is a journalist based in boston erika has traveled to cambodia to speak to some of the women who sell their head to trade is also with us margo correa founder of woven had a chicago based ethically sourced tech company while ago was inspired to start hopelessness off surviving breast cancer at a young age and losing her head to chemotherapy and finally we have valerie ago kay co-founder of i you know had that is an ethically saul's human hair extensions company in perth australia eighty's it's great to have you i should say for disclosure i have over the years participated. in the hay industry but i paid as little as possible because i'm so cheap i. said. if this is such a popular business now for the people of all different ethnicities let me show you something here ha ha this is dash and global war drobe and this is. glam room and look at their hair in here. i know it's like. and then just before anyone may be thinking this is just a woman saying. these happy sis out of real hen and you guys are using them too and whoa look at that look how it presses that is human hair right there

is a journalist based in boston erika has traveled to cambodia to speak to some of the women who sell their head to trade is also with us mog. founder of woven hair a chicago based ethically sourced tech company while ago was inspired to start hopelessness of surviving breast cancer at a young age and losing her head to chemotherapy and finally we have valerie a go k. co-founder of hair that is an ethically saul's human hair extensions company in perth australia they'd is it's great to have you i should say food disclosure i have over the years participated in the hay industry but i paid as little as possible because i'm so sheep i. said. if this is such a popular business now for the people of all different ethnicities let me show you something here. this is dash ins global war drobe and this is. the lab room look at the air in here. i know it's like. and then just before anyone may be thinking this is just a woman saying. these happy sis out of will head and this are using them too and whoa look at that look how it presses that is human hair right there and then of course who can fo

started to question with the brazilian hair what did it even come from here and then i stumbled on cambodia as an emerging market for human hair and i wanted to go there and see women that worth selling their hair i really wanted to know their story and i deeply wanted to know how much they were being paid for it if anything at all. not a go ahead you know and that's really interesting i know a little bit more about the indian here industry but i'm really or i know that women in cambodia are in fact sewing their hair and it's you know we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to trace. i'm just looking at the different places around the world where i was sourced from this despite shot gives an idea of where a mostly in asia is where most of the human head sentient comes from all over the world mostly in asia valerie you started a business trying to find ethical human. why the emphasis on ethical what's gone wrong in the human hair industry that it would be unethical. while it initially started with my own journey of self-awareness and i think that's com

feature and then they they actually like you were putting so much they'd then used it made in cambodia how women in poverty are supplying america's market for hair and you meet some of the people who are selling their head that concept of selling ahead how does that sit with year and maybe get comfortable and to go back to your last question about ethical sourcing because in my report when i was doing my research i couldn't really find anything i couldn't find numbers i think i saw one report that said some women in cambodia are being paid $15.00 and and that was really much all i had to go with they decided that i wanted to dig further because there was no reporting because things were truth and i just wanted to know i knew how much i was paying for it hair yeah i knew how much my girlfriends were paying for hair for human hair and to see anything that that $10.00 or $12.00 was just deeply disturbing so let me let this be very let's be very candid about this point paying $15.00 for a head that sounds strange if you've never had it never worn a hair extension what exactly are the women

hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha and martine dennis also coming out cambodia's allowed a cruise ship to dock after several asian governments turned it away of the fears of coronavirus. turkey sends more reinforcements to northern syria after warning it will strike hard against government forces if a target is soldiers. italy's former deputy prime minister is to stand trial for refusing to allow a vote with rescued migrants to dog. has been a massive surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed across the country on wednesday alone that's up from 1600 just the day before 254 more deaths have also been announced and that brings the total to almost $1400.00 memories of these news cases have been in who bay province where it all began the world health organization says reports of the outbreak stabilizing in china must be treated with extreme caution and it's advising everyone to avoid speculation we need to focus on the task the task is to contain. virus to detect cases to treat the cases if we keep doing those things yes we ma

the possibility of it being as bad as the financial crisis a decade ago and our regional focus is on cambodia an economy like many that is connected through trade with the world's 2nd biggest economy now faces the very real prospect of jobs loss plus can't pay $1.00 pay continues new president takes a tough stance on the country's unsustainable debt. it was a bruising year for china a trade war with the united states left its economy expanding at the slowest pace in 30 years and economists estimate 4000000 jobs may have been lost by the way that was 29 tame this year is already being defined by coronavirus it's killed thousands infected thousands more and has put the brakes on china's economy in a very sudden manna here the numbers economists polled by reuters expect china's growth rate to slump to 4 and a half percent in the 1st quarter from 6 percent in the previous quarter that would be the slowest pace since the financial crisis. with much of the country in lockdown the virus could affect up to 42 percent of china's economy according to standard chartered companies may struggle to make pa

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the $200000.00 cambodians employed in the construction sector oh. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one i also owe money to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it will be tough for me to pay the loan there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on $2.00 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear and clothing it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in

cruise ship that was turned away by several asian countries because of coronavirus finally anchors of cambodia. turkey sends in more reinforcements to northern syria as the conflict now draws in us all since. italy's former deputy prime minister is to stand trial for refusing to allow a page of rescued migrants to top. right there's been a surge in the number of corona virus infections in the chinese province where it all began who bay officials confirmed almost 15000 new cases later wednesday up from just 1600 the day before and the who by a communist party chief that's the highest ranking official in the province where he's been sacked 242 more deaths of also been announced there well the world health organization which is named the virus now 19 had said that reports of the outbreak well had stabilized in china and these reports must be treated with caution the u.n. agency says it's too early to tell when this outbreak could end. we need to focus on the task the task is to contain the virus to detect cases to treat the cases if we keep doing those things yes we may see a drop in the number o

plan fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead cambodia has allowed a cruise ship to finally dog after several asian governments turned it away over fears of the koan of virus a surprise shake up in british politics boris johnson's most powerful minister unexpectedly quits his cabinet and the us senate prepares to vote on legislation to curb the president's powers to use military action against iran. i am. thank you for joining us has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone from 1600 the day before chinese authorities say the testing criteria has been changed $254.00 more deaths have been announced bringing the total to nearly $1400.00 meanwhile for fishel stronghold a province the epicenter of the virus have been socked over the handling of the outbreak and that includes the provinces communist party chief john child young more than 60000 people in 26 countries have now been infected japan has reported its 1st death a woman with no record of traveling to china or conta

hello and welcome to our jazeera live from doha i martine there is also coming up cambodia is allowed a cruise ship to dock after several asian governments did away because of fears of the virus. and turkey sends more reinforcements to northern syria after warning it will strike hard against syrian government forces if they target its soldiers past . the battle of the baby shark one of the world's latest catchy songs at the center of a south korean courtroom drama. the 1st has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone and that's up from 1600 just the day before that 200 $54.00 more deaths have been announced and that brings the total to almost $1400.00 there for officials from her bay province at the center of the virus have been sacked over the handling of the outbreak and that includes the province's communist party chief jan shall yang. when $60000.00 people in $26.00 countries have now been infected in japan for instance $44.00 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship that

well as we just mentioned in cambodia it was all smiles as passengers disembarked from a cruise ship that had been turned away by 4 asian governments because of fears about the virus there have been no confirmed cases among the more than 2000 people who were on board the westerdam wayne a reports from sihanoukville that's where the ship is docked. there was celebration and relief as passengers finally received word they were allowed to begin disembarking from the west a dam a ceremonial welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around asia as port up to port rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice it's nice to be able to get home feels very good but my remote say must be on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew it was no illness at book. cambodia's prime minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus and did so again on the do

by 4 countries because of coronavirus fears have now finally been allowed off the prime minister in cambodia presented flowers to the 1st people to leave the m.s. western it arrived there on wednesday but the 2000 passengers and crew stayed on board until any cases of the virus had been ruled out so when they will join us from cambodia in a moments we'll speak to him on that cruise ship but 1st let's get more details on the new deaths in cases from christina you who's joining us from beijing so cases jumping once again christine on the government's also starting a new form of treatments talk to us about these 2 things. that's right so the chinese authorities here have said that this is a pivotal week and trying to tackle this outbreak so what we saw was a huge jump in cases we had 5000 case in the last 24 hours adding to 15000 which were noted on wednesday and the reason for this is that the government has said that they're expanding the way that the that doctors can diagnose these cases they don't have to stick to using one single testing kit they can on now use things like lung x. rays c.t

poling, about cambodia. it seems to me, it is a lost cause in terms of the hundreds and government relationship with beijing. i am curious, how you would characterize what u.s. interests are in attempting to correct, change, reverse, alter the game on the ground. in terms of either the poor, or the airfield. what would you argue our interests are? i'm eager to hear, because i would like to make that case. >> at this point. i tend to agree with you. i think that our interests at this point are limited to dissuade in the cambodian's from allowing the for deployment of chinese military aircraft at the air base. that is a thing that will threaten our larger interests. threaten our ally in thailand. short of that. i don't know if we want to bend over backwards, in appeasement of that regime. we invested an anonymous amount of effort and money, the international community not just the united states. it has failed. cambodia's in a freefall. we cannot compete with the chinese in purchasing influential. what we can d

fail in cambodia. well there's a nother line coming out of china this morning and that is that beijing is set to its chief on hong kong and macau affairs jang meaning is the most senior official to be removed from his post since mass anti-government protests began in hong kong that was last june and he's to be replaced by the deputy chairman of beijing's top political advisory body the months long protests were against the controversial extradition law that's now been scrapped. turkey has sent in more reinforcements to its observation posts in northern syria president bedouin is warning he'll strike back if syrian forces in the province attack turkish troops syria's ally russia accuses ankara of making the situation worse in the last rebel held region by having its military on the ground. and there's the confrontation between american troops and government supporters in the northeast in syria. as more on that from istanbul. a russian patrol in north east syria near. after u.s. troops in the area opened

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction sector. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one also money to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it will be tough for me to pay the loan there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear and clothing it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent years chi

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction sector. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one. to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it would be tough for me to pay the. there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear and clothing it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent years china has become

announcing drastic new measures but a cruise ship stranded at sea for 2 weeks is finally allowed to dock in cambodia. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching out there also coming up on the program snow blankets makeshift camps for some of the 800000 syrians displaced by the recent fighting in it let. south africa's parliament is suspended in a chaotic scenes as president so around opposed to trying to give his state of the nation speech. and drama on downing street why persons finance minister is unexpectedly resigned just weeks before the budget. we begin this hour with the global corona virus outbreak as a 3rd death outside mainland china is confirmed the victim was a japanese woman who was in her eighty's she lived in. there's been a surge in the number of deaths in mainland china as well with another 254 announced bringing the national total to nearly 1400 and more than 15000 new cases have also been reported up from just $1600.00 the day before a wreck would rise comes after who by province the epicenter of the virus supplied a new diagnostic system using computer imaging instead o

the prime minister of cambodia presented flowers to the 1st passengers to leave the western. true ship had been turned away by 4 countries because of coronavirus fears it then arrived in cambodia on wednesday but the 2000 passengers and crew were kept on board until any cases of the virus had been ruled out. the u.s. senate has passed legislation requiring the president to seek congressional approval for any future strikes on iran 8 republican senators backed the resolution which was prompted by the assassination of top iranian military commander qassam sunday money in the u.s. strike last month. china has began rolling back tariffs on u.s. imports it's part of an initial deal signed by the world's 2 largest economies last month in the hopes of easing a trade war the agreements only applies to recent tariffs impose a september on goods including crude oil soybeans pork and beef under the deal beijing would buy more goods and services from the u.s. let's get some perspective on this and speak to polian long she's the managing director of asia and analytical which conducts rese

poling, about cambodia. and it seems to me it's a lost cause in terms of the government's relationship with beijing, and i'm curious how you would characterize what u.s. interests are in attempting to correct, change, reverse, alter the game on the ground in terms of either the port or the air field? what would you argue our interests are? i'm eager to hear because i'd like to make that case. >> at this point i tend to agree with you. i think that our interest at this point are limited to dissuading the cambodians from allowing the forward deployment of chinese military aircraft are the air base. that is the thing that will then our larger interests, then our ally in thailand and singapore. short of that i don't know we want to bend over backwards in appeasement of the regime, and we invested an enormous amount of effort and an enormous amount of money -- i mean the international community, not just the out -- and that experiment has failed. cambodia is in freefall, an authoritarian kleptocracy. we cannot co

get a welcome back to you in the national weather forecast well here across vietnam and cambodia over the next few days we do expect to see clouds lingering as well as some rain pushing through much of the area so cloudy situation along the coast and by the time we get to friday that cloud and that rain will start to make its way into parts of central thailand as well could be seeing some rain over the next few days as well as we go into the weekend down towards the south jakarta rain popping up by the time we get to a friday afternoon with the tempter there of 32 degrees now into the tasman sea we are watching a cycloid making its way to the south this is cyclone you see it passed very close to new caledonia over the last few days continuing to make its way towards the south now we're not going to see landfall here in australia but we will be impacted in new south wales with dangerous rip currents as well as storm surge over the next you days maybe some enhanced rain as well as we go towards the weekend the storm could make its way to the south and then the southeast and for the sout

and return home to the brain hey al jazeera cambodia. a rocket attack is hit and iraqi. province where u.s. troops are stationed another attack on the k. one base in december killed a u.s. contractor starting a chain of events which caused a rise in regional tensions that was blamed on hezbollah will and lead to retaliate for u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander qassam ceremony some 40 days ago the official mourning period for him ended early and with protests in iraq crowds of demonstrators gathered at baghdad international airport a solemn mani and iraqi paramilitary commander. were killed last month they chanted anti-american slogans call for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq. well the u.s. senate has passed a resolution restricting president donald trump's ability to unilaterally order military action against iran the war powers resolution forces the president to get approval from congress to clear any strikes on iran it's been backed by several members of trump's own republican party resolution was introduced after the u.s

so does this mean that cambodia might might actually respond that this tactic might actually work. well i think that's of course the hope of the european union but given the defiance of the cambodian government and their refusal to change policy so far it's unclear whether it will make a difference and what they may do is not see lots of preferences and congress were economy if the introduction of the vietnam agreement and so they might very well whatever we do wouldn't have made a difference in the would still have access and still be competing with us so i mean europeans clearly want to work will it work with the pens or whether the temple you govern insisted be flexible and so forth and have shown a lot of sign that on the areas that matter you can bring government willing to bend so tactics like this are often complicated because often the very people that it's supposed to be aimed at helping it may end up actually hurting these people at thousands of people lose their jobs. it's going to be quite catastrophic in some ways for the cambodian economy particularly because the work

westerdam it arrives in cambodia on wednesday but the 2000 passengers and crew were kept on board until any cases of the virus had been rolled out when hey was a signal prevailed when that ship arrived. there's a lot of relief as you can imagine from the passengers and crew on board the ship for 2 weeks they were at sea cruising around asia trying to find a port to call in to when all those other governments in port said no cambodia said yes so on thursday evening it was finally able to tie up here at the port in sihanoukville and 1st thing friday morning the 1st of those passengers came off here there was jubilation and not just from those passengers who were lucky enough to be among the 1st group but also the hundreds more who lined the decks of the ship to say goodbye to them of course they were. they cheered as the cambodian prime minister hun sen came here to welcome the ship in who spoke to the crowd here spoke to those who were lucky enough to be the 1st to disembark the ship at any again so to allay concerns about the virus is really done that from day one of the outbreak here i

now with cambodia, it looks to be a good option. but i think at this point we are just going to get her home as quickly as we can. flights are being booked and transfers and cambodia to get to a larger airport to get home. >> trace: so when you say get her home, are you going to have her checked out in cambodia and then fly her home or you want her flying home as soon as she gets off the boat? >> i think at this point if she remains stable as she has been today, she's sleeping now but if she remains stable in the morning and they get off the ship, i think she will just come home and be more comfortable with getting cara back the u.s. >> trace: it's interesting, scott. and i like your take on this. you have a situation now where this cruise ship has been denied entry into four various sports. there is no sign at all on this ship of coronavirus. nobody has tested positive so, now you have a situation where in order to stop what might become a public threat although there is no evidence of that, you could be in the process of harming p

hello i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a cruise ship docks in cambodia after being stranded at sea for nearly 2 weeks over fears of the coronavirus but its passengers are not disembarking just yet. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says it's beginning to try those accused of human rights violations but gives no details of the process. and the u.s. senate prepares to vote on legislation to curb the president's powers to use military action against iran. there's been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone that's up from just 1600 the day before chinese authorities say the screening criteria has been changed $254.00 more deaths have been reported bringing the total to nearly $1404.00 officials from who bay province the epicenter of the virus have been sacked over their handling of the outbreak it includes the province's communist party chief japan has reported its 1st death a woman with no record of traveling to china or contacts with chinese visitors elsewhere i

into cambodia and waters and how worried are people there about you know this corona virus outbreak. well really since this outbreak emerged in china the cambodian government has gone to great lengths really to play down the threat of it in cambodia and also to stress the important relationship between cambodia and china there's only been one confirmed case of coronavirus in cambodia that was a man in this city in fact he has recovered and was cleared to leave hospital but yes there will be concern among cambodians that the government allowed this ship to come here when other governments did not and as the ship arrived and care about cambodian waters the transport minister sought to allay some of those concerns. if you like a bomb or you understand her people are worrying about this case but we are dealing with it with the utmost carefulness with humanity we have great responsibilities so we have very clear measures look the ship is far away about 2 and a half kilometers from here so when we have done all the tests and confirm there are no coronavirus cases on board we will allow tha

cambodia is set to find out on white and state whether the european union will scrap its preferential trade agreement under the deal cambodia can export most goods to europe tax free but concern about workers' rights and democracy is put in that a risk when he reports. it's closing time after another long tough day in a factory making clothes and shoes for some of the world's biggest brands cambodia's garment industry employs around 800000 people and is the driving force behind its economy but their jobs are under threat because of a decision by the european union which is cambodia's biggest customer that could make it 12 percent more expensive to send products their workers say they haven't been warned about the announcement but the prospect of factories closing all reducing their hours is worrying. it would affect me a lot because i need all that money to spend on my family especially for daily expenses like food my small daughter needs milk so if this factory closes it won't be easy to find not a job a year ago the e.u. signalled that it would end cambodia's preferential trade arra

and return home wayne hay al-jazeera will cambodia. that of the world health organizations health emergency program says despite the spiking coronavirus cases inside china the profile of those contracting the virus remains the same we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter and this disease is still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher for the severity profile that increases actually with each decade after that and predominantly 2 that's a rarity is amongst men rather than them women and we have seen a significant shift that profile is very much repeated in other areas outside who base protests is across iraq and iran are marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top but a trick amada custom solomonic in baghdad demonstrators blocked the road near the airport where he was killed in a u.s. air raid last month. behind iran's efforts to spread its influence throughout the middle east president on a trump ordered the killing saying he posed an imminent threat.

be in northwestern cambodia mahler's the caretaker here and starts work at 7 every morning with a quick walk to make sure that everything's in order 79 in long gaited tortoises hatched here 3 months ago today they're going to be weighed and measured. 3033. of the. search string of. the tool box contains nail polish in all colors of the rainbow the caretakers paint the shelves of the young tortoises to help identify where in the conservation center they're being kept. the tortoises live in special enclosures that are open to the sky but with nets to help prevent them from predators. that's essential to their survival not long ago elongated tortoises were upgraded to critically endangered on the international union for conservation of nature red list. mischa meyerhoff is the a c c b s director he came here from germany more than 5 years ago to work on animal conservation projects especially ones involving birds and turtles. there are about $360.00 different species of turtle including the land tortoises what many people don't realize is that when the next red list is published about 60 pe

celebrations as more than 2000 cruise ship passengers are allowed to disembark in cambodia after being turned away by 4 countries. digging for the truth families of mexico's drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the search for their relatives. the u.s. senate passes a new law curbing the president's power to attack iran. the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus cases has surged in the chinese province at the heart of the outbreak officials in who say almost 5000 new infections were confirmed on thursday the rest of china reported fewer than 300 new cases bringing the country's total to more than 55000 while there still isn't a cure one hospital says there are signs that blood transfusions from people who've recovered from the virus could be an effective treatment the world health organization says the mortality rate of the virus is at around 2 percent which is less fatal than the sols epidemic of 17 years ago all right let's go live now to hong kong our correspondent there brown adrian so we are in danger of losing ourselves in a focus to to states how much co

cambodia's prime minister greets korean ship passengers as they finally get off after being turned away by 4 countries. digging for the truth families of mexico's drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the search for their relatives. the u.s. senate passes a new law curbing the president's power to attack iran. for the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus cases has surged in the chinese province at the hospital officials in her base say nearly 5000 new people were confirmed to have the virus on thursday and the total number of people infected across the country has now risen 264000 while there's still not a kill one hospital is saying that there are signs blood transfusions from people who've recovered from the virus could be an effective treatment the world health organization is saying the mortality rate of the virus is still at about 2 percent and that is less fatal than the sars epidemic of 17 years ago. we can go live that adrian brown our correspondent in hong kong so a raft of new figures coming out on the daily basis adrian how much confidence in the peo

is not endangered turtles are eaten in cambodia and used in traditional medicine live turtles are also sold as pets. in cambodia turtles and tortoises are believed to bring good fortune releasing one year a temple is believed to bring a long life just to put a lucky few turtles and tortoises end up at a.c.c. be like this one it was also released at a temple. you know something of the people something. that. the team is about to operate on the turtle it has an injury inside its shell for the moment the animal gets a painkiller. next day ma and her colleague prepare food for the animals 600 turtles and tortoises live here all of them from endangered species breeding them in captivity has proven difficult but the elongated tortoises appear to need just fresh air and food the rest they can manage for themselves so far hasn't been able to release any elongated tortoises into the. wild it's too dangerous the animals would be captured again in short order. that's why michelle meyerhoff is hoping to bring the elongated tortoise here this woodland is home to the last 5 large siamese rosewood tr

is not endangered turtles are eaten in cambodia and used in traditional medicine live turtles are also sold as pets. in cambodia turtles and tortoises are believed to bring good fortune releasing one year a temple is believed to bring a long life just. but a lucky few turtles and tortoises end up at a.c.c. be like this one it was also released at a temple. carving inside of. you know. something. that. the team is about to operate on the turtle it has an injury inside its shell for the moment the animal gets a painkiller. next day ma and her colleague prepare food for the animals 600 turtles and tortoises live here all of them from endangered species breeding them in captivity has proven difficult but the elongated tortoises appear to need just fresh air and food the rest they can manage for themselves so far hasn't been able to release any elongated tortoises into the wild. it's too dangerous the animals would be captured again in short order. that's why michelle meyerhoff is hoping to bring the elongated tortoise here this woodland is home to the last 5 large siamese rosewood trees in

be in northwestern cambodia mao is the caretaker here and starts work at 7 every morning with a quick walk to make sure that everything's in order $79.00 elongated tortoises hatched here 3 months ago today they're going to be weighed and measured. $3033.00 more than a. regular. before so it should assume. the tool box contains now politian all colors of the rainbow the caretakers paint the shelves of the young tortoises to help identify where in the conservation center they're being kept. the tortoises live in special enclosures that are open to the sky but with nets to help prevent them from predators. that's essential to their survival not long ago elongated tortoises were upgraded to critically endangered on the international union for conservation of nature red list. misha meyerhoff is the a.c.c. these director he came here from germany more than 5 years ago to work on animal conservation projects especially ones involving birds and turtles. because there are about $360.00 different species of turtle including the land tortoises what many people don't realize is that when the next

comes a day after a surge in the number of new infections after testing methods were changed and in cambodia passengers are leaving a cruise ship that was repeatedly turned away by 4 countries over coronavirus fears health officials took blood samples from 20 passengers who were feeling ill all tested negative for corona virus more than 2000 people were on board and weren't allowed to leave the ship until indications of the virus had been ruled out i hate joins us live from c.n.n. new kill with more on these people that were finally able to get off this hour roaming cruise ship way. yes certainly an air of celebration as the 1st of those passengers were able to disembark up to spending 14 days in that ship the westerdam now they will be that now taken to the airport boarding charter flights paid for by the holland america line the owner of the ship and then flown back to their home countries it's going to be a very slow process with so many people on board the process of issuing cambodian visas so they can disembark is still going on and again the charter flights have to be organized as well

tres mujeres rusas que fueron evacuadas del mismo crucero en cambodia, llegaron a san petersburgo. les hicieron un chequeo mÉdico a su llegada, pero luego se les permitiÓ regresar a casa. las autoridades han actualizado la cifra de muertos con la epidemia de coronavirus a mi 775 personas. --1775 personas. cinco muertes ocurrieron fuera de china. en todo el mundo, los contagiados suman ahora 71,000. el gobierno chino dice que disminuyÓ la tasa de nuevos casos y que 10,000 personas se han recuperado del covid-19- los mÉdicos no han podido descubrir el tiempo de superviviencia del coronavirus en superficies. el banco de china estÁ destruyendo parte de dinero que circula en las calles. el mismo que cambia de manos varias veces al dÍa, por contener el virus. enrique: el alcalde de los Ángeles y el sheriff del condado de los Ángeles reaccionaron al anuncio de la administraciÓn trump. esperaba desplegar fuerzas elite de la patria fronteriza en la ciudad de santuario. dijeron que en los Ángeles la policÍa no coordina con ice, ni aplica la ley de grasa. -- de inmigraciÓn. >> no

cruise ship that was turned away by 5 countries over a few days of kohen a virus has now docked in cambodia and miss west today is carrying more than 2200 passengers it has been at sea for days japan taiwan guam the philippines and time and always few sentry to the ship despite there being no cases of kona virus on board. now u.s. senator bernie sanders has now really beaten pete would be judging the new hampshire democratic primary showing the divisions between the leftists and centrists wings of the party in the race to choose someone to go up against donald trump and of amber adding to the uncertain nature of the race amy club wishaw surged to 3rd place after a strong debate performance last week while once favored joe biden slumped to 5th has more from manchester new hampshire oh he was expected to win and he did the iowa campaign is just about beating trawled it is about transforming this country the it is about how the the courage to take on wall street the assurance coffee's the drug companies the fossil fuel industry the military industrial complex of the not far behind former marri

and returned home and wayne hale just era see an awful cambodia. or i'm joined now via skype by chris smith consultant for ologist and the presenter of the naked scientists podcast 1st of all can you help us to understand this change in methodology in diagnosing the virus in a province yes hello until now one form of testing one criterion was being used to confirm whether or not someone had got this virus now what they did was to change that case definition today or in the last 24 hours and said that rather than just calling a person positive if the test or they were positive what they're going to do is to use the clinical diagnosis clinical diagnosis means the person has the symptoms and if you look at their chest x. ray or their c.t. scan for example you can see the characteristic changes on there that we know signify a person has this or a very similar infection and given by and large that the majority of the cases are going to be this those are reasonable criteria so not surprisingly we went from about 2 and a half to 3000 cases a day here or 2

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction sector. oh. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one who also money to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it will be tough for me to pay the loan. there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear including it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent yea

now in cambodia it was all smiles as passengers disembarked from a cruise ship that had been turned away by 4 asian governments because of fears about the virus there are no confirmed cases on board this ship there are more than 2000 people on the westerdam wayne hayes reporting now from c n n phil where the ship is docked. there was celebration and relief as passengers finally received word they were allowed to begin disembarking from the west a dam a ceremonial welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around asia as port up to port rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice it's nice to be able to get home feels very good but my remote say on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew it was no illness at book. cambodia's prime minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus and did so again on the dock in sihanoukville when other gover

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years buildings went up rapidly as the money flowed in mainly from china cambodia's largest investor but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction sector. i'm so worried if i lose my job i don't know where i would find another one. to the bank so if i lose my job for a few days it will be tough for me to pay the. there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear including it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent years china has become mor

received would they were allowed to begin disembarking from the west a dam a ceremonial welcome in cambodia marks the end of a 2 week journey around a ship has pulled up to portray rejected the ship's request to dock you know the ship was very very safe the crew was fantastic we had a very good time considering the circumstances everything was very nice it's nice to be able to get home feels fairly good but me with must say on the ship was fairly well the food was well at the table to us well so we didn't suffer at all and we knew it was no illness at book. cambodia's prime minister who flew in for the occasion he's consistently downplayed concerns about coronavirus and did so again on the dock in sihanoukville when other government said no to the ship he said yes and he wasn't about to let this opportunity slip by. people asked if there are people on the ship that have coronavirus would allow them to dock i can respond very clearly that if there are people with the virus on the ship i would allow them to dock as soon as possible but there were no confirmed cases on board blood tests taken

a cruise ship has docked in cambodia after being shunned by other countries over coronavirus fears. james has the details. reporter: after two weeks at sea, they are closer to dryland than ever. before they can set foot on cambodian soil, authorities are carrying out health checks. they fear those on board may be carrying the coronavirus part after leaving hong kong on the first of february, the cruise ship was refused by japan, taiwan, guam, the philippines, anchored offnow the coast of cambodia. the world health organization or gisela dared to between governments in the fight against the epidemic. >> cambodia agreed to exact -- except the cruise ship which has been stranded at sea for several days. based on what we have been told, there are no confirmed cases of cvid19 on board. virus left some completely empty. some remained in their cabins but they are expected to fly home on friday. anchor: the nine-year war in syria has entered another phase as russian forces tried to squeeze out the last bastion of rubble opposition. in the northwest, turkey has its own presence in the countr

the skyline in cambodia's capital phnom penh has changed dramatically in recent years building rapidly as the money flowed mainly from china. but china's economy is grinding to a halt making for uncertain times for many including the 200000 cambodians employed in the construction. i'm so worried if i don't know where i would find another one. if i lose my job for a few days it would be tough for me to pay the. there's even more uncertainty for those in the garment industry which is facing setbacks on 2 fronts the european union will place tariffs on some footwear including it imports from cambodia because of a deterioration in democracy and workers' rights the industry employs almost 800000 people and relies on chinese investment and raw materials with many suppliers in china closing down because of the spread of coronavirus cambodia's government says some of its factories will suspend operations for as long as 3 months as many as 90000 people may lose their jobs temporarily in recent years china has become more influential and more invested in southeast asia from tourism to constructi

cambodia is set to find out on the weapons to whether the european union will scrap its preferential trade agreement under the deal cambodia can export most goods to europe tax free but the concern about workers' rights and democracy is putting that at risk when he reports. it's closing time after another long tough day in a factory making clothes and shoes for some of the world's biggest brands cambodia's garment industry employees around 800000 people and is the driving force behind its economy but their jobs are under threat because of a decision by the european union which is cambodia's biggest customer that could make it 12 percent more expensive to send products their workers say they haven't been warned about the announcement but the prospect of factories closing all reducing their hours is worrying. it would affect me a lot because i need all that money to spend on my family especially for daily expenses like food my small daughter needs milk so if this factory closes it won't be easy to find not a job a year ago the e.u. signalled that it would end cambodia's preferential tr

cambodia. protesters across iraq iran a marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top military commander custom solomonic baghdad demonstrators block the road close to where he was killed in a u.s. air raid last month. behind iran's efforts to spread its influence throughout the middle east president donald trump ordered the killing saying that he posed an imminent threat and here's a look at what's happened in the aftermath of that u.s. assassination iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many warned of severe revenge and the killing sparked protests across iran u.s. president donald trump then threatened to bomb 52 iranian sites attacked american targets the next day in iraq where so the money was killed parliament passed a resolution calling on the government to expel all foreign troops from the country 2 days later a large funeral procession was held for customs and in the early hours of january 8th terror launched a dozen ballistic missiles at 2 iraqi says housing u.s. forces ther

and return home wayne hay al-jazeera is in oakville cambodia. protesters in iraq and iran have been marking the end of 40 days of mourning for iran's top military commander custom solomonic earlier in baghdad demonstrators blocked the road near the airport where he was killed in a u.s. airstrike last month so the money was behind iran's efforts to spread its influence throughout the middle east president donald trump ordered the killing saying that he posed an imminent threat well here's what's happened in the aftermath of that u.s. assassination iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many warned of severe revenge on the killing sparked protests across iran u.s. president donald trump then threatened to bomb 52 iranian sites of tehran attacked american targets the next day in iraq with the money was killed parliament passed a resolution calling on the government to expel all foreign troops from the country 2 days later a large funeral procession was held for qassam samani and in the early hours of january 8th iran launched a dozen ballistic mis

westerdam in cambodia a day earlier. well wayne hay joins us now from the kind of odium capital phnom penh duane so what's happening now to the rest of the ships passengers now that one of them has tested positive. yes well this very long and frustrating journey continues for many of the passengers off the west the damn who are in various stages of transit some will have reached their final destinations already on board the ship in sihanoukville there are still 236 passengers and according to reports from some of those passengers they have been told by the captain that disembarkation have stopped there will be no people leaving that ship until they know the results of a 2nd of the woman in malaysia there are people stuck here in the capital phnom penh as well because this is where they have been coming to before boarding charter flights out of cambodia to other destinations like k.l. a tweet from one of those passengers says that they have been told by cambodian health authorities that they should stay inside their hotel

an american woman from a cruise ship the docks in cambodia has now tested positive for the virus the 83 year old woman threw to malaysia on friday along with 144 other passengers from the ship then miss west had been turned away from 4 countries before docking in time boudia when he is in the cambodian capital with more. very long and frustrating journey continues for many of the passengers off the west the damn who in various stages of transit some will have reached the final destinations already on board the ship in sihanoukville there are still 236 passengers and according to reports from some of those passengers they have been told by the captain that disembarkation this have stopped there will be no people leaving that ship until they know the results of a 2nd test of the woman in malaysia there are people stuck here in the capital phnom penh as well because this is where they have been coming to before boarding charter flights out of cambodia to other destinations like a tweet from one of those passengers says that they have been told by cambodian health authorities that they s