controversy over a mexican militia. coming up in sports tensions at the nou camp are heightened as a little more not out of the cup but a dispute between the players and the club. on the death of a doctor who was reprimanded by the police when he raised the alarm of a coronavirus is adding to the challenges that are simply piling up for the chinese government there's been an outpouring of public anger over the case of wendy leanne who warned about a new virus back in december the police who had accused him of disturbing social order anticorruption investigators are now being sent from beijing to look into the issue issues raised by the people is the quote and the state health commission even mentioned him in their daily update. we know that for medical workers on the frontline they sacrifice their own family life to contribute to this battle against a fire as they try to protect our people's health we extend our respect to them now it's in the critical period in the battle against a virus in a society we need to care more about our medical workers we need to unite as one to conquer at least difficulties. well the chinese president xi has spoken to president trump and is assured him that china's efforts to contain the virus are achieving results and the world health organization says it's too soon to know if the virus is reached its peak but there are signs that the number of new cases is dropping so far at least 638 people have died from the virus more than 31000 are infected. because our correspondent all of these developments for us from hong kong we can go to life now and sara 1st of all the death of this the whistleblower as he's become known is really spoke to seem of in china. it certainly has mottainai this is the doctor who worked at the hospital which is at the center of the 1st outbreak of the virus so the corona virus in december he shared some of the information they had early on he was making concerns concerns about the virus identifying the virus as a sounds like a virus and sharing it with other doctors in a chat group it's like a communication group this is with doctors and then that information was then a shared to the police who then reprimanded him and said he was conducting a being involved in a sort of illegal activity and as you mentioned disturbance of social order he was reprimanded and then forced to confess and take that information now of course that was then became infected and favorite 7 to die on friday he died as a result of the corona virus infection now there has been a huge public outcry on social media his name has been trending. and people should be angry about the government's handling of this particular situation and also they've been demanding an apology that what the would have government and china to apologize to the family for ignoring this information and and noting the naked jance now the media has criticized who initially criticize the doctor and now they're holding him as a national hero now the government they have sent condolences to the family of the doctor and china's today and that they can send in a high profile anti corruption task force. to investigate the circumstances of the doctor's death as well as some of the information and the criticism that's been made on social media about the handling of the crowd a virus outbreak in word and sarah is fast becoming a parent to one of the world. places to be during this outbreak is on a cruise ship. there are a number of cruise ships been getting caught in the middle of all of this so we've got so the latest case of 41 you cases on a cruise ship in japan which is pointing in your camera we have another ship that's left hong kong that was on its way to often it's now got to get passengers who porting symptoms their affiliates don't link with the corona virus and it's been denied access to doctors in the philippines taiwan and japan in the now reports that it's seeking help from the u.s. navy to try and doctors and certainly help those rail rescue those stranded passengers now the one of the good the passengers on board is it's not a luxury cruise it's more like a flushing prison also this concern right now but by sea by the running out of supplies on board the ships in hong kong we have another ship in find 10 it's docked in callan on the other side where we are now there are 3600 passengers have been on board that ship since wednesday and now there are complaints that there's a lack of hygiene on board and certainly the situations to writing and also this time they're running out of diapers and so the situation for these people who are stranded on these cruise ships is certainly not a good one for the court the middle of the crowd a virus outbreak which is spreading all right sara thank you for that one more note before we leave china also in hong kong hundreds of medical workers continuing with their strike demanding a complete border closure with mainland china they're staging a sit in outside the headquarters of the hospital for a t.v. she's in charge of government facilities now this is the 5th day of the strike and from saturday everyone entering hong kong from the mainland will face a mandatory 2 week quarantine but the protesters say that's not enough. i can see from some people are suffering and we have to say to. you we don't have enough capacity for improvement but you. it's more on the top of the problem assess them we can have less safety but. i mean that the safety for whole whole. around the world of racing to find a vaccine nicola gage now takes a look at that progress this strain of corona virus is related to the common cold as well as the more serious and highly infectious saw as well severe acute respiratory syndrome at the moment there is nor a vaccine or nor an cure for this new virus what we do know is that it most likely passed from animals to humans in a market in the chinese city of one han and it's believed to have likely originated in bats chinese scientists rival to quickly identify its genetic sequence allowing researches across the world to start work on treatments in a strongly or officials say they've developed lab grown version of the virus which would be a neiges step towards creating a vaccine drugs used to fight hiv and influenza have been tested in china as possible treatments that officials say they are showing promising signs however the world health organization has played down reports of any kind of breakthrough but some drug make his are expected to begin vaccine tests on humans possibly within 3 months that might seem a while away but this process has traditionally taken year right now some of the best ways to prevent the spread of coronaviruses to avoid contact with those showing symptoms washing your hands regularly and covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing. well the foreign ministers of the african union who are currently meeting in that they say they're obviously worried about the possible spread of coronavirus so far there are no confirmed cases on the african continent but the health authorities there are on alert as hundreds of suspected infections have been reported foreign ministers as i say amazing it's the 2nd day of their summit and mohammed violet's our correspondent there monitoring the meeting and looking more broadly at ethiopia now this suburb the international airport there mohammed is seen by many as being the gateway to africa because it has so many international flights coming in. that's right martina in terms of ties with ethiopia and exchange of. this is the gateway if europe is the gateway to china about more than 30 flights a week 5 distillations by these airlines and tremendous public pressure during the last couple of weeks on the government to stop those flights what the government has decided not to do that until now saying that strategic ties with china and the the fact that china is a is an amazing friend to africa and particularly to each opium makes it difficult for each of you to take a this season of stopping those flights at a time when china is in distress. china has. about 200 students in war han we have talked to one of them yesterday when we visited this family and they are really in dire straits they say they tell us they want to come back they are canteen they can't even go to the supermarkets to buy their food and that gives you an idea about how how difficult it is here the feeling among the families here in each of here about the situation there most of the ones being stuck there also across africa the situation is you know the governments are taking precautions measures at airports screenings and of sorts changing doctors. in the car 2 days training is going on to make more laboratories across the continent or do we know that only south africa and ghana so far. that's kind of a sea of specimens for suspected he says. he has already sent 11 cases 11 specimens to start africa 8 of them returned negative 3 are still pending results still to come and 3 more cases including a chinese person are still here being about to be sent to south africa for testing so that the continent is vulnerable they know that they have told us yesterday here the delegates they know how difficult it is going to be for africa if the epidemics breaks out here but the this strategic ties the economic ties with with china and the need for that economic cooperation to continue makes it difficult for some of the african countries to put china under current team. all right mohammed mohammed there live in the theatre capital addis ababa thank you but let's get to cheryl cohen who is from the national institute for communicable diseases in south africa and she's also says she a professor in epidemiology at mit. and university in johannesburg thanks very much for talking to south africa girls has got perhaps a missed developed health system on the continent how ready is south africa. so surfing's for having me and you know south africa is prepared we've been monitoring the situation in iraq since the beginning you know when it was just a few cases in china and it wasn't a kid that this would would progress to be a global situation and as soon as it became apparent to us you know that this was becoming a risk more globally you know we were we were really quick off the mark to start to leasing guidelines to our doctors so clinical case definitions information on what to look for as well as what to do if you have a case in terms of quarantine etc this being a lot of if it put into place at our ports of entry. tambour international airport in johannesburg is also one of the more the bigger have is in africa with a lot of travelers from from china so there's been a lot of focus at all of our international airports as well as our land borders to have screening for patients or individuals coming in from china you know recognizing that screening at the borders is certainly will never be 100 percent effective but it is a useful than of defeats absolutely and of course are you know really importantly is that out of the bar ritchie so i wanted to broaden out a bit and say so south africa sounds and. is prepared this is pretty cool but what about the 53 other countries on the continent of course many of which have got done public health systems and there's you know 1200000000 people and among them of course is more than a 1000000 chinese people what sort of precautions to these countries. that have been identified by the americans as the soft underbelly of this outbreak what sort of priority is to they need to take i'm bored. so i think i mean i don't have direct knowledge of what is actually being done in terms of preparedness in other countries what i can say is that certainly there's a very high level of awareness within the public health community and within the party community throughout africa and you know everyone all of all of our colleagues in the different african countries all really very engaged in preparedness activities i think has a lot to put in place on the continent partly in response to which was a big effort to make for us in africa and also as part of preparedness activities related to influenza because i think you know with the world this is a bit and expected that it's a coronavirus people were thinking it might be an influenza virus and so there is a need to recover the bird trees and surveillance literates throughout africa which has been established in relation to influenza as well as other systems for operate response to bird and i think you know really people are trying to to piggyback on these existing systems and as well as existing capacity in the bar trees and in the public health to to modify plans that might have been made and make sure that african countries are prepared but absolutely your point is taken you know that the level of resources available on the african continent is certain the less for most countries did in many of the other countries that have been affected today it really could still chief thank you. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including india's prime minister goes to the site of mass protests but the focus is not. what he's talking about. was. refugees and migrants in serbia call for orders to be opened. and the man known as the greek music unstoppable again in the n.b.a. it will have the. syrian government and its forces have now captured the important town of saddam that's in province it's strategic because it's part of the offensive on the last rebel held part of the country the fall of saddam keep in nearby highways could pave the way for the government to move on the capital city it's widely feared that an assault on the city will worsen an already serious humanitarian crisis. well to them cause here lou is our correspondent inside syria. crosspoint crossing point that's really close to the turkish border and since that we understand now that this vitally important town has fallen to syrian government forces what does it look like from where you are in terms of the continuing syrian military advancement and indeed what's going to happen to all the civilians. well martin it is an active is a very critical town both for the syrian government and for the syrian opposition because it is located at the junction intersection point of the m 4 and m 5 highways highways that are vital for the people and the go as syria's government to survive whoever controls the high. always controls the logistics on everything and everybody was the spite of this collation zone everybody was expecting the syrian government to try to do that they will try to take control of the highway but no one expected that they would go so far despite russia iran and turkey deal in astana and sochi so. that taking control of said akka is a psychological barrier and it's kind of full blow for the syrian opposition and when i speak to sources they tell me that in the near future early feature they are not expecting the town to change hands i mean from the syrian government and to do rebels again. of course this is a sign that the syrian government can also try to advance towards if that city center and try to push more i.d.p.'s it to turkey's border which is already advair a big stress on the borders in terms of security and in terms of mainly a primarily with humanitarian conditions i might it is perceived this way it is it's perceived. cinema yet let me jump in there and ask you then about the forthcoming mission there's a russian delegation we understand coming to ankara we think there may also be going to damascus presumably the turks will have a very tough message to give to the russians. well yes martin today foreign minister announced that a delegation from russia is coming coming so i also have to remind during this crisis the latest tension to turkey and russia joint patrols in the area have been has been halted after the official said that it wasn't due to the tension but due to weather conditions but people take it as it because of the tension and they will be talking about the latest situation because as the syrian government at the bands from south to north actually violating the terms of astana and such an agreement it's all they also attacked a turkish call more that was meant to bring reinforcements to its military force inside it and currently in 9 of the turkish military observation posts inside the are in the areas that are under control of the syrian government and currently inside iraq of their former observation posts that are that are subject to arrest and fire so the turkish military presence inside live is now critical as well because no one can guarantee that syrian government would attack turks again because russians have been as silent about this especially since the latest attack that happened a couple of days ago but when it comes to the high level officials like the foreign ministers they always repeat that they want to proceed to the escalations on agreement but probably 2 partners in it will discuss very important topics but no one knows whether turkey is going to. go backwards from its the system because turkey is now the official say that turkey will keep a reinforcements in the area and will not withdraw its military in a military presence with its ribs aeration post unless the syrian government goes back down to and for own 4 and 5 highway which is the origin of this creation's on borders to them because you live in northern syria thank you very much. the u.s. says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in a military operation in yemen apparently last month president trump says kasim allen remey was trying to organize and inspire attacks against americans there's been no confirmation of the killing from al qaeda and it gallagher has more now from washington the confirmation of this al qaeda leader's death is just emerging but the strike itself took place last month at the cia an american intelligence officials have been very carefully after previous strikes proved that their targets actually survived them so they were careful to check whether this is actually happened but all room is a significant target for the u.s. authorities he's one of the few al qaeda leaders predates the attacks of september the 11th he trained at camps in afghanistan before going back home to yemen where he was in prison for 5 years for plotting to attack the u.s. ambassador there he actually broke out of jail in 2006 is thought to be behind the attack on the u.s. embassy and is a significant target for the u.s. authorities so we do now have confirmation that the 41 year old was killed in these attacks in this drone strike in fact was a $10000000.00 reward out for him and the u.s. state department says that al qaeda has now been significantly weakened by this strike meaning that both americans and their allies on now safe are upon is death. right we can speak to measures wary here is director of the girl studies center at cafe university thanks for joining us. this is the great just to remind everybody this is the group of course that claimed responsibility for that attack in the united states in florida on the pensacola marine shooting attack you know. basically announced its responsibility for more than one operation or one attack one of the you mentioned in florida but also responsibility of other attacks on foreigners inside yemen as well on spanish your group. i think 6 of them were killed in yemen as well so basically this is an activity started since 2006 but he was active even before that in yemen i think the context of. targeting this leader is not the 1st time we witnessed another operation in spring 2000 seen. allowed that attack on. a village south of yemen and assuming that there would be. that there that time has been reported that actually 6 people were killed from. yemenis but so it is a trend of the you know how the american mistake with the war on terror 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