russia sees this. as a threat. the all the. u.s. south korea military exercises are suspended in saudi arabia stops issuing visas for religious travel amid growing coronavirus concerns. because of all we've done the risk to the american people we made very low meanwhile u.s. president donald trump defies medical experts and downplays the risk of the virus spreading through america. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha and also ahead hindus and muslims burney their loved ones in india some of the worst rioting in decades leaves at least 25 people dead. heavy

rain from a record breaking monsoon season in indonesia has thousands of flood victims blaming the government for not being prepared to. conflict through the eyes of children a sneak peek at 2 critically acclaimed movies the viewing at the berlin film festival. hello the united states and south korea have indefinitely postponed joint military exercises as a result of the corona virus outbreak south korea has recorded its highest number of cases in a single day so far pushing the total number of people in fact it's almost 1600 and in the middle east saudi arabia has announced it's temporarily halting visas for both the on the pilgrimage and for people coming in from affected countries. iraq

has closed schools universities and banned public gatherings as well as flights from several countries and qatar has ordered the evacuation of cats harry and co wady says it citizens from iran due to the spread of infections there over the us president donald trump has appointed vice president mike pence to lead the response against corona virus outbreak and an hour long press conference trump downplayed any criticism of his handling of the issue but we're very very ready for this for anything whether it's going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we're you know we're at that very low level and we want to keep it that way so we're at the low level as they get better we take them off the list so that we're going to be pretty soon at only 5 people and we could be at just one or 2 people over the next short period of time so we've had very good luck and in europe rons has recorded its 2nd death while

italy has confirmed its 12th and the man who returned to brazil after visiting italy has become latin america's 1st case globally more than 81000 cases of corona virus have been recorded in 44 countries and territories robert bride is joining us from seoul with more on the developments from south korea and we have confirmation that the u.s. and south korea are calling off their joint military exercises because of the virus rob what more can you tell us on that. that's right there's been growing expectations here that these exercises would have to be postponed and now we've had confirmation of it if anything it would have been strange if they had gone ahead hosted by a government which is telling its own people to avoid crowds do stage exercises that bring thousands of soldiers together so they have been postponed we had yesterday the 1st confirmed case of a u.s. service personnel getting the coronavirus and we have various quarantine provisions

in place of the number of bases military bases in south korea it's interesting these these spring exercises are always controversial it always provokes and angers north korea but they have always been staged for decades now even during times of heightened hostility with north korea they have gone ahead even the last couple of years when we've had this process of reconciliation and they have still gone ahead but it's taken this coronavirus now to put an end to them at least till later on this year also south korea is coming to terms with the growing number of countries and territories basically imposing travel restrictions up to 40 countries now have travel restrictions back and forth with south korea the latest being the u.s. state department to re raising its alert level telling its citizens to seriously reconsider any travel plans to south korea and what about the latest numbers that

you're hearing of bring us up to date with. the number of new infections that south korea is reporting. you know this has been the largest single spike in new cases 334 bringing the total up to nearly 1600 so it is a cause for heightened concern here there are some respects quite alarming but then to look at the positive side there is increased testing the especially around the daegu city area in the southeast corner of the country the government's been really pushing its testing testing centers on the number of people being tested so we could expect to see a spike like this in fact in the last 24 hours 7 and a half 1000 tests and these tests are quite complicated. involve a lot of personnel hours to conduct them so they have been conducted in the past 24 hours and in particular we are seeing more members of this church the sheen showing

g. church of jesus which is at the center of the outbreaks down in the southeast of the country we're seeing more of those members being tested who are proving positive and in fact of the 1000 test results that have come back from church members a staggering 82 percent have proved to be positive all right robin wright thank you for that update from seoul. kimberly healthcare is at the white house with more on president trump's coronavirus briefing. the u.s. president may be eating his words when it comes to some of the numbers he really tried to stress the and downplay the number of cases of corona virus in the united states originally talking about the original 15 as he called it but we know that there are at least 60 confirmed cases in the united states including one case in northern california where public health officials are not exactly sure how that transmission occurred given this person had not immediately returned from china had

not had any contact perhaps you know with the cruise ship passengers or any other so this is something that is very concerning there's also the concern that by the fact that there is not adequate testing in the united states very few people lee hundreds have been tested versus thousands in other countries so there has been an effort by the trumpet ministration to cut it down play but many are questioning the facts given the fact that there is not sort of this widespread public health response that is currently in place having said that as the president tried to sort of allay the fears of the american public the public health officials here at the white house who appeared with him didn't quite do that in fact they said that it's time for businesses to put their pandemic plans in place that schools should be doing the same and they also prepare the american public for a rise in the number of cases we've seen here in the u.s.

so as we mentioned drastic measures have been announced in iraq to stop the spread of the virus 0 simona for those in baghdad and she's us it's unclear how the containment measures will be enforced. ministry of health issued a new decree earlier this evening announcing far reaching measures in what appears to be an effort to her terrible spread of the virus here in iraq so far there have been 5. 100 cases of the coronavirus including in the southern cities of measure and in the northern city of kirkuk perhaps in the most surprising what measures to help ministry has said it would be for building any public gatherings closing down her face sooner and that clubs prevent that lyra's from spreading and now it's uncertain what exactly will fall under these public gatherings the degree specifically mentioned tastes in the most and clubs did not for example mention

restaurants or gentlemen's to be seen whether those will also be closed and whether and how these measures will actually be enforced so neighboring iran has announced domestic travel restrictions at least 19 people have died there and more than one $130.00 are infected including the deputy health minister zambia striving isn't to her on. 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 increase no decrease them nor do we exaggerate or downplay him i've told the health ministry to announce the 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 it themselves are dealing with the flu 16000 died because of that the cea 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 the government officials are expecting the number of coronavirus cases in iran to go up

in coming days let's speak to dr van that's a he's an affiliate assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the university of washington he's joining us via skype from seattle hi there thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera so let's talk about some of these measures being put put in place in the middle east iraq banning all public gatherings in suspending schools in universities saudi arabia as well temporarily suspending entry to the kingdom for religious purposes and several countries shutting their borders with iran how effective are these measures in your opinion. they are ineffective and what we know about or intervening in the study of a pandemic is that it doesn't work earlier in the report we talked about a patient of that in northern california who has the virus tested positive for it without a compelling travel history this goes to what we've been talking about now for the past month which is corona virus can be transmitted in a sense a matic fashion a piece you can happen in the saliva they can transmitted to someone else. and

given that transmission hatter and we haven't seen anything like this in recent history at least flu sars mers you you had a cough to transmit that disease coronavirus it's different so how are we going to quarantine or block all borders to some of protect global public health is not going to work diseases like this find a way this is just going to cause massive steria in yeah but this is also about a reassuring the public what is the risk to the public at the moment particularly in this region in the middle east what's your assessment. so i think there's an old let's draw a line between preempting gatherings of like gabby's and mek and medina i think that that is forward thinking that makes sense to me if we can prevent a large gathering of people as a pandemic may be happening regionally ok that makes sense to me it doesn't make sense though to close off borders to quarantine to stop flights when we can't even detect. coronavirus accurate you can't do

a united states you can't do it on the health systems it takes too much time the technology isn't there so how we can basically a group of individuals who are suspected disease we don't even have a good way of testing for it this is just going to create more chaos more public distrust of government not increasing trust and so i think we need to really focus on what's the truth here the truth is we just don't have good technology to test for chronic irises we should be instituting policies like norms and what about the even medical equipment in the infrastructure to deal with this in the middle east how do you assess the country's capabilities and particularly we know that there have been several countries that a war torn countries whose health systems have been weakened by war so how worrying would an outbreak in those countries be like iraq syria yemen for example. i don't think that you are touching on the point that concerns us. a pan and epidemic

pandemic and for going there calling this a pandemic it will become a pandemic because it takes root in countries like you just mentioned syria yemen iraq these are countries that have fragmented health systems at best we're being generous in calling them fragmented they're very weak they have no ability to accurately detect surveil much less treat patients with chronic virus with any degree of precision or confidence how so of course this is going to take root and this is the concern that detainee groups and others of the job he messaging on that if we cannot control coronavirus it's going to take root in sub-saharan africa and take root systems in the middle east and come fall in 2020 in the in the western hemisphere so start research way to again across the globe this is the major issue here are we aren't talking enough about it all right we appreciate you giving us your analysis dr van thanks very much. still ahead on

al-jazeera. a bird in the u.s. becomes the latest. and the ference funeral for egypt's former long time president forced from power during the 2011 revolution. welcome back home have a look at weather conditions across the americas the main feature in north america is the snow across ontario into quebec and eventually pushing into newfoundland and so that's really quite heavy the front itself associated with the rain across eastern seaboard is moving away so fine conditions roughly speaking for many areas moving on through into friday snow begins to clear away little bit of rain across

some more eastern areas and fine across the west except for the pacific northwest where we have got some rain and indeed snow higher elevations into central parts of america we've got these strong winds extending further towards assize during the course of thursday so run into the gulf of sirte should get better but as we move further into wards guatemala and honduras and it's looking very wet and search for coastal parts of honduras and caribbean side that would like to see. times as a move the forecast through to friday not a great deal of change that rain really a static so large amount is going to build up from any of his the caribbean weather conditions are looking pretty good because we had done it to south america we have seen in recent days some very heavy rain affecting southern parts of peru some really severe flooding has been occurring in placing say mudslides of course some fatalities still some heavy showers in the forecast the past looking at highs of 12 .

americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so plainly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. there is no channel that covering world views like we do revisit a thing i'll just say are really invested in them and that's a privilege as a journalist. the end. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the united states and south korea joint

military exercises as a result of the corona virus outbreak south korea has just reported its highest number of cases in a single day so far pushing the total number of people infected to almost $1600.00 . u.s. president donald trump says his country is ready for any potential outbreak of coronavirus that the u.s. would spend whatever is appropriate to come back they don't know this trump also pointed vice president mike pence to manage the country's response. at least 5 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the u.s. state of a walkie and the attack took place at the headquarters of the most and poor's brewing company local media reporting that the shooter is now dead. this is a time for us to think about those families. because there are 5 individuals who went to work today. just like everybody goes to work. and they thought they were going to go to work. finish their day and return to their families.

they didn't. and tragically they never will. india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 4 days of violence in new delhi at least 25 people have lost their lives and more than 200 are injured in hospitals and there is now anger over the decision to transfer the capital's 3rd highest ranking judge after he criticised both the central and state governments as well as the local police force tony berkeley reports from delhi. i'm going there no no no after the street battle subsided wednesday was a day hindus and muslims mourn the loss of loved ones after some of the worst violence delhi has suffered in decades this is the funeral of muhammad 1st can a father of 2 who was killed when the violence began a few days ago he was on the way to shops to buy food for his kids at a bus the college i received a call saying that my brother has been shot i couldn't believe it i was with him an hour earlier i rushed to the hospital but i found that he was already dead he

doesn't know who was responsible. that both sides of the community hindus and muslims have suffered outside the morgue of the state run hospital relishes await the completion of post-mortem examination zone victims so they can take the bodies for cremation or burial. this man says his nephew died from a bullet to the neck he says he was fired by a muslim at the this. week but when he was pressed he says he never witnessed the killing. the violence stopped after a group of muslim women were persuaded to abandon their city in protest. blocked a busy road and angered hindu nationalists and the government sent in paramilitary forces and rapid reaction units to reopen the suburbs. the death toll is rising and hundreds of injured people are being treated in 3 local hospitals many of the dead are said to have died from bullet wounds it's not

clear who was responsible. there was a physical cost to these of the scarred remains of muslim owned businesses in cardwell nagar in northeast delhi some people have lost everything the major violence may have stopped at least for now but it's been so damaging the question is how long will it take communities both muslim and hindu to heal and how can they ever fully restore trust lawyers have started the legal process for those who were sponsible for inciting the violence to face justice the protests against the new citizenship law which started in december were joined by people from all religions and minorities across india there is a concern now that hindu nationalists may try and turn this into a religious issue i am seriously concerned about this is the players from there this indicted movement is going to be given a religious shape which is in fact not after 3 days of silence prime minister. sent

out a tweet calling for calm and for peace and harmony to be restored the streets are quieter but the death toll is expected to rise and the repercussions of what happened here are likely to affect not just the capital but also the whole of india tony berkeley al-jazeera delhi. a former military. as a whole reports the general highlighted his military career rather than his controversial time in office. hosni mubarak's coffin draped in the egyptian flag and horse drawn to the sound of cannon fire a funeral with full military honors for the man who led egypt for 30 years and whose legacy divides many nearly a decade after the arab spring. he was a military man and he achieved a lot for egypt we will not look at his shortcomings only no one is perfect it is

mubarak's wartime record that the government would like he remembered for these 3 decades in power brought relative stability but also economic stagnation and repression it's quite a lot of pomp and circumstance when you when you really stop and think about it for a man who only 9 years ago was ousted by a popular revolt and then a year later sentenced to life in prison we forget for ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters he was openly mocked and ridiculed. in egyptian society and egyptian media hated by millions of egyptians but all we've seen over these last few years is a counter revolution in egypt they've reframed the narrative around the january 25th revolution and now they're honoring the man who was who was ousted it's really quite the change of circumstance. mubarak's rule invites uncomfortable comparisons

with the egypt of today under another former military officer who rose to be president. sisi freed mubarak in 2017 off 2 years in jail for conspiring to murder demonstrators during the 2011 uprising the egypt of today still remembers the rejoicing on the streets after mubarak was swept from. but a new era of democracy proved a full story o'barr successor mohamed morsi was deposed by sisi lasting only a year as egypt's 1st freely elected leader after he died while on trial and in detention last year morsi is funeral took place on the heavy government restrictions and out of the public eye in stark contrast hosni mubarak was buried a hero for his role in the 1973 arab israeli war apparently forgiven for an era of decline and human rights abuse that under egypt's current leadership critics say

has only grown worse jonah how al-jazeera. severe flooding in the capital is affecting thousands of families many of whom are blaming the city government for not doing enough to protect them. as in jakarta. after the rain this is a sense of quiet resignation to work together to clean up the streets the floodwater is a frequent unwelcome presence in their homes these family members are wearing clothes borrowed from relatives the television isn't working they've burned a church destroyed and they bedding and clothes are ruined. we are traumatized it has happened so many times just this month things a ruined the water came in so fast we didn't have time to save them. you can't as local government is being criticized over how his administration has handled this year's floods advisors to the national government say there was

a lack of preparation. the judge. what has happened in the january floods was such massive destruction we have early warning systems to plan ahead for example they should have dedicated land for people to leave because so few of vehicles could have been damaged lawyer as us to go. is leading a class action on behalf of those affected by floods in january when 66 people were killed in flash flooding he says more people may join the class action as the floods continue the. there is no early warning system we have the rainy season all the time there should be more preparation but nothing has changed . governor a nice press waited says the city is adequately prepared for the rainy season and has been monitoring and clearing got his own homes and buildings as a precaution but many say that's not enough this is now a familiar routine for people here self evacuating and then coming back to assess

the damage and at least try to clean up this area has been flooded at least 5 times this month and there's more extreme weather coming hundreds have sought shelter at a local mosque after torrential rain some have begun to return home but it won't be long before they may need to leave again more heavy rain and storms are forecast until the beginning of next month just to washington al-jazeera jakarta to the berlin film festival now where 2 movies look at how children in poor countries deal with stressful situations arising out of corporate greed one of them is. on the other in nicaragua dominic cain has more. on the wide steps of his home 11 year old hopes his fatherhood cathal his is a traditional mongolian community new told to thank you. but

while he likes it out almost. that amor also likes to have fun he dreams of winning prizes for his singing. this song is called golden thing it's a reminder of the abundant natural resources under this land but others want that land to mining companies who offer small compensation to buy amorous trying out of their own land when his father dies suddenly faced by a world of to see of doubt and of danger. his father's legacy means he must grow up fast and for the film's young star there's one overriding message then i can only. dynamo sample i hope people will realize the dangers that mining can bring to our world there are so many mining companies and because of that the rivers are drying up and this means that farmers and herders can't keep their sheep and goats and cows fully fed it watered people who live in the city really don't know about this

. amorous struggle against the odds in veins of the world opens up a window on the struggle and the demonstration of childhood resilience it's a theme we also see in the documentary peril about a child in the cargo or struggling again against adversity at the start we see farrow with his grandmother in their community close to the jungle then we follow peril as he explores the environment around him where his natural curiosity takes him up with a lone we see him playing with friends on sandy beaches but it's clear this path must soon end because a vast new transoceanic canal is coming and school must close meaning he must go to live with his aunt in the big city once there it's clear this is a journey of sadness and of dislocation which the film's director believes the world audience must see i want to show microcosm the last. 2.

so deep connection to nature and their surroundings i think this was for me the most important. thing and yet to tell this story about this boy in this special microcosm the directors of both films believe modern life in the developing world is defined by adversity and have those who face it must show resilience to survive dominic king al-jazeera but the balloon film festival. on the weekend the headlines on al-jazeera this hour the united states and south korea has flown joint military exercises as a result of the coronavirus outbreak south korea has just recorded its highest number of cases in a single day so far pushing the total number of people infected to almost 1600 rubber bride has more from south korea's capital seoul. there's been growing

expectations here that these exercises would have to be postponed and now we've had confirmation of it if anything it would have been strange if they had gone ahead hosted by a government which is telling its own people to avoid crowds do stage exercises that bring thousands of soldiers together so they have been postponed we had yesterday the 1st confirmed case of a u.s. service personnel getting the coronavirus and we have various quarantine provisions in place of the number of bases military bases in south korea u.s. president donald trump says his country is ready for any potential outbreak of coronavirus yeah added that the u.s. would spend whatever is appropriate to combat the illness trump also appointed vice president mike pence to manage the country's response and countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the alma for

tourists coming in from affected places. the interim government has replaced a judge who is hearing cases related related to violence in new delhi high court justice s. more than dar had ordered police to investigate leaders for prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party b j p for inciting attacks against muslims at least 25 people have been killed and more than 200 ly injured in hospitals after clashes over a controversial citizenship law. a state funeral for the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak has been held in cairo he died on tuesday at the age of 91. today to the headlines on al jazeera more news coming up after the bottom line thanks for watching. israelis go to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year. maybe he's having failed to pull the governing coalitions and prime minister netanyahu facing the start of his corruption trial will israel finally

sold its political crisis at the 3rd attempt to get the latest updates on al-jazeera 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 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 ambivalent.