would winning documentaries from around the world. on al-jazeera. a major turning point in the crowd a virus outbreak with more new cases outside china than with for the 1st time. i'm compelled this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up pleading for peace india's capital remains on edge after 3 days of rioting over a controversial citizenship law that killed over 20 people. turkey says it will push back against syrian government forces as the number of displaced people in the north reaches nearly a 1000000. from rivals to allies the rivals again will have the latest on

malaysia's political upheaval. for the 1st time since the crowd a virus outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within 37 countries have tallied 427 new cases of beijing's it's counted 411 earlier the world health organization warned immediate action is needed to prevent it from becoming a pandemic is widespread around the world a crowd of virus was 1st detected in china's who had province and late december but the infection rate appears to be slowing down in mainland china where the outbreak began the virus is spreading through europe with new cases in france the majority are in italy more than $370.00 confirmed infections are there and 12 deaths and it's reached south america now with brazil reporting a case there more than 81000 cases have been reported globally from those about

2700 people have died and mohammed john jr is in milan and has more on the containment efforts there. it's been expected that we would be hearing about more cases because there are more proactive measures being taken here to try to test people to try to diagnose cases of corona virus we're also told by the civil protection agency that now the death toll is 12 and the 12 victims was in the lumbar the region is a man of the age of 69 and that he had an underlying health condition most of the victims have been aged have been over the age of 60 and many of them in their eighty's with fragile health conditions that have contributed to it to the fact that they got the coronavirus and died from it now one of the thing to mention that we've also been told that the army has now gone to those checkpoints those areas outside the red zones that are located in lombardy region and also invented to

a region to try to ensure that people are not coming out of those quarantine towns while cars are not permitted to go in and out unless they have special permission to do so there have been residents who have been able to walk in and out of those town centers and the army now is involved to try and ensure that those containment measures are fully in effect well cross the border from initially fronts remains a highly the 1st french citizen has died and 2 more coronavirus cases have been confirmed that brings the total number of cases there to 17 let's go live now to natasha butler who sent harristown tosca more and more people are being diagnosed with chronic virus who have no even been to contaminated regions tell tell us what we know about the french citizen who's died from the virus. well we are learning more details from french health authorities officials about this french citizen the 1st french national to die in france of the coronavirus there has already been one death in france before this it was

a chinese tourist earlier this year now what french health officials say is that this was a 60 year old man he started having flu like symptoms 2 weeks ago he was feeling very sick but his health deteriorated in the last few days he was rushed to hospital in paris new died overnight tuesday to wednesday now he came from a region called walls which is north of paris he was a teacher and of course you can imagine that has raised a lot of concerned with others at his school with children parents other teachers as to whether or not he may have contaminated any people he came into contact with the only thing that might give some people a sense of hope is that he became sick just before the school broke up for its 2 week winter break so it's thought that perhaps he didn't have as much contact as he might have had if this had happened during the term now of course the investigators are checking everybody that he might of had some contact with within the period

that he was actually working the ministry there is for officials looking into this is how did he catch the coronavirus how was he infected because he didn't travel to any contaminated countries and it's the same case with another man a 55 year old that health officials say is also in hospital in a critical condition from the same region he also didn't travel to any contaminated countries or areas so health officials really racing against the clock to try and find out exactly who passed on this virus died of these 2 men and tasha given all of those are now how are french authorities trying to prevent the spread of the crowd a virus. well the french government is stepping up preventative emergency measures more than 100 hospitals now in france they say

are equipped and ready to receive patients they can die can go as they can isolate them and treat them the government's also ordered millions of special masks that will be given to health workers in case they should come into contact with current virus patients so to try and help prevent them become affected schools universities educational institutions of also a center messages to parents to students saying don't come to school don't come to university if you have traveled to an infected contaminated country in the past a few days stay away for 14 days that quarantine period so the government certainly being extremely vigilant in fact the french prime minister edward felipe is having an emergency meeting with health ministers education ministers as we speak to discuss the current virus to discuss their strategy but so far the message from the government is of course that the public should be very aware should be vigilant but there's no cause to panic natasha butler there live from paris thank you

iran has blamed the united states for spreading misinformation about the virus the government says the situation is under control the least 19 people have died and $130.00 people are infected including the deputy health minister same bus ravi is interim. during a weekly cabinet meeting iranian president hassan rouhani struck an optimistic tone saying that the reports about containing the coronavirus in iran are promising a taskforce set up earlier this week by the president including senior members of the government and armed forces he said are making gains in controlling the spread of the disease something that has become a major public health crisis here in the country he also addressed public concerns about whether or not the information coming from officials could actually be trusted this after a member of parliament representing the city of home where the 1st case was detected said the number of cases and deaths from this virus are far higher than

official figures reported by the government here's what the president had to say about that and i don't mean. i emphasize that we don't manipulate the figures we know the increased nor decrease them nor do we exaggerate or downplayed him i've told the health ministry to announce any figures they have this is a plot we see today in foreign propaganda recently a high ranking u.s. official made a comment about coronavirus in iran that themselves are dealing with the flu 16000 died because of that this year but they don't talk about it and now they are turning their attention to corona virus in iran earlier this week president hassan rouhani also said that the situation in the country could begin to normalize as early as saturday just a matter of days now but during a briefing by the spokesman for the country's health ministry he said that government officials are expecting the number of corona virus cases in iran to go up in coming days india's capital remains on the edge off to 3 days of rising

killed of the 20 people as heavy security on the streets of northeast delhi that's following violent clashes over a new citizenship law that excludes muslims of the 200 people have been in shit buildings with specialized mosques ransacked and the worst rioting for decades is there is tony but the is then delhi he says the citizenship more is becoming an increasingly divisive issue. the major violent scenes are stopped at least for now and now they're assessing the damage as you can see quite extensive in this part but also the human cost the death casualty figures are going up by the hour almost and something like 250 people have been injured and killed and now there's a mop up operation that has been a piece really because of women who were decided to stop their protest in jaffer a bad at a station. after intense provocation by hindu nationalists now that

violence is spin some of the worst that delhi has seen in decades and the casualties show that so there's a big deep rooted problem that has now overshadow what this whole matter was about this was about civil rights over the citizens amendment act but it's being come in northeast delhi something about religion between muslims and hindus and that's not how it was this whole protest movement began because of across the board all religious denominations all minorities protesting about this new law which they say was racist now the problem is now this is being used as a kind of victory now by some of the hindu nationalists they said they wanted these women to be moved they were moved and now it sets a dangerous precedent what will happen in future if there's another protest will they do the same thing violence seems to work now we've had nothing from the prime minister mr modi until today 3 days after this whole thing started and he calling

for calm he's calling for peace and harmony with has been no peace and harmony here quite the reverse the problem is how can they rebuild now from this how can they regain the trust if you look at this damage it's superficial compared to the deep rooted scars we've spoken spoken to people who've lost their loved ones hindus and muslims they have suffered their ones have been killed we don't know exactly who was responsible for the killings most of the people seem to be killed by gunshot wounds but some are. also have been stoned and beaten so to the point where their injuries me meant they died so we don't know what the situation is there needs to be an inquiry human rights activists are calling for the government to actually take deeper stronger measures to find out the root causes of this and find the people who were responsible and bring them to justice that we may be one of the 1st steps needed to bring these communities together again turkish president reza type one says his forces are preparing to push back syrian troops and if the province they're advancing through the country's north in

a bid to retake the last rebel held area the united nations estimates nearly 950000 people have been displaced there since the beginning of december saw bellus reports . syrian troops on the move it live province is the holdout the one place president bashar al assad is yet to claim that village by village it's coming within reach. we are curing on towards more villages of months are we are we are still in action stores are in spite of the took a support to our enemies using foreign arms and ammunition these russian backed syrian government soldiers are fighting turkish backed rebels now turkey is facing a challenge with its observation posts in the province around it and president richard type one has ordered his troops to push back. russia does not want to accept humanitarian sensitivity the time that we gave to those who besieged

or observation posts is ending we are preparing plans to liberate our observation posts from the surrounding forces by the end of february 1 way or another. he also warns that turkey will attack government forces anywhere in syria if another turkish soldiers injured 16 have been killed in syria this month his speech came as a russian delegation arrived in turkey to discuss the crisis and it lived with though president vladimir putin has ruled out a summit with the turkish german and french leaders the fight for control of the province has forced nearly a 1000000 people from their homes since early december the u.n. says more than half of the people now living in places like this a children. we left our area about 20 days ago we left under airstrikes with only the clothes on our backs we were left out in the open and spent some time under trees we went towards the city of al-bab but we didn't find any place to live and no one who had let us stay on their land. in the 9 years since the war began

many people have fled frontlines for the relative safety of it lib now the front line has come to them they're increasingly squeezed against the border with turkey the syrian forces inch food shelling residential areas otoh one has intervened worried about another potential refugee crisis. we are not going to take even a little step back in the ad lib we will push the syrian regime forces out of the areas that we've designated and let people return back to their houses but for now that's not an option at least $26.00 people including schoolchildren were killed and more than $100.00 injured this week the white helmets risky group says 8 schools and kindergartens were deliberately targeted with cluster bombs syrian forces have captured dozens of towns and villages and any pushback by turkey may leave residents in the crossfire shallop bellus al-jazeera. so ahead on al-jazeera

after years of violence many in south sudan fair history may be repeating itself. and while hong kong's government is giving citizens a can. ash turned out. clearer but dry weather pushing into japan at the moment this area cloud that is in the process of putting out into the open waters little area of low pressure tucked in behind it got the northerly winds that's why it's going to cool off so temperatures struggling to get into double figures still a few wintry flowers coming in across northern parts of the whole issue through the whole qaida so wintry flurries to into northern areas of china beijing struggling to get to around 4 or 5 to grace the central areas system cloud and rain which will become a little more expansive as we go on through friday pushing over towards the korean

peninsula south of that not bad in hong kong temperatures here at around $23.00 degrees with some sunshine about sunshine stretches down across indochina through the philippines usual russia showers there across malaysia heaviest of which looking likely to cling on just around about indonesia some more big downpours coming in here to go on through the next couple of days now when they was wet as it was all monday but still wet nevertheless a little bit of wet weather making its way across northeastern parts of india through bangladesh for much of india now it is dry and sunny that sunshine extending down into sri lanka want to see showers and notice just around the kerala want to see showers some more wintry nature up to the far north the region. perception is validation really want to be seen but unlike thailand we cannot see me everything that we rely on experiences of. the

legacy of previous generations. that testimony. we know very. well with this documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera. the the what. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour for the 1st time since the groan of virus outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the now but within 37 countries have reported new cases the virus is spreading in europe with

new cases in france and greece italy is the worst affected with 12 deaths of more than 370 people or had factions. indeed prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence in delhi least 22 people were killed during protests against a contentious citizenship. a state funeral has been held in cairo for egypt's former leader hosni mubarak he died on tuesday at the age of 91 mubarak was in power for 3 decades until being forced out during the 20 live in revolution the funeral complete with cannon fire and a horse drawn carriage looks to be part of government efforts to highlight mubarak's military career rather than his time in office. a talks have been held in vienna to try and salvage the 2015 iran nuclear deal delegates from the european union china and russia sat down with a reigning officials the 1st meeting since an official dispute process was launched of the violations by iran to iran began breaking some of its commitments when the

us pulled out of the deal and 2800 and reinstated crippling sanctions the un says political talks on libya are underway in geneva but groups on both sides have said they're not currently participating in the process of diplomatic editor james phases there with the latest. the u.n. will not confirm exactly who is attending these talks we know they were going to invite 13 delegates from the house of representatives now that is dominated by those who are loyal to general haftar and they say they're not participating currently in this process on the other side the government of national accord well their states council 13 members of that were invited again they say they're not taking part that leaves the 14 members invited by the u.n. representing civil society it's not clear whether they're here either and how many of them have turned up for these talks south africa is one of the key members of

the african union dealing with the issue of libya its deputy foreign minister told me everyone needs to come to geneva for these talks libya is important farces chairperson of the african union because. if there is no peace in libya it adversely impact politically and economically in the entirety of the region in africa so our poor to all the peace activists is there to aggressively pursue engagement on. immediate. cessation of hostilities the u.n. special representative ghassan salami who's running these talks is clearly trying to get some momentum into libya's diplomacy but it leaves an important question if the key players who can end the war aren't here what is the point of these negotiations. malaysia's interim prime minister mahathir mohamad says he'll return as leader if he has enough support in parliament 2 days ago he resigned suddenly

and his party quit the governing coalition are there now says he wants to form a new unity government but she says wouldn't be aligned with any specific party but his former coalition partner ana abraham says 3 parties have nominated him as prime minister and my supporters have been protesting outside the palace where the king is holding talks signs though he is in the city of young gone and me in march she says neither anwar norma had here have enough support. anwar ibrahim has said you know he's got the support of his coalition but they're now down to 3 parties instead of there about 11 politicians from his party why that's been sacked or resign means he's down by about 3 dozen politicians so it's not clear whether or not the support you have the majority in on him to actually be nominated as the next prime minister and then take a look at what mahathir has said so he's saying that he's got enough support in on the bench he will stay on as the prime minister while his position is

a bit shaky on that it was 24 hours ago when he proposed that we would ports emerge about he was proposing to lead a unity government then the main opposition party known as you know this is a party that had planned over the weekend to to to form an alliance that was going to take over they've known come out to say that they're not going to support a unity government so if mahathir is going to propose a unity government and himself as prime minister he may not have the support of so it's also not clear whether north he has the numbers to do that but the main grouse in the main fear of civil society organizations and activists is if a coalition is to be formed and if this is a way that opposition politicians think they can return to government having been voted out in the last election 2 years ago then there will be more political upheaval in the major. hong kong's government has unveiled its largest relief fund in over a decade to meet the demands of anti-government protesters permanent residents over

18 years will be given cash handouts salary and property rebates and low taxes for companies the government hopes it will increase local consumption the spending spree will leave it with a deficit of $15000000000.00 on kong's economy has been battered by the months of protests and now further hit by the coronavirus break so a caucus in hong kong with more on what's in the budget. 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 1000 $200.00 payment with $100000000.00 which is also being assigned to the tourism industry and the government also said it would provide full guarantees on loans taken out by individuals and companies to simply pay the wages and taxes but the government spending has outstripped revenue it's a 2nd budget deficit now in a row after 15 surplus and some critics have suggested that this one off payment to every single permanent resident in hong kong is potentially unnecessary and should

potentially 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 relief 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 also months of protests in hong kong so certainly at the moment as thailand mentioned she said it's extraordinary times there are quite extraordinary measures and they're hoping to push hong kong out of the slump the economic slump that's found itself in. south sudan's warring parties formed a transitional unity government on saturday as part of a power sharing agreement aimed at ending years of conflicts the fighting began and 20132 years after south sudan gained its independence since 2016 the number of those killed has risen to an estimated $400000.00 that's according to the u.n. more than $4000000.00 people have been displaced rights groups estimate the war has

cost hundreds of millions of dollars and a severe impacts on the economy and that's led to a shortage of humanitarian aid the un's world food program says 6500000 people are in need of food assistance about morgan reports from juba on where the people have hopes for lost in case. almost every evening just of get on and his friends meet under this tree they discussed life and the recent political developments in their country south sudan specifically the latest power sharing deal that has seen the reappointment of opposition leader rick machar after years of war i hope you can see also ben would not feel. so alone i wanted as i was to be there because. joseph says he feels the deal take south sudan back to where it was in 2013 he wonders what if anything has been achieved africa's youngest country seceded from sudan in 2011 after 2 decades of fighting between years later its own civil war

started when the president salva kiir accused his vice president take machar of attempting a coup a deal was signed in 2015 to end the war that killed thousands and displaced over a 1000000 people but it didn't last i cannot assure you that things will be different but what. we need to restore peace and stability in the country will be a national army. the militia. or belong to the top of the new deal is a revitalized version of the 2015 deal and has been broadened to include other armed opposition groups that were born after that deal collapsed. machar is once again vice president along with 4 of us with the same position the deal also includes a 3 year transition period before elections are held the revitalised deal includes sharing of ministerial cabinet positions between the government and the opposition groups that's yet to happen it would is for the war even you can read from the

political leaders face that all of them they are fed up in continue to do so they by this time adjust to assume political issues politically in the state of their. fight. the partial formation of a transitional government last saturday didn't come without deadlines both regionally and internationally repeatedly missed deadlines that sanctions on federal government officials frustration through among thousands mean the poor economy and the worsening humanitarian crisis but some doubt the future of the current deal they fear it's a return to the days when the president and the vice president didn't present each other. joseph and his friends have nicknamed the treaty meat under the tree of hope they say they'll wait to see how the revitalized deal is implemented and the improvements it can bring and hope it better south sudan after years of suffering morgan al-jazeera juba. there's been protests in mexico over the killing of 3

students and their overdrive crowds of students and teaches gathered to demonstrate against their deaths in the central city of the 3 students had gone missing after catching a new bridge airing cannibals celebrations. let's go back to our story now in the corona virus outbreak so far the philippines has only a handful of confirmed cases but roman catholics were urged to avoid physical contact as they observed ash wednesday the christian day of prayer and fasting on a below has more from manila. ash wednesday marks the beginning of a 40 day period leading up to easter sunday and here in dominantly catholic philippines it's an important day where millions of filipinos go to church to have their foreheads marked with ash now the ash is a symbol of repent so usually what happens is priests would tip their finger into a bowl of ashes and we use that same finger to mark the 4 heads off

believers but this year that's not what's happening in many of the churches because the catholic leadership off the country that's recommended the sprinkling instead often drive ash onto the crowd of heads of churchgoers to prevent contact between priests and church chorus and this is due to the coronavirus care he would like to even be airing the ale motion. rather than. something. and then not they was reduced to priest marking our poor hoods on ash wednesday but they understand that because of the virus they had to make adjustments now it's worth noting that these bring pulling of ashes on the crown of heads of the reverse it's not an imposition but just a recommendation and in fact some churches have opted to follow tradition and that is to mark the 4 heads i believe are as we. now inside the church right behind me

would see people still kissing and touching the image of jesus but moving forward the country's catholic leadership should says that's not what they're recommending to do ask a country of service the lenten season and some a great easter. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories for the 1st time since the corona virus outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within 37 countries have reported new cases the virus is spreading in europe with new cases in france and greece italy is the worst affected with 12 deaths and more than 370 reported infections. jim has more from northern italy it's been expected that we would be hearing about more cases because there are more proactive measures being taken here to try to test people to try to diagnose cases of corona virus we're also told by the civil protection agency that now the death

toll is 12 and the 12 victim was in the lumbar the region is a man the age of 69 of them he had an underlying health condition most of the victims have been aged have been over the age of 60 and many of them in their eighty's with the fragile health conditions indian prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence and delhi at least 22 people were killed during protests against a contentious citizenship till nearly 200 others were injured after hindus fought with muslims turkish president wretch of type one says unco will push back moscow backed syrian forces and if the province and make it safe for civilians united nations estimates nearly 950000 people have been displaced there since the beginning of december. a state funeral has been held in cairo for egypt's former leader hosni mubarak he died on tuesday at the age of 91 barak was in power for 3

decades until he was forced out during the 2011 revolution. talks have been held in vienna to try to salvage the 2015 iran nuclear agreement delegates from the european union china and russia sat down with iranian officials the 1st meeting since an official dispute process was launched of the violations firearm to iran began breaking some of its commitments when the us pulled out of the deal in 28. malaysia's interim prime minister mahathir mohamad says he'll return as later if he has enough support in parliament 2 days ago he resigned lay and his party quit the governing coalition but his form a coalition pop not on what i bring him says 3 parties have nominated him as prime minister so with us witness is coming up next.

the way her but. i have never really fit into any mold or any group i've heard at all like you're not salami you know you're not a good muslim you're not american in the. multiple identities multiple things that make me what i am. that's what makes me. not an easy thing to be when the world wants me to be like one thing or the other. a young.