(crowd cheering) hong kong's official fireworks are canceled. but the protesters organize their own. (fireworks shrieking and exploding) (crowd gasps, cheers) >> vincent: (crowd cheering) (shouting and cheering) (firework explodes, crowd cheers) ♪ >> nrator: after the violenc on china's national day, hong kong's authorities take new measures in an effort to stop the protests. >> protesters' violence has bees escalating and h reached a very alarming level the past few days, causing numerous injuries and leading hong kong to a chaotic and panicked situation. the chief executive and council decided at a special meeting this morning to invoke the power under the emergency regulations ordinance. the objective of this regulatios o end violence and restore order. >> narrator: face masks are banned. the government also goes on to make a concession, formally withdrawing the extradition ll that ignited the protests. but it's too le. hard-liners ramp up their battles with the police and taks control of a uniy campus. >> li: >> narrator: li is part of a c

in hong kong thank you very much for that. a little over 3 weeks back taiwan elected psion one to a historic 2nd term as leader of the island but along with side taiwan he's also elected a record 42 percent women to parliament that makes taiwan the only region in asia with the highest number of female parliamentarians this is thanks to a nearly century long struggle to increase political representation for women that's also seen the introduction of kowtows for most election races but still it isn't easy going he didn't correspondent phebe kong met newly elected m.p. fun union of the ruling democratic progressive party she began by asking her what difficulties she faces as a woman in politics. do you personally encounter any of these nice acts of some behavior difficulties that during your campaign of course for example when i when some people still mean they not only me a bitch sometimes they will just say. so it's not only in the real war actually in the the so-called virtue or in the internet you see even more. morse i will

must go to hong kong -- let's go to hong kong. local media reporting that $10,000 handed out to every citizen over the age of 18 as part of the budget. we are expecting a raft of other measures there as well. hong kong is facing its first back-to-back recessions on record. the coronavirus lowdown is coming hot on the heels of months of antigovernment protest. yvonne man joins us now. we are hearing that the fairly controversial $10,000 to each citizen measure is going ahead. that's according to local hong kong media. what else are we going to see in terms of these fast fiscal reserves that we know hong kong has? how will they deploy them to cushion the impact of the virus? >> it's interesting from the headline. we could be seeing cash hands out that handouts. seeing cash hands outs. will people say that money or spend it? willoughby fed into the right parts of the economy that have been hit hard? smb retail, tourism. the numbers have been bad. in terms of the ample supply of cash reserves, $144 billion worth. they have been saving

when she was a child, hong kong was a britlony. (chanting continues) (phone camera clicks) in 1997, it was returned to china and granted special status for 50 years-- allowing for far more freedoms than in mainland ina. but the city's government would be accountable to the communist regime-- and its leader approve. by beijing >> momo: (man shouting) (crowd chanting) >> narrator: on june the 12th last year, momo was one of tens of thousands who took to the streets. hong kong's gornment had proposed a controversial extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be sent for trial in mainland china. >> momo: (shouting) >> narrator: amid growing concerns about china's influence in hong kong, the extradition bill struck a nerve. (crowd chantg) e majority of protesters were peaceful, but a few tried to take on the police. momo says she wasn't ready for what happened next. >> momo: (shouting) >> narrator: the police firednt large amouof tear gas into the crowds. they were filmedeating protesters. (shouting) >> momo: (sirens blaring

hong kong, the c.e.o. of west farm is joining us after gaining ground following his earnings release. haidi: there'll be lots of conversations about the coronavirus. let's check in on how we're seeing markets performing at the moment. the hang seng up about .3%. this despite concerning news of the second coronavirus death, it was an elderly man admitted to hospital there. elsewhere around the region, seeing a bit of caution. this is bloomberg. ♪ . ery: it's almost 1 11:00 >> i'm paul alen in sydney, we're entering the last hour of the morning in hong kong. here are the top stories. death toll passes 2,000, the number infected worldwide is bf 5,000. mass quarantines help buy the world more time. s linda: the virus outbreak, singapore pledges more than $4 billion to lessen the impact of the slowing world economy. >> and a look at the broader impact it will have on the broader economy. this is "bloomberg markets: asia." haslinda: on that, singapore cash infusion to cushion the economic blow of the cree in a

kong announced she was shutting down more of hong kong's border with china behind me is the bridge to china that is still open one of 3 links to the outside world that is remaining open the other being the international airport and another crossing point nearby chen zen bay now carol lam of course has been under mounting pressure to close all of the border she says she's not going to do that because to do so would be to go against the guidelines of the world health organization there's also another important factor daryn there are plenty of people who live in hong kong but cross the border every day to the city of shenzhen where they work and then come back again in the evening on sunday up to 100000 people went backwards and forwards across this border most of them were hong kong chinese citizens we also have to remember of course but hong kong is is reliant on the mainland for things like vegetables and milk that has to be trucked in every day so there are practical reasons also says the chief executive for making sure that the front here in parts remains open and they join is day 2

border between hong kong and china it now means there are just 2 places where you can cross from hong kong into china excluding the international airport and this was why she said she was taking this qualified decision our strategy is really to consol a day as much as possible day existing control points now is really down to excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and they the other is a hong kong bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channelling all cross by the traffic into alisa to cross border control points and because of the inconvenience we have cost to people as a result so the numbers will come down kerry land has been under pressure from a group of striking medical workers to close the border in its entirety also on monday hong kong confirmed its 1st person to person transmission of the virus a man returning from move to hong kong infecting his mother who hadn't been to the mainland this week of course hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens who've been across the border celebrating chinese new year will be returning raising the prospect

kong was confirmed just hours after the chief executive of hong kong carrier announced he was shutting down more of hong kong's fronted with china one of the few crossing points that remains open down is the bridge to china behind me that goes to macau before my portuguese colony as well as the chinese city of zoo high it's about 55 kilometers long but traffic today has been very light indeed now kerry has been under pressure to close all of the border with hong kong and china but he says that simply isn't practical because of course many people who live in hong kong but work across the border in china on sunday for instance 100000 people went backwards and forwards so that's one of the reasons why i carry land is resisting the school to shut the front here completely also remember hong kong is reliant on the mainland for so food milk water and a lot of this has to be trucked in from china into hong kong every day so i think for the moment she's going to resist calls to close the front here for very practical reasons and they join it's day 2 of the medical workers strike with doctors a

kong as well as the message being given out by the hong kong government and i think this is the other aspect to any form of epidemic or public health emergency and that you have to have trust in the information channels that are providing the critical data and when that trust starts to break down you do see higher levels of anxiety as you said in malaysia you've had runs on masks here in hong kong if a pharmacy is alerted to the fact that it has face mask if people are allergic to fact a pharmacy has facemasks their queues forming for hours outside and people get quite from people are getting quite frustrated when i can't get the masks even though them are some selves especially the regular paper masks don't nestle protect you to any great extent from the virus. encumber let's bring you back into the discussion i mean do you think pop culture and the internet perhaps has helped increase the false awareness of the outbreak i mean in hollywood produces zombie flicks like the walking dead i mean that you know advertently helps to scare people as well doesn't it i mean there's a fascinati

genie: oliver reporting for us from hong kong. in the meantime, a japanese cruise liner with more than 3000 people on board is in quarantine off the coast of japan after a passenger on board tesested positive for corononavirusus. the passenger was tested after leaving the vessel while it was in hong kong. the team of officials and medical staff is performing medical checks on everyone on board. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with the leader of sudan today to talk about normalizing ties between the two nations. israel is still technically at war with suydam, which for years ported hard-line islamist forces. if ties are reestablished. suydam --if ties are reestablished, sudan would be the third arab country to normalize ties with israel. a reporter explains. his arrival in uganda, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a message for the continent. israel is looking to increase its foothold. pm netanyahu: israel is coming back to africa and africa is coming back to israel l in a big way. reporter: one of the cou

kong what more we're learning about the situation unfolding at the harbor in hong kong. yes well the drama is taking place just in the distance behind me you can just make out this giant cruise vessel the world dream which docked in hong kong on wednesday but the passengers on board are not being allowed to leave that vessel for one very important reason because mainland authorities contacted their counterparts here in hong kong to say that 3 passengers from a previous 4 age that the world dream of undertaken in january have now been diagnosed with the corona virus it's also understood that 3 crewmembers are now in an isolation ward in hong kong after complaining of a fever officials from hong kong's health prevention center and now on board the vessel they are taking the temperatures of we understand some 2600 passengers to determine what to do next now of course we know that this virus has a very long incubation period perhaps as long as 14 days so of course even if some of those passengers don't test positive for the virus a decision i think is likely to be made to ha

kong with 100 suspected adrian brown is in hong kong with more on how the territory is coping. well this is causeway bay one of the busiest areas of hong kong and one of the few places where you can now buy facemasks it's a case of supply and demand little supply and plenty of demand it's the same story across the border in mainland china where the government on monday appealed to the international community for more medical supplies especially face masks also on monday hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb gave more details of her decision to close down more sections of the border between hong kong and china it now means there are just 2 places where you can cross from hong kong into china excluding the international airport and this was why she said she was taking this qualified decision our strategy is really to consol a day as much as possible a day existing control points now is really down to excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and they the other is. a high bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channelling all cross border traffic int

in hong kong. you're watching t.v. news coming up later in the program the fascination of abandoned buildings as we look at the work about the target for who finds new life in decay as nature takes back it's. the 1st to syria where a government offensive against the last rebel stronghold has caused one of the biggest waves of displacement in the 9 year war the united nations humanitarian coordinator in office says more than half a 1000000 people have been forced to flee it live province since the beginning of december 80 percent of them are women and children daniel hecla reports from an orphanage that offers children some respite from the fighting. rare moments of happiness in which could can simply be a child. the 11 year old fled with her 2 brothers from the bombs to the southeast of the city of. the family home was hit by russian fighter jets the father fell into the hands of government troops no one knows if he's still alive. i remember how bombs ate our house and that of our neighbors both houses were completely

hong kong without a mask. she has been going through the details of this evacuation and the efforts. the hong kong effort is stepping up the disinfecting efforts of houses. the evacuation took place here where -- when for hong kong residents complained of symptoms. there have been to corona vices -- two coronavirus cases reported. interestingly, you know that the two cases were 12 floors apart from each other. a 42nd confirmed a case in the same building here. carrie lam is giving some numbers when it comes to the amp limitation of the quarantine. individuals have received mandatory quarantine. largelyantine has been orderly. -- 2196 question marks -- have received mandatory quarantine. the quarantine has been largely orderly. newey who has talked about infection. there is a need to balance economic advancement with containing the outbreak. more people returned to work -- this as more people returned to work. >> when people are coming back to work, there is a possibility of some uptick in transmission. how muc

we are hearing from carrie lam, saying hong kong will seek nearly 28 billion hong kong dollars in order to implement measures against of this virus outbreak, revising the funding actually needed for the funding outbreak -- virus outbreak. we got the latest outlines -- headlines coming from a research firm saying china will be cutting gasoline and diesel prices on wednesday. really all-out efforts to support the economy in hong kong and mainland china. haidi: yes, this after the waivers we saw on highway tolls. the logistics and some of these highway related stocks outperforming. we are hearing comments from south korea, president moon calling the current economic situation as an emergency. the rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support economic growth. let's take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. a milestone for chinese markets in recruiting some of those losses since the lunar new year break, but we

life in hong kong thank you. still to come on al-jazeera long as president says he will appeal against court decision and know his reelection last year pictures of protests may be at the enzian offices using their way to speak out against the controversial citizenship will. be. hello again it's good to have you back well here cross parts of turkey we have been watching a lot of snowfall across much of central as well as eastern turkey and the winds have been a big problem across this region as well and into parts of the mediterranean now the snow is going to continue here on thursday as you can see push into parts on korea a lot of heavy rain along the coast winds are going to be a big problem here and increasing and making their way a little bit more over here towards the east by the time we get towards friday for beirut you're going to be seeing a change in weather as well over the next few days not bad on thursday increasing clouds but by the time we get towards friday heavy rain and very windy conditions here

thursday in hong kong, 5:30 p.m. if you are watching in hong kong -- in new york. ♪ >> china has children the capacity -- has the capacity. >> a lot of policy stimulus. quick they have a lot of letters -- >> they have a lot of levers. >> long-term, it just does not impact. >> the trade deal, the fed. >> our base case is generally positive. >> even the election getting nearer, it is more certain as to the outcome. it is a transitory effect on the markets. >> this is the worst of it. >> guests are to china's efforts. before we get to the china open, let us take a look at how markets are trading at the moment, we are seeing a return of risk appetite. this after we saw reduced gains in u.s. stocks. causingnavirus is passengers to test positively on that cruise ship. a look at futures. we are seeing u.s. futures under pressure, this after you sincened the biggest august. commodities, copper gaining ground after two weeks of losses. the offshore yuan holding steady after gaining ground for the first time in five days. ch

well hong kong's 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 haven't 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 enr

in terms of those coming from mainland china into hong kong now we saw that hong kong was actually there was a lot of pressure by the government in hong kong to close the borders is still a lot of people with memories of sars people demanding that that that group from people from mainland china coming to hong kong were being prevented from it. that that that they've closed the route so that they prevent any people coming in from mainland china at all and now we've seen that the amount of people have been slowed to a trickle i think they've only been a few people coming from mainland china into hong kong from we've seen from tens of thousands of people every day i think only a few 100 this weekend being quarantined in specific designated areas now in china there have been a lot of complaints about about this obviously we've had a lot of people even the surrounding provinces who have not been affected by the lockdown trying to sort of as much as possible go leave leave the mainland and certainly before that deadline was put into place there was a rush of people trying to leave before that

kong adrian thanks for that hey jim brown there live in hong kong. now the 1st phase in the u.s. to pick a democratic presidential nominees got off to a rather confusing start results from the iowa caucuses have been delayed local party officials blame inconsistences for the setback but insists the problem has nothing to do with hacking nor to an intrusion. the results seen as an indicator of the results would be seen as an indicator of who among the 11 democratic candidates will go on to challenge donald trump in the november election let's go live now to allan fisher who is in des moines iowa where this seems to be a bit of an embarrassing turn of events and for the democrats in iowa. it's worse than it's a disaster for them and they were hoping that whoever came out of iowa would go with a great deal of momentum behind them no the really handling a farce and we're expecting the results know at some point or and choose the source some time in the next 12 hours all the candidates have left they're all demanding answers from the local party all of th

this is t w news live from berlin and hong kong reports a death from corona virus the 2nd fatality outside of mainland china thousands of health care workers walk off the job demanding that the territories government completely closed the border with china. and almost 4000 people on a board on board a cruise ships anchored off of japan are being tested for the virus some people on board are ill and the disease has been confirmed and a man who left the ship in hong kong plus which way did they vote technology issues delay the results of the democrats' iowa caucuses so no one yet knows of which of the leading presidential hopefuls have won the support of the state's democrats and it took the fatwa to allow it but on world cancer day we find out how wind is made from human hair are providing great therapy for pakistani women who have lost their own hair to cancer. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a 2nd death from corona virus outside of mainland china has been confirmed in hong kong the 1st death was in the philippines china says that 425 people have now died of the disease and the numb

shse says hong kong can prioritize demands and resources of hospital authority and hong kong will start -- supplies. in the other headlines, which we saw earlier, she did say the impact of hospital services are worrying. and some hospital services are affected by the strike. to bring you back in, what kind of steps is the chinese government taking to shore up the economy? it has given no signs of debating, the government is reevaluating its economic growth targets, looking targets.en those there was already a crackdown on debt. they are considering measures including increasing the plan ned caps on the budget to gdp ratio and selling government bonds. to highlight how big the impact theor january, 2/3 of chinese economy remains closed. you also have the number of trips made in china over the lunar new year dropping by 73% big90 million trips, a shortfall from last year. even though there has been a lot of optimism over the former pharma rac-- the companies racing to develop a vaccine they should not hold their breath. it could take a few months to have a working candidate. it takes 12 t

because if government were upset or hong kong people. not just our political beliefs but also the old people in the community normally bear their support to the best opposition but now you can see they are quiet but they are very angry the sign of an uncommon altruism hand with political pragmatism they believe that as the virus spreads so evil and so government sentiments and it that they hope to harness to push for democratic change off the divides the comeback is a strong movement why i've every confidence it's because the fable of the system peoples who understand from all walks of life the widest become wise soul the fierce. and feel. because of the system. to activists like simon has always been clear that battle would not be fought and won with street protests alone the pro-democracy campaigns proven it can adapt and its actions like this that could become the new face of the movement is angry of the government's handling of the virus which discontent across the political spectrum. meanwhile china has sacked top officials in a pro

kong is becoming from the mainland and in a further blow today to hong kong's economy cathay pacific has said that it wants its 27000 employees to take 3 weeks unpaid leave between now and june ok adrian thanks very much for that update from hong kong. it's supposed to be a moment when the us comes together but donald trump's 3rd state of the union address has instead emphasized the disunity in american politics he came face to face with the democrats who impeached him in the house of representatives a subject you avoided instead he used a speech to relaunches reelection campaign as party culhane reports that at stake. the president of the united states. a u.s. president impeached by the house walk in to face the full congress expected the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours thank you 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 heral

as carrie lam attempts to navigate around this crisis the cruise ship dreamworld docked in hong kong harbor with more than $3000.00 passengers and crew on board they're going nowhere now that mainland health officials have confirmed that 3 passengers from an early a voyage are infected with the coronavirus now checks are being carried out on everyone on the ship at the time being i think we cannot conclude e.p. likely time of finishing the current he mentions right now and i would like to reassure our or need to press on on people here i'll keep up with the health of this adopting a prudent approach in managing this incident several crew members have been placed in a hospital isolation ward the announcement by hong kong's leader means that all the crew and passengers aboard the dreamworld now face the prospect of 14 days in quarantine what's less certain though is the fate of the 200 passengers who left this 1st seoul on january the 24th before the 3 infections were confirmed the 200 a rule understood to be from hong kong and went ashore in january the 24th. this scare is one of the

kong each day are actually hong kong chinese citizens so that's why it is so so complicated just a quick word if you wouldn't mind hadrian on the financial side of things i mentioned how much stocks have fallen not a huge surprise but i mean the chinese government is already trying to shore things up and it didn't come the market at all yet you know that's why we have seen fools in indexes right across asia of course that was bound to be expected this is the 1st time that they opened since the end of the chinese new year holidays but what the government has done is it's now pumping a huge amount of money into the banking system more than $170000000000.00 what the government in beijing wants to avoid is a credit crunch so it's trying to ensure that the banks have plenty of money to lend so it wants to avoid you know the sort of crunch that has happened during previous crisis on the mainland and of course you know there being predictions that you know economic growth on the mainland could slow to perhaps you know 3 or 2 percent if that is the case that is going to have no major impact on o

the latest from hong kong. medical workers in china stepping up their efforts to stop the rapid rise of corona virus infections spreading countrywide since wednesday more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases have been officially confirmed in china taking the total count to 28030 a new born baby by province where the virus was 1st detected remains in lockdown. in provinces reporting the highest rates of infection supplies are being delivered by all forms of transport in japan this cruise ship is in quarantine after 20 passages were confirmed to have the virus there in hospital receiving treatment the rest of the passengers are confined to the ship. to figure you know there are 4 people who are japanese nationals of the others 2 are from the united states 2 from canada one from new zealand and one from taiwan in hong kong more than 3600 people on the world dreamz cruise ship had been put into quarantine after passengers on the previous voyage tested positive for the virus the ship's medical team is carrying out manda

let's me to dream brown to give us an update from hong kong so how is hong kong coping with the developments of the corona virus and . well as is the case on the mainland there is a severe shortage of face markets here in hong kong they are available like in the shop behind me but at very inflated prices and people are very angry about that they want to know why the government can't provide facemasks for the people remembering of course that on kong is one of the richest societies on earth the hong kong government is sitting on fast reserves and people want to know why it is that the government can't provide facemasks so rule there's been a certain amount of limited panic buying here in the nearby district of one child for instance on thursday morning shelves were cleared of things like toilet paper and rice the i think the the fear of the the biggest fear of the virus is really you know panic itself it's bigger than fear of the virus and and it's sort of spiralling out of control in some ways you think about places like hong kong is it people have parents and grandparents remember you know

the hong kong hunt saying lower, as well. closing at a record high in the u.s., investors will be looking ahead to the payrolls report in the u.s. let's also take a deeper look into japan, as we do see the nikkei falling, some of your biggest winners and losers of the day. one of the biggest winners, softbank, its best day in a year after elliott management was said to be building a stake in the company. olympus is your video and camera record, surging to a also raised the forecast. to the downside, one of the biggest losers is a medical company. they blamed the coronavirus for not being able to update their forecast for the time being. back to you. shery: and our guest is about that coronavirus outbreak and risk of sentiment accelerating this morning after begotten news there was 61 passengers on the cruise ship in japan infected with the virus. let's get the first word news now with su keenan. su: we are going to begin with oil, which had earlier gains after opec and allies discussed output cuts, but failed to meet resistan

becoming infected but hong kong's pro-democracy movement is still alive and well. the face mask and emblem of hong kong lurch from one crisis to another was an icon of the pro-democracy demonstrations now it offers protection against a new coronavirus with the street protests now largely at an end hong kong's focus has shifted. where images of violent street battles once covered these walls now it's the battle against the virus that dominates with one common thread underpinning both distrust of the government and its chief executive kerry one prominent voice than a month younger is hong kong's vast community of pro-democracy activists. during the protests campaign is simon loud common quang use the space to make props for the demonstrations. when the virus hits they swapped helmets by hand sanitizer using the network to source the donations in ingredients filling in they say where authorities who failed. their equality go to a day because this government will upset all hong kong people not just our political beliefs but also all people in the community normally bea

kong ok adrian thanks for that update from hong kong and adrian was mentioning quarantines a moment ago while there and denise and citizens who are returning from china are also under quarantine in that soon island that's where jessica washington is joining us from what's the situation on the ground like jessica. well terrain in indonesia has somehow despite this virus spreading across this asia pacific region there are still no reported cases of the coronavirus here in indonesia but authorities are taking precautions those citizens who were evacuated from the who bay province have been brought here through than a tuna regency this is one of the more sponsor populated parts of indonesia those citizens are in quarantine at a military base and they'll be there for the duration of the virus's incubation period so around 2 weeks but authorities are stressing that if even one of those passengers shows symptoms of the virus all of the evacuees will have their quarantine period extended beyond 2 weeks and how are locals responding to having the evacuees on their island. well there was a bi

kong to say this why don't you start in fact line with what is happening in hong kong and tell us about where you are. yes well there's a lot of concern clearly in hong kong about the fact that the number of cases of confirmed corona virus here could spike in the days ahead so if we only have 14 confirmed cases many people trying to get their hands on face masks there is a shortage of them still in the city some shops do have them as we've been reporting but the price is up fairly high that's adding to the concerns of people is that as of monday there's going to be at least medical stuff on duty because one of the unions has called for a strike so on monday around 3000 non-essential medical staff will walk off the job they are vowing to intensify their action throughout the course of the week if they demands met by the government one of the key demands is that they effectively close the border crossings between mainland china and hong kong they want mainland chinese to be stopped from coming into hong kong therefore to try to crack down to prevent out more coronavirus virus cases coming

he's reporting from hong kong. one group the a union representing thousands of medical workers going to go on strike beginning on monday initially saying it will be around $3000.00 non-essential medical staff but they are going to increase that action to step it up as the week progresses if the government does not bow to its demands one of the key demands is that it prevent mainland chinese citizens from entering hong kong again the hong kong government doesn't seem likely that it will bow to those demands they have said repeatedly that they will not close the borders they have headlines iraq has a new prime minister after months of political deadlock and anti-government protests president bottom names the former communications minister mohammad allow we as prime minister designate on saturday demonstrators though say he is just part of the old ruling elite they have to carry on with their protests the arab league has rejected u.s. president donald trump's proposed plan for the middle east's calling it unfair they

that's adrian brown in hong kong thank you for. in the news ahead questions over malawi's presidential election in the constitutional court nullified the results. and no laughing matter film stars tackle the issue of diversity head on and britain's top movie aborts. hello again it's good to have you back what we have seems a very nice conditions across the philippines over the last week things are going to change though as we go towards the beginning into the middle part of this week we're going to be seeing a tropical wave just to the east of the philippines now we don't expect this to develop into anything significant but what it will do as we go from tuesday into wednesday is start to bring some heavier showers here along the eastern part of the philippines most likely by the time we get towards wednesday night notice so showers big need to develop on the coast and some of those could be quite heavy thursday looks like it's going to be a very rainy day as well so we will be watching that area very closely up towards millo it is

haidi: david ingles in hong kong. making gains in the city sessions after the company posted a surge in earnings. let's get more from bloomberg's energies reporter david stringer in melbourne. great to have you. looking beyond the numbers we are seeing and the dividend payout, it is fair to assume we are going to see a period of difficulty when it comes to demand out of china. take us through the numbers and what the outlook potentially looks like. david: good morning. yetone thing we don't know and hopefully we will hear more from them during the day, the seceo due to speak to bloomberg television later, we are not clear on what they see as the outlook. they have not told is very much today so far about any impact they are seeing from coronavirus. they addressed that a little last month and we are pretty confident for them, the iron ore market was not going to see too much of a hit to demand and that certainly sits with the commentary we heard in the past couple of days from the likes of sounded a little more optimis

kong must be making people even more nervous there how are authorities in hong kong dealing with it you know authorities have been hesitant to react a few issues in hong kong one is the closure of the border posts. the government has hesitated to do so it has now announced to close several border posts but to teach some others open and a lot of people are unhappy about that many demand a complete closure of the border as long as these crises last other issues are that they are struggling to find places where they can set up isolation stations or. to bring in the. the sick. current team stations and many people living in the neighborhood when the plans show up when the plans become clear that the government is planning to do something trying to block these so it is a big issue for the hong kong government to deal with these countries so we've got a death in hong kong another in the philippines 20000 people infected now what's the reaction from mainland china. people here of course very careful they try to avoid meeting each other they try to avoid contact with each other so they can

ships arrival came as hong kong health workers began a 3rd day of strikes in the city but he wants a meeting with hong kong chief executive kerry lamb to discuss officially closing the border with mainland china a move they believe would hope the spread of the corona virus that has infiltrated hong kong and already killed one man. urge her to solve this situation by coming out. and talk to us the world health organization has declared the virus a global emergency but not a pandemic in other words it might be spreading but don't panic currently we are not independent make. we are to face where it's an epidemic we folk and we will try to distinguish the transmission in each of these for sight china was praised this week by the w.h.o. for its reaction to the outbreak with the virus relatively well contained until now . it's arrival in hong kong represents a new challenge this government has now also prove it is equal to the task of dealing with it. and for more we go to charlotte pill our correspondent in hong kong who is at the harbor there and charlotte and we'd like to ask you what i

kong nearly 2 weeks ago we have 62 confirmed infections here in hong kong so far but across the border on the mainland state t.v. has been showing more pictures of a hospital being expanded now the officials in china say that they are going to build not just 2 hospitals they were completed recently but 10 more are also going to be build over the coming weeks we have something like 25000 health workers now in who by the province and also more soldiers were arriving in the province on wednesday to bolster that effort so state t.v. is really accentuating the positive stressing that so far 14000 people have so far recovered from the virus the recovery rate in who play province so is still about 15 percent whereas in the rest of china it's about 40 percent so a big gap between those 2 recovery rates because overall in china as you mentioned earlier we have more than 2000 deaths and more than 75000 infections but the rate of infections has fallen for the 2nd day in a row to where things stand with the government the government is getting pressure from a couple of groups there are people that

doha everyone i'm kemal santamaria this is the world news from al-jazeera hong kong has closed most of its border crossings with china to try to contain the coronavirus and as the epidemic spreads chinese stocks are falling the main shanghai index dropped nearly 9 percent in trading on monday. iran says it will no longer share data with ukraine on the investigation into last month's plane crash after air traffic control recently. so turkey says it has struck back against syrian military targets off to 5 of its soldiers and one civilian working with the military were killed they died in syrian government shelling in the northern province of. where turkey recently sent in its reinforcements russia of course a key ally of syria during its war is denying any syrian forces were targeted though turkey's president reject type one says quote 30 to 35 syrian soldiers have been killed. about 30 to 35 syrian soldiers were eliminated within these positions and as we cede we openly made it clear that we are targeting the syrian forces simply because it was the man who attacked your soldiers we cann

a cruise ship carrying people who may be infected by the deadly coronavirus has returned to hong kong after being denied entry to taiwan health officials say the 30 members of the crew are showing symptoms the world dream has returned to hong kong though it remains unclear whether passengers will be allowed to disembark coronavirus symptoms can take 2 weeks to surface meaning suspected carriers must remain in quarantine print least that long to prevent further transmission health officials have begun testing the passengers and crew on board with confirmed cases already being sent to hospitals. the ships arrival came as hong kong health workers began a 3rd day of strikes in the city but he wants a meeting with hong kong chief executive kerry lamb to discuss officially closing the border with mainland china a move a believe would hope the spread of the corona virus that has infiltrated hong kong and already killed one man. urge to solve this situation by coming out to. talk to us the world health organization has declared the virus a global emergency but not a pandemic in other words it

in hong kong. >> breaking news at the moment. panasonic rising the most since 2016. tesla's factory posting a profit. we have seen tesla's shares surging on this monday. panasonic makes batteries for tesla. panasonic seeing rising the most since 2016 after postedla gigafactory profit with tesla now surging 20% on this monday. let me go back to you. how company-specific can we expect moves in asia to be when we have such big macroeconomic factors and uncertainty because of the coronavirus? >> definitely we are expecting to see earnings hit for chinese companies. a lot of discretionary's, consumer companies, are going to take a hit in the first quarter. a lot of factories are not opening. a lot of them, even if they wanted to do something, there is not enough facemasks to go around. ist we are also expecting the fact that the chinese government will soon potentially offer different stimulus together with the pboc that could potentially stir -- spur growth to help offset losses that we are going to ex

from hong kong. this is been basically a floating quarantine send for the past few days they've been stuck on board this vessel because it emerged that 8 passengers from the mainland on a previous full weight on this same vessel tested positive for the virus so for that reason the health officials here in hong kong had to screen all the 1800 crewmembers just to be sure before they could let people go and on sunday was confirmed that none of them had tested positive so those people have now left what is effectively been a prison for them albeit a 5 star prison thailand's prime minister says a soldier who went on a shooting rampage was motivated by a belief he's cheated on a house deal a soldier was shot dead by security forces 18 hours after he killed at least 26 people. syrian regime forces have taken control of several villages in the north west soldiers are advancing in the southern part of aleppo province along 2 major highways the operation could open up a direct route to rebel held areas of west

this is deja vu news live from berlin hong kong reports a death from corona virus the 2nd fatality outside of mainland china thousands of health care workers walked off the job demanding that the territory's government comply completely closed the border with china. and almost 4000 people on board a cruise ship and port off of japan are being tested for the virus some people on board are ill and this disease has been confirmed and the man who left the ship tom tom also coming up which way did they vote technology issues delay the results of the democrats' iowa caucuses no one yet knows which of the leading presidential hopefuls help one support of the state's democratic slots booting up to camps or on both camps or day we need one more mental abuse is exercised in the great outdoors to help defeat for breast cancer. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a 2nd death from a corona virus outside of the chinese mainland has been confirmed in hong kong the 1st death was in the philippines now china says that 425 people have now died of the disease and the number of confirmed infections has sur

an unusual plea from hong kong's leader or for you said. i would like to make an appeal to the public i know there are people in a position to buy a small number of masks maybe 10020000 masks if anyone has sources to buy them i appeal to them to donate them to those who are in need. hong kong is desperate to contain coronavirus this is aerial footage of thousands lining up to face miles with some camping out overnight people are stocking up even hoarding food and medical supplies some countries have stopped exporting their stock of protective equipment all together with factories struggling to meet demand. someplace short and monday's high. that would be bad practice is like ordering in order to sell them on higher prices. and that's why we are sports. and people who really understand what fighting an outbreak like. hong kong has implemented mandatory quarantine measures for new arrivals anyone from mainland china must self quarantine either in her tells or their homes the subject to daily phone calls spot checks and even wearing tracking d