To flights evacuating u. S. Citizens who are stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board have now left japan those who are infected are staying behind the ships being quarantined in the port of your karma 355. 00 passengers tested positive for the virus among them 44. 00 u. S. Citizens who were treated in japanese hospitals what chinas now confirmed another 105. 00 deaths on sunday raising the total number of dead on the mainland to 1770 around 2000 more people have tested positive for the virus and another person has died outside of china a taxi driver in taiwan became the 5th atallah to outside the mainland and elevate chinese tourist in france was the 1st to die outside of asia other deaths have been reported in hong kong japan and the philippines well katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina said nearly 2000 new cases being reported 105 more deaths just put these numbers into context for us are things getting worse. Well definitely were continuing to see a rise in cases in china specifically in whole bay there seems to be no let up of the seriousness of the spread of the current virus there in the epicenter but outside of where were seeing some good news the numbers seem to be petering out going downwards or at least plas hoeing around around china so that is some good news but as you mentioned we did have a death in taiwan a man who is in his fiftys and he said to have had no known travel history in china so theyre still very much this fear of the contagiousness of this illness and if anything restrictions are becoming stricter around china and who be specifically theyve announced a new measure banning all nonessential vehicles from the road so if you dont drive a government car or medical car for example or a car delivering important supplies you are not allowed to be on the roads and as well in many residents of compounds around who theyve actually sealed off the compounds over theyve shut out theyve closed any entrances that are not monitored so that people can only go through one specific entrance and if you want if you want to leave you have to have a very good reason for leaving i think most people have been told to stay at home in the vast majority of the provinces still under lockdown but some people cannot even leave their compounds and theyre told that they must rely on delivery for essential things like food and other supplies measures are also getting stricter around the country if you walk down the street in beijing today and youre not wearing a face mask somebody will quickly come to you and reprimand you and ask you where is your face mask if you go into a restaurant or an Office Building youll have your Temperature Check your details will be taken down so still this athens this very tense atmosphere what weve also found out the government is starting to also clean banknotes any cash thats been in circulation in. Net much of it has been removed from circulation especially cash thats been used and things are in places like what markets hospitals that kind of thing the removing the chinese banknotes either to be cleaned and. Renting or to be completely replaced so although this contagion is still very much concentrated in who bay province preventing the spread of this new coronavirus is still very much the focus of everyday life here in china or to katrina you there in beijing katrina thank you. Well the publication of a recent speech by chinas president is raising questions about why the public wasnt alerted about the outbreak matsuda agent brown explains why. Chinas president xi jinping knew about the our break of the corona virus in early january that was 2 weeks before the government confirmed the 1st person to person transmission of the virus and more than a week before dr lee one liang was silenced by the government for alerting colleagues the president delivered a speech to the Politburo Standing Committee chinas most powerful political body that was on february the 3rd but details were only released by state media this weekend those details amount to an official timeline of what the president knew and when on january the 20th she says he issued special instructions to try to contain the outbreak 3 days later the city of woo han was locked down a measure praised by the World Health Organization some analysts say chinas leader appears to be covering his back after mounting criticism that he didnt respond fast enough on one hand. Chinese leaders who would like to demonstrate that it had not the late in free acting in taking action to contain the epidemic that it had not tried to conceal the facts from the puppy but then are obviously the cover up conspiracy is very much in the minds of Chinese People president xi also accused Regional Communist Party leaders of not carrying out orders from the government in beijing and vowed to punish incompetent administrator this is the greatest crisis to come from president putin playing since he came to power more than 8 years ago because it indicates the top leadership were aware of the potential for verity of a virus weeks before the public were told of dangers at beijings new International Airport the Economic Impact from the virus is clear with few Airlines Flying to china one of the worlds busiest travel hubs is at a virtual standstill. Desolate scenes too across the border in hong kong on a sunday the citys world famous homicide would normally be teeming with tourists but this weekend just 3000 visitors arrived deepening the sense of isolation here as well adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. Dr ali khan is from the Nebraska Medical Centers college of Public Health he says its not clear when the worst of the outbreak will be over i think we need to be very careful about making predictions but there is no doubt that this is a global emergency in china and theyve instituted a containment strategy an over the last couple of days weve been seeing a decline in cases in china too early to say whether or not thats permanent or not and across the world people have put in various layered Public Health measures to try to protect themselves they seem to be effective so far but we do know that there are hotspots even outside of china such as singapore is a good example where we are seeing local transmission within the community the World Health Organization saying yesterday that beijing is going i think it was 82 trials going on to try to find a treatment for and you know theyre expecting results within weeks again positive sign perhaps i take your point that you dont want to get into the predictions business too much its absolutely a positive point that theyre trying to systematically a bally weight what good options may be to treat patients starting with the existing drugs that we may already have on the shelf and thats the reflection of these 8082 trials theres also a trial underway to try to look at plasma so this is people whove recovered can you take their blood and use that has a therapy for people who are sick so theres also a trial trying to look at the plasma probably people who have recovered from the disease if. One of the uns top representatives on libya says the weapons embargo on the country has become a joke Foreign Ministers around the world met on the sidelines of a Security Summit in new nic to discuss the conflict theyve agreed not to interfere in libya but many of them have been deeply involved in the conflict against the nations between the un recognized government and warlord only to have to do to resume on tuesday and libyans are about to mark the 9th anniversary of the revolution that led to the downfall of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi a power vacuum left behind has led to the current conflict the capital tripoli has seen intense fun the past few months child stratford met residents who fled their homes and arent sure when theyll go back for bill to neglected for almost a decade these tiles are on feet for habitation more than a 100 families who have fled fighting on the outskirts of libyas capital shelter here now this tiny room is where samir omar hoodie and her 2 children have lived for the last 3 months theres no electricity or Running Water samir a says her son used to be top of his class at school but the school was closed because of the fighting she described what happened when she tried to return to her home with her daughter to collect more of their belongings. As where the horror theres this little girl has seen no other child has witnessed in all of libya the whole building in front of us collapsed the bombs were coming from all sides our home was completely destroyed we could have been killed. Nation says that more than 150000 people have been forced to flee their homes since general huffed started its offensive of tripoli in april all than 600 people have been killed or injured now many libyans will be celebrating the anniversary of a revolution that overthrew. At the same time as the country is ensuring what many describe a civil war. International efforts to pull just cease fire the failed renegade general who he for half the states is offensive against the u. N. Backed government based in tripoli will continue. Families attend an event organized by Government Forces to honor their sons killed defending the capital how much a conses he still dreams of peace and a unified libya well i dont know when i heard my son had been killed i was shocked but i hope god willing that he just like so many others who died for this country will be deemed a martyr and in next years revolution anniversary will be better and all libyans can celebrate one unified libya where we and generations to come come across. Back in their tiny cold room in the town samir a says thousands of families like us have nothing to celebrate. The children that there are so many tragedies huge problems and theres people suffering even more than i dont have any hope left there is no security to why and what all the celebrated another generation too young to understand can only wait for the peace and prosperity that was promised to their parents almost a decade ago. Tripoli. Syrian state media is reporting that Government Forces of recaptured most of aleppo province once controlled by rebels russian planes have been bombing the region in the north west president Bashar Al Assads forces have made significant gains over the past few days seizing these to teach them 5 highway which links aleppo with the capital damascus. Turkeys trying to stop that advance into the last rebel held areas u. S. President donald trump has commended turkeys president for trying to stop the syrian Government Forces backed by russia earlier turkeys foreign minister told his russian counterpart ankara will take the necessary steps if diplomatic efforts with moscow fail and that cover sulu held talks in munich the Syrian Government with the help of its ally russia is also advancing in libya several turkish soldiers have been killed. Well the Syrian Government tightens its grip rebels are abandoning strategic areas in aleppo and turkey steps up its involvement in the conflict those fighting Bashar Al Assads forces see a chance to regain ground bar reports from had say on turkeys border with syria. These are fighters from the National Liberation front a Rebel Alliance backed by turkey outgunned and outnumbered the fighters seek refuge behind in you directed embankment on the other side Government Troops are stepping up their campaign. Thought. We are consolidating our defense lines setting up small flexible command centers and most of the factions are coordinating their operations and our image to drag Government Forces into our own area fighting has surged over the last few days president Bashar Al Assads forces have regained control of many areas in and live. Their advance infuriated turkey which accuses us of violating the terms of a cease fire agreement turkey signed with russia and iran 2 years ago unka has sent more troops into it and expanded its military outposts despite that damascus insists its campaign wont stop turkeys growing involvement in the syrian conflict is welcomed by the rebels who see it as an opportunity for a cold. We are still fighting to prevent assads army and the militias backing him from destroying our villages and evicting civilians the morale of our fighters is high and we are all determined to defeat assad the rebels have been weakened by internal fighting and divisions the National Liberation front is one among many operating in rebel held territory but hey at the us. Is the most powerful its an alliance of bennett groups with a strong presence in. The rebels have no hope of defeating assads troops who are making more gains and determined to take over the last area held by the opposition now their last chance is that turkey increases its military presence in syria stops the government offensive and imposes a ceasefire but such agreement will be decided by 3 key powers russia turkey and iran have. Had tie on Turkish Border with syria for a short break here not just iraq when we come back selling the u. S. Policy in africa secretary of state mike pompei and makes his 1st visit to the continent plus find out how some weird and wonderful designs in philadelphia a problem people to imagine a very different reality in the future and that stands. Welcome back its time to take a look at the weather across the americas this time now in north america who have got an area of low pressure developing across parts of the upper midwest sunny standing towards the great lakes weve got snow on its northern side there so temperatures hovering just one degrees from minneapolis further south is largely rain and that system is expected to move it northward and eastwards into the ohio valley cheering the course of choose day for the north course eastern parts of color some heavy snowfall is likely for a time out across western parts of the u. S. Its looking generally find some francisco there a bright day and highs of 18 degrees heading down into the caribbean is a largely fine picture weve got one or 2 showers for particularly the Dominican Republic and also down through parts of costa rica and panama but elsewhere its looking fine cancun plenty of sunshine much from temperature of 27 rising to 28 on tuesday and by and large the showers again still largely effect in the caribbean side of the isthmus now as we head into south america i think the main feature aside from the heavy showers across the basin which is what youd expect we have got this area of low pressure further towards the south into parts of argentina paraquat some heavy rain here and all around the river plate is going to be pretty wet highs of 28. 00 when its aires. Life begins. Thousands of babies every year in the United States. And also on the same day. The baby is africanamerican. This is twice as likely to happen why. Rewind americas infant mortality on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the aljazeera china has reported 105. 00 more coronavirus deaths bringing the global total to more than 1702. 00 flights evacuating u. S. Citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship have now left japan but those on board who tested positive for the virus stayed behind. A u. N. Envoy describing the arms embargo on libya as a joke Foreign Ministers from 13 nations discuss the issue at the Munich Security Conference they agreed not to interfere but many of those countries have been deeply involved in the conflict. And syrian state media is reporting that Government Forces backed by russian warplanes have seized most of the rebel held areas of aleppo is part of the governments offensive to take them over the region near the Turkish Border including deadly province. For more now on the Global Response to the coronavirus al jazeera she had the chance to reports on the evacuation of some u. S. Citizens from on board a cruise ship in japan. 2 flights which which took off wildly will had 2 and a half or space in california one to texas 300. 00 of the 400. 00 americans on board. The latest figures we have all 44 showed symptoms of the coronavirus they will be they will be staying in japanese hospitals now the rest will head to these and 4 spaces where they were put into 40 day quarantine before they are before the release of the show any signs or symptoms obviously were told they will be taken to a suitable off base facility meanwhile 100. 00 americans chose to stay on board the ship despite this being the center of corona Virus Outbreak they felt as well as we can hear some of the reasons well look i mean wed rather not go on a pretty cold windowless called her plane all the way to the us only to be put into quarantine on that would rather actually stay on a on a cruise line however theres some strict rules for them to actually we understand they will only be let off the ship on february the 9th 10th we understand but they wont be allowed into the u. S. Until march the 4th but as far as this larger issue of the coronavirus in the u. S. Should you be scared it doesnt seem to be. An intense stage of tool really i think the main concern right now actually is among americans were getting reports of slowdown in businesses and chinatowns in new york chicago los angeles this is this country has a long history of xenophobia against Asian Americans and were saying Community Leaders local leaders saying look this isnt some ethnically. Ethnically based virus this is you know. Everyone should just stay com