oh. at least 20 are killed and nearly 200 are injured as a group of hindus fight street battles with muslims in the indian capital. fellow malcolm i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also this half hour a warning the worst is yet to come in the global coronavirus emergency the number of infections in south korea has now passed one thousands. forced from power and a popular uprising in egypt goes into 3 days of mourning for hosni mubarak following his death in cairo. also had the chance of protesters threaten to drown out one of latin america's biggest music festivals.

3 days of violence in the indian capital has killed at least 20 people nearly 200 others have been injured as hindu crowds wielding iron bars targeted muslims on the streets of new delhi the muslims were rallying against a new citizenship or that they say discriminates against them other demonstrations against the law have been going on for months tony betty reports now from new delhi . the suburbs of jeffery bad and bad jim bora in northeast delhi have become battlegrounds in the fight against india's citizens amendment rule 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 why would anybody even if i was standing with my mother and sisters protesting peacefully and police and people the mob by foreign entities they're

firing tear gas shells one person was shot in the chest i'm not a shot in the hand at the same time as me. another wounded used to 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 i discuss the police from police because police supporting damn police supporting hindus not muslims. police are being criticized for not intervening in stopping the violence against muslims often simply standing by and watching. videos on social media seem to show please helping hindu nationalists collect rocks and other images of officers apparently beating muslims no one policeman says so you want your freedom and then beats him here 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 it to manifest for me it is easier than i thought i am that it's unfathomable to allow your own people to die like that takes a certain time of it i know 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 ne down. let's bring in correspondent elizabeth purana who is live in new delhi liz good morning so overall is this beginning to take on religious overtones. but that's certainly what we have been seeing over the last few days peter because of course the protesters the people who've been against the citizenship amendment one. is widely seen as being discriminatory against muslims socially in the north east in the areas that we're seeing the violence and the protest is. a lot of them are muslims and it was a hindu politician from the country's ruling by the theater jump the party who made those comments on sunday asking protesters to leave demanding that police clear them and saying that if they don't well you just wait till donald trump leaves and we're going to take matters into our own hands and it was that politician and his

hindu supporters who did attack the muslim crowds and then that led to you know both sides then attacking each other and so that is the danger that we are seeing now being played out elizabeth thanks very much. the world health organization is warning the coronavirus is moving quickly action must be taken quickly as well to prevent it from turning into a pandemic becomes widespread around the world. this is a rapidly escalating at the nomic in different places that we've got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic i mean it's actually we're trying to demonstrate 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 south korea's health ministry has announced $169.00 more

infections mostly in and around the center of the break there that's the city of daegu the total number is now nearly 1200 european health ministers held emergency talks in italy where the virus has spread from caught on yet to tuscany and sicily croatia austria france switzerland and germany all have infections linked to break in italy in iran the number of cases is rising there too the deputy health minister responsible for leading his country's response is among those for the mail americans are being told it is inevitable the virus will spread through to the united states this tracker from the johns hopkins university in the us gives you a good picture of where the outbreak has spread to and the number of cases so far that will total is just over $81000.00 brazil looks to have south america's 1st case a resident from sao paolo who recently returned home from italy live now to south

korea so our correspondent there rob mcbride rob would it be fair to say that the authorities are not winning the battle with this as off yet. it is we still seem to be on this upward trajectory as far as the numbers are concerned we get to the numbers updated twice daily here and we are expecting the updates around about now it's late afternoon here wednesday in seoul but everyone looking with increasing anxiety these bikes as we continue to get more cases because of course we've been told that the next few days are pretty crucial in deciding whether this will be contained around that side of the eastern corner of the country around the city of daigo or not but it certainly is impacting on every day life on the people not going out to restaurants to cinemas people being advised to work from home schools being closed and then you get remarkable one off events such as earlier today right here in the center of seoul one of the big telecoms

providers s.k. telecom it was discovered that one of its employees had come down with a coronavirus that had been in the office so they took the incredible decision to basically close the whole headquarters send everyone home and disinfect it for the rest of the week a building that has just reopened this wednesday is the national assembly that was closed for 24 hours while it was disinfected because they discovered they had a visitor there last week who was infected and they have got right down to the business this wednesday afternoon of passing emergency bills to try to help in the fight against the virus one bill forces empowers various departments in fact forces departments to provide facemasks to vulnerable groups there is. another various other bills to force the testing of for the coronavirus of people whether they like it or not meanwhile just finally we've been hearing from

epidemiologists the experts on the spread of this disease to give us an idea of what south korea can expect to go through and they have been basing their. predictions on the china experience i'm looking at particular at the amount of time that it took to get from the start of this outbreak all the way through to the peak and it is they reckon that based on that of 2 months to that timeline then south korea still has a long way to go it's you have to bear in mind that it was only this time last week and it does seem like a long week that south korea was dealing with cases in of a few dozen it's now well over $1100.00 so you would have to conclude that south korea still has a long ways to go rob thanks very much well coronaviruses reached at least 5 chinese prisons more than 550 inmates a sick the authorities believe it was brought in by guards who shared a bus with people who'd been to

a local hospital do you want what you can't some prison guards did not report after having contact with people from affected areas in who be the failure of complete isolation cause the spread of the virus missions and. the spread in these prisons has revealed the loopholes in management of the prison guards and the lack of effective epidemic prevention and control measures. 5 months from the olympics in tokyo japan's prime minister is calling for sporting and cultural events to be delayed or canceled since the obvious as organization reassess events after 2 weeks once the government knows more about the impact of this outbreak but as a look at the money you are not considering that there is a larger risk of infection for nationwide sports and cultural events where a large number of people gather will consider measures such as suspension put spawn meant and reduction of size for the next 2 weeks. the u.s. president donald trump wants the u.s. congress to approve $2500000000.00 in extra funding to fight the virus its health secretary has been warning that they don't have enough medical supplies to deal

with an outbreak as a white house correspondent kimberly help it. on the defense the trumpet ministration 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 for part will 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 just like you go 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 to 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. still to come here on al-jazeera a report on why some sites is backing the libyan warlord after being accused of sharing an ideology with eisel. we still have plenty of rain sleet and snow pushing into parts of a year up towards the northwest this is in western england flood warnings for many

places still have to severe flood warnings across that western side of england with river levels still extremely high it will be a little drier over the next couple of days but wet weather never really to far away the cloud of the rain that's now making its way across the low countries through germany down into the heart of europe but coming over the next couple of days this next weather system that's waiting in the wings and that will bring further outbreaks of heavy rain and some strong winds into western parts of europe the stay as you can see back up across the british isles what a dry weather around across eastern side of england scotland but she was rattling in they will continue to push their way in from the atlantic wetter weather wintry weather some snow there just around southern germany self down into the alps into austria and heavy rain there around the balkans and that continues to drive its way further east with snow there pushing across southern parts of the balkans blotches guys behind war wintry weather another area of snow and some very heavy rain

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the bank you're watching al-jazeera remind us of our top stories the world health organization has warned of the corona virus outbreak is rapidly escalating and action must be taken quickly to prevent it becoming a pandemic. in south korea the health ministry has announced a 169 more infections mostly in and around the center of the outbreak of the city of new 1200 people are now focused on 3 days of violence in the indian capital has killed at least 20 people 200 injured after a hindu school with muslims in new delhi. protests against the tensions citizenship law tony burke he is our correspondent outside a hospital in northern delhi where some of the injured are being treated 20 what kind of injuries to people have there. a lot of gunshot wounds

a lot of book shot they call it from shotgun pellets stone injuries rock injuries that sort of thing. the death toll at the moment is reach something like 18 but we expect that to rise throughout the course of the day in something like 250 people have been injured that this is one of 3 hospitals in northeast delhi which is handling the casualties no casualties so far today but that may have something to do with the fact that for the time being the whole thing is sort of cooled off a little bit because the original sort of protest started with a sit down sitting by a group of muslim women that blocked a road that cause and some frustration from certain hindu nationalists who then threatened to remove them physically the police eventually went in last night and persuaded them to leave for their own safety that's moved away that actual sort of flash point now has gone but there are several questions about that because this may be seen as something of a victory by those hindu nationalists who've been pushing this violence for the last 3 days and they if this sets

a dangerous precedent because if they can do this here. northeasterly you can do it anywhere so there's concern about that and also the entire issue of this whole thing is begun to change a little bit in northeast delhi at least because this whole protest against the citizens of men act was across the board across all religions with all minorities participating it was a civil rights issue what's happened in northeast delhi is become a religious thing hindus against muslims and that is what the muslim community says the hindu nationalists want they want that narrative to go forward they want not to go on from here they want to blame the muslims and put pressure on them so it's a very murky situation at the moment it is calm but there is still concern about what's going to happen in the coming days because there's no solution to this and this still anger and frustration deep anger and frustration about this citizens amendment acts ok tony many thanks on kong's government has unveiled its largest relief fund in over

a decade to meet the demands of antigovernment protesters permanent residents over 18 years will be given cash and votes salary and property rebates and low taxes for companies the government hopes it will increase local consumption spending spree will lead with a deficit of $50000000000.00 us dollars hong kong's economy has been battered by the months of protests and further hit by the corona virus outbreak clark joins us live from hong kong. will this be enough. well of her nose but to poor chad the financial secretary said these are extraordinary times require extraordinary measures and as you mentioned it's a $15000000000.00 relief deal it's cutting taxes cutting rights and a number of one off payment some every adult or permanent resident above the age of $18.00 in hong kong will get a one off $1200.00 payment we've got $100000000.00 which is also been assigned to

the tourism industry and as you mentioned it's been hit on a number of fronts over recent times more than 9 months or so of protests over the last year and now of course the cry of virus the government also said it will provide for guarantees on loans taken out by individuals and companies to simply pay the wages and taxes but the government spending has outstripped revenue and as you mentioned this particular time it's the 2nd budget deficit now in a row after 15 surpluses so certainly a huge $15000000000.00 relief deal to try and push hong kong out of the current recession that seems to be paralyzing and has done for about a year or so is there a calculation on the part of the authorities syria that poorer people will spend faster so that might be enough just to get the beginnings of a kick start going for the economy because to wealthier people in hong kong is not that big an amount of money but to poorer people that significant. well interestingly you've said that some critics have suggested that this one off

payment to every single permanent resident in hong kong is potentially unnecessary and should particularly be more targeted towards those who are living in poverty and certainly the older generation but when it comes to whether or not the people have welcomed this or not both sides of politics have welcomed this relief package there's been calls for some time now to extend the relation to a larger group of the population here in hong kong and as we mentioned we've got the corona virus which has been hitting hong kong hard as well as the actual so months of protests in hong kong so certainly at the moment as thailand mentioned she said extraordinary times there are quite extraordinary measures and they're hoping this by push hong kong out of the slump of the economic slump that's found itself in their thanks very much. since the libyan warlord relief after the began his offensive to the capital tripoli has courted the west by saying he's trying to rid the country of in his words terrorists but elements within his forces have been accused of sharing an ideology similar to al qaeda and i saw

a chance transferred reports now from tripoli the much alice faces have also been accused of war crimes. these are pointers loyal to walter khalifa haftar battling un backed government forces in eastern libya. i have to says the world should support him because he's a secular force the west contrast to fight terrorism. with many of the most powerful militias fighting for half the are considered by western governments to be a threat to the future stability of libya and the security of their own countries because of the ideology they embrace. the big contradiction is in what have to tries to promote about himself and the evidence which is clear his forces are comprised of so if you had these their ideology scares many people we have seen them storming mosques and forcing others to follow their version of islam they are in an open war against the moderates in libya. these are monthly fighters saying

that huffed is god's chosen one the muckle is follow what some analysts describe as an ultra conservative 6 with a jihadist ideology based in saudi arabia this is a saudi based shaikh telling mudhoney fighters loyal to hafta that their fight against the un backed government in tripoli is a religious one the government in tripoli in western libya says it wants to dissolve all militias fighting on its behalf and integrate them into a national army have to has far more solid peace fighting with him by thousands than the western government so what he says and what's actually happening on the ground is quite different the backbone of his libyan troops the strongest force armament highly salafist to follow an obscure saudi sheik and and have what some claim is a quietist philosophy although this is an anomaly to you for all the analysts

because what kind of quiet is silent this should get people every day this is general haftar with one of his top commanders mahmoud a willfully. and this is a lawfully killing prisoners in benghazi he is wanted by the international criminal court to face war crimes after reportedly detaining a wolf for leave for a few days after released him and promoted him to lieutenant colonel in the near 6 years since warlord khalifa haftar launched his military operation to try and seize power here in libya rights groups such as amnesty international have accused both sides of committing war crimes after describes himself as being a secular leader fighting terrorism a leader the west can trust but for the un backed government here in tripoli military analysts and many people across this country that simply isn't true. but al-jazeera tripoli egypt turns in and 3 days of national mourning after the death

of the former president hosni mubarak who died on tuesday at the age of $91.00 a military funeral will begin within hours but it ruled for 3 decades before being forced from power during the 2011 revolution. the u.s. military says has killed a senior al shabaab member who was behind an attack on a kenyan military base last month one american soldier and 2 contractors' died in the attack on the mandeb a military base used by u.s. and kenyan forces the u.s. and for the commands as the al shabaab leader was killed in somalia on saturday in an airstrike his wife was also a member of the group and she too was killed u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls have held a fiery debate in south carolina 4 days before the next primary moderates as often struggled to take control of a shouting match between the contenders and gallacher reports now from charleston. well bernie goetz batted might be the appropriate tabloid headline in this wasn't to be unexpected bernie sanders is after all the front runner at the moment he must

have been expecting the other candidates to attack him and they attacked him on all the issues from how we will pay for his health care plan his record on gun safety and all sorts of issues bernie sanders handled it all fairly well he seemed to be on his back foot for for much of the debate but it shows the importance of the south carolina primary this is one of the most diverse states it comes just before super tuesday is a big test of the african-american vote has 60 percent of democratic voters in this state are african-american so i think as things get down to the wire as we get toward super tuesday in which 14 states get to vote all the candidates want to eat up the air time and at times this debate seemed almost chaotic everybody was talking over the top of everybody else elizabeth warren in particular had. not much love lost with mayor bloomberg the former mayor of new york so it was kind of

a messy debate at times but most candidates sort of the leading ones seem to hold their own. the opening of a major music festival in chile has been hit by violence it's the latest show of anger over economic inequality protests have been raging for months despite a huge deployment of the security forces more trouble is expected throughout the week in america to see and human reports from. being at the mud is chile's version of monte carlo a seaside city famous for hosting the spanish speaking world's most prestigious songs 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 vineyard than marta festival outside protesters chanted yes we can. as put it vandals ransacked the car dealership others burned

vehicles and destroyed property. president of us stamping it out 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 have also brought out hundreds of peaceful protesters here in the. here in virginia 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 the know they're mad as iconic otello higgins is closing says management until authorities can guarantee the safety of guests and staff living other matters festival is widely being seen as a litmus test of 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 that the arrival of more modern weapons to deal with crowd control including new fortified water can be a goals and possibly paying bombs and acoustic grades the president is commending the police for what he calls their hard work making no mention of 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 and human al-jazeera.

this is a 0 these are the top stories so far 3 days of violence in the indian capital has killed at least 20 people 200 have been injured after hindus fought with muslims in new delhi the protests against a contentious citizenship will elizabeth run as more details from new delhi. at the moment there is a massive paramilitary presence on the streets of the suburbs of the northeastern suburbs to try and control the situation after what's been happening since sunday the delhi high court passed an order they were after midnight and passed an order saying that the injured have to be given passage to make it to hospitals and that is because an ambulance was attacked a fire engine was itself set on fire the world health organization has warned the

coronavirus break is rapidly escalating and action must be taken quickly to prevent it from becoming a pandemic in south korea the health ministry has announced a $169.00 more infections mostly in and around the center of the break that's the city of daegu nearly 1200 people infected hong kong's government has unveiled its biggest relief fund in over a decade to meet the demands of antigovernment protesters permanent residents over 18 years will be given cash and salary and property rebates and low taxes for companies spending spree will leave it with a deficit of $15000000000.00 in egypt and 3 days of national mourning following the death of the former leader hosni mubarak who died on tuesday he was 91 a military funeral is planned for weapons a year old for 3 decades before he was forced from power during the 20th 11 revolution. the u.s. military says has killed a senior member who was behind an attack on

a kenyan military base last month one american soldier and 2 contractors died in the attack on the mound a military base used by u.s. and kenyan forces the u.s. africa command says the leader was killed in somalia on saturday in an airstrike his wife was also a member of the group she too was killed u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls have held a fiery debate in south carolina days ahead of the state primaries joe biden is still leading in the polls there but bernie sanders is chipping away at his lead the news continues here on al-jazeera the stream i'll have more news in 30 minutes also you know that. that will define the democratic race for the white. team states get to make their choice challenge. in the presidential election join us for america's super tuesday. special coverage live on al jazeera.

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