national emergency in the united states over the spread of the virus and ending on some good news south korea has for the 2nd day in a row reported more recoveries than coronavirus cases new infections so some good news there coming from south korea. virus appears to be retreating in china that's where it emerged late last year the government says there were only get this 11 new cases on saturday and that for the 1st time most of them were imported from overseas now the success of this quarantine program in china is already being touted in state propaganda. triumphal scenes in china this week infection rates are decreasing on friday the country proudly announced on the 8 new cases. who hand city reported 5 new cases before the eyes of the nation the city close the last temporary hospital to china wants to signal to the rest of the world that it has the virus under control after more than 3000 people died from it . there right we're happy that patients finally recovered. young gong from to han has been cornered in this apartment for 50 days in the beginning he and his family were very scared h

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they're standing in her studio in south korea's 1st main. fimian news anchor of you have again south korea's 1st main female news anchor in a country with the world's largest economy it's taken 7 decades for a reference journalist like lease or jong to be promoted to the main news anchor's role it's a landmark development in a traditional and conservative society and it's making headline news. stepping into the spotlight and pushing through the glass ceiling besides breaking news journalist lisa genome is also breaking boundaries becoming south korea's 1st ever female main news anchor so the country is transformed itself into a modern economic powerhouse culturally it's still often a man's world. so you don't want to go there or you know traditionally the main news anchor would be an older experienced man and beside him there would be a young female announcer who is pretty like a flower. and stars are just you know. lee is no newcomer to the business the award winning reporter has been with public broadcasting k.b.'s since 2003 but even she thought this

and a new korea plan for the "tiger king." welcome to "the daily distancing show." let's do this. >> from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily distancing show" with trevor noah! >> trevor: all right. let's kick things off with the latest global update. there are now over 700,000 confirmed coronavirus infections around the world, with the united states now reporting the highest number of cases, while italy and spain are reporting the highest fatalities per day. and as the threat has grown, more and more countries are starting to take this thing more seriously. for instance, the largest city in africa, lagos, in nigeria is locked down, and in russia they've put moscow in lockdown as well. when russians are scared of something, then you know it's serious. russian people's daily lives look like an episode of "fear factor" what will i do today, drink fermented bread juice or wrestle bear? either way, it's going to be a good saturday. so this is a scary time to be in russia, second only to all the times to be in russia. i

news. and south korea's prime minister has described new travel restrictions from japan as excessive is called on the government to drop the new rules japan is imposing a 14 day quarantine on all visitors from south korea and china because of the viral outbreak south korea's foreign minister has announced it will halt visa wave is all japanese with them. that brings you up to date on all the business news thanks for watching i'll see you again very soon and nice doing business with you. lucky. the mission to save the big marvel comics started in $1013.00 on the created a vast empire of superheroes with human weaknesses. claiming have had their share of closures the moving story about giants more absorbs more of the b.w. . what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites of the. world heritage 316 get the national. international women's day. we tell the stories of women around the world cut their might their struggles and their names terry. left body part for an independent self determined life. unafraid to speak out africa big dev

one news agency reports that the number of people who have recovered from the virus has for the 1st time exceeded the number of foreign tb patients. let's now bring in frank smith in south korea's capital seoul frank south to rio one of the 1st countries to confront and then effectively combat this virus has now reported an increase in new infection that might be worrying to people watching from afar what's behind this resurgence well it definitely is worrying including for some people and officials here in south korea most of the new infections took place down in daegu in the south central area of the country where john g. cult religious group and patient number 31 really started a large cluster that cropped up there in early february also as you mentioned there are some new arrivals coming in from other countries that are causing that spike in the number of cases that had been below 100 for most of last week now obviously the risk of new clusters seems to be what the government was worried about and many other governments in the area. that's right one of the problems here is south koreans now are perhaps getting a little bit complacent there was a there were church services h

deaths the same time nearly 874000 people have recovered from the virus and some good news coming from south korea with 76 new corona coronavirus cases reported today the country has now seen and fall in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in more than 3 weeks a sign that the tough quarantine measures there are work. well joining me now from singapore is they'll fisheries a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you for joining us a flurry as we heard of action across europe in the past hours lock downs in france and in spain school closures here in germany is europe making the right moves do you think now to slow the spread. i believe that is a nice. thing is there's a lot of lessons to take out of the response tonight is. being implemented elsewhere in the world outside and do you think there's more that can be tough i want to ask you about what the u.k. is doing and it's taking a different strategy from many other countries here in europe i mean there's very few are structu

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 t

at the same time at least 73900 people have recovered from the virus and some good news particularly from south korea with 76 new khurana new coronavirus cases reported today the country therefore has seen a fold in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in over 3 weeks a sign its tough quarantine measure is working. oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the world health organization global outbreak and response network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only does that offer some hope. yet most most definitely it does there are there are big lessons to learn there because they're one of the few countries with numbers coming down while most of the rest of the world which have slightly different approaches. going out and losing control we now have lockdowns in france and spine school closures in germany similar measures in parts of the u.s. with all of that are we doing enough of the right things to slow the spread the most important thing to do is to the virus out of the community. sir th

global outbreak spain's cabinet will declare a 2 week state of emergency today and some good news south korea has for the 2nd day in a row now reported more recoveries from the virus than it has new infections. well thirty's here in germany have announced a series of measures to slow the spread of the corona virus outbreak including the closure of schools more than $3600.00 people have been infected in germany so far and 8 have died chance there on the american has called on people to avoid social contacts to prevent the elderly and those with preexisting health conditions from contracting the virus meanwhile the number of people stockpiling is on the rise that means buying food and supplies like disinfectant and toilet paper. well joining me now in studio is a lima we're talking sports with a look at how the pandemic is continuing to affect the sports world let's start here in germany because the buddhist leader germany's top football league finally suspending matches until april 2nd but really there was a feeling right that this was a decision a took a bit too long and why did this take so

you know that there had been a decline in the number of new coronavirus cases in south korea in early march but new clusters emerged including here in the capital seoul prompting officials to call for greater vigilance. efforts to increase participation in containing the virus have spread across saul's 25 districts to no one. where an estimated 500 volunteers answered the call to produce really usable cotton masks. she my neighbor told me that she was volunteering to make the mosques and suggested we do it together i also want to use my sewing skills to help pov as these days everybody stays at home so i thought it would be better to help someone instead of just staying at home doing nothing. although the cotton fields to offer complete protection from the coronavirus high quality disposable masks are rationed no one's leader believes providing to cut masks to each of the districts half a 1000000 citizens can offer other intangible benefits. what's meaningful is that neighbors help each other when the nation the people and the community are in great difficulty it's not important to ma

spotlight and pushing through the glass ceiling besides breaking news journalist lisa jong is also breaking boundaries becoming south korea's 1st ever female main news anchor though the country has transformed itself into a modern economic powerhouse culturally it's still often a man's world. so you. don't want to go there or you know traditionally the main news anchor would be an older experienced man and the side him there would be a young female announcer who is pretty like a flower. and stars are no. lee is no newcomer to the business the award winning reporter has been with public broadcasting k.b.'s since 2003 but even she thought this top job would be out of reach. without realising i myself was thinking it would be impossible for there to be a female main anchor at any time before i retired. luckily for her she was wrong now she hopes her trail blazing will make it easier for the women who follow the order going in their record. soon i hope people will no longer be interested in whether the anchor is a woman or a man. i'll try to stop defining myself as a female journalist i'm a journalist and a news anchor. in conc

south korea is reporting a slight increase in corona virus cases 147 new infections and 8 more deaths in china some shops in the city of have been allowed to reopen with no new cases of the virus reported for 3 days. another news north korea has fired 2 missiles into the sea off the coast of the korean peninsula that's according to south korea's military it follows 2 launches earlier this month the u.s. and china have appealed to north korea to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programs or mcbride joins us now from seoul with more rob so the rest of the world is very much focused on the coronavirus that north korea's continuing its missile launches. that's right as far as north korea is concerned it does seem to be back to business as usual and this is the test this air of it so weapons and that was after a lull of several months the difference between this test and the previous 2 tests we've had this series does seem to be a more sophisticated weaponry on show the 1st 2 tests were from the east coast of the peninsula and it they appear to have been either rocket launc

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another surge it's somewhat had stabilized earlier this week but now today we've seen 147 new cases a south korea warning that they definitely are not out of the woods yet and there are still issues with people coming in from abroad so once again they're trying to tighten their borders anyone coming in from europe will now have to be tested but south korea is also saying that people need to remain vigilant and there is a danger of cluster of cases in south korea has not had the lock downs we've seen in other countries instead imposing widespread testing so they're telling people to remain vigilant they're definitely not out of the woods divya thank you very much we'll come back to you i'm sure in the coming hours here on al-jazeera. confirmed infections in the us of now risen above 19000 cases in the us led to some unprecedented restrictions mike hanna reports from washington. the trumpet ministration continues to wreck to top preventative measures in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic the latest action aimed at cutting traffic across the country's northern and southern borders president trump

flattening the kids earlier this month south korea was among the hardest hit countries fast forward to today one health officials are reporting only 105 new cases on the day one key aspect of south korea's fight to slow the pandemic is volunteerism taking care of society's less fortunate. judge. has been cooking free meals for those less fortunate since 1992 becoming the charity kitchens manager 3 years ago these days rather than offer you soup and side dishes inside buddhist temple serves a large rice balls for takeout to prevent the spread of the coronavirus despite the changing menu they say diners are grateful. they give us thanks for providing them these rice balls is not only a rise both of them everyone says thank you i tell them that they can get the rice balls without cooperating waiting in line for a short time where in mosques and sterilizing a bit before they can pick up their food and they have to avoid eating in the same place so. many of the temples diners are especially vulnerable most are not registered as citizens and therefore ineligible for state aid the large rice balls here are often their only meal of the day. to ge

also in the new south korea's president declares war on coronavirus the infection right there is the highest outside of china. the final results in but that hasn't stopped benjamin netanyahu from claiming victory in israel's latest election. did i get the kind of support needed since then.

. >> reporter: kevin ramos just returned from south korea where coronavirus is spreading. new cases erupting in italy and south korea, the trump administration implementing new travel restrictions. >> we are urging americans to not travel to the areas in italy and areas in south korea that are most effective by the coronavirus. both countries have hundreds of infected patients. the state department s they'll coordinate screenings for all passengers before they depart to either cry. >> reporter: shin just arrived from seoul, she said there was minimal health screening in south korea or sfo. >> coming here i just you know they just asked if i have been to china which i have not. clearly this is not limited to just china. >> reporter: the airlines responding to the outbreak. delta reducing flights to south korea and hawaiian airlines suspending them entirely. the vaccine is months away. the cdc says the best way to prevent the illness is avoid to being expose with these steps, wash your hands, avoid touching your face and if you feel sick, stay home. >> i have been sanitizing and

i can get over it but i'm >>> leading the news, north korea launches its first weapons test of 2020 accordingsouth korean military, north korea fired two unidentified projectiles off its east coast they were fired near the coastal city of wonson it is the country's first missile test since late november officials are investigating whether this was a ballistic missile or rocket artillery. >>> a university has removed its victory bell due to its horrific past school officials learned that the bell was actually forged in 1825 and used to direct the movement of enslaved africans. officials stated that ucontinuig to use the bell would run counter. >>> they made one of the largest busts that they have ever seen the louisville police k-9 officer striker sniffed out about 595 pounds worth of meth they responded to the scene of a suspicious tractor-trailer where they discovered about $1.2 million worth of the drug hidden in a compartment. >>> it's normal to be a little late once in a while but not to be over 20 years late. louisiana police were shocked when they stopped a driver whose registration exp

news, washington. for the first time in three weeks, south korea has reported fewer than 100 new coronavirus cases. sia after china, with over 8,000 confirmed infections and 75 deaths. but south korea seems to be enjoying a downward trend in new cases. here's the country's foreign minister explaining how. the basic principle is openness, transparency and fully keeping the public informed and i think this is paying off. testing is essential because that leads to early detection and minimises further spread and quickly treats those found with the virus and i think that is the key behind our very low fatality rate as well. that was the south korean foreign minister. well, for the past few weeks, we have all been told the best thing we can still do to prevent the spread of coronavirus is to wash our hands and not touch our faces. psychologist natasha tiwari has these tips to help you. don't touch your face. and i haven't touched my face in weeks. because we can't help it. it is part of our dna and we are hardwired to do it. we know it is because humans as young as foetuses in utero touch their faithful

today want to take a closer look at south korea country was hit hard by the coronavirus but now it has seen a steep decline in new code 19 cases compare that with that number in germany currently nearly 10 times. the number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely reined in the disease and without closing down public life to a degree we are seeing in europe and elsewhere now how. nobody knows exactly but making use of the internet technology to share confirmed patients occasions and travel information directly with the public seems to have helped quite a lot actually. so the koreans seems to be battling the coronavirus kovac 19 effectively without implementing a complete lockdown in addition to rigorous and innovative testing for the virus online applications and social networking have been crucial to encourage ongoing public participation in the battle against the corona virus every day south korean health authorities send text messages to everyone's smartphones the advisories remind people to avoid large groups practice to meter safe distancing and regularly disinfect their homes leaving t

corona virus that spread to more than 100 countries across 6 continents south korea is especially hard hit more than 200 new cases have been reported there many of them medical center in the capital south korea has the highest number of infections in asia outside china the crisis there seems to be easing with fewer new cases and deaths reported the government is allowing some companies to reopen in ruhani the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. a number of infections has increased with more than a 1000 now confirmed the national guard has been deployed and a new york city suburb sealed off after a cluster of cases were reported person's health minister is a victim. to the national health service is contacting people who've been in contact with nadine dorries well stephen baba is a professor and political economist at regents university london he joins us via skype and as they were happening good morning this is all happening with the background of course of the budget being unveiled today there are a lot of things for the government to balance head talk us through that. yesterday and. the budget which is

good news on the coronavirus, with china and south korea saying the number of new cases recorded eachay has dropped. in china, outside the center of report no authorities new locally-transmitted cases for the second data in a row, in korea, the rate of infection has fallen to its lowest level in 11 days. in other news, the trial of 4 men suspected of being involved in the shooting down of that flight in ukraine underway in the netherlands. the plane, brought down by a missile in territory held by pro-moscow rebels. nearly two thirds of those on board were dutch nationals. correspondent has more. marching, chance, or slogans. nothing for this protest. family members of the fallen set 298 chairs outside the russian embassy in the hague, one for each of the victims of 72,ysia airlines flight this to denounce moscow busters refusal to cooperate with the investigation. >> we are not accusing russia, but we are having a protest against the cooperation of the state. >> we tried to signify we think russia still has some answers to give state. >> us and to explain a lot of things. charged: the

north korea has tried to projectiles in other news into the sea off the fence in the east coast . hello and welcome to international forecast they're seeing big changes in the weather across more eastern parts of europe we have this frontal system which is moving southward and behind it significantly colder but dry as expected to move in so still looking pretty woman across southeast naris $22.00 in bucharest 20 in sarajevo during saturday but we'll see those temperatures dropping away meanwhile further towards the west we've got a low pressure system pushing towards island low pressure over the iberian peninsula giving some heavy rain before 24 hours we still see some rain across abir impinged dry across the u.k. remember those temperatures will see snares dropping by about 10 degrees as we head on through into sunday but dry weather for the most part fine conditions but obviously the risk of night time frost developing now as you move into northern and central parts of africa we've got a circulation across north africa giving some dust across parts of algeria and through into ce

well a new political storm is brewing between south korea and japan over coronavirus quarantine measures japan's prime minister has imposed a mandatory quarantine on over sisters from south korea and china but so has protested against that calling for it to be revoked and kinds of measures to be put in place it's also protested against similar restrictions and forced by vietnam and singapore and south korea has more than $6000.00 confirmed cases. local color new corn team for visitors from both countries will be strengthened and the be required to be quantified 2 weeks of the location designated by the quantity director to be asked to refrain from using public transportation in the country. or of mcbride joins me now live form so rob was behind this restriction that's been imposed the international consensus appeared to be that south korea was managing the outbreak reasonably well. absolutely there is a real see the indignation here at this move the south korean foreign minister calling in the japanese ambassador for a dressing down lodging in the strongest possible terms south korea's o

last month, the country had seen 909 new cases in a single day, but today south korea is reporting only 100 new cases. this, as infections in western countries soar by the thousands. it's believed korea's two-fold approach of extensive testing and social distancing has slowed the spread of the novel coronavirus. >> over 300,000 tests. and through that, they were able to identify cases and then look for contacts and really snuff this out in an incredible way. >> president trump is reenforcing his hope that the u.s. can reopen for business by easter. warning that the restrictions may push the economic down turn to the point of in return. >> i'm not going to do anything rash or hastily. i don't do that. but the country wants to get back to work. our country was built to get back to work. we don't have a country where they say hey, let's close it down for two years. we can't do that. it's not our country. >> but that's a little over two weeks away. and with the number of cases dramatically rising in america, health care experts are skeptical. >> the last thing any country needs is to open s

south korea is reporting a slight increase in corona virus cases 147 new infections and 8 more deaths in china some shops in the city of rouhani have been allowed to reopen with no new cases of the virus reported for 3 days. some other news now in north korea has fired 2 missiles into the sea off the coast of the korean peninsula that's according to south korea's military it follows 2 launches earlier this month the u.s. and china have a field to north korea to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programs. 30 security force personnel have been killed as an afghan military base was stormed in the cell the government plays the blames the attack and zabul province on the taliban the armed groups signed a peace deal with the u.s. last month as part of the agreement the taliban was supposed to begin talks with afghan leaders about reducing violence but the process stalled after a disagreement about the release of prisoners. a u.s. doctors nurses and other hospital workers say they simply don't have enough medical equipment and supplies to treat everyone who gets sick with cor

capital seoul frank south korea has reported a increase in new infections we're hearing where exactly are those infections coming from well most of those infections are coming from the southern city of daegu in the province of goings on that's where that shinji that cold had a series of meetings in early february and patient number 31 really spread the virus to hundreds of people there also as you mentioned we're seeing an increase in the number of arrivals coming into south korea's incheon airport bringing some more cases into the country but again most of the cases are surrounding debut in that so central area of the country i mean this is exactly what the south korean government and fact many countries in the region were worried about the more you make you contain the original outbreak you flatten the curve and then all of a sudden you start to see these new hotspots sparking up again right. that's right we saw this with a call center here in the south korean capital seoul people are getting a little bit complacent and they're not observing th

south korea says it will quarantine all new arrivals from overseas for a fortnight.ed cases in recent days have been diagnosed in people who have come into the country. our correspondent laura bicker was at incheon airport as a flight arrived from london. this setup is all about protecting south korea from a fresh outbreak of coronavirus. all arrivals from europe will be tested at one of the stations. there are eight of them, all standing by. over the last few days, around half of all south korea's new coronavirus cases have come from overseas, many of them from europe. and that is one of the reasons why everyone is being tested. to wait for the results, you are taken on a bus to a residential centre and get your results in about 12 hours. these testing centres are outside, but others within the country, you get these sort of plastic phone booth—type testing centres, where you can walk in and be tested in a matter of minutes. before you arrive here into this area, you go through a series of checks. a temperature check, then you have to fill in all your contact detail

korea from a fresh outbreak of coronavirus. the world's oldest man is celebrating his 112th birthday, but without a party to celebrate. hello and welcome to bbc newsuntries around the world are grappling with the coronavirus as the global death toll reaches nearly 31,000. there are now more than 665,000 confirmed cases worldwide. here's the latest. every person arriving in south korea from overseas will have to undergo two weeks of quarantine. the country has nearly 10,000 confirmed cases. the british prime minister has warned that the crisis will get worse before it gets better. more than 1,000 people have died there, with over 17,000 cases reported. across europe, the number of people killed by the virus has risen to more than 20,000. spain has ordered all nonessential workers to stay at home for two weeks after reporting more than 800 deaths in one day. australia is reporting a decline in the rate of infections. and in the us, the global epicentre of the outbreak, the number of deaths have soared, doubling to more than 2,000 in two days. staying in the us, president trump has withdrawn a threat to quarantine two of the worst effected states — n