affairs that matter to. the british health minister tests positive for corona virus as the epidemic spreads worldwide there is tension. in the city in all of the country. and north korea ramps up production of face masks as the u.n. warns the country is at high risk of an outbreak. well over one canal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera is ready forces of use tear gas and live fire to disperse palestinian protesters trying to fend off illegal settlers in the occupied west bank. she come back from

the soul of this nation. and joe biden wins more states in tuesday's primaries takes a dominant lead over bernie sanders in the race for the democratic nomination. starting with corona virus of course that has now spread to more than $100.00 countries across 6 continents italy remaining the worst affected country outside of asia with a nationwide lockdown in effect also indonesia has now reported its 1st death south korea is being hit hard there are more than $200.00 new cases reported there many of them at the call center in the capital the crisis in china though seems to be easing there are a few new cases and deaths being reported there the government even allowing some companies to reopen and would harm which was the epicenter of the outbreak beijing download now is tightening its rules on international flights into the capital

we'll look at that later on in the u.s. the number of infections well there's an increase there more than a 1000 confirmed cases now. the national guard has even been sent to a new york city suburb where there are a cluster of cases. but as we mentioned earlier the british government health minister in fact said that is nadine dorries she has put herself in quarantine now she attended an event hosted by the prime minister barak johnson and the last week and elsewhere in europe in fact just in the last hour germany's chancellor warns the virus will test health care systems right across the continent and limo cool here she is and that news conference by the muslim 1st in the north of you will start we have to understand the virus is here that is to know a munity in the population against this vital injection north and appease and it means that. a high percentage 60 to 70 percent of the population can be infected if this is the situation continues like

that it's a disease why we have to work so intensively to find the right medication for. lawrence a following developments from europe for us in london lawrence the the calm voice of angela merkel there has been the german leader for such a long time an important voice for germans to hear no. yeah i mean she's very reassuring the germans don't call them o.t. or money for no reason to they she didn't really say anything that we didn't know in the news conference but it's all about the context the timing the that the general expectation is that. the germany france and the u.k. the 3 biggest economies in europe are all going to see the source of spike that happened in italy over the next week or fortnight and if you look at the german cases at the moment they were completely flat until a couple of days ago they've already started going like this very low admittedly only $1300.00 cases so far just 2 deaths but contextually it's about to get

a lot worse that's a that's that's a general assumption germany has a very large population 80000000 people she said today and she had already told a government that the expectation was that 60 or 70 percent of germans could get it that's over 50000000 people potentially and it's one of the oldest populations in the whole of europe and obviously we know that it's older people who are suffering the worst of this and so consequently it was really a sort of call to arms for michel americans of the german people to say look we know big events are a problem do you really need to go to that football match some of our officials have said to you what why not ride a bike or walk in so instead of taking public transport try and stay away from other people that's the message in it and the think what they're trying to do not just merkel but all of them now are trying to say you know the credit doesn't discriminate there's this thing it's all about individual choices and trying just to to delay it simple and flatten the curve as far as you can laurence the

situation in london where you are with the health minister not in doris obviously she's put herself in quarantine now but what's the talk about the potential knock on effect about how many people she's been in touch with about the effect on the british government who. well i mean the times newspaper which reported this said and they got fully briefed on it said she that she'd been musta been in concert with hundreds of people over the period and that must be true but snitches junior health minister jobs to meet people they they should she started getting properly at the weekend on saturday in their constituency north of london but in the days before that when she was cleaning the basing it she'd been in the house of commons she'd been voting they're all very tightly packed together when they go to the voting lobbies she met the prime minister on thursday it's a international women's day event. and an opposition health minister orders shadow called call rachel maskell who met who met earlier today has put herself in self isolation now on medical advice so the big question now is whether parliament more

broadly and government officials follow the same thing thank you for those updates lawrence lee in london. mentioned this earlier the concern over a new cluster of cases in south korea's capital seoul bribe has more on that. people started to detect a trends that some 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 interior and 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 calls 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 neighbors will also be looking closely in the coming days to see whether this is going to be any kind of reversal on 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 one scene 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. there are 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 in all of 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 is 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 lull 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 sold. other news and israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters one person a 15 year old boy has been killed the activists were camping overnights on a man mountain near the city of nablus trying to fend off a legal israeli settlers were trying to use the location to establish an outpost of 100 people treated for injuries there or from neda ibrahim now in ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian was killed by israeli forces fire is a 15 year old his name is and how much how many and he was participating in the in that protest that was organized by the palestinians. as a way for locals to try and defend their lands from settler attacks according to medical sources they've treated around 112 injuries on site doesn't have been taken

to hospitals one more person in critical condition now locals in the area say that. is very elevated area one of the highest in the nablus area and that settlers have been on that location for years since 19 eighties there has become fantasia's between palestinians there and the settlers usually settlers like to set the little high area the top of the mountains hilltops and maybe you can say that this is a way for them to keep an upper hand if anything happens including the most palestinians are telling us that 2nd those have been attacks have been on the rise in the past few years just since the beginning of this year 2 and t 20. has recorded 34 2nd attacks against

palestinians in the occupied west bank. the thoughts of eunice out on who's the director of international relations for the colonized i should and will resistance commission that is affiliated with the palace on the right. he told us he witnessed israeli forces shooting people in the face. at about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. surrounded from all sides by lines exhibition. vision forces. who have gone the area where we have been sitting. in a group sitting out on fire because it was very cold night and they did not make even a small warning nothing at all and started with extreme power they have used live ammunition they have used what it with a bullet they have used talk 60 gas clouds of tear gas. grenades and they were

shooting directly at people face to face i have seen many people were shot directly the gun was at a certain kind of the body or part of the body and shot in the get lee and i don't know whether it was. about quite a bit of bullets or a. lot i mean 2 very critical set of conditions and that i think the numbers now i have seen a soldier put that gun point on the head of the palestinian teen called islam is 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head. we'll update the headlines in a moment and then a disgrace a stray cardinal makes a final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse and stepping up its efforts to tackle a disease that infected tens of thousands of people not coronavirus them.

welcome back we'll start this look at weather in asia across northeastern areas now the big low pressure system clearing away from japan we've got another system developing across central southern parts of china that's going to have some fairly heavy rain during the course of thursday extending through food to towards northern parts of taiwan meanwhile for much of japan weather conditions are looking draw and fire in a relatively moderate cross north an heiress a poor up of 5 degrees korean peninsula certainly for south korea is fine with highs there are 13 in seoul but still the risk of some snow across more northern parts of north korea as i move the forecast sort of priding see that system begins to move away from taiwan like to rain left behind hong kong possibly see one or 2 showers fine for much of japan just one or 2 showers for western areas turning cooler in south korea and looking largely dry in her neuer in vietnam across into south asia the west the disturbance which has been affecting northern parts of

pakistan and india should continue to weaken with time we have a few showers across eastern parts of india though calcutta should remain largely dry and colombo in sri lanka we're expecting a fine day friday you see those showers in the east continue to pop up and so by that stage calcutta's should see wanted to showers over and bangladesh we're looking at a dry day in dhaka with highs of $35.00. in 2014 and al-jazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear. feel be m.-bone a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked some of us in our lives they didn't allow you to hospital knowing we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread a bola and caused the devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on al-jazeera. or

to. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera a health minister in the u.k. has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus that in doris now self isolating she had been there at an event at the prime minister's residence before her diagnosis and after days of slowing coronavirus infections south korea has reported despite in new cases more than 90 coming from one call center in the count little soul the government is urged many organizations not to take extra precautions and in other news israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters a 15 year old boys lost his life the activists were counting overnight on

a mountain to fend off illegal israeli settlers. still in the region israel's president is set to begin consultations to decide on a new prime minister benjamin netanyahu center right to block failed to win a majority in last week's election the 3rd in under a year political parties now put forward their recommendations for prime minister for the president to decide by march 17 our forces in west jerusalem feels like we've perhaps seen this movie already harry maybe even a couple of times and recent history this time prime minister netanyahu dollars have a bigger majority than previously. yes he won in terms of the ruler numbers between the various parties his new could won the election with 36 seats too many dances in white alliance with 33 and he celebrated what he said was the sweetest nick tree of his political career just

a couple of weeks ago but now we have this situation where when we look at the blocks in the forming class it he doesn't have a majority of his right wing allies would get him 58 seats at the moment benny gantz he would have 47 seats with his own party and other left wing and right wing parties who would support him but crucially there is also the question of the 15 seats of the largely palestinian israeli joint list grouping of parties so if benny gantz can shore up the support of all those within his own bloc plus get the support of all 15 of those palestinians really parties from outside the government not join a coalition but support a minority government from outside that would give him 62 and that is what he's trying for but to get there 1st he needs to beat netanyahu as bloc of 58 but at least one seat and that has become much more difficult given the approach that's

been taken very recently. of the leader of the gas ship r.c. one of those within his block or living i because his he says he will not submit to a government won't support a government that is itself supported by palestinian israeli parties from the outside sort of president reagan rivlin is still trying to get the 2 main parties who could in blue and white to join a unity government that didn't work last time it's very unclear as to how it might work this time and one other interesting thing that the president said he quoted an arabic phrase about the virtues of patience so that there was no such thing as a citizen of israel and given what has been said by both all 11 of the crisis and benjamin netanyahu when he was talking about the support of only 47 zionist parties supporting benny gantz essentially ruling out the vote of more than half a 1000000 new support of the palestinian israeli joint missed an important message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have the votes

counted in the press are a force that's in west jerusalem thank you harry afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has signed it to creep paving the way for the release of some taliban prisoners 1500 of them will be freed within 15 days in return the taliban will hand over a 1000 afghan troops it's hoped the move will lead to talks between the various and the government u.n. security council's passed a resolution which supports the deal. the coronavirus obviously the biggest global health emergency at the moment but den dey a disease spread by skaters is also a serious health issue in many countries true lanka for example has seen a major increase in infections in recent years and often and this has our report from colombia. health officials like a chimney on the prowl part of a larger effort to fight against a viral disease spread by mosquitoes he's part of the team releasing a different type of mosquito to fight it spread. the a.b.c.

egypt carries the day and viruses which is infecting mostly lankans every year. the head of the national dental control unit says expanding cities have led to an increase in breeding sites. burden for health system. the cost. many prevention so we need to buy you know let's all listen for this problem says it a primitive agrees his 14 year old daughter was treated in hospital after she got sick with dengue last year. she couldn't go to school for about 4 months she was told not to exult or to her sons but she was too meek to do that anyways madra distributing boxes containing specially bred mosquito eggs produced with the

assistance of the world musky to program. the eggs from the eighty's egypt are infected with bacteria a bacteria found in 60 percent of insects but not the. percentage . of proliferation not. being given a this is in the region so they're. going to be most kiddos but i want to be right in the most to do with these mosquito eggs are produced by the world mosquito program using sri lankan mosquitoes the eggs are then sent back to be packed into capsules which are then distributed with tomasky 2 boxes filled with water to allow them to have. the 2 trial is in the capital colombo are divided into grids and a box containing a capsule with the eggs is hung up in every 50 to 75 meters section. this

process will be repeated by teams for $12.00 to $20.00 weeks with tests monitoring the newly emerging musky to population reaching musky 2 against mosquitoes is how the project aims to combat the virus some skeptics including scientists and people in these areas say that this will increase the number of mosquitoes for those behind the project insist that those carrying the bacteria will help reduce the transmission of the virus so it will be an increase in the mosquito population while we release mosquitoes but once we start releasing them the mosquito population comes back to normal so it's a minor inconvenience for a time but the mosquito population is say dr montgomery insists this is not a gentle modified organism but one that uses natural processes 1st tried in australia in 2011 the world back in a method is now being used in 12 countries which have reported reductions in the

number of infections sri lankan health authorities say they will monitor the results over the next 5 years we hope it to cheever's the same success here in a fernandez al-jazeera. to the u.s. where joe biden has cemented his front runner status in the democratic party's race for the white house and dashed bernie sanders hopes of reviving his chances chances even in the 6 states voting in tuesday's primaries biden won in idaho mississippi missouri and michigan the state with the most delegates up for grabs this report from deborah and it's on there in detroit. 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 who supported through their tireless energy and their passion we share

a common goal and together we will defeat. will defeat a good. fight hope to endorsements from senators cama harris and cory booker would help him maintain his overwhelming support from black voters it worked. because right now everybody. is going to be strong. who did you vote for today joe biden. because he already was in office so he already has a fill about what goes on well 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 he 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 watched 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 was larger than one person is larger than one night as large as the one primary and so for me i think the dollies that the senator has been fighting for clean air clean water health is a human right and i think those are the you that are going to live beyond one campaign cycle so you know that was all isn't exactly what i would like to see him but i think we're excited to see what what happens next. it's now clear that the scale is tipping in favor of a presidential election between joe biden and donald trump gabriels on the edges in detroit. security forces in venezuela have broken up an anti government to march in

caracas led by the opposition they don't want he is recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries and has been trying to revive the mass protests to oust president nicolas maduro as more. police fired tear gas at demonstrators in can act as on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one. why do it tempted to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators from marching to venezuela's national assembly building about suicide its mobilization social action symbolic acts of protest overwhelming protest actions with everyone united today in the fight for. 3 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 the comment that came up oh 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 they mean. that 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. funny story is highest court is hearing

a final appeal from the described roman catholic cardinal george pell to overturn his sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. and they get reports now from canberra. the final step in a long court process that's been followed closely across the world george pell the most prominent catholic figure to be convicted of child abuse wasn't in court he his final bid for freedom but some of his supporters and opponents were. running high and opinions divided and here. today the. catholic church. approach the de facto acquittal of a man and. in late 2818 poll was found guilty of sexually abusing 2

quiet boys in the 19 ninety's he served one year of a 6 year prison term and has continued to maintain his innocence. lost in appeal last year to or the turn his conviction over the next for arguing to the high court that that ruling was unreasonable his team is focused its argument on the credibility of a witness and the timing of the offending lawyer lisa flynn who represents abuse victims is concerned that if the high court overturns his conviction it might stop other abuse victims speaking out. many. people could come. despite being a convicted sex offender george pell is still a cardinal but so far the poet has declined comment until all avenues of appeal are

exhausted that moment may not be far away now gauge al-jazeera camera. they are on al-jazeera let's take you to the headlines the health minister in the u.k. has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus but in doris's not self isolating her she had been at an event at the prime minister's residence before her diagnosis still in europe than germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning the virus will test health care systems right across the continent but time was money 1st in the us you will start the have to understand the virus is here that is no a muni. in the population against a vital injection north head of peas and it means that. a high percentage 60 to 70 percent of the population can be infected if this is the

situation continues like that it's a disease why we have to work so very intensively to find the right medication for it. after days of slowing coronavirus infections south korea's now reported a spike in new cases more than 90 coming from a single call center in the capital seoul the government now edging many organizations to take extra measurements. and in other news israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse the palestinian protesters a 15 year old boy has died at the activists were camped overnight on a mountain to fend off illegal israeli settlers trying to set up an outpost those are your headlines inside story starts right now.

could the why of all we did. in afghanistan's leaders the rail peace efforts ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah both say they are the president with peace with the taliban on the line can they settle their differences this is inside story. hello there i'm james pays 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 ending 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 ashraf ghani was narrowly declared the winner of the election in.