some chinese provinces scale back their response to the corona virus but other parts of asia remain on high alert. to iran's neighbors shut their borders in an effort to keep the virus from spreading. from headquarters here in doha also coming up officials in togo say the president has won a 4th term but the opposition cries foul. israel's military fires rockets into

gaza and syria spawns to strikes it blames on the palestinian islamic jihad. top story 4 provinces in china of lowered their emergency response level to the coronavirus that doesn't include who bay where the outbreak began the government has a 40 a response system for public health emergency is the term what measures it will take so far about 78000 people in china are infected but south korea is still on high alert it's just announced 161 new cases bringing the total number of infected to 763 the number of dead from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday that speak now to katrina you who's in beijing for so katrina some good news from some of the chinese provinces.

that's right so 4 provinces you 9 guangdong where joe and sensi have lowered their alert levels and they're encouraging people to go back to work they've had either 0 confirmed cases in recent days or very few confirmed cases so it is an encouraging picture overall in china the figures are also encouraging about $51.00 current cases of the current virus and more than $23.00 reported people cured of the corona virus but still we're still in the thick of it there are still 4000 cases that are suspected and more than 10000 people are in critical condition fighting for their lives president xi jinping said of the weekend that this was the biggest health crisis to face communist china since its founding and really the government is trying to walk the line between getting people to go back to work getting the economy going and also making sure that the outbreak is curbed and under control and certainly at the end of today we're going to hear some big news whether china's

national people's congress which is the most important political event of the year usually takes place at the beginning of march whether or not that will be perspiring and i think that will be really the biggest indicator of how serious and how grave the situation is at the moment and whether we're any closer to seeing the end of this and some restrictions being placed as well on people traveling into and out of south korea how does that shape up do you think. that's right so 6 countries and territories have bad travelers from south korea. rain israel jordan and then also 2 countries. and qatar have also importers compulsory 14 day quarantines for any travelers coming from south korea and certainly in south korea this seems that they're just at the beginning of tackling this epidemic is numbers are sky spiking very high. recent days we've seen 161 new cases of current virus in south korea just in the past 24 hours bringing

the total number to 763 and 7 deaths as you mentioned earlier south korean president has called this. a grave turning point in addressing this crisis and they've raised the alert level to its highest point and that means that the government will be able to allocate more money towards fighting this outbreak they'll be able to access more medical information and people's personal information and if they like they can also impose lockdowns so far the outbreak in south korea seems to be concentrated around the city of digger a city of about 2 and a half 1000000 people in particular half of these confirmed cases are people linked to this particular church the church of jesus where people are reportedly said to have embraced during their services there so all branches of that church around the country have been closed people in daegu have been encouraged to stay indoors and insolvent they have closed down some day ken said as they consider in delaying the opening of some schools and all public gatherings have also been katrina thank you

. well iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over the corona virus outbreak for new infections have been recorded in the capital tehran 7 in the holy city of qom to england province and one each in the province and 2 in come on now in a bid to stop the spread pakistan closed its borders 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 air travel to its neighbor 3 afghans are currently being tested for the virus after entering from iran and iraq is scanning a rival's of a fee is that hundreds of thousands of iranians visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border or such a bar is in tehran with more on how the authorities there 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 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 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 have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and this in fact and 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. austria's train traffic to and from it's only to do with the coronavirus earlier denied entry to

a train from venice softer to travel those were suspected of having the illness meanwhile italy's prime minister has announced a quarantine on several more than tons of facts in 50000 people the last 2 days of the venice carnival have also been cancelled catherine stansell 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 day was it is useless to stop a carnival 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 panic is more contagious and the virus. at this point has been unnecessary 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. the list of we and the health authorities have not been able to locate patient 0 because we haven't identified this is difficult to make any predictions about how the virus will spread so the only volley measure to be taken was to close off these type of trees this is going to support putting 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 $130.00

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 as learning that we spoke with dr gloria to leon in the director of infectious diseases at the sopranos the university of rome she says that many people with corona virus may never develop symptoms and could spread it unknowingly but there are 2 possibilities for transmission by a person who is not overly infected or over 3 diseased the 1st one is that anyone can be infected without becoming immediately ill and during the intermission period usually we are able to transmit the rare infection we have been infected by therefore there are some persons who are not aware of be infected and will and will efficiently transmit infection.

some of those persons will never develop and over disease and they will continue to transmit infection until the infection has been totally eradicated we don't know our many persons have been infected we don't really know how many passengers wear ear which is another biological condition the majority of persons usually in the majority of infectious diseases infectious viral diseases the recorder from the exaction in devil up a protective antibodies and that's this simple biological condition applies also to the corona virus so there are many persons who. are able to clear the areas and records are. so goes president for announcing big has won

a 4th term in office according to preliminary results he took 72 percent of the vote far ahead of his main rival. now the opposition alleges that fraud took place during the election the president's family has ruled this west african nation for 53 years militarist is following the story for us from lomie. with a massive win of 72 percent of the vote as declared by the independent national electoral commission president is set to extend his 15 year old rule on the state of the west african nation and effectively solidifying the group the family had on power in this country for more than half a century now with this result there would be no need for a 2nd round of voting or an off between the top 2 candidates the results will now have to be forwarded to the constitutional court for it to ratify within the next 60 days however that one opposition figure who had already declared himself elected president is saying that he is not agreeing to the results as announced by the independent national electoral commission we knew he proceeded to change the to

change the result is some way. of the former head of state over the only people who write their name on a pool so we know and there are some of them in the know and my we. do have a power we do it broods we do it problem. as we know it exists. paid quote these people and to leave and to give back to the power now a lot of people were watching closely to see the reaction of people on the streets and what will be the response of the security forces. at least 9 people including 3 children have been killed in an earthquake in turkey the magnitude 5.7 quake's epicenter was just across the border in iran where more than 70 people were injured reports now from in turkey. the moment the 5.7

magnitude earthquake rattled villages in the turkish province of bonn 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 they're going on in the world do you happen to be in 2 seconds we ran away in the building collapsed my sheets and powerful buried under the rubble if the f.a.a. could happen at night we wouldn't have survived this. rescue teams scramble to reach survivors under the rubble turkey's government assessing the damage. there are no more people under the rubble will be taking extra precautions for the upcoming hours. chants are 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 4th 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. a 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. how tight. the israeli military has launched airstrikes into guards or the army says it's in response to palestinian armed group islamic jihad firing 21 rockets into southern israel 13 of them were intercepted by the israeli military has also carried out air strikes

against islamic jihad targets in damascus syrian state media is reporting that the country's air defenses have intercepted what they call quote hostile targets over the city islamic jihad denies it's been hit the group says it carried out the rocket attack on israel after the army opened fire on a group of palestinians killing one person 4 others were shot and injured while trying to recover the body before it was taken away by an israeli bulldozer or a forces in west jerusalem he says the israeli airstrikes came as no surprise. well certainly the strikes inside gaza are relatively standard for this kind of escalation the kind of which we've seen many times in the last couple of years certainly of rocket fire such as this is typically met with an israeli round of airstrikes inside gaza the israeli military saying dozens of targets belonging to palestinian islamic jihad have been hit also saying that they struck what they said

was a rocket team in preparation potentially for a launch of the palace in health ministry inside gaza saying that a group of 4 people were injured by a drone strike and that among the injured were among the group were a man and his wife less typical though is the strikes that these women choose also rarely admitting to having carried out inside syria it did however in november at a time when it assassinated a a rocket team commander inside gaza as well as trying to carry out a strike against a senior islamic jihad figure in damascus it said at that point there would be further strikes against islamic jihad leadership in in the syrian capital if rocket fire continued so the immediate thought for many was is this a sign that they were doing just that in response to this latest round of rocket fire so far the israeli military is just saying that it struck

a site which it's calling a hub for islamic jihad activity south of the syrian capital one used for weapons research still to come here on al-jazeera a capital under see each other warlord holy for how to assault on tripoli is bad for business. and rejecting the far right voters in germany 2nd biggest city make their feelings known at the polls. hello arizona is not a wet place phoenix is not a work place but this cloud brought february's average rainfall in about one day and that was on saturday by the time we get to the end of sunday and into monday the rain is gone a long way east was it'll drop about the same which is typically around about $25.00 millimeters maybe more so in every state on its way east was with the heaviest stuff further south this doesn't like cold wintry weather to be right to

think that it is and there is some light snow around right into northern plains states with temperatures around about the freezing mark at their highest by day on the coast of california 18 in san francisco be warm inland of course there's still rain snow coming into the western side of kind of b.c. is seeing yet wall that hispania and for puerto rico this massive cloud will be telling it will be a cooling effect temporarily would also bring significant rain showers probably thunderstorms to be honest which tail off back into the caribbean toward disappear altogether there around you'll get some of the eastern side of jamaica in south america the seas always been particularly heavy recently in peru and in bolivia and this is a result there was some flash flooding there would likely be some more of that hard to say exactly where the rains although slowly moving north so it's less likely in peru.

but. in 2009 a torture victim of the brutal arjen time the deller regime confronted his interrogator tortured no no no no i wasn't torturing to i was interrogated has justice now been served for the atrocious crimes committed decades alyea i do touch him if he were telling lies and investigation into the dark history of argentina why didn't they kill me in the end rewind interrogating a torture on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour several provinces in china now lowered

their emergency response measures to the coronavirus south korea is still on high alert it's announced 161 new cases bringing the total number of infected people to 763. the israeli military has launched air strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian on group islamic jihad by 21 rockets into southern israel said it launched the attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members. initial results in togas presidential election show the incumbent president 4 of us in big winning by a landslide the electoral commission says he's taken 72 percent of the folk to. businesses in the libyan capital are struggling to survive the city has been under assault by the warlords for almost a year now shall stratford reports from tripoli on the challenges business owners there are facing. this is the entrance to the old city of tripoli people have been

coming to shop in the market here from all over north africa for centuries. but business now is not good it's virtually impossible for customers to travel across the front lines of fighting in the suburbs to get to tripoli the capital that feels increasingly under siege since warlord khalifa haftar is military offensive against the u.n. backed government started last april. its winning season in libya. this is supposed to be one of the busiest times of the year for. the jeweler makes the conoco saw. a traditional necklace and a must have for libyan bryant's only wedding day. he says sales have halted in recent years and the fenwick lost a fentanyl after the revolution around 20122013 we had lots of customers but since the war started people want to hold on to whatever pennies they have to

be prepared for the worst fury on as he shopping with her daughter who's getting married soon. that the on the actually there of illusion we hope that the government would be more engaged in helping the young generation find jobs even in the private sector that's helping them settle but that hasn't happened this current crisis is making things worse. off of the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 there were hopes that libya could use money from its vast oil resources to try and stimulate in diversify its economy but here is a political instability and conflicts have made that i personally impossible to achieve. this forces trying to surround the city and capture the capital his loyalists have closed all facilities in areas they control depriving the u.n. bank governments of around $50000000.00 a day. their aggression against us means we've had to stop our

2900 development initiative which focused on investment and the private sector this had an effect not just in tripoli but the whole country that we cannot diversify away from oil and help the private sector until this aggression against us stops. despite efforts to agree a ceasefire there's little sign of a meaningful solution to end libya's crisis hashim says none of the hopes he had for a prosperous future after the revolution 1000000 years ago but from true trial started al-jazeera tripoli. iran has seen is lowest turn outs in a parliamentary election in 40 years just under 43 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots on friday conservative candidates are set to win a majority taking all 3 parliamentary seats in the capital tehran voters' options were limited with more than 7000 potential candidates disqualified in tehran he

says the result has put the 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 need just to give you an idea of how low the turnout was in the last elections here in the when they 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 try 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 to have been politically critical of him and the 2015 nuclear deal and many people see him as a sitting duck president because a presidential elections are next year and he just doesn't have a majority out of the 290 seats around over 200 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 no vote turnout so so despite the sea of support that we saw after the assassination of general dawson for the minute 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 on live from says he'd be willing to put his name on a peace deal with the taliban depending on how a partial ceasefire pans out taliban the u.s. and afghan forces so all agreed on the weeklong reduction in violence which began on friday the president's national security adviser says they are watching the outcome very closely. we've got to get out of the war in afghanistan but we're going to do it in a way that protects american interests so if the taliban does not live up to their agreement on the reduction of violence plan then we'll take a very careful look at it i think would be unlikely that we would sign a peace treaty but we're not going to reduce troops to

a level below what is necessary to protect american interests and our partners in afghanistan i can assure you of that or shortly after commenting on afghanistan the president boarded a flight bound for india for his 1st visit to the country during the 2 day trip to meet the prime minister narendra modi trade and security issues are set to dominate talks the visit will begin with a stadium rally in gujarat state called a mistake from. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has ordered his bricks it team to come up with plans to avoid checks on goods passing from britain to northern ireland according to the sunday times newspaper officials are seeking to evade checks on goods crossing the irish sea which are due to come into effect next year because of brics it's that's because northern island will still be inside the u.k. customs area but rules mean imports will have to be checked after december 31st. germany's center left social democrats are set to keep power in hamburg after an election which dealt

a severe blow to the chancellor angela merkel's conservative christian democrat party which is in the middle of a leadership battle looks set for its worst ever result in any german region voters also rejected the far right alternative for germany party dominic cain was in hamburg as those results came in. a moment of celebration for the social democrats and to many perhaps vindication successive defeats in other states elections have left them leaving a big stick producers last night was with this closeness and solidarity we really have an election campaign behind us that no one would have expected of us at the beginning of the year was that the biggest winners of the night with the green sioux more than doubled their vote to finish a strong 2nd place was wonderful and crazy a quarter of voters in hamburg went for the green that is fantastic we should definitely be in the coalition because it's a stable result for us there's little doubt that climate change is at the top of

many voters' minds the greens and s.p.d. have been in coalition with each other here for the past 5 years and yet during the campaign their environmental policy differences have been pretty clear by contrast angle america's conservative party the christian democrats have suffered their worst ever result in hamburg she'd better results today was bad weather politically for us i'm as honest as you are that this is a bad result we can't be happy with this so far this is really quite a watershed moment for us select a sick one lead candidate the result was also bitter command's far right barely had any seats in the previous parliament now it's on course to have even fewer this is the only important states election taking place in germany this year that's why it was so important for the social democrats to win and win big and show the rest of the country they can still do so. it's why their most senior politician was here to see for himself finance minister all off shots clearly hopes that where his home

city lead seems country might follow he and his colleagues now have just under 18 months to plan how in next year's general election dominic campaign al-jazeera hamburg lots more news is always there 'd for you the address and server to 0 dot com lots more there as well our top story the ramifications of the coronavirus. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha the top stories 4 provinces in china lowered their emergency response level to the corona virus that does not include who'll be with the outbreak began so far about 78000 people in china are infected south korea however is still on high alert is just announced 161 new cases that brings the total number of infected to 763 the number

of dead from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday katrina new is in beijing with more on what's going on in china. it is generally a downward trend which is good news but still she jinping the president of china has come out and said that this is still one of the biggest crisis that communist china has faced since its founding and many cities are still very much in lock down beijing included even though the numbers are still lower and a lot of economic measures are being taken to contain that impact and today we're going to find out whether china is going to indeed to spurn its national people's congress which is the most important political event that usually takes place every march so we're going to hear about that later today. the israeli military has carried out strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian group islamic jihad $521.00 rockets into southern israel the group said it launched the attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members. to go as president for in the

same day as one a 4th term in office according to initial results it took 72 percent of the votes far ahead of his main rival the opposition alleges that fraud took place during the election the president's family has ruled this west african nation for 53 years an earthquake killed at least 9 people in turkey the 5.7 magnitude tremor struck just across the border in the northwest of iran dozens of people were injured in both countries after more than a 1000 buildings collapsed. iran has seen its lowest turnout in a parliamentary election in 40 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 those are your headlines up next it's rewind also use and. counting the cost a tale of $2.00 nations straight is unrelenting charges of cold germany's plan to

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welcome to rewind we're here at the museum of islamic art in doha revisiting with the best the most memorable documentary we've made this week we turn our attention to argentina where over the past decade hundreds of people have been tried for atrocities committed during the so-called dirty war in 1070 s. and eighty's waged by the country's then military regime against its left wing opponents back in 2009 out of their people. power series went to argentina as these prosecutions gained momentum and investigations to hold the worst actors to account were underway to make it rodriguez has captured a gripping and timeless account of one victim who got the rare opportunity to interrogate his own torture let's watch. march the 24976 military giunta headed by gen re there overthrew argentina's

democratically elected government and launched a campaign of terror.