to russia in state so what faces them on the right. the moscow.