british regional because they say the people of little for you the justice system. the all air. coronavirus travel restrictions spark renewed tensions between japan and south korea. with 7 cases reported in bethlehem the city goes on lock to israel with strict people from going inside coming out it's. my. almudena this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. it's 10 spot mostly calm and syria said with coldness after cease fire agreed by turkey and russia takes effect syrians who fled at labatt among refugees who say they feel like political pawns stark and unwanted so only those borders. once will visit the legacy

of the be a sponsor it for the ancient connections to today's court for. my . god we're going to begin with some breaking news out of she messina there's been a blast near the u.s. embassy in the capital tunis these are some of the the latest pictures that we're getting a local radio station was a huge says at least 5 people have been injured it also says it was a suicide attacker we're going to keep across that story for you for your the very latest as soon as it comes in. now a political storm is brewing between south korea and japan over coronavirus quarantine measures japan's prime minister has imposed a mandatory quarantine on all visitors from south korea and china so pushed back

and asked for it to be revoked warning it may launch countermeasures well mcbride reports from seoul in the sometimes strained relations between japan and south korea the coronavirus outbreak has exposed the animosity that exists below the surface south korea says it wasn't consulted before japanese prime minister shinzo abbay announced the new measures local car new visitors from both china and south korea will be required to be quarantined for 2 weeks at a location designated by the quarantine director and asked that they refrain from using public transportation in the country. that brought a swift response from seoul the japanese ambassador was summoned for an official reprimand there was one particular thing that we find this very regrettable that the japanese government to withdraw such an excessive and reasonable measure immediately our government will devise a proper counter measure against japan's measures. opponents in south korea accuse

the japanese government of trying to deflect criticism of its handling of the corona virus outbreak in particular the attempted quarantining of a cruise ship that left hundreds of passengers sick and. while criticizing japan's efforts south korea has been quick to show the scale and transparency of its own response which is one international praise testing on an industrial scale means thousands of people are being checked with the virus every day. on south korea has been touted as an outstanding example of releasing information in a transparent and rapid manner in that sense i believe that japan's move to not fully take into account our central and local governments efforts. the growing dispute between 2 leading countries in the fight against this global health emergency is worrying for the international community the 2 sides have long

disagreed over trade and the legacy of the 2nd world war more than 100 countries now have travel restrictions on people arriving from south korea but unlike many of them japan is a vital trading partner this quarantine measure will cause further economic pain and there's a lingering suspicion here that politics not public health is the motivation behind it rob mcbride al jazeera so. well johns hopkins university in the united states is tracking the outbreak based on w.h.o. figures and the infection numbers released by governments themselves the big red circles you can see over china and the epicenter would indicate of course where the most cases are sides asia and the other major concentrations you can see are around the middle east mainly in iran and in europe chiefly across italy over almost 100 size and people have caught the corona virus 55000 have recovered

and just over 3300 people have died gabriela dylan is a medical student in rouhani who continues to be under quarantine she says that the isolation is taking a toll on those who are stuck there mentally and emotionally draining quick to put a lot of work into getting staying and training and to get lost in all your thoughts and thoughts ok ok. and also that people keep going telling you it'll all be well so it really gives and reminding you how critical the situation is and how it any moment it could be you it's really not a good place right now and actually a good place mentally government hasn't taught us anything about evacuation they aren't giving us and you hope. it's everyone is telling me to give up when the evacuation going because the decided a long time ago that they're not going to evacuate and however. some people are

living like recently that some arabs there were evacuated both countries which i feel like should be it can't be done by the ugandans and all the african countries to unite together. well it's also spread to bethlehem and now the israeli military isn't alone people in or out of the city palestinian president mahmoud abbas earlier declared a state of emergency after 7 cases were confirmed tourists and pilgrims are banned from the area for the next 2 weeks the church of the nativity revered among christians as the birthplace of jesus is among the sites that have been closed to abraham is in mara ramallah and she says palestinians are worried about whether hospitals and clinics will be able to cope with the outbreak. well i can tell you driving this morning to the office from a law sounded more like or looked like a ghost town it's a friday it's

a weekend usually not many people are out on the streets on this hour of the morning but you could definitely see the effects of the declaration made late on thursday by the palestinian prime minister mohammed to stay he said that all educational facilities more churches parks will be closed for a month in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus the 7 cases remain in a hotel in bethlehem they were infected after a tourist delegation was in that hotel we've seen some protests in jericho actually in the west bank trying to prevent some of those patients from going there so you can sense a state of panic palestinians are scared whether their institutions is going to be able to deal with that situation particularly their day or under israeli occupation but what we know for now is that limited movement is going to be happening between palestinian cities for a month the palestinian prime minister told person is to be

a waiting for more instructions the church of nativity remains closed all tourist. reservations have been cancelled and to kind of control who really goes and comes to the palestinian territory as we know it is under israeli occupation and they don't have control over their borders. now as many as 300000000 students are missing classes worldwide as governments temporarily cool schools and universities in response to the outbreak suspensions are in place in 22 countries across asia europe and the middle east ranging from a few days to several weeks where the united nations says the disruption to education is unprecedented let's get more know from stefana gianni she's the assistant director general for education at unesco and joins us by skype from paris good so have you with is here and al-jazeera us was talking about an

unprecedented disruption to education and just explain to us why this is so alarming. yeah her curse. the purpose we have is to. to monitor the situation. that is really an unprecedented one in terms solved a impact on education on the global crisis and. deposited side is more important for us i mean 1st response we have to do and we have to give the assisting governments and minister is education is about to leverage technology we discussed many times of the use of distance learning and want to want to do is to boot and to service international community were no religious parties and shared in the good practices between the ministers

that unfortunately at the ready is spirit and said it is a situation what sort of impact do you envisage envision envisage these school having particularly in places like china and japan where schools have been called for for several weeks they do you think the global education sector is is able to adapt to these prolonged school courses. i think that it's really a question of the recipients of the system to their. platforms that can really give you that immediate response as far as we know china is a county that immediately adopted the sky and all the. learning and distance swimming in order to fill that gap as they since more than 4 weeks what one mile a day decided to close. disclosure our schools in the

county and japan is doing the same so our idea as the un agency responsible for and quite keen to guarantee inclusive education for all is to assist. special and exceptional situation kountry immediate response concrete solutions and and also making me is able to share. experiences and best practices and i think that day in fact all over the krises could be a bit a bit. as. it should be without in these kind of internation our debate and unity to to to to share knowledge and and experiences distance learning is is one thing and it's certainly

one way to get around the hurdle but in terms of the social aspects of this quarantines are usually being recommended for up to 2 weeks if you put your 5 year old children keep them separate from their friends for 2 weeks keep them at home in case within 4 walls for 2 weeks what sort of impact is that going to have on on children developmentally and on the social structures that the people come to rely on. as a say a decision of the mansion the human relationship or which is pretty much out of the learning process and the teaching process as well is not completely replaceable but. by technical to us but what can we do is also to. not learning from these lessons to make education

system very much more well equipped and if you cheer. finger strasser we hope that there will not be such prizes like this in the future about for many other reasons it's important to see how. technology can be much more well integrated in the indication system and also be part of the social emotional learning and teachers that are too needy to do to give the sense. to children to give the sense that they they still belong to a community today or community because i think that the one of the most. relevant to impact and consequence indeed really speak in that when schools are closed immediately sounded like these is that children and students. you know

had to feel in that something happened something enormous happened life and there was no more business as usual in the daily agenda so it's important to start to learn from this experience and positively constructively look at the future with a more optimistic approach quite great to get your thoughts thank you so much the funny edgy and unique thank you has from unesco in paris thank you. thank you very much the people in syria's province are describing a tense calm in the largely rebel held area after a cease fire took effect turkey which backs opposition forces brokered a deal with russia who are allied to the syrian government's presidents type erdogan and vladimir putin agreed the deal during hours of talks in moscow on monday night they sent they'll establish a 12 kilometers or one security corridor along it lives m 4 highway that connects

the government shore hold of the takia with syria's largest city aleppo and the syrian army's offensive to retake it lead has pushed nearly a 1000000 civilians towards turkey's border and threatens a direct confrontation which in turkey and russia will sin and cos yahoo is at the turkey syria border and says that while some are unsure about how long the deal will last. everyone has a suspicion that this is fire will also not last long and because of the differences between 2 sides both the opposition and the syrian government plus there are some conflicts between moscow and in terms of their understanding over it and it is apparent that led them are put in and tell you don want to strike the ceasefire but when you look at the national protocol script that was. to the sochi agreement there is nothing much about the humanitarian about bettering

the humanitarian conditions but however from the e.u. a top diplomats we have been hearing that cease fire was a precondition to increase in humanitarian efforts for the civilians inside and today they unicef executive director mrs 4 was here she came with a delegation she went to the buffer zone as the u.s. and more to syria james jeffrey did and she had to and she had somebody from the turkish and local officials here but as i said no one knows how long it's going to last then it is difficult for turkey to control because some of the rebel groups who are more eager compared to moderates once and for the syrian government size it is difficult for them to continue to have control over the iran backed shia if i true groups that's why there is not much hope whether the on the cease fire lasting for a long. still to come on al-jazeera we're bring you the latest on an attack in. your

home any unrest could affect the taliban deal. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across asia and in northeastern areas we've got this area of low pressure moving away from japan in fact the reason i show is simply because it's such a beautiful feature moving out into the pacific joy another 2 major storms there already. better conditions across japan and for sapporo we're going to find temperatures on the rise so a bit of a thaw across the kind of further south of japan weather conditions not too bad the far southern islands likely to see some rain as a system moves out of the east china sea during the day on saturday and rain extends across more southern areas of china to having through into sunday temperatures for sapporo set to rise as the wind starts to come up from the south

risk of showers and longer spells of rain elsewhere in more southern parts of japan fine across the korean potential not just fine but certainly quite warm temps there of 17 degrees in seoul for the south that rain still in evidence across china but it's coming into hong kong weather conditions should be fine highs there 27 degrees into south asia we're losing the heaviest of the rain and snow across northern parts of india and pakistan there's still plenty of showers across eastern areas where his head through into sunday should be a fine day in delhi highs are expected to reach 27 and pretty hot across more central areas maximo $35.00 in night poor. weather on line like probably recovering being one of the worst droughts in mainstream media about. or if you join us on some there's a different diversity and inclusion. it was as if i was sincere based is

a dialogue sanctions on the ways in which there were applied to iran are an act of what fair everyone has a voice we each as a society that is so quick to get timidly need to just sit down and listen join the global conversation on al-jazeera. org order. the all. this is al-jazeera our minds are over the top stories this hour has been a blast near the u.s. embassy in the capital cuteness these are some of the latest pictures receive in local media say it was a suicide attack or 5 embassy security employees suffers slight injuries. south korea is protesting against

a coronavirus travel restriction on its citizens visiting japan tokyo when i'm still face a 2 week month frequency. and a tense calm is largely what do you serious it would probably suffer ceasefire came into effect it was brokered by russia turkey after days of fighting that owns push the country's towards directs station. the syrians from adlib are among the 10s of thousands of people trying to cross from turkey into the e.u. they're trying to answer through greece and bulgaria but say they've been met by violence rubber bullets and tear gas that's actually going to reports live from a tyranny. the wind sliced through copes the cold left fingers numb it the syrian refugees from it lived along with other migrants have been camped out on this riverbank in a dern a turkey for days they're stuck here trying to figure out how best to cross into greece and continue on to western europe to find the good life i'm still young but

i have to of course i must live on my life here or in city of course in this situation that's. what i love i mean i think to. get a good country before late in the day as the wind picked up police officers walked through the tents and clusters of people telling them they could take buses to a warm place suspicion spread as fast as the wind gusts only them just think it was not illegal to we want be taking buses because they take us to the rev and they will give us to the creeks they take all our belongings and money and be tests and they will send us back we human beings not animals the turkish minister of interior has announced $1000.00 members of turkey's special police forces are deploying to the merge river border with greece this is an effort to prevent greek troops from pushing back migrants who reached the country by boat the interior minister says

greece tried to send 4900 people back to turkey and injured 164 give it military anger limit. we will not provide an opportunity for the maltreatment of the people there i would like to express that we've taken the necessary measures to protect our borders from a push back and to prevent several attempts by greece which were in violation of the international. the greek government has not responded to the accusations but it's deployed additional troops along its side of the border refugees say greece is just a transit point for them many like ibrahim. have crossed into the country and been deported back to turkey with awful memories ibrahim says a few days ago greek police shot him in the needy with a rubber bullet and beat him on the millet women attired men are tired we're all tired brother please open the gate as miserable as these refugees are they're more

anguished about their loved ones back in it live at least in turkey they have found a refuge from a 9 year war in syria the talks are going aimed. at dearne a turkey. a political ceremony in afghanistan's capital kabul has come under attack leaving 27 people dead the head of the peace council was giving a speech that was being broadcast live when shots were fired afghanistan's chief executive of philip philip was also there but witnesses say he was not hurt let's get more now from her up to him in she joins us live from kabul. to be know any more about this incident. well this standoff is still ongoing according to the afghan interior ministry there would be at least one attacker holed up in a nearby building that's under construction that's actually where they think the

attack was started was 1st carried out now the death toll has increased now 37 and 30 injured then it's been going on for the past 5 hours so i think this is still a moving situation from what we understand from reports of people who are there underground it's nearing an end but it took that much time to try to quell it and the afghan forces have actually asked the backing of foreign troops that also arrived on the ground there if foreign troops are being drafted in and certainly what does this mean for the the recent peace deal that's been signed between the taliban and the u.s. . well the taliban have immediately denied any responsibility for this attack now who is left is could be any one of the estimated 15 other armed groups that operate in this country it could be i still because it has publicly

said that it was against this deal between the u.s. and the taliban or it could be even splinter groups from the taliban because there had been fighters and commanders who broke away from the main branch of the taliban stating exactly the reason being that agreement with the un so where does that leave the agreement since it's not the taliban didn't change anything what did that show however is that the afghan forces still do need the support of foreign forces if they are also to do play their role and bring stability to the streets of kabul and elsewhere in the country. honeyed reporting live for us from kabul thank you very much indeed for that update my foreign powers once competed for control of vast swathes of libya and southern mediterranean shores refuge to egypt

importance to empires and their armies throughout history and as john start for i reports from one of its most historic sites not much appears to have changed. many say there are ghosts among the ruins of leptis magna from around $19080.00 under the roman emperor septimius severus it became the wealthiest city in north africa only alexandria rivaled it in splendid power. repeatedly attacked by other invading armies and indigenous tribes by the time of the arab conquest around 650 the city had been virtually abandoned foreign powers continue to compete for control in libya it was then the car that the copper to this place represents so much of our heritage of the war continues there will be more destruction and fighting could go to all cities will further affect tourism areas residential areas and more people will be displaced it's a very complicated situation. many empires and their armies have fought for control

of leptis magna and what became libya over the millennia foreign powers have long been aware of the strategic importance of the mediterranean sea southern shores there are many people in libya that say ending this need a decade long conflict is being complicated because of the sheer number of countries involved support for relief for half that comes from countries including the u.a.e. egypt and russia. hundreds of civilians have been killed since have to launch the military offensive against the u.n. backed government in tripoli in april. after his allies say their fight is against terrorism the few foreign governments analysts all military commanders believe them and many blame the u.a.e. and say russia wants greater influence in the southern mediterranean and africa and also wants to use it to weaken the nato alliance may the u.a.e.

is behind all the wars in the region if libya stands on its feet the u.a.e. will lose its status in the region they are worried about the dominance of their ports like. that's why they are trying to sabotage all the planes to make libya prosper the u.n. says that more than 150000 people have been forced to flee the fighting turkey signed a maritime agreement with the un backed government in november critics say could give ankara an unfair advantage over rights to mediterranean oil and gas drilling turkey says it has the right to send military advisers and pro turkey syrian fighters to help defend tripoli because of a security agreement it signed with the government earlier this week pro have to media announced the opening of what it describes as an embassy in damascus fueling speculation that fighters loyal to bashar al assad's regime are coming to libya to fight on behalf of off the conflict has kept foreign tourists away from the

spectacular ancient ruins of leptis magna for years these ancient marble pillars a perhaps a symbol of the foreign armies that throughout history have fought for control of this resource rich country on the mediterranean coast a battle that continues today john strafford al jazeera lettuce magno libya. more than 50 people have been killed in mob violence in zambia triggered by a series of poison gas attacks since december a number of attacks of happens in which ganz used that chemical substances to immobilize their victims numbers president said go along has ordered police to patrol the streets and has blamed church leaders for inciting anger and reprisals u.s. senator elizabeth warren has ended her bid for the white house she was once considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single states during the primaries she lost her home state of massachusetts to

rival joe biden her withdrawal leaves 3 hopefuls in the race. i have to call not be running for president in 2020 but i guarantee i will stay and fight for hard working folks across this country have gotten the short end of the step over and over that's been the fight of my life and it will continue to the south. i. i. am this is al jazeera and these are the headlines there's been a blast near the u.s. embassy in the capital tunis these are some of the latest pictures local media say it was a suicide attack or 5 embassy security employees suffered slight injuries. so career is criticizing a coronavirus travel restriction on its citizens visiting japan tokyo and still face a 2 week mandatory quarantine south korea has more than $6000.00 coronavirus cases

. nearly 300000000 students are being affected by school closures worldwide and strict measures are imposed to contain the spread of the virus 22 countries have announced the suspension of classes students and i stained from across parts of asia europe and the middle east. a tense calm is largely holding in syria's province after a cease fire came into effect it was brokered by russia and turkey after days of fighting but almost pushed the country's towards direct confrontation scene and conceal who has more from the turkey syria border while the us so far it appears to be holding there is a kind of small while ation let's say by the syrian government which hasn't been called as a violation yet but for now everybody expects this cease fire holds as you well remember there were many ceasefire that couldn't even hold for even for 24 hours so

we don't know what the day is going to bring but for now both moscow and on crowd seems to be committed to preserve the ceasefire syrians from edler bar among tens of thousands of people trying to cross from turkey into the e.u. they're trying to enter through greece and vogue area that say they've been met by violence more bullets and tear gas turkey has deployed 1000 police officers to its border with greece. and the political ceremony in afghanistan's capital kabul has come under attack leaving 27 people dead ganesan chief executive of dylan was there but witnesses say he wasn't hurt that's europe today its inside story is up next.

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