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our ivan watson live in seoul, south carolina, and blake live in tokyo and barbie, the latest for us in rome. ivan, let's start with you there. first, get a sense of what's happening because the number of infecti infections, clearly, seeming to rise. >> yeah, it's going up and now the south korean government is announcing it's raising the crisis alert level to its highest right now in response to the outbreak. the south korean president came out on television saying that this is a water shed moment for the country. that the next few days will be critical. that they're trying to round up as many, identify as many of the cases of corona virus as possible. he repeated an appeal for people not to gather in large groups. take a listen. >> translator: we have vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have masked meetings in an enclosed indoor place. i urge everyone to restrain themselves from group events or activities not only in indoor places, but also outdoor places which could harm others, the people of the country. >> now, president moon defended the decision to stop prayer gatherings f

ivan watson is in seoul and blake he issic.e failed. >> reporter: what we've seen in the last 36 hours is the confirmed number of coronavirus infections has more than doubled to about 433 cases at this time. so far south korea has had two people pass away who had contracted the coronavirus. but certainly a very dramatic surge in cases. now, a lot of this has swirled around the central city of dagu and one religious group in particular. and a gathering of worshippers in that city some time ago go where roughly half of the confirmed cases seem to be linked both to that religious group and to that city. ministry of health and welfare are calling for self-isolation for more than 9,000 members of this religious movement and they are testing more than 500 of them for coronavirus. meanwhile the religious group itself says that it it has ceased all religious meetings and it will be disinfecting all of its places of worship. but this goes of course beyond one religious group. for example, at least four members of the south korean milita

ivan watson obtained rare leaked documents inside of shinjiang and showing the extraordinary level of that the chinese government is rounding up and detaining citizens for the most arbitrary of reasons. >> reporter: growing a long byrd, and having a passport and these are reasons for what officials are calling landing you in concentration camps in china. chilling revelations detailed in what appears to be a chinese government surveillance report on the citizens leaked from this region in western china where a mass interment policy has forced 2 million muslims from the country's mostly western uighur minority into detention. these documents are spread sheets of more than 300 families living in one county and contain highly detailed personal information such as national i.d. numbers and history of foreign travel and religious practices and whether or not they are a threat. the authors believed to be chinese government officials then decide whether to keep the individuals into what the chinese government calls vocational training centers. beijing wants the world to believe that this mass

ivan watson, cnn. >> ivan, thank you for staying on top of this. >>> thank you so much for joining melitics" with john king starts right now. >>> thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump brushes off both the public health and the economic threat posed by the coronavirus, and he gets angry at democrats who say the president is asleep at the wheel and has no plan for ending the pandemic. >>> plus debate night for the 2020 democrats and the stakes are enormous. it is the final showdown before south carolina votes saturday and then 14 states next tuesday. frontrunner bernie sanders will be the target, but others also have a ton riding on their performance. >>> and the other billionaire's big moment.

our ivan watson is live in seoul and blake in tokyo for us and barbara has the latest from rome. let's start with you. how big is the concern there in seoul? >> well, the south korean government has announced that it's raising the crisis alert level to its highest level at this point in response to the outbreak. the south korean president moon saying that it is facing a water shed moment. the next couple days are critical and they need to identify additional cases of q possible and urging the population not to gather in large groups. take a listen. >> translator: we have vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have masked meetings in an enclosed indoor place. i urge everyone to restrain themselves from group events or activities not only in indoor places, but also outdoor places which can harm others. the people of the country. >> president moon also says it moves to stop gatherings of a south korean religious movement were not aimed at restricting religious freedom. it was also in the interest of public health. now, the reason he mentioned that religious group is that roughly ha

cnn's ivan watson now has more on what that city is trying to do to turn things around. >> reporter:s is what the coronavirus crisis looks like. an ambulance delivers a patient to the emergency room in the tiny former portuguese colony of macao. health workers fully protected against the new disease. the authorities in macao aren't taking any chances. they are informing the public that if you suspect you have symptoms of coronavirus and that you've been in touch with somebody that you fear may also be sick somewhere in mainland china, call for an ambulance which will deliver you here to the emergency entrance of the city's main public hospital. images from inside the isolation ward, at least seven patients are being treated here. the health emergency has had a startling impact on this semi-autonomous corner of china. macao with its small population of around 600,000 people is normally a major tourism hot spot, welcoming nearly 40 million visitors last year alone. the main draw, macao's towering casinos. this is the gambling capital of the world, with the casino industry that dwarves

cnn's ivan watson is in macau and has the latest on this. ivan, this is a big deal certainly. sense of the fact that people are just not spending money. >> reporter: no, and it is a big deal because macau is a relatively small city in chinese context. it has a population of 600,000 people. it's just found its eightth case of the deadly coronavirus and the real struggle here is that macao relies on millions of mainland chinese coming across the internal boundary to this semi-autonomous corner of china, and they're mostly drawn by the casinos here, and the hotels. and now macao has to figure out how to function as a city and as an economy without having these mainland chinese tourists import more of the coronavirus. and that is the dilemma that this former portuguese colony is facing. >>> this is what the coronavirus crisis looks like. an ambulance delivers a patient to the emergency room in the tiny former portuguese colony of macao. health workers fully protected against the new disease. the authorities in macao aren't taking any chances. they are informing the public that if

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ivan watson, cnn. >> ivan, thank you for staying on top of this. >>> thank you so much for joining me today. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >>> thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump brushes off both the public health and the economic threat posed by the coronavirus, and he gets angry at democrats who say the president is asleep at the wheel and has no plan for ending the pandemic. >>> plus debate night for the 2020 democrats and the stakes are enormous. it is the final showdown before south carolina votes saturday and then 14 states next tuesday. frontrunner bernie sanders will be the target, but others also have a ton riding on their performance. >>> and the other billionaire's big moment. michael bloomberg is not on the ballot until next week, but tom steyer has spent heavily in south carolina and on the polls there. at least one voter questions the wisdom of some of that spending. >> you claim to be pro-environment and raising significant alarms about climate change. yet we h

we again with cnn's ivan watson in south korea. hi, ivan. >> reporter: brooke, i'm standing at the entrance to camp humphreys in south korea. this is the largest u.s. military installation overseas, and it's currently where a 23-year-old soldier is being treated in isolation after he tested positive for coronavirus. the first among some 30,000 u.s. military personnel here in korea to have come down with this new disease. there are an additional 15 individuals including ten active duty soldiers and four koreans attached to u.s. military units in quarantine there. the u.s. military has issued a high threat level. it's banned troops from going to movie theaters, bars, clubs, restaurants in my opinion wi restaurant, anyplace with more than 120 people. the host country struggles with the outbreak with more than 1,200 people diagnosed positive and 12 who have been killed by the disease. >> i'm ben wedeman in milan in northern italy where large areas have been set aside as so-called red zones where about 50,000 people live in areas where t

. >> ivan watson, cnn. >> the news continues. let's turn things now over to don lemon and "cnn tonight". >>> this is a special edition of "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. happy president's day. bolton breaking his silence. less than two weeks after the president's impeachment victory. speaking to 1,200 people in a public appearance at duke university. you can bet he's getting under the president's skin. even though he's keeping his cards close to his chest when asked what's actually in his book. asked if he agrees with the president the ukraine call was perfect here's how he answers. with a tease. he says you'll love chapter 14. here's what he says about the "new york times" report that alleged trump directed him to help with ukraine pressure campaign. a report that bolton's lawyers have not denied quote for all the focus on ukraine and impeachment trial, to me there are portions of the manuscript that deal with ukraine. i view that as the sprinkles on the ice cream sunday in terms of the book. this issen effort to write history. i

ivan watson is in seoul.happening, what precautions are being made, and how is this changing people's lives on a day-to-day basis? >> reporter: it is certainly a major disruption for the country. no signs of panic, but definitely people are having to adapt to a new reality here. i think we have a graph that we can show you of how dramatic the surge of the infections here in korea has been. as recently as beginning of last week, fredricka, there were only 31 coronavirus confirmed infections in south korea, and that number has surged. today, less than two weeks later, it crossed the 3,000 point. and the health authorities here say they predict that number will continue to grow throughout the weekend, in part because more than half all of the infections involve members of a pretty secretive somewhat fringe religious group here in south korea that had some large gatherings and clearly the infection spread at the gatherings, and they are waiting for authorities, more than a thousand test results from members that

ivan watson obtained rare documents detailing citizens being rounded up for the most arbitrary reasonsrowing a long beard, making an international phone call, having a passport, these are all reasons that can land you in what u.s. officials call concentration camps in china. chilling revelations, detailed in what appears to be a chinese government surveillance report on its citizens leaked from shin zang. that's a region in western china where a mass internment policy has forced up to 2 million muslims into detention. the documents are spreadsheets of data on more than 300 families who live in one neighborhood. they provide highly detailed personal information including national i.d. numbers, home addresses, history of foreign travel, religious practices, and whether or not they are a threat. the authors believed to be chinese government officials then decide whether to keep individuals in what the chinese government calls vocational training centers. beijing wants the world to believe this mass job training program is rooting out violent extremism. but several survivors tell cnn the r

. >> i'm ivan watson in seoul. the number of coronavirus cases here in south korea continues to surge leaping by more than a thousand confirmed cases in just 48 hours. health authorities are predicting that that is just going to grow bigger this weekend because they're waiting for the results to come in for tests on more than 1,200 members of a secretive religious group, a doctor in a crisis center i interviewed said the worst is yet to come. >> all right, guys, thank you. japan, another country hard hit by the coronavirus with more than 900 cases and that includes roughly 700 from the diamond princess cruise ship. all public schools to be closed for a month starting next week, and there are real concerns for what that means for the summer olympics in tokyo. blake essex has the latest from tokyo. >> reporter: in japan's very first attempt at taking on the novel coronavirus, government advisers admit they got it wrong. the quarantine on board the diamond princess cruise ship was flawed from the very impinbegin >> sh

. >> i'm ivan watson in seoul, senior u.s.they were postponing joint military exercises indefinitely and with good reason. the south korean defense ministry has about 10,000 military personnel in quarantine right now with dozens of confirmed cases of coronavirus across all four branchs of the south korean military. meanwhile, the u.s. military, which maintains a force of about 30,000 here in korea has confirmed a third case linked to one of the u.s. bases here. this time a south korean employee working out of camp carroll, and that is the same base where a 23-year-old u.s. soldier was diagnosed with coronavirus on wednesday. as both militaries deal with the threat, south korea, the host country is dealing with quite a serious outbreak. more than 500 cases diagnosed in a period of about 24 hours. >>> here in turkey, so far there are no reported cases of coronavirus, but there is a lot of concern about more and more cases appearing in different countries in the region, including in iraq, in bahrain, in kuwait. all these cases ca

. >> ivan watson, cnn. >> the news continues.ings now over to don lemon and "cnn tonight". >>> this is a special edition of "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. happy president's day. bolton breaking his silence. less than two weeks after the president's impeachment victory. speaking to 1,200 people in a public appearance at duke university. you can bet he's getting under the president's skin. even though he's keeping his cards close to his chest when asked what's actually in his book. asked if he agrees with the president the ukraine