Opposition leader reach a deal to form a unity government. Hello welcome to the news hour south korea has raised the alert level for the southeastern city of daegu after the countrys 1st death and an increase in corona virus cases medics have confirmed 156 infections there or thought he say dozens of them are linked to one church in daegu the Prime Minister says special measures will be taken to stop the virus from spreading china reported 118. 00 more deaths on thursday and confirmed more than 800 new infections which is more than double the number reported the day before 2 australians evacuated from a cruise ship that had been to quarantine in japan have tested positive for corona virus after returning home and now theyre being isolated as crossover to katrina your correspondent in beijing and katrina those hopes that things were on the mend have really just been dashed in the past few hours. Why especially in south korea were seeing that there was a case of more than 50 cases announ
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
A controversial citizenship law in india. Thousands of people turned out to welcome the return of come on rooms Opposition Leader. And we take a look at 2 very personal films about how politics of an impact in far flung parts of the world. Welcome to the program the United States and south korea have indefinitely postponed joint military drills as a result of the corona Virus Outbreak Health Officials in south korea have also released new numbers of cases there pushing the total number of people infected to almost 1600 well in the middle east saudi arabia has announced its temporary holding visas for both the pilgrimage i am for people coming in from affected countries iraq has closed schools universities and banned public gatherings as well as flights from several countries qatar has over the evacuation of the. Tare and kuwaiti citizens from iran to the spread of infections there meanwhile in the u. S. President trump has appointed Vice President mike pence to lead the response agains
A border town struggling to survive amid a dispute between rwanda and uganda. Hello south korea has raised the alert level for the southeastern city of daegu thats after the countrys 1st death and an increase in coronavirus cases so medics have confirmed 156. 00 infections or 30 say dozens of them are linked to one church in daegu and the Prime Minister says special measures will be taken to stop the virus from spreading meanwhile china reported 118. 00 more deaths on thursday and confirmed more than 800 new infections which is more than double the number reported the day before theres also been an increase in the number of infections reported outside the outbreaks epicenter province and 2 australians evacuated from this cruise ship that had been under quarantine in japan have now tested positive for corona virus after returning home or theyre being isolated so lets get an update from katrina you joining us from beijing and we begin with the ongoing concern katrina of the rising number
Residence of a border town struggling to survive in many dispute between rwanda and uganda. The locals have opened for irans National Parliamentary elections turnout is expected to be low particularly among reformist voters after a senior clerical body barred thousands of candidates from running and that includes dozens of members of the Outgoing Parliament the u. S. Has opposed new sanctions on members of the Guardian Council accusing them of rigging the vote its only have 2 correspondents covering the elections in iran in a moment well speak to Bernard Smith whos an odd and central iran but 1st lets bring in dorset your bari joining us from tehran so tell us more about the big issues today and what people in iran are at least since a wrong are most concerned about. Ringback. Well one of the main issues here as is across the country is that of the current Economic Situation inside iran and many of the people that are disillusioned with the government and their policies as a result of