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 announced in the last 24 hours the government there as you mentioned has declared an emergency situation saying theyre going to come down with strong and swift measures to address this now in south korea most of the cases seem to center around this particular church in the city of daegu this Church Called sin joined church with this one woman who seems to be the source of most of the cases there she attends this church and this church at its Worship Service has about a 1000 people attending and we know that most of the cases in south korea have been linked to that Church Service theyve come from the city of daegu and brought those cases into other areas in south korea bringing the total to now more than 150. 00 the government there is declared the city of daegu which is the 4th largest city as a special care zone along with the city hall and theyve also banned any large scale gatherings in seoul and then theyre also shutting down any other branches of this church in south korea to to her to try to stem the spread indeed of course was cruelty begins to worry the worry continues close to where you are enjoying or of course the situation there really doesnt seem to be easing it anyway regardless of the fact that these figures. Go upand daily basis theres still no real handle on where we are with the virus or whether its actually to control it all. Thats right so we have had more than 800. 00 cases announced in the last 24 hours and more than 100. 00 deaths. The government seems to be pushing the positive news is that theres been more than 2000 people cured in the last 24 hours and the number of cured people seems to least be on a trend of surpassing the number of new cases but the fate tell us the rate seems quite sudden weve had more than 100 deaths today more than a 100 deaths were announced in the previous day as well and also what has been alarming is that we seemed to have seen a new spike in cases outside of a province now this quite a seems to more more or less said in who bay of course most of those deaths the vast majority are taking place in who are a province most abused those new cases already a province but in the last 24 hours we have seen a jump in cases outside of of a province the number of about 250 cases outside of who been thats a big jump from 40 the previous day and maybe thats not so unexpected as we see people slowly leave their homes leave their hometowns go back into major cities go back to work this is something the government have been afraid of but it does sort of fly in the face of this the government message that the numbers are stabilizing and that its safe to go out i think if you do look at the many of the big cities its far from business as usual people are still staying indoors people are still extremely cautious and quite afraid of catching this virus and of course the World Health Organization has said that this is no time to be complacent indeed wolf its in developments with you through the day its going to use force in beijing and of course iraq has also closed its border with iran and stopped flights after 2 people died of the virus. Has also suspended flights of ward of serious loss due to the coronavirus european alone group. It could wipe up to 215000000. 00 from its earnings by april in australias quantas is estimating a 100000000. 00 loss this financial year. Saudi arabia says its intercepted and destroyed several Ballistic Missiles fired from yemens capital sanaa towards what it says were cities and civilians now the kingdom is blaming the rebels who are backed by iran they havent responded to those allegations lets cross over to mohammed ali taboos our correspondent in the sun i mean what more do we know about this statement and about this incident. Yes there is no confirmation by the whole thing that we have launched such as on saudi arabia. We have to wait until the confirm an officially but according to these sources from the saudi arabia. Already intercepted a number of missiles that the saudi arabias news agency has claimed that they have been launched by the whole fees. From sun are the this is one of the indications that some observateur say this could lead to the saudi arabias resumption of its attacks on the capital sanaa as they have claimed in this report that the most of them others have been launched from the capital sanaa. Also the according to some of the reports that have been circulated on also be that the videos that have been shared by bruce users of social media that have showed the number of missiles have reached saudi arabias cities including. Oil station also see poor written including the. Refinery. Some other videos showed that some attacks were reached also the saudi saudis are part of did but we couldnt verify such a video. Are real real ones or that have been fabricated all Something Else we should also wait as the saudi arabias authorities claim that they have already intercepted such attacks in case such attacks have had their targets it could be the 2nd major success for the whole fees as this port and seaport is exporting at least 3000000 barrels of oil a day of course for updates of course well come back to you through the day as we get more confirmation or lot from either side by madonna to other correspondent in sunny thank you. Trump says as a long time i was just. A very good chance all of exhilaration not to he was sentenced to 40 months in prison so it was convicted of lying to coalesce witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into possible rushing to ferentz and the 2016 president ial elections chandran has more from washington d. C. Smiling in confident roger stone looks almost triumphant as he walks out of a federal courthouse despite taunts of lock him up from the crowd was the perhaps for good reason he sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison but as President Donald Trump hints he might not serve any of it because roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion thats a reference to stones request for a new trial based on alleged jury bias the president himself pleaded stones case in los vegas to a friendly audience of rehabilitated prisoners its my strong opinion that. The foreman of the jury the woman who is in charge of the jury is totally tainted when you take a look at how can you have a person like this more tantalizing is the president hint that he might pardon his long time friend and fix or a man so loyal to his previous boss president Richard Nixon that he still bears a tad too with nixons image on it. Going to watch the process of going to watch it very closely and at some point ill make a determination but roger stone and everybody has to be treated fairly and this has not been a fair process the sentencing phase of the case began with department of justice prosecutors saying guidelines called for a 7 to 9 years sentence then President Trump tweeted that was a miscarriage of justice attorney general william barr personally intervened to reduce the sentence recommendation but later complained the president tweets were making his job impossible in the end the judge handed down a sentence that was less than half of the original prosecutors recommendation it was anything but a standard trial the judge and others call the intervention by the president and attorney general william barr unprecedented it is a genuine threat to the credibility of the Justice Department particularly want to come to these sorts of politically sensitive charges that touch on people close to the president this isnt the 1st time weve seen attorney general barr do something that raises a lot of eyebrows around cases the president cares about the question now is will President Trump a conservative who has liberally used his pardoning power extend that power to him and the judge found guilty for covering up the president s own misdeeds john hendren al jazeera Washington Well earlier i spoke to. The netflix film. He explained decades long connection with the u. S. President. He was actually the very 1st person to suggest to donald trump to run for the presidency back in 1907 and he spent the next almost 330 years working to bring that kind of far out fantasy of his to reality and over the years people disparaged roger saying it was never going to happen and roger ultimately got the last laugh will there may not be a warning if the prez then either commutes roger sentence or pardons him he will be completely vindicated for his bad if not outright illegal behavior and so this is a very dangerous precedent for the United States that we will be sending a message that you can engage in crimes very serious crimes and perhaps the president will let you go if you were a friend or an accomplice of the president he absolutely did bring this upon himself one of rogers. Perhaps as a killies heel is that he goes too far and that he thames feed and in this case he very unwisely lied to congress in a situation where he didnt need to but he thought that he was doing so in order to protect the president for any type of accusations that the president had colluded with the russians or worked together with wiki leaks to undermine the clinton campaign. Well plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including a fresh push by Turkish Backed forces in the battle for syrias a glib province but the human cost continues to mount plus troubling times from 10000 years bondholders looks to restructure a 100000000000. 00 debt onto our small clubs in spain believe being made victims of the big spenders following barcelonas latest signing. The u. S. Has impose new sanctions on members of a Senior Iranian cleric all body accusing them of rigging of fridays parliamentary elections the Guardian Council has barred thousands of candidates from running and treating dozens of members of the Outgoing Parliament has left many voters disillusioned as are reports from to iran. Who to vote for among the sea of candidates whether to vote at all this seems to be the choice of nearly 58000000. 00 eligible voters face and the political establishment is urging the iranians to come back and cast their ballots supreme leaders televised speech telling people its their religious duty to vote was despite the disqualification of many of his reformist allies president Hassan Rouhani has echoed a similar message mabo yeah we can defeat the us with our solidarity and power high turnout on election day will make the u. S. Angry and upset low turnout would make them happy but with fears that turnout will be lower than usual other words enough to convince iranians pictures. Yes certainly i have a lot i believe vote for someone who i know and have done some research to see if theyre an accountable person or not to society or some problems which must be fixed. As a reunion you a religious duty is recommend us to participate and make appropriate decisions about our country we can choose a representative who can reflect the people in the parliament. In a cafe in north to herat they see little point in taking part. Im not putting what is the point and each other. Because of everything is hard work has grown up a car costs more how do we get by no one is our descendants issues. The iranian economy has struggled under u. S. Sanctions since donald trump pulled out the nuclear deal in 2018. Inflation for last year was nearly 40 percent. So there certainly are many dont have enough money to buy fresh fruit they just buy damaged stale fruits some even steal the purchasing power has dropped. Just in the last 2 weeks the price of meat has increased some people just end up eating less meat because they cant afford it with. These concerns seem to have been reflected in the candidates campaigns despite talk of the threat posed by the u. S. The sanctions and potential conflict its the bread and butter issues that seem to be of major concern to voters here the state of the economy the rising cost of living and delivering meaningful change regardless of which political faction wins a majority of seats they will have to address the economic concerns of the people but with limited options at their disposal. Al jazeera to her own. Little world is obvious in the rainy american journalist and joins me now from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program in your opinion and with the people that youre speaking to in iran how disillusioned is the electorate in 2020. Well as it was mentioned in europe or does part of the population. Like most places in the world cares 1st and foremost about the economy deceit of the economy also corruption corruption has been mainly in this election and many of the disqualifications also were done in the name of the excuse of corruption cases. But they can as well whats important to know about this election is that its going to be one of the lease if not the most the least competitive election in the republican history basically the hardline camp or the conservatives try to eliminate as many as there are moderate rivals the reform is candidates as possible in the disqualification by the Guardian Council and were left with a very limited number of of formosa and moderate candidates to the point that the major reform is parties where even contemplating not participating actively meaning announcing a list so thats going to be one of the main issues and also the fact that part of the population the urban middle class specifically is boycotting the election and not willing to participate and of course you know the election comes at an interesting time when its been touched upon and thats reported you just mentioned it now with a stock that would both within iran and from outside of it depending on where you war and how youre looking at the country the election comes thats an interesting story about. The current government in tehran has to be seen to be conducting an election that is inclusive of every wall rather than exclusive and one that is legitimate in the eyes of the International Community as well directly. Indeed so the d government basically the hardliners are dealing with the entire system basically is dealing with multiple crisis recent crisis on the hill of this election there were the november protests that were met with a very brutal crackdown hundreds of people have been reported to be killed by Security Forces just a few months before the election then there was the assassination of general soleimani by the us that has really polarized the society part of it thats Anti Government and part of it thats pro regime or pro hardliners there is very very strong antiamerican sentiment among the core support of the hardline part of the political system and then theres also the downing of the ukrainian civilian plane 176 People Killed which really crushed basically the urban middle class or the main base for the reformists and moderate camps and then on top of that came the disqualifications as i said so theyre going into the election with multiple crises on their hands and the hardliners have tried to eliminate their rivals in the election but at the same time we have to remember that parliamentary elections are also very low call besides the major cities like to iran the capital and some other cities and smaller areas people vote for very low call. Demands and reasons for participation is not expected to be as low as basically creating a legitimacy crisis for the government but the message coming from the urban middle class specially from the capital the Political Capital tehran is that the population is very. Disappointed with the government it will be interesting to see how this election pans out what the results will come back to you for more analysis of the god which is obvious thanks for joining us from washington d. C. Thanks for having me. Germanys president has called on his fellow citizens to stop using ostracizing and vilifying language. Saying it paves the way for violence though he was speaking at wall of several vigils held in honor of the 9 People Killed in a shooting attack in the city or her but when it came reports. On a cold day in february the german head of state expresses his sympathies in caps relating in the simple act the feelings of many his people for those who died here. This is where a 43 year old german used to legally owned a gun to target turks and kurds he repeated his attack at this other venue where those 2 ethnic groups congregate when his killing spree there was complete he returned home and murdered his mother before shooting himself federal prosecutors are working on the basis he was a far right supporter see. That sign the goal of the investigation will be to find out whether there are or were accessories all supporters for these attacks and. We will clarify the contacts and environment of the suspected perpetrator in the country but also potential contacts overseas hit us up clear them. Some of the survivors have described their ordeal or. The man entered to decide and then more he came to our site he shot straight to the head of everyone he saw he laid down and then he fired at all of us i had to behind the wall as i was moving to hide he shot me in the arm laden somebody somebody laid on me and somebody else laid on him we became a pile. The sense of shock in this community is pretty clear already floral tributes of begun to be laid outside one of the venues where so many people were shot dead on wednesday night.