do you work in dead journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. the all the way. south korea's president declares war on corona virus infection rate there is the highest outside china. now that i'm having my head seen and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up binyamin netanyahu to close the tree after israel's latest election but once again looks after falling short of a majority. greece reinforces his land and sea borders to stop another influx of refugees and migrants crossing from turkey. and joe biden's white house bed picks

up steam with former rivals indorsing him ahead of crucial u.s. primary votes on super tuesday. south korea's president says he is declaring war against the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases that passes 5000 mundine has ordered all government agencies to get into an emergency mode soldiers have been deployed to disinfect areas of the city at the epicenter of south korea's break which is the biggest outside of china almost 30 people have died there will come over the country has entered war against the infectious disease as the crisis in daegu in north york book province has reached the highest point it is hong as a police operate all organizations of the government 24 hours by switching to the emergency operations system in till we are out of the crisis of rob mcbride joins

us now live from seoul and rob ed practical terms what exactly does a declaration of war on the virus mean. this declaration by moon g.a.m. effectively it almost puts the country on a war like 14 in dealing with what is a national crisis now and if the wartime analogy holds up then as we know the main battle front is still daegu this city in the southeast of the country and this surrounding towns and villages that's where we are seeing these big clusters of cases the most of the new cases that are being reported and again figures that have been released show that in the time since since just midnight sunday through to monday's about's less than 2 days we've had a further nearly 1000 new cases we know that the emergency service is there the medical services are being stretched they are using community treatment centers

these are hastily converted government or community centers to work as makeshift hospitals if you like where people can go there they could be treated they can be prioritised if their symptoms are fairly mild if they able to recover then they get sent home they deteriorate then they can be sent to hospitals but as we know as this continues then hospital space is at a premium the wards are basically filling up in addition to this declaration by moon j.n. which effectively puts all of these government agencies now on this 24 hour alert level that they can be used around the clock if need be there also the government is also announcing a billions of dollars of fiscal measures stimulus measures to try to help the economy which is really struggling as this goes on a total bills announced last week and also this week of 25000000000 dollars to tackle not only the coronavirus itself but also to help the korean economy

a battered economy try to get through this cave up mcbride reporting live from seoul thank you very much. agree since denies allegations by turkey that its border forces fired on refugees and migrants own them deliberate misinformation the greek greece has increased its border security after turkey declared it would no longer try to stop people from reaching the e.u. where european leaders and the king is turkey's presidents of using refugees to pressure them into supporting his military operation in syria type arda one says turkey will continue to target syrian army positions in the province where 34 of its soldiers were killed on thursday and turkey and russia which backs the syrian government's have come closer than ever to direct confrontation as an embassy who is standing by for his own turkey's border with syria live to her in

a moment but 1st let's fix it john psaropoulos he's on the greek islands of lies false enjoyed less force is already under considerable pressure at the moments now the greeks stand accused of physically turning asylum seekers away and firing on their boats what's the latest where you are. that's right and we saw those videos released yesterday by the turkish government which clearly showed hello nic coast guard boats in some form of deflection or repulsion of refugee boats using those poles and it appears that one of the vessels fired into the water a couple of warning shots as well now we don't know when that video was filmed but it is clear from everything else that we've seen that greece is now engaged in a policy of deflection and repulsion we've seen it on the land border with us where the government says between saturday morning and last night 24000 attempted forced

entries were prevented and we've seen the migration minister say on monday. on national television and again this morning that the hellenic navy and the heavenly coast guard are engaged in prevention practices or deflection practices see many many attempted but crossings he said have been prevented in this way so it is clear that greece is making those secrets of the fact that this is now the policy in response to the open border policy in turkey greece is playing a more defensive game it's defending european borders it's no longer seeing this is simply a humanitarian crisis it is also seeing it as a national security crisis and as a test of its sovereignty at its eastern and most sensitive borders.

asylum seekers stranded on the north shore of lesbos some have spent the night out in the open police can't process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria it's been blockaded by angry islanders who want to shut down but moreas occupants aren't happy to be here either. this was the latest of many riots this year asylum processing is slow and many have been living in tents under the olive trees for a year but remember dr it didn't sound very good dr 930 i think are pretty good because what everyone here said every now and then i got pregnant what are we need the dark and this is very important hundreds of moria's asylum seekers recently much down to the port after receiving misleading or mistaken messages that the government was evacuating them to athens police had to turn them back this tense situation is likely to become worse as turkey has opened its border and is advice and refugees on its soil to go to europe that's the reason why this 15 year old

from afghanistan is here he says. i have been in turkey for 2 months the smuggler called me in the night and said the party is ready get ready to cross. he said the border is open i could not cross for 2 months because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shots are fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show turkish coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkey's suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other international norms greece has declared emergency measures it says it will stop receiving asylum

applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around undocumented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals aren't individual applicants but part of an organized policy so international asylum law doesn't apply to them as intended with so many islands so close to the turkish mainland greece has a difficult task defending its maritime border but the biggest losers in all this seem to be the asylum seekers now as we reported those people on the north shore of less are not going to receive the usual procedures of registration fingerprinting identification and then be given a chance to apply for asylum here. today being bussed from the north shore into. this capital of less votes that we're standing in now and they are going to be

shipped to aspen's. under lock and key in detention either today or tomorrow whether allowing brought. now there are very high winds here and they are then going to be put into a deportation procedure and this is in keeping with what we've been reporting that the government is suspending the the asylum procedures for new arrivals for a month and it's suspending the usual pyroclastic procedures of registration as well. the spring as opposite for most of us thank you very much indeed or school or fair to the turkey syria border crosser who is over girls who are crossing for a scene and we understand the u.s. sailor geisha in the sights ahead to that boards or later who exactly are they meeting. the u.s. delegation led by a u.s.

special envoy to syria jane surf over to iraq didn't hunt side currently they are what the u.n. representatives in the u.n. transfer point in. 9 which is close to here after after the completing their meetings with the u.n. they will come to vegas a crossing to the local administration building a delegation is going to meet with the local governor representatives and then he will be crossing to this transfer point where i am standing and he will be meeting with n.g.o.s mainly the white helmets rescue group from inside there are also some representatives of the local that ministration in along with some opinion leaders of course this is an important visit by the u.s. to chirk keep right ahead of present hour dawns face to face meeting with russian president vladimir putin on in moscow which is going to be held on march 5 because

. they are this delegation is here to discuss the humanitarian situation and how they can help out the civilians inside there but also this is a this is an obvious political support by the americans to the troops right ahead of this meeting this is very important the pentagon said that they will not give military support to turkey when it comes to its operation at that but they are giving an obvious. political support the spite of all those confrontations between washington uncorrupt for the last 2 years and so in a way it is it is also obvious that united states is back in the game of syria and a delegation led by james to free it is important because james jeffrey is also the head of the international coalition in the fight against arsenal bets why turkey believes that this is

a strong support by washington right ahead of the meeting in moscow case and in the reporting live from the crossing thank you. lots more still to come in the news ahead including feeling the strain we look at how coronavirus is placing economy in an unhealthy states also tribal loyalties in libya to the test as the conflict drags on. hello and welcome back we'll start this time in southeastern parts of asia where we've got lots of showers showing up as you would expect the island of borneo looking very wet at the moment no matter where you are either on the malaysian side or the indonesian side it is going to be really wet the same goes for much of java a lot of heavy showers expected here but then through the been

a plane kuala lumpur and singapore not looking too bad temperatures into the low to mid thirty's but showers i think fewer and further between into australasia here we're still seeing some very heavy rain associated with the brandons of tropical psycho esther and esther is going to continue to make a nuisance of itself over the next few days it's caught up with an area of low pressure trough and it's driving southwards eastwards over the next few days so virtually all states will see its impacts as we run through the forecast so it's been up into western australia it's through the northern territory's moving down into south australia it's clipping through queensland and then it's going to push on through into new south wales and certainly through thursday you can see that happening also worth pointing out about states it should be fine across much in new zealand nice day on both on his question 17 which will be seen some very wet weather in tasmania highs here of 20 in hobart.

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a quick reminder of the headlines this hour greece has denied on her as allegations that its border forces farge on migrants attempting to cross from turkey thousands of people have been trying to get from turkey into greece after ankara said it would no longer stop them so korea's president has ordered all government agencies into emergency mode after declaring war on the coronavirus least 28 people have died there and more than 5000 others have been affected. straightly a central bank has reduced its interest rate to on the record low trying to help the economy weather storms including coronavirus the reserve bank says the economic fallout is looking like it will be significant particularly for history is tourism and education sectors which rely on asia. well earlier world economic policy the o.e.c.d. warns global growth could shrink this quarter for the 1st time since 2008 financial

crisis the corone seen measures in china have hit supply chains worldwide companies like foxconn which me examples i phone say the virus will hurts their bottom line hong kong based airline cathay pacific has put 25000 staff on unpaid leave and around half of its planes are sitting on the tarmac it's among dozens of airlines forced to suspend flights when the courtroom is filipe lygon used to be an advisor to the director general of the world trade organization he says markets have failed to properly respond to the threats of coronavirus you see the disruption to spending in china i think it's likely to see. a very useful growth if any at all in the 1st quarter and since china has 20 percent of the global economy but it has an impact looking forward that the virus is now affecting the rest of asia and increasingly the u.s. europe the middle east and elsewhere i think you can see 3 big in tax the 1st is on

business investment this is a vestment which already had sort of stalled because of worries about the trade conflict between the u.s. and china and now faced with a sense of uncertainty a disruption businesses not wanting to invest the 2nd is consumer confidence and you can see that people are canceling travel plans you know they're not going out to restaurants that all sorts of events are being canceled and that people stop spending and the 3rd obviously is markets we saw markets collapsing and last week and that in turn makes the financing conditions tighter for companies and it makes consumers feel poorer. israel's right when block led by the party of prime minister binyamin netanyahu is leading the election results but still one seat short's of a majority with most of the votes counted the likud party ended sunrise have secured 60 seats in the parliament less in yahoo has already claimed victory

against his main rival benny gantz the opposition bloc has so far won $53.00 seats and it's the 3rd general election in less than a year after months of political deadlock a chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat gave his assessment of the result on social media tweeting it is obvious that settlements occupation and a part size have won the israeli elections that's a year his campaign was about the continuation of the occupation and conflicts which will force the people of the region to live by the sword it's a continuation of violence extremism and chaos however an alliance of palestinian israeli parties is expected to win 15 seats its best result to date the coalition is called the joint list send its head says they'll use their numbers to block netanyahu from forming a government that the eyes of the results of the joint list are historical since

the 1st knesset until now the most number of seats we want to be 13 this time we suppose so we broke the record and this is all thanks to the heroes the men and women of our people we give them all or appreciation. while jazeera simran khan is in west jerusalem for us and emraan we are getting more of the official results it appears that benjamin netanyahu is just one seats away from the majority what will he tell us. well this has a huge impact on what's his strategy is going to be to be able to form a government now the legal process has quite clear the president. the most capable m.k. member of the knesset to form a government that's normally the person with the most seats in any kind of bloc that's prime minister benjamin netanyahu normally what would happen is you would get coalition building going on he would reach out to other political parties to try to bring them under his wing he doesn't need these 60 seats in the 73 percent

of the vote has been counted so far he needs one more so that may mean that he stresses he is changing polish building to going off to defect his people that he could lure from another party into his party he'll have to promise them something he'll have to make sure they want to come over and it's worth their while but this is all about the deal making that's going on but that might not be enough to make him prime minister his opposition have been very clear they say he's under indictment in 3 different corruption cases one of them starts on march 17th he's not fit to be prime minister the attorney general of israel was quite vague when it came to the fact whether a sitting prime minister who is under indictment can actually take office he said it's a theoretical situation moments we need to see what happens when it's actually in practice was very close to being in practice now and that's something the opposition will use so much pressure still on the prime minister benjamin netanyahu

but make this very clear he is going to try to form a government that's the language that's coming out of the kurds and he's going to try and do this very quickly. in west jerusalem thank you. china and the united states are stepping up their war over the media china's government is threatening retaliation after the u.s. cut the number of visas for chinese journalists working in america the u.s. says the visa cap on for state run organizations follows years of intimidation and harassment of foreign journalists in china 3 wall street journal reporters were expelled from the country last month. it's as though to the race to become the u.s. democratic party's presidential candidates with super tuesday voting starting in just a few hours time 2 candidates who have dropped sights haven't orse joe biden senator inequal bashar and former mer people to judge trying to rally for the former vice

president their endorsement is expected to give biden a boost as 14 u.s. states head to the holes to choose the democratic challenger to trump folks you know just a few days ago the press in the parlance declared this campaign dead. so i also understand it was such a mess so it was such as you say wow this is. so what exactly is super tuesday and what's at stake here is priyanka to explain. it's a long race to the white house and in a packed calendar of an election year the one day that stands out is super tuesday this year 14 states across the country plus the u.s. search of american some more are voting for their preferred choice of democratic candidates and 13 states are voting for their republican nominee democrats abroad

are also voting on the democratic side it's a crowded field of 5 hopefuls including former vice president joe biden senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and former new york mayor mike bloomberg on the republican side it's donald trump who wants a 2nd term in office was his main challenger former governor william weld and it's all about the delegates whoever gets the most ends up becoming the party nominee for the democrats that magic number is 1991 and for the republicans it's 1276 and more there is a lot at stake the super tuesday at least for the democrats 2 of america's most populous states california and texas with lot chunks of pledged delegates are voting their $1357.00 total democratic delegates up for grabs so what happens on super tuesday can make or break the race for some democratic hopefuls in the fall

in weeks and months or be more primaries and caucuses all leading to the democratic national convention in milwaukee in july and republican convention in charlotte north carolina late august that's when delegates will gather to formally nominate their official candidates for november's presidential election. the united nations special envoy for libya cussen salami has resigned he says his efforts to bring peace were damaging his health and he could no longer cope with the stress salamis spent 2 and a half years trying to reunite libyans but peace talks broke down last week and he gallacher has more from the united nations. certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but. this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is

a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n. are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum we've we've gained i mean the situation in libya is critical we're seeing we've seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. is to set i mean has made some great. great progress we don't want to lose any of that momentum. now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the united states u.a.e.

and turkey and mr salami himself said an arms embargo that has been put in place for the last few years is in danger of becoming a cynical job the u.n. secretary general himself said this is a proxy war so it's one of those situations where it seems to be a half step forward and 10 steps backwards of course libya has been in complete chaos since the fall of gadhafi in 2011 with various factions fighting for control of the country and lots of foreign interference so a transition i think to a new negotiator is an important thing but the challenge here to bring peace to libya is almost at this point in time insurmountable. what tribal identity and loyalty play a fundamental role in libyan society some reconciliation between groups has been possible but as the conflict goes on there are fears cracks may be forming child stratford reports from tripoli. the bullet holes and destruction

a testament to the ferocity of a tribal battle. the city of zawiya in western libya saw heavy fighting following the revolution that overthrew libya's long time ruler form of gadhafi 9 years ago the fighting was between pro and anti gadhafi tribes since then into tribal dialogue was broad agreement and relative calm when they sat down to make concessions on issues that may have fueled that conflict that's the main reason why we survived. with tribal loyalties are being tested again as the civil war shows no sign of ending some areas close to zawiya heavily populated by tribes loyal to khalifa haftar. the warlord launched a military campaign to seize power from the un backed government in tripoli in april his forces control around 70 percent of the country is often heavy fighting in the southern neighborhoods of the capital. of the us forces shell the only

operational international airport in tripoli virtually every day. to the west in a port town inhabited by mainly baba tribes on the choosier border leaders say have to is trying to galvanize support among arab tribes and his fighters have been seen trying to surround the area but they are not in the last couple of days we have not to suspicious activities in military the 1st moment on the outskirts after surveillance in the city there has been a general mobilization of security forces and resources have been allocated to counter the massive. in january pro have to tribes forced the closure of libya's main oil infrastructure in eastern libya depriving the u.n. back governments of billions of dollars in revenue tribal loyalties are now being tested to the west of tripoli softness forces opened a new front in the chaos that this country has suffered since the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 reconciliation between certain tribes was only

possible because of the great at. but of tribal leaders and civil society groups the repeated failure of u.n. sponsored ceasefire talks means fears are growing among many libyans that tribal divisions are being exploited again strafford al jazeera tripoli. this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines south korea's president has ordered all government agencies into emergency mode after declaring war against the coronavirus at least 28 people have died there are more than 5000 people have been infected mcbride is in seoul with more details on the new measures. at this meeting of the cabinet where he made these statements and also announced various measures to try to stimulate the economy this is having

a crippling effect on the south korean economy you do get a sense that parts of the economy parts of the country are in this kind of a slow motion coming to a whole to be al lines canceling flights some factories closing high tech high tech production facilities not producing any goods people being told to work from home greece has denied ankara's allegation that its border forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey thousands of people have been trying to get from turkey into greece after uncursed said it would no longer stop them european leaders have accused turkey's president of using the refugees to pressure them into supporting his military operation in syria. israel's right wing blog led by the party of prime minister binyamin netanyahu is leading election results but is still one seat shorts of a majority with most of the votes counted than the current party and its allies have secured 60 seats in the parliament. 2 candidates who have dropped sights of

the race for the democratic presidential nominee have endorsed joe biden the endorsement from senator amy called bush are on former mayor pete but a judge is expected to give biden a boost as 14 u.s. states head to the polls on tuesday the former vice president's campaign gained momentum following a big win jewing the south carolina primary over the weekends. and the united nations special envoy for libya and salami has resigned he says his unsuccessful efforts to bring peace are damaging his health and he can no longer cope with the stress well those are the headlines stay with us here on al-jazeera women make science is up next. as the world battles a potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe with updates about travel restrictions on how to protect ourselves.

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