uh huh. where. jhumpa new coronavirus cases in south korea after days of slow infections. versions junior health minister and the daily doris' tests positive for close at 19 as the op read spritz. from kevin l. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. should come back. joe biden pulls off a string of wins to take a dominant leader of the bernie sanders in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. a disgrace to straightly and cardinal makes a final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse.

we. begin with the crowd a virus outbreak that spread across 6 continents and more than 100 countries let's take a look at some of the updates from around the world in south korea there's been a jump in the number of new cases that's reversing a 10 day trend of slow and infections more than 200 new cases have been reported in seoul many of them at a call center south korea has the highest number of corona virus infections in asia outside china where the situation seems to be improving few new cases and deaths something reported aging says it will allow some companies to resume work and ruhani which is the epicenter of the outbreak but the number of infections in the u.s. says increased is now more than a 1000 confirmed their national guard troops have been deployed in a suburb north of new york city has been sealed off after

a cluster of cases were reported and in the u.k. a health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus doris' is now self isolating the health service is now tracking those who may have come into contact with her. we'll have more from the u.k. later in the day but our focus this hour is on asia we have 2 correspondents reporting on the story true to you is in beijing but let's go 1st to rome mcbride who is in seoul rob as we said more than 10 days of slowing infections and now this new uptick in the number of cases why. that's right there is cause for concern with these latest numbers especially as you say after more than a week of gradually declining daily cases being reported it was really leading to a feeling here that south korea had got this under control and then we get this spike and it is due in large part to a cluster that has sprung up here in the capital seoul and based around this call

center now where people start to do detect a trends that call center workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and have discovered a $93.00 cases now at this one call center either workers or their immediate family or acquaintances and friends and the concern is that this is the biggest cluster that we have had in the soul area and the soul greater soul metropolitan area which includes the capitol but also surrounding cities such as insurance is an area that comprises 25000000 people this call center was in a part of the city that is served extremely well by subway systems by trains so there is a real concern and there you had for a time at least hundreds of course center workers coming to and from work using all of these means of public transport so we can expect to see more cases it's feared

on the positive side this is happened fairly recently in the past few days so it is a time obviously of heightened awareness that there are less people traveling more people have been staying at home if people have been traveling they're been extremely conscious about wearing masks about keeping distance from fellow passengers and and so on so the hope is that the authorities here the medical services and all of the testing infrastructure that is in place has moved quickly enough to contain that but we will see in the coming days but it has led the authorities here to look very closely at conditions in call centers which are often very cramped and south korea's new. neighbors will also be looking closely in the coming days to see whether this is going to be any kind of reverse along the progress that has being made and among those neighbors of course will be north korea which is yet to report a single case of the corona virus and is in barked at the moment on a national effort to keep the virus out it is

a country used to being mobilized against a common enemy and now that unseen photo is the corona virus an outbreak could be devastating for a population which is malnourished and with primitive medical services. populations in the countryside. really you know i think have been left on the our own with regards to basic exercises from the start it's taken tough measures like closing its border with neighboring china foreign diplomats were port andras strict 30 day quarantine which is only just been lifted many have left. and there is a certain tension in those in the city and all over the country because people are aware. of the crew member state run television has been showing the global impact of the disease and touting the north success in preventing a single case of the virus as a victory for leader kim jong un who's depicted as heading his country's efforts

kim jong un has written to his south korean counterpart expressing his sadness for the way the viruses hit the south and while the outbreak has disrupted military operations here with the cancellation of joint exercises with the u.s. and north korea it seems to be business as usual. twice in the space of a week north korea has conducted short range weapons tests after a low of 3 months some analysts say it's just part of regular winter exercises while others add that with denuclearization talks in stalemate he has nothing to lose by testing and that it sends a strong message to his own people that with much of the rest of the world grappling with the viruses spread kim is firmly in control and appearing to keep them safe rob mcbride al-jazeera soul. turn here is live for us and beijing for the latest on what's happening in china i was saying local transmission rates there

slowing down. keeping an eye on cases imported from elsewhere what more can you tell us. that's right kim so we've heard in the last 24 hours 24 new cases reported in 22 deaths but what's significant about this number of the 24 new cases 10 of those new cases were imported primarily from italy and a province the epicenter of the virus itself there were early 13 new cases reported which is very significant seeing as we had more than a 1000 just a couple of weeks ago every day reported and it seems that who a province itself is starting to ease the lockdown we've just received details of of how the provinces plan to do that the province has been divided into 3 zones a red zone a high risk storm which includes the at the center the city of han a yellow zone a medium risk zone and a green zone more of the outskirts of the province and so in the green zone all workplaces just as far as we know able to go back to work except for entertainment

venues or entertainment related businesses in the yellow or the medium risk zone more businesses are allowed and in. that area the high risk is our own essential public services or only will be allowed to go back that also seems to include companies which are involved in global. supply chain and we've just heard that honda the car maker is starting to also resume some of its operations in cannes as well people in who the province who have been under lockdown for weeks now have been able to leave their residential compounds there's just been a new system put in place for them using a mobile phone app they can put their details and depending on their location their proximity to a possible case of the coronavirus they will to they're also given a green yellow red red racing and if you have a green rating it seems that you're able to leave your apartment and move around now locked out is still technically in place because nora but he is able to leave a province as yet and nobody's able to enter so really what this means is that if

you have the green code you're able to move around within all city or within your county so it's still very much locked down in place but this system at least is providing relief to. people who have been confined essentially to their residential compounds for the last few weeks so very much good news especially for those people living in who a province i. think that could turn to you there live from beijing. israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters there activists were camped overnight on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off and legal israeli settlers trying to use the location to establish outposts a mountain has been a focal point of protests for several weeks now joining me by phone from nablus is he is the director of international relations and media for the colonization and wall of resistance commission which is affiliated with the p.l.o. thanks for joining us so i believe you have been on the road on the site there

overnight what have you been seeing. writhing on top of the mountain you know a owners and people. and the people who are trying just to keep their lamb a. at about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. surrounded from all sides by lines expressions. of your vision forces. who have storms the area where we have been sitting and we're in a groove sitting out on fire because it was very cold night and they did not need even a small warning nothing at all and started with extreme power they have used live ammunition they have used little coated little bullets they have used toxic tear gas clouds of tear gas sundry made and they were shooting directly at people face to face i have seen many people were shot directly the gun was put at

a certain kind of the body or the part of the body and shot immediately and i don't know whether it was. about quite a bit of bullets or a. lot i mean egypt but in very critical conditions and out of it in others now i have seen a soldier put that gun point on the head of the palestinian teen called islam he is 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head. then just father was sitting next to him he so what has happened to the son and he tried. we seem to have lost the line there those pictures that we were looking at were live pictures from the us as we've been saying that there has been a point of contention and it's been a point of protest for several weeks now as you can see those pictures the looks to be smoke billowing in the background and what we've been hearing from the phone there from eunice is that has been used by israeli forces

we've been hearing tear gases and also rubber coated steel bullets being used by israeli forces to disperse the palestinian test is needed him i believe joins us now from ramallah in the occupied west bank what have you been hearing needa. so we've heard from medical sources that the injuries have. to 17 people who have been hospitalized to move which as we heard just from eunice have been shot by live ammunition a member of this is thinking and say they're trying to save their lands from illegal israeli settlements huge when the settlers would aaya a certain location a car or 2 to it it becomes an outpost meaning that it's not recognized by the israeli government television it's still considered illegal under international law and then we've seen many of those posts turn into settlements that are organized by

stories that are recognized by the israeli government they are given services they are using that infrastructure as well as we sources from palestinian cities and towns so if they are still considered illegal under international law but this is the way for palestinians to kind of try to save those lands they've been hearing that 2nd settlers were coming to the area they're eyeing it for a future post so this is kind of a public demonstration public citizens that they have they're trying to stage to protect that now they say that the israeli army is huge really protecting settlements and and settlers and we've seen that today in the sense that they're trying to disperse those palestinian protesters according to human rights organizations the attacks by israeli settlers are usually happening they are on the rise they've recorded at around 34 attacks from illegal israeli settlers

against palestinians so it's it seems that it's a very volatile situation at the moment in general adamant north of the occupied west bank but it's a wait and see how in the situation's going to be developing thank you that never ever him needed abraham trusts and ramallah we can go back now to our guest who's on the phone you. the director of international relations and media for the colonise ation and resistance commission one of the p.l.o. organizations. you know still looking at live these live pictures from the site it is the situation is ongoing we got cut off and the edges tell us what you think of this the shooting is still going by the way and did not finish the situation when they shot the boy just father was looking right at him and they shot his father twice

a day they have used extreme power against defenseless helpless palestinian citizens who are just trying to keep their land that's all and there was no way that people were nonviolent they did not use any violence they were not warned by the israeli occupation forces they were just under fire immediately and the main goal of this is to push the people out of the land in favor of the illegal colonial expansion of the of the colonists. adopted by the land of israel if your position. government has declared so many times that they will and expel a senior lands mainly and it's the job a lot of a by the way it's not easy it's an area be so supposing the according to those

records it's under the palestinian control. for now i just want to clarify for our viewers who may not may not be familiar there are various areas across the west bank and they're administrate according to the zone that they're in and as you said this is this is area b. not area c. which means it is administered by the palestinian authority so yes he was saying there that that israeli forces arrived during the night without any warning tell us why this particular area a lot of my mountain is so important. now the job alarm is. somehow it. known from the victim control the amount they can control all the areas around. go in the south and east and they can create a geographic connection between the israeli illegal colonies in this area let them

in point to isolate the palestinian is sort of learn from their religion we will have to leave it there thank you so much for joining us as you know there director of international relations and media for the colonise ation a wall resistance commission thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera a wave of deadly violence we speak to the man claiming responsibility for the attacks. guess what there's more writing on his way to the british isles to to most of those in europe just to top up the rivers and increase the flooding it's mostly right because it's mostly coming fairly mild weather is 13 in london for example where

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour after days of slow in corona virus infection south korea has reported a spike in new cases more than 90 come from a call center in the capital seoul the government has many organizations to take extreme measures. health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for crowd a virus that dana doris' is now self isolation she was at an event to the prime minister's residence earlier in the week. israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters the activists were camping of a night on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off and these are illegal rather israeli settlers trying to use the vocation to establish an outpost. or joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the race to win the democratic nomination for the u.s.

presidency the former vice president has won primaries in the u.s. states of mississippi missouri and idaho as well as the key states of michigan braille elizondo reports from the choice. joe biden at his last campaign rally michigan implored people to get out and vote for him but he did these are some of the voters that helped him win michigan making him the undisputed front runner for the democratic nomination i want to thank bernie sanders for sure tireless engine a new passion we share a common goal and together we'll defeat. with a few. hope to endorsements from senators comma harris and cory booker would help him maintain his overwhelming support from black voters he worked them all by because right now everybody's endorsements i feel like he's going to be strong time and who can be true who did you vote for today joe biden. because he already was in

office so he already has a fill about what goes on what leadership is what this country needs and what it takes to be a successful country. bernie sanders campaigned heavily in michigan many on his team saw it as a must win money but exit poll shows sanders overwhelming support from young voters wasn't nearly enough and this was supposed to be a day that bernie sanders revived his campaign and regained momentum but clearly neither happened here at this bernie sanders watch party in detroit they were hoping it was going to be victory but it wasn't his supporters consoled one another and spoke as if his campaign might be over but also trying to remain upbeat the central theme of this whole campaign is that it's this larger than one person is larger than one night in florida the one primary and so for me i think that the senator has been fighting for clean air clean water to the right and i think those

are days that are going to live. on one campaign cycle so you know that was all isn't exactly what. but i think we're excited to see what what happens next. it's now clear that the scales tipping in favor of a presidential election between joe biden and donald trump keep rose on the edges in detroit. a strenuous high courses haring a final appeal from the describes cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former treasurer to the vatican was jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing 2 teenage boys in the 1990 s. l. is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children nicolas cage's in canberra with more on the case paul's legal team is trying to make. it was in. a light 28 chain when a jury found guilty of sexually abusing. quiet boys in

a cage show in the torah now last year the victorian court of appeal dismissed his lawyer is fine but to try and quashed his conviction and that's how we've ended up here in the high court so today has really been about his lawyer is saying we do not believe that the victorian quote of the people was correct in holding that conviction and they've really focused on the timing of when these abuses occurred in that could be a troll it was on the morning of sunday mass in a busy area they say and they also questioned the reliability of a witness we need to remember that george pell convicted sex offender behind is still a cardinal and that's a separate process within the church of all of that to be changed but the point source has not discussed the issue of george pell and he said we need to let the

legal courts run through and exhaust all appeal options before a decision is made and when the only day i mean a decision will be made over the next 2 days of the hearing well it's unlikely that that will happen it could take months. there's been a number of deadly attacks in camera in the last week several security checkpoints were attacked on tuesday and it was an explosion at sunday's women's march in the english speaking regions and an exclusive interview al-jazeera is nicholas hawke speaks to the leader of the amazonian defense force claiming responsibility for these latest attacks. the moment just before sunday's attack. prison guards from the women's jail where armed separatists are locked up are marching to governor takes to the podium praising cameron's government and then this. panic as an improvised explosive device detonate

one soldier is killed instantaneously scores are injured mostly members of the security forces armed separatists from the english speaking region claimed responsibility for the attack they want to break away from cameroon to create their own country amazonia there are more than 20 armed separatists groups active in the english speaking regions of cameroon at the moment rarely do they make public declarations very they can get detected by cameroonian security forces the leader of one of these groups the defense force has agreed to talk to us. about cho lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameroon little gers we have a right existence with. dignity and come. to me tague. human rights watch

accuses cameron's rapid intervention brigade operating in the english speaking regions of killing civilians and burning their homes there were people who were burned alive and many of them with women and children so it. was like killed so it's i think is the brutality. you see we have been it was deliberate it is just casualties all. the force is trained in managed by former israeli naval forces officers stationed inside the presidency the government deny any wrongdoing. which started off as a peaceful movement against the government insisting on having french teachers in schools in the english speaking regions has turned into a violent separatist. more than a 1000000 are displaced and thousands have been killed with many others caught in a spiral of violence because hawke al-jazeera. afghanistan's president ashraf

ghani has signed a decree that paves the way for the release of some taliban prisoners 5800 will be freed within 15 days return the taliban will hand over 1000 afghan troops it's hopes the move will lead to talks between the group and the government the un security council has passed a resolution supporting the deal. security forces in venezuela have broken up an anti-government march in caracas led by opposition leader one quiet of 3 opposition politicians taking part but also arrested quite over who is recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries has been trying to revive mass protest to oust president nicolas maduro find out about it has the details. police fired tear gas at demonstrators and get back as on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one why don't i know. why don't attempt to to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators from marching to venezuela's

national assembly building suicide mobilization social action symbolic acts of protest overwhelming protest actions with everyone united today in the fight for a free venezuela this is ben as well as moment thousands attended the demonstration in the venezuelan capital to protest against worsening economic conditions in the country and on. yeah well basically we want the whole world to see what's happening in venezuela which is a very critical situation without production without food without medicines the country totally paralyzed and all the country's economic sectors. at the united nations in geneva the un high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet said the situation in venezuela has worsened in recent months. since my last update on the human rights situation in venezuela political tensions and acts of violence by security forces and government supporters against opposition parliamentarians have continued. a separate rally was convened in downtown can act as in support of

venezuelan president nicolas maduro. the latest political tensions in the south american nations stem from a growing violence against members of the as well as political opposition including the arrest of several parliament members according to the latest updates from the un some 4900000 people have fled venezuela as a result of the prices went up a little. this is all just there and these are the top stories after days of slowing coronavirus infections south korea has reported a spike in new cases for the 90 come from a call center in the capital seoul the government has many organizations to take extra measures. the health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for chronic virus again doris' is now self isolating she was at 10 event

at the prime minister's residence earlier in the week israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters the activists were camped out overnight so on manton now the city of nablus to fend off in legal israeli settlers trying to use a location to establish an outpost with your list in health authorities say 17 people have been injured including a teenager who is in critical condition and abraham has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinians say they are trying to save their lands from illegal israeli settlements you do need that close with august 3rd to locations of a koran or 2 to it it becomes an out with meaning that it's not recognised by the israeli government however it's still considered illegal under international law and then we've seen many of those who turned into settlements that are organized by story that they're recognized by the israeli government they are given services

they are using the infrastructure as well as resources from palestinian cities and towns. joe biden has cemented his front trying to stay exists in the race for the democratic nomination for the u.s. presidency the former vice president one primaries in idaho mississippi missouri and the key state of michigan. australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction how does the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story you can also check out our web site so al-jazeera dot com has more to come stay with us americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

blatantly wrong on the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. could the rivalry between afghanistan's leaders do rail peace efforts ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah both say they are the president with peace with the taliban on the line come they settle their differences this is inside story. hello there is many were hailing a new beginning for afghanistan less than a fortnight ago the u.s. and the afghan taliban had just signed a deal towards an being 2 decades of war but the afghan government wasn't part of the talks and a long standing political rivalry is making things even more complicated president ashleigh.