and sexual assault in a case that sparks the global need to movement. i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including crowds gather outside a high security court in london as we keep leaks founder julian assange begins his fight against extradition to the u.s. . and its 4 mourners are gathering in los angeles for a service to remember the life of basketball great car b. bronze the other like his legend was killed alongside his daughter jonah and 7 of us in a helicopter crash last month. the world health organization is sending a medical team to iraq where the coronavirus emergency is growing iran's health ministry says 12 people have died of the disease and deny that the total is closer to 50 afghanistan bahrain kuwait oman and iran. are all reporting infections of travels from iran to more people have died in northern italy raising the total there to 6 almost $200.00 cases are reported in italy the highest concentration outside of asia stock market indexes plundered on monday as traders sold shares of reaction to the coronavirus news companies doing business in china as well as tourism and airlines south of the heaviest falls in share prices and the national people's congress in china has been perspired for the 1st time in decades training here begins our coverage now from china where more than 2 and a half 1000 people have been killed across china the coronavirus outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijing's great hall of the people. every much the venue puts the country's most important political event the national people's congress but china's top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gathering urging its 2000 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing cases over the weekend bringing the total to about 400 many are still too afraid to return to work. that's their $100.00 employees. we already have iraq to people working in the office. i thought the subway to work was going to be packed but there actually weren't many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have originated in a 100 wildlife and seafood market. new coronavirus cases and to tell it is have been concentrated. 24 of china's 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered emergency response levels. president xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and he's encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart operations where possible. industries which of the national economy and people's livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operations resumption and working in a foolish way to increase production it's the 1st time china's national people's congress has been delayed in decades so far no new date has been set but analysts say when the recent is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally won its so-called war against the corona virus outbreak. al-jazeera aging. well the virus is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the global economy stock markets in asia europe and the us fell on monday following the surge in cases and deaths across the globe christensen is live for us now in new york kristen soltis tell us how is the dow responded. yes stocks continue to take a battering here in new york and u.s. markets particularly those with exposure to china like apple which is trading 4 percent below what it was on friday that's because apple manufactures a lot of its products in china it also sells a lot of i phones in china so it is particularly vulnerable to any hiccups in the manufacturing system in china but this is happening across the board all of the major indices are down more than 3 percent the dow is down more than $900.00 points more than 3 and a half percent s. and p. is down now stack is down as well as i said across all sectors airlines for example seeing a bad day or oil prices are down one bright spot if you will the safe haven of gold where people tend to put their money when they're worried about a market sell off gold prices are now at a 7 year high as these concerns about the disease spreading have come back and worrying investors about the impact on the global economy of course china is the manufacturing hub for much of the world's global supply chain then we had this news that there are new cases in south korea another important country economically italy reported new cases a spread there that. also saw its stock market close much lower at 4.9 percent it's last week we saw u.s. markets hit an all time high with this coronavirus fear in the background there was some thought that china maybe had seen the worst of it 'd and new cases were peaking investors were shaky but confident by the end of the week last week stocks started sinking again and today we've seen this major major route the united states following on europe and european markets also down considerably the flood see closed 3.3 percent down again in italy a big many. factoring center the new case is there a quarantine in effect not far from milan the major economic hub for italy this has investors across the globe worried and certainly we're seeing that one of the worst days in months here in new york and things don't look like they're getting any better today but we'll keep what keep an eye on it thanks that kristen's let me across things there live from new york. well as christine mentioned italy is dealing with an al break of the corona virus and it has killed 6 people let's go live to mohammed in milan mohammed as as was mentioned there milan is an economic hub how is the outbreak being felt there. well i'll tell you kim here in downtown milan it's impure than it usually would be this hour of the day on a weekday we are in front of the central train station right in downtown but there's not really a sense of panic at least not yet yes people are concerned there are some people we are seeing that are wearing the masks but many of the people that are walking around in their skateboards around here as well and there are vendors that are selling newspapers and other items they are open for business now all that being said though there are precautions that have been put in place churches are closed schools are closed gathering places are closed major tourist landmarks like the scala opera house and lead warm cathedral they are closed for the time being and this is something that is concerning people we've heard from officials throughout the day reiterating the message that we keep hearing from italian officials which is that they want to try to contain the spread of the virus that they are expecting that more cases of will be revealed in the coming days not because it's getting out of hand but because there are more health officials here that are proactively trying to diagnose new cases another another festival that was canceled actually not canceled it was shortened was the. venice carnival that came to it in 2 days earlier than expected and you had the governor of venator a region who told the press earlier in the day i never thought i would have to sign an order to shut down the venice carnival i never thought we'd have to close the schools churches museums and all public places i know i'm asking a lot from our citizens but i know that when things get hard we can pull together we just need to think of a. our health and that's something that's being echoed by other officials who are speaking out and it will be us remember that just since last week last week you had just a handful of coronavirus cases in northern italy and just several days later this week now you have over 225 and many people believe that number will grow in the coming days kim think that that's my have agenda in their lives from the law as. well as we had earlier the number of deaths and iran has increased the health ministry there has to be transparent with the situation we need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions i'd like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter or to treat and we will say everything in a clear way as it begs in tehran and says the number of cases rise there's disagreement over how bad the situation actually is in iran. there's been an extraordinary exchange in clash a war of words between a member of parliament and the he's a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the health ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not all of them may be from the krona virus but he says that the government's performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses don't have the correct uniforms on off scared of treating patients he says that the government isn't really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and has called upon the health ministry to impose a curfew on the city of call now the deputy health minister has come out and as has denied that figure of 50 and said that even if it was half that number he would submit his resignation now about the responded to that and he said he sent the names of those that have died from the virus to the health ministry and he expects a resignation now the health minister has come out in response to all of this and he said that the government is dealing with the situation. led to more head on the news all including. the israeli military pounds islamic jihad sot says rockets are fired from gaza. and in love with india donald trump announces a $3000000000.00 weapons deal but can the u.s. bridge the trade differences. in support the hosts in term of favorites get the campaign back on track at the women's team 20 world cup. hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of 2 charges at his trial in new york he's been convicted of criminal sexual assault and a 3rd degree rape however he's been acquitted of the most serious charge which could have meant a life sentence. once this is a vicious serial sexual predator who used his power to threaten rape assault trick humiliate and silence is victims he has been found guilty of criminal sexual act in the 1st degree and will face on that count the state prison sentence of no less than 5 years and up to 25 years. well the guilty verdict feels the fall from grace for a man who was one of hollywood's most celebrated produces observes gabrielle and is on the reports from new york. harvey weinstein was not just any producer but maybe one of the most powerful ever many of the greatest actors or actresses over the past 40 years have worked with him in some capacity either directly or through his movie studios throughout his career weinstein has 81 academy awards to his name and his power extended into politics at the very highest of levels from bill and hillary clinton who called him a personal friend to brocken michelle obama one of their daughters briefly worked for weinstein to donald trump who often was at the same new york events but it was weinstein's influence in hollywood and his ability to make or break an actor's career where he had his most power and according to prosecutors he wielded that power by sexually exploiting women. he's been on trial in new york for allegedly raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and sexually assaulting another woman in 20064 other women testified against him saying they too were victims more than 100 other women many anonymously have come out publicly and said they too were assaulted by weinstein during the 4 week trial prosecutors told the 12 person jury weinstein was a serial rapist and manipulator his defense argued otherwise if you look at all the evidence the evidence shows consensual relationships in 2017 the new york times 1st reported allegations of abuse against weinstein sparking women to come forward and talking about abuse at the hands of more powerful men actress alyssa milano tweeted if you've ever been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as a reply to this tweet thousands did and the movement took off. oh then. there were protests throughout the u.s. and hollywood celebrities launched a campaign to fight sexual harassment in the workplace time's up on the pervasive culture of silence that is unable to abusers like weinstein the me too movement born out of weinstein but the question now is where does it go from here as for weinstein himself it's not over prosecutors in los angeles have charged him with rape and sexual assault of to other women gabriel is on to. new york. when i speak now to avis jones de weaver in washington d.c. she is an author and commentator on gender issues thanks so much for coming on the program i'm hoping you can help me understand counsels and so so once she has been found guilty of sexual assault but not guilty of predatory sexual assault and guilty of 3rd degree rape but not guilty of 1st degree rape kit can you explain the difference to me. absolutely this gets rather complex in the sense of how our laws are specifically articulated in this country in terms of predatory sexual assaults it would allude to having a significant pattern of sexual assault of many women that's why even though 2 only 2 women were part of the actual legal case you had about 4 other women come up in testify against him specifically related to their predatory sexual assault. charge . in regards to the 1st degree versus the 3rd degree all of this is rather technical in this country but the challenge the biggest challenge here in terms of proving particularly 1st degree we are in the reasonable doubt suggests that prosecutors would have really been able to make the case without it a shadow of a doubt that this was a rape that this was a sexual soul had no consent related to it at all and the challenge is that this is something that happened many years ago at the end of the day ends up in many circumstances being somewhat of a he said she said circumstance and then to further complicate matters in some instances there were text messages changes other sorts of evidence that the defense brought in that show that there continued to be somewhat of a relationship between the 2 posts the initial assault which some could argue might have been consensual and so all of that sort of muddied the waters which is why i believe you didn't have guilty verdicts on all counts but you at least had guilty verdicts on 2 counts obviously on the one hand one state you know this case was it was a hollywood movie producer it on the other hand it sparked a global movement be to meant what does this result mean for the need to movement do you think. for the me too movement it shows that even if it may take years to bring your abuser and your assault her to justice you will be believed and you will find some measure of justice i think one of the biggest sort of motivators behind that particular movement was this common belief among a number of sexual assault survivors that they don't come forward alternately oftentimes because they just have this belief that they will not be believed and that creates this sort of culture of silence and particularly in his case where he was able to will that silence to his advantage that allowed him to have access to literally over 100 other victims over time and so when you begin to chip away at a culture that ultimately it's an initial sort of knee jerk response is to not believe women then that puts sexual predators on notice that you will not be found innocent of these charges that you will not be able to get away with it even if you're able to distance yourself years away from your initial assault a virtually justice will be found really good still to think that that's a this chance to review their life from washington d.c. the islamic jihad group in gaza says it's ended its military response against is round after 2 days of cross border violence israel carried out another round of airstrikes on sunday injuring 4 people the military says it was a response to dozens of rockets fired into southern israel and also carried out strikes on the armed group in syria on sunday night killing 2 members damascus are a force that is monitoring the escalation from western are slim. this escalation which really began on sunday morning with an israeli fire on to pass an islamic jihad fighters which israel who israel said had been planting an i.e.d. an improvised explosive device near the border fence and then an attempt by israel successful one to use a bulldozer to recover the body of the one of those 2 fighters who was killed in that attack. that was video which was very. seen as really outrageous by many in gaza and led to palace of islamic jihad pledging revenge there was an escalation on sunday in terms of rocket fire and israeli air strikes including strikes in syria which kills 2 further islamic jihad fights is leading to a day today monday of really quite heavy cross border exchanges some 50 rockets the israeli military saying coming from gaza into israeli territory numerous as strikes across the gaza strip targeting islamic jihad sites in response type fire as well coming from israel there was a pretty thorough finally worded and explicit warning from the israeli prime minister this evening monday evening saying that there would be a return if there was not an end to this rocket fire to a policy of targeted assassinations against senior on faction leaders inside gaza that something has been hinted at in recent weeks but not put in quite such bold terms by the israeli prime minister up until now so question with a valid warning and potentially the earlier warnings of not being afraid to go to war despite the fact there's an election coming up from the israeli prime minister whether that made any difference as well i have just seen that the israeli military is saying that there are further strikes carrying on so it could not it might not yet be the very end of this round but it does seem that things may well be calming down to some extent. u.s. president donald trump has been welcomed by more than 100000 people in the indian city of ahmed a bounce in the drought his 1st visit to the country is designed not only to boost ties and trade but also his reelection chances by appealing to 4 and a half 1000000 indian american voters and the elizabeth rather prana reports from a mad about. on his 1st foreign trip since his impeachment trial donald trump could not have looked more pleased with the reception he received it wasn't the $10000000.00 people trump said would greet him and before leaving for india bought more than 100000 people packed into the south bothered by patel stadium to hear the u.s. president praise all things indian from one of its founders mahatma gandhi to cricket stars in the bollywood film industry his gracious admiration that was reserved for prime minister in the day to modi you are living proof that with hard work and devotion in danger get a cop lish anything anything at all anything they want for prime minister mori inten spoke of what he called the 2 countries shared values i don't. believe that that's it. today you are the one india which is full of diversity with thousands of languages are spoken with just thousands of costumes cusins and several religious group and coming to us all rich diversity and unity is a strong foundation of india u.s. relationship. i but president trump visit comes at a time when that in the body and his hindu nationalist but at the agenda party of facing criticism for the treatment of indian muslims i can confess that i heard him . not to be disbelieved. he talked about. india's peacefulness. but these are only 3 things that have been under threat in the last 6 years. there have been 2 months of nationwide protests against the citizenship law which fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims one police officer was killed in violence between pro and anti-government protesters in that happy new delhi as president trump was just a few hours away in visiting the taj mahal white house official said president trump will raise concerns over the citizenship law with prime minister morty the 2 leaders will discuss defend security and trade in new delhi on tuesday while there's no progress expected on the big differences when it comes to trade president trump believes the happy man after the warm welcome he received it might not be the country's most populous state but nearly a 3rd of indian americans have connections here and 9 months ahead of the u.s. presidential election trumps hope in coming to. well help boost his popularity among the 4 and a half 1000000 indian american voices elizabeth al-jazeera. donald trump has already announced the u.s. will sign a $3000000000.00 weapons deal on tuesday when the business end of his true day visit begins india heavily relies on the u.s. for its military hardware its for 17 $1000000000.00 worth of u.s. military goods since 2007 the u.s. is india's 2nd largest trading partner after china but serious differences have cropped up in recent months and before trump's visit to u.s. diplomats failed to negotiate frictions india and the u.s. have both been affected by the to the tat tariffs on imports since 2018. let's speak now to a month dr who's in oxford he is a scholar at oxford university and a fellow in the u.s. india policy at the center for strategic and international studies in washington d.c. thank you so much for your time how much of this visit is actually about sort of substantial deals or agreements this is optics ahead of the u.s. election well i think you know the optics are definitely up for him going into this visit after the both sides were able to get to a trade deal but i do think that you know we will see some substance coming out of this visit tomorrow as you've already said there will be 3000000000 dollar defense deal for helicopters both for apache helicopters as well as sea hawk helicopters for the navy and there's also been an approval by the state department for air defense system for the capital city of new delhi which could be movement on and finally there is one pending military enabling a foundational agreement called the basic exchange cooperation agreement or becca that has been the 4th of 4 military enabling agreements to u.s. and india already signed 3 and they could be moving on the 4th so we might see some substance but how much if it will see we'll see we'll find out tomorrow. i was interested to hear and it is its report there that trump plans to speak to modi about the controversial citizenship law which of course critics say discriminates against muslims how likely is donald trump to really push this. well i think india they denied states definitely sees india as a strategic partner here so i think it'll come up in private i think president trouble you know might bring this up in private in his conversations with primes for modi but i don't think it will become a big feature of the discussion here i think the president tried hasn't made a big deal of values in his term in office 4 aside from focusing on religious freedom i think he will bring it up in private but i think that the indians will also respond in saying that you know this is our internal 'd affair we're deciding to give you know refuge for persecuted minorities in our neighborhood and i think that's where the leave it i don't think they'll create a big fuss about it and i think that's part of the types of leaders that we have here populist leaders leaders that appeal to sort of those segments of the population and i also think that you know the structural issues that go into why the united states sees india as a partner mean that they don't want to alienate india at this time and so they won't throw a big stink about this thanks so much for that that back of there he is a scholar oxford university and a fellow and us india policy. still ahead on al-jazeera libya's internationally recognized prime minister takes his case to the world's highest human rights body. malaysia's prime minister much to mohamed as quote plunging the country to political uncertainty. and in sport the world's best women's tennis players tell al-jazeera once kept best for the head of the competition. hello the rain is returning from the eastern med spreading across the levant and expanding the cloud our goes back into north east africa through egypt into sudan but i think that in the pot for want to shout it's going to be drawing on the for egypt and then through jordan into northern sorry that looks like quite sherry stuff with the heaviest red light to be in iraq and then trading down towards kuwait this could include baghdad to the potential for flooding is there and it's true in iran as well as snow only the very top of the highest ground on the iranian side of the border behind it all sunshine and shadows breeziness it could have been 16 in beirut with that raises the question across saudi arabia and in contrast what light southerly means war for the u.a.e. for qatar riyadh's at 33 degrees as well that will change a bit as the winter and into a northerly everything passes through in the weather and it was caught in the rain goes towards iran sunshine is left behind and it's warmed up more in beirut 17 degrees. most of north africa has seen a bit of a chill particularly in egypt and in libya behind this cold front the tensions are slowly on the rise and the breeze that went offshore 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our top stories this on iran's health ministry says 12 people have died from coronavirus in m.p. and cohen says the true figure is much higher kuwait's bahrain oman and afghanistan have all reported cases of infected travelers coming from iran. hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault and a 3rd degree rape however he has been acquitted of the most serious charge which could have meant a life sentence. the islamic jihad group in gaza says it's ended its military response against israel after the true days of cross border violence israel carried out another round of airstrikes on sunday injuring 4 people. let's go back now to our top story the rising number of coronavirus cases in iran the disease is spelling more trouble for a nation that's reeling under u.s. sanctions because of its nuclear program chad blank is a former state department official who was responsible for the overseeing of the implementation of the iran nuclear deal all the way thank you very much for your time since the u.s. pulled out of the deal of easy these sanctions are in place how is that going to affect iran's ability to deal with the corona virus outbreak do you think. well i think it's important to start by saying that corrupt autocratic governments are poor at dealing with public health emergencies and so the most important problems iran will face and is already facing dealing with the current virus are internal to iran now that said it obviously complicates the picture that the united states has imposed these very severe sanctions and that despite the fact that there are legal cargo carve outs for medical exports to iran the trump administration has made a point of making those carve outs as inaccessible as possible and so as a result you've got a paucity of medicines including medicines for the kinds of immunocompromised people who might be miscible of this children and cancer patients except for you have shortages of public health supplies and there are no really accessible financial channels to increasing the exports of the essential goods to iran and so the united states engines are not the cause of whatever outbreak might be coming they're not even the cause of iran's problem in dealing with it but they are a confounding factor we have heard conflicting numbers out of iran officially we're hearing that 6 people have died from the virus an m.p. says the number is higher more like 50 do you think that if we continue to see these numbers rise and rise and rise that perhaps the u.s. might make it easier. for these cob out says you say as you call them to be accessible. well i think that the point that you've just made about the differing numbers coming out of different branches of the iranian government goes exactly to the underlying problem it's the transparency of an autocratic government is really a bigger issue than the sanctions now that said will the trumpet ministration make these carve outs more accessible i can only hope so it's hard to guess with the current administration what will cause them to react but i would hope that especially as our european partners are rightly concerned about the possible spread of this virus as close as they are to iran they'll be putting more pressure on washington to build a genuinely effective workaround to allow essentially unlimited medical exports to iran which is actually what the law permits i think that that starts blank there live from washington d.c. . u.n. sponsored talks on libya's conflict are under pressure in geneva a delegation representing one of the holy for half the says it suspending its participation internationally recognized government based in tripoli is also expressing doubts james bass has more from geneva libya's prime minister came from tripoli to address the most important annual meeting of the un human rights council fine is else gave an impassioned speech focusing on what he says the war crimes directly ordered by the man who in recent months is trying to depose him general holy for half. a sea that was said and many have lost their lives men women children families have been displaced children have been orphaned because of degradation perpetrated by do work you know never have to be mature and how to have to. meanwhile military talks which have also been taking place here in the u.n. headquarters in geneva have concluded for now they've come up with a draft cease fire agreement but issues still have to be resolved and no actual cease fire has been agreed according to the u.n. envoy gas and salami the next stage is for wider political talks starting a wednesday but will they go ahead i try to get clarification at a news conference from surat she's foreign minister do you think it's now likely or unlikely or do you think they will happen or people spawn political talks what's your thought as we stand now up to my knowledge that's a sense i am is insisting that it happens and when izzie why some of the even the last invited they believe it's very short time they have to prepare this amp so i'm not sure is there any word from u.n. envoy salami himself well he hasn't spoken to the media since giving an al-jazeera interview on friday we believe that the libyan case is difficult but we don't believe it's a mission impossible the day i come to the conclusion that this mission is impossible you want that the government of national accord say they note mr salamis optimism they just can't work out what it's based on james barry's al-jazeera geneva wiki leaks founder julian assange has begun as far as against extradition from britain to the u.s. for more let's cross now to barbara sara in our european broadcast center. thank you kim yes the u.s. authorities are demanding a be handed over to face trial for espionage which could see him jailed for life he's accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret your stock commenced 10 years ago but a songes lawyers say the charges are politically motivated and not because of genuine crimes or insley reports now from the court in london. ha ha ha ha ha ha to his many supporters juden a soldier is one of the greatest journalists of his generation and they were out in force at the opening of his extradition hearing in the queue for the court where politicians from a variety of different countries for them to journalism is on trial here and with the united kingdom's belief in it i think it absolutely is john is on trial i think it's a landmark case freedom of speech and digital age and the freedom of the press i think the implications of the outcome of this really important to what journalism is going to look like in the future and additionally that he has become a political prisoner in this country and that the u.s. he's determined to extradite him to the u.s. to get even. and the solution i think must be political. and this is madness said the u.k. is even into tiny having a court case. should be saying the british prime minister barak johnson should resign to the u.s. president back off culture mind back to 2010 when wiki leaks bust onto the scene with the leaks video footage of a u.s. helicopter shooting civilians but of our traffic to 65. and it's easy to remember how it was solange became a celebrated antiwar activists as well as a driver of a new form of journalism the digital leaking of classified information. but the vilification of chelsea manning who provided wiki leaks with the information and the now dropped a rape allegation against a stone which drove him to the ecuadorian embassy in london for 7 years allowed the u.s. government to accuse a solange of being a malicious acts are guilty of not just bad journalism but a bad carrot so this is the determination the judge in the case is going to have to make is a sauna she hero or villain this process won't take days or weeks or months. but potentially years and the biggest question really is what happens to julian assange during all that time the authorities say that if he's released on bail then he'll be a flight risk his supporters say that keeping him in prison is a risk to his life for reasons entirely unclear a soldier is being held in solitary confinement in the person next to the court for up to 20 hours a day his father who's been visiting him says unjustifiable. old boy genius 3 in the prison you can come to. spend the time with. the soldiers lawyers will paint him as a political prisoner and have suggested they may attempt to seek asylum for him in france for the indefinite future that he's only charlie is the underground tunnels from his prison cell to the court room floor and slee al jazeera in london. carnival celebrations have been called off in the german state of has said after a vehicle was driven into crowds at one parade around 30 people have been injured some seriously after the crash in the western town of fall marson the driver was arrested at the scene and is being treated by doctors police say they believe the crash was deliberate but that the man's motive is unknown. the corruption trial of the former french prime minister and presidential candidate francois fior has been postponed until wednesday lawyers asked for the delay to show support for a judicial strike against the government's pension reforms that have reports from paris. france or feel on his wife penelope what through a paris called by police and security moments after the trial of the former conservative presidential candidate was perspiring and it was a rare appearance by feel. you know only 2017 he was the frontrunner in france's presidential race a former prime minister he was political experienced well connected and confident he would win but i didn't want to change my beliefs or my goals according to people's awareness or the language of the planets. was being seen to be going feel this way until the scandal broke a french newspaper allege that fear had misused taxpayers' money when he was an m.p. to paise wife penelope as a parliamentary system for years for no work the couple was placed under formal investigation or denied the accusations and said he was a victim of the political smear campaign. 36 years of political life 36 years without any problems today i am the target of a ruthless one sided attack 7 days a week 24 hours a day for. is this fair. france has a history of corruption and nepotism in politics some soft feel as a symbol of both and public pressure mounted on him to step down he refused forged ahead with his campaign but the damage was done for fail to make it past the 1st round of the presidential election losing out to the far right in the pen and emmanuel mccaw who went on to win feel. lawyers are asked for the trial to be delayed because of an ongoing lawyers strike at the court against the french government's planned pension reforms the trial is now expected to begin on wednesday if they are is found guilty of misusing public money and his wife of complicity they both face up to 10 years in prison. the high profile case prompted prison backoff to pass an anti corruption law targeted to cleaning up politics a few months after he was elected 3 r.'s kept a low profile in recent years in a t.v. interview in october he ruled out a return to politics for one of france's best known politicians it's been a spectacular fall from grace. just 0 paris. all aid to airports in the canary islands have reopened after a severe sandstorm over the weekend but primary schools remain closed high winds blew dust and sand from the sahara desert across the sea to the spanish island group which lies off western sahara skies turned orange and strong gusts found the 3 wildfires the head of the regional government described the weather as the canaries worst in 40 years. i'm going to have more from london in about 15 minutes time now let's go back to kim in though. thank you barbara malaysia's king has accepted the unexpected resignation of prime minister mahathir while that's what i asked him to stay on as interim leader while there's party has also announced that it's quitting the world and government coalition plans boy has more from kuala lumpur. i. the fate of malaysia's government is in the balance soon after prime minister mahathir mohamad sent his resignation to the king his party announced it was quitting the coalition government over the weekend party members held talks with opposition politicians on forming a new coalition that would block a plan to hand over power to mahathir is rival anwar ibrahim thought has to do it with also with personality these 2 men have a history a long history here put. him in jail and they came together and now i think we're seeing a situation where tomorrow here in malaysia it seems unwilling to let on more take power again and what was deputy in the 1990 s. when he was prime minister for the 1st of his spells as leader both were members of the united malays national organization or the party in power since what was then malaya gained independence from the british in 1957 but they fell out and was sacked then jailed for corruption and suddenly he described the charges as trumped up after his release anwar rose to become leader of the opposition and struck up an alliance with the hot date just before the last general election in 2018 to defeat . the ruling coalition agreed that mahathir would hand over power to anwar by may this year. 94 year old mahathir the world's oldest prime minister hasn't given a reason for his resignation but analysts say they don't see eye to eye on a number of issues including a decade's old policy to grant preferential treatment to the mill a muslim majority such as in jobs and home ownership malaysia we are really just dangerous so the mill a big yard the very worried that the chinese component in the oil and mr asian was getting too powerful so for the past 2 years the opposition are not and has. been making the argument that the previous government was essentially a mill a front controlled by the chinese and therefore we have to overthrow the measure that it becomes of malaysian government again the king has appointed they to stay on as interim prime minister while the new cabinet is formed to govern it has to show it has the support of 112 of 222 members of parliament mahathir could well stay on if he has enough support from m.p.'s even if it means a change in coalition partners civil society organizations have expressed disappointment at the turn of events they say it's undemocratic if politicians who were defeated in 2018 elections can be brought back to power like this instead of through the ballot box it's a development that's created confusion and anger florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur one policeman has died in violence between supporters and opponents of india's new citizenship law in the capital delhi around $200.00 women staged a sit in protest against the legislation by a metro station in the area on sunday but fighting broke out hours of the activists threatened to take action unless police removed the cork. the prime minister has been in court 3 days after tom restaurant a failed pair to face allegations of murdering his estranged wife dipper little to bonnie was shot dead just before his inauguration in 2017 about his new wife has already been charged with murder for me the miller was at the court appearance in the capital the city's prime minister tom to bonnie made a much anticipated however brief appearance in court earlier today this is all of he left with a suit to last week when he was 1st jew in court to face murder charges at that time he said he'd rushed to south africa for an emergency medical appointment since then he's returned to listen to too but when he appeared today his legal defense argued that there were questions around whether or not a sitting prime minister should be charged and prosecuted the court ruled that the case should be referred to the constitutional court for its intervention now bonnie has delayed those legal process for the time being he's still facing a tough political battle within his own all of us who to convention party this is a party that is divided there are people who do support tom to bonnie but he does have opposition within that party they say he should step down immediately. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports we'll be live in los angeles and mourners have gathered for a service to remember the life of boston for great. or . for the all. time now for sports here's andy thank you so much kamala service to remember the life of basketball great kobe bryant is on the white in los angeles the l.a. lakers legend killed alongside his dosage on r. and 7 others in a helicopter crash last month. well singer beyonce they are opening up the service the dates that it's being held february the 24th this significance bryant wearing the number 24 jersey during his career well john awar the number 2 when she played the. staple sense of where brown starred for the lake his journey his 20 year and be a career block correspondent rob reynolds is at the staples center for us rope tell us what we've seen so far what we can expect to see over the next few hours. well we've seen already thousands of people lining up and making their way inside the arena at the staples center we heard the beginning of the memorial just a few moments ago with a very heartfelt song by beyond say on stage and then a some remarks by jimmy kimmel the well known comedian and a talk show host late night talk show host here in the united states who said that it's a sad day but also a celebration of life in a building kimmel said where many coby fans spent some of the best moments of our lives now the widow of kobe bryant and the mother of gigi bryant is speaking thanking the people too for coming to this memorial service it's billed as a celebration of life and it is certainly a packed house many people there bought tickets for this event at a fairly modest price all of the proceeds from those sales will go to the mom and mom but seat the sports foundation which was set up by bryant to give inspiration through sports to children and young people living in underserved and disadvantaged communities it's certainly a very solemn day there are people all over the southland here as we as it is referred to in southern california who are watching this memorial service some of them in. city buildings civic auditorium places in parks where video screens have been set up and the like all to say farewell to an extraordinary basketball player and an extraordinary person kobe bryant and. to his extraordinary daughter 13 year old that gigi bryant now we also found out sort of in a completely different note today that just there will be a lawsuit filed by the family against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed last month killing all 9 people including the pilot and the bryants on board we'll keep monitoring the ceremony and we will bring you the latest as it goes on for now back to you thanks so much for overall runnels there live for us in los angeles at the card he brought memorials. of the world's top women's tennis players are in court this week of the cuts open spring one sport where major events women and men play for the same prize money but it's been a hald fought battle for equality as far as small reports. the profile of female sports stars has arguably never been higher but it's still tennis players he said across above all others forbes business magazine says world's top 10 highest paid female athletes are all tennis players and many of them have stopped off and don't have for the cats are over then i think it's a strong field for women's right now and there's so many great and inspiring women's not only in tennis but i think we did a great job just to you know get the same prize money as the men's they have and just developing our game to the queen of tennis it's a far cry from the 1970 s. when a group of 9 female players led by billie jean king started their own tennis tour called the virginia slims circuit it was an effort to fight back against the inequality and dominance of the men's game the circuit eventually evolved into the women's tennis association that still runs the game today. events such as the $21900.00 football world cup in france prove there is a huge market for elite women sports and potential rivals for tennis. the t 20 cricket world cup being played in australia now has live coverage in more than 200 countries i in 2015 women's tennis world number one ashley barty took a year off from the sport to play top level cricket the australian says the rise in popularity of other women in sport should be viewed as a threat to tennis yet growing you know it's amazing the development of women's sport over the last probably 2 years it's been a massive growth in all women's sport i think for me personally tennis has led the way it's been incredible and exciting new generation of players will help keep tennis ahead of the chasing pack of sports 21 year old american can and has just become the youngest australian open champion in more than a decade yeah it's a very exciting of course women's tennis is really exciting and people are watching it i think it's everyone brings a different aspect to the game i feel like a lot of youngsters are coming up which is really great you know rising stars more than 40 years since the women's tour began these are the players benefiting from its history and working hard to guarantee its future far as smile algis their adult . and us president donald trump is visiting india he did his best to name check some of the cricketing legends including on his scripts all time great sessions handle. from soup. to go away was the crowd at least seemed quite happy with trump's pronunciation he was talking in about at the world's largest cricket stadium or kamal sport from coming up a little i said well that is it for now. and that's it for me ken bell for this news hour the bhangra sero will be back in just a moment with more of the day's news stay with us. banks love to making loans to some friends because behind the suffering millions of taxpayers because most taxpayers never go away there's a new one born every single day and it is an urgent national in the sense that that it will be officially request as they shouldn't of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. gives you a deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances in theory for when they fail you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me i'm in the hot sun as i put it up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. trouble began at the end of the country's civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government are set in your. accusations of abuse and displacement between the communities the mining companies and the government has now escalated to west africa's regional court the community has taken its case before west africa. because they say the people have little for use in the justice system. the world health organization expresses concern as corona virus spreads across continents with sharp rises in italy and the iran but there is a praise for china's quick actions especially you know where the outbreak has now peaked. but also coming up on the program harvey weinstein is found guilty of sexual assault and 3rd degree rape but cleared of the most serious charges against him. is doing so well we're.

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