Restrictions on doing business with the government. Developing news this wednesday has come out of libya where the internationally recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after warlord Khalifa Haftar forces attacked the port in the capital tripoli at least 3 people were killed in the assault on the port which is a major entry point for supplies food fuel all of these things coming into libya and there are warnings of major disruptions to schools hospitals and power stations his forces say the target of the shelling specifically was and he has repeatedly launched these assaults on tripoli going back to april the tripoli based government insists the u. N. Mediated talks cannot continue until the worlds takes a quote clear stand on what it calls after violations lets start with this report james bays our diplomatic editor is at the talks in geneva. The port in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fate of the peace efforts in jeopardy its now 10 months since general haftar appended the International Communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that that it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i bet there have a cease fire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement. There were renewed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripoli seaport which is the life of archery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and Food Supplies in this context we announce the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the president ial Council Reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the u. N. Is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all political factions in libya would you take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts james bays out 0 geneva will top diplomats who have been involved in these talks have reacted with dismay at the sudden turn of events i only saw on this a i hope of course said these talks we checked she will resume and says its because he is possible to send i mean the what is just started to engage the military committee which is the most important thing for the ceasefire and there are some positive for the political to look to to stop the sometime in the near future to serve the there was the hope that step in the will be done but duty. Has an update from ahmed up the one had a correspondent in tripoli who says these port attacks have now forced people to leave. Poor 2 which is the government describes as the lifeline not only for the people in the capital city but all libyans because this is the main and major port in the capital city and then you see that this state oil further has declared that it has just moved and evacuated all tankers that are loaded with fuel and gas in the port in order to prevent humanitarian and invented environmental disaster due to the multiple attacks by have to do forces on the port on tuesday joining us now for the senior fellow at Johns HopkinsUniversity Foreign policy institute is on skype from mclean virginia nice to have you with us. What are they for haftar is doing here is well its true to form isnt it weve seen in the past the railing process is just when its looked like there might be in fact i think once that happened just after hed met the head of the United Nations secretary general of the United Nations is this just almost what to expect from a man who is a military man and. Its pretty much i mean there has been. Proving all were in order again over the years and especially over the last few months that hes not interested in any political process sort of a new political solution. That he insists on a military solution hes just speaking sometimes. Directly about politics and so on but he keeps on proving that he doesnt believe it i mean today he had just finished a meeting with their merican ambassador who came to visit him and spoke about the need for a political process and. Ceasefire and then immediately after that he decided to bomb tripoli airport trying to. Expand his economic sort of stranglehold on the capital so then have it how do you have a political process we so often hear with libya and its true for for for for syria and yemen and all these other places where they say has to be a political solution how can you have a political solution with someone who has been trying to take over the capital by force for nearly a year. Excellent question i mean basically as long as the International Community. Is not willing to take a really hard stand and implementing some very specific sanctions program against up to and hes willing to just simply be content with issuing statements general statements about political solution and all of that meanwhile willing to tolerate him violating the cease fire bombing indiscriminately in tripoli or regular bases the United Nation today employee has declared that since january 12th the u. N. Had observed over 150. 00 violations of the cease fire agreement as long as nobody is willing to take a really hard stand against him and hes going to continue to do that so its difficult to take the credibility sorry to interrupt but its difficult to take a hard stand or a united stand when Different Countries have allied themselves with the 2 sides in libya they cant really be i mean the United Nations can condemn but they stiffle to have some sort of consensus. Correct exactly i mean thats thats precisely the problem i mean over the last 10 months youve got a general a rogue general whos been bombing indiscriminately capital of a recognized. Government without any stand by the International Community only a few days ago they issued this general statement without attaching any real teeth to it calling for a ceasefire and all of that i mean the whole thing is as the general secretary himself declared last week that moving is a real scandal and it undermines the International Credibility not only libya but worldwide when youve got. Somebody like willing to thumb his nose at the International Community in get away with it and what happens to libya in the meantime not the libyan side but the people there i mean you hit the ports back and have a huge knock on effect for a country that is already limited in how it can. Import food and fuel and supplies. Precisely i mean he had moved on the fields only a few weeks ago cut off the oil now the oral went down the production went down from about 1200000 a day to less than 100000 barrels and now he is getting the port and basically hes trying to to move the whole war into a war of strangling the capital economically and depriving the. Civilians with you which is the largest concentration of civilians in libya is over 2000000 people from from having any access to the rest of the world commercially after he had managed to displace over 200000 people in tripoli killing thousands were injuring more i mean the whole thing is really quite detrimental not only to well what is happening in libya and the libyan people but also to the credibility of the International Order as a whole after that well joining us scott from virginia thank you excellent to get your thoughts thank you for thank you sir. Lets have a look at what else is coming up on this news hour we will look at how the corona Virus Outbreak is exposing the risks and lack of protection for people working on cruise ships. Also afghanistan finally declares a winner in its president ial election 5 months after holding it but the opposition is calling it a coup against democracy. And in sports the champion loses her 1st w. T. A tour match up to her big triumph in melbourne. Lets get an update on corona virus 1st the outbreak which is now killed more than 2000 people all but 5 of those deaths in Mainland China the number of new cases though in china has fallen again one 1749. 00 new infections reported on tuesday compared to the nearly 1100. 00 the day before which is actually the lowest since the end of january despite signs the outbreak might be slowing down russia has decided to temporarily banned chinese citizens from entering the country that comes into effect on thursday and in japan the course of the diamond princess cruise ship is ending for some passengers and crew there are about 3700 people on board and as of tuesday at least 542 cases were identified among those people so were going to get the latest on that with rob mcbride in a moment because he is right there in front of the diamond princess weve also got katrina you in beijing will come to you both in a moment before we do though want to have a look at the Johns Hopkins university virus tracking map which weve been showing you quite a lot over the past 2 days it gives us a good snapshot of where we are at the moment so the headline number there is the 2009 deaths and the confirmed cases of 75000 over 75000 the concentration obviously of course in asia but do you think about where it spreads out from there far away you can see cases in india down to singapore and of course japan where the ship is. Also take note of that number up in the corner there the green number 14 and a half 1000 people who have recovered from corona virus from varying levels of the strains that its important to remember about the amount of people who are still alive even after contracting the disease ok correspondents lets talk to them katrina you 1st of all in beijing anything we can read into these numbers i know we go through the numbers every day katrina but i think everyone is always looking for some sort of trend that this might be slowing down. Thats right well today we had 136. 00 deaths in the last 24 hours reported of the krona virus and thats a bit of a little bit of a spike because in previous days we had the number under 100 but its not the highest we had last week of some 140 people on some days lose their lives so it does tell us that this is continuing to be a very serious serious situation but there is some good news we had for the 1st time today the number of cured people according to official figures is higher than the number of new confirmed cases you mentioned we had about 1700 also new confirmed cases according to official figures we have 1824 people have recovered so that is good news were also getting some more information about the corona virus itself weve had the largest Study Released of the illness by Chinas Center for Disease Control which tell us some very interesting informations are so far what we know is about 80 percent of people who catch 19 have no symptoms and they do invariably recover good news so that leaves us with 20 percent 20 percent of people who develop severe pneumonia like symptoms and that brings us to the mortality rate according to Chinas Center for Disease Control its about 2. 3 percent which is lower than other coronaviruses such as salzman as but it is much more infectious other information that weve learned is that 64 percent of the people who have died from the new current virus are male and also about the ages of these people so so far 30 percent of those in the fatality rate in the sixtys 30 percent are in the seventys and 20 percent are in the eightys so this is definitely a new list which is affecting many it seems to affect you also older people ok so thank you katrina you in beijing this. Lets move over to your comma and here is right mcbride is the save the diamond princes ship behind you rob whos staying on whos getting off. Thats right this is the day that everybody has been waiting for the official end of this 14 days of quarantine but of course not everybody will be getting off on this day those around 500. 00 or so people this wednesday are scheduled to leave this is the 1st of the some 3000 people who are still on this ship we understand theres a lot of activity is happening in the terminal Building People have been seen Walking Around with suitcases and there are a number of buses all waiting on the quay side the media has been moved back from there in the previous days weve been allowed to be right on the quay side beside the ship the media have all been moved back and these buses are now waiting to take the 1st hundreds of people 2 away there understand that the elderly have priority these are all people of course who have proved negative for this coronavirus many japanese citizens amongst them and its understood that some of these buses will be going to large terminals like yokohama way station for people to proceed with their journeys go home to their families and so on we dont have too many details about exactly whats going to happen to them because of course the authorities here want to try to dampen. From chasing these people understandably theyve been through quite a lot but i think also there is a sense here that these people may still have the possibility that they could pass on any affection so the advice from the author of these is although theyve gone through this quarantine that they should stay at home for the next couple of weeks and self quarantine themselves which does beg questions about whats your thora to have the confidence of the author ities in this quarantine practice because of course we do know that from the latest figures of all of the passengers and crew on here weve now had a total of 542. 00 infections a lot of them in the past couple of weeks of course when this vessel was locked down in priority ok were told to get later than rope as we wait to hear what happens to the people on board the diamond princess. Not just passengers of course have been stuck on board that ship cruise ship workers from around the world have also been caught up in the coronavirus quarantine with many left stranded thousands of kilometers from their families. In manila and spoke to the family of one filipino worker who has been held up in japan. And the message that for victoria jo and her father every phone call lately feels as if it may be their last victoria is in the philippines her father works abroad now stranded in the diane one princess cruise ship in japan where the corona virus has infected hundreds of passengers. The danger her father continues his work as is to or she says her family is being kept in the dark about what the shipping company and the Philippine Government planned to do with those stranded on the ship the job he loved so much when the lawyer who 1st saw. Giving birth earning the same love that. Inside the cruise ship her father gives a tour of his work please. We keep working we still keep serving thats why its really hard because we are still exposed to passengers and that is that they are very stressed. In this whole way passengers post their requests and comments outside their door which Service Workers to attend to. Weve already about our immunity many of us are tired and believe that we feel that they are not safe here anymore. Its a sentiment shared by many here in downtown manila filipino seafarers look for jobs abroad to despite the risks around 400000 of them more than 1600000 people who work on ships globally are filipino they send back hundreds of. Millions of dollars in remittances back to the country every year for years filipinos the bears have been calling on the government 8 to help them lobby for better protection and compensation abroad now they say the Current Crisis has exposed the Philippine Government in the bill its a respond quick enough to the growing challenges of the Global Shipping industry. Defeat the war in the ships anyway and they have their war by h. Job security so we are not certain about the buy. They say they simply dont have a choice for them its more important to adjust the uncertainty about whether they will be able to provide for their families back home. Dugan al jazeera. Lets look at syria now the United Nations says nearly 300. 00 civilians have been killed in the northwest just since the beginning of this year as the government tries to capture the last rebel strongholds. Of the. United nations says schools hospitals and camps for the internally displaced have been hit because the russian backed government offensive cruel beyond belief and its called for the immediate creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape the sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. Would suggest they cant all be accidental. And i dont minimum even if they were accidental it shows lack of course no necessity of caution and so on. All of which can contribute to something going on a trip if theres a war crime its cruel beyond belief that civilians mostly women and children living under scraps of plastic sheeting in freezing conditions are being bombed. This report now from hashem a whole bar on the plight of those displaced by these attacks hes on the turkish syrian border. Patrolmen how bad is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bull murky in the east of when it was taken over by Government Forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature cannot afford to buy a stove to heat the place. And we pray someone will defend us please help us they kill our childr