the algorithm on the jersey of. iran's neighbors close their borders as fears grow over its corona virus outbreak. it's early races to contain the biggest corona virus outbreak in europe several northern towns have been sealed off. welcome back everyone came out santa maria in doha with the world news from al jazeera bernie sanders wins big here in nevada boosting his position as the democratic front runner in the race for the white house. conservatives dominate initial results in iran's parliamentary elections but turnout is the lowest in the islamic republic's history.

so iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronavirus outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey they've all closed their borders with iran which has had the largest number of fatalities outside of challenge china the latest death toll standing at 8 in china president xi jinping meanwhile has admitted there were shortcomings in the country's response he is describing corona virus as the largest public health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 italy as well 50000 people in northern israeli have been quarantined 132 people have been infected there and to have died while in south korea the president has called for quote unprecedented powerful measures it's the highest health level alert there to control the outbreak that is where we will begin our coverage this hour. robin wright has been. the worst affected areas in

southeast korea the city of daegu and neighboring chango county remain at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases reported so far one of them at this hospital quickly spread infecting more than 100 patients and staff wards are being prepared to treat the increase of new coronavirus patients raising the alert to the highest level came at an emergency meeting chaired by president moon j. in this weekend the number of new cases has risen alarmingly by the hundreds and he stressed that the next few days will be critical in stemming the outbreak. the situation has become completely different since the outbreak of mess and fiction extra resources will be directed into trying to stop the spread of the corona virus the urged everyone to avoid massive events well you know you want to. we have

vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have a mess meeting in an enclosed indoor place in terms of the spread of contagious disease everyone to restrain themselves from group of interactivity not on the indoor places but also outdoor places. sunday across south korea church leaders were asked not to hold services yeah. it's sad that we can't hold a church service but we're following government policy and we don't want any further spread of the disease in the affected areas most people have heeded warnings to stay indoors as they wait to see if the emergency measures work the south korean government is hoping its latest measures will help limit the clusters of infection to this part of the country knowing the price of failure could mean the kind of travel restrictions imposed on china with the damage that would cause to its economy rob mcbride al-jazeera chando county south korea. another note on south korea it has launched a complaint with israel after

a plane load of south koreans were refused entry 12 israeli passengers were allowed to get off the korean airlines flight when it arrived in tel aviv but 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now bombing the south korean and japanese businesses a move that follows the discovery of corona virus among a group of soft korean tourists who visited israel last week. as we've mentioned iran has the largest number of deaths from the virus outside of china. for us with more on how authorities are responding. the number is of course significant because they are worried that the containment process is really something that they need to address as quickly as possible the outbreak started in the holy city of rome which is about 220 kilometers south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city now they have since closed schools and universities not only about 2 thirds of the

cities across the country in the capital all the major events have been canceled including the government foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories and been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and disinfectants will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be having handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities. and it's in these prime minister says he is ready to use the army to help enforce the corn tina 50000 people in the north for tory gave him the reports. life inc you don't you're in northern italy is now happening behind closed doors the town's mayor has told the 15000 residents to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus rosica valley is one of the few people venturing out she owns a pharmacy and the man has told her to keep it open to the pole would appoint

a man to him we're all afraid but we're crossing our fingers hoping all right if someone doesn't feel well they should react early because people can be cured if they come to hospital in a desperate situation it's much more difficult to cure them 2 people have died of corona virus in northern italy and with dozens infected it's europe's worst hit country as many experts are saying we'll probably see many more cases of infection over the next days as people now are more afraid of the virus and will likely ask more for a check by medical staff whereas up to 2 or 3 days ago the virus was perceived as something very far from italy prime minister does that picante has announced a ban on people entering or leaving zones designated coronavirus hotspots but he's ruled out suspending the european union schengen agreement and says the free movement of people and goods across italy's voters will continue.

at the moment there are absolutely no conditions for an initiative of this kind not to mention the devastating impact it would have on our economy and paradoxically i want to reverse the question why would we want to make italy an outcast there are no conditions for it to come to this nor do we want to do it. could own your is one of a dozen towns in northern italy that's in lockdown italian say they're frightened and have no idea when life will return to normal victoria gate and be al-jazeera. well japan has confirmed the 3rd death of a passenger who was on that cruise ship quarantined for 2 weeks earlier japan's health minister apologized after another passenger tested positive for corona virus after she was allowed to go home $23.00 passengers were eventually allowed to disembark without being tested for the virus around 80 percent of the $717.00 faction cases in japan were on that ship. and the chinese president xi jinping says

the situation remains serious and complex than a dozen are debating whether to cancel next month's annual parliamentary session to concentrate on fighting the virus this report from agent brom. the national people's congress is china's biggest political event of the year drawing almost $3000.00 delegates from across china on. board one of the few occasions when all of china's leadership is on show but the government's own advice is for people to avoid large public gatherings that means this year's n.p.c. is almost certain to be postponed possibly delaying a key announcement on economic growth targets china's president xi jinping says that getting the economy moving again while containing the spread of the virus remains his priority he has to tell the chinese people something you can choose total blackness or you can choose a sort of veneer of transparency what we don't know as we've all governments is

what's happening behind closed doors over sorts of things and more importantly for transparency what we don't know is that what's coming out in the media is something we can necessarily trust ryan manual is an expert in china's public health system he says the government's initial response to the outbreak in early january was correct it reacted very quickly it found out what the virus was test for the virus and in that period 2 weeks afterwards it reacted appalling. this past week chinese diplomats have been on the offensive defending the expulsion of 3 foreign reporters and brushing aside international skepticism over the constant changes to china's testing criteria for the virus but that criticism has been very selective says one analyst they show at us and saying that us making the virus worse and is discriminatory against china but when nowadays russia made. our decision to

close the border for all the chinese nationals they cannot say a word it's not just the national people's congress that's now in doubt so too is a key economic conference known as the bow echo. forum also held each year in march if the national people's congress is cancelled then analysts say there's one thing guaranteed to be missing from the agenda when it does eventually convene a call to hold china's leaders to account for this crisis adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. even on to other news and at least 9 people in turkey's eastern van province which borders or iran have died in a magnitude $5.00 earthquake several people are believed to be trapped under the rubble and dozens are injured on the iranian side as more details now from how tight in southern turkey. the social rescue operation is still underway because we're talking about a huge area on the on the border with iran district villages and this is where the

authorities are trying to establish the number of buildings that were affected and the possibility of people being trapped under the rubble the governor of bonn said a while ago that there are no reasons to be wary of there are about people trapped under the rubble because most of the rescuers have been managed have managed to go to those areas this explains why they are now talking about the number of 9 people killed 37 injured 9 of them in critical condition and turkey and iran are some of the most seismically active countries because of the active fault lines it is say one of those despise the other is where you get a quakes last month for example in 2 other provinces in the same area and molokai were struck by. a 6.8 earthquake 41 people were killed and about a 1500 people were injured in 2011 the same area that was hit today so an

earthquake that killed more than 500 people the authorities are saying that they are doing their best to try to get to all those who were affected throughout that area on the border with iran in the news ahead. we have now won the battle clause. first in the west more now bernie sanders has advanced in the race to become the democratic presidential nominee. and how the 13 year located gulzar is forcing people to come up with some innovative ways to beat the c h. hello once again the start of forecasts by looking at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia look at the forecasts are monday things looking generally fairly quiet dry across much of japan you know this area of rain

developing across the yellow sea and it's going to move into the korean peninsula certainly for south korea on choose day is going to be very wet indeed some torrential rain further north as could be some snow over northern edge of this weather system i think for pyongyang we could see temperatures about 3 or 4 degrees but no great problems there but this is system moves into japan is going to produce some very heavy rain and further north of eventually some snow moving south of us with the threat of a few showers for taiwan hong kong though should be dry with highs of $23.00 into southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers affecting indonesia but weather conditions a bit quieter than they have been in recent days conditions across much of the philippines obviously winds coming in from the east so eastern side more like to see some heavy showers developing and a similar pictures ahead on through to choose day we're looking at some sunshine there in kuala lumpur much as they should be drawn bright with highs of $34.00 degrees south asia across more eastern areas we've got some heavy showers far

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top stories this hour on al-jazeera iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronavirus outbreak pakistan afghanistan and turkey will close their borders with iran it has had the largest number of fatalities outside of china the latest death toll is that. president xi jinping of china has called the corona virus outbreak the biggest public health emergency in the 70 year long history of communist china she went on to say china should learn from its shortcomings in its response to the outbreak. and at least 9 people have died in turkey's van province in a magnitude $5.00 earthquake that shook eastern turkey and northwestern iran several people believed to still be trapped under the rubble. still with iran the country's announced its lowest voter turnout since the 1979 islamic revolution and

about 43 percent of people voting in friday's parliamentary elections hard line conservatives assets to dominates they have won all of 10 seats on the final results are still coming in both as they had limited options thousands of moderate and reformist candidates were disqualified from running iran's interior minister said the turnout was adequate though given what the country's been facing in mother shadow. we held these elections when there were several incidents in the country where you had bad weather there was this coronavirus disease there was the plane crash also the events of january and november in such a situation the turnout right seems perfectly acceptable for us now from our correspondent in teheran. well this is very embarrassing for the establishment voter turnout is around 42 percent in the last election it was 61 percent hare in teheran where i am 25 percent in the last election it was around 50 percent now

this is one of the most conservative parliaments this country has ever seen but it takes place when the turnout is the lowest since this definition of the islamic revolution now we just to give you an idea of how low the turnout was in the last elections here is that there were 30 seats up for grabs all of them were won by reformists moderates candidates every single one got over 1000000 votes this time around all 30 seats were taken by conservatives and only one of them the former mayor got over $1000000.00 votes now we knew this election will be controversial because the guardian council the body that vets candidates disqualified over $5000.00 candidates including $81.00 current sitting m.p.'s but despite the supreme leader coming out and president have 100 coming back encouraging people to vote they just didn't come out and vote and it's a very very low turnout it's very embarrassing the supreme leader spoke this morning and he blamed western propaganda that tried to deter people from voting but this also puts president hassan rouhani in

a very difficult position he presides over a conservative palm and a politically opposed to him to have been politically critical of him and the 2015 nuclear deal and many people see him as a sitting president because the presidential elections are next year and he just doesn't have a majority out of the 290 seats around over 201 by conservatives and he's reformist moderates allies only have around 20 seats now let's not forget the position of the economy here inflation has been very high unemployment is high and also the economy is suffering under sanctions so it does put him in a very difficult position and also there's a lack of trust and confidence in the gov. and the political establishment because of the lol voter turnout so despite the sea of support that we saw after the assassination of general carson so the minute the hundreds of thousands of people that came out into the streets that just didn't transfer into people coming out and

taking to the polls. the emir of qatar i mean been hammered out and he has arrived in our month to meet king abdullah of jordan this is his 1st official visit since the blockade imposed on qatar by 4 arab countries led by saudi arabia back in 2017 at the time jordan actually downgraded its ties with a diplomatic relations have since been restored the 2 ladies are expected to discuss bilateral trade and regional security in the jordanian capital for us and says the visit indicates a warming of relations. this is the 1st visits by the army or of qatar to jordan since the 2017 blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain jordan didn't blockade qatar however it did participate somewhat in the early stages of that's crisis by recalling its ambassador from qatar those relations have improved with full diplomatic representation being restored over the past few months rather than sending

a resounding us ambassador to qatar and reciprocating but what's making this visit so significant isn't just that it is both the regional files that are going to be discussed as well as bilateral relations with regard to the regional issues at the top of that is the palestinian issue in the struggle for freedom there both jordan and qatar opposed the deal of the century as it's been billed that the trump peace plan they say it's a unilateral. plan that does away with the rights of palestinians the right of return the right for them to have their own state and therefore they are looking over ways to maybe come up with an alternative solution to this decades long conflict jordan obviously very concerned because of the amount of palestinian refugees here on also its historic role in palestine with regard to the bilateral relations there are going to be focusing on economic and business ties between the 2 countries as well as security and military cooperation with regard to the economy the economy had slowed down over the past couple of years which resulted in several

protests taking place on the streets and qatar has or. redi invested more than $500000000.00 in 2018 into the economy here in jordan it's offered more than $10000.00 jordanians jobs in qatar and is looking to start as well something that has been received very well by the government here as well as the people in terms of security well there are discussions that the jordanian police and civil defense will be assisting with their expertise among power to help secure the trying to trying to to walt cop as well as other. experience sharing programs that will be signed between the true leaders here in amman to the u.s. where bernie sanders has boasted his front on a position in the democratic race to choose a contender against donald trump with his decisive win in the nevada caucuses this was the 1st contest with a racially diverse electorate his rivals are now already looking to the south carolina primary to keep their chances alive and support from rob reynolds in las vegas we have now won the battle plan. a resounding victory for

bernie sanders as he sealed his position as front runner and moved a step closer to winning the democratic nomination you just look to go. a multi-generational multi ridge racial coalition which is going up not only win in nevada it's going to sweep this country. the vermont senator set up a strong and sophisticated organization in nevada winning strong support from white and latino voters with his calls for universal health care student debt forgiveness and a green new deal to defeat global warming the victory came through the efforts of a small army of enthusiastic mostly young volunteers. many of them gathered in downtown las vegas to celebrate as the results came in for our sanders was so confident of victory here in nevada that he's get this r.t.

and spent the day instead holding rallies in texas now that's one of the big delegate rich state that holds its primary on super tuesday march 3rd sanders now as a boost of momentum going into super tuesday joe biden came in 2nd in nevada and is hoping to do better in south carolina next week losing centrist candidates like pete would a judge warned sanders is to lift wings to defeat president donald trump in november senator sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that leaves out most democrats not to mention most americans. earlier in nevada democratic voters gathered in schools libraries and casinos to stand for their candidates at 0 a vista high school outside las vegas caucus goers argue sometimes passionately to win over other voters are your book on what the major building is but in the end

the night and nevada belonged to bernie sanders robert oulds al jazeera las vegas. topic of conversation in the suit at the moment is the disappearance of the prime minister tom failed to attend court to be charged with the murder of his estranged wife the 8 year old says he went to south africa for a doctor's appointment that was scheduled well in advance for me to miller takes up a story now from the capitol. prime minister tom to body of voided being charged with the murder of his 2nd wife to palermo when he failed to show up in court on friday 2 weeks ago his 3rd wife my c.e.o. was charged with ordering the shooting of a peta says as well as the attempted murder of another woman wounded in the attack in 2017 the prime minister's no showing cotton the scandal surrounding the murder is a hot topic in the capital must cyril the body giant's theater group of forms that

a taxi rank bring to life the controversy within a suit is politically as i don't know i you really seem to me as a prime minister you expect me to go to court from the crowd and overwhelmingly yes this is a chance for people captivated by the intrigue to have their say one spectator shouts that no one is above the rule and that a bonding is wanted by the police another blames the prime minister for dividing the country and demands he goes to court this man accuses to bonnie of being the thief moments of huma in the crisis here much like the political leadership in the suit to people's opinion here. divided despite his denials some think the prime minister is on the run he says in south africa for a medical check up by the way his disappearance from court seen by many has been convenient. as they conclude their performance the actors sing

mimicking the prime minister and his wife from a video she posted on social media last year where they appeared in bathrobes singing a well known song about seeking power it was met with shock and criticism and field speculation that the 80 year old tub on his 3rd wife is influencing politics. with abani is from the prime minister retains some support on my side i want to give him a chance to his country. and drop those charges. to bonnie's under pressure from within his own party to resign he says he'll retire in july for now the intrigue about his whereabouts and his evasion of justice goes on for me tamala al-jazeera cyrilla suit to. voter turnout is up in germany's state election in hamburg with the polls to close within an hour the election is seen as a major test for the mainstream parties because while this region has been

a stronghold for the social democrats for a decade let's coalition partners the greens are experiencing a surge in popularity across the country. funny people in gaza have been living on the blockade now for 13 years 50 percent of people are unemployed and that number is even higher among young graduates but a new programs trying to change that from within a stephanie dechen reports. the cold wet weather is the perfect stage for yasuda mohammed's project all of residue discarded in the process of making all of oil is being turned into something useful well love. the ideas daughter because of the continuous electricity an energy crisis here in gaza is spatially when it comes to homes and chicken farms this motivated us. this project is part of 31 innovative ideas funded by the international committee of the red cross and red crescent these blocks burn easily and are now being used to heat chicken farms here in the gaza

strip to dance in the in the clinton. for. this saves the farm a 60 percent on heating costs to keep the chickens warm it's also secure as he doesn't have to fear shortages of electricity which is controlled by israel a lot of farms lost due to the power cuts in the winter now this is the final product it's basically compressed all of pumice and they don't and anything else to it now is highly flammable and it's a simple idea but one that provides a much needed source of alternative energy here and of course a boost to the income of the producers. they tell us they now make around $14.00 each a day setting to the private sector and they have plans to expand their business there are similar ambitions here at sad. house she's a biologist and is making stevia a sweetener derived from plants native to south america it's an idea she started

looking into a few years ago as her family has a history of diabetes and she wanted to help rather than live to father the mother the sicko difficult. at the fore. the cause of death is diabetes around $60000.00 people a diabetic also around 78 percent suffer from obesity so the idea is to create a safe alternative fishing and other industrial sweetness. she says this greenhouse is just the beginning and wants to come up with more nature based solutions. they don't need a humanitarian effort they just need an opportunity people came with innovative ideas needs from from their from their environment and this account of a humanitarian action that can be seen and areas like the places where conflict impacting the lives of people over hope of gaza's population is unemployed and when it comes to university educated adults

the jobless rate is over 70 percent israel and egypt blockade of gaza isn't just physical it has an enormous impact on mental health to this project highlights just a few of gaza's innovative minds there are so many others here in simple need of an opportunity to show what they're capable of stephanie decker al-jazeera in the southern gaza strip. past the hour here on al-jazeera these are the top stories president xi jinping has called the corona virus outbreak the biggest public health emergency in the 70 year long history of communist china she went on to search china should learn from its shortcomings in its response to the emergency and that efforts to contain the virus are at a crucial stage. also iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its corona virus outbreak pakistan afghanistan and turkey have all

closed their borders with iran it has had the largest number of fatalities outside of china with the latest death toll standing at 8 has more now from. the break richard dated in the holy city of on which is about 120 kilometers south of the capital tehran now what caused this concern was that there was a number of cases reported in that city and there is a lot of travel back and forth between the holy city of rome from various other parts of the country has one of the holiest shrines in iran and it's home to about a 1000000 about a 1000000 people but there's a lot of other visitors that pass through that city because of the holy site that it holds the other headlines at least 9 people have died in turkey's van province and a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that shook eastern turkey and northwestern iran and several people are believed to be trapped under the rubble. iran's announced its lowest voter turnout since the 1979 islamic revolution with only about 43 percent of

people voting in friday's parliamentary elections hard line conservatives are set to dominate they have won all of 30 seats but the final results still coming in voters had limited options with thousands of moderate and reformists disqualified from running and the mayor of the main been how middleton has arrived in our moms to meet king abdullah of jordan this is his 1st official visit since the blockade imposed on carter by 4 arab countries led by saudi arabia in 2017 at that time jordan actually downgraded its ties with carter but diplomatic relations have since been restored the 2 leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and wider regional security. europe today with the headlines here on al-jazeera one o one east starts right now.

for more than 6 months the strain has the. millions of head to his have been schools. thousands of fluids destroyed and dozens of lives lost. but beyond the human tragedy is the wildlife catastrophe of staggering proportions there's corpses littering the ground nothing could have prepared me for scale is. it just copy describes more than a 1000000000 animals have been killed the firm faced seems teetering on the brink without going to medical and so.