So iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronaVirus Outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey theyve all closed their borders with iran which has had the largest number of fatalities outside of challenge china the latest death toll standing at 8 in china president xi jinping meanwhile has admitted there were shortcomings in the countrys response he is describing corona virus as the largest Public Health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 italy as well 50000 people in northern israeli have been quarantined 132 people have been infected there and to have died while in south korea the president has called for quote unprecedented powerful measures its the highest health level alert there to control the outbreak that is where we will begin our coverage this hour. Robin wright has been. The worst affected areas in southeast korea the city of daegu and neighboring chango county remain at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases reported so far one of them at this hospital quickly spread infecting more than 100 patients and staff wards are being prepared to treat the increase of new coronavirus patients raising the alert to the highest level came at an emergency meeting chaired by president moon j. In this weekend the number of new cases has risen alarmingly by the hundreds and he stressed that the next few days will be critical in stemming the outbreak. The situation has become completely different since the outbreak of mess and fiction extra resources will be directed into trying to stop the spread of the corona virus the urged everyone to avoid massive events well you know you want to. We have vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have a mess meeting in an enclosed indoor place in terms of the spread of contagious disease everyone to restrain themselves from group of interactivity not on the indoor places but also outdoor places. Sunday across south korea Church Leaders were asked not to hold services yeah. Its sad that we cant hold a Church Service but were following government policy and we dont want any further spread of the disease in the affected areas most people have heeded warnings to stay indoors as they wait to see if the emergency measures work the south korean government is hoping its latest measures will help limit the clusters of infection to this part of the country knowing the price of failure could mean the kind of travel restrictions imposed on china with the damage that would cause to its economy rob mcbride aljazeera chando county south korea. Another note on south korea it has launched a complaint with israel after a plane load of South Koreans were refused entry 12 israeli passengers were allowed to get off the Korean Airlines flight when it arrived in tel aviv but 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now bombing the south korean and japanese businesses a move that follows the discovery of corona virus among a group of soft korean tourists who visited israel last week. As weve mentioned iran has the largest number of deaths from the virus outside of china. For us with more on how authorities are responding. The number is of course significant because they are worried that the containment process is really something that they need to address as quickly as possible the outbreak started in the holy city of rome which is about 220 kilometers south of the capital tehran officials believe that a chinese worker construction worker was the source of the outbreak in that city now they have since closed schools and universities not only about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital all the major events have been canceled including the Government Foreign Ministry briefing that was to be held on monday and we also understand the terror on university dormitories and been evacuated as well the Health Minister has also said that the masks and disinfectants will no longer be sold in pharmacies because the government will be having handing them out in a public metro stations as well as buses across the cities. And its in these Prime Minister says he is ready to use the army to help enforce the corn tina 50000 people in the north for tory gave him the reports. Life inc you dont youre in northern italy is now happening behind closed doors the towns mayor has told the 15000 residents to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus rosica valley is one of the few people venturing out she owns a pharmacy and the man has told her to keep it open to the pole would appoint a man to him were all afraid but were crossing our fingers hoping all right if someone doesnt feel well they should react early because people can be cured if they come to hospital in a desperate situation its much more difficult to cure them 2 people have died of corona virus in northern italy and with dozens infected its europes worst hit country as many experts are saying well probably see many more cases of infection over the next days as people now are more afraid of the virus and will likely ask more for a check by medical staff whereas up to 2 or 3 days ago the virus was perceived as something very far from italy Prime Minister does that picante has announced a ban on people entering or leaving zones designated coronavirus hotspots but hes ruled out suspending the European Union schengen agreement and says the Free Movement of people and goods across italys voters will continue. At the moment there are absolutely no conditions for an initiative of this kind not to mention the devastating impact it would have on our economy and paradoxically i want to reverse the question why would we want to make italy an outcast there are no conditions for it to come to this nor do we want to do it. Could own your is one of a dozen towns in northern italy thats in lockdown italian say theyre frightened and have no idea when life will return to normal Victoria Gate and be aljazeera. Well japan has confirmed the 3rd death of a passenger who was on that cruise ship quarantined for 2 weeks earlier japans Health Minister apologized after another passenger tested positive for corona virus after she was allowed to go home 23. 00 passengers were eventually allowed to disembark without being tested for the virus around 80 percent of the 717. 00 faction cases in japan were on that ship. And the chinese president xi jinping says the situation remains serious and complex than a dozen are debating whether to cancel next months annual parliamentary session to concentrate on fighting the virus this report from agent brom. The National Peoples congress is chinas biggest political event of the year drawing almost 3000. 00 delegates from across china on. Board one of the few occasions when all of chinas leadership is on show but the governments own advice is for people to avoid large public gatherings that means this years n. P. C. Is almost certain to be postponed possibly delaying a key announcement on Economic Growth targets chinas president xi jinping says that getting the economy moving again while containing the spread of the virus remains his priority he has to tell the Chinese People something you can choose total blackness or you can choose a sort of veneer of transparency what we dont know as weve all governments is whats happening behind closed doors over sorts of things and more importantly for transparency what we dont know is that whats coming out in the media is something we can necessarily trust ryan manual is an expert in chinas Public Health system he says the governments initial response to the outbreak in early january was correct it reacted very quickly it found out what the virus was test for the virus and in that period 2 weeks afterwards it reacted appalling. This past week chinese diplomats have been on the offensive defending the expulsion of 3 foreign reporters and brushing aside international skepticism over the constant changes to chinas testing criteria for the virus but that criticism has been very selective says one analyst they show at us and saying that us making the virus worse and is discriminatory against china but when nowadays russia made. Our decision to close the border for all the chinese nationals they cannot say a word its not just the National Peoples congress thats now in doubt so too is a key economic conference known as the bow echo. Forum also held each year in march if the National Peoples congress is cancelled then analysts say theres one thing guaranteed to be missing from the agenda when it does eventually convene a call to hold chinas leaders to account for this crisis adrian brown aljazeera hong kong. Even on to other news and at least 9 people in turkeys eastern van province which borders or iran have died in a magnitude 5. 00 earthquake several people are believed to be trapped under the rubble and dozens are injured on the iranian side as more details now from how tight in southern turkey. The social rescue operation is still underway because were talking about a huge area on the on the border with iran district villages and this is where the authorities are trying to establish the number of buildings that were affected and the possibility of people being trapped under the rubble the governor of bonn said a while ago that there are no reasons to be wary of there are about people trapped under the rubble because most of the rescuers have been managed have managed to go to those areas this explains why they are now talking about the number of 9 People Killed 37 injured 9 of them in Critical Condition and turkey and iran are some of the most seismically active countries because of the active fault lines it is say one of those despise the other is where you get a quakes last month for example in 2 other provinces in the same area and molokai were struck by. A 6. 8 earthquake 41 people were killed and about a 1500 people were injured in 2011 the same area that was hit today so an earthquake that killed more than 500 people the authorities are saying that they are doing their best to try to get to all those who were affected throughout that area on the border with iran in the news ahead. We have now won the battle clause. First in the west more now Bernie Sanders has advanced in the race to become the democratic president ial nominee. And how the 13 year located gulzar is forcing people to come up with some innovative ways to beat the c h. Hello once again the start of forecasts by looking at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia look at the forecasts are monday things looking generally fairly quiet dry across much of japan you know this area of rain developing across the yellow sea and its going to move into the Korean Peninsula certainly for south korea on choose day is going to be very wet indeed some torrential rain further north as could be some snow over Northern Edge of this weather system i think for pyongyang we could see temperatures about 3 or 4 degrees but no great problems there but this is system moves into japan is going to produce some very heavy rain and further north of eventually some snow moving south of us with the threat of a few showers for taiwan hong kong though should be dry with highs of 23. 00 into southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers affecting indonesia but weather conditions a bit quieter than they have been in recent days conditions across much of the philippines obviously winds coming in from the east so eastern side more like to see some heavy showers developing and a similar pictures ahead on through to choose day were looking at some sunshine there in kuala lumpur much as they should be drawn bright with highs of 34. 00 Degrees South asia across more eastern areas weve got some heavy showers far inland as maharashtra. But dry dont torture 34 the high in colombo. Perception is validation only 20 c. We cant see everything but we will lie experiences. And the legacy of previous generations. Of that testimony weve got you know very little. With this documentaries that open your eyes on aljazeera. Top stories this hour on aljazeera iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronaVirus Outbreak pakistan afghanistan and turkey will close their borders with iran it has had the largest number of fatalities outside of china the latest death toll is that. President xi jinping of china has called the corona Virus Outbreak the biggest Public Health emergency in the 70 year long history of communist china she went on to say china should learn from its shortcomings in its response to the outbreak. And at least 9 people have died in turkeys van province in a magnitude 5. 00 earthquake that shook eastern turkey and northwestern iran several people believed to still be trapped under the rubble. Still with iran the countrys announced its lowest voter turnout since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and about 43 percent of people voting in fridays parliamentary elections hard line conservatives assets to dominates they have won all of 10 seats on the final results are still coming in both as they had limited options thousands of moderate and reformist candidates were disqualified from running irans interior minister said the turnout was adequate though given what the countrys been facing in mother shadow. We held these elections when there were several incidents in the country where you had bad weather there was this coronavirus disease there was the plane crash also the events of january and november in such a situation the turnout right seems perfectly acceptable for us now from our correspondent in teheran. Well this is very embarrassing for the establishment voter turnout is around 42 percent in the last election it was 61 percent hare in teheran where i am 25 percent in the last election it was around 50 percent now this is one of the most conservative parliaments this country has ever seen but it takes place when the turnout is the lowest since this definition of the Islamic Revolution now we just to give you an idea of how low the turnout was in the last elections here is that there were 30 seats up for grabs all of them were won by reformists moderates candidates every single one got over 1000000 votes this time around all 30 seats were taken by conservatives and only one of them the former mayor got over 1000000. 00 votes now we knew this election will be controversial because the Guardian Council the body that vets candidates disqualified over 5000. 00 candidates including 81. 00 current sitting m. P. s but despite the Supreme Leader coming out and president have 100 coming back encouraging people to vote they just didnt come out and vote and its a very very low turnout its very embarrassing the Supreme Leader spoke this morning and he blamed western propaganda that tried to deter people from voting but this also puts president Hassan Rouhani in a very difficult position he presides over a conservative palm and a politically opposed to him to have been politically critical of him and the 2015 nuclear deal and many people see him as a sitting president because the president ial elections are next year and he just doesnt have a majority out of the 290 seats around over 201 by conservatives and hes reformist moderates allies only have around 20 seats now lets not forget the position of the economy here inflation has been very high unemployment is high and also the economy is suffering under sanctions so it does put him in a very difficult position and also theres a lack of trust and confidence in the gov. And the political establishment because of the lol voter turnout so despite the sea of support that we saw after the assassination of general carson so the minute the hundreds of thousands of people that came out into the streets that just didnt transfer into people coming out and taking to the polls. The emir of qatar i mean been hammered out and he has arrived in our month to meet King Abdullah of jordan this is his 1st official visit since the blockade imposed on qatar by 4 arab countries led by saudi arabia back in 2017 at the time jordan actually downgraded its ties with a diplomatic relations have since been restored the 2 ladies are expected to discuss bilateral trade and Regional Security in the jordanian capital for us and says the visit indicates a warming of relations. This is the 1st visits by the army or of qatar to jordan since the 2017 blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates egypt and bahrain jordan didnt blockade qatar however it did participate somewhat in the early stages of thats crisis by recalling its ambassador from qatar those relations have improved with full diplomatic representation being restored over the past few months rather than sending a resounding Us Ambassador to qatar and reciprocating but whats making this visit so significant isnt just that it is both the regional files that are going to be discussed as well as bilateral relations with regard to the regional issues at the top of that is the palestinian issue in the struggle for freedom there both jordan and qatar opposed the deal of the century as its been billed that the trump peace plan they say its a unilateral. Plan that does away with the rights of palestinians the right of return the right for them to have their own state and therefore they are looking over ways to maybe come up with an alternative solution to this decades long conflict jordan obviously very concerned because of the amount of Palestinian Refugees here on also its historic role in palestine with regard to the bilater