the ron's neighbors shut their borders with the islamic republic after a surge in corona virus cases meanwhile quarantined 50000 people and cancels the venice carnival in a rush to stop the spread. by charley and live this is al jazeera live from london also coming up 9 people die and more than a 1000 buildings collapse after an earthquake rumbles through southeastern turkey. and conservatives claim victory in iran's parliamentary election where voter turnout has been the know it since the 1979 revolution.

china's president says his country faces the biggest public health emergency in its history as it battles to contain the deadly coronavirus she told high ranking officials that measures taken to counter the virus were effective but despite that nearly $650.00 additional cases in the past 24 hours has taken the total to just under $77000.00 more than $2400.00 people have died iran is now another major hotspot with $48.00 cases and 8 deaths the highest toll outside of china several neighboring countries have close their borders but it's a city that has the largest outbreak outside asia in a matter of days confirmed cases jumped from 3 to 100 $3083.00 people have died and a cluster of cases is confounding scientists as it has no link to china meanwhile

south korea's president says the next few days will be critical for an outbreak that struck more than 600 people 6 have died in the country is now in its high. best possible and that reports. 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. to get more you're not going 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 you know you're going to be pigeon we've 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 only an indoor places but also outdoor places on 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 the corona virus has spread rapidly in iran over the past few days for new infections have been recorded in the capital tehran 7 in the holy city of qom to england province and one each in markazi province and tanika born in a bid to stop the cluster spreading pakistan closed its notoriously poorest border with iran on sunday as have armenia and turkey in the northwest ankara has also halted all incoming flights afghanistan has suspended all road and at travel to its neighbor 3 afghans are currently being tested for the virus after entering from iran and iraq has also scanning arrivals over fears that hundreds of thousands of iranians visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border. those of jabari is in the capital tehran with more on how iranian 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 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 you know they have since closed schools and universities not only in calm but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital at 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 have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and this in fact since will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public a metro stations as well as buses across the cities. the italian prime minister has

announced a quarantine in several towns affecting 50000 people the last 2 days of the venice carnival has been canceled catherine stunts all has more. more drastic measures in italy as doctors struggle to contain the spread of the corona virus the mayor of milan has ordered schools to close for at least a week sporting events in the guardian financial regions have been cancelled so have the final days of the world famous tennis carnival disappointment to thousands of revelers the goal after a while it is useless to stop a con of all because there are hospitals and bars and supermarkets and restaurants and trains and planes and ferries which are all open spaces and so how do you solve this problem stopping a carnival it's all ridiculous that it is more contagious and a virus. at this point has been necessary and you think and the lock down in northern italy has gone from urging everyone to stay indoors to a fully fledged quarantine prime minister decepticons has banned people from entering and leaving the regions where the virus is most prevalent and the army is

being deployed to ensure the quarantine is observed. a list of we on the health authorities have not been able to locate patient 0 because we haven't taught them to fight this is difficult to make any predictions about how the virus will spread so the only volley to be taken was to close off these type of trees this is going to slow but the corn chain has led to a rush to buy supplies and with the sudden increase in new cases many italians are worried. we're all afraid but we're crossing our fingers o.b.l. 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 with more than 130 confirmed cases of the coronavirus italy is the worst hit country in europe every day life for many here looks like it will remain at a standstill until the outbreak can be contained catherine stansell al-jazeera.

well joining us now via skype is journalists being a cast of franco she's in venice where the carnival as you heard has been closed by the man sabina thank you for joining us so we understand it's a very fluid situation that can you tell us a bit more about the extra measures that the government is putting in place well the extra measures have now been extended just not just to beneteau and to long body but to another 3 regions including a mediator man yeah. sue what would the measures include is no schools schools will be closed no university universities will be closed people have been asked to stay at home and not go to their offices there will be no church services anymore basically there will be no. public gatherings and that could create the spread of the virus all of this has been stopped and as well as

obviously a sporting event a soccer games. and this itchy and the carnival as you said has been completely stopped to no events for carnival anymore in venice but of course that does not leave. that bad as long commute the result the problems because obviously buses continue and the boats in venice a full of people all the time what i did notice today there were many many more people wearing protective masks than i had seen yesterday. and we understand in some of those times police are actually patrolling the streets and people face jail sentences or fines if they need homes how are people reacting to these measures yes well people are not reacting badly to this a situation they consider is serious and there is a there is panic and there is also paranoia at the moment they feel that their

measures needed to be taken it's our people are completely complaining all the time so yes they are patrolling those towns particularly the ones that have been quarantined to ensure that people do not leave or come back and they do face up to $250.00 in fines and jail sentences if they break those measures so for the quarantine towns people must stay indoors for the time being and of course they are people are trying to gather as many as much food as possible because if they are to stay within their homes that they will need to eat during this time elsewhere in the in the regions where the quarantine which are not under quarantine people can sort of carry out their normal lives but it remains to be see books going to happen at places like railway stations at the airport in venice checks are being carried out to passengers that are coming in

just to ensure that they showed no symptoms but this is not happening at the railway station here in venice it remains to be seen what is going to happen there sabina castle frankie thank you for the update from that us. at least 9 people including 3 children have been killed in tukey quake the shallow trauma hit the province of van in just injuring at least $37.00 people and causing more than a 1000 buildings to collapse the magnitude 5.7 quake's epicenter was just across the border in iran and more than 70 people were injured. is in hot today and says rescuers have recovered most people who were trapped under the rubble. these sessions rescue operation is still underway because we're talking about the he's area on the old the border with iran district villages and this is where the

authorities are trying to establish the number of buildings that would have affected 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 and you say one of those despise the other is well you get a quakes last month for example in 2 other provinces in the same area and we 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. the israeli army says 21 rockets have been fired from gaza into southern israel but 13 were intercepted by defense systems the palestinian armed degree of the exam and jihad says it was behind the launches which took place of the israeli army opened fire on a group of palestinians killing one of them israel's military says the victim was trying to plant an explosive near this gaza separation fence 4 others were shot and injured while trying to recover the body before it was taken away by an israeli bulldozer the emir of qatar is holding talks with king abdullah of jordan it's the emir's 1st official visit to a month since the saudi led blockade was imposed on cata 3 years ago at the time jordan downgraded its ties with doha but diplomatic relations have since been restored the 2 leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and regional

security. still to come on how does their support for the far right plummets in hamburg state elections as exit polls project the social democrats and greens will hold on to power. and bunny biden and bayh to judge how out on top of nevada's democrats back that nominee president. it's back to rain again heavily over the flooded lands of the british isles as well part of the same system is now dipping a bit further into central and eastern europe it so fairly warm as a temp dipping his mostly rain rather than stable to be snow on the hard ground in the old britain it will be snow on the eastern edge through ukraine into western russia otherwise it's going to be wind and rain which does dip down to france and

then recovers once more so most of southern europe indeed most of sentry of his to enjoy more sunshine than anything else and that's true right up in sweden stockroom that plus 5 degrees i remind you it's late february this is what you should be seeing in sweden finland even sometimes denmark a bit of snow and there will be a little bit and 2 degrees on tuesday but for most it's rain that includes really most of the alps very tops will see some snow here and the changing weather type in this part of europe switzerland in northern italy cloudy and there be some rain if you look east there still there we have the remnants of what was circulating the eastern med and for monday that mill still means a cold wind in eastern libya tanser egypt bring you few showers with it you'll notice quite a long way into egypt as well on the western side of north africa you've got the offshore breeze that brought that rather orange weather to the canaries that's easy . for.

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a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera china's president says the corona virus outbreak is the biggest public health emergency in its history meanwhile south korea is now on its highest possible level of health a lot of the 6 people died several countries have sealed the borders with iran in a bid to stop the virus the highest number of deaths outside of china an outbreak is also growing in italy where 3 have now died at least 9 people in turkey have died following an earthquake the 5.7 magnitude tremor struck just across the border in northwestern iran. at least one person has been killed and several others injured after a rocky forces opened fire on protesters in baghdad that's according to the reuters news agency on sunday more than a 1000 students marched through the center of the capital they rallied against corruption and demanded that they that iraq's new prime minister designate mohamed tawfik allawi step down. government protests 1st interrupted in october

at least 500 have been killed by iraqi security forces since that. iran has seen its lowest turnout in a parliamentary election for more than 40 years just under 43 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots on friday conservative candidates a set to win a majority taking all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital tehran voters options were limited with more than 7000 potential candidates disqualified it's the worst turnout since the country's islamic resolution revolution in 1979. iran's interior ministry says other circumstances including the coronavirus were to blame for the low turnout the mother showed. we held these elections when there were several incidents of 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 i said bag has more now from toronto on how the election result has put reformist president hassan

rouhani in a difficult situation. 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 know 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 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 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 duck president because the presidential elections are next year and he just doesn't have a majority out of the $293.00 it's 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 govern. and the political establishment because of the low voter turnout so so despite the sea of support that we saw after the assassination of gen dostum so the money the 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. u.s. president donald trump has accused house intelligence chairman adam schiff of leaking classified information on russian interference in the 2020 us presidential election trump said the information had been released to hud bernie sanders is the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination trunk call for a probe into chef but said he would be happy to face on this in the november election. so i think it was a great win for both. the right i don't care who i run against this is something this is. something we see.

a lot of bad things. are going to be. what happens when i graduate. this is going to be. really. well sondos won the nevada caucus by a large margin cementing his position as the democratic front runner it was the 1st contest with a racially diverse electorate and all eyes now turn to south carolina's primary in less than a week robles reports from less vegas we are down to one good or better quarter. a resumed in victory for bernie sanders as he sealed his position as front runner in moved a step closer to winning the democratic nomination we're both put 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 free 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 by 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 states 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. who made it but in the end the night and nevada belonged to bernie sanders robert oulds al jazeera las vegas a disaster zone has been declared in a town in central but never got off to more than 1000. these were forced to flee their homes because of flooding the wave swept away within 20 houses and to keep off the heavy rainfall caused the river to break its banks the area's governor says

at least 22 people have been injured helicopters have been assisting with rescue efforts but some people have refused to leave as they try to salvage their belongings bolivia's annual rainy season runs until next month germany's social democrats is set to be the biggest party in hamburg's parliament following state elections the s.p.d. got around 38 percent of the vote down about 7 points from 2015 the greens with whom they currently rule the city have roughly doubled their support to 25 percent chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats came in 3rd with 11 percent its worst ever result and the far right looks on track to exit the parliament having not reached more than 4.8 percent of the vote. well dominic cain is in hamburg and has more on what the win means for the social democrats. for many of them it is vindication they've been in government here for 9 years the current mayor when i spoke to him on the campaign trail

a few days ago was determined that his policies his party's policies were the ones that chimed with the people with the voters and he believes now that he's vindicated so his party emerges with fewer votes but in a very strong position and let's be clear this city state is an important part of the federal republic of germany because it is the 2nd largest city the 2nd largest urban center in this country and so to a certain extent when a party does well here it reflects the urban voters experience across the country to a certain extent spain has been forced to suspend all flights in and out of the islands of gran canaria in tenerife to a major sandstorm visibility has been severely affected after a storm carrying clouds of red sand from the sahara hit the canary islands left hundreds of holidaymakers stranded the regional government has declared a state of alert and people have been advised to stay inside and keep windows closed. the u.k.

government breck's it negotiation team has been ordered by prime minister boris johnson to come up with plans to avoid checks on goods passing from britain to northern ireland according to the sunday times newspaper officials a seeking to evade checks on goods crossing the irish sea which is due to come into effect as of next year because of threats that the u.k. formally left the e.u. last month in a transition period at the moment the withdrawal agreement leaves northern ireland inside the u.k. customs area but all procedures are expected to apply to goods arriving there after december 31st. hundreds of people have been protesting in one month wrecking state against the internet blackout the demonstrators carried flags and signs reading internet access is a human right more than 800000 people have been affected by the blackout and knowing townships was imposed last year after clashes between the military and the arak an army an ethnic rebel group which want greater autonomy pakistan's fledgling winter sports industry is rebuilding after being almost wiped out by the

taliban the country's only public ski resort was rebuilt reopened 5 years ago and as all the end of earth reports it's giving new opportunities to one disabled 12 year old girl. as well as different 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 normal skis her brother carved 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 ron has become one of the best students in a ski school. as rosa very bright girl and she picks things up very quickly i teach my other students berkeley but i teach her through demonstration

and she's so talented that she want to gold medal in recent competition melhem jobber 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 success. did i miss that they will be she says she enjoys ski she loves it and has a passion for it she wants to participate in international tournaments and be the fastest skier in the world. that's one of years old as for his dreams of reaching the olympics her coach says with time and proper resources she can beat anyone to with al-jazeera travelers in india can now receive free platform tickets at one of the nation's largest railway stations with one condition they have to 1st prove

their fitness athletic commuters who can complete 30 squats in just 3 minutes at delhi's and then be hostile action well now a complementary ticket that's a saving of 10 rupees or around 14 u.s. sends a special new squad kiosk is the latest initiative in the government's fit india movement launched last year to improve public fitness. the top stories on al-jazeera several countries have now sealed the borders with iran in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus the country seen the highest number of deaths outside of china with 8 people succumbing to the virus and nearly 30 infected pakistan armenia turkey and afghanistan have all restricted travel to and from iran iraq is also scanning arrivals over fears that hundreds of thousands of iranians visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border. has the latest from tehran. 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 which is about 220 kilometers south of the capital tehran the health ministry has also said that the masks and this in fact since will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public a metro stations as well as buses across the city's. china's president says the corona virus outbreak is the biggest public health emergency in its history an additional $650.00 cases in the past 24 hours has taken china's total to just under $77000.00 south korea is now on its highest possible health alert of the 6 people died and $600.00 more were infected the country's president says the next few days will be critical in its efforts to contain the outbreak. at least 9 people in

turkey have died following an earthquake the 5.7 magnitude tremor struck just across the border in northwestern iran dozens of people were injured in both countries after more than a 1000 buildings collapsed. just 42 percent of voters went to the polls in iran's parliamentary elections on friday the lowest 'd turnout since the islamic revolution revolution 40 years ago the announcement has been seen by some observers as a sign of dissatisfaction with the country's rulers and the approved candidates hardliners are expected to have won most seats once the full results are in the interior ministry has blamed the low participation on the coronavirus. well those of the top stories stay with us talk to al-jazeera is next hearing from the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph to stay with us.

and. i'm going to hell in munich where global policy makers are gathered for the annual security conference among them josep burrell the european union's foreign policy and security chief a man who faces many challenges from rex's to u.s. tariffs from the iran nuclear deal to managing relations with eastern giants like china and russia and of course festering conflicts in places like libya and yemen the list is long can the ties that bind e.u. member states endure all this is there a common vision for the european union's future we'll find out as josep barel talks to al-jazeera.

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