them fast enough our reporter checked in with one manufacturer in south korea to see what's limiting turnout. outside olympic stadium in seoul south korea cars continue to trickle through a coronavirus testing site although the country hasn't completely locked down new arrivals must self quarantine for 2 weeks with many required to take a test so the korea largely credits early rigorous testing for reducing the spread of the virus many companies here produce the test kits and with rising demand around the world they're having trouble filling their orders. one company outside of seoul has developed faster diagnostic technology dr kim so use test chips and portable equipment drastically reduce critical testing turnaround time. if they help why then 37.5 think we then all we can. get the sum samper from those people put into motion and then we can detect and in one hour we can provide. dozens of south korean companies are shipping millions of test kits around the world as less developed states battled the virus so many orders concert in but we cannot supply all of them they'd be so so many emotions to so many testing kit but th

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south korea is holding the world's 1st national election during the pandemic early voting saw a record turnout and its reports from seoul south korea's handling of the outbreak might be a boost for its leaders on the ballot. how to hold an election at a time of pandemic carefully in a country already following strict preventive measures extra precautions are in force at polling stations this was early voting last week that had a record turnout including among coronavirus patients who were provided with their own polling stations but. after learning i can vote i feel very grateful that patients like myself were given a chance to vote. this polling station was in the country's most densely populated province around the capital so. we can ask patients to give up their right to vote on but we also can't let them vote with regular citizens so we set up this facility so that patients can vote casting his vote early president. before this outbreak he was struggling in the opinion polls with poor economic performance domestic political scandals and a stalled reconciliation policy with north korea in the early days of the crisis

paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. south korea says kim jong-un is alive and well.hat evidence do they have to support that after u.s. intelligence revealed to cnn last week that kim was gravely ill after surgery? what are you learning? >> well, rosemary, we are hearing a very different story here in south korean than jim sciutto heard in the united states. this is from an adviser from the president moon jae-in. he basically said that kim jong-un is alive and well. that is what he would say on the record at this point, saying he believed to be on the coast of north korea. now, there have been a lot of conflicting reports when it comes to kim jong-un's health. what we do know is that he did miss a key appearance. his absence at the birth date of his grandfather and the founder of north korea kim ill sung on april 15th did raise eyebrows and made people questions about what happened. moon jae-in talking to blue house senior cabinet members and he didn't actually broach the subject of kim jong-un's health. what he said was he was looking forward to working with kim jon

spawning dollars a month of restrictions on tuesday as made to rob mcbride about this is in seoul south korea rob japan clearly struggling to rein in and then make. that's right increasing concerns just about the scale of the problem they are facing of one law prefectly i.e. cheap prefecture which is right in the middle are of japan and it in cocoa price the major city of de golyer now asking to join the list of the cities in prefectures where they can impose the state of emergency powers they're concerned about a spike in that particular prefecture and it does seem at times as though some cities and areas of japan of all concerned about this outbreak than at times the central government of japan seems to be and you see that in some of the tension between prime minister shinzo out day and the municipal government of tokyo where you have the governor yuri cocoa ek asking for far more businesses to be added to the list of those that she can order to be shut down as part of its measures against the spread of the virus than the governments of japan and it seems would like and the concern is from

seoul and south korea. >> reporter: so you're following those devices from wuhan to these other cities? >> that's correct. i do want to point out these are also anonymized data, but they allow us to understand population movements. that is how we can understand how this virus will spread. >> reporter: to build their algorithm, dr. kahn told us he deliberately hired an eclectic mix, engineers, ecologists, gee og ra fers, veterinarians all under one roof. they spent a year teaching the computer to detect 150 deadly pathogens. >> we can ultimately train the machine to be reading through all the text and picking out components that this is talking about an outbreak of anthrax and this is talking about the heavy metal band anthrax. and as you do this, thousands and thousands and thousands of times, machine starts to get smarter and smarter. >> reporter: and how many different languages does the computer understand? >> so, it's reading this currently in 65 languages and processing this information every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, so it's a lot of data to go through. >> reporter: within two

mcbride has been following the story joins us now on skype from seoul in south korea so to what extent does the country now shut down. well certainly it. is going to affect the. effect is in a city state of emergency has been declared it is in the capital tokyo the 2nd city osaka and also 5 other prefectures where a number of the governors had been calling for these measures to be airports in place what it does it empowers these governors to take special measures if they feel faint that they need to in order to tackle the spiraling numbers of new infections for example they can request that people stay indoors it is still only a crest they it's is meant to be a fallen tree response from the public and it's unclear as to whether they are authorities actually have any penalties they can impose so it is all a question must go he's a suspect took. these badges. and things like stop the public gatherings if they feel fit also more importantly perhaps if it continues to deteriorate then they could direct position buildings and plans to create emergency hospitals also representation things li

. >> cnn's paula hancocks live in seoul, south korea. also, will ripley standing by in tokyo. will has reported from north korea 19 times. so, will, we'll start with you. there are unconfirmed reports which, on one extreme, say kim could be brain dead. on the other hand, nothing to see here. the only way we'll know for certain is if the north koreans decide they want us to know? >> it's absolutely the bottom line, john. and this is nothing new when it comes to north korea and rumors a about assassinations and executions. even kim jong un's own health, there were rumors swirling back in 2014 only to reemerge in state media walking with a cane after suffragergery to his foot. any time kim jong un disappears, there is a veil of secrecy surrounding that country, you are going to have conflicting reports, speculation and, frankly, we have no way to determine, until there is some sort of official announcement, what is true and what is not. >> and, paula, one indication, often, that there is trouble or uncertainty in north korea is some kind of mobilization of the military. are we see

now paula hancocks is standing by in seoul, south korea. we begin with will ripley who has reported from north korea 19 times in the past six years. good to see you both. will, there is a lot of conflicting information out there about kim jong-un's health right now. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, the two highly placed sources who are usually in the know about this kind of thing, when i reached out to them in the early minutes of the reporting before he went to air with it, they were startled, they were shocked, they had not heard anything about it. that does not mean that it's not true. it does not mean that kim jong-un's health is -- you know, is or is not in jeopardy. this is a leader who, you know, you can see visibly from his public hearings has gained a considerable amount of weight. around 5'7", 300 pounds. he's also a heavy smoker. he is often seen in state media with a cigarette in his hand. he struggled at times when he was seen at the interkorean summit when he was, you know, digging the hole for a tree with the south kor

paula hancock is in seoul, south korea. david i'm going to start with you.hina has claimed fewer and fewer locally transmitted cases, but it stepped up transmissions to stop the virus from coming the in. is the government playing a game of whack a mole to prevent the virus from spreading again. >> this is of course the source of the figures. they released these figuring daily and they've come under a lot of scrutiny. as you mentioned vice president pence there questions them. and they now show many days without any locally transmitted cases. that's a testament of extreme measuring being talken here or it's not fully accurate. we've seen frequent changes to methodology and reporting including just yesterday they started including the asymptomatic cases. as you and the doctor just a few minutes ago were pointing out, something that comes across from the chinese government more than anything else is that there will be already people that have recovered from this than have succumbed to it. that's when you look at the case count should be stressed the government

south korea and appeared to be winning. >> one of the things we learned from the parent company in seoul, south korea, is testing is universallyen as a best practice to address this issue so we believe that testing was the best line of defense the best first line of defense >> reporter: so hyundai is committed to providing 10,000 tests for montgomery, partnered with another south korean company to distribute them from california to alabama. this could be a game changer for montgomery, representing five time it is number of people tested so far. the city has 226 confirmed cases of the virus as of this morning. three people have died but the mayor is worried the numbers aren't accurate. >> in terms of test kits, we just don't have enough of thos i believe that's leading to a larmingly low number of confirmed cases that we have in the community. >> the good news is the first batch of test kits have arrived in alabama the bad news is that the city is still waiting on emergency fda prooifl to use those kits. a month after the phone call, the saga is still not over >> there's so much to unpack in that story thank you for bringing it

you will see schoolchildren in nigeria and activists in pakistan and seoul, south korea, and here areeople in moscow and here are people in new york city, and it's like right, we all got the same climate, we all got the same thing we got to deal with, and you're seeing that in this pandemic, the same sort of moving feeling when you see health care workers and you see nurses or people banging on pots and pans in all of these countries around the world, very distant places, very different people, very different situations, and again, the thing we have to beat is the same thing, and we all have to work together to beat it. and in that way, this period also feels a bit like a test, right? like the level of global coordination, in a short acute period, where there is political capital, because it is so pressing, as a kind of dry run for what we need to do at a bigger scale afterwards. >> and we've accomplished honestly so much. in many countries of the world, most countries of the world, we failed to take seriously the coronavirus crisis at the speed we needed to. and yet, just in the spac

but first, laura bicker reports from seoul in south korea, where the government acted quickly, in testingesting and tracing methods to isolate infected patients. first came a test. within weeks, they had a test kit, and 600 testing stations around the country. anyone could get a test. then came contact tracing. they used a mixture of interviews and technology to find out where infected patients had been. that information was then sent out as emergency alerts. these measures appear to have worked, for now, but health officials say now is not the time to be complacent, and they still fear a second wave. brazil, with more than 3,500 deaths, is still the worst—hit country in latin america. as the death toll has risen, so has criticism to jair bolsonaro. the brazilian president has continually dismissed and downplayed the risks of the virus. second on the list is ecuador, where the number of confirmed cases doubled this week. but authorities there say this spike was because of an increase in testing. here in venezuela, and indeed across the region, governments are beginning to ease strict lock

well, we're not going to go to south korea, the capital seoul, and, of course, south korea one of thosefrom manufacturing boom in the past, and we're going to gouranga das, please. from your very impressive shelves behind you, full of books as i know that you, yourself, are an economics professor, but keep it simple. gouranga das, your question? hi, my question is this pandemic has caused a closing down of borders, throttling the flow of people, flow of goods, etc, so my question is, despite digitalisation and its widespread boons and benefits, can we see the retreat of globalisation? and if so, do we need a new model of globalisation or are any new forms of multilateralism necessary? all right. we've already touched on that a little bit, but we can expand on it. professor paul krugman, a new model of globalisation? well, i mean, this doesn't change the process of shipping stuff, and i don't think freight containers are a vector for the pandemic. we're getting a kind of crash course in the ability to do what we're doing right now, which is to conduct meetings virtually, and i think we'r

well, we're not going to go to south korea, the capital seoul, and, of course, south korea one of thoseoom in the past, and we're going to gouranga das, please. from your very impressive shelves behind you, full of books as i know that you, yourself, are an economics professor, but keep it simple. gouranga das, your question? hi, my question is this pandemic has caused a closing down of borders, throttling the flow of people, flow of goods, etc, so my question is, despite digitalisation and its widespread boons and benefits, can we see the retreat of globalisation? and if so, do we need a new model of globalisation or are any new forms of multilateralism necessary? all right. we've already touched on that a little bit, but we can expand on it. professor paul krugman, a new model of globalisation? well, i mean, this doesn't change the process of shipping stuff, and i don't think freight containers are a vector for the pandemic. we're getting a kind of crash course in the ability to do what we're doing right now, which is to conduct meetings virtually, and i think we're discovering some o

but first, laura bicker reports from seoul in south korea, where the government acted quickly, in testinge infected patients. first came a test. within weeks, they had a test kit, and 600 testing stations around the country. anyone could get a test. then came contact tracing. they used a mixture of interviews and technology to find out where infected patients had been. that information was then sent out as emergency alerts. these measures appear to have worked, for now, but health officials say now is not the time to be complacent, and they still fear a second wave. brazil, with more than 3,500 deaths, is still the worst—hit country in latin america. as the death toll has risen, so has criticism to jair bolsonaro. the brazilian president has continually dismissed and downplayed the risks of the virus. second on the list is ecuador, where the number of confirmed cases doubled this week. but authorities there say this spike was because of an increase in testing. here in venezuela, and indeed across the region, governments are beginning to ease strict lockdowns, and that decision seems large

and southern china that is set to change but in the meantime as a say some good guys into seoul in south korea it is the time of year they do a spring clean up on some of the monuments and as you can see the conditions also very nice to do just that it will stay fine and dry as we go through friday wanted to sheilds pushing into west the northern areas of honshu tom it is not too bad 16 degrees across into tokyo and osaka but then look at this rain walls again back in the full cost really all the way up towards beijing and in particular very heavy on friday across the central areas but then it sinks southwards and this is when it could be particularly heavy guangxi guangdong up towards a fusion as well attempt is there not too bad but this rain is very heavy we could have some localized flooding it's coming down in some very saturated ground and really the same commutes that across much of indonesia we have also had a we'll have more rather heavy rains across areas of come by as well as you can see sumatra widely unsettled borneo same story as we go through friday and saturday and then really

we are scrabbling about to try and get other flights, we got one from seoul in south korea.t grant we have paid to get back. we have been abandoned, really. grant we have paid to get back. we have been abandoned, reallym grant we have paid to get back. we have been abandoned, really. it is very difficult. every day more places are closed, perhaps being impossible to use. i think that, little by little, all of them will go back home. but perhaps the biggest headache facing aviation and many of us is the issue of refunds, from airlines who, with most or all of their flights grounded, have already lost a huge chunk of their income. claimants are being faced with unanswered e—mails and long waits on the phone as airline call centres struggle to cope. it seems like a long way off, but this will all be over one day and the world? tourism bosses are already thinking about how to rebuild their industry from the fallout of the current crisis. first, what i think people will do is to start a travel book is business meetings, leisure, travel and trips, which are millions worldwide. 0f

rainy skies across into seoul in south korea sunday on the whole last a bad day but there's more rain on the way you can see this band very heavy rain working its way towards the korean peninsula pushing in once again across into q show just as the other storm system x.'s off towards the north and the east so sure enough by monday it's another very wesson very windy day across much of honshu and at the same time very heavy rain developing again into the central china could look cooler to beijing just a few on monday as opposed to how much is in the mid to high twenty's and then across indonesia the showers here quite a bit lighter of the next couple of days and we should have a dry day across into bangkok you can see just some areas a bit across the marcha but actually by monday things are looking a lot drier and even a potential as well just wanted to scattered showers maybe just wanted to scout of thunderstorms and we have had since got the thunderstorms across northern areas of india and this preview of the last across the into new delhi the skies a rainbow in the sky over has no r

there have been more than 4500 confirmed cases of mcbride is monitoring developments from seoul in south korea. it basically allows the governors in those places a number of governors including the governor of tokyo ripping us king shinzo out a full these powers to try to force people to stay indoors that allows them to request people to stay at home unless they have exceptional reasons for going out but it has to be pointed out that this is still very much based on all and freak cooperation from people it's unclear whether government has the authorities have any powers can penalize people if they do go out so even though these measures already just been announced are just being introduced there are already questions about whether they are going to go far enough there are also other powers of the governors will have such as press stopping public gatherings closing schools and they can also do other things if things get really bad and he's take that action they are allowed to requisition buildings and lands for emergency hospitals even medicine and food that they can requisition there's a feeli

it has been weeks of work, but the 150,000 arriving this week from seoul, south korea, the swabs on the 20,000 we already got, we were one of the first states -- i think the first to do asymptomatic testing of workers at vulnerable nursing homes, at least in an ongoing way. we have already done three major centers, starting with big ones and working our way down, both the colorado national guard, partnership with csu. i'm not even getting down to the details of the 5000 tests here or there we are getting. there are three drive-through facilities. this is happening all over the state and very important ways. no amount of testing is enough to reopen the state come if that's all you were doing. we are very excited about the progress that our team working with our labs, working with the private sector has done, and we will be happy to do more detailed presentation next week sometime after we get through this initial phase, hopefully wednesday or friday, about what is going on in the testing world. it is exciting. i spend a lot of time there, several calls every day, so many people helping o

religious gatherings were relaxed on sunday let's go live to a correspondent for south korea brian who joins us from seoul and rob it does seem that sort of south korea may not be celebrating quite yet is certainly smiling there with the possibility of a more positive outlook on several fronts. absolutely especially this milestone of 0 cases of local transmission we had been expecting this for some time the past week and a half or so we've seen daily cases of new infections hovering around the around 1010 mark sometimes in single digits and most of those as we know are imported cases the latest figures show 4 new cases but all imported which means that there are 0 cases of local transmission for the 1st time still the author it is here as they tend to do urging caution especially at the moment because we are actually in quite a busy period coincidentally we have several public holidays here all falling very close to each other combined with beautiful spring weather also the fact that many people here have been cooped up for so long people are choosing this moment to maybe combine with a couple of days of

places like tokyo have a lot of devices-- seoul in south korea-- >> whitaker: so you're following those devices from wuhan to these other cities? >> khan: that's correct. i do want to point out these are also anonymized data. but they allow us to understand population movements. that is how we can understand how this virus will spread. >> whitaker: to build their algorithm, dr. khan told us he deliberately hired an eclectic mix: engineers, ecologists, geographers, veterinarians, all under one roof. they spent a year teaching the computer to detect 150 deadly pathogens. >> khan: we can ultimately train a machine to be reading through all the text and picking out components that this is talking about an outbreak of anthrax, and this is talking about the heavy metal band anthrax. and as you do this thousands and thousands and thousands of times, the machine starts to get smarter and smarter. >> whitaker: and how many different language does the computer understand? >> khan: so it's reading this currently in 65 languages, and processing this infrmation every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day. so i

devastation and tragedy since florence al-jazeera a little boy or a young joins us now by skype from seoul in south korea absolutely delighted to have you thanks for joining us now in your latest statement you for that you said that you believe them in monetary may be inflicting renewed suffering on communities in some of the conflict ridden states can you tell us what exactly is the military doing. well what i have stated is that the military is really nearly crimes against humanity and war crimes in the state of time and now this my trance cities are being spread throughout the kind and state as we are speaking now really getting daily reports of more shelling more at your rank and serial year in shares the brunt of this and the ranger caught in the middle too but i have to say that this time the right kind of community is the community that is most in danger and has suffered a lot along with. the morale and the chain community do you believe that the military is deliberately targeting civilians for the shelling and the actions you are talking about $100.00 records that from the reports i get it's real

outbreak south korea has reported no new domestic infections for the 1st time in 2 months members of the buddhist community gathered in seoul to pray for those infected they were also marking put his birthday a nationwide holiday in south korea but large scale celebrations have been put off for a month in hopes of the virus will be further contained restrictions on religious gatherings were relaxed on sunday let's cross over to our correspondent robin bride who joins me from seoul it does seem that south korea may not be celebrating quite yet robert sort of certainly smiling should we say the possibility of a more positive outlook on several fronts. that's right this is a very important milestone of 0 and you local cases we've been expecting this for quite a while now for about the past we can do a half we've been getting the daily figures of around 10 new cases sometimes down into single digits and most of those cases coming from abroad and the latest figures they tell us that there are only 4 new cases and all of those were from abroad so there have been no new local cases needless to say the local authorities they are pl

sunny skies continue across south korea. into seoul. a bit of clouds and also heavy rainfall starting to develop to the southern part of china. due to a station nar front. temperatures are warming up nicely for japan. you can see average temperatures around 18 to 19 degrees in certain parts. 18 spreading to western japan. slightly cloudy. but warming up to. for those in the united states there's cooler conditions for much of the northern part. temperatures are dropping a bit. for the great lakes. temperatures drop due to the snowy conditions and also the low pressure systems that could lead to unstable weather conditions. most of the weather will be noted just to the south and the southeast. possibility of hail, thunder showers and tornados are quite possible. take care at all times. temperatures with chicago at 17 degrees. good improvement in terms of warming up. not far from there you see cooler weather for denver, sthoe expected along those parts. and single digits in vancouver and seattle. winnipeg. way below zero. that's all for th

1000 confirmed cases labral mcbride has been following that story he joins us by skype from seoul in south korea so rob just tell us what does this state of emergency mean in practical terms. well it gives the governors of the city the prefetch is where the state of emergency is going to be introduced a range of different powers it's coming into force in the capital tokyo also in osaka japan 2nd city and 5 other prefectures it basically allows the governors in those places a number of governors including the governor of tokyo have been asking shinzo up a full these powers to try to force people to stay indoors that allows them to request people to stay at home unless they have exceptional reasons for going out but it has to be pointed out that this is still very much based on all and treat cooperation from people it's unclear whether the governor has the authorities have any powers can penalize people if they do go out so even though these measures are only just been announced and just being introduced there are already questions about whether they are going to go far enough there are also other

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political obstacles while trying to swiftly set up a scientific program to combat the virus and south korea's capital seoul has shut down more than $400.00 bars and discos over concerns of coronavirus transmission authorities also plan to further tighten border controls and a global condom shortage is looming due to the virus lockdown measures and major production hubs like malaysia the un warns of devastating public health consequences. new york is still reporting sharply rising casualties from the coronavirus so that the death toll has now climbed above 4000 many more than died in the 911 attacks the state reported its biggest one day jump in fatalities on tuesday hospitals remain overstretched but governor andrew cuomo insists that the number of deaths is leveling off he says this shows social distancing is work. only while president donald trump has threatened to freeze funding to the world health organization at his daily white house briefing trying to criticize the w.h.o. his handling of the crisis saying that the u.n. body was quote china centric they called it wrong they call it wrong they really t

seoul. good to see you, paula. south korea insists kim jong-un is alive and well.t do they have to support that? particularly after the u.s. reported to cnn that kim was perhaps gravely ill after surgery? >> reporter: well, rosemary, they're not giving us the evidence as to why exactly they believe that. we did hear from the advisor to president moon saying that they believe he is alive and well saying they believe he is in wansan which is on the coast of north korea and we heard from president moon jae-in himself. it's the second anniversary of the summit between he and kim jong-un. he didn't talk about his health, he said he was pushing forward and planning for the future of the peace economy saying there is a trust between himself and kim jong-un. he was looking forward and talking as though he is assuming he will have a partner to be talking to this to about this. south korea is being very adamant in the fact that they believe there is nothing unusual going on in north korea and the leader is alive and well, there are many different reports from around the worl

introducing strict quarantine for incoming travelers more now from rob mcbride in seoul on those apparent re infections in south korea. it is a worrying development this is a phenomenon that epidemiologists in the center of disease control here have been studying for quite a while the months this large population of people here who got sick towards the end of february beginning of march who got the virus who with their not treated in hospital or treated at home and some 7000 of those people have recovered and as part of their their own going treatments they have gradually been retested and worryingly there has been this trend of finding now more than 100 cases amongst this population of several 1000 people who have tested positive again so these were people who were clear and they had had tests either in hospital look at clinics at testing centers it proved to be negative and more than 100 now 3 have now tested positive 7 questions here for the experts is what is causing this is this a reinfection that people coming into contact with a carrier and getting the infection again or more worrying they use a reactivation t

which again is pretty good going in of light at the end of the tunnel there in south korea thank you rob mcbride in seoul . as you mentioned before the number of coronavirus related deaths in the u.k. has jumped to more than 26000 this is because the government is now including numbers in care homes for the 1st time in germany lockdowns are raising fears about the state of its economy more from europe and stansell. despite 5 weeks of lockdown the u.k. reaches a grim milestone the death toll from corona virus is now the 2nd highest in europe behind italy the man standing in for prime minister boris johnson himself still recovering from coronavirus says this is down to the fact that deaths outside of hospitals were not being recorded in the daily figures until now we have recorded an additional $3811.00 deaths in total and i think it's just important to say that those additional deaths were spread over the period from the 2nd of march the 28th of april so that they don't represent a sudden surge in the number of deaths but secretary robert lee or face a grilling in parliament for a prime minister's questio

more on the situation in south korea now with mcbride in seoul. we've been seeing numbers of around 10 new cases per day being reported sometimes down and to single digits and we know that most of these cases have been coming from abroad people arriving into south korea the latest figures show that there have been 4 new cases but all of those cases have been from abroad so for the very 1st time we have no cases of local transmission so it is something of an achievement you have to say when you compare it to the height of the outbreak at the end of february south korea was reporting something like $900.00 plus cases every day so to get it down to this has been a real achievement of the government here though the authorities are still advising caution as they would especially at the moment we do have what is a very actually a very busy travel period we have several public holidays by coincidence all forming very close together so people are using this opportunity especially after being cooped up for so long in coinciding incidentally with beautiful s

as well a couple of interesting races here in seoul taegu minh looks like he will become the 1st north korean defector to be directly elected to south korea's national assembly and former prime minister enough hyun looks like he's going to win a hotly contested riding here in the south korean capital seoul and position himself for perhaps a run at the presidency but the main thing people will be looking at as the votes are counted through thursday is whether the ruling liberal block will be able to reach that $180.00 or 60 percent threshold of the $300.00 member national assembly which would give them the capability of really fast tracking legislation frank spirit and soul to paris and started with nothing to do with the coronavirus a year ago today the people of not to dahmus badly damaged by fire thought to have been stopped by magical short circuits restoration work is months behind shadow denied by toxic lead winter storms and now the pandemic of the world's complacent 2 films about the cathedral have been released one shot before the disaster afterwards and both enhanced by virtual reality. not true don cathedral the symbol of paris in

korea's most important holiday. paula h paula hancocks has been following this story in seoul. what's the latest? >> reporter: we've just been hearing the southorean president moon jae-in speaking on today which is the second anniversary of that key summit between north and south korea at the dmz. and he really didn't mention kim jong-un's health at all as far as he can tell. he did talk about a shared future for more cooperation based on willingness for peace and shared trust between him and kim jong-un but really not referring to the elephant in the room which is this remarkable amount of speculation as to what the health of the leader is. now, when it comes to that, what we do know at this point is that he did miss the april 15th celebration of the birth of the founder of north korea and his father kim ill sun, a key date if not the most important date in the north korean calendar. many experts believe and agree that that is a significant absence of the north korean leader. he hasn't been seen since either. but of course there are a number of conflicting reports as to where exactly he is and what his health is at this point. we did hear fr

catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since longtime measures were introduced at the start of the coronavirus pandemic let's go straight to rob mcbride in seoul for a so another sign of life returning to normal in south korea. i think people here in south korea do regard this as yet another hopeful optimistic indication it's been now nearly 2 months since the catholic church and other churches here decided it was simply too risky to hold services instead having masses held on line and it's only now many weeks on a south korea seems to think that the worst is behind it that the numbers are controlled that. organizations like the catholic church feel it is safe enough to hold masses on a sunday once more which is what they do and we are here at the main cathedral in seoul one mass is just come to an end and people are turning up for the next mass this cathedral can hold a congregation of up to a 1000 but only around a quarter of that number of being allowed in for each mass and in order to be part of that 260 people you have to turn up here early you go to a line or to another building where you are given a number and also your details are take

the outbreak began will start heading back to school as early as next week south korea is considering opening schools in may seoul has begun lifting socialist laws churches reopening on sunday in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day to iran which plans to reopen some mosques in areas that are deemed free of current our us government will start leaving regions either white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths or infections mosques in the white zones will be able to resume services remains have already returned to shops and bazaars as the government tries to stimulate its battered economy all right up state will headlines here on odds are you going to the half hour of news coming up right after inside story from the. throughout history behind has come together in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. ringback will again be divided into 2 countries again separatists backed by the united arab emirates to class self rule in the south and

making headlines a top south korean security official says north korean leader kim jong un is alive and well emphasizing that seoul has detected no unusual movements in north korea rumors have been swirling about kim's health amid unconfirmed reports he was seriously ill following heart surgery and hundreds of cuban doctors have arrived in south africa to help the country's fight against covert 19 the team will spend the next 14 days in quarantine before being deployed to different provinces cuba has dispatched more than 1200 health care workers around the world. sweden ordered 5 restaurants in the capital stockholm to close over the weekend because they didn't abide by social distancing guidelines sweden has a like handed coronavirus strategy allowing bars restaurants and other businesses to operate as long as they respect physical distancing recommendations day care centers and schools are also still open the country's chief epidemiologist says it's a carefully thought out approach designed to be sustainable over the long term. daily life in sweden as in most countries is dominated by the corona crisis but children here are still going to daycare centers this

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fire at a warehouse in south korea has killed at least $38.00 people and left another 10 injured the blaze broke out in the city of engine some 50 kilometers south of the capital seoul an explosion in the basement is believed to have triggered the fire. britain's coronavirus death toll has risen by almost 4500 in one day because health officials are now including deaths outside of hospitals in the count the total number of deaths in the u.k. attribute of the covert 19 now stands at just over $26000.00 and includes people who have died in all settings including nursing and care homes the revision means the u.k. now has the world's 3rd highest death toll after the u.s. and italy earlier we spoke to d.w. correspondent shiloh poets in london and asked her why the u.k. has changed the way it's reporting coronavirus deaths. well the government came under intense pressure in the last weeks just hearing what was going on in care homes and across the communities that people were dying there but that those deaths recorded deaths so finally the government today gave in to that pressure and decided to publish these new numbers and they really paint a more true picture of what i

fire at a warehouse in south korea has killed at least $38.00 people and left another 10 injured the blaze broke out in the city of engine some 50 kilometers south of the capital seoul an explosion in the basement is believed to have triggered the fire. boeing says it plans to cut production and shed 10 percent of its workforce around $16000.00 people a u.s. plane maker says the aviation market is frozen because of the coronavirus pandemic it posted a 6466 $141000000.00 loss for the 1st quarter of the year and its european rival airbus said it lost $550000000.00 during the same period. bollywood star and can has died at the age of 53 indian born actor became internationally known through his roles in the film slumdog millionaire and life of pi in 2018 he announced he had been diagnosed with cancer he died in a hospital in mumbai britain's coronavirus death toll has risen by almost 4500 in one day because health officials are now including deaths outside of hospitals in the count the total number of deaths in the u.k. attributed to covert 19 now stands at just over $26000.00 and includes people who have died in all settings including nursing and care homes the revisi