to the rest of the world's indigenous people who live here who has realized that now is the smoke fills the sky and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. iran's neighbors shut the borders with the islamic republic after a coronavirus cases meanwhile italy quarantine 50000 people and cancel the venice carnival in a rush to stop the spread. i'm charlie and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up his radio will play and strike gaza as a palestinian group vies rockets from the territory hours after palestinian he shot dead by israeli soldiers conservatives claim victory in iran parliamentary election and whether voter turnout has been the know it since the 979 revolution. and 9

people died and more than a 1000 buildings collapse on its southeastern turkey. china's president says his country faces the biggest public health emergency in its history as it battles to contain the deadly coronavirus sheeting ping told high ranking officials that measures taken to counter the fires 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 78 cases and 8 deaths the highest toll outside of china several neighboring countries have also close the borders but it's only that has the largest outbreak outside asia in a matter of days confirmed cases jumped from 3 to one $13083.00 people have died in

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 highest possible. ride 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 and are going the situation has become completely different since the outbreak of medicine 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 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 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. the current 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 home to england province and one each in markazi province and tanika bone in a bid to stop the cluster spreading pakistan closed its new tourist the poorest border with iran on sunday as have all media and turkey in the northwest ankara has also hinted all incoming flights afghanistan has suspended all road and add travel to its neighbor 3 afghans are currently being tested for the virus after entering from iran and iraq is also scanning arrivals if is that hundreds of thousands of iranians visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border. well dosage of bari 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 home 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 you know they have since closed schools and universities not only but about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital 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 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 cities all street has stopped all

train traffic to and from italy over coronavirus fares denied entry to a train from venice off to to travis was suspected of being infected meanwhile italy's prime minister has announced a quarantine on several northern towns affecting 50000 people the last 2 days of the venice carnival have also been counsel catherine stunts and 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's 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 support the way 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. i am i am. the israeli military has launched as strikes in gaza that's after the palestinian armed group islamic jihad launched 21 rockets into southern israel 13 were intercepted by israeli defense systems islamic jihad said it lewinski attack after the israeli army fired on a group of palestinians killing one of them in that incident earlier on sunday the military says the victim was trying to plant explosives into separation fence an israeli bulldozer then went into gaza to lift the man's drawing a furious reaction from palestinians 4 people were shot and injured when they tried

to recover the body well harry force is in west jerusalem and joins us live from men now how he can you just update us on the latest. well as you're saying this is all triggered by what took place early on sunday with that incident on the border the video that bulldozer trying to lift away a body and seeing it sort of hanging precipitously from the bulldozer scoop it caused a great deal of outrage some kind of response i think was expected and we saw that on sunday evening with as you say more than 20 projectiles fired from gaza towards israel israeli military saying that the iron dome anti-missile system intercepted 13 of those rockets and that there were no casualties as a result but then there was a later strike on a group which the israeli military said was a rocket team in the process of trying to carry out

a further launch of the palestinian health ministry says there was a drone strike and that 4 people were injured it says that there was a man and wife within that group so we are also hearing reports of continued israeli military strikes for strikes on training bases and other facilities linked to palace it is i mean you had inside gaza as i'm also hearing that israel has targeted islamic jihad. targets in syria what more can you tell us. that's right this follows a warning from the israelis for the last few months that should rocket fire from islamic jihad continue then they would target potentially leadership senior leadership figures inside syria there is a group of seniors i mean you had people including the leader of the movement himself ziad now hala in damascus we believe and so there have been strikes carried

out in the syrian capital that the israeli military is admitting to and claiming which it doesn't always do the israeli army spokesman saying that the target was a palace an islamic jihad facility in the countryside area close to damascus where various military hardware and rocket launching. capabilities are manufactured so far no indication that there has been an assassination attempt let alone a successful one indeed islamic jihad is saying both its most senior leader and his deputy are accounted for and ok we wait to see any confirmation to the contrary or confirming that from the israeli military itself how a force there live for us in west jerusalem thank you for that update iran has seen

its lowest turnout in a parliamentary election for more than 14 years just under 43 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots on friday conservative candidates are set to win a majority taking all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital tehran voters options were limited with more than $7000.00 potential candidates disqualified it's the worst turned out since the country's islamic revolution in 1979 and iran's interior minister says other circumstances including the coronavirus were to blame for the low turnout. well 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 klassen back has more from tehran on how the election result has put reformist president has had her honey in a difficult position. well this is very embarrassing for the establishment have

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 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's blamed 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 parliament that are politically opposed to him that have 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 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 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 still ahead on al-jazeera bunny biden the british judge come out on top as nevada's democrats back the nominee for president and we meet a 12 year old girl who isn't letting the disability stop following her dream of becoming the fastest skier in the world. helen was to waiting for this sighted to form properly but it's going to do so when it does so it'll be even more rain and eventually make landfall remove probably westwards through this northern part of australia otherwise the rains in queens and

there's been a fair amount further south in the forecast is again anything up to $200.00 millimeters in southern queens and maybe something a bit further towards the sydney area so flooding does seem quite likely that will be flash flooding this is rather more widespread flooding as this site code will be named and comes inland person join the dry and rather warm weather some useful showers in western australia and south you'll notice we've been rather lacking that is. in contrast what recently happened further east but they're still around the show that come tuesday are pretty widespread struck winds and and the touching new south wales. now attempt is in east asia well above where they should be for the time of year maybe a surprise to see that we've had disruptive snow on the western slopes of honshu now for monday it's basically out of the way there austin study shows still in sendai area northwards into her car and most were in the sunshine back to normal temperatures to tokyo at 14 but it's pretty worn saul and there's rain on the way

significant rain for the korean peninsula. for. perception is validation. quite a scene but in one life time we cannot see everything but we rely on experiences of others and the legacies of previous generations. of that testimony we had no value to. witness documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera.

her mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera chinese 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 after 6 people died. several countries have sealed the borders with iran in a bid to stop the virus it's recorded the highest number of deaths outside of china and outbreak is also growing in italy with 3 people have now died. the israeli military has launched as strikes in gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian on the group islamic jihad fired $21.00 rockets into southern israel islamic jihad said it launched the attack after israeli soldiers fired on it with palestinians killing one of them. but he saw it as a cementing his position as the front runner to take the democratic nomination for president later this year the left wing candidate won the nevada caucuses by a large margin it was the 1st contest with

a racially diverse electorate and now all eyes turn to south korea's primary in south carolina's primary in less than a week but reynolds reports from las vegas we have now learned that at that oh look there's a reason being victory for bernie sanders as he's shield his position is front runner in the step closer to winning the democratic nomination george put together . 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 skipped 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 sander's 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 hear nothing. but in the end the night and nevada belong to bernie sanders robert oulds al jazeera las vegas well as cross now to john hendren his life in washington d.c. don't want this sunday's new moon for the rest of the democratic candidates. well charlie just a few months ago a lot of analysts were talking about joe biden the former vice president being the front runner in this race and that is because polls showed him to be in the lead but on sunday morning democrats are rolled to a new world in which bernie sanders was clearly the front runner in this democratic race for the presidency he won decisively in new hampshire before that he essentially tied pete to judge in iowa and now in the 3rd state to vote in nevada

although the votes are not entirely tallied it looks like according to n.b.c. projections he will win something like 47 percent of the vote in the next closest candidate is joe biden with a projected 19 percent of the vote that's about as decisive as you can get so he is going to be moving on but he did not stick around in nevada to wait for those votes to be telling me went on to texas and this is some of what he had to say we. will worry what the new hampshire primary will were in. the world. anybody chris these folks get very very nervous we're going to win here in texas so we're

. we're going to see here we're we're all. so texas is one of those super tuesday states 14 states and democrats abroad all vote on one day it's really the closest the us comes to a one day primary and bernie sanders is hoping come out of that with even more momentum that he has now but he's got one big obstacle and that is on saturday this next saturday south carolina votes and joe biden has been putting all his eggs in that basket there's a large african-american population and he has been polling well with them although polls have now narrowed he's only about 5 points ahead of bernie sanders in the latest poll that is from about 20 points apart so biden is hoping to win there but if he doesn't match expectations a lot of analysts could declare joe biden a dead man walking in that will only help bernie sanders as he moves forward

charlie there's a strong was deafening sound is how is all this going down at the white house well they could not possibly be happier donald trump has been under a lot of pressure and that is because in recent days it's been disclosed that his director of national intelligence brief congress to say that russia is once again as most u.s. intelligence agencies all intelligence agencies here in the u.s. concluded in the 2016 election they are again intervening this is according to a report to congress by the director of national intelligence in the 2020 election and in the primary he said they are backing bernie sanders putting things out on the internet trying to sow chaos in that race that takes the pressure off donald trump and it also seems that bernie sanders is the candidate he seems to want to run against this is a little of what he had to say early sunday. well i think it was

a great birth. right i don't care what. they. are going to be a. lot of bad things. are going to be. but i congratulate we're. going to be. president in a good things about bernie sanders now but he hasn't always done that he's been criticizing sanders for being an independent socialist and for talking about moving america to the left trump often in his rallies now will tell the crowd the u.s. will never become a socialist nation that's a code for running against sanders and his nearest leftmost rival that's a lizabeth war and it seems the president trump wants this to be

a battle of the extremes don't hender that thank you for your update at least 9 people including 3 children have been killed in tukey author and quake a magnitude 5.7 quake's epicenter was just across the border in iran and more than 70 people were injured. reports who had to in turkey. the moment the 5.7 magnitude earthquake rattled villages in the turkish province of vaughan people in the area close to the border with iran rushed outside into the streets what followed was panic pandemonium and desperate cries for help counting on in their will do it all happen to be in 2 seconds we ran away in the building collapsed my sheets encountered buried under the rubble if the f.a.a. could happen at night we wouldn't have survived this ship on the rescue teams scramble to reach survivors under the rubble turkey's government assessing the

damage. from a car that. there are no more people under the rubble we will be taking precautions for the upcoming year i was at the security. trick you can resign under the beaches . turns being set up to house the homeless but it's still winter here keeping of the cold is essential fearful of aftershocks many are planning to spend the night in the open crisscrossed by fault lines turkey and iran are some of the most seismically active countries in the world last month more than 40 people were killed and hundreds injured when a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the eastern turkish provinces. and. that 9 years ago one of the most devastating disasters in eastern turkey is recent history a 7 point one magnitude earthquake killed more than 500 people and ever since the

turkish government has stepped up efforts to alleviate the destructive impacts of the biggest natural threats in the region has available al-jazeera the time. spain has been forced to suspend all flights in and out of the islands of growing canary antenna reef due to a major sandstorm visibility has been severely affected after a storm carrying clouds of red sun from the sahara hit the canary islands leaving hundreds of holidaymakers stranded the regional government has declared a state of alert people every device to stay inside and keep windows closed 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 and reopened 5 years ago and as poor and diverse reports it's giving new opportunities to one disabled 12 year old girl. ezra's different speech in period 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 appearance on able to afford normal skis her brother carved wooden boards for her to loon on. what you would do you can 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 rows of very bright girl and she picks things up very quickly i teach my other students vividly 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 chair lift 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 versus

she's looking forward to further success there did i miss 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 who found it worth al-jazeera. the top stories 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 alert after 6 people died several countries have sealed the borders with iran in a bid to stop the virus that's recorded the highest number of deaths outside of

china an outbreak is also growing in italy with 3 have now died. the israeli military has launched air strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian armed group islamic jihad fired 21 rockets into southern israel 13 were intercepted by israeli defense systems islamic jihad said it nor the attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of them. 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 is set to win a majority taking 30 parliamentary seats in the capital tehran out of the 290 strong parliament voters options were limited with more than 7000 potential candidates disqualified the worst turnout since the country's islamic revolution in 1979 in the 2016 elections voter turnout was nearly 62 percent iran's

interior minister says other circumstances including the coronavirus were to blame for the low turnout. the mother shadow. we held these elections when there was 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. at least 9 people in turkey have died following a quake the 5.7 magnitude tremor struck across the border in northwestern iran dozens of people were injured in both countries after more than a 1000 buildings collapsed well those of the top stories stay with us witness is next with the story of a somali refugee turned american model. on counting the cost a tale of $2.00 nations straight is unrelenting challenges a cold germany's plan to get out of coal powered energy plus the unseen polluter we find out what the shipping industry is doing to end soaring emissions. counting the

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