church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. the would. the world war. we have outbreaks of multiple countries right now increasing at experimental growth rates the jump in deaths inside china and infections around the globe the world struggles to contain coronavirus. investor concern is spreading to asian shares extend their losses after wall street's worst session in to leave us. alone welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up ceremony and pageantry giving way to trade and military talks on the final day of president donald trump's trip to india. also ahead the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein is led to jail in

handcuffs after he was found guilty of sexual assault and rape charges. more coronavirus deaths in china and a sharp rise in infections far beyond stoking fears that the global spread of the outbreak is entering a new stage stocks of fall and on worries the epidemic will have a lasting economic impact at least 9 people have died in south korea where there are almost 900 confirmed cases u.s. forces there are considering scaling back their military exercises iran's confirms 12 deaths while bahrain kuwait iraq oman and afghanistan have all reported infections the authorities in italy have sealed off the worst affected towns in the north of the country 7 people have died there and more than $200.00 and now infected the highest concentration outside asia as for china numbers of new

infections in areas outside of who bay province are for link but there have been another 71 deaths mostly in the epicenter let's go live now to adrian brown our correspondent in hong kong so adrian on stocks and shares 1st the markets clearly a lot more nervous than they were say just 7 days ago. yeah this time last week the markets were really shrugging off this coronavirus but i think on choose day they started to become spooked alarmed by the idea that perhaps this outbreak was going to continue for another few weeks now the worst performing stock in japan where the market was down 4 and a half percent on the opening of trade on tuesday was toyotas another reason why toyota shares are doing so badly is that it's been hit really hard by this virus it relies on spare parts made in factories in china and those factories are closed

because of course the whole global supply chain has been severely disrupted not just for carmakers like toyota in south korea but also for big other corporations like nike and apple economists though do say that there is another reason dragging down the market right now and that's this you know china is the driver of global economic growth but also china has the fastest number of consumers in the world months of expanding middle class and they're not spending at the moment they're not travelling they're not buying stuff so that's also hurting investor sentiment but once this thing is brought under control once the virus is contained then a lot of economists say there's going to be a huge sort of rebound because of all that kind of pent up demand and we see as well that they're closing schools clearly the authorities in hong kong identifying areas where people come together and if you've ever been near a primary school if you want to spread infection you go to a primary school. that's right the authorities here have

announced that schools are going to remain closed until easter they also say they are making plans to bring home from who bay province some 2 and a half 1000 hong kong citizens who've been stranded there since really just after the lunar new year holidays now amongst the people they want to get back a pregnant woman and these people are trapped because of course they are spread out right across this province or not in one place most foreigners those who aren't citizens of china anyway have been concentrated largely in the provincial capital but the hong kong people are scattered right across this province and so they have to work out how they can somehow get them to hand but of course that is difficult because public transport has been so badly disrupted people can't use private cars there's no public transport so what the what the government hasn't really said is how it's actually going to get those people to

a central point where they can be taken to the airport. thanks very much rob mcbride joins us live from seoul so most of the cases in south korea still focused in this area this place called daegu what's the latest from there. i think it's a measure of the urgency now that the government is giving to this evolving crisis the country's president moon j.n. is this tuesday afternoon in daegu seeing for himself the work that is being done there on trying to control the outbreak this daegu and its neighboring counties where we've seen the 2 major clusters which accountable most of the what the nearly 900 cases of corona virus that we currently have in south korea he has echoed the views of his ministers and officials who are saying that this week really is an inflection point as far as the control of the outbreak is concerned that if the authorities are going to contain it in this area rather than allowing it to spread

and accepting the fact that it is spreading throughout the whole country then it will achieve that in the next few days so a very important time very crucial few days ahead the prime minister of south korea is being based down in daegu to oversee the efforts there we're hearing that personnel from the police and the military are also being assigned to help in this effort we know that there is a shortage of medical staff the medical staff who are there have been working around the clock and an appeal has gone out for volunteers in the area to step up and staff these medical testing centers and all that also these special wards treating the people as they become sick and the whole the whole aim of course is to stop it spread and we do know there have been individual cases throughout south korea the whole object now is to stop any more larger clusters forming but there

are some worrying trends we have know that in busan that is south korea's 2nd city there has been a cluster of cases in one another church a congregation $23.00 people there and in a clinic just north of daegu there is also come from. mation of another outbreak amongst the staff and patients that another $22.00 cases have been found and that's in out of a total staff and patient headcount of 60 so that's a 3rd of all of the people in this clinic so those are worrying worrying trends ok rob thanks very much. ok let's get you a quick update on the markets took us stocks open significantly lower on tuesday well hong kong's hang seng index edged further into negative territory after 3 straight days of losses earlier wall street at its worst session for 2 years dropping more than 3 percent and salumi has more for us from new york. investors took a beating on monday with all 3 of the major stock indexes in the united states showing

sharp declines the dow jones industrial plunged more than a 1000 points or 3 and a half percent and the declines were reflected in all of the major sectors of the economy from energy to technology perhaps the greatest declines were seen related to manufacturing stocks like apple which relies on china for manufacturing it's also one of its big growing markets and it was reflected in the sharp decline in its stocks at the same time investors were looking to put their money in safe havens moving from these stocks into government treasury bonds also gold prices went up at one point hitting a 7 year high as investors look for someplace safe to put their money this all happened just less than a week after the market hit new record highs in the united states word that the

coronavirus had spread outside of china we saw a spikes in italy near a major manufacturing hub there are concerns that that could affect the economy of europe south korea also saw an increase in cases and this has investors spooked that the worst of this epidemic has yet to come. a growing numbers of infections in the north of lead to the closure of schools universities museums and other public places for at least a week reports from a lot. into your than usual downtown milan a sense of anxiety but no signs of panic amid the 1st major coronavirus outbreak in europe landmarks like the cathedral and let's call the opera house have been closed temporarily. the headline screams out virus the great fear even though fear at least for now isn't all that apparent yes schools have been shut down but his vegetable market remains open. but i don't know i don't see any

danger is we're looking a lot of the people are not leaving their houses and they call us and we bring their shopping t. them that's the way we're working at the moment the laws mayor says the main mission now is contain the possible further spread of the virus and that while numbers of those infected have indeed been going up that could be because health officials are proactively looking for new cases he also urged residents not to clear supermarket shelves but videos posted on social media like this one suggest that advice may be falling on deaf ears in northern italy the number of coronavirus cases continues to surge even though at least 10 hotspot towns are effectively under lockdown. police check vehicles trying to enter one of the quarantine towns authorised lorries carrying essential goods and medical supplies are allowed through everyone else is turned away in an effort to contain the spread of the

coronavirus even the venice carnival was cut short a medal that you know what i might base fight another thought i would have to sign in order to shut down the venue it's one of a thought we'd have to close the schools churches museums and all public places so i know i'm askin a lot from aussie thousands so i know all the way things go we can pull together well we just need to think about internally the bin will shut up inside us a little to and it's. inside the town of gaza it was telling go authorities have allowed select shops to reopen outside long lines of shoppers wearing protective masks and gloves keen to stock up all this as officials are still struggling to confirm the origin of the outbreak in italy mohammed al jazeera milla. moving on donald trump's on the last day of his visit to india the u.s. president and his wife melania have taken part in a wreath laying ceremony at mahatma gandhi's memorial in new delhi the trips designed not only to boost ties and trade but also mr trump's reelection chances at

home by appealing to indian american voters trump has already announced india's planned purchase of $3000000000.00 worth of u.s. military helicopters. while the drum visit is going on as violence continues of india's contentious citizenship war 7 people have been killed and dozens were injured in new delhi during confrontations between groups supporting and opposing the legislation hundreds of muslim activists have been protesting against the war which they say discriminates against their community our correspondent tony burke joins us live this hour from new delhi so tony inferi the 2 men get down to business today. yes they're going to sign agreements that should be announced later on today we're not expecting any great surprises with those basically it will done and dusted before president trunk came that was the $3000000000.00 contract for helicopters deals on trade and tariffs and most of the things they're still going on behind closed the closed doors but they're not going

to be achieving anything in this visit and that was made clear but it's interesting that president trump has happened very very happy with this pomp and circumstance of this visit he's basically continued this love in the started yesterday in ahmedabad and it's very clear that there these 2 men prime minister modi and president trump are getting on very very well it's about business and it's all also about defense and security because india plays a big part in this part of the world about defense and security considering the expansion of china in the south china sea and into the indian ocean there needs to be a very strong defense strategy so these approaches of the helicopters are perhaps one of the 1st stages in india developing a closer military ties with the u.s. arms but it's interesting to see that when president trump was laying the wreath at the memorial for mahatma gandhi that's less than 10 kilometers away from these scenes that have been happening in the capital overnight there was violence as we

reported earlier and the death toll i can report now is up to 7 dead from those violent clashes in the northeast of delhi and about $160.00 injured and perhaps that that toll is going to increase also has no mention by president trump about any of these problems no mention about kashmir but we do understand that he has announced through local media that there will be in and showed your press conference at 5 pm local time today so perhaps he will take questions then answer some of these pressing matters about what's going on in india at the moment with these anti. ca. ok protests tony you keep us across all the development i'm sure but in the meantime thank you very much and we're waiting for that joint news conference there we are seeing new delhi right now we are waiting for donald trump and the renderer modi as tony was saying there mr trump i guess in effect paid mr modi something of a compliment he was referring to mr modi as being a tough negotiator mr modi of course facing criticism over that new law on

citizenship as tony was mentioning as and when that news conference kicks off we'll bring it to you live here on al-jazeera. in the news ahead here on this program going on the ground syrian civilians find shelter wherever they can to escape the fighting in it live. from where the furnace is a likely to go cold to europe's elite new cool process. had a very unsettled weather picture across much of europe plaintive crowds streaming in and not just out of course we have got rain and also a fair amount of snow but the winds have been pretty strong that continue to stream in from the west and really impacting many countries this is the netherlands and just look at this this is what damage the wind has done is not just that of course

many other areas across mainland europe again there are some warnings across the u.k. the strong winds busy going into cheese day yet more rain and snow will appear across much of the north and the northwest all of its 20 across into mainland europe on its way through france and really across most central areas for into germany on into the bowl 6 meanwhile across the southeast it's mainly clay and dry the winds here should be dying down as we head through chooser they have been very strong for the start of the week and then by wednesday all of that rain with that snow working its way further east was in quite a lot of this will turn to quite a wintry mix really across much of germany and further to the south but a break across areas of the u.k. but still some stiff winds and again we have got more snow across those northern areas mostly care across northern sections of africa certainly on cheese about by wednesday we could see one to 2 showers really long these coastal areas of algeria .

frank assessments the one good thing about these bush fires is it really working out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel of those days don't even know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronized in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. come back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top story so far this the u.s.

says it's considering scaling back joint military exercises with seoul because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus 13 south korean military personnel have been infected nationwide there are nearly 900 cases it's the biggest number outside china global markets falling to because of worries the virus will have a loss in economic the stocks in tokyo open significantly lower on tuesday on wall street at its worst session in 2 years dropping more than 3 percent. u.s. president on the trump is on day 2 of his 1st visit to india since he took office and taking part in a wreath laying ceremony at mahatma gandhi's memorial in new delhi as the trumps announced india plans to buy $3000000000.00 worth of u.s. military helicopters. disgraced hollywood mogul harvey weinstein has been convicted of rape and sexual assault weinstein was found guilty by a court in new york of sexually assaulting a former production assistant. and raping an aspiring actress jessica mann the jury

of 7 men and 5 women found him guilty of sexual assault which could see him jailed for up to 25 years also the 3rd degree rape charge carries a maximum of 4 years in prison new york law defines this as having sex with someone incapable of giving their consent but weinstein was acquitted of the most serious charges predatory sexual assault and 1st degree rape more than 80 women have accused him of sexual misconduct stretching back decades he faces additional charges in los angeles the judge ordered weinstein to be jailed but he was taken to hospital after complaining of chest pains gabriel elizondo reports from new york. harvey weinstein's days as hollywood's most powerful movie producer officially are over he's now a convicted felon and rapist after the verdict some of harvey weinstein's accusers said they hoped his day would finally come weinstein was found not guilty of the most serious charges of predatory sexual assault but was found guilty of

a criminal sexual act and a 3rd degree rape as a verdict was read weinstein showed a little emotion as he was handcuffed and taken to jail in a shed any tears it is that emotion just gets a lot of innocent of the crime and its ideals you know it's going to spread the verdict cap's nearly a 3 week trial and 5 days of jury deliberations he was on trial for allegedly raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and sexually assaulting another woman in 2006 in 2017 investigative reporter rich mchugh was one of the 1st to report allegations of rape by weinstein he has since interviewed dozens of other women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment i know at least one of the women who will be testifying and her case is horrific. and so i think it's i can only imagine the case will be even stronger in los angeles that is here in new york and.

i imagine you know a verdict will be i don't i don't i that's hard for me to predict but are the cases pretty pretty strong from from all that i know at his peak of power weinstein was a hollywood legend many of the greatest actors or actresses over the past 40 years have worked with him in some capacity here directly or through his movie studios throughout his career weinstein has been associated with 81 academy awards weinstein's conviction is a victory for the me too movement that began in 2017 when actress alyssa milano tweeted if you've ever been sexually harassed or assaulted write me too as a reply to. this tweet millions did and the movement took off harvey weinstein now sits in jail awaiting his sentencing by the judge next month if he's given the maximum which would be 29 years that would mean he's not released from prison until he's 96 years old gabriel zander al jazeera new york. and u.n.

and egyptian brokered cease fire has gone into effect between the palestinian group islamic jihad and israel the ceasefire follows 2 days of cross border violence the israeli air force says at least 80 rockets were fired from gaza on monday israel also carried out attacks using aircraft and tanks 6 people were killed in syria on sunday nights including 2 islamic jihad members and 4 wounded in the gaza strip the u.n. is warning of a bloodbath as fighting in the northwest of syria moves closer to makeshift camps for internally displaced families opposition fighters backed by turkey gaining some ground in southern province of facing attacks by government troops supported by russian airpower gupta as more in the cold winter of northwest syria and underground cave is the only refuge for these displaced families some find shelter in abandoned prison so it's they have nowhere else to go the russian backed

government offensive to recapture it live from rebels has forced nearly a 1000000 people from their homes and the russian shelling forced us to leave our homes we took what we could and came to this president we decided to stay in a cell which is about 20 square meters and we divide it between 3 families we still need things like blankets and food for trapped families this concrete border wall between turkey and syria is the last frontier between safety and government troops small children try to skew the high walls but cannot get in. turkey hosts about 4000000 syrian refugees and says it can't cope with more. the regime is advancing from the east and from the south people are now completely surrounded and there's been a lot of displacement people are forced to go to the closest point to the turkish border there's a border wall there are tents or 50 meters away from the turkish war roll freight.

on the front line turkey backed rebels are fighting government advances and opposition fighters have recaptured. a town on the strategic m 4 highway between syria's commercial hub aleppo and the coastal city of latakia but government forces are closing in from the south syrian activists say the aim seems to be to control the m 4 highway that runs through major rebel strongholds and that means bloodier battles and more civilian displacement the u.n. and aid groups are calling for a cease fire the crisis really demands immediate action from the security council from member states around the world because this is a crisis now on a scale that we've not seen throughout the entire syrian war another dark chapter in the 9 year civil war as president bashar al assad's forces keep pushing ahead

for a final victory priyanka gupta dizzier the pressure is mounting on the suitors prime minister to resign who's accused of murdering his 2nd wife thomas to barney was in court on monday after he failed to turn up on friday his case was referred to the constitutional court to decide whether he should be immune from prosecution the prime minister's current wife has already been charged with the murder of the 1st lady. 3 years ago some members of his party have already named a possible replacement. the united nations world food program says more than half of zimbabwe's 15000000 people are in need of food aid this is one of the world's least food secure nations the situation made worse by one of the most severe droughts in decades the world food program has blamed climate change for the conditions zimbabwe's also facing an economic crisis with inflation is in 500 percent. as climate change is intensifying global zimbabwe

and indeed all of southern africa is a prime example of the people suffering mice at the hands of crime changed flooding in southern peru has hit a valley near the met you picchu world heritage sites vehicles and belongings were swept away after heavy rains that 4 people have died and at least 250 homes have been damaged or destroyed when the 1000 jobs are at risk in greece where europe's only on nickel manufacturer faces closure the government says the state owned company locker is more than half a $1000000000.00 in debt and will be sold within the year john psaropoulos has been speaking to some of its workers in the port town of. the media's loosies has worked well arco since he was 17 he says nickel smelting was his only prospect of earning a decent living and supporting his family in this area of central greece. please if i were to lose my job i wouldn't find anything who's going to hire me at 48 no one

wants someone that age and if they do they offer you 600 euros a month with out any social security. more than $1200.00 other workers at large are in a similar position the government is giving the company a final handout of $40000000.00 to see it through the year and find an investor if that fails its furnace is will go cold permanently largo also has more than 22000 suppliers and contractors who rely upon it. $160000000.00 a year export. alloy to factories that turn it into stainless steel but the government says it is doing so at a loss and has built up debts of $650000000.00 to suppliers and the state. disputes that law because union admits that early retirement for older and better paid workers could lower salary costs by a 3rd but says political mismanagement is chiefly to blame. the minister is making

mistakes you can't come out and say that we're polluting the sea because of this we've started to have terrible problems with their suppliers they think they were in receivership or that the company may close no one is supplying us anymore so we'll have to close anyway. any investor will have to deal with high operating costs for 50 year old furnace is that require frequent maintenance dated smelting technology that creates heavy carbon dioxide emissions and high electricity costs fixing all this requires money the government says it cannot provide the morale of the problem here the problem was the government couldn't even provide one year or for. laugher because they weren't allowed to give out state aid that strangled any development potential lock or hurt we went to the european investment bank and elsewhere but all the doors were closed because we had the accusation of illegal state aid hanging over our heads the only solution was to allow larkham to go bankrupt and take the debt with it for the foreseeable future the world needs

stainless steel and nickel is used extensively in car batteries that could mean a bright future as europe abandons the internal combustion engine but to get local needs an owner with deep pockets jumpstart opel us al-jazeera. a court in france has delayed the fraud trial of a former french prime minister francois feel until whedon's day after a request from fee on lawyers he's accused of embezzling public funds to give his wife a fake job in his office the philippines national biggest broadcaster has been granted more time to operate as it awaits the renewal of its license the president roderigo to 30 there said repeatedly he wants to shut down the t.v. network which has criticized his policies the 25 year license was due to expire at the end of march but the justice secretary said it can continue to run until may the force n s a mathematician whose life and achievements inspired the film it figures has died

at the age of 101 catherine johnson calculated rocket for checked areas and earth orbits by hand for nasa early space missions calculations were also used for the apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha these are the top stories china has reported 71 more deaths from the corona virus in just over 500 new infections on monday the world health organization says it's concerned about the spread of cases outside china 3 main clusters of infections are growing in the middle east europe and asia the u.s. says it's considering scaling back a joint military exercises with soldiers concerns about the spread of coronavirus 13 south korean military personnel have been infected nationwide there are nearly 900 cases that's the most outside china global markets have been falling because of

worries the virus will have a lasting economic impact tokyo stocks open significantly lower on tuesday and wall street at its worst session in 2 years dropping more than 3 percent adrian burns in hong kong with more on the market reaction there the worst performing stock in japan where the market was down 4 and a half percent on the opening of trade on tuesday was toyotas know the reason why toyota shares are doing so badly is that it's been hit really hard by this virus it relies on spare parts made in factories in china and those factories are closed because of course the whole global supply chain has been severely disrupted not just for carmakers like toyota in south korea but also for big other corporations like nike and apple u.s. president all trump is on the last day of his 1st visit to india since taking office he's taking part in a wreath laying ceremony at mahatma gandhi's memorial in new delhi trump's

announced india plans to buy $3000000000.00 worth of u.s. military helicopters dispersed hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been convicted of sexual assault and rape in new york but he was acquitted on a more serious charge of predatory sexual assault. the united nations and egyptian brokered cease fire has gone into effect between the palestinian group islamic jihad and israel the ceasefire follows 2 days of cross border violence pressure is mounting on the prime minister of the suit to to resign he's accused of murdering his 2nd life the constitutional court will decide whether or not he should be immune from prosecution inside story is next more news in 30 minutes i'll see you then. chinese authorities the putting those they say that committed a crime. but they show trials or genuine confessions. when i went east investigating. 0. iran this general election

deals a blow to the religious establishment conservatives did win the vote but the turnout was the lowest in 4 decades so how will to round deal with what seems to be growing public discontent this is inside story. our welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan hardliners are set for sweeping gains in iran's parliamentary elections but they appeared to have less popular support voter turnout in friday's polls was the lowest since the islamic revolution in 1979 that's despite the supreme leader urging people to cost their ballots as a religious judy to show resistance in the face of u.s. sanctions now conservatives are expected to have the upper hand in part.