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of the affected city energies people to stay indoors after a spike in cases. you know what do you do go out and did you know that qatar is going to return in the world i'm stepping back or on up toward north west coast work on that story coming up. for the shooting deaths of at least 9 people is being investigated in germany as a far right attack a lone gunman opened fire on 2 sheesha cafés in the western city of hung out near frankfurt on wednesday night some of the victims are reportedly kurdish the 43 year old suspect was later found dead in his home police say they've also found the body of the suspects mother at his house all right let's go live now to berlin and our

correspondent dominic kane and take us through the sequence of events and dominick . what happened at least this is what the author of his believe happened is that the perpetrator drove his car to the 1st of 2 shisha bars to places where members of the kurdish community were known well known to frequent these 2 places this shisha bars found a way into the bar and then opened fire with a weapon which he held legally this was a man who had a sporting license to hunt so he used the weapon he had legally to fire indiscriminately in the 1st of these shisha bars made his way out of the 1st venue back to his car drove to a different part of the town and then did the same thing again in a shoe shop again in a place which was known to be frequented by members of the kurdish community opened fire indiscriminately killed people there that back to his car and then drove home

and then at some point in the intervening time use the weapon to kill his 72 year old mother and then eventually to take his own life the lines of inquiry that were for a teaser exploring particularly revolve around the far right because on his web site on his home page they found evidence which they believe points to him having a far right motive to have been posting things on social media which all point in that direction and dominick i mean from the outside it does appear as if there is a slow and incremental rise in the activities of people with these kinds of affiliations would that be accurate. certainly that's something that people are concentrating on this morning given what has happened given what the officials have been saying it's worth pointing out that in the course of the past 12 months or so perhaps

a little bit longer than that there have been several incidents and incidences of what officials call far right motivated violence firstly last friday 12 people were arrested in raids across eastern germany all accused of being in the initial stages of plotting violent acts then last year in the autumn people will remember the shooting dead of 2 people outside a synagogue in the eastern german city of halle a 27 year old man is currently in custody awaiting trial for their murder and then earlier in the air in the early summer of last year a prominent christian democrat mayor of a western german town vile he was targeted and shot dead by a person who went on to be shown to have links to far right violence in this country it's worth pointing out that many politicians have said that this is on the rise that more needs to be done the interior ministry which obviously polices this

country and so far as it can house announced plans in the last 67 months to increase the number of officers to investigate such incidents one final thought the german chancellor angela merkel is due to make some sort of statement about what has happened in our last night and we expect that in the not too distant future she's already canceled a visit to an east german city to be able to monitor what has happened and how we expect her to speak relatively shortly all right thanks for that dominic cain live in belin. south korea has reported its 1st death from coronavirus there's been a spike in the number of cases within the last 24 hours the total there now is $104.00 the majority in the city of daraa guus where 2 and a half 1000000 citizens have been urged by the mayor to say inside and that outbreak has been traced to a church congregation japan's government meanwhile is defending its handling of

infections on the diamond princess cruise ship the vessel has been in coroutines since early this month and in that time the number of confirmed cases on board has risen to more than 602 elderly passengers died after being taken to hospital and then there's china which is now changed how it's actually reporting cases of the virus and that has led to a significant drop in the number of new infections there were 394 on when say down dramatically down from almost 1800 the day before. so in japan there's been a somewhat mixed reaction to how the authorities everything dealing with the cruise ship mcbride reports from the port in your. quarantine behind them passengers from the diamond princess have been disembarking in the hundreds. many of them taken by bus to the middle of yokohama with mixed emotions about their

shared ordeal could hardly do much to work every day i would worry that i was going to test positive one. of the most and when the number of people getting infected spiked we knew they were sick in your infections so i was afraid to leave my cabinet then community as i knew the crew members did very well so i was grateful to them. the passengers were then allowed to continue their journeys home sharing public transport with fellow japanese who have mixed emotions of their own so ours was your girl i feel so sorry for them it's a good idea to release them they were going to get sick very quickly given what foreign countries say their quarantine the people for a certain time so i want to plan to do the same. the confirmed deaths of 2 elderly passengers have raised concerns for those still on board and for foreign governments who are still arranging to fly home their citizens but insisting they undergo further quarantine still japan is standing by its decision to end the

quarantine of the cruise ship you were in to you are doing the ship does not compare to a hospital we are working there with temporary measures we have a basic standard but various issues there that pointed out every day we keep correcting these issues on a daily basis with cases being reported across japan this outbreak is causing increased disruption public events have been scaled back or canceled including an annual birthday celebration for the emperor and there are growing fears if this goes on about the possible impact on the upcoming summer olympics in tokyo. the passing cruise liner sounds its horn in a show of support for the diamond princess for japan finally resolving this crisis is a priority and it knows the world is watching robot pride al-jazeera yokohama japan . and to go live now to a german ground he's in hong kong forests and adrian fassel let's have

a look at south korea because for the longest time they reported very very few cases now we seem to have a quite an intense cluster. that's right we have now a huge increase today in south korea 53 new cases which means we now have more than 100 confirmed cases in south korea northeast asia it seems japan and south korea now very much in the frontline of this particular virus now the focus on thursday has been on the city of daegu in southeast korea that is where the both of these new infections have occurred and the focus has been very much on a religious group there because it seems that a 61 year old woman who was a worshipper with this group became infected a week ago that was confirmed but she had also been in contact with more than 166 other people and of course now there is

a an urgent attempt being made to find all those people the cheek been in contact with the mayor of daegu sent out a real desperate plea earlier on thursday evening saying that he was very worried that local hospitals would not be able to cope if this indeed turned out to be a widespread outbreak so he's appealing to the central get to the main government and so to provide as much medical aid as they can and quickly so the focus in daegu is going to be containment there's also concern that it spread to surrounding areas of this city with a population of about 2 and a half 1000000 and meanwhile in china it's reverted to the a vision no model by which it was calculating the number of new infections of corona virus do we know why the impact seems to have been at a dramatic reduction in the number of cases that are reportable.

but we don't know why china has been changing the way that it tests people for this fire as you know last week of course it announced it was changing its testing criteria now it's adjusted that again but what it seems to be saying is that the new way the new method for testing people is much more stringent than before but of course people studying the more positive figures coming out of china on thursday which show a significant drop in the death rate and the infection rate might be saying well is this another case of official manipulation of these statistics china says no it's evidence that it is containing the virus and we're seeing that playing very much into the narrative on state television more positive stories about more people leaving hospital having recovered from the virus and that was very much the tone of the chinese foreign minister when he when he attended a gathering of asian foreign ministers in the southeast asian country of laos he

said quotes china's forceful actions of contain the spread of this fire so he got quite a good reception there and of course we've also been seeing more evidence on thursday martin of china going very much on the defensive on wednesday of course it announced it was a spare expelling 3 journalists working for the wall street journal accusing the paper of of racism even though the 3 journalists it's expelling are all ethnic chinese although they travel on foreign passports and you got the feeling also with the foreign ministry daily briefing for the media on thursday that china was starting to lash out in other ways to it says that it's very angry that some countries have been accusing china of trying to create sort of micro but microbiology call warfare and it says that countries have to sort of guard against making those sort of wild accusations so china yes lashing out on multiple levels

right now. a.j. and brown live in hong kong thank you now we're getting news of a turkish military offensive we understand that the turkish military is shelling the syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sad a cave that a cave is in the northwest of italy a province which itself is in the northwest of syria then this is a town also the government forces recaptured from rebels just about 2 weeks ago we can go live now to have time that's in turkey very close to the syrian border our correspondent. could this be the start of this much promised offensive by the turks to try to push syrian government forces back down to agreed positions. it could indeed be the much anticipated campaign that the president was up

a promise in the past few days and yesterday he issued what he described as a final warning to the syrian government to pull out from behind the military outposts and the areas recaptured over the last few weeks but tickety of the ruler of parts of aleppo and also parts of the province of idlib today activists on the ground saying that turkish military posed. barrage of rockets targeting syrian government positions inside that after that but barrage of rocket attacks syrian so a turkish soldiers along with the free syrian. rebel fighters started moving into the town of was also recently captured by the syrian army and they seem to be moving to words. they want to take it back from the syrian army and this is crucial

for all the parties because it is located on the vital m 5 and 4 highways that link the capital damascus to and it was big crucial for the sea and government to send reinforce important troops and supplies to different areas in the north western part of the government and the power anti the syrian military was preparing to use it as a launching pad for its. decisive battle to take over it live to reverse all those gains it seems that the turkish military has decided to move forward and recover all those areas we don't know yet about the scope and the size of this military offensive is it is it whether it's just a tactical move by the turkish military to make some gains stop and enforce a political way out with or with a cease fire along with the russians or this is the military campaign that the turkish military has been saying would start will only and when the syrian army is

pushed back from all the areas it controlled over the last few weeks ok for now hashem thank you very much. reporting live there from the thai province in turkey still to come here it out is here. i'm sitting on a 14 in iraq's southern city of nasiriya when demonstrators have refused to give in this by the growing pressure from of the already join us here on al-jazeera to learn why this city has played a key role in uprisings past and present. welcome back to weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia we're going to see a development taking place across northern parts of china which will push into north korea and eastern parts of china during the course of the next 24 hours you

see some snow there across northern areas already is still pretty cold across northern parts of japan temperatures not much above freezing to freezing but if you come south worse weather conditions are looking pretty good for tokyo should be a dry day highs of 14 degrees there you can see some snowfall there into northern parts of china and also into north korea and that is going to develop as it moves further towards the east through the sea of japan so some showers into western parts of japan but further north eastern parts of china they're seeing so far east of russia seeing some outbreaks of snow coming towards the south where the conditions are generally looking pretty good hong kong should be dry there there's a chance of the odd shot in taipei highs here of 22 degrees into south asia we've got the risk of showers across northern parts of india so for delhi the city the risk of wanted to thunderstorms that temperatures still 26 degrees and it's looking pretty wet as we head into shore lanka some heavy downpours here here in the arabian peninsula quite a strong blowing down through the arabian sea 23. an

estimated 100000 lives cruelly ended over a century ago. a distant past not to the descendants of the sultan. a tale of colonialism and racial supremacy unravels in the quest for justice and recognition of the sacrifices of tribal people to maybe. skulls of my people i witnessed documentaries. on to syria.

time for a 2nd look at the top stories here it out is there. the shooting dead of at least 9 people in germany is under investigation as they fall rice attack the attacks happened later on wednesday at 2 shisha cafes in the western city of hama the state's interior minister says there was a xenophobe it may save to the shooting. the turkish military has shelled syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sour a kid in it live province which they took from rebels 2 weeks ago the turkish president has issued an ultimatum to syrian troops to pull out or face retaliation . south korea has reported its 1st deaths from coronavirus meanwhile japan's government is defending itself on the handling of the outbreak on the garment princess cruise ship 2 passengers and now died. in the iraqi city of nasiriyah has

been the epicenter of the antigovernment protests in the south of the country people there are refusing to go back down despite increasing pressure from the authorities and the simona 14 reports they want one of their own appointed prime minister. these protestors in the city i have defied bullets kidnappings infiltration attempts and most recently the threat of penalties if they continue their civil disobedience. here are the men of nasiriyah and the proto squares need us we will be there every day they chant after the announcement of mohamed tawfik allawi as iraq's prime minister designate earlier this month of already east and followers of the powerful shia cleric marked it outside or try to and the protests at times using force but while turnout has decreased elsewhere nastiest people have persevered. when we die i think a lot of children you know are the act of we have not reached a much we do know what

a controversial prime minister we want someone from our protest movement to understand just how freeing that iraq is when times. there's no shortage of grievances here because it is one of iraq's most marginalized provinces nearly half of its population lives in poverty like mohammed many young people don't have stable jobs he says he's been in the central square since day one cooking meals for protesters. there are some iraqi man who can't even buy a cigarette or a sandwich iraq has so many resources and yet young men can't cobble together a 1000 dinars over the past weeks however several people have offered him jobs if he agreed to give up the cause but johnny how much more oh i don't know so many groups came to us offering us jobs so we would abandon our tents in the revolution but we refused i don't know when i'll die i was threatened many times but so far they haven't succeeded the revolution in either death or victory nasiriyah has

given birth to many political movements and its people have been at the forefront of many uprisings against the british occupation saddam hussein's regime that is the us and 3 american invasion and most recently the fight against eisel it seems to be this revolutionary mindset coupled with the moral and armed support from the tribes that has turned this city into the bastion of the protest movement. nasiriyah has also put forth a candidate for prime minister in what many until now have called a leaderless movement i was graduated. a pharmacist has been nominated by a committee of protest leaders as an alternative to prime minister designate that allowed after many threats and association attempts he sleeps in a different location every night at least 4 or 5 times i could be did by direct bullets. i don't know. to live tomorrow to be a prime minister or anyone it needs you to be to have to be strong

to be extremely courage to face. what we call the political mafias political militias been in an attempt to meet protesters demands prime minister designate allow we reached out to recopy and other protest leaders to offer them positions in his cabinet we say no we will not be a part of your cabinet you do not represent the iraqi people you came supported by the same forces from inside the parliament they change the face but they did not change the principles. because he says he wants to focus on building a political movement that can contest the next elections a long and tedious road towards the systemic change that protesters have demanded whether or not the people of nasty and there are in the streets until then protest

leaders here are adamant that the seeds for future change have been laid simona faulty in al-jazeera and the 3 year. the campaigning as officially ended in iran ahead of friday's parliamentary election i said bank is our correspondent now reporting from terre. haute for among the sea of candidates whether to vote at all this seems to be the choice of nearly $58000000.00 eligible voters face and the political establishment is edging the iranians to come out and cast their ballots supreme leader's televised speech telling people it's their religious duty to vote was. despite the disqualification of many of his reformist allies president hassan rouhani has echoed a similar message small boy we can defeat the us with our solidarity and power high turnout on election day would make the us angry and upset low turnout would make them happy but with fears that turnout will be lower than usual other words enough

to convince the iranians that. yes certainly i've been looked i believe vote for someone who i know i have done some research to see if they are an accountable person or not to society or some problems which must be fixed. as a reunion you a religious duty is recommend us to participate and make appropriate decisions about our country i vote so we can choose a representative who can reflect the people in the parliament. in a cafe in north to her they see little point in taking part. i'm not supporting what is the point. because of everything is hard work has gone up the car cost more how do we get by no one is our descendants issues. the iranian economy has struggled under u.s. sanctions since donald trump pulled out the nuclear deal in 2018. inflation for last year was nearly 40 percent. said the surplus not many don't have enough money

to buy fresh fruit they just buy damaged stale fruits some even steel the purchasing power has dropped. just in the last 2 weeks the price of meat has increased some people just end up eating less meat because they can't afford it. these concerns seem to have been reflected in the candidate's campaigns despite talk of the threat posed by the u.s. the sanctions and potential conflict it's the bread and butter issues that seem to be of major concern to voters here the state of the economy the rising cost of living and delivering meaningful change regardless of which political faction wins a majority of seats they will have to address the economic concerns of the people but with limited options at their disposal. al jazeera the front. now the waters off katha home to the 2nd largest population of dougal that's the same mammal that eats underwater grass and usually they like to live alone or in small groups art

there's a phenomenon that's happening here in castle other doesn't happen anywhere else in the world as stephanie dechen now explains. we are heading out to sea off catteries northwestern coast in search of something special until now we don't know what the reason we did maybe they come for feeding me that we don't want to know we have that we are but for the of them going you know for 30 why they came here during the time. we see dolphins. that we want to find something much more camera shy we have in the region the 2nd largest group in the war last year around this time dr mussen captured these incredible and rare images few of us know much about the dougal or sea cow a gentle marine mammal that can grow up to 3 metres in length. and way around 350 kilos research into this population here has been happening for the past few years what we've discovered is that seasonally hundreds of do gangs come together in one

or 2 large herds just off the carteret coast and we don't see this anywhere else in the world it's a very undue gong like behavior we don't know why they're doing it we've just been funded by qatar national research fund for the next 3 years to actually answer this very question. we didn't find them on this day. or 2 days later by a stroke of luck we got a phone call and raced back up north. they found the herd hundreds of 2 gangs. coming really close to our boat now and you can actually hear them come up ferry you can hear them breathe and you can see their tusks and also their tails as they come up and down. it's really quite amazing to see. it's so rare to see such a large herd and so nearby through history the 1st time you see them so far from the boat this is the 1st time in the last before 3 years we saw him from the

helicopter that you've never been a very interesting thing costly to see him in this very very close to them and i hope inshallah by drone we can count them also is it hard to see them this close on the boat it's rare you come yeah yeah yeah this is. a good day and we are lucky. from above a clearer view crucial for their research for dr mussen it's the 2nd time in years that he sees them so close. to them. to see them close. but the reality is that these mammals are endangered. on a deserted beach in the north of cattle are a hint at why their numbers are decreasing. the majority drown after getting in tangled in

a fisherman's net. stop this from happening. just to protect their feeding area. just to inform the people. and the species where should the protect them we should do something it is said that the legend of the mermaid comes from sailors mistaking the dew gong for a siren after many months at sea and were told to do go on fossil has been found here that dates back 20000000 years scientists have told us much more needs to be done to protect their habitat so that these gentle sea creatures don't disappear forever stephanie decker al-jazeera on the waters of northwestern qatar. of the top stories here it out there the shooting deaths of at least 9 people in

germany is being investigated as a fall rise attack they happened late on wednesday at 2 cafes in the western city of hama the suspect was later found dead at home german chancellor angela merkel says there are many sighs the perpetrator acted out of racism. more now from our correspondent dominic kane in berlin. the senior members of the government of the states where this took place that's the state of her hands to have held a news conference and many details emerged 1st things 1st they are working on the basis that this was a this was motivated by right wing extremism that the perpetrator of this was motivated by right wing extremism it turns out that the body that was found next to the perpetrators body was that of his mother now the turkish military has shelled syrian government positions in the city of sadoc if that's in italy province it's

a city which they took back from rebels 2 weeks ago the surface president is this huge an ultimatum for syrian troops to pull out or face retaliation the u.n. has warned of catastrophic human suffering in northwest syria almost a 1000000 people are fled their homes as the government and russia continue to bombard the last rebel held area. south korea has reported its 1st deaths from coronavirus there's been a spike in the number of cases there bringing the total to $104.00 meanwhile japan's government is defending its handling of the outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship 2 passengers from there have now died right up to date those are the latest headlines the bottom line is next.

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question how bad are the problems of big money and powerful corporations in american politics and are they eroding people stressed in elections their elected leaders and even democracy itself let's get to the bottom line. in the last presidential election cycle more than $2000000000.00 was raised and spent by the top 2 candidates donald trump and hillary clinton this time around we have some fabulously wealthy candidates mayor michael bloomberg tom styer and even donald trump but we're still waiting for proof and it's never released tax forms while other candidates pride themselves on not accepting any big money with the top one percent of this country getting even richer and the poor getting.