Of war crimes in darfur. And the giant new coal mine a stray view is banking on to help fuel its economy while other countries look to renewable. Time far as small have all the days sport including things just got a lot better for you that this is the retake top spot in the italian syriac. China is reporting a slowdown in the number of new cases of corona virus for the 3rd successive day the World Health Organization though says its impossible to predict which direction the epidemic will take 142 deaths were reported on sunday along with 2000 more infections most are in who by province where they operate was 1st reported in december well why is it nearly 1700 people have died. Recorded its 1st fatality while an elderly chinese tourist in france became the 1st to die in europe u. S. Citizens on board a quarantine cruise ship docked in japan are being evacuated thats off to 70 more confirmed cases of corona virus were reported on the diamond princess bringing the total number of infections to 355 lets go live now to john hendren whos in washington d. C. John saw americans on this cruise ship up caring for a very no frills trip back to the u. S. Thats right kim for 3700. 00 passengers aboard the diamond princess it has been a cruise to nowhere for 10 days thats how long theyve been quarantined off the port of yokohama and they were expecting that quarantine to end on february 19th thats what they were originally told but for 400. 00 americans on that ship that quarantine will not end they will now be transferred back to the United States where theyll be held at u. S. Military bases for another 2 weeks and a lot of those passengers have voiced their concerns they are not happy about that but dr anthony found she of the u. S. National institutes of health says there is good reason for that the degree of transmissibility on that cruise ship is essentially akin to being in a hot spot a lot of transmissibility on that cruise ship so the 44 americans who have tested positive along with anyone else whos tested positive on that ship will stay behind and get medical treatment in japan the rest of them will fly home and it is indeed a no fails no frills flight theyve been told that it will be cold its a converted cargo plane so theyre supposed to dress warm and bring their own food if they can find it on that cargo ship theyll be transferred back home and theyll be held at bases in california and in texas for 2 weeks and theyre told that they have any bags that way more than 70 pounds theyre supposed to leave the rest behind i think that that stonehenge in there live from washington d. C. Well the virus has been detected in more than 2 dozen countries but one of asias most populous nations is yet to report a single case indonesians who were evacuated from the chinese a piece into han have been released from current pain with a clean bill of health jessica washington reports from bali. Its quieter than usual on balis beaches tens of thousands of Chinese Tourists who would have spent their winter holidays on the island have had to postpone their plans because of the corona Virus Outbreak who visit is from china who landed here before the outbreak escalated there were 2 choices return home or extend this stay at least 300 out of the 5000 who are here have applied for visa extensions but and her husband are ready to go home the couple say theyre confident chinese authorities and governments around the world handling the situation you know will we need to go back to our jobs and our children need to go to school so in our holiday ads we will immediately return home every year around a 1000000 Chinese Tourists visit bali and they would direct flights from the outbreak began until they were stopped a few weeks ago as many ask how indonesia has seemingly avoided this outbreak for now this concern the virus is present here but undetected somewhere in this vast archipelago a recent study by harvard researchers looked at data around the outbreak and its link with a travel volume it calculated the risk of an outbreak in countries with direct flights to when the outbreak began and found the disease could already be in indonesia some say indonesia is vulnerable. There are many ports of entry into the country so many airports and ways for people to get in and some areas dont have the right equipment to take to the virus. But authorities here are defending the measures taken by indonesia. Weve been mapping the spread of what would happen if there was a right we have 100 hospitals ready now and getting ready the facilities and personnel are prepared. The World Health Organization also says the country is taking the right steps to detect the virus and prepare for cases. Have. And. Its been confirmed one Chinese National who traveled to bali has contract to the virus but its not clear whether that happened in bali or elsewhere authorities are looking into the case and on this island many are anxiously waiting to know jessica washington aljazeera. The head of the World Health Organization says conspiracy theories and lies about the op break or hurting the worlds response its impossible to predict which direction this. Will take we are concerned about the levels of rumor and misinformation that hampering the response will concern that by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china yesterday about the number of those workers who have been infected all right lets take a look at some of the rumors and hoaxes that have done the rounds the web site published claims that chinas government plan to euthanize more than 20000 patients to curb the viruses spread the false offical was shared hundreds of times on Facebook Twitter and reddit. Been cracking down on videos that say among other things that the virus is an engineer bio weapon some have already been viewed millions of times and misinformation has also been floating around about false cures and doctors warn could be harmful if attempt it. Would you want us now from new york is a mad do ye an academic specializing in medical anthropology and cultural perceptions around disease and health thank you so much for your time just tell us why do you think that this misinformation these sort of fake ossicles has seemed to really fire up during this patil particular crisis. Thanks for having me. So i think these sorts of articles really picked up steam because there. Is like a racialized element to the coronavirus panic. Americans tend to have like a bit of historical amnesia when it comes to emerging Infectious Diseases and the public reactions around them but every time. A new Infectious Disease emerges there is there are certain populations which are targeted as objects the public moralizing as vectors of carrying this disease and like contaminating the public in the body body politic. A very recent. Example a parallel would be bola coronavirus and ebola are very similar in that they are both 0 and not it diseases in that they are transferred from animals to humans and they both 3 animated like these all the lingering stereotypes of non white people as. You know uncivilized barbaric vectors of disease and. That would infect places like the us other people out there do you think who peppers fully putting this information out or is it just a matter of the information sort of becoming you know like chinese whispers the further it goes down the line the more incorrect it becomes. I do think there are people that are deliberately putting out this basis information in the beginning of this panic there was a video circulating online of a chinese woman eating i think it was bat soup and so this. Really. Took off and it was shared you know like thousands of times on social media and it created this idea that Chinese People. You know that they like bats and thats how they can tell thats how they got the coronavirus but in reality that video was actually filmed for a travel show and the girl was in polish. I do think these sorts of racialized panics hender the chinese governments response and the World Health Organizations response. Because it makes it really difficult for people to separate like facts from misinformation. If you know the World Health Organization has recently released data over like 17000 people who are infected and they found that you know. 82 percent of those infected with corona virus had like a very mild case. It also has less than a 2 percent rate which is lower than sars which had a 9 percent fatality rate lower than in 2001 which i think had a 17 percent fatality rate and lower than the bird flu which had like a 39 percent fatality rate. So these sorts of videos they. Contribute to this overall racialized panic. Which i think is premature given that. If. Over 90 percent of the cases of corona virus are contained within china and there are only maybe i think 15 can thing contain confirmed cases in the us and theyre all quarantined well have to leave it there thank you so much for your analysis from new york there that is amanda ye an academic specializing in medical anthropology thank you. And u. N. Envoy to libya says the weapons in boggo there has become a joke Foreign Ministers discussed the issue at a Security Summit in munich he agreed not to interfere in libya but many of them have been deeply involved in the conflict and diplomatic editor james bays has more. This was diplomacy is groundhog day Foreign Ministers and other representatives from 13 countries repeating the same thing their leaders said exactly 4 weeks ago that this summit in. But despite their words arms have continued to flow to both sides in libya and showing what some might call great hypocrisy the countries who are breaching the embargo are actually all among those here mr foreign minister you talk about a deplorable breach of the arms embargo we know who is breaching the arms embargo they were in the room with you what did you say to them that when i was those who continue to breach the embargo need to know that they will be detected and they will be named we will discuss that with the e. U. Council on Foreign Affairs tomorrow and we will discuss the contribution the e. U. Can make the arms embargo has become a joke and so it you know we all need to step up here and. It is complicated because there are violations that are you know happening on land sea and air and that all needs to be monitored and there needs to be accountability ultimately attention will now move to geneva the other problem apart from the breaches of the arms embargo is the lack of a ceasefire talks at the uns European Headquarters between representatives of general haftar and those of the internationally recognized government resume on tuesday the un have ambitious plans to keep the diplomatic momentum moving they put in a diary a date of the 26th of february for talks with all the libyan Political Parties and then the plan is for elections brokered by the un that if there is a ceasefire and that remains a very big if james pays out 0 munich syrias war has also been high on the agenda at the Munich Security Conference okies foreign minister told his russian counterpart that Regime Forces must halt the offensive in in the province the Syrian Government with russias health is advancing on the last for the whole province and has killed a number of turkish soldiers during the offensive turkey has said that it would take necessary step. If diplomatic efforts with russia failed it will save us from this delegation with the russian delegation tomorrow in moscow prior to the summit with Sergey Lavrov said the aggression and it looked should stop and a permanent cease fire should be established delegations will evaluate these issues tomorrow in moscow at least 3 civilians have been killed and 7 others and by car bomb in the Syrian Border town of beyond Turkish Backed rebels forced kurdish fighters out of the town last october and since then theres been a spate of cobb last set of kill dolls. When the news ahead saudi arabia heads back up to one of its jets shot down again and well hear from a reporter and some. U. S. Secretary of state is in senegal to try and counter chinese influence in africa and so on. And in sports far world tell us about the ugandan running himself into the record some. Gunshots have been heard as tear gas filled the streets of central baghdad as thousands of protesters fall with biggs there used small bombs to disperse the crowds 7 on sunday protests is save it tends to set on fire by Security Forces overnight iraqs Human Rights Commission says nearly 550 iraqis have been killed since antigovernment demonstrations began in october well earlier 3 missiles landed near the u. S. Embassy in baghdad as a 4th missile exploded close to the office of the Popular Mobilization forces thats a Paramilitary Group backed by iran no casualties have been reported. Sudans 2 ousted president omar bashir has appeared in court to be interrogated for alleged war crimes in the darfur region the hearing was separate from the charges bashir faces at the International Criminal court in the hague. The i. C. C. Has been pursuing him for more than a decade in 2009 he was charged with 2 counts of war crimes and 5 of crimes against humanity a year later the i. C. C. Added 3 additional charges of genocide they all have to do with bushs role in the darfur conflicts years of fighting between progovernment forces and rebels left thousands did displaced 2 and a half 1000000 folks are gay nor is an International Criminal lawyer and counsels victims at the International Criminal court he says there are many doubts about the Legal Process in sudan. Its not clear exactly whats going to happen from here on in so is the prosecutor of the i. C. C. Fighting about sudha has already raised the possibility of a trial before sudanese courts in sudan thats what she raised as a possibility with the Un Security Council in december the principal obligation to carry out an investigation and prosecution does rest with sudan but there will be a very big question mark as to whether sudan is not just able but also willing to carry out a full and proper investigation of prosecuting prosecution into the full range of crimes and issue it concerns of fast company of ethnic cleansing and genocide in darfur so it remains to be seen whether sudan is is willing to do that within its own courts and could a trial take place safely in khartoum thats a big question and if justice in this case is really to be delivered close to where the victims live well then arguably it should not take place in khartoum which should be in darfur and does the security situation in darfur in visit the holding of the trial there probably not so these are these are some of the issues so the the security is often one of the main reasons why these trials are not actually held in the country where the hostilities are taking place and in another they Call Development for about al bashir hes facing new charges of corruption money dont during and financing terrorism the allegations date back to his time in power the show was sentenced to 2 years in prison for corruption in december. Saudi m. R. C. Coalition air strikes have killed at least 31 civilians in northern yemen the u. N. Humanitarian chief for yemen calls the attacks shocking and happened after the rebels claimed responsibility for shooting down a saudi war plane. Reports from the capital some. This is the moment Yemens Houthi say they shot down a Saudi Air Force fighter jet the group aired this video on saturday the saudi u. A. E. Lit quality and confirmed to one of its planes it went down you know joe for governorates in the countrys north east. The what these also broadcast what it says is the aftermath saw that it was strikes in the area full of which the who these claim were retaliatory that the saudi quality released the statement saying there was a possibility of what it calls Collateral Damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. Several of the. American drones over the skies of yemen in the last 15 months now it seems to me that they are able to slow down despite that get on they can say that if they start at this stage this means that we are going to end that a new stage of the war the who these claimed the plane was downed with then. Some another say that if thats true it would be a very Significant Development in yemens long running war this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the iraqis you know how for all practical purposes withdrawn left and now the saudis are there and incapable of finishing the war and settling cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war. More than 9001000 people are being killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting millions more have been brutes to the brain to famine struck room agreement of 20000 raised troops for peaceful settlement suppose there is been news sign of that. If its confirmed now these have new weapon in there that could change the direction. Whatever happens its billions whos in the middle who continue to pay the price. So nah. U. S. Secretary of state might pump a rose says his country will work with its allies in africa to decide on troop numbers to battle armed groups made the remarks in senegal where he started his 1st trip official trip to the continent senegals government says washingtons informed it of plans to reduce u. S. Forces but believes it will remain a crucial ally in th