With India Donald Trump announces a 3000000000. 00 weapons deal as he aims to boost his reelection chances with Indian American voters since. The surge was Prime Minister is back home to face charges relation to the murder of his former wife. The World Health Organization is sending a team to iran has made a spike of coronavirus cases there in iran the Health Ministry says 12 people have died but helpful thora things have dismissed claims from an m. P. Who says the figure is actually closer to 50 meanwhile cases are spreading across the middle east with kuwait omagh there are kind of going to stand all reporting cases of infected travelers coming from iran in europe 3 more people have died in islam is north bringing the total there to 7 there are almost 200. 00 cases there the highest concentration outside of asia while a spike in cases in south korea has put the nationwide total there at over 800 south koreas polman has cancelled mondays meeting a work is disinfected the building of the World Health Organization says the global rise in cases is concerning. The sudden increase of cases in italy the Islamic Republic of iran and the republic of korea are deeply concerning we must focus on containment while doing everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic there is no one for size fits all approach every country must make its own Risk Assessment for its own context and this spectacle here that is of course Chinas National Peoples Congress one of the largest worlds political gatherings has been perspire this year is the 1st time the meeting has been delayed in decades on a moment well have reports from the affected regions but 1st katrina year begins our coverage from china across china the coronaVirus Outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijings great hall of the people. Every much the venue ports the countrys most important political event the National Peoples congress but chinas top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gathering urging its 3000 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing taxes over the weekend bringing the total to about 400 many are still too afraid to return to work. As best their 100 employees. We already have iraq people working in the office. I thought the subway to work was going to be packed but there actually werent many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have originated in a 100 wildlife and seafood market. New coronavirus cases and to tell it is have been concentrated. 24 of chinas 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered Emergency Response levels president xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and hes encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart operations were possible why is he Good Industries a witch of the National Economy and peoples livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operation resumption or working out a force when to increase production its the 1st time Chinas National Peoples Congress has been delayed decades so far and no new date has been set but analysts say when the missing is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally won its socalled war against the corona Virus Outbreak. Aljazeera. As we heard earlier the number of deaths in iran has increased the Health Ministry there has pledged to be transparent with the situation. We need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions id like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter or to treat and we will see everything in a clear way as it biogas in toronto and says as the number of cases rises theres disagreement over how bad the situation actually is. Theres been an extraordinary exchange in. A war of words between a member of parliament and by the hes a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not within maybe from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms and are scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and has called upon the Health Ministry to impose a curfew on the city of the Deputy Health minister and as has denied that figure of 50 and said that even if it was half that number he would submit his resignation now about the responded to that and he said he sent the names of those that have died from the virus to the Health Ministry and he expects a resignation now the Health Minister has come out in response to all of this and he said that the government is dealing with the situation that ours is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the Global Economy stock markets in asia europe and the us fell on monday along with urgent cases and deaths across the globe christensen is live for us in new york chris and we spoke to you in the last hour how are the markets doing. Well there are still down substantially after the opening bell the Dow Jones Industrial average plunged more than 900. 00 points since then its recovered a bit but all of the major indices are lower the dow and s. And p. Looks like nearly 3 percent off of trading high as the nasdaq in particular really taking a whack new cases reported in south korea and italy have been renewing fears about the Economic Impact of the coronavirus we are seeing Airline Stocks in particular taking a hard hit tech stocks oil is down as theres concern that the demand will continue to decline as the disease continues to spread and manufacturing slows this is all because of course china is a manufacturing hub for the Global Supply chain so many businesses so many sectors of the economy are affected by this and the United States actually hit a new high in its stock markets last week but this concern about Global Impact has always been in the background and then with the new cases over the weekend we saw the United States falling on markets in asia and europe which have also. Declined as a result of the news of this spreading in italy where the new cases were reported theres been a quarantine in towns that are not far from milan which is the economic hub italys markets closed down more than 4 and a half percent european markets were generally down and now here in the United States that fear is spreading as well one place were seeing prices rise is gold gold prices considered a safe haven when stock markets are in troubled waters those prices are on their way out but were expecting by the end of the day its going to be its going to be a rough day for investors cam is the look of things here i think that kristen salumi live from new york. Israel has carried on more airstrikes on the gaza strip the targeting Islamic Jihad targets there of a night based 4 people were wounded on sunday israel says its responding to rockets launched from inside the territory the military also carried out strikes on the armed group in syria on sunday night killing 2 members in damascus but harry force that joins me now live from west jerusalem with more harry these tit for tat strikes how serious an escalation is this well its a certainly a serious one its one which really hasnt stopped since the early stages of this afternoon when Islamic Jihad decided to retaliate in his own words to what had happened overnight in damascus with an israeli airstrike which killed 2 of its feiss near damascus and since then there is been an almost constant volley of rocket fire being responded to by israeli airstrikes inside gaza among them weve seen israel strike what it said was a launching station for such rocket fire there are reports even just in the last couple of minutes that sirens have been sounding again this latest round of escalation began though on sunday morning early sunday morning when the israeli army said that it detected a person Islamic Jihad fight is trying to plant an i. E. D. An improvised explosive device close to the border fence in gaza they fired on those 2 fighters one of them was killed and then those this scene with an israeli bulldozer that under the new policy instituted by the Israeli Defense minister. Came to recover the body and take it away he says Natale Bennett the is the policy to try and ensure that israel has bargaining chips to try and get back the bodies of Israeli Soldiers but in doing so there was a thorough confrontation with palestinians on the other side 4 palestinians were wounded and there was this pretty gruesome video of this body hanging off the scoop of a bulldozer that caused a lot of outrage it caused a call for retaliation a promise of retaliation by Islamic Jihad and that we have mounted the escalation ladder in the hours since and harry was should we read into the timing of this given that there is of course yet another election the thing. Thats right the 3rd election in less than a year and before the previous 2 elections there were military escalations around gaza at those times as well and the general lore has been a political or an israel has been to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu feels its too risky to launch an all out broad scale military action in gaza in the days or even weeks before an election because of all the attendant risks and unknowns about such a military action however the kind of language thats been coming from the who this time around has been quite stark and despite the fact that the Israeli Military like it did in november as very much been separating hamas and Islamic Jihad hamas which controls the gaza strip saying that its targeting islamics out Islamic Jihad has been the one thats been firing the rockets netanyahu self addressing hamas in a radio interview said if you dont shoot them well shoot you he said im talking about a war im not looking for a war but we have prepared something you cant even imagine now this could just be rhetoric of course politically he is under some pressure given the impact of these rocket strike fire launches even if they dont cause death and injury they do very much cause a real seizure of everyday life around the gaza strip in southern israel so he has to appear strong the question is whether the escalation continues whether hamas the size to sit this one out as it did in the event or whether hamas itself starts firing rockets as well of course hamas and israel have been trying for many months now to come to some kind of longer Term Accommodation and there is a call from the u. N. Envoy saying that he his negotiators and the egyptians are doing all they can to try to maintain peace once again there is certainly interest on the israeli side in the homicide for this to die down again but the longer it goes on of course the more risks that something could go wrong in the escalation continues thank you for that update thats hairy for sit there live from west jerusalem. Dozens of people have been injured in central germany after a car rammed through a kind of old parade in the town of them and they say the driver has been restless its unclear whether the incident was an accident. Still ahead on aljazeera political turmoil in malaysia i want next up to the worlds oldest Prime Minister resigns plus. Why police in haiti exchanged gunfire with soldiers during a protest in the capital. How has it been plenty of snow in the last few days for all the slopes of northern honcho and hawker and i and thats because the wind has been a cold one across the sea now it is dying dying and if anything it will be coming in the direction with the rain now there will be but its now on the Northern Edge of that in some parts of the Korean Peninsula sols at 9 degrees or so clearly wont be here but the blue is significant right now as it goes through south korea heads towards home should you have a wet day and light in store for you of course most of all she was a wet snow high ground in the middle of honshu its left behind a trail of cloud in the middle bit a light rain in the middle of china back through harnessing a drop in temperature to about 21 would still quite warm drops further to 15 should be to be honest in february the beijings to warmer than normal dropping science was to me and of course the rainy seasons right into an easy but the right main focus of the heavy showers is nice and borneo so the way see less so in java is to the potential for flash floods and these of course shes not unusual but javas less at risk than of late the same is true further north in Southern Thailand where we see a good collection of showers recently the next 2 days should see you largely dry same is probably true of kale and maybe even singapore but not in public. 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Is calling for calm in gaza that soft israel carried out airstrikes targeting the Islamic Jihad the military says its response to a barrage of rocket attacks fired from gaza. Lets get more now on our top story the corona Virus OutbreakDavid Heymann as a professor of Infectious Diseases at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine hes also a former assistant director general for Health Security at the World Health Organization really good to have you on the Program David thank you for your time the w. H. O. As chief has just said and i quote using the word pandemic does not fit the facts what do you think. Well i would totally agree with that what were seeing is a series of outbreaks in china if you have the center in places around the epicenter throughout china and also in countries outside of china including iran in several countries in the middle east so were seeing a series of outbreaks and what we dont really understand yet is what transmissibility of this virus is will this easily transfer from human to human in a community or is it limited to close contact as we believe it present so you think we still cant really understand transmissibility i mean just looking at the situation in italy it still doesnt know how the corona virus got there it doesnt know the flu patients or was and yet all of a sudden were seeing hundreds of cases there i mean what can we read into that well these look like several different chains of transmission from some index case or index cases who came in some initial cases it came into italy and caused this outbreak but italy is trying to stop the outbreak as are other countries and thats where w. H. O. Recommends we know its transmitted by social contact face to face the cough or sneeze and we also know that its its transmitted by Health Workers and thats very important that Health Workers take all precautions they can in case they would be coming into contact with the patient i saw a little bit about iran if we can it says the death toll is just 12 and yes its in fiction numbers are very no i believe less than 60 do you trust the official numbers were getting f