that the dormitory housing nearly 2000 students at tehran university will also be emptied out they are trying to contain the situation for now the health officials are saying that there is no cause for concern and urging all residents across the country to exercise caution or i don't thank you for the. interim. the south korea has lots of complaint with israel after a plane load of south koreans was refused entry 12 israeli passengers though they were allowed to get off the korean airlines flight when it arrived in television but 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now banning south korean and japanese visitors the move follows the discovery of coronavirus among a group of south korean tourists who visited israel last week and 50000 people in northern italy have been told to stay at home as the government there tries to contain the virus the emergency measures follow to destine around 100 infections that torah gazin be reports life inc you don't you're in northern italy is now happening behind closed doors the town's mayor has told the 15000 residents to stay at home to pre

thinks i'm spared the medical devices for the iranian people earlier we spoke to professor from tehran university who explained why iran is still experiencing medical shortages the spotless sector being exempt from u.s. penalties. the americans are saying that they have not sanction humanitarian goods which is medicine and food but in reality because iran is not able to do financial transaction and also because of the fact that the rein in transportation is under sanction essentially it is very difficult to import and export any good and it doesn't matter whether this is medicine or food or any other material for that matter are so it has had a very real effect on iran now iran actually imports over $4000000000.00 of medicine and medical goods every year and what this happened through the so-called su is china will is only $2500000.00 so it is essentially peanuts considering what iran in iran is a country of 80000000 what do you want really needs is is much much bigger than what this was n.b.c. and carried out with the. wave of protests is expected to strike several european ports this week over

heard from the dean of town university that the dormitory housing are nearly 2000 students at tehran university will also be emptied out they are trying to contain the situation for now the health officials are saying that there is no cause for concern and urging all residents across the country to exercise caution and south korea has lodged a complaint with israel after its citizens 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 banning south korean and japanese visitors the move follows the discovery of coronavirus among a group of south korean tourists who visit israel last week. at least 9 people have died in turkey's van province and a magnitude $5.00 earthquake shook eastern turkey and northwestern iran and several people are believed to be trapped under the rubble. one person has been killed and 4 others injured in gaza after the israeli army opened fire on a group of palestinians israeli army says the man was trying to plant an explosive near the gaza israel f

protested across the country earlier i spoke to such as a book a professor of political sciences at tehran university he says many people didn't vote because they believe nothing will change. it was very much expect that. you will not see the ensues yes and the heart scare not that the of 4 years ago at large city success. and all the main cities because. potential so showed more terrors. of the of the mother it for reasons leave the principal cities and they have made the abstain from before election because of the disappointment in the performance of the of the president match this they were very much hoping 4 years ago that they would get all the tense matches and iranian parliament was really as your as you said it in your opening remarks for us the economy is concerned that day economy has getting strong back towards ab that's why that's why many of the same. want the ball there to wall these are not going to improve most of the seats are going to be more up to date by what we can safely call our hotline earth not on the face of a part liners or very much and the american they are very much have

a professor of political science at tehran university he joins us on skype such as a if the turnout is low if there is apathy at the ballot box what does that say about the voters and about the politicians. it was very much expect that. you will not see their enthusiasm and the heart care not that the opposite 4 years ago at large cities. and all their made cities because there were tensions so show more tears and. all. of them honor it and it's always leave a no pulse cities and they have maybe abstained for election because of their disappointment in the performance of their of their president match theirs they were very much hoping for years ago then they moved it for their tense matchless and iranian parliament but really as you as you said it in your opening remarks part of the economy is concerned. commie is getting some back towards god and that's why that's why many say you. want the ball there to wall these are not who brain growth is this election different however because usually in iran parliamentary elections are focused on domestic issues day to day issues but some analys

believe the health ministry has confirmed to be true we also understand that the dormitories at tehran university have been evacuated as the request of the dean of the university that's home to just over 2000 students there is an effort across the country to try and minimize people's movements and gathering a public places the local schools about 2 thirds of them have been closed until the end of this week as well as universities and we also understand that the theaters and cinemas across the country have also been closed until next week this is all in an effort to try and contain the spread of this disease all right dorsetshire baria live in tehran dorset thank you. iran's neighbor iraq is setting up quarantine areas aimed at preventing the spread of the krona virus there are fears hundreds of thousands of iranian visitors to holy sites could spread the virus matheson reports . these quarantine wards in baghdad are part of iraq's frontline against the covert 19 strain of corona virus many of the rooms and corridors a sterilized and sealed a nurse recorded these pictures from al-jazeera recently

government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the tehran university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and disinfectants will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities and borders dosser i mentioned it briefly earlier perhaps you can take us through this the surrounding countries which are essentially now starting to isolate iran physically. the 1st country that chose to close all its borders land borders with iran was iraq on saturday there are 5 borders between the 2 countries and we also heard from turkey on sunday that they decided to shut down the 3 land borders that they share with iran also heard from afghanistan and pakistan and they've all followed suit now what we have heard but have not been able to confirm yet is that turkish airlines has canceled its 2 flights to and from iran that is something that we are trying to confirm here but according to the turkish health minister that is

me from university of tehran laying out some of the implications of what these elections mean when it comes to the future of how iran deals with the international community . life president tehran on election day thank you. millions of people are being urged to stay indoors as south korea becomes the country with the highest number number of chronic virus infections outside of china health authorities say there are 204 cases nationwide around half of them appointed on friday alone most of the victims are linked to a religious group in the southern city of in the capital seoul mass gatherings and rallies have been banned to prevent an outbreak there let's go to rob mcbride who is what is being done to try to contain it and in this particular city. that's right this one city is the epicenter of this new outbreak but it is an outbreak that has the whole of south korea extremely concerned just but because of the way it has suddenly spiked in the past couple of days it has health officials here putting into place various measures setting up special testing centers to try to give a quick te

tehran. and i personally attended the funeral of universally money and i personally was really really shocked 7000000 people they came to streets of tehran ok mark kimmitt was it justified for the u.s. president to order the killing of this rain in general who a lot of americans from both of ministrations democrat or republican have had their eye on for a while well 1st of all i think we need to clarify some of the terms it was not an assassination it was a death on the battlefield of a military combatant if we go back to the record of what general sort of money has either done personally or been responsible for on the issue of americans alone he was responsible for providing explosively formed penetrator id's into iraq. $600.00 plus americans killed thousands wounded we've seen what's happened to syria under his tutelage with the quds force responsible for tens of thousands particularly civilians so i think in terms of the military combatant that was conducting military operations against an enemy that was a battlefield consequence of a battlefield decision on this part and it was a battlefi

government said it was cancelling the main friday prayers in dozens of cities including tehran qom and mashhad school in university closures in affected areas have also been extended by at least. one weweek. i well south korea s a countntry with the e highest number of confirmed c cases outside of china. more than three hundred new cases were reported on thursday at least thirteen people have died. and around forty countries have closed their borders to south korean citizens peter o'brien has will. i used to buy a face mosque sneak through to group the fourth largest city in south korea and the epicenter of i its corona a virus outbrea. jim harvey eagle pond i in may even though it's stillll the holidadays i shohouldn't be oute and i'm really scared. all the money there is no one on the streets these days. ten the only trucks packed with almost a million mosques have been sent to the city and two hundred doctors andnd nurses frm other regions have been dispatched to this hospital though it's s run out off beds d remains short staffeded. under two hundred young will severely lacking medical stataff to treat patient

i speak not so for it is that he has and to romp a is a professor of world studies at the university of tehran thank you so much for your time talk to me about the major issues for voters from what we heard endorsers packer's there seems like sort of bread and butter issues the economy lack of jobs sanctions. that's true i think. the number one issue that is mine they want to see inflation reduced most people are suffering because of high currency rates which is it has a negative effect on. the prices it increases the inflation so that's very important the 2nd issue is foreign policy rouhani administration has not been successful in. getting some of the objectives done at the united states left the nuclear agreement and that was a setback for rouhani and his team and people who oppose rouhani politically and using that fact to portray his foreign policy as a failed policy there are also no couldn't use that people deal with it in your report you referenced town in north of the iran small towns have their own difficulties problems issues so that's going to be on people's mind when they vote for

mohammad marandi here is into iran he is the head of the american studies department at the university of tehran good to have you on the program as always mr marandi let's take an rouhani speech 1st off he's been encouraging people to vote in the upcoming elections analysts say rouhani needs a high voter turnout for the just the juda mysie because of the anger that the leadership is facing from the iranian people right now what do you think. but i don't think that anyone can really at this stage determine what the turnout will be before the elections actually. before the elections have actually taken place it does seem that interest is growing there although there is a lot of fragmentation among the political parties the so-called principle there so now divided into different groups the government and the reformists they seem to be splitting into separate groups so there's a lot of confusion about what sort of lists and candidates there will be in tehran because tehran people vote for the whole city not for particular district so they vote for a list of people in small towns the local politics t

obviously now they have ordered some schools closed and universities as well in a run, the capital, in some other cities as well but not all of them —— in tehranthat was the centre of the city that was the centre of the disease, but at the same time, now that it has spread outside the city, how do you contain it? there are all kinds of images coming out showing doctors and nurses taking the lead in the absence of any efficiency on part of the government, putting out videos on social media telling people how to stay safe, how to keep away from the virus and stopping it from spreading by taking measures like washing hands and using all kinds of masks. so there is quite a bit of worry across the country as to where this will go and how it can be insane. and yet, bahman, iran does have a pretty effective health service, the deputy health minister looking quite sweaty and running a temperature giving a press announcement but then also turning positive does make testing positive. and also he was arguing against quarantine. yes, iran has good medical experience in medical schools, but clearly official preparation for something like this and the alleg

tehran are wearing masks and gloves to help protect themselves. >> the whole of the society is worried. as you see, the city is half closed. universities and schools are shut down. there are fewer people in the streets and that is because of their nervousness. >> here in the u.s., president trump is urging americans institute panic. he says health officials are monitoring the situation closely. >>> the mardi gras season with . authorities are stepping up efforts to make the parade a loa tradition turned deadly. on saturday a man was hit and killed by a floaturing one of new orleans' iconic marti gras parades. >> it's really sad. >> reporter: hours before the accident, thousands of locals and visitors secure their spots for the annual event, cheering and dancing as the elaborate procession rolls through the street. authorities canceled the rest of the parade as police blocked off the streets and urged people to clear the area. in the wake of the accident, officials announcing an immediate change to the festivities going forward, banning the use of multiple floats connected together and pulled by a tractor known as tandem floats. >> i th

the streets but that's because schools and universities are all closed so people are not really out and about all right as a big live in the iranian capital tehran thank you. well iran's neighbor iraq is really worried about the number of iranians who cross the border to visit their holy sites there is now setting up quarantine areas aimed at preventing the spread of the virus matheson reports. these quarantine wards in baghdad are part of iraq's frontline against the covert 19 strain of corona virus many of the rooms and corridors a sterilized and sealed a nurse recorded these pictures from al-jazeera recently iraqis arriving from china have been tested here even though they weren't showing any symptoms medical staff say no one was carrying the virus. who gropes from the stuff from the doctor's people which is what a bill for the killing of the hospital are we training groups about this. about this why us. do you think this one symbol of. every month thousands of religious travelers visit shia holy sites in iraq including the shrine of him hussein in the western province of caballe and the shrine of him in the jeff they also spend much needed m

universities. it's also placeced some restrictions on acaccess to major shrines and click on the city of mashad. and it only authorities on for sent. tehran's metro a daily basis. however the country has come under fisa mismanagement and lack of transparency. rules of questions is that the decision to not quarantine into cities and towns. moreover some on social media have claimed that there is a shortage of mosques because millions with donated to china a few weeks ago. lastly there are reports of arresting cititens for didiscussing the epidedemic onl. meanwhile ever in the u. s. the trump administration has temporarily eased restrtrictions on iran's humanitarian trade observers are divided. this will help iran. this french. so just how long can the coronavirus lost on services cannot be transmitted at distance how effective all those malls that people the wearing of the cases of coronavirus increase increase globally questions continue falsity falls carries a garland explains what we know is sinful. rapidly spreading across the globe the corona viruses sparking worry and raising questions. one of them at what diststce is therere a risk o

tehran thank you. let's take a look now at this online tracker from the johns hopkins university in the u.s. a gives a fairly good picture of where the outbreak has spread and the number of cases the world as you can see is just over 81 thousands. now from south korea's capital macbride reports on how the outbreak is affecting daily life there. i think looking at the latest figures there is an increasing sense of alarm of nearly a spike of nearly 300 new cases in one day alone and it comes of course as the government here repeats its message that the next few days will be critical in whether south korea is able to contain this outbreak down in the southeast of the country or not and when you look at these figures in the way we have spikes like like we have on this day wednesday then increasingly people will be thinking this is just not going in the right direction in fact it's going very much in the wrong direction and you do feel that sense of nervousness on the streets in places like seoul people will be avoiding any crowds the cinemas are quiet restaurants are quiet we have people being told by the

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city you know they have since closed schools and universities not only but about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health ministry has also said that the masks and this in fact since will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public a metro stations as well as buses across the cities all street has stopped all train traffic to and from italy over coronavirus fares denied entry to a train from venice off to to travis was suspected of being infected meanwhile italy's prime minister has announced a quarantine on several northern towns affecting 50000 people the last 2 days of the venice carnival have also been counsel catherine stunts and has more. more drastic measures in italy as doctors struggle to contain the spread of the corona virus the mayor of milan has o

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city you know they have since closed schools and universities not only but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and this in fact since will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public a metro stations as well as buses across the cities the president. has won a 4th term in office according to initial results he took 72 percent of the vote far ahead of his main rival. now the opposition alleges that fraud took place during the election the president's family has ruled the west african country for 53 years but it was just following the story for us from me. with a massive win of 72 percent of the vote as declared by the independent national electoral commission president is set to extend his 15 year will on the s

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city now they have since closed schools and universities not only home but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories and been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and disinfectant will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be having handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities. the prime minister says he's ready to use the army to help contain the virus in the north of the country victoria gage and he has a report on. life inc you don't you're in northern italy is now happening behind closed doors the town's mayor has told the 15000 residents to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus rosica valley is one of the few people venturing out she owns a pharmacy and the man has told her to keep it open to the pole would appoint a man to him

tehran wearing masks and gloves to protect themselves. >> the whole of the society is worried. as you see, the city is half closed. universitiesools are shut down. there are fewer people in the streets and that is because of their nervousness. >> reporter: the outbreak prompting pakistan and turkey to close their borders with iran. here in the u.s., president trump ising health officials are we're very cognizant of everything going on. we have it very much under control in this country. >> reporter: a spike in south korea triggered officials to issue a red alert, allowing them to lock down affected cities and restrict travel. >>> in oakland the school district is inviting the public to hear information about the chemical contamination that will keep mcclimens high school close tomorrow. trichloral ethylene was found in the water underneath the school. the chemical is also known as tce. it's not been detected in drinking water at or near the school. there has not been any tce detected in the air. even so, tomorrow the oakland school district is holding two meetings for concerned parents and meetings. they'll be teld at the libr

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city you know they have since closed schools and universities not only home but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and disinfectants will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public a metro stations as well as buses across the cities austria has stopped old train traffic to and from italy over krone virus fares earlier denied entry to a train from venice off to to travis was suspected of being infected meanwhile italy's prime minister has announced a quarantine on several northern towns affecting 50000 people the last 2 days of the venice carnival have also been cancelled catherine stansell has more. more drastic measures in italy as doctors struggle to contain the spread of the corona virus the mayor of

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city now they have since closed schools and universities not only in all but about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and disinfectant will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities the israeli military has carried out as strikes on gaza the syrian capital damascus have to the palestinian islamic jihad fired 21 rockets into southern israel the group said it launched the attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members. how the force it is a west truce let me says the israeli air strikes come as no surprise. well certainly the strikes inside gaza are relatively standard for this kind of escalation the kind of which

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city you know they have since closed schools and universities not only home but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and this in fact and will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities. several provinces in china have lowered their emergency response measures to the coronavirus but south korea is still on high alert just announced a 161 new cases bringing the total number of infected to 763 the number of from the virus in south korea stands at 7 to 2 more announced on monday cases. after a break in a religious community in the city of. let's get the very latest by speaking to our correspondent katrina you who is in beijing and those are encouraging figure

south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city you know they have since closed schools and universities not only but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the government's foreign ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories have been evacuated as well the health minister has also said that the masks and this in fact and will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be hanged handing them out in public metro stations as well as buses across the city's japan now which is confirmed the 3rd death all the passenger who was on that cruise ship which is corn train for 2 weeks earlier japan's health minister apologized after another passenger tested positive for corona virus after she was allowed to go home in fact $23.00 passengers were eventually allowed to disembark without being tested for the virus around 80 percent of the $770.00 infection cases in japan were on that ship earlier i spoke to mohammed money or his a lecturer of

tehran today the government is saying are 20 percent more congested and then normal and that house minister sayed no makee was actually known to have complained that the reason that they shut down schools and universities was to keep people in their homes to try and control the spread of the coronavirus not for people to try to get out of the city and try to go to other parts of the country now that is that is something that people are doing against the advice of the government but it may be to get to or climates where this disease is no it's not proliferate as the quickly so many people seen go into the north of the country there is some positive news to border crossings with iraq are said to have opened to continue supplying food and other goods to iraq one of the country's main economic partners. bring us all the latest there from tehran thank you very much indeed let's get more from brides ains saw in south korea has recorded its highest number of new cases in a single day. tell us about the situation where your. it is something of a grim milestone we've gradually been witnessing the numbers of new cases in china declining while the numbers of new cases in south korea have been going up and this it