The 1st time since the coronaVirus Outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the numb but within 37 countries have telly to 427 new cases of beijing says its counted 4 111. 00 earlier the World Health Organization want immediate action is needed to prevent it from becoming a pandemic where its widespread around the world but the infection rate appears to be slowing down and Mainland China where the outbreak began the virus is spreading through europe with new cases in france though the majority are in italy 378 confirmed infections are there and 12 deaths brazil has also just reported a cases latin americas 1st confirmed infection the 61 year old had traveled to italy earlier this month more than 81000. 00 cases have been. Globally from those about 2700 people have died lets go live now to our lesson america and it said lucy in human whos in santiago. The 1st case now is seen in latin america what more can you tell us. Yes this is something that was expected it was going to not be if but when the virus would reach this continent south america the 61 year old had come as you said from italy and now brazil has expanded its list of suspect countries people that will be presumably isolated or at least tested as soon as they land in brazil now this its been expanded to germany france australia the United Arab Emirates the philippines of malaysia as well as the other countries that we all know of of course such as china and south korea vietnam except for us so it is really very very worrisome not just in Brazil Health authorities in that country in the World Health Organization here in chile where i am are very very keen to see how the virus will react in the summer in the heat this is the 1st time that the virus has arrived in a country where its not cold or cool right now its 34 degrees here so that is going to be something that Health Officials will be monitoring very very closely another thing that people are warning about is not to his people this is a part of the world where everybody says hello not just by shaking hands but by kissing on one or both cheeks so people all over latin america are being warned to stop that practice as soon as possible possible rather because that will help to spread the virus people are already going to have to start living in a very different way even before this virus reaches the rest of the last in the. Lucio how prepared is it brazil and indeed the continent for corona virus to spread. Well that is a very very good question here in chile for example 26 people were quarantined yesterday according to the Health Minister as a quote from a cautionary measure these people had arrived from europe and from china theyre being kept at home and they must stay there for the next 14 days so there is really a sense that it is just going to it will start to arrive here very very quickly and in general latin american countries are not well prepared their whole systems their Public Health systems are underfunded understaffed and i know barely able to cope with general epidemics of the flu for example so theres a lot of concern here in chile for example passengers arriving now as of friday will have in the country as of friday will have to sign a sworn affidavit where they list the countries that theyve been going to but whats going to happen to the people here if and when this epidemic or rather this possible pandemic begins to spread that is the key question and Health Authorities are not giving very many answers that are going to keep people that are going to allow people to feel secure thats not an american thank you well as we just said the virus is spreading in europe geminis Health Minister says this country is at the beginning of an epidemic 18 cases have been confirmed but it is only remains the worst affected on the continent is in milan and has more on the containment efforts there. Its been expected that we would be hearing about more cases because there are more proactive measures being taken here to try to test people to try to diagnose cases of corona virus were also told by the Civil Protection agency that now the death toll is 12 in the 12 victim was in the lumbar the region hes a man of the age of 69 and that he had an Underlying Health condition most of the victims have been aged have been over the age of 60 and many of them in their eightys with fragile Health Conditions that have contributed to it to the fact that they got the coronavirus and died from it now one of the thing to mention that weve also been told that the army has now gone to those checkpoints those areas outside the red zones that are located in Lombardy Region and also invented to a region to try to ensure that people are not coming out of those quarantine towns while cars are not permitted to go in and out unless they have special permission to do so there have been residents who have been able to walk in and out of those town centers and the army now is involved to try and ensure that those containment measures are fully in effect and has not led and paris has and has more on the United States reported in france. Well we are learning more details from french Health Authorities and officials about this french citizen the 1st French National to die in france of the coronavirus there has already been one death in france before this it was a chinese tourist earlier this year now what french Health Officials say is that this was a 60 year old man he started having flu like symptoms 2 weeks ago he was feeling very sick but his health deteriorated in the last few days he was rushed to hospital in paris new died overnight to say to wednesday night he came from a region called walls which is north of paris he was a teacher and of course you can imagine that has raised a lot of concerned with others at his school with children parents other teachers as to whether or not he may have contaminated any people he came into contact with the only thing that might give some people a sense of hope is that he became sick just before the school broke up for its 2 week winter break so its thought that perhaps he didnt have as much contact as he might have had if this had happened during the term now of course the investigators are checking everybody that he might of had some contact with within the period that he was actually working iran has blamed the United States for spreading misinformation about the virus the government says the situation is under control that they said 99. 00 people have died and 130. 00 are infected including the deputy Health Minister the same years interrupt. During a weekly Cabinet Meeting iranian president Hassan Rouhani struck an optimistic tone saying that the reports about containing the coronavirus in iran are promising a taskforce set up earlier this week by the president including senior members of the government and armed forces he said are making gains in controlling the spread of the disease something that has become a major Public Health crisis here in the country he also addressed public concerns about whether or not the information coming from officials could actually be trusted this after a member of parliament representing the city of home where the 1st case was detected said the number of cases and deaths from this virus are far higher than official figures reported by the government heres what the president had to say about that and i dont mean. I emphasize that we dont manipulate the figures we know the increase no decrease them nor do we exaggerate or downplayed him ive told the Health Ministry to announce any figures they have this is a plot we see today in foreign propaganda recently a high ranking u. S. Official made a comment about coronavirus in iran that themselves are dealing with the flu 16000 died because of that the cea but they dont talk about it and now they are turning their attention to corona virus in iran earlier this week president Hassan Rouhani also said that the situation in the country could begin to normalize as early as saturday just a matter of days now but during a briefing by the spokesman for the countrys Health Ministry he said that government officials are expecting the number of coronavirus cases in iran to go up in coming days but other news now in indias capital remains on the edge 3 days of rioting killed 20 people there is a heavy security presence on the streets of northing stanley thats falling violent clashes over a new citizenship law that excludes muslims of the 200 people have been injured buildings were set alight and mosques were ransacked in the west writing that decades of this there is tiny but they isnt daddy he says the citizenship law is becoming an increasingly divisive issue. The major violent scenes are stopped at least for now and now theyre assessing the damage as you can see quite extensive in this part but also the human cost the death casualty figures are going up by the hour almost and Something Like 250 people have been injured and killed and now theres a mop up operation that has been a piece really because of women who were decided to stop their protest in jeffery bad at a station. After intense provocation by hindu nationalists now that violence is spin some of the worst that delhi has seen in decades and the casualties show that so theres a big deep rooted problem that has now overshadow what this whole matter was about this was about civil rights over the citizens Amendment Act but its being come in northeast delhi something about religion between muslims and hindus and thats not how it was this whole protest Movement Began because of across the board all religious denominations all minorities protesting about this new law which they say was racist now the problem is now this is being used as a kind of victory now by some of the hindu nationalists they said they wanted these women to be moved they were moved and now it sets a dangerous precedent what will happen in future if theres another protest will they do the same thing violence seems to work now weve had nothing from the Prime Minister mr modi until today 3 days arthur this whole thing started and he calling for calm hes calling for peace and harmony with be no peace and harmony here quite the reverse the problem is how can they rebuild now from this how can they regain the trust if you look at this damage its superficial compared to the deep rooted scars weve spoken spoken to people whove lost their loved ones hindus and muslims they have suffered their ones have been killed we dont know exactly who was responsible for the killings most of the people seem to be killed by gunshot wounds but some are. Also whove been stoned and beaten to the point where their injuries me meant they died so we dont know what the situation is the needs to be an inquiry human rights activists are calling for the government to actually take deeper stronger measures to find the root causes of this and find the people who were responsible and bring them to justice that we may be one of the 1st steps needed to bring these communities together again the delhi police have been criticised for its role in the handling of the violence critics say thats because the force is not accountable to the Delhi Government the Central Government controls the police force in delhi the local government has no power of the law and order the political divide in delhi is also adding to the tensions at the moment modis b j p is the party in power and the National Government the a. P. O. Common man party runs the local government in delhi the 2 parties have clashed in the past of the control of the Delhi Police Said on sari is a political analyst based in new delhi he says the signs of an escalation were there from the beginning and violence could have been prevented. The signs were there since for ages and from a 3 speeches there was a build up in there and up to the elections and then thereafter some very end from a tree anti muslim speeches given by none other than members some members of the ruling party chant the party and precious little was done to come up this had the had the Union Government acted in time this could have been prevented the Union Government for reasons best known to intent to themselves chose to look the other way why parts of delhi were burning and people were and to to come in we were going hammer and tongs at each other its only after the courts intervened on the 3rd day did did that they did this to Union Government to act and send the National Security adviser and send a very quick number of paramilitary to try and take control of the situation had this been done earlier had those who were making and film made 3 speeches held accountable perhaps this day would not have come to pass. Still ahead on aljazeera record breaking floods in indonesias capital residents are blaming the government. And well tell you why hong kongs government is giving people a cash handouts. However long last we have dry weather pushing across the middle east is not all good news there was a scary cloud out of the way some places afraid sleet and snow on that as it pushes over towards the east the system here that we have just extending down across the gulf into southern parts of saudi arabia pulls out of the way and we have a white cane small wind blowing through some problems with lifted dust and sanjay to see the strength of that when they in across the region not quite as bad as we go on through friday so fridays should be a much better day although it will be on the cool side 23 degrees celsius here elsewhere there we go theres wintry flurries over towards well in parts of pakistan pushing through afghanistan still a chance of want to win a few flurries there into to northern parts of africa weve had some dusty problems here into parts of west africa as well but for the most part it is dry temperatures and cari picking up to around 24 celsius to 20 the 4 rep batson somebody says we go on into friday maybe a touch warmer in the process the show is there into the heart of africa just around the ethiopian highlands into the rift valley lots of clouds showing up here still rather wet there into parts of angola wish i was becoming a little more widespread for a good part off south africa. Migrants in uniform volunteering their labor to appease locals and combat anti migrant sentiment. People in power travels to the north of italy where a bold experiment is underway. With an unconventional approach to integration. Italys migrant boot camp on a. With. The the if. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour for the 1st time since the corona Virus Outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within 37 countries have reported new cases. The virus has spread to south america with one confirmed case in sao paulo brazil in europe new cases are reported in france and greece and italy is the worst affected. Indian Prime Minister the renderer modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence and downing these 22. 00 People Killed during protests against a contentious citizenship the. Turkish president says his forces are preparing to Push Back Russian backed syrian troops and if the province you know has nations estimates nearly 950000 people have been displaced this since the beginning of december shelob ellis reports. Syrian troops on the move it live province is the holdout the one place president Bashar Al Assad is yet to claim that village by village its coming within reach. Of. Our current on towards more villages of months we are still in action stores are in spite of the turkish support to our enemies using foreign arms and ammunition these russian backed Syrian Government soldiers are fighting Turkish Backed rebels now turkey is facing a challenge with its observation posts in the province around it and president richard type one has ordered his troops to push back. Russia does not want to accept humanitarian sensitivity the time that we gave to those who was seized or observation posts is ending we are preparing plans to liberate our observation posts from the surrounding forces by the end of february 1 way or another. He also warns that turkey will attack Government Forces anywhere in syria if another turkish soldiers injured 16 have been killed in syria this month his speech came as a russian delegation arrived in turkey to discuss the crisis and it lived although president Vladimir Putin has ruled out a summit with the turkish german and french leaders the fight for control of the province has forced nearly a 1000000 people from their homes since early december the u. N. Says more than half of the people now living in places like this a children. We left our area about 20 days ago we left under airstrikes with only the clothes on our backs we were left out in the open and spent some time under trees we went towards the city of albab but we didnt find any place to live and no one who had let us stay on their land. In the 9 years since the war began many people have fled frontlines for the relative safety of it lib now the front line has come to them theyre increasingly. Squeezed against the border with turkey the Syrian Forces inch food shelling residential areas one has intervened worried about another potential refugee crisis. Were not going to take even a little step back in the ad lib we will push the Syrian Regime forces out of the areas that weve designated and let people return back to their houses but for now thats not an option at least 26. 00 people including schoolchildren were killed and more than 100. 00 injured this week one home its risky group says 8 schools and kinda gazans were deliberately targeted with cluster bombs Syrian Forces have captured dozens of towns and villages and any pushback by turkey may leave residents in the crossfire shelob ellice aljazeera. A state funeral has been held in cairo egypts former leader Hosni Mubarak he died on tuesday at the age of 91 mubarak was in power for 3 decades until he was forced out during the 20 levon revolution his coffin was carried on a horse drawn carriage and draped in the egyptian flag ceremony largely focused on mubaraks military career with no reference to the economic hardships and repression that were a feature of his time in power talks to salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement have made little progress at a meeting in austria delegates from the European Union china and russia sat down with iranian officials the 1st meeting since an official dispute process was launched of the violations by iran tehran began breaking its commitments after the us pulled out of the deal and 2018 had reinstated crippling sanctions a mccain was there and has this update. This meeting was about trying to bring the countries who are still officially party to the supreme and together to see walked agree of cooperation might that there might be what degree of consensus could be formed clearly from the iranian perspective they want this agreement to carry on where possible but equally they are determined to carry on with the course of action that theyve been following in recent times this is what the iranian Deputy Foreign minister had to say we know that europeans are trying. We know that there are. Willingness but the lack of ability is obvious but we appreciate that trying their best today they want to gain just reaffirm their commitment to distil they want to save this still the Chinese Government believed that it was pretty clear where blame could be apportioned in so far as the intransigents that is being displayed by certain countries in this agreement and indeed the one country thats no longer in this agreement the United States this is what the chinese representative had to say after leaving the meeting that we are supposed to do is to work hard to find a solution so what solution we are exploring is exactly as step by step specif it before you act on the basis of reciprocity all of which means theres been no obvious breakthrough or progress but then to a certain extent that was not likely at a meeting at which many of the main ministerial players were not present because their capitals its in those capitals where there has to be some degree of movement and so far at least from this meeting there has been. Severe flooding in the indonesian capital is causing misery for thousands of families whose homes have been an undated its been a record breaking monsoons. And across the country with more heavy rain still to come they were blaming the City Government for the damage and not doing enough to protect them jessica washington is in jakarta. After the rain this is a sense of quiet resignation to Work Together to clean up the streets the floodwater is a frequent unwelcome presence in their homes these family members are wearing clothes borrowed from relatives the television isnt working theyve burned a Church Destroyed and the bedding and clothes are ruined. We are traumatized it has happened so many times just this month things a ruined the water came in so fast we didnt have time to save them. You cant as local government is being criticized over how his administration has handled this years floods advisors to the National Government say there was a lack of preparation. The judge young what has happened in the january floods was such massive destruction we have Early Warning systems to plan ahead for example they should have dedicated land for people to leave because so few of vehicles could have been damaged lawyer as us. Is leading a class action on behalf of those affected by floods in january when 66 people were killed in flash flooding he says more people may join the class action as the floods continue the way. There is no Early Warning system we have the rainy season all the time there should be more preparation but nothing has changed. Governor and he specified in says the city is adequately prepared for the rainy season and has been monitoring and clearing got his own homes and buildings as a precaution but many say thats not enough this is now a familiar routine for people here self evacuating and then coming back to assess the damage and at least try to clean up this area has been flooded at least 5 times this month and theres more extreme weather coming hundreds have sought shelter at a local mosque after torrential rain some have begun to return home but it wont be long before they may need to leave again more heavy rain and storms are forecast until the beginning of next month just to washington aljazeera jakarta. Malaysias interim Prime MinisterMahathir Mohamad says hell return as later if he has enough support in parliament todays ago he resigned suddenly and his party quit the governing coalition here now says he wants to form a new unity government which she says it would not be aligned with any specific party but his former Coalition Partner abraham says 3 parties have nominated him as Prime Minister on our supporters have been protesting outside the palace where the king is holding talks for so he is in the city of yangon and meanwhile she says neither nor here have enough support. Anwar ibrahim has said you know hes got the support of his coalition but theyre now down to 3 parties instead of there about 11 politicians from his party why the sacked or resign means hes down by about 3 dozen politicians so its not clear whether or not the support you have the majority in on him to actually be nominated as the next Prime Minister and then lets take a look at what mahathir has said so hes saying that if hes got enough support him on the bench he will stay on as the Prime Minister while his position is a bit shaken down that it was 24 hours ago when he proposed in that we report emerged about he was proposing to lead a unity government then the Main Opposition Party known as you know this is a party that had planned over the weekend to true to form an alliance that was going to take over politics theyve known come out to say that theyre not going to support a unity government so if mahathir is going to propose a unity government and himself as Prime Minister he may not have the support of so its also not clear whether north he has the numbers to do that but the main grouse and the main fear of Civil Society organizations and activists is if a coalition is to be formed and if this is a way that opposition politicians think they can return to government having been voted out in the last election 2 years ago then there will be more political upheaval in the major. Hong kongs government has unveiled its largest relief fund and over a decade to meet the demands of the government protest is permanent residents over 18 years of age will be given cash handouts salary increases and rent rebates the government hopes it will increase consumption the new budget will leave a deficit of 50000000000. 00 hong kongs economy has been battered by the months of protests and now further hit by the corona Virus Outbreak sara clock is in hong kong with more on whats in the budget. Its a 15000000000. 00 relief deal its cutting taxes cutting rights and a number of one off payment some every adult permanent resident above the age of 18. 00 in hong kong will get a one off 1002 100. 00 payment with 100000000. 00 which is also being assigned to the Tourism Industry and the government also said it would provide full guarantees on loans taken out by individuals and companies to simply pay the wages and taxes but the Government Spending has outstripped revenue its a 2nd budget deficit now in a row after 15 surpluses that some critics have suggested that this one off payment to every single permanent resident in hong kong is potentially unnecessary and should potentially be more targeted towards those who are living in poverty and certainly the older generation but when it comes to whether or not the people have welcomed this or not both sides of politics have welcomed this relief package theres been calls for some time now to extend the relief to a larger group of the population here in hong kong and as we mentioned weve got the corona virus which has been hitting hong kong hard as well as the usual slow months of protests in hong kong so certainly at the moment as thailand mentioned she said extraordinary times there require extraordinary measures and the hope at least by push hong kong out of the slump the economic slump thats found itself in. For years they fought against each other for political power and now some of the south sudans ethnic groups are flexing their muscles for sporting glory. With the. Wrestling contest of drawing huge crowds in the worlds youngest nation bringing together a divided people after 5 years of civil war some athletes cover themselves and asked to bring luck they say the friendly competition as a display of peace between ethnic groups. This is al jazeera and these are the top stories for the 1st time since the corona Virus Outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the now but within 37 countries have reported new cases. The virus has now spread to south america with one confirmed case in sao paulo brazil and europe new cases are reported in france and greece but it surely is the worst affected latin america editor lucien human has more from santiago this is the 1st time that the virus has arrived in a country where its not cold or cool right now its 34 degrees here so that is going to be something that Health Officials will be monitoring very very closely another thing that people are warning about is not to his people this is a part of the world where everybody says hello not just by shaking hands but by kissing on one or both cheeks indias capital remains on edge after 3 days of rioting killed more than 20 people there is heavy security presence on the streets of northeast delhi following violent clashes over a new citizenship law that excludes muslims buildings with specialized in mosques ransacks in the worst rioting for decades turkish president. Says his forces are preparing to push back syrian troops in the province the United Nations says nearly 1000000 people have been displaced this since the beginning of december dozens have been killed in just the last 24 hours a state funeral for former egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak has been held in cairo he died on tuesday at the age of 91. 00 barak was in power for 3 decades until he was forced out during that 2011 revolution on calls government is giving permanent residents 1200. 00 u. S. Dollars each part of a 120000000000. 00 relief package to boost the economy after months of antigovernment protests several neighborhoods in indonesias capital jakarta are under water after a months worth of rain fell in this in 24 hours there was similar scenes less than 2 months ago when flooding killed 60 people well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after inside story. Tensions running high in india are the Prime Minister on the renderer modis controversial citizenship goal violence between hindus and muslims has left many dead can the Indian Government keep control of the situation and what it consider withdrawing the act this is inside story. Welcome to the program im adrian said again thousands of indians have been protesting for months now against a controversial law that they say discriminates against muslims but the tension around the citizenship and then been tacked has taken a dangerous to the capital new delhi has seen days of violence between the communities