a new warning to world leaders that the corona virus epidemic is spreading rapidly and a pandemic is possible americans are told to brace themselves now it's not so much a question of if this were happening more but rather more question of exactly when this will happen. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in less than an hour u.s. democrats hold a presidential debate ahead of saturday's south carolina primary a race considered do or die for former vice president joe biden. egypt announces 3 days of national mourning in a bar or in the country for 30 years dies at the age of $91.00. and police in new

delhi are accused of aiding attackers target and muslims protesting against a controversial new citizenship law. hello the world health organization has warned that the coronavirus epidemic is escalating rapidly and action must be taken quickly to prevent it from becoming a pandemic. this is a rapidly escalating epidemic in different places that we've got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic i mean it's actually what china demonstrates is where this goes is within the control of our decisions to apply this kind of rigor and approach to to to this disease well here a print health ministers of held emergency talks and it's really where the virus has spread south from core don't you know to tuscany and sicily there also

confirmed cases in croatia austria from switzerland the germany with links to the italian outbreak well the number of cases continues to rise in iran as does concern over the government's handling of the epidemic that's off of the country's deputy health minister the man leading the fight against the illness seen here on the left confirmed he's been diagnosed with the virus because somebody better for non-criminal coronary for them i just wanted to tell you that i carries a corona virus as well yesterday i had a fever and late last night the results of my preliminary test was positive since last night i've isolated myself a while ago i was informed that my test has been confirmed and it's positive my general condition is not bad i assure you that with the efforts of the health ministry officials and with the people support in the next few weeks we will defeat the virus rest assured of that. well it's a different picture in china where the outbreak began the rate of new infections remains in decline and could patients have begun returning home and americans have

been told to brace themselves for what health officials are calling the inevitable spread of the virus throughout the united states a white house correspondent can be helped it has more. on the defense the trump administration is facing growing criticism it's not done enough to contain the spread of corona virus in the united states i'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the u.s. health and human services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the strategic national stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough support well of course not or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u.s. health official issued this ominous warning now it's not so much

a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected now even members of president trump's own republican party are questioning a top u.s. border official about whether its efforts to contain the virus are even adequate but you can't tell us how many you're models aren't to surprising no senator again i would i would defer you to the health and human services for that so you know to check on that wrapping up a trip in india president trump insisted his administration is prepared and tried to downplay fears you may ask about the corona virus which is. you know very well under control in our country. we have very few people with it and the people that have it are or in all cases i have not heard anything other the administration says one of its biggest challenges is data and whether countries

like iran and china are being truthful about the number of people infected china permitted its own foreign journalists and medical personnel to speak and investigate freely chinese officials and other nations would have been far better prepared to address the challenge this as the u.s. centers for disease control is now warning americans to brace for disruptions in their daily lives as the chrono virus is expected to spread to communities across the united states can really help get al-jazeera washington but as we mentioned earlier the virus has spread to several regions across the now most of the cases are concentrated in a cluster of communities in the north which under quarantine mama jam june reports now from just outside the so-called red zone in the lombardi region. for a while it seemed like the ambulances were the only vehicles passing through on their way to lumberton as red zone and all the areas towns under quarantine. just

a few kilometers from the center of italy's coronavirus outbreak the security personnel often outnumbered the cars on the road at this checkpoint no one could get in or out without permission and. i've been stopping a lot of people and this makes me feel anxious because even if the center of the virus isn't right here it's not that far away. bruno's friend luigi also lives in sort of esko in a part of the town that hadn't yet been locked down but. the problem is not just a few meters in the red zone not in the red zone the issue concerns the whole of london not living in the red zone is not that much of an advantage i can move but the danger is everywhere. it was just a short while later that the threat level was indeed reassessed and the boundaries and large the sense of alarm here is only growing we've seen many ambulances go in and out of the quarantine area these past few hours and in the last 30 minutes

we've had to move about a kilometer down the road after authorities decided to expand the red zone in rome an emergency meeting was held to deal with the crisis as italy's health minister and several of his european counterparts came together in an effort to find solutions. there's no change for travel conditions of italians travelling from italy and going abroad this is the 1st commitment made by countries bordering with italy they want to share the idea that blocking borders would be a mistake a disproportionate and wrong maisha. but in and around the exclusion zone residents concern themselves with other borders these newly created ones inside northern italy as streets that would usually be full sat nearly empty and a growing number of people worried about the effectiveness of their government's current containment measures. in the town of joe let's go in northern italy.

where u.s. markets a fall in shopping for a 2nd straight day amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus wall street 3 major indices fell 3 percent on tuesday that's a day off of the s. and p. 500 and the dow jones suffered the biggest gain in losses in 2 years as on though has been crunching the numbers in new york. there's not necessarily outright panic here on wall street but there is certainly a lot of worry that is closely inching towards panic let me just give you a couple more of the numbers that we've been seeing there are $505.00 stocks on the s. and p. 562 percent of those are in correction territory now what does that mean that means one correction territory it means that the stock has dropped at least 10 percent we've also seen that the dow is the lowest it's been since early november and if you look at some of the individual stocks that are directly tied to travel

because no a lot of people are not traveling now because of course on a virus fears things such as mastercard down 7 percent 5 percent hurts the rental car company 14 percent drop marriott hotel chain 12 percent drop these are huge numbers these are just a few of them i could go on and on forever with the individual stock drops but things not looking good here as wall street is very worried about how this coronavirus is going to affect the economy and if you want to check whether a virus is the cross the world this is the virus truck from johns hopkins university in the united states which gives you i think a good picture of where the outbreak has spread to and the number of cases around the world. u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls are about to take in a debate in the state of south carolina which will hold primaries on saturday the front runner bernie sanders expecting challenges to move sides even though former vice president joe biden is ahead in polling there the other candidates michael

bloomberg but you judge any club which honors with warren and tom are all hoping for an upset victory or a strong 2nd place finish to breathe fresh life into their campaigns let's go straight to under gallica is live for us from charleston south carolina and these are let's talk 1st if we can about joe biden his campaign so far has been very sluggish is this make or break for him. i mean it well could be the case because south carolina is somewhere that joe biden has a great deal of history and traditionally has a great deal of support particularly among african-american votes is 60 percent of all democratic voters in this state are black but over the past few months and weeks even joe biden's lead here among black voters has been getting eaten away partly because of a generational gap because bernie sanders has been appealing to young black millennial tom styer the billionaire businessman has been spending a fortune here and that's all eating into what was once

a commanding lead for joe biden he is still ahead but if you talk to any political analysts they will tell you joe biden doesn't just have to win here in south carolina but he asked to win big because bernie sanders the bernie sanders train if you like is picking up momentum he has got those all important delegate so far of course we get the primary here in south carolina on saturday so i think it's a difficult time for the former vice president he has to perform very well indeed tonight and then wait until saturday and to see if he gets the support he has so long enjoyed and you talk about bernie sanders there and the he's expected to come under fierce attack by the other candidates tonight tell us why. well basically because he is the frontrunner at the moment he's picked up steam he had a pretty decisive victory in nevada and there are many in the democratic party in the establishment that don't see him as the best candidate they think that his self

a valid socialism is something that the republicans will use to tear him apart and see don't get back into office for another 4 years but he has the ground game at the moment he's got the people on the ground he's got the young support so you will expect i think to see people like the former mayor of new york mike bloomberg really go at bernie sanders not because of course bloomberg didn't have a good showing in the last debate his 1st ever in this in this selective season so i think bernie will have a big target on his back tonight and of course is only 7 candidates up there but they all need to do well in a very limited amount of time with a lot at stake or i doubt they got to get there in charleston south carolina and they thank you for that time for a short break here now to see when we come back once thriving syrian areas and become ghost towns as the government presses on the major offensive. in the protestors drown out one of latin america's biggest music festivals more on that status.

hello and welcome back we begin our forecast in northeastern parts of asia this is a frontal system move across japan bringing heavy rain and snow at higher elevations it's expected to clear away during the course of wednesday so tokyo if you do see rain 1st in the morning it should brighten up then of 12 degrees nothing special in terms of temperatures with those winds coming in from the north so across much for colorado still snow on the ground and temperatures in sapporo just on freezing further towards the west we got a little bit of rain across the eastern side of china a few showers expected across taiwan hong kong should be generally dry and fine but across more central areas we got this area of rain which is going to develop push further north was nice it does so just in gauges a bit of cold air further north so we could see it turning to snow even beijing so

the chance of the odd flake of snow but really nothing more than that moving down into southeastern parts of asia here we've had really big storms effect in jakarta such as been extensive flooding over the last 24 hours that had a month's worth of rain in the space of 24 hours so some familiar picture here as the forecast i can't see anything particularly heavy the shower activity we've got at the moment is likely to continue but those showers at the sort of showers you would expect at this time of year and as for temperatures you're looking at a high in the city of $28.00 degrees. thanks love to make some friends because behind the suffering millions of taxpayers because taxpayers never go away there's a new one born every single day i 90 it is an emerging national necessity to be officially requested the education of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm

a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. oh. welcome back it could come out of our top stories here this hour the world health organization has warned that the coronavirus at the den that is rapidly escalating and action must be taken quickly to vent it from becoming a pun demick follows the confirmation of a number of new cases in europe and the middle east. iran's deputy health minister seen here on the left has been diagnosed with a virus he was seen coughing and sweating during the news conference on monday iraj how does she was leading iran's fight against illness. and just under 30 minutes

u.s. democrats will face off in a debate in south carolina which holds its primary on saturday joe biden is still meeting in the polls but bernie sanders and others have chipped away at me. egypt as grieving the death of its former leader hosni mubarak who died in that car a hospital on tuesday aged 91 a military funeral is planned for wednesday and followed by 3 days of mourning mubarak ruled egypt for 30 years while he was forced from power during the 2011 arab spring uprising laura but many looks back on his life and legacy. maintained a grip on power in egypt for 3 decades. until finally in 2011 the people had enough millions took to the streets hundreds of killed but after 18 days this. president mohamed hosni mubarak has cited to wave the office of the president of the public.

reacted as they heard the news that brought the man with an iron fist down. the military council took the reins of power but it was from the bullet train the mubarak had originally risen to power. a former chief in 1973 he led an air campaign the regain the sinai peninsula from israel it has been a humiliating loss in the 967 war president anwar sadat's made him vice president. mubarak was just meters away from sadat when he was shot dead in 1990. 8 days later. became president almost immediately he implemented emergency laws giving the state sweeping powers of arrest and cousin basic freedoms that would remain in place for

his entire presidency there were a number of assassination attempts like this one during a visit to ethiopia in the mid 990 s. nearly 60 people were killed in luxor. mubarak cracked down rounding up thousands of suspects from the inside and many egyptians considered his rule oppressive although he won 4 elections there were allegations of fraud but he continued to impress mattie in the global political arena as he made international diplomacy a cornerstone of his rule. to secure a steady flow of oil supplies into world markets and broker deals between the palestinians and the israelis the americans enlisted support of 2 major allies saudi arabia and egypt the saudi kingdom use its financial power and egypt

under mubarak use its political leverage to influence arab league decisions the strategy paid off and he received crucial u.s. military aid billions of dollars. but unflinching western support from a barak soon faded or the arab spring began mubarak was arrested and charged with corruption and abuse of power in 2012 he was sentenced to life in prison the failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters after a retrial mubarak was acquitted in 2017. but his legacy has endured with the current regime led by another military figure out a fatality using similar hardline tactics to crackdown on dissent in order to stay in power. in india the number of people killed in unrest in new delhi has risen to 13 in 150 others have been injured in 3 days of violence over the

country's new citizenship last seen by many as discriminating against muslims nationalists hindu protesters in the north east of the capital denied provoking the muslim community there tony burke the reports now new delhi. the suburbs of jeff are bad in belgium bora in northeast delhi have become battlegrounds in the fight against india's citizens amendment law for the 1st successive day security forces fought with protesters both for and against the law . this man says he was shot in the foot by police shotgun pellets. i was standing with my mother and sisters protesting peacefully when police and people with the mob started firing repeatedly they fired tear gas one person was shot in the chest and another one in the hand. another wounded youth who sped away on a motorbike it's incidents like these which have drawn thousands of young muslims to join the protest they are angry at the lack of control by the government and are

suspicious of the police we are discussing the police from police because police supporting the dam. is not muslims we fear fire the police also of only with them on muslims only not into the police not supporting the muslims. police are being criticised for not intervening and stopping the violence against muslims often simply standing by and watching. videos on social media seem to show police helping hindu nationalists collect rocks and other images of officers apparently. beating muslims. one policeman says so you want your freedom and then beats him. other images show mosque being vandalized a muslim property being damaged hindus also complain that their temples are being damaged and their property destroyed by muslims images on social media are always difficult to verify who what where or when but in this situation is adding to the

belief of muslims here that these attacks are both co-ordinated and with the compliance of the police. on tuesday thousands of armed police including special forces and rapid reaction units were on patrol in a show of strength but muslims here don't feel protected they feel threatened especially for the youth. the number of those killed and injured in clashes is rising and india's leaders seem to have no solution the state has created a situation of violence and allowed. the latest reason that i find i am i it's unfathomable to allow your own people to die like that takes a certain kind of hit. this area has become ground 0 in this divisive fight now in its 3rd month and many fear the turmoil is going to get worse before it gets better tony berkeley al-jazeera jaffer bad northeastern. full of protests were taking place as u.s.

president donald trump wrapped up his 1st trip to india while the $36.00 visit had plenty of pageantry little progress was made on the 2 countries trade differences trump praised the $3000000000.00 military deal he signed with prime minister narendra modi the leaders did not reach a wider trade deal. i want reciprocal has to be reciprocal and the money you're talking about is major but the united states has to be treated fairly. and indeed the relationship is outstanding but india this is we've had a tremendous deficit for many many years with india with with everybody you know with frankly so many different countries we've had a massive massive deficit for to syria now a government in the russian that strikes have killed at least 10 people sheltering in schools across province that's the last remaining rebel stronghold the white helmets rescue group says at least 8 schools were hit with the cost of bombs on

tuesday and there are fears the death toll will rise. 100000 people have been forced from their homes by the fighting in the provinces december they're stranded on the border with turkey and of nowhere left to run or hide. reports now from to the turkish border with syria. this is an unusually eerie quiet in what was once a street bustling with activity people have left. is one of many ghost villages and towns in and rural. syrian government troops have stepped up their military offensive. shelling residential areas as the advance. of also pay was among thousands forced out of must. by the villagers he stayed in also.

feeling hopeless and angry here we turn to muster almost saying he'd rather die where he was born. or used to walk the alleyways every day met my neighbors and have tea together now i do the daily walk alone everyone has gone. as fighting continues as the humanitarian situation deteriorates and civilians carry on their journey hoping for shelter and war. a journey that turned into a tragedy for one man his wife his daughter and granddaughter. my brother mustafa was desperate for a tent a tailor provided my limb fabric but because my brother had no experience the tent he built didn't hear went to lucia they all suffocated to that in their sleep. blames the international community for the death of his brother's family he says

his failure to act in syria was a betrayal. but i wot is most of us. he was with his parents the night they died but had to go to another village to bring back for a niche they had left behind. and never forget that night my father called me to help him install a stone i remember my niece came to me because of the called and i was still under shock he will carry with him the memory of his parents and his brother who was killed in a war a few years earlier. like the millions of other syrians grappling with loss and despair. for the hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians that exodus wiccan to new for as long as the government funds does not come for turkey and russia have failed to agree on a ceasefire and if there's no ceasefire those stranded on the border fear they may

be the next target. the turkish border with syria news agency bloomberg is reporting that saudi arabia and its allies are resisting u.s. calls to open their airspace to qatar which country relies on iranians guys according to bloomberg riyadh and its supporters want further concessions from doha at the 2022 world cup qatar blockade for many 3 years. now the opening of a major music festival in chile has been hit by violence as the latest economic inequality protests have been raging for 4 months america and its newman reports now from green. being at the limit is chile's version of monte carlo a seaside city famous for hosting the spanish speaking world's most prestigious song festival for the past 60 years. but this week the so-called garden city is on recognizable the latest epicenter of months of unrest. while pop star ricky

martin opened the being at the modest festival outside protesters chanted yes we can. as put it then sprang back to car dealership others burned vehicles and destroyed property presidents of us stamping yet our who is under fierce pressure from his conservative constituency to crack down on 4 months of ongoing unrest this was the last straw. the dividing line is between those who believe in democracy and want to live in peace and those who practice violence and want to destroy our democracy this park for peace democracy and against violence to translate into concrete are. among his proposals is legislation to strengthen security forces and intelligence services as well as to fast track a bill to allow the army to secure key infrastructure such as the water system and electricity grid. but these will do little to quell the main causes of the social

unrest which of also brought out hundreds of peaceful protesters here in the. here and very near 68 percent of the population lives below the poverty line with no water or sanitation this city has more important needs in this festival. meanwhile we know the modest iconic otello higgins is closing says management until authorities can guarantee the safe. of guests and staff living on the mat festival is widely being seen as a litmus test to see how authorities will deal with a new wave of unrest which is widely expected to start in march that's when students return to class and congress reconvenes the government has already announced to the arrival of more modern weapons to deal with crowd control including new fortified water cannon vehicles and possibly paint bombs and acoustic grades the president is commanding the police for what he calls their hard work making no mention the scores of human rights abuses committed by security forces

and documented by the un and other human rights organizations as things stand now if you expect these violations nor the mob violence to end any time in the near future you see in human al jazeera. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera the world health organization has warned that the coronavirus epidemic is rapidly escalating an option must be taken quickly to prevent it from becoming a pandemic that follows the confirmation of a number of new cases in europe and the middle east iran's deputy health minister seen here on the left has been diagnosed with a virus he was seen coughing and sweating during a news conference on monday it was how did she was leading iran's fight against the illness us democrats will soon face off a debate in south carolina i would holds its primary on saturday joe biden is still

leading in the polls there but bernie sanders and others have chipped away at his lead and the gallica has more now from charleston. a south carolina is somewhere that joe biden has a great deal of history and traditionally has a great deal of support particularly among african-american voters 60 percent of all democratic voters in this state all black but over the past few months and weeks even joe biden's lead here among black voters has been getting eaten away partly because of a generational gap because bernie sanders has been appealing to young black millennial and tom styer the billionaire businessman has been spending a fortune here and that's all eating into what was once a commanding lead for joe biden he is still ahead but if you talk to any political analysts they will tell you joe biden doesn't just have to win here in south carolina but he has to win big. egypt's announced 3 days of mourning off for its longtime former president hosni mubarak died at the age of 91

a bomber grew for 30 years and was forced from power in 2011 following mass protests in india the number of people killed on the arrest in new delhi has risen to 13 more than 150 others have been injured in 3 days of violence over the country's new citizenship to the world well that violence was happening as u.s. president donald trump wrapped up his 1st trip to india while the $36.00 visit had plenty of pageantry little progress was made on the 2 countries trade differences and in syrian government and the russian air strikes have killed at least 10 people sheltering in schools across in the province the last remaining rebel stronghold those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the bottom line station thanks so much.

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question well internationalism institutions like the u.n. and global commitments to democracy and human rights survive if america says it just doesn't care anymore let's get to the bottom line. when the west led by the united states played architect to build a vast array of international institutions to promote justice liberal democracy open markets and prevent another global war that's what the world got we built the united nations we built nato the i.m.f. and world bank the international energy agency world health organization that are world trade organization i could go on and on and on but those days may be over at this year's munich security conference the world's most important convening of national security strategists and leaders a term was born it's called west listening a world where the united states and the west are embedded.