just. iran's neighbors close their borders as fears grow over its corona virus outbreak and inbred comments president she admits shortcomings in china's virus response and says the economy and society will take a big kids. live from doha everyone on come on santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera the polls have just closed in germany's 2nd biggest city hamburg with the green party i'm 1st place. and hardliners dominate the initial results in iran's parliamentary elections and turnout has been the lowest in the islamic republic's history.

iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronavirus outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey armenia they have all closed their borders with iran which is have the largest number of fatalities outside of china the deaths all standing at 8 there in china president xi jinping has admitted they were shortcomings in the country's response describing coronaviruses the largest public health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 we look further afield to italy as well where 5000 people have been quarantined in the north been told to stay home 132 people have been infected 3 have died as well while in south korea the president has called for unprecedented powerful measures to control the out break let's begin in south korea this report from robert brought . the worst affected areas in so. east 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 he urged everyone to avoid massive events well you know you want to do 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 is 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 chango county south korea and south korea's lodged a complaint with israel for a planeload of. korean airlines

flight when it arrived in tel aviv 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now bombing south korean and japanese visit his move follows the discovery of the corona virus among a group in south korea visited israel last week and as we mentioned iran has had the largest number of deaths from the virus outside of china. with more on how thorough he's 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 home which is about 120 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 home but in about 2

thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government's 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 disinfectant 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. the prime minister says he's ready to use the army to help contain the virus in the north of the country victoria gage and he has a report on. 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 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 stuff 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 shang an agreement and says the free movement of people and goods across italy's borders 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 only a 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. japan's 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 in fact $23.00 passengers were eventually allowed to disembark without being tested for the virus about 80 percent of the $770.00 infection cases in japan were on that ship. room of the chinese president xi jinping says the situation remains serious and complex leaders are not debating whether to cancel next month's annual parliament session to concentrate on fighting the virus this report from major brown. the national people's congress is china's

biggest political event of the year drawing almost $3000.00 delegates from across china. 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 with 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 then that period 2 weeks after that 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 the u.s. in 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 it 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 egg. anomic 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. on to other news and the polls have closed in germany's state election and hamburg where voter turnout was high as election seen as a major test for the mainstream parties this region has been a stronghold for the social democrats for a decade its coalition partners the greens have made big gains dominant cain is in hamburg for us what sort of indication of we've got now the polls have closed on nick. pretty much what you were just saying come out that in in effect a large turnout considerably higher than last time around and what's happened is a bit of it would appear that the 2 parties who are in government with each other

but in loggerheads with each other over climate change will they have done well this time around that it's pretty likely that the social democrats and the greens will try to form another government for the next 5 years looking at the vote that both parties have received the greens considerably are almost double what they got 5 to 5 years ago whereas the social democrats have lost some votes but it's still very much in 1st place with the lion's share of the vote looking at the other parties well there are some interesting points to make here 1st of all the far right party the alternative for germany but it seems that it has not got above the 5 percent number all that is important because in german electoral law if you don't as a party get 5 percent of the vote or more and you get no seats in parliament that means they will not on the face of it be in the next parliament here nor perhaps the liberals those are the part that's the part of the free democrats they were involved in broiled in a bit of

a rout involving another state parliament in eastern germany perhaps they may have paid the price for the rather they became involved with with the but the upshot here is that the social democrats will look at this result and say well this is vindication for us. thank you for that update on the cane in hamburg in the news ahead. we have now one. quarter. the 1st in the west more on how bernie sanders advanced in the race to become the democratic presidential nominee. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across the arabian peninsula shimmery a fine picture we've got warm air coming up from the south few days ago the temperature in riyadh was just 20 degrees as max and now

a back up to 34 lovely weather conditions for qatar highs of 27 is worth pointing out fairly strong winds blowing down through the red sea and in fact there's a convergence and we see the winds coming together from the north and the south and that's resulting in some showers for parts of south sudan through into eritrea also to share activity generally across the sinai and into more eastern parts of egypt that low pressure comes in across the mediterranean and we have got an area of low pressure across iran and iraq and that's going to develop during the course of choose day so certainly for iran there's going to be some very heavy rain and could see some outbreaks of snow a frontal system will be extending down into parts of saudi arabia maybe down through just to the north of riyadh so one to watch there for much of central and northern africa where the conditions are generally looking fine but we have got some showers affecting west africa standing away from liberia down through to ghana and we have had some very dusty conditions lot of dust blowing at the sahara and

that's been affecting the canaries but i think by monday weather conditions here will be improving. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these developments we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy.

with al jazeera and these are the top stories iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronavirus outbreak pakistan afghanistan and turkey of all close their borders with iran which has the largest number of fatalities outside of china that number 8. president xi jinping is called the corona virus outbreak the biggest public health emergency in the 78 year long history of communist china she went on to say china should learn from its shortcomings in its response to the break. and the polls have closed in germany's election and homburg voter turnout was high this election seen as a major test for the mainstream parties the early exit polls showing the green party has made some big games. it's been a 2nd large earthquake in the turkey iran border region this was a magnitude 6 quake which hit late on sunday follows the magnitude 5.7 quake in

turkey's province earlier in the day which killed at least 9 people several are believed to be trapped under the rubble and dozens are injured on the iranian side as well. in southern turkey. the search and 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 van 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 one saw an earthquake that killed more than 500 people in 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 still in iran it is announced its lowest voter turnout since the 1979 islamic revolution about 43 percent of people voted in friday's parliamentary elections hard line conservatives are now set to dominate as they won not all of teheran's 30 seats final results still coming in though from elsewhere voters did have limited options with thousands of moderates and reformist

candidates disqualified from running runs interior minister has said the turnout was adequate given what the country's been facing. that shadow. we held these elections when there was several incidents in the country we 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 all from our correspondent in teheran. well this is very embarrassing for the establishment voter turnout is around 42 percent in the last elections it was 61 percent hare in iran where i am it's 25 percent in the last elections 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 establishment of the islamic revolution now we need just to give you an idea of how low the turnout was in the last elections here into iran there were 30 seats up for grabs all of them were won

by reformist 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 would 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 hassan rouhani coming back to encourage 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 said blame the western propaganda that tried to deter people from voting but this also puts president hassan rouhani in a very difficult position he presides now over a conservative palm and a politically opposed to him that had 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 $290.00 seats around over $200.00 a one by conservatives and he's reformist moderate 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 gulf. and the political establishment because of the low voter turnout so so despite the sea of support that we saw after the assassination of general dawson for the minute that hundreds of thousands of people that came out onto the streets that just didn't transfer into people coming out and taking to the polls the emir of qatar shift i mean bin hamad el tourney is in amman for talks with king abdullah of jordan this is his 1st official visit since the blockade imposed on carter by 4 arab countries led by saudi arabia back in 2017 at

the time jordan did downgrade its ties with carter but diplomatic relations have since been restored to leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and regional security more now on the jordanian capital says this visit does indicate a warming of relations. this is the 1st visits by the i mean of qatar to jordan since the 2017 blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia then eyes of the 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 russia the regional issue is 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 already 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 boost that 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 and man power to help secure the 2022 world cup as well as other. experience sharing programs that will be signed between the 2 leaders here in amman. has a big topic of conversation in at the moment about the disappearance of the prime minister tom failed to attend court where he was charged with the murder of his estranged wife yes year old says he went to south africa for a doctor's appointment that was scheduled well in advance so i made a miller has that story now from the capital maseru. prime minister tom to bonnie of voided being charged with the murder of his 2nd wife. 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 pre disses as well as the attempted murder of another woman wounded in the attack

in 2017 the prime minister's no show in cotton the scandal surrounding the murder is a hot topic in the capital my serial the body giant's theater group of forms that a taxi rank bringing to life the controversy within a suit is politically as i don't know if 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 barney of being a thief moments of humor in the crisis here much like the political leadership in the soup to people's opinion here is 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 top on his 3rd wife is influencing politics . in mohawk way in which a body is from the prime minister retains some support on my side i want to give him a chance to his country. and draw met attaches. 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 a suit to in the united states bernie sanders is boosted his front on

a position in the democratic race to choose a contender against donald trump he's had a decisive win in the nevada caucuses the 1st scot contest with a racially diverse electorate and his rivals are now looking to the to the south carolina primary try to keep their chances alive and support from las vegas with rubber bands we have now won their battle clark it was a resounding victory for bernie sanders as he sealed his position as front runner and moved a step closer to winning the democratic nomination we have just put to go. a multi-generational multi ridge racial coalition ringback 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 are our sanders was so confident of victory here in nevada that he's good 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 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. but in the end the night and nevada belong to bernie sanders robert oulds al jazeera las vegas. fun it's a great story a 12 year old girl who isn't letting a disability stop her from pursuing her dreams on the ski slopes of pakistan has her story as far as defense speech impaired she used to sell boiled eggs to tourists at the ski resort a melon job or to make money for her family that's where she developed a love of skiing but with her parents on able to afford skis her brother couch

wooden boards for her to learn on. what she would be very poor and earn hardly anything to make a living but i'm still supporting her and bring her here every day to ski but i'm worried about how she will achieve her dreams. despite all those difficulties as one has become one of the best students in a ski school. as a or is a very bright girl and she picks things up very quickly i teach my other students visibly but i teach her through demonstration and she's so talented that she want to gold medal in recent competition. and the sport valley is the only ski resort open to the public in pakistan and facilities such as the chairlift have just been rebuilt after they were destroyed by years of fighting between the army and the pakistan taliban as peace returns to the area an increasing number of events are being planned and with her friends help as a says she's looking forward to further the success. of it on has that day.

she says she enjoys skiing she loves it and has a passion for it she wants to participate in international tournaments and be the fastest skier in the world. at 12 years old as for his dreams of reaching the olympics her coach says with time and proper resources she can beat anyone pull vanda with al-jazeera. this is there and these are the headlines iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its corona virus outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey they've all closed their borders with iran it has had the largest number of fatalities outside of china with the latest toll of 8 with more now from. the break richard aided in the holy city of 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 from various other parts of the country has one of the holiest shrines in iran and it's home to about a 1000000 and 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. 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 say china should learn from its shortcomings in its response the. polls are closed in germany state election and hamburg where voter turnout was high the region's been a stronghold for the social democrats for a decade but its coalition partners the greens have been making big gains in the 2nd large earthquake in the turkey iran border region the magnitude 6 tremor hit late on sunday follows the magnitude 5.7 quake in turkey's van province earlier in the day that killed at least 9 people several believed to be trapped under the rubble with dozens injured on the iranian side. meanwhile iran has announced its

lowest voter turnout since the 979 islamic revolution only about 43 percent of people voted in friday's parliamentary election hard line conservatives are set to dominate they want all of 1030 seats with final results still coming in from elsewhere voters had limited options with thousands of moderates and reformists disqualified from running. and the mayor of culture shock to me but how middle tourney is in amman for talks with king abdullah of jordan his 1st official visit since the blockade imposed on carter by 4 arab countries led by saudi arabia in 2017 the 2 leaders expected to discuss bilateral trade and regional security. in about 25 minutes time and stars along next with inside story.

all south sudan's rival leaders finally settling their differences it's all they can request agree to share power and form a new unity government after years of civil war there after 3 failed peace agreements will this one last this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i missed the attack a piece is finally head that's the promise from south sudan's president salva kiir after signing the latest power sharing agreement with his rival but all to 2 similar agreements collapsed many are asking if they really got it right this time around react russia has once again been sworn in as by.