Chinas lifting some of the restrictions on people at the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic a short time ago government officials announced that Healthy People in the city of who han in a province will now be allowed to leave for the authorities are calling crucial operations only earlier for chinese provinces lowered their Emergency Response level to the outbreak the government has a 4 tier response system for Public Health emergencies that determines what measures it will take about 78000 people in china remain infected however south korea is still on high alert its Just Announced 161 new cases brings the total number of infected people to 763 the number of dead from the virus in south korea well that stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday in a few moments rob mcbride will be live for us in seoul 1st lets go to katrina you our correspondent in beijing katrina you and i were discussing just a few days back about a slightly heavy handed approach on the part of the chinese
We begin with breaking news out of malaysia where the Prime Minister monitor mohamed has offered his resignation to the king and his Political Party has quit the Ruling Alliance doubt this decision shocks malaysia and it comes in the midst of plans by a high chair supporters to team up with opposition parties to force the transition of power to his name successor Anwar Abraham lets go live to Florence Louis and kuala lumpur so im florence what have you been able to learn is this as i said news has come out. Well we learnt that Mahathir Mohamad submitted his letter of resignation to the king of malaysia as about 1 pm local time this afternoon now its not yet known whether the king has accepted the resignation but according to constitutional experts because the kings role is largely a ceremonial role he will have to then what happens next is also a little bit unclear the king has to appoint someone who commands the majority or confidence of parliament so then it becomes a numbers game bu
Mahathir had indeed tended allows letter of resignation to the king well there was no reason given for the resignation but weve since heard in the last couple of minutes the finance minister coming out and saying that mahathir attended his resignation because he did not want. You to not want the party to have to work with im not now im you know 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 a 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 now were not sure whether the king has accepted the Resignation Letter from my heart that mohamed but many constitutional experts say the king because his role is largely ceremonial he has no choice but to accept th
Voters. Political upheaval in malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his allies resign from the coalition government. And install one of the most controversial players in golf silass his critics patrick reed blocks out cheating claims to win the world Golf Championship in mexico move him up to 8 in the ranks. But we start this news hour with the growing impacts of the corona virus i break Chinese State television is reporting that the National Peoples congress will be perspire ones because over the epidemic it will be one of the 1st times in modern chinese history the annual session of parliament has been spawned that was choose to starts on march the. 5th but its still unclear at this stage when it will no go ahead meanwhile the death toll around the world continues to rise in iran the Health Ministry says 12 people have no dieters the bric spreads across the middle east kuwait bahrain and afghanistan have all confirmed cases where over in europe a 4th person has died in italys
And Sexual Assault in a case that sparks the global need to movement. Im Barbara Starr in london with the top stories from europe including crowds gather outside a high Security Court in london as we keep leaks founder Julian Assange begins his fight against extradition to the u. S. And its 4 mourners are gathering in los angeles for a service to remember the life of basketball great car b. Bronze the other like his legend was killed alongside his daughter jonah and 7 of us in a Helicopter Crash last month. The World Health Organization is sending a medical team to iraq where the coronavirus emergency is growing Irans Health Ministry says 12 people have died of the disease and deny that the total is closer to 50 afghanistan bahrain kuwait oman and iran. Are all reporting infections of travels from iran to more people have died in northern italy raising the total there to 6 almost 200. 00 cases are reported in italy the highest concentration outside of asia stock market indexes plundere