Winner. Im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country a group of us federal judges condemn president tropic using him up overstepping his legal boundaries. It began in libya where efforts to bring peace have suffered yet another setback internationally recognized government has suspended involvement in talks in geneva after war Khalifa Haftar forces attacked the capital sport at least 3 people were killed in that assault that port is a major entry point for supplies to libya after sources say their target was an arms depot he has been trying to capture the capital since april tripolis government is now insisting that peace talks cannot continue until the world firmly responds to what it calls violations of diplomatic editor james bays reports. The port in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fate of the peace efforts in jeopardy its now 10 months since general haftar appended the International Communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left the track it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition. But hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire. Issued this statement there were renewed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripoli seaport which is the life of archery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and Food Supplies in this context we announce the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the president ial Council Reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the u. N. Is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all the political factions in libya would use take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts james bays out 0 geneva the mats involved in the geneva talks have reacted with dismay to the sudden turn of events i only saw this i hope of course that then and these talks we checked she will resume as as quickly as possible said i mean the point is just started to engage the military committee which is the most important thing for the ceasefire and there are some prospect for the political ticker to. Stop the sometime in the near future to serve the there was the hope that step in the will be done but duty. After spending weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of people had been allowed to leave the initial round of coronavirus quarantine is over and some of the people deemed healthy are leaving the vessel are still a large number of people on board and theres questions about how effective the corn chain was after the virus spread over 500 passengers and while hong kong as recorded its 2nd from the virus a 70 year old man is a 6th person to have died outside Mainland China that brings the total number of deaths to 2010 and infections have hit more than 75000. 00 on tuesday china reported the lowest daily rise of new cases since the end of january and a moment we will go to our adrian brown who is in hong kong last more on the 2nd at their 1st lets go to rob mcbride who is at the port in yokohama so where do things stand with with passengers there. This wednesday there has been a lot of activity down here on the yokohama waterfront as you mentioned it is the end of this 14 days of quarantine for hundreds of people it is finally over there has been a steady stream of coaches of buses of taxis in some cases coming in here to the port area taking people away taking them to various transport hubs to yokohama station and other stations around here to continue their journey many of them people being allowed to return home these are people who have gone through the quarantine have been declared to be negative theres been no trace of the coronavirus found so they have now been allowed to leave but they have. A lot of the japanese citizens priority is being given to some of the elderly more elderly passengers theyve been allowed to go home but with the caution that they should monitor their health for the next few days at least to make sure there are no signs of fever meanwhile for many people of other nationality. Who are leaving their countries have said they dont want to them to come home just yet australia the United States the u. K. They have all said that they should take a couple of weeks before they return to their home countries or if they do go home right now then they face being put straight into quarantine so it doesnt seem to be a lot of confidence from the International Community that this quarantine has worked and in fact headlines have been made here in japan this wednesday with an Infectious Diseases expert going online using social media to really raise alarm about the conditions he says are onboard belowdecks here he went on the ship in the last couple of days he says finding chaotic conditions. And in fact had fear getting into action myself. For you well no south. Because i know how to protect myself but he said im going to have a 4th scared i was so scared of getting. Because there was no way to tell where the pharisees no green zone not already everybody could have and everybody was not careful about a. Single professional Infection Control person in the ship. Now this whole disembarkment process is expected to take several days your passengers are expected to leave if they have found to be negative on these tests for the coronavirus over the next coming days finally seeing a lens to this horrific journey this odyssey for some 3000 passengers and crew are still on the ship now were at one gate where d were people have been coming out healthy passengers another gate from this port where we have been we have seen throughout the day several ambulances there sirens blaring taking away what we can assume to be further cases of people being taken sick ok right now private the latest at yokohama port rob thank you get adrian brown who is in hong kong so you find what else do we know about. The additional death that has happened because of coronavirus and hong kong. Richelle we dont know a great deal i imagine more details will come during the News Conference thats expected to be given by hong kongs hospital authorities in about an hours time but we know the man who died on wednesday was 70 he lived alone he went to the mainland on january the 22nd just before the Lunar New Year holidays and then he was admitted to hospital about a week ago his condition we dont know what his condition was deteriorated somewhat during the last few days and then he died on that wednesday morning now officials are saying he had an underlying condition that was also the case with a 39 year old man from hong kong who died on february 4th so both men had underlying conditions and in fact thats also been the case with many people who have died on the mainland now outside of Greater China including taiwan and hong kong weve had deaths of course in the philippines japan and also france here in hong Kong Richelle the number of confirmed infections stands at 62 and in the mainland for the 2nd straight day the infection rate has been falling so how is the government responding to that demand for 1st western evacuations. Well hong kongs government is under pressure on 2 fronts it has more than 2000 hong kong citizens stranded in who province scattered right across the province but it also has more than 350. 00 hong kong citizens on board that diamond princess mord of yokohama now 50 of them more than 50 of them have so far tested positive for the corona virus but 300. 00 have and now the Hong Kong Government wants to get those people home as soon as possible it is send around 50 officials wearing special protective gear to japan to help in that operation 2 aircraft are on standby but so far they havent got any word from japanese authorities as to when those home kong citizens will be allowed to leave the ship now the mainland governments also demanding that these hong kong citizens be treated as a priority because there are so many of them on board and a short time ago Hong Kong Security chief john lee said that the way that japan was handling the passengers was in his words less than desirable ok brown with the latest from Hong Kong Adrian thank you. Card as a student from pakistan stack or lock down enron is calling on his government to help evacuate others like him. If i talk about my government pakistan theyre coming theyre continuously theyre continuously ignoring us and they have this on us we are continuously in contact with them but no one know under sponsible us and came in contact us in yesterday some investors cantorian us city in the country maybe some a few students in them it pictures to show them on the t. V. Is in newspapers but then they were contacted us and then they were headed only the Chinese Government is helping us and theyre cooperating with us in this situation but i wont go in which is completely neglecting neglecting us they are thinking like me and the pakistanis my message to pakistani government is that countries have been acquitted their citizens from the hunt in riyadh the only ones we are staying in no one in if they are not us will who are they will quit us because we are pakistani its our constitutional right to be evacuated from here in only our families and to suffer and were due to us so its a little bit situation for us and you know for our families as attorney general william barr is reported to be considering stepping down over conflicts of president onil trump it comes as the u. S. Justice department is locked in a dispute with the association of judges over the handling of the trial of trumps former advisor roger stone is among several former trying to record up an investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election correspondent kimberly hawker works less than 2 weeks after being acquitted by the u. S. Senate of abusing his president ial powers donald trump is once again facing similar accusations as he fights his own department of justice somebody has to stick up for the big truck is being criticized for intervening in a case involving a close friend of political ally roger stone convicted last year of lying to a Congressional Committee investigating whether trust political. Campaign colluded with Russia Federal prosecutors recommended stone go to jail for at least 7 years trump tweeted the recommendation was a miscarriage of justice that same day his attorney general william barr downgraded the recommendation prompting 4 federal lawyers to quit the case complicating things further bar took the unusual step of admitting publicly the trumps tweets dont help if i do make his job harder i do agree with that i think thats true now as Trump Defends bar and lashes out at federal judges and prosecutors a Group Representing the judges is accusing trump of overstepping the legal boundaries of the presidency with unprecedented involvement in politically sensitive judicial cases their actions Trump Defense im allowed to be totally involved im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country but ive chosen not to be involved in reality it is the attorney general that is the chief Law Enforcement officer in the u. S. Not the president but that hasnt stopped trump from undoing other sentences through a series of pardons for high profile individuals including convicted Financier Michael Milken former new York City Police commissioner Bernard Kerik and even former democratic illinois governor Rod Blagojevich convicted for trying to sell former president Barack ObamasVacant Senate seat once Obama Took Office and President Trump says he may continue to try and influence the legal case involving his friend roger stone stone sentencing is set for thursday and trump hasnt ruled out pardoning kim kimberly help at aljazeera the white house. So had on aljazeera an outcry and a Virus Outbreak is exposing the risks of working on cruise ships. Plus ranking financial secrecy the list of places helping to hide well. Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecast where we have been talking about storm dennis over the last 4 or 5 days and were still going to be seeing some rain out here towards the sets with the storm system right there a trailing front down across parts of Central Europe and for the u. K. Though were going to see a break here on tuesday go into wednesday but unfortunately as we go towards later wednesday we are going to be seeing more rain in the forecast thats coming in from the atlantic and you can see here in our forecast map by wednesday afternoon into the evening time it is going to be Northern Ireland ireland as well as up here towards scotland they were going to see more rain coming into play there now the cold front is going to be trailing down pushing through parts of the u. K. As we go towards thursday that front will move through parts of london as we go towards thursday afternoon the good news is we will see a break coming in as we go towards thursday evening so the rain is going to be ending its really going to be about a 36 hour event of rain as we go through the next couple of days better conditions here on thursday with london at about 11 degrees there down towards the southeast though we are going to be seeing a Persistent Air of low pressure bring some rain across much of the areas for istanbul the rains going to continue here on thursday and as we go towards friday we are going to see a little bit better conditions by the afternoon with a temper of about 10 and overnight lows at about 6 degrees. When theyre on line like brother got to get one of the worst grabs to bring her radio about freeing up credit or if you join us on sanctuary is a different issue diversity and inclusion and they were sometimes isnt always sincere based is a dialogue sanctions on the ways in which theyre applied to iran are an act of warfare everyone has a voice we as a society that is so quick to get to blame need to just sit down and listen and join the global conversation on aljazeera. Watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories right now recognize government has suspended involvement in ceasefire talks in geneva after world war cliff forces attacked the capital sport tripolis government says the world must far away respond to huffed are. There reports u. S. Attorney general bill barr is considering stepping down over conflicts with donald trump it comes as the u. S. Justice department is locked in a dispute with the association of judges over the handling of the trial of President Trumps former advisor roger stone. After spending weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of diamondhead says passengers have finally been allowed to leave but more than 2000 passengers and crew remain on board. Its not just passengers who have been stuck onboard the diamond princess and japan cruise ship workers from around the world are also living under quarantine el al and openness in manila and spoke to the family of one filipino worker whos been held up in japan. Uninvested that for victoria jo and her father every phone call lately feels as if it may be their last victoria is in the philippines her father works abroad now stranded in the diane princes cruise ship in japan where the corona virus has infected hundreds of passengers. The danger her father continues his work as a steward she says her familys be kept in the dark about what the shipping company and the Philippine Government planned to do with those stranded on the ship the job you love so much and been loyal to for some decades its giving everything the same love that piece given. Inside the cruise ship her father gets a tour of his work. But. We could. Still keep serving thats why i really hard because we are still exposed to passengers and that is that they are very stressed. In this whole way passengers post their requests and comments outside their door which Service Workers to attend to. We will be about our immunity many of us are tired and. We feel that they are not safe here anymore. Its a sentiment shared by many here in downtown manila filipino seafarers look for jobs abroad to despite the risks around 400000 of the more than 1600000 people who work on ships globally are filipino they send back hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances back to the country every year for years filipino seafarers have been calling on the government to help them lobby for better protection and compensation abroad now they say the Current Crisis has exposed the Philippine Governments inability to respond quick enough to the growing cha