India to confirm a 3000000000. 00 weapons deal and boost his reelection chances with Indian American voters. And exchanges of rocket fire continue between the Israeli Military and Islamic Jihad in gaza plus the School Upheaval in malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his allies resigned from the Coalition Governments. The World Health Organization says its worried about the growing number of coronavirus cases outside of china in iran the Health Ministry says 12 people have died at the n n p in the city of course says the figure could be as high as 50 but the outbreak is spreading across the middle east coates iraq. And afghanistan of all confirmed cases in europe a 6th person has died in italys north there are almost 200 cases there the highest concentration id side of asia and in south korea infections there have surpassed 800 and authorities have raised the Infectious Diseases warning to the highest level at least 7 people have died that so far were especially concerned about there are pretty increasing cases in the Islamic Republic of iran italy and republic of korea and get the number of cases in those countries i journey has increased significantly in the past 2 to 3 days so far. There has only been one case in sweden its likely you will see more and i know that you are preparing for that is the this is the save yesterday it will be revising its Risk Assessment and more cases should be expected in the european union. Meanwhile in china or the National Peoples congress will people because of fears about the i break it will be one of the 1st times in modern chinese history yang a session of parliament has been delayed katrina has this reports from beijing. Across china the corona Virus Outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijings great hall of the people i. Was. Every much the venue of course the countrys most important political event the National Peoples congress but chinas top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gatherings urging its 3000. 00 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing taxes over the weekend bringing the total to about 400. 00 many are still too afraid to return to work among our company has less the 100. 00 employees. We already have iraq 10 people working in the office. I thought the subway to work was going to be packed but there actually werent many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have originated in a 100 wildlife and seafood market. New coronavirus cases and fatalities have been concentrated in who 24 of chinas 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered Emergency Response levels. President xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and hes encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart operations where possible. Industries are which are the National Economy and peoples livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operation was junction at work in a foolish way to increase production its the 1st time chinas National Peoples congress has been delayed in decades so far and no new date has been set but analysts say when the missing is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally won its socalled war against the corona Virus Outbreak. Aljazeera aging. The World Health Organization also held a briefing in beijing within the last few hours lets get more now from agent brian in hong kong tell us more about that briefing. Well weve been hearing from bruce albert hes been leading the w. H. O. Delegation its been in china now his team has been to hand the epicenter of this virus theyve been seeing firsthand for themselves well just what china is doing to try to contain the virus and also collecting Important Information which will eventually be passed on to other w. H. O. Members while at a briefing in beijing a short time ago he said that clinic visits had fallen steeply which was encouraging he also praised chinas containment efforts once more saying the world was in your debt he also said that china had prevented an even bigger crisis happening by taking the measures its done such as locking down the city of new one so those are words that will satisfy chinas leaders and of course just a few hours before we had that briefing from the w. H. O. It was confirmed that china will be canceling the annual session of its parliament the National Peoples congress normally held in early march its the biggest political event of the year in china i cannot recall a time when the National Peoples congress was cancelled its important because this is when chinas leaders announced their growth targets for the year ahead and those growth child gets at the moment of being keenly anticipated by economists around the world because we know that chinas economy was already slowing before the outbreak of this virus and on sunday of course we heard from president xi jinping and those words still resonate on monday he said that china was facing the biggest Public Health crisis since the foundation of the peoples republic in 1949 he said there being short comings by the government but didnt specify whether those shortcomings were the result of the Central Government or the provincial government he also said china was facing a great crisis but china would recover i think what the president was doing on sunday was preparing the Chinese People for a rocky few weeks and months but he wanted to reassure them that there was going to be a safety net there for them. Brant lifeless in hong kong thank. Well as we heard earlier the number of deaths in iran has increased the Health Ministry there has pledged to be transparent with the situation. We need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions id like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter to treat and we will see everything in a clear way. I said beggars in tehran says the number of infections why is this disagreement or why bad the situation actually is in iran. Theres been an extraordinary exchange in clash a war of words between a member of parliament and media by the hes a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not within maybe from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms on are scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but there nancy was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and has called upon the Health Ministry to impose a curfew on the city of call now the Deputy Health minister has has denied the figure of 50 and said that even if it was half that number he would submit his resignation now about the responded to that and he said he sent the names of those that have died from the virus to the Health Ministry and he expects a resignation now the Health Minister has come out in response to all of this and he said that the government is dealing with the situation. Donald trump has begun his today trip to india and minister narendra moves increases the u. S. President on his planned 3 hour visit to. St which is time to see nearly a 3rd of all Indian Americans could be important trance reelection chances in november for the failure to secure a trade agreement is a concern but trumps confirmed a 3000000000. 00 deal some move to india. Tomorrow our representatives will sign deals to sell over 3000000000. 00 in the absolute final state of the art military helicopters and other equipage to the indian armed force. I believe that the United States should be in is permitted to fail. Spotter and thats the way its working out together we will defend our sovereignty security and protect a free and open indopacific region for our children and for many many generations to come. Back the same markets that we chanted. Value old. Ideas. Shares would eat up enterprise and innovation sand opportunity and challenge. An explanation well elizabeth purana ms and that upon sound explains what this is for who. Today is all about you know the big ringback welcome to the u. S. President who the Prime Minister and certainly his support is very fond of he has now left the president will be going to the taj mahal and before spending the night in new delhi and then tomorrow is when President Trump and his 12 member delegation including people like the common secretary the National Security adviser hold bilateral talks on things like security like defend trade relations have been strained under President Trump 2018 so what a see we rounds of retaliatory retaliatory tariffs they also dont agree on things they have big differences on visas issued to indian workers in america on the pharmaceutical industry so we will wait and see if they make any progress on that thats not expected so this trip very much is about these 2 need is the spectacle of trump coming to india their clothes on they do have things in common especially in their style of leadership that is 9 months before the president ial election in the u. S. Coming to when need be a good Indian Americans can trace their origins to. Meanwhile violence has broken eyes in parts of delhi between supporters and opponents of indias new citizenship law around 200. 00 women staged a sit in process to against the legislation by a metro station in the area on sunday but fighting broke out hours after activists threatened to take action unless police removed the group. Still to come on aljazeera the citys Prime Minister finally goes to court it will he be charged with murdering his a strange wife and the battle to capture the capital of libya is bad for business. But. How has it been plenty of snow in the last few days for all the slopes of northern hunchy and how kind thats because the winds been a cold one across the sea now it is dying die and if anything it will be coming in the direction with the rain now there will be a bit snow on the Northern Edge of that in some parts of the Korean Peninsula sols at 9 degrees or so clearly wont be here but the blue is significant rain as it goes through south korea heads towards honshu you have a wet day and light in store fever across most of honshu with a wet snow or high ground in the middle of honshu its left behind a trail of cloud in the light rain in the middle of china backs we will have a drop in temperature to about 20 would still quite warm drops further to 15 where it should be to be honest in february the beijings to warmer than normal. That dropping science wisdom and of course the rainy seasons right into nice here but the right main focus of the heavy showers is not a sudden bornean so the way see less so in java is the potential for flash floods and these of course shes not unusual but javas less at risk than of late the same is true further north in Southern Thailand where weve seen a good collection shows recently the next 2 days should see you largely dry same is probably true of kale and maybe even singapore but not in public. From fossil fuels to modern day renewable such as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring Innovative Solutions to meet such demands as a Global Power Development of Investment Company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the state amounts we provide Business Growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and fire mentally sound Energy Solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. The old. Or oh. Oh. My. Guess is aljazeera our mind of the headlines this hour the World Health Organization says its along on the global spike in corona virus cases in iran 12 people have died from the virus as cases spread across the middle east but hey in iraq afghanistan and kuwait of all the forces infections. China is delaying its biggest political event of the year the National Peoples congress because of the virus gathering of thousands of communist Party Officials initially takes place at the beginning of march. And donald trump has confirmed that 3000000000. 00 weapons deal with india will go ahead but it starts with a 2 day trip made the announcement in Gujarat State which has ties to nearly a 3rd of all Indian Americans. Israel has carried out more airstrikes on the gaza strip after targeting what it said were Islamic Jihad targets that were nights its not clear if there are casualties in these read bombs attacks but at least 4 people were wounded on sunday israel says its responding to walk its launch from inside the territory the military also carried out strikes only armed groups in syria on sunday nights killing 2 of its members in damascus a wife notes a hurry for such he joins us from west jerusalem just bring us up to date on whats been happening there and how we got to this point. Well whats happening right now is just the last few minutes theres been another volley of rocket fire. Reported coming out of gaza again larry around southern israel this follows an Israeli Ground of airstrikes on Palestinian Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets inside gaza earlier in the afternoon that itself was in response to further rocket fire to what has already happened on sunday evening now israel in response to that volley of rocket fire took it took extensive military action both inside gaza and in syria there were strikes on Islamic Jihad targets throughout gaza one team the Israeli Military said of a rocket launching team it was struck by a drone 4 people injured there and as you say 2 Islamic Jihad fighters and 4 iranians killed. Reportedly in strikes by israel south of damascus that is what Islamic Jihad said that it was going to respond to this morning and that is what were seeing in the latest round of escalation now this whole round of escalation no was kicked off by what happened after dawn on sunday when these are military says it found 2 palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters trying to plant an improvised explosive device along the border fence it fired on them killing one of them then trying to take away a body with a bulldozer in pretty gruesome scenes that elicited a lot of outrage throughout gaza and was met by a response from Islamic Jihad saying that they would carry out vengeance for that action and here we are with yet another of these periodic rounds of escalation and how did this all comes of course about a week before another crucial election in israel how does this all playing domestically. Well its something that is taken as a bit of political law here that Benjamin Netanyahu trot benjamin and you know tries to avoid getting entanglement in in tangled in a military escalation in the days before an election and there have been such escalations before the 2 previous elections and hes managed not to engage in a much broader conflict this time though his language at least is quite stark he says that he doesnt want to be dragged into a war that it would be a last resort but that it would be something that is he is prepared to do saying that there is a radical new plan on israels part to change the situation what into his defense ministers words in gaza he also spoke about hamas the Israeli Military has been very much targeting Islamic Jihad in these strikes talking about Islamic Jihad very similar to what we saw in the vendor when that separation was 1st made between of hamas and Islamic Jihad where previously israel would hold hamas responsible for everything however netanyahu has language in one of his interviews today saying if you dont shoot them referring to him are saying if you dont shoot that person Islamic Jihad well shoot you im talking about a war im not looking for a war but we have prepared something you cant even imagine so certainly an uptick in the rhetoric similar in tone to what we saw a couple of weeks ago when there was another much smaller escalation but theres more of it it seems this time and there are also Political Considerations for hamas as well last time around in november it allowed itself to be separated by israel from Islamic Jihad it didnt fire rockets it kind of sat out that escalatory round and took quite a lot of domestic criticism as part of that will it adopt the same policy this time around thats another of the moving parts that we have to watch out for our k. Harry foster their life as in west jerusalem thank you. Libyas Prime Minister says the commander of the offensive to capture the capital is a war criminal addressing the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in geneva fires also watch highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis and short members fossils of libyan civilians killed in Khalifa Haftar is 10 month military campaign to overthrow his government until busy very day we have not seem to be caring and by the International Community before you we express our regret and the continuing flagrant violation of human rights which led to the killing of albertans and displacement of hundreds are out and your excellent the lady and her and gentlemen many have lost their lives men women children the elderly families have been displaced children have been orphaned because of the aggression perpetrated by the war criminal happened. Elsewhere in geneva the latest round of talks this in military representatives from the warring sides in libya has concluded under the guidance of the un theyve prepared a draft cease fire agreement presented to their respective leaderships. And with a 10 month battle to capture the capital of libya is bad for business shops in tripolis of the city center are struggling because of street to street fighting in the suburbs trial stratford reports. This is the entrance to the old city tripoli people have been coming to shop in the market from all over north africa for centuries. But business is not good. Its virtually impossible for customers to travel across the front lines of fighting in the suburbs to get to tripoli the capital reveals an increasingly under siege since warlord khalifa hump his military offensive against the un backed government started last april. Its winning season in libya. B. C. Supposed to be one of the busiest times of the year for. The jeweler makes the conoco saw. A traditional necklace and a must have for libyan bryants only wedding day. He says sales have halted in recent years and the fenwick lost a fentanyl after the revolution around 20122013 we had lots of customers since the war started and people want to hold on to whatever pennies they have to be prepared for the worst food to be shopping with a daughter who is getting married soon. And that the on the actually they were hope that the government would be more engaged in helping the young generation find jobs even in the private sector and helping them settle but that hasnt happened this Current Crisis is making things worse. After the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 there were hopes that libya could use money from its vast all resources to try and stimulate in diversify its economy but here is a political instability and conflicts have made that i personally impossible to achieve. This forces trying to surround the city and county of the capital his loyalists have closed all facilities in areas they control depriving the u. N. Bank governments of around 50000000. 00 a day. How they lead one to lead their aggression against us means weve had to stop our 2001000 Development Initiative which focused on investment and the private sector this had an effect not just in tripoli but the whole country but we cannot diversify away from oil and help the private sector until this aggression against us stops. Despite efforts to agree a ceasefire theres little sign of a meaningful solution to end libyas crisis. Says none of the hopes he had for a prosperous future after the revolution 1000000 years ago a from true. Stop at aljazeera tripoli. Has political upheaval in malaysia after the king accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister and once or mohammeds Political Party has quit its the Coalition Government well this falls talks by some members of the Ruling Coalition to excludes form a new administration the Prime Ministers chosen successor and 5 o n y r e brka him for once louis is in kuala lumpur and says its unclear what mati his next move will be. The same is when the Prime Ministers office confirming that mahathir had indeed tended allows letter of resignation to the king well there was no reason given for the resignation but weve since heard the finance minister coming out and saying that mahathir attended his resignation because he did not want. Him to not want the party to have to work with im not im no is the party that was in power in malaysia for decades it had ruled malaysia since the country gained independence from british in 1957 and it was only ousted in the last general election in 2018 its leader was its former leader was the former Prime Minister of this country not your brother whos been accused or whos been charged and is on trial for corruption hes been accused of stealing billions of dollars from a state Investment Fund according to the constitution the person who will become Prime Minister and his country is someone who commands the confidence of parliament now if all things had remained the same then this person could well have been on what he brought him but because my heart is party has left the Ruling Coalition and because some members of our last party have also either resigned all been sacked from the party and what its doubtful that anwar will have the numbers to actually back him to be the next Prime Minister of this country so its very unclear whats going to happen next we dont know who will be in charge of this country next who or who is going to form part or which parties are going to be part of the Ruling Coalition but many civil Rights Groups have already said that if his governing coalition includes arm know the party that was ousted in the last election then this is clearly wrong it is contrary to democratic principles and its not what people in malaysia had voted for back in 2018. The Prime Minister overseas who has been in code 3 days after dawn was to bomb he failed to appear to face allegations of murdering his estranged wife from the similar was that the courts in the capital maseru. The citys Prime Minister tom to bonnie made a much anticipated however brief appearance in Court Earlier today this is after he left le souter last week when he was 1st jew in court to face murder charges at that time he said he had rushed to south africa for an emergency medical appointment since then his returned to listen to but when he appeared today his Legal Defense argued that there were questions around whether or not a sitting Prime Minister should be charged and prosecuted the court ruled that the case should be referred to the Constitutional Court for its intervention now bonnie has delayed those Legal Process for the time being is still facing a tough political battle within his own all bustle to Convention Party this is a party that is divided there are people who do support tom to bonnie but he does have opposition within that party they say he should step down immediately but this is the message his son had for his opponents. We are very that believes in longer rule of law so i deserved things only natural that has to happen. To see on god and as you mention. We can see the political in time and those who are doing that there are no more that really. And they will know soon whether or not a body will face murder charges any time soon is anyones guess given that the process that the Constitutional Court may take some time now the all by ceuta convention says its willing to announce a successor to barney potentially ousting the Prime Minister from his position a motion of no confidence has been filed at parliament to try and get the Prime Minister out to bonnie certainly faces a tough political future despite saying hes ready to retire at the end of july. The founder of wiki leaks hours began his legal battle to stop extradition from britain to the United States u. S. Government lawyers argue a songes not such in a free speech but an ordinary criminal it many lives at risk he is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret u. S. Military and diplomatic documents 10 years ago. This is al jazeera and these are the headlines the World Health Organization says its alarmed by the global spike in cologne a virus caissons in iran 12 people have died from the virus as cases spread across the middle east in iraq afghanistan and kuwait of all reported infections china is delaying its biggest political event over the year the National Peoples congress because of the virus the gathering of thousands of communist Party Officials usually takes place at the beginning of march it in britain has more from hong kong its the biggest political event of the year in china i cannot recall a time when the National Peoples congress was cancelled its important because this is when chinas leaders announced their growth targets for the year ahead and those growth targets at the moment of being keenly anticipated by economists around the world because we know that chinas economy was already slowing before the outbreak of this virus. Donald trump has confirmed the 3000000000. 00 weapons deal with india will go ahead isnt empty on the today visits which began in a state with ties to nearly a 3rd of all Indian Americans israel has carried more airstrikes on the gaza strip after targeting what it said were Islamic Jihad targets there overnight its not clear if there are casualties in these renewed bomb blasts but at least 4 people were wounded on sunday israel says its responding to rockets fired from inside the territory the military also carried out strikes on the armed group in syria on sunday libyas Prime Minister says the commander of the offensive to capture the war the capital is a war criminal addressing the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in geneva vias also raj highlights is the worsening humanitarian crisis and Malaysias King has accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Political Party has also quit the Coalition Government falls told by some members of the world in coalition to exclude from the new administration the Prime Ministers chosen successor a rival n y r e brahimi well that search state stay weathers here and aljazeera talk to aljazeera is up next. Americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy are there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u. S. Politics and policies and their effect on the world on aljazeera. You see. Im jonah how in munich where Global Policy makers are gathered for the annual security conference among them josep the European Unions Foreign Policy and security chief a man who faces many challenges from the u. S. Tariffs from the Iran Nuclear Deal to managing relations with eastern giants like china and russia and of course festering conflicts in places like libya and yemen the list is long can the ties that bind e. U. Member states endure all this is there a common vision for the European Unions future well find out as joe said burrill talks to aljazeera. 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