country we'll go live to the iranian capital and begun just a little while 1st so let's talk to rob mcbride he's a correspondent in daegu in south korea and you're at the center of this outbreak of the disease and i understand that the authorities have effectively linked this to one woman a 63 year old woman and her congregation of course of this particular religious sect which is where this started. that's right there are 2 clusters down here in the southeast of the country that has the whole of the country concerned because of course a number of people from the southeast have traveled to other parts of south korea infected and have been detected in a fall and sick so it has raised concerns of that we might get other clusters forming but these are the 2 main clusters that all the resources at the moment seem to be directed at trying to deal with here in the city of daegu one cluster centers on this church we know that there are cross infections mass infections of churchgoers over a couple of services and that is also linked to a neighboring county here to a hospital where we've had other f

virus in south korea well that stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday in a few moments rob mcbride will be live for us in seoul 1st let's go to katrina you our correspondent in beijing katrina you and i were discussing just a few days back about a slightly heavy handed approach on the part of the chinese authorities but it seems to have worked. well that's what they fear already is a saying we've had some positive some encouraging news we've had $416.00 new cases reported of coronavirus of the past 24 hours so there seems to be a downward trend and because of that we've seen for the 1st time some loosening on some of those heavy handed restrictions that you've just mentioned peter so today with just a few hours ago we've been told that will one city is now allowing healthy nonresidents of want to leave the city and also people who are in government operations medical workers people delivering supplies post walk workers etc they're also allowed to leave the city and that it was stuck outside the city during the lockdown an hour loud to enter an important caveat though as it seems th

know you there in the chinese capital beijing katrina thank you for that let's cross over now to rob mcbride he's standing in front of that cruise ship there at the yokohama port in japan rob so some passengers have been allowed to leave the ship we understand bring us up to date with what's happening there where you are. that's right a lot of activity down here at the dockside in yokohama a lot of the media have been fact been moved back from the key side in bygone days we've been allowed to be up close to the ship now we held back while there's an awful lot of activity along the quay side as the start of the end of the quarantine that everybody onboard the ship has been looking forward to for 14 days now but many people will have to remain on the ship in the coming days while this is a gradual process we're expecting several 100 people in the 1st batch to be released today wednesday number of coaches have been seen standing by moving around these approaches which is expected to be taking people mainly japanese citizens we understand priority being given to elderly citizens and of course pe

ok rob mcbride malaysia's prime minister much or mohamed has offered his resignation to the king and his political party has quit the ruling alliance out this decision to shock malaysia and it comes amid plans by your supporters to team up with opposition parties to block the transition of power to his name successor anwar abraham let's go live to florence flew in kuala lumpur so florence what else are we learning about where this came from. well in his letter of resignation there was no reason given for the resignation and we know that it was tended around 1 pm local time in the afternoon and that shortly after that there was a statement by my heart there's party saying that they were going to the party was leaving the ruling alliance now why is he doing this while speculation is that he is getting ready mojados party is getting ready to form a new coalition now over the weekend members of that party held meetings with opposition groups members of opposition groups and the speculation that these meetings were to lay the ground for setting up a new pact a new alliance now what we don

single professional infection control person inside a ship so in a moment we'll get the latest from rob mcbride in new york a hama in japan will have more details about who's getting off that ship the 1st let's go to katrina you she's in the chinese capital beijing with the latest katrina so the death toll has now passed the 2000 mark that's a pretty significant number just tell us a bit more about what chinese officials are doing now. that's right so we've had more than $130.00 deaths in the past 24 hours including the 2nd confirmed case in hong kong chinese authorities seem to be touting the positive side of this is that outside of who province the confirmed number of cases seems to be dropping but inside the situation remains critical indeed before more than 61000 cases in who are province alone and 12000 of those cases are people fighting for their life people in critical condition and the system there is simply struggling to cope they have a huge shortage of staff we know about 32000 health workers from all over the country have been flown into kuwait province to help do with all these pat

as of tuesday at least 542 of them were reported to be infected well we'll get the latest with rob mcbride in yokohama in japan where that cruise ship is but 1st katrina you is in the chinese capital beijing with the latest katrina so the death toll has now passed this 2000 mark just put that number into context for us and what more health officials have been doing. that's right well in the last 24 hours we've had more than $130.00 deaths including the 2nd confirmed death in hong kong some positive news is that outside of who a province the numbers in mainland china of new confirmed cases seem to be fully but inside have a province itself it remains very grave there are about 12000 people who are in critical condition fighting for their life and all in all in about in who a province or more than 61000 patients and this system that is really struggling to cope we know that there have been about 10000 medical workers sent into kuwait province from all over the country to help with all the hospitals but we've also received news that they have building 10 new hospitals in the lower end so it s

head see way in haiti in hong kong bari is standing by for us in teheran but 1st we're joined by rob mcbride in daegu south korea rob a very concerning situation in south korea given the sharp rise in numbers of confirmed cases. that's right these latest figures do make for very grim reading once more showing a doubling of this basically a pattern now it's been established over the past few days that we have a doubling each day it seems this time last night friday we were talking about just over 200 cases in south korea we're now talking about well over 400 and the focus still is very much on this area daegu and the adjoining chango county where we have a number bout half of all of the cases are now reported to be members of this one church community so that's the focus at the moment is trying to screen and test all of the thousands of members of this church and it has to be said that around a 1000 of them have reported flu like symptoms so we can expect sadly many more people from this congregation potentially to test positive for the corona virus around 100 or so of the number are also fro

thank you very much indeed jim brown reporting from hong kong let's cross to saul where we can join rob mcbride rob quite a large outbreak in south korea but most of the cases are sensing rains the city of daegu what can you tell us. that's right i mean underscoring the sense of urgency now here in south korea the country's president moon j.n. has been visiting this tuesday daegu the it is at the epicenter of this outbreak 2 large clusters there account for the vast majority of all the cases he's been seeing for himself the work being done there and echoing the message that we've been hearing from his officials his ministers that this week really is a crucial time in the battle to contain this outbreak the hope is that all these measures put in place will be able to keep the outbreak in this southeast corner of of south korea but the concern is of course that if it fails and we should know in the next few days then it's almost as though the government is accepting that this is reading that it could potentially be spreading in communities throughout the country the government has committed more

have more from beijing shortly 1st so let's go to your home a porter and our correspondent there rob mcbride rob so many questions being asked about the situation on board that cruise ship what is the situation right now. absolutely these deaths of certainly raised concerns just about the handling of this controversial quarantine what's going on now for 2 weeks ministry of health officials here in japan this afternoon have been giving us a few more details they've confirmed that the 2 people who died a man and woman both in their eighty's they had both been taken ill about the same time about a week ago on board the ship they were found to have a fever didn't subside they got progressively worse they were taken off the ship as others have to medical facilities to hospitals on the shore and both sadly passed away and we know of course that this coronavirus that the older you are the more vulnerable susceptible you are to this illness but there have been a range of different levels of sickness of the people who have been infected shit ranging from people who do have fevers coughs to people who

the economy restarted there but 1st let's head to south korea's capital where our correspondent rob mcbride is standing by with the latest on deaths and infections rob so south korea has just passed the 1000 mark that's a significant number what officials been saying there. that's right another sharp rise 169 new cases being reported this wednesday morning also just as we were coming on that there is now been a 12th death so 12 people so far have been killed by this virus in south korea among them the 1st non korean national that he's been identified as a man from mongolia who'd actually come to solve for surgery many people travel to south korea for elective surgery he was in hospital he contract to corona virus and subsequently died most of the new cases are in the southeastern city of daegu that remains the focus of attention and the country's prime minister is now based down down there to lead the efforts to try to bring this outbreak under control it's thought that his presence there will speed up decision making he can take decisions on the spot he's held his 1st meeting with health h

this evening it's nearly deserted as most tuesdays stay away and wait to see what happens next rob mcbride al-jazeera daegu south korea. and china so. rule health and communist party officials have been fired after more than 200 people were infected by the coronavirus inside prisons cases were reported in 2 jails in the chandon and jang provinces inmates and prison guards make up most of the 258 new cases reported outside the epicenter on thursday the government says preventative measures were poorly carried out elsewhere iran has now reported 4 deaths from the coronavirus lebanon has confirmed its 1st case of infection a woman who arrived from iran while israel has one case 2 in ukraine fears over the spread of the coronavirus turned into violent confrontations with the police on thursday protesters threw rocks at buses carrying evacuees who are returning home from china the president reassured people that they will not pose any danger. germany's interior minister says the threat from far right groups is very high after weapons days far right attacks extra police are patrolling mosques tr

now been recorded in 44 countries and territories worldwide live now to so and our correspondent rob mcbride so rob how are the numbers unpacking there. absolutely this is something of a grim milestone it's being seen as here in south korea really know that in mainland china the numbers of new infections have gradually been declining in south korea they have been gradually increasing and it's this day this thursday when these 2 graphs have crossed as you mentioned there 505 new cases being reported today thursday in south korea compared to the 433 of china it is what reading if you want to though find something positive in this figure it does show that there is now mass testing taking place especially in the epicenter of this the city of daegu down in the southeast of the country literally 7500 tests have been carried out in the past 24 hours so they are getting to all of the people they suspect might be now infected and in particular we know that it is this one church group that is particularly affected that accounts for over half of all of the infections so far in south korea and health of

paolo who recently returned home from italy live now to south korea so our correspondent there rob mcbride rob would it be fair to say that the authorities are not winning the battle with this as off yet. it is we still seem to be on this upward trajectory as far as the numbers are concerned we get to the numbers updated twice daily here and we are expecting the updates around about now it's late afternoon here wednesday in seoul but everyone looking with increasing anxiety these bikes as we continue to get more cases because of course we've been told that the next few days are pretty crucial in deciding whether this will be contained around that side of the eastern corner of the country around the city of daigo or not but it certainly is impacting on every day life on the people not going out to restaurants to cinemas people being advised to work from home schools being closed and then you get remarkable one off events such as earlier today right here in the center of seoul one of the big telecoms providers s.k. telecom it was discovered that one of its employees had come down with a coro

have done exactly that well shortly we'll cross to south korea's capital where our correspondent rob mcbride is standing by with the latest on deaths and infections there but 1st let's get more from katrina you in the chinese capital beijing on new numbers of infected being released from china katrina new numbers have been given out now from china's health ministry what more have they been saying there. that's right so we've just heard in the recent hours that they have been 508 new cases across china now that's not a final number are going to hear more of the next few hours been more provinces do report but that that number is already up from the day before yet yesterday we had just over 400 cases so that is slightly up but still the government here is is emphasizing the general downward trend so another new number we had is 71 deaths compared with 150 yesterday and only 9 cases outside of who a province compared with 11 cases yesterday and conversely we're seeing. more people recovering from the corona virus here in china more than 2000 people are said to have been recovered from this and

in a moment we'll get more from asad big correspondent in the iranian capital 1st let's go to rob mcbride who's in daegu in south korea and rob the number of cases in south korea as a whole have doubled within 24 hours. that's right the increase that we've heard reported today sunday was 123 that's a similar kind of increase that we had yesterday saturday these numbers are produced twice daily we're expecting another increase or to be announced when the 2nd round of numbers are come to us in about an hour or so but it is another steady increase similar to the kind that we had over the weekend we know that $75.00 of these new cases are again members of this one church this church here in daegu city is very much at the center of this cluster this outbreak these were members of the same congregations who were attending services who seem to have all fallen victim to this cross infection and we know that hundreds more of the same church members are reporting flu like symptoms so we can expect to have more cases confirmed if you want to look at the on the positive side of things at least all of

for health officials are calling the inevitable spread of the virus throughout the united states rob mcbride joins us now live from seoul rob is there a feeling there as they cross the 1000 mark this may be getting rapidly out of control. well it is another big rise in the numbers but they do tend to fluctuate one day you'll see more than the day before cetera but yes it is another big rise and we've also had now the 12th death here in south korea and amongst the deaths of the we've had the 1st death of a known korean national this is identified as a man from mongolia who'd actually come to seoul 'd for surgery a lot of people visitors come to south korea for elective surgery he contract in the corona virus in hospital and subsequently died we've also had reported this wednesday the 1st infection among u.s. forces he's been identified as a 23 year old service been serving on a base just outside the city of daegu that obviously concerns with the military here about this infection spreading rapidly on military bases and so they are taking various preventative measures including their self quar

death in france 82000 infections have been recorded in 44 countries and territories let's go to rob mcbride who's in seoul south korea recording his highest number of cases in one single day so rob they've cancelled these military exercises i guess that was inevitable at some point over the past couple of days. i think it would have been a surprise if they hadn't canceled the exercises this is a government that's telling its people not to go out to gatherings not to go out to where it's crowded it can hardly be hosting war games that bring together thousands of soldiers in working in close proximity the south korean military they have already had a handful of coronavirus cases the u.s. military has already recorded its 1st case some military bases in the country you have access restrictions at others you have quarantine imposed in certain barracks you know it's interesting these exercises they happen every spring and they are always controversial the north koreans are always angered and provoked by them and yet they have gone on for decades not even the hostility level with north korea or t

go to hong kong where adrian brown is standing by live on more on the 2nd death their 1st go to rob mcbride who is at the port and yokohama so there are some people that are leaving but there is a vast majority are not leaving that vessel rob. that's right it is a very mixed picture here the finally we are seeing the start of this disembarkation process after this very controversial period of quarantine is the end of the 14 days set as the quarantine period and as you mentioned several 100 people by the end of today wednesday due to have left the vessel we've been seeing a lot of activity down here on the yokohama waterfront a steady procession of taxis buses sometimes larger and more organized convoys of several coaches with police escorts in some cases leaving the port area going to various transport hubs these are people who have been given a clean bill of health they have had been tested for the coronavirus the test to come back negative they have been told by the japanese authorities they are cleared to leave here and go home if they are japanese citizens that is what they are doing bu

up for maybe a couple of weeks ago way back in december is finally it seems coming to an end ok rob mcbride with a wrap up from yokohama rob thank you. so more on that cruise ship it's a mercy some u.s. citizens move from the cruise ship quarantine in japan were infected with the krajina virus when they were airlifted back home they were part of a group that was on to flights officials only lorand about their test results when they were already on their way to the plane's castro has more. now on the. way the norm for the u.s. government's original plan had been to keep off the planes anyone suspected of or known to be carrying the coronavirus but that's not how things turned out the state department says all 338 americans evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship had appeared healthy when they disembarked but during the 40 minute bus ride to the 2 awaiting cargo planes the japanese health ministry called with news that 14 passengers had tested positive for corona virus american officials then decided to allow those passengers to continue with the evacuation isolating them behind white

thank you for that update from beijing let's find out what exactly happened in yokohama japan and rob mcbride is standing by for us because we are now hearing that 2 passengers were on board the cruise ship the diamond princess have now died as a result of the virus rob. that's right we don't know too many more details than that but it has been confirmed in the last hour or so by japan's health ministry that the victims were a man and woman both in their eighty's it seems that they were being treated a facility a hospital on shore but as you mentioned that they became infected on this ship among the more than 600 people now that's the number of people who have been infected so far of tested positive for the corona virus it has to be said that there are a range of different conditions as certainly we know that older people are more vulnerable more susceptible to this virus other people who have been detected carrying the virus who become infected actually show no symptoms still they have to be carefully looked after and in fact over the past day or so as we see in the start of this disembarkat

we'll go live to adrian brown in hong kong about the developments on the mainland 1st so here's rob mcbride with the latest from seoul. this all happened very quickly in the past couple of days suddenly we have moved to this basically almost an emergency level centered on daegu this outbreak a cluster of cases and in particular on a single church there in this city it's a medium sized city 2 and a half 1000000 people the most of the cases that have been reported dozens in fact were members of a congregation of a particular church now it does seem as though this is spread between monks members of this congregation they are trying to find the initial source of it the authorities suspect possibly it could have been a 61 year old woman who was a member of this church congregation who would been to a couple of services at the church with hundreds of other fellow church goers even though she was showing symptoms of possibly coronavirus they are trying to make contact with all of these people and it is known that around a 1000 members of the congregation did it attend church services at this parti

rob mcbride with the latest from yokohama port. it is the end of this 14 days of quarantine for hundreds of people it is finally over 'd there has been a steady stream of coaches of buses of taxis in some cases coming in here to the port area taking people away taking them to various transport hubs to yokohama station another stations around here to continue their journey many of them people being allowed to return home these are people who have gone through the quarantine have been declared to be negative there's been no trace of the coronavirus found so they have now been allowed to leave but they have for a lot of the japanese citizens a priority has been given to some of the elderly more elderly passengers they've been allowed to go home but with the caution that they should monitor their health for the next few days at least. make sure there are no signs of fever meanwhile for many countries people of other nationalities who are leaving their countries have said they don't want to them to come home just yet australia the unite

the spread but not much comfort for the people in daegu wondering how bad this outbreak will get rob mcbride al jazeera they grew south korea. as a biogas live from tehran on the corona virus outbreak there are said so 5 deaths now reported in iran how prepared is the country to deal with this outbreak. well the government has been announcing some measures to deal with this fire as now we know that all cultural events concerts including film screenings have been canceled from tomorrow in the cities of iraq the schools are closed for a week the religious schools in calm where the health ministry thinks that this virus started from again closed tomorrow now on state t.v. they have been showing videos on how to wear the face masks properly and how people can wash their hands properly but they are 28 cases 10 new cases 8 in the city of 2 here in the iran and we have had 5 deaths now iraq has also suspended flights between the 2 countries iran has closed its land borders between the 2 countries and that's only been only open for a week after they have been closed for 4 months because of the insec

spread but not much comfort for the people in daegu wondering how bad this outbreak will get robbed mcbride al jazeera daegu south korea well sausage a bar is sent to her and she explains what people might have people believe might have caused the outbreak any ron. the holy city of calm is about 130 kilometers south of tehran with a population of just over a 1000000 people but the issue is that there's a lot of pilgrims that pass through that city and according to the health official here here the outbreak apparently began when there was a chinese worker that came from china that worked in the city of calm and that is how they believe this virus has spread now we also understand that it has been reported in this in the capital tehran and a number of other cities and we've also heard that a district mayor in east saharan has also tested positive for the virus and he's been hospitalized as a friday as a result of that city council has been has called in a recess for one week and we are also hearing reports that the hodges pilgrimage organization it's a government organization has also cancele

we will go to our adrian brown who is in hong kong last more on the 2nd at their 1st let's go to rob mcbride who is at the port in yokohama so where do things stand with with passengers there. this wednesday there has been a lot of activity down here on the yokohama waterfront as you mentioned it is the end of this 14 days of quarantine for hundreds of people it is finally over there has been a steady stream of coaches of buses of taxis in some cases coming in here to the port area taking people away taking them to various transport hubs to yokohama station and other stations around here to continue their journey many of them people being allowed to return home these are people who have gone through the quarantine have been declared to be negative there's been no trace of the coronavirus found so they have now been allowed to leave but they have. a lot of the japanese citizens priority is being given to some of the elderly more elderly passengers they've been allowed to go home but with the caution that they should monitor their health for the next few days at least to make sure there are no

the kind of travel restrictions imposed on china with the damage that would cause to its economy rob mcbride al-jazeera chango county south korea. the current virus has spread rapidly in iran over the past few days for new infections have been recorded in the capital tehran 7 in the holy city of home to england province and one each in markazi province and tanika bone in a bid to stop the cluster spreading pakistan closed its new tourist the poorest border with iran on sunday as have all media and turkey in the northwest ankara has also hinted all incoming flights afghanistan has suspended all road and add travel to its neighbor 3 afghans are currently being tested for the virus after entering from iran and iraq is also scanning arrivals if is that hundreds of thousands of iranians visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border. well dosage of bari is in the capital tehran with more on how iranian authorities are responding. the number is of course significant because they are worried that the containment process is really something that they need to address as quickly as possib

a province they found 630 cases on saturday that's up from 366 the previous day let's bring in rob mcbride who is in chengdu county that is over in south korea robin that is where infections have been traced back to a hospital what can you tell us about that and the latest numbers that you're hearing. that's right the latest increase that's been released in the past couple of hours or so shows there are another 123 cases it brings the total number of cases there in south korea recorded here to 556 it's a similar kind of increase to the same time yesterday saturday so it is still this steady growth we've also had confirmation of 2 more other deaths over that brings to 4 the total number of people who have died as a result of the corona virus now 3 of them were linked to this hospital in county that's where we are 3 of them former patients here we have 2 major clusters in this part of southeast south korea in daegu city nearby and then here in chengdu county they had an outbreak a very serious outbreak of the corona virus it's spread through the hospital made more than 100 staff and patients

this evening it's nearly deserted as most tuesdays stay away and wait to see what happens next rob mcbride al-jazeera daegu south korea. well in china. several health and communist party officials have been fired after more than 200 people were infected by coronavirus inside prisons cases were reported in 2 jails in the. province is inmates and prison guards make up most of the 258 new cases reported outside the epicenter on thursday the government says preventative measures were poorly carried out. in ukraine fears of the spread of the coronavirus of turned into violent confrontations with the police protesters threw rocks at buses carrying evacuees who are returning home from china is war a challenge. this is what can happen when fear and misinformation. on these buses are evacuees from china. in central ukraine 45 ukrainians 27 argentinians and people from several other countries to the angry crowds from the village of. trying to keep them out. they'd arrived in kiev earlier on thursday president volodymyr zelinsky tried to reassure ukrainians that there was no danger officials said eve

breakthrough is unlikely for months scientists say a lack of global cooperation is slowing progress rob mcbride reports from seoul china's prime minister leaker chang visiting scientists at the forefront of his country's efforts to tackle the coronavirus initially criticized for its slow response to the outbreak china very quickly shared the genetic map of the newly identified virus prompting an international race to find a vaccine for it but it's likely to take months. it is always difficult to give a precise dean but in any case nothing before the autumn so this means will have a product by september or october when we can say for certain danger we can use it on people. frustratingly for scientists the development time for a new vaccine often means it's not available until the outbreak they need it for has peaked or is dying out but at least researchers working on this corona virus have a head start thanks to work already done on similar viruses at the international vaccine institute in seoul as elsewhere staff have experience dealing with other members of the same coronavirus family includin

thanks so much rob mcbride their u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls of held the fiery debate in south carolina 4 days before the primary was also the final debate before super tuesday next week gallacher live for us from charleston south carolina how did it go what the pundits saying. well bernie goetz patted the appropriate top lloyd headline and this wasn't to be unexpected bernie sanders is the front runner at the moment he must have been expecting the other candidates to attack him and they attacked him on all the issues from how we will pay for his health care plan his record on gun safety and all sorts of issues bernie sanders handled it all fairly well he seemed to be on his back foot for for much of the debate but it shows the importance of the south carolina primary this is one of the most diverse states that comes just before super tuesday is a big test of the african-american vote has 60 percent of democratic voters in this state are african-american so i think as things get down to the wire as we get toward

correspondent rob mcbride has been speaking to people in south korea's capital but what they make of parasite success parasite is a biting satire on life in south korea right now that has obviously resonated with a global audience it tells the story of a family of have nots who were desperately poor and who managed to trick their way into the service of a much wealthier family of halves it starts as a slightly quirky strange comedy but quickly descends into a very macabre and dark fable it was when it was released here in south korea very quickly a commercial and critical success that went on to win a 1st international recognition with a palm door at the cannes film festival and then a golden globe but certainly this oscar win puts it now in a league of its. i was thrilled at the 1st time so i recommend to my friend a friend and so yeah it was a really amazing phenomenal back for time yeah. our society shouldn't differentiate between the haves and the have nots people should be able to live together. how do you know it's a great honor for the korean film industry i'm sure that other

all right rob thanks for that rob mcbride there live in daegu in the southeast in south korea let's go now to the iranian capital tehran our correspondent there said beg and as ed says this outbreak of current virus in iran does seem to be quite closely linked to one specific location and that is the holy city of qom yes it does it seems to have started there now this is a religious city holds an important religious shrine and it has millions of visitors across the years from all year round from neighboring countries iraq and lebanon but also further afield we have programs coming to iran to visit the holy city of qom from the united kingdom there's also many religious seminaries the main shia clerics to laws are also based there so it is important religious city and many people from around iran visit that city now the head of the infectious to infectious diseases department in the health ministry has said it could be that the virus has spread because people visit. but they suspect that the virus could be present in all cities in iran currently now we do also know that they are chinese

even a spike of 31 new cases and that brings the total number there to $82.00 our correspondent rob mcbride is at the japanese port of yokohama and as he reports has been a mixed reaction dow the authorities have been dealing with the vessel. ministry of health officials here in japan this thursday afternoon have been giving us a few more details they've confirmed that the 2 people who died a man and woman both in their eighty's they had both been taken ill about the same time about a week ago on board the ship they were found to have a fever it didn't subside they got progressively worse they were taken off the ship as others have to medical facilities to hospitals on the shore and both sadly passed away we know of course that this coronavirus that the older you are the more vulnerable susceptible you are to this illness but there have been a range of different levels of sickness of the people who have been infected on the ship ranging from people who do have fevers cough to people who we know we've been infected they have proof positive for the corona virus they're carrying it effectively

into in the car tragedy in their own struggle the people of korea hoping for a far happier ending rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. let's take you through some of our headlines now the fallout from dollar trump's impeachment trial continues with the firing of 2 key witnesses gordon someone once the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. is the latest to be removed comes just hours after ukraine expert lieutenant colonel i was on the vinland was the score to the out of the white house and the gallagher has more from washington d.c. . there's a clear message here from the president in that he feels completely vindicated in the impeachment trial and now we can pretty much do what he wants to tell and colonel alexander then there was actually a scored from the white house hours before gordon sound was fired you know potentially ending his military career this is the ukraine expert someone who's a decorated war veteran from iraq he's now been sent back to the defense department but this does send a clear message from president trump clearly feels vindicated but he clearly feels the indictive as well. u.s. democra

with the infection spreading very rapidly through patients and staff all right rob thanks for that rob mcbride there with the very latest from daegu in south korea let's go back now to where it all began and that's will hand in who bay province in mainland china the epicenter of this outbreak it went into lockdown about 4 weeks ago and our correspondent katrina you has been speaking to people who live there. one month after behind sealed off its borders its roads are empty and construction sites are abandoned the city's millions of residents have been ordered to stay indoors among them mark leo and his son craft your hands your feet your hands oh your feet with schools across china closed until further notice eason is taking classes online through a video call mark told us his family was doing its best to adapt to life under lockdown and how they've been coping with the restrictions and in order i think the lockdown is necessary friends of people i know and some of my colleagues have been affected and some died a few days after they found out the cause of virus so i'm really worried for my fam

this evening it's nearly deserted as most tuesdays stay away and wait to see what happens next rob mcbride al-jazeera daegu south korea. in china several health and communist party officials have been fired after hundreds of people were infected by the corona virus while inside prison most of the 258 cases are in 2 jails in chandon and provinces 271 cases of also been reported in prisons in who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak but officials did not say when they were diagnosed the government says preventive measures were poorly carried out. kuwait has barred all flights to and from iran amid concerns of the spread of the corona virus to more people have died from the illness there bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 5 iran is the 1st country the middle east to report fatalities from the virus it has 13 other confirmed cases. face masks have become a part of everyday life in countries hit by the corona virus in the philippines hundreds of massed couples tied the knot at a mass waiting in the city of buffalo and couples had to fill out forms declaring their health

this evening it's nearly deserted as most tuesdays stay away and wait to see what happens next rob mcbride al-jazeera daegu south korea into. several health and communist party officials have been fired after hundreds of people were infected by the corona virus while inside prison most of the 258 cases are in 2 jails in shyne dong and provinces 271 cases have also been reported in prisons in here bay province the epicenter of the outbreak but officials did not say when they were diagnosed the government says preventive measures were poorly carried out. still to come on al-jazeera stranded in syria we meet the families displaced by war and in desperate need of aid. and police are deployed to germany's mosques as the government warns the threat of far right attacks remains high. hello again a welcome back to international weather forecast well we're still going to be dealing with those very gusty winds here across much of the northern part of europe over the next few days the next round of storms are pushy and right now across the u.k. and with it we are going to having more rain here across

because of these concerns ok katrina thank you for that update from beijing let's now bring in rob mcbride he's joining us from york to hama in japan and the train i was just mentioning the faith toilets the numbers and now we're getting reports of 2 people who have died on that cruise ship the diamond princess royal what more are you hearing. that's right these reports started to emerge throughout this thursday morning and in the last few minutes it has now been confirmed by japan's health ministry it is a man and woman both in their eighty's who we believe died in hospital here but obviously became infected board this ship we've seen in the past few days i'm bill it says continue to take passengers off with their sirens blaring off to off to hospital as some of them the symptoms develop they become gradually sicker has to be said there is a real range of infection from the people who do become infected onboard this ship some people do show symptoms and they get taken off to hospital other people we understand that they are found to be positive for the virus they carry get they've been in

the virus in south korea now stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday in a few moments rob mcbride will be live for us in seoul 1st let's get the latest from china and our correspondent in beijing katrina you katrina good morning so we have some positive news from some of the chinese provinces. that's right we're hearing that 4 chinese provinces you 9 kwaito going dong and sense you have lowered their alert level centrally encouraging people to get back to work as they've had 0 confirmed cases in recent days over a few confirmed cases which is a very positive thing but still we've had 415 of our 460 new confirmed cases it just announced in the past 24 hours and 150 confirmed dead now the new case number it is gradually getting lower but the death rate from there is remaining rather steady we have to also remember we still have about 4000 suspected cases and about 10000 people fighting for their lives in critical condition the president xi jinping has said over the weekend that this is the biggest health crisis that china has faced since the founding of the communist party of the fo

thank you katrina so let's go to rob mcbride real home the port world the cruise ship is being quarantined only talk about this crew sure prob one minute there are maybe 10 cases less than a dozen and the last couple weeks those numbers have gone up and up and now it's well over $400.00. what is going on. there is right it is quite alarming the spikes that we've seen in the number of people who have been infected as you quite rightly said 2 weeks ago when the virus was detected on board the vessel quarantine was imposed it was only a cluster but we have seen this steady increase with some quite alarming jumps so we are now well over 450 confirmed infections now some of those people the most serious cases will have been taken off the vessel to be treated on shore some of the less sick people with with symptoms that aren't as bad are understood to be still on the vessel but it is quite concerning for health professionals how the virus has continued to spread on a ship that was supposedly in quarantine with everyone being kept in their cabins it can't be known of course until much later exact

into in the car tragedy in their own struggle the people of korea hoping for a far happier ending rob mcbride al-jazeera so the right side al jazeera dot com they're easy to find the latest news there including the latest on the coronavirus . i'm richelle carey this is al-jazeera these are the top stories right now hong kong started a 2 week orange chain for people arriving from mainland china to try to stop the spread of the crying a virus in the u.s. embassy has confirmed the death of one of its citizens in the quarantined city of all on the virus has killed at least 722 people across china sir clark has more from hong kong we believe this is the 1st confirmed foreigner to have died from the corona virus the u.s. embassy has confirmed that a 60 year old woman who was a u.s. citizen living in will hand and hospitalized in were han has since died and now we've also had reports that a japanese man who was hospitalized and diagnosed with viral pneumonia he too has now died and some believe that this diagnosis of the maybe incorrect misdiagnose in this case to this japanese man is also died offi

rone struggle the people of korea hoping for a far happier ending rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. result is there and these are the top stories the soldier is holding people hostage in a shopping mall in thailand after shooting dead at least 12 others the incident happened in the northeast city of korra in soldiers most of is unclear but there are reports that he may have stolen weapons and ammunition from his battalion before attacking the shopping center when he has the latest from the thai capital bangkok an act of serving member of the thai army is believed to have shot a commanding officer on the military base and at least 2 others on the base before he has stolen an army vehicle more weapons and ammunition as well leaving the army base and then driving towards the center of coal routes towards the shopping mall we seemingly entered the more late in the afternoon early evening at a time on a saturday when it would have been very busy full of shoppers and that is where the situation is still unfolding as we speak he is believed to be holding several hostages inside there hong

the kind of travel restrictions imposed on china with the damage that would cause to its economy rob mcbride al-jazeera chando county south korea. another note on south korea it has launched a complaint with israel after a plane load of south koreans were refused entry 12 israeli passengers were allowed to get off the korean airlines flight when it arrived in tel aviv but 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now bombing the south korean and japanese businesses a move that follows the discovery of corona virus among a group of soft korean tourists who visited israel last week. as we've mentioned iran has the largest number of deaths from the virus outside of china. for us with more on how authorities are responding. the number is of course significant because they are worried that the containment process is really something that they need to address as quickly as possible the outbreak started in the holy city of rome which is about 220 kilometers south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city now t

into in the cop tragedy in their own struggle the people of korea hoping for a far happier ending rob mcbride al-jazeera soul. and al-jazeera is also up for an oscar nominated for best documentary short subject to his st louis superman here's a taste of the documentary that you can see in the next 10 minutes right after this bulletin now is flat you're in 5 don't you drive to would like to see this night learn about how it's night something else happened on this night. as the 18 year old monk was going to sleep going to really something very serious really. much like my city where you stay represented. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera hong kong has begun a 2 week mandatory quarantine for all people arriving from china it's an attempt to stop the spread of corona virus which has killed at least 724 people and china is and the c.s. confirmed the death of one of its citizens and will han betray you has more from beijing. president xi jinping is really scrambling to reassure people saying that the party has declared oh a people's war on this virus they're announcing all these

cultural events to be delayed by 2 weeks or cancelled a lot more on that later here on this program rob mcbride is standing by for us in seoul with the latest developments from south korea 1st let's go to tehran and our correspondent there. what else do we know it seems to be getting something of a foothold there. well the latest information we have is from a news conference given by the health ministry spokesman mr news john poor in which he confirmed that the number of overall cases has gone up by 44 in the last 24 hours so it was $95.00 yesterday it stands at the total number of cases of $139.00 that's the official number being told to us by the iranian government the death toll has also gone up from 15 to 19 still 'd far shy of what the member of parliament in a coma in recent days has said was closer to 50 and more people continue to pass away that was according to a member of parliament from whom but of course the the official figures that we know from the iranian government still stand at 19 now something that the health ministry spokesman also said is that they are expecting the number

this evening it's nearly deserted as most tuesdays stay away and wait to see what happens next rob mcbride al-jazeera daegu south korea. in china several health and communist party officials have been sacked after more than 200 people were infected by coronavirus inside prisons cases were reported in 2 jails in the chandon and she jang provinces inmates in prison guards make up most of the 258 new cases reported outside the epicenter on thursday the government says preventative measures were poorly carried out still to come here on al-jazeera stranded in syria more on the displaced families in desperate need of aid. the sudanese prime minister is a no show at courts where he was expected to be charged in connection with the murder of his 2nd wife. hello winter seems to have set in for the eastern med and particularly for turkey this circulation of clavicles means it's all spreads across the levant and once more for lebanon and for syria and iraq you've either got rain or snow depending on the height above sea level of course to the size of that we've got the onshore wind keeping things a b

into in the car tragedy in their own struggle the people of korea hoping for a far happier ending rob mcbride al-jazeera so. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera began a 2 week mandatory quarantine for all people arriving from china as an attempt to stop the spread of the corona virus as the death toll continues to rise as he has confirmed the death of one of its citizens in the epicenter of the illness han representative in china says it's still too soon to project when the outbreak will be contained. oh it understanding is growing impossible to predict where it is going but i can tell you. at least where we are watching the we are seeing the positive signs in would duck session in the last couple of days and we are watching carefully the epidemic in other provinces in china epidemic is far from over we see good signs and we see signs of control but we disappoint the best thing rather than crystal ball gazing is vigilant because it's done at least 8 people have been killed in violence activists say is linked to fears over coronavirus gangs of armed men attacked