Iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronaVirus Outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey armenia they have all closed their borders with iran which is have the largest number of fatalities outside of china the deaths all standing at 8 there in china president xi jinping has admitted they were shortcomings in the countrys response describing coronaviruses the largest Public Health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 we look further afield to italy as well where 5000 people have been quarantined in the north been told to stay home 132 people have been infected 3 have died as well while in south korea the president has called for unprecedented powerful measures to control the out break lets begin in south korea this report from robert brought. The worst affected areas in so. East 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 he urged everyone to avoid massive events well you know you want to do 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 is 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 chango county south korea and south koreas lodged a complaint with israel for a planeload of. Korean Airlines Flight when it arrived in tel aviv 130 other passengers were turned back israel is now bombing south korean and japanese visit his move follows the discovery of the corona virus among a group in south korea visited israel last week and as we mentioned iran has had the largest number of deaths from the virus outside of china. With more on how thorough hes 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 home which is about 120 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 home but in about 2 thirds of the cities across the country in the capital and all the major events have been canceled including the governments 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 disinfectant 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. The Prime Minister says hes ready to use the army to help contain the virus in the north of the country victoria gage and he has a report on. 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 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 stuff 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 shang an agreement and says the Free Movement of people and goods across italys borders 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 only a 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. Japans 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 in fact 23. 00 passengers were eventually allowed to disembark without being tested for the virus about 80 percent of the 770. 00 infection cases in japan were on that ship. Room of the chinese president xi jinping says the situation remains serious and complex leaders are not debating whether to cancel next months annual Parliament Session to concentrate on fighting the virus this report from major brown. The National Peoples congress is chinas biggest political event of the year drawing almost 3000. 00 delegates from across china. 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 with 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 then that period 2 weeks after that 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 the u. S. In 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 it 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 egg. Anomic 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. On to other news and the polls have closed in germanys state election and hamburg where voter turnout was high as election seen as a major test for the mainstream parties this region has been a stronghold for the social democrats for a decade its Coalition Partners the greens have made big gains dominant cain is in hamburg for us what sort of indication of weve got now the polls have closed on nick. Pretty much what you were just saying come out that in in effect a large turnout considerably higher than last time around and whats happened is a bit of it would appear that the 2 parties who are in government with each other but in loggerheads with each other over Climate Change will they have done well this time around that its pretty likely that the social democrats and the greens will try to form another government for the next 5 years looking at the vote that both parties have received the greens considerably are almost double what they got 5 to 5 years ago whereas the social democrats have lost some votes but its still very much in 1st place with the lions share of the vote looking at the other parties well there are some interesting points to make here 1st of all the far right party the alternative for germany but it seems that it has not got above the 5 percent number all that is important because in german electoral law if you dont as a party get 5 percent of the vote or more and you get no seats in parliament that means they will not on the face of it be in the next parliament here nor perhaps the liberals those are the part thats the part of the free democrats they were involved in broiled in a bit of a rout involving another state parliament in eastern germany perhaps they may have paid the price for the rather they became involved with with the but the upshot here is that the social democrats will look at this result and say well this is vindication for us. Thank you for that update on the cane in hamburg in the news ahead. We have now one. Quarter. The 1st in the west more on how Bernie Sanders advanced in the race to become the democratic president ial nominee. Welcome back lets look at weather conditions across the Arabian Peninsula shimmery a fine picture weve got warm air coming up from the south few days ago the temperature in riyadh was just 20 degrees as max and now a back up to 34 lovely weather conditions for qatar highs of 27 is worth pointing out fairly strong winds blowing down through the red sea and in fact theres a convergence and we see the winds coming together from the north and the south and thats resulting in some showers for parts of south sudan through into eritrea also to share activity generally across the sinai and into more eastern parts of egypt that low pressure comes in across the mediterranean and we have got an area of low pressure across iran and iraq and thats going to develop during the course of choose day so certainly for iran theres going to be some very heavy rain and could see some outbreaks of snow a frontal system will be extending down into parts of saudi arabia maybe down through just to the north of riyadh so one to watch there for much of central and Northern Africa where the conditions are generally looking fine but we have got some showers affecting west africa standing away from liberia down through to ghana and we have had some very dusty conditions lot of dust blowing at the sahara and thats been affecting the canaries but i think by monday weather conditions here will be improving. 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And the polls have closed in germanys election and homburg voter turnout was high this election seen as a major test for the mainstream parties the early exit polls showing the green party has made some big games. Its been a 2nd large earthquake in the turkey iran border region this was a magnitude 6 quake which hit late on sunday follows the magnitude 5. 7 quake in turkeys province earlier in the day which killed at least 9 people several are believed to be trapped under the rubble and dozens are injured on the iranian side as well. In southern turkey. The search and 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 van 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 one saw an earthquake that killed more than 500 people in 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 still in iran it is announced its lowest voter turnout since the 1979 Islamic Revolution about 43 percent of people voted in fridays parliamentary elections hard line conservatives are now set to dominate as they won not all of teherans 30 seats final results still coming in though from elsewhere voters did have limited options with thousands of moderates and reformist candidates disqualified from running runs interior minister has said the turnout was adequate given what the countrys been facing. That shadow. We held these elections when there was several incidents in the country we 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 all from our correspondent in teheran. Well this is very embarrassing for the establishment voter turnout is around 42 percent in the last elections it was 61 percent hare in iran where i am its 25 percent in the last elections 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 establishment of the Islamic Revolution now we need just to give you an idea of how low the turnout was in the last elections here into iran there were 30 seats up for grabs all of them were won by reformist 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 would 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 Hassan Rouhani coming back to encourage 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 said blame the western propaganda that tried to deter people from voting but this also puts president Hassan Rouhani in a very difficult position he presides now over a conservative palm and a politically opposed to him that had 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. 00 seats around over 200. 00 a one by conservatives and hes reformist moderate 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 gulf. And the political establishment