years of economic to carry are over. president trump boasts of a great american comeback in a state of the union address that underlined the defining political division. the democrats weren't impressed house speaker nancy pelosi tore up the transcript after he appeared to refuse to shake her hand. malawi's president says he'll appeal against a court decision that are now old his controversial reelection last year. i'm joining us there with the sports tokyo olympic organizers say they are seriously worried about the coronavirus outbreak impacting this year's games. there was started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside in eastern turkey has now turned into a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 23 p. . will have been killed after 2 avalanches swept down on to a road near the city of van some of those killed were part of a rescue team they'd been sent in defined survivors after the 1st avalanche on to see night when told to our correspondent. who's life for a sin is stumble and hashim such tragic circumstances 2 separate avalanches and now those who've been sent in to help being sought after themselves. very tragic situation in deed in but just how i distract martine the rescuers who are in the midst of a frantic operation to retrieve the missing of those who were trapped under the snow earlier today were also trapped when a 2nd laws hit the area this explains the huge number of the people who were. themselves and this explains the death toll which has been climbed being dramatically over the last few hours we're talking about $23.00 people dead and we're talking also about dozens of people still trapped under the snow it all started yesterday martin when the another launch hit the area which is surrounded by massive mountains with a passenger bus and a snow clearing vehicle and at that time yesterday about 5 people were killed in that village and many rescuers were sent to the area to try to help with the rescue operation civilians also took part in the rescue operation but in the midst of the frantic search for survivors the 2nd head and this explains the tragic situation where many people found themselves in the authorities are saying that they are sending many ambulances many rescuers frantic addressed to you is underway as we speak of the thing the authorities are trying to retrieve all those still trapped be. under the you know within the coming hours the biggest concerns though martin remains the blizzards of the heavy snowfalls falls in those areas as we speak and this could just slow the rescue operation for hours to come and hashim you said that this is a particularly mountainous area to the east of the country what kind of level of preparedness would you expect there for is this weather particularly severe or is this the kind of weather that they normally have at this time of year. it's it's an extreme weather condition and weather forecasts have been talking about the past few weeks about heavy snow forced to hit particularly the north is some parts of the country particularly the province or violent but they were not bracing for something similar to what happened over the last few days particularly the last 24 hours you know one of the reason why this has been exacerbated is because the passages are very narrow surrounded by massive mountains and most of the roads leading to the. to the area have been closed now the rest 2 were suddenly found themselves and the mounting pressure. to go after those trapped and under the snow and they were later joined by civilians and in the frantic search that happened suddenly the 2nd avalanche hit the area now for the rescue operations to be sent to those areas it takes quite some time and with the heavy snow falls and with the blizzard has taken place in those areas this has compound of the whole rescue operation the government is saying that it is doing all the necessary measures to try to save whoever is trapped and the. thing if you look at what's happening over the last 3 hours we talk about more casualties which explains that it seems that most of the people who were trapped in the 2nd. may have lost their lives and we're expecting that sort of climb in the coming hours right hashem thank you very much for the very latest from istanbul . right now hong kong is to begin current inning all of those coming from mainland china as it tries to stop the spread of corona virus the territories leaders announced it will place anyone who crosses the border into isolation for 2 weeks hong kong is already quarantined a ship that sailed enough to having been turned away by taiwan japan has done the same with the cruise liner that was carrying 3700 people there been 10 confirmed cases on that ship and it remains in the harbor of york or harm or no one to say china saw its largest spike in deaths from the virus 65 in a single day and that brings the total number of dead to at least 490 that while evacuations continue in who bay province that's of course the center of the outbreak on wednesday. flew out 84 of its citizens and they were immediately put under quarantine but we can talk to adrian brown our correspondent to is live in the hong kong adrian 1st will tell us about that ship the cruise liner that was turned away by taiwan and has been placed in lockdown by the hong kong authorities . that's right the odyssey of the dream world across the south china sea is now out and then seen that vessel is going nowhere the crew and passengers on board the vessel we're told by the cruise operators about 3600 in total remain now in effective lock down now this vessel arrived on wednesday morning and it was just after the vessel arrived at the authorities in the mainland contacted their counterparts in hong kong to say that 3 passengers who'd been on a previous forage on this same vessel had now tested positive for the virus it was in that hong kong said well we now know that 200 passengers left that vessel after that previous floyd on january the 24th now the search is now on to find them that should be quite easy if they're stood in hong kong because everyone here has to have an i.d. card now we know that all the passengers and crew on board the vessel are now undergoing checks at least 3 crewmembers are now in isolation in a nearby hospital and i think it's fair to assume that in the current climate that the crew and passengers are going to remain in quarantine now that carry land has made this dramatic announcement of these draconian measures that are going to come into force and what it means as you pointed out marty is that life is going to be severely disrupted for the up to $100000.00 hong kong people who have been commuting every day across the border into the nearby city of shenzhen and of course that's raising fears over over jobs at a very difficult time for hong kong now carol lam has effectively now sealed the front here with the mainland because anyone coming into hong kong is not going to go into isolation for 14 days but she is going to enforce this new measure on saturday to give all those people time as i say to prepare adrian brown live in hong kong thank you very much indeed well al-jazeera scott. sideline has been speaking to one particular family from shanghai they're currently stuck in and because they're not able to leave let's hear what he found out. trying to make the best of the lockdown. and his family travel to hahn for them or new year even once the coronavirus locked down and they were face an additional 14 day quarantine when they get back home to shanghai like millions of other chinese across the country the children might be smiling but the adults are very concerned. how you feel what do what do you want to tell people out there how you feel and what it's like so i think every 60 is just the 1st to want to since it's funny. as it was and not. just don't. know that you know no you know it's doctor. 2 to 2 treaty and that's something he has had to speak with these children about age 2 to 13 i'm going to answer is serious and this is always hard to do. since. this is the 1st schools photos to show the empty streets of will haunt but the shelves in the supermarkets are not supplies he said are being brought in by the military like on the big concern for the central government here in beijing is increasing the medical capacity for the growing number of infected in the province more beds for the ill and more supplies for those treating them large gymnasiums in an exhibition center have been converted into makeshift hospitals in melbourne. along with the 2 new hospitals built for the corona virus completed this week there are now more than 6500 new beds for those infected but with the spread of the virus and these new beds barely cover the increase of confirmed new cases it will be a problem from just the last week scott holler al-jazeera beijing well it's perhaps not surprising that the economic impact of this corona virus is already being felt across the world in thailand for instance there are fears it could cost the tourism industry more than a $1000000000.00 most foreign tourists to thailand come from china but numbers of fall and drastically since the outbreak alexia brian ripples out from the capital bangkok. 8 times a day at the mekong railway market vendors move their legs. and clean up the tracks to make way for the train. it's hot and bustling a highlight with tourists even in the middle of the coronavirus crisis why a bit and we always shake. our is why our is like we are we aware of where. this. crowd at my chinese tour is china is thailand's biggest source of foreign tourists about $20000000.00 visitors a year and they bring plenty of money with them. but last month chinese 2 groups from traveling overseas and put a number of cities in lockdown to control the spread of infection. on the outskirts of bangkok with tourists from all over the world including china it's much. higher in the colony and these bandits here rely on terrorism. more than a $1000000000.00. everyone he has affected. the numbers aren't really changing but chinese tourists by 90 percent the numbers stop dropping a few days ago look at a state of usually. packed with chinese tourists along the coast thailand's famous speeches a ghost towns hotels are out and someone may need to be laid off. you know if things don't improve soon in trouble because i have expenses to pay i need to pay rent and support my children so it's very difficult for me the ripple effects of the virus are expected to last for months if the impact prolonged for example it's going to drag longer you know virus could spread worldwide and stop tourism sector the economy could fall into slow down below 2 percent in the 2nd half of the year this impact that we get is going to hit not just the recent sake they're not as exports that they're basically that's going to hear the mystical none of the tigers are back at the railway market the trains just pass through again the stalls are getting back to business. life will return to normal just as quickly. as here at bangkok. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including after hours of delay the results from the on over caucus start to come in find out who's in the lead rallying to a different chain we'll look at the divide between english and french speakers ahead of elections in camera. in school p m b a's most valuable plan reminds everyone who's boss he takes on the league's brightest young stars the teacher it's. supposed to be a moment when the u.s. comes together but donald trump state of the union addresses instead emphasize the disunity in american politics he came face to face with the democrats who impeached him in the house of representatives a subject he completely avoided instead he used his speech to relaunch his election campaign patty culhane reports from washington. not at stake. the president of the united states was a u.s. president impeached by the house walking in to face the full congress expected the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours was was the chants from the republicans in the chamber made it clear what this speech would be about his reelection the state of our union is stronger than ever before was the democratic response was this obvious there out but for the president he saw this as his time to herald what he sees as his accomplishments this is a blue collar boom was but many of his due to sticks were overblown out of context or simply untrue as with many other promises in this speech i have also made an ironclad pledge to american families we will always protect patients with preexisting condition was his administration is actually in court trying to get some of those protections removed and his administration has rolled back most efforts to combat climate change but the president made this promise to protect the environment days ago i announced that the united states will join the one trillion trees an initiative an ambitious effort. in the democratic response some subtle attacks but they mostly focused on promoting their agenda it's pretty simple democrats are trying to make your health care better republicans in washington are trying to take it away but this speech will be remembered less for the substance than for the made for t.v. moments highlighting the president's past as a former television reality star he surprised the chamber by inviting one why don't know venezuela's opposition leader please take his message back all americans are united with the venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom thank you very much for. he had his wife present the presidential medal of freedom to an ellen conservative radio host and highlighted the family of a deployed soldier only to reveal he had come home. this was a night for symbolism planned and unprompted as he entered to give a speech the president seemed to refused to shake the hand of the speaker of the house and as it ended she sent her own message about what she thought of the speech the tension on full display the president departed making it clear he will fight to be back here next year and the opposition party will fight just as hard to make sure this will be his last party call him al jazeera washington all right let's go to our white house correspondent kelly haokip now who's there in washington for us to believe you've ever seen anything like that before the president refusing to shake the hand of the house speaker and then the house speaker tearing up the speech at the end of it. i haven't seen anything before like that before and neither have most americans i think this just really underscores not only how divided the nation is but how angry the nation is there it was on full display this was a highly partisan speech to a divided congress that was shown repeatedly it was split screen moment where half of the. house of representatives was standing while the other half was sitting down nancy pelosi is getting a lot of pushback on the fact that she tore up that speech it is trending in a number of different ways on social media she has pushed back for her part on her actions in fact she said shortly afterwards when that moment was captured on television screens that it was the most courteous thing to do considering the alternative it was such a dirty speech what i think we can take from all of this martine is the tone in the tenor of the election campaign all the way to november is going to be very divided very angry very dirty and in the midst of all of this to fight despite the fact that donald trump's speech was unabashedly partisan we have to remember that his poll numbers seem to be going up in fact they're the highest they've ever been so the president seems to have been able to strike a chord in the midst of all of this even as some americans are feeling utter disgust at what they've seen on display in the house of representatives and meanwhile committee of course we're just a few hours away from what we expect to be an acquittal for the president in the senate as they vote finally on the impeachment trial so it's basically donald trump's. can do what he likes pretty much and now as he starts to limber up ready for november 2020. he definitely is flexing his muscle because you have to remember he's going into this vote knowing that he's likely to be acquitted that seems to be the way the votes are going into this we always have to keep in mind there may be one more surprise we've seen a lot of them in the last few days but essentially the president is likely to do a victory lap in fact the white house has said that to expect some sort of response after this vote comes down i think what we have in all of this is a lot of drama and expect that the other side is going to have drama to the democrats are angry that they were not able to make the case to the american public so we're also watching very carefully to see what the top democrat in the u.s. senate chuck schumer will say he is expected to make a speech just before that all important vote that is set to come down at 21 g.m.t. we'll get back to me a little later kimberly thank you very much indeed well now we can speak to our senior for the school analyst he's joining us live from london mowen be interesting to hear what your thoughts are about this particular moment in american politics. we're clearly as we've heard it's quite a divisive moment and it's a decisive moment as well especially in an election year the country is going through or a cultural war is going through a political war if you will so much so that the theatricals in the in the in the u.s. congress reflect the mood of the country in general so polarized so bitter so much in disagreement on every single possible issue with the exception of and this is really the only in america thing martin which is a so-called applause lines there are certain applause lines that are made by presidents during state of the union speech that are meant for everyone to stand and applaud like on that in the military for example right but aside from that aside from the issues that there has always been historically consensus about most of the issues of the day most of the important issues facing americans from the economy to health to immigration to the environment to justice and the legal justice and so on so forth they are divided and they are bitterly divided and on the issue of foreign affairs not much was said he did obviously introduce with a great deal of fanfare. of venezuela and so on but there was scant mention of foreign affairs should we be seeing this is the era the trump era as one of us disengagement. it certainly is specially in an election years but i would say that beyond speeches and rhetoric clearly the united states is involved if you watched secretary pompei of the recent trips in asia the middle east africa and elsewhere you would notice that america is and is in fact engaged and america wants to make sure that china remains contained even russia i would say remains contained and certainly in the middle east they've just pushed in 20000 more soldiers even when president from talks about america does not want to get involved in never ending wars of the middle east and yet he dispatches 20000 extra soldiers to the region but if you were sitting a london like one foreign affairs editor tweeted today as something about it's too bad i stayed up all night there's nothing on foreign affairs well if you are in europe and the middle east you probably want beasts staying up because in most of europe africa the middle east and much of asia in fact this is late hours of the night and early hours of the morning probably no one is watching but be that as it may this president is focused on the economy is focused on domestic issues because this is an election year and he knows unless another big issue like an impeachment hits him he's going to have to remain focused on