Primary votes on super tuesday. Im. South koreas president says he is declaring war against the coronavirus us the number of confirmed cases there approaches 5000 when jane has ordered all Government Agencies to get in see emergency mode soldiers have been deployed to disinfect syrias of daegu the city at the epicenter of south koreas outbreak which is the biggest outside of china almost 30 people have died there will can bore the country has entered war against the Infectious Disease as the crisis in daegu in north york book province has reached the highest point as a police operate all organizations of the government 24 hours by switching to the Emergency Operations system in till we are out of the crisis while rob mcbride joins us now live from seoul what in practical terms as a declaration of war on the virus actually main. Very resolute stance being taken by moving jay in effectively declaring war and i think almost accepting that the country has to go on a kind of a war fought for tng if it is going to beat this coronavirus in a practical terms it means that all of the Government Agencies that are now directed to dealing with this are put on a 24 hour alert basis so effectively they can be used around the clock and if the war like analogy holds up then theres still the main battle front is the city of daegu down in the southeast of the country and the surrounding towns and villages thats where were still seeing the most numbers of new cases around 600 new cases alone in the past day and do you think again that j. M. Is stressing that we are here in south korea as a critical juncture that if this is going to be won or lost it will be in the southeast of the country and it will be in the coming days to further help the country try to get through this he is gone and allocated as well as making this declaration at this Cabinet Meeting today tuesday allocating extra resources to deal not only with the outbreak of the disease but also to help the economy because parts of the economy are almost in a slow motion collapse if you like you get lines of a canceling flights you have factories that are coming to a halt people are working from home offices are closed theres a potential once this is over a lot of these things will recover very quickly but theres a real concern about long term damage to south koreas economy so the various measures that have been announced last week and announced today and will have to be cleared by a special supplementary budget that will go through the National Assembly here tomorrow wednesday come to a total of 25000000000 u. S. Dollars to try to see south korea through this bright life as in seoul thank you very much for that update. Now greece has denied turkeys allegations that its Border Forces fired on refugees and migrants calling it deliberate misinformation but greece has increased its Border Security after turkey declared it would no longer try to stop people from reaching the e. U. John psaropoulos reports from the island of less spots on the frontline of what could be another refugee crisis. Asylum seekers stranded on the north shores of lesbos some have spent the night out in the open police cant process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria its been blockaded by angry islanders who want to shut down but moreas occupants arent happy to be here either. This was the latest of many riots this year asylum processing is slow and many have been living in tents under the olive trees for a year to relieve them doc said it didnt sound very productive and i am saying that this is very difficult for everyone to set every night that i got pretty good what are the dark and this is very important hundreds of morias Asylum Seekers recently much down to the port after receiving misleading or mistaken messages that the government was evacuating them to Athens Police had to turn them back this tense situation is likely to become worse as turkey has opened its border and is advise in refugees on its soil to go to europe thats the reason why this 15 year old from afghanistan is here he says. I have been in turkey for 2 months the smuggler called me in the night and said the party is ready get ready to cross over he said the border is open i could not cross for 2 months because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shot. So fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show Turkish Coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkeys suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other International Norms greece has declared emergency measures it says it will stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around undocumented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals arent individual applicants but part of an organized policy so International Asylum law doesnt apply to them as intended with so many islands so close to the turkish mainland greece has a difficult task defending its maritime border but the biggest losers in all this seem to be the Asylum Seekers jumps at all plus aljazeera lesbos. Well refugees and migrants are also massing on greeces land borders will speak to the township good name about that shortly 1st lets go to c. N. N. Kosovo shes turkeys joburg Border Crossing with syria. A year celebration will be heading to the border later just who exactly are they going to be meeting. The u. S. Delegation i arrived in turkey yes of a Late Afternoon u. S. Special envoy to syria James Jeffrey whos the former ambassador to turkey is with the delegation and u. N. Ambassador u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. A kelly craft is indeed allegation among with some others plus the American Media members in their pool they are holding talks with the ngo representatives along with some officials and today they will be here in where i am standing in they call it buffer zone is actually the transfer point between 2 border gates soon very good and barbara how well and the u. S. Delegation is going to come here they will be meeting with the White Helmets the one of the prominent rescue groups inside there and the purpose of the wizards is actually the humanitarian tragedy inside syria because the latest assault by the Syrian Government forces backed by the russian Russian Air Forces have caused more and more displacement and even last night 10 civilians were killed inside at the in the is the country side of the because of the a or strikes back by the by the russians so James Jeffrey and the delegation including kalak frothed are going to discuss of humanitarian conditions because they need more help here even the Ngos International angels or the local n. G. O. S are not able to be enough to reach out the people inside is that it has been a it has been a very. I mean huge issues for a long time especially since december because people even can are not able to find tense inside that right now and the escalation military escalation between turkey and syria actually has worsened the situation wont be closed its closed more displacement as the Syrian Government forces have violated the search associate agreement jail which is staying down build a m 4. 00 and 5. 00 highway and they have advance up to to north people to the Turkish Border and the Turkish Border has been sealed since 2016 hours to read deal which actually aims to stop more refugee blocks of the European Union countries as well i have to say that right behind me after the bubble how outsourcing and theyre almost 1000000 just living alone by the Turkish Border and almost 4000000 people are stuck inside and the u. S. Delegation is here today and tomorrow to discuss how they can help out to the syrian civilians inside ok cinema live for us on the turkey syria border thank you very much indeed. Good name in the turkish city over there and also on the borders with greece and borg area natasha what sort of challenges of the refugees and migrants facing their. I think what to refugees ive spoken to told me best represents the predicament that thousands of refugees and migrants here are facing one man said that turkey and greece are playing with refugees who have lost their everything another man told me that whats happening here is a humanities responsibility to solve we are actually in a small fishing village of joy ron if you look behind me you can see this river bank where people have been huddled around in blankets sleeping bags around. Makeshift fires to stay warm for the last several days this river behind me its called the merchant river on the other side of that river is greece and so is the hope of these people who have been camping out for several days to reach by taking a small boat across the river but of course its an arduous one we spoke to a smuggler yesterday who said given the very heavy presence of greek troops along this border on this riverbank behind me they have not been transporting people in a very large numbers as you can see people are in a Holding Pattern not only here but in the entire province of a durned a where thousands have come with the hope that they can proceed past turkey and in europe the government says that since it opens its borders on friday that more than 117000 people have left the country and gone on to europe those numbers are being questioned by people here on the ground but one thing that is certain is that at least one person has died since this migration flow began a 6 year old boy drowned after the boat he was in capsized off the greek island of lesbos on monday and the time is there any sign at all of this stage that turkeys going to reverse course and cools that border again. Or do want to say until europe shares its burden for shouldering the costs and the security concerns associated with hosting 3700000 Syrian Refugees alone it will not hold up its end of the bargain and what im referring to is a 26000 deal that turkey made with the European Union at that time turkey agreed to impose strict measures to keep its borders close so refugees could not continue to flow into europe in exchange the European Union agreed to pay it about 7000000000. 00 president russia early on is saying since the European Union has not held up its end of the bargain turkey will no longer hold up theirs and in fact every refugee and migrant here in turkey who wants to leave the country is free to go the government instead is now shifting its attention in coming up with some sort of plan it says it has limited resources but its now going to be devising a plan to accommodate a possible influx of refugees from live there are 1500000 people fleeing the violence there who are hoping to push over the Turkish Border turkey says it is simply ill equipped to handle this additional influx meanwhile the Un Refugee Agency is imploring countries not to use excessive or disproportionate force against migrants it is asking countries to handle asylum claims in quote an orderly fashion and is saying that europe needs to help turkey the International Community actually needs to help turkey to step up and handle this humanitarian crisis thats going to aim for us live on the Turkish Border thank you very much and. Weve got the weather up next for you and then political scandal in the city has worsening conditions for many of its citizens. Hello and welcome to International Weather forecast now across the u. K. Weve seen some really bad flooding in recent weeks we still have a lot of rivers at very high levels the shots come from the river and the north east of england and you see the extent of the flooding which is still occurring the situation will get a little bit better i think with time less rain here but more rain coming in for the bay of biscay region extending down through into the peyronies giving some snow there which is good news because they really do need some snow elsewhere temperatures above average for warsaw 12 degrees hardly surprising really its been such a mild winter across these more central parts of europe the Czech Republic the warmest february since the 1961 and for austria the 2nd warmest winter since the late 1767 was a move this forecast and choose day through to wednesday you can see weve got some heavy snowfall across eastern areas certainly for bosnia extending down through into montenegro more rain heading in towards about biscayne again this will be driving some heavy rain with it heading down into northern and central parts of africa we got some showers around the coast the gulf of guinea and big changes in temperatures taken across the coast there with temperatures in benghazi no higher and 17. But. When theyre on line like father dropping bit one of the worst raps in Mainstream Media about being up or if you join us on sad tears a different and a verse 3 and inclusion and they were sometimes isnt always sincere base is a dialogue sanctions and the ways in which their website iran are an act of what fair everyone has a voice we as a society that is so quick to get to blame need to sit down and listen join the global conversation on aljazeera. More. World. This is aljazeera our minds are off the headlines this hour south koreas president has ordered all Government Agencies into emergency mode after declaring war against the coronavirus least 20 people have died there are nearly 5000 people have been infected. Brings has denied turkeys allegations that its Border Forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey thousands of people have been trying to cross from turkey into greece after on croisset no longer stops and. A Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming victory in israels general election it appears hes again falls short of a parliamentary majority meaning more coalition the go see ations and possible deadlock hairy force of reports from tel aviv. Benjamin netanyahu who spent much of the last year experiencing failure and defeat failure to hold together his right wing bloc after the 1st election just. Heat in the 2nd an indictment for corruption in 3 separate cases now at last a sense of victory job done it then you know its a victory against all odds a rival said that the netanyahu error is over but we join forces and turn the tables and we 10 lemons into lemonade morning. After a campaign that plumb the depths of negativity and dirty tricks netanyahu is closing message was that he was just short of victory and needed his supporters to finish the job personally ringing voters from a roll of supporters who hadnt yet gone to the polls for now though he appears to be just short of Majority Coalition within his party hes not going to have any people that are detracting from him or challenging him and now yes to try and see to Work Together and it could be and ive said the 1st election also that a National Unity government between likud and blue and white would be a very real possibility except this time im not so sure whos going to be heading blow it why at blue and white headquarters theyre being dogged whispers throughout the day that things were looking bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shift slightly to the right but failed to match the energy of his opponent. I will tell you honestly i understand and share the feeling of disappointment and time because it is not the result we wanted and if this will be the result it is not the result that will put israel back on the right track gansa distanced himself from the mainly palestinian israeli joint List Alliance who might have enabled against minority government but even their record showing with up to 15 seats wasnt enough to win them real influence what you guys. Are living the result could well be more consequential the palestinians in the occupied west bank than you know promised that victory would allow him to stop the annexation setout under the terms of the trump peace plan. Israelis might not have wanted this 3rd election but they did turn out in their highest numbers for more than 20 years more than 4000 people voted its special station. Set up for those quarantined for the coronavirus keen to cure israel of its repeat election syndrome now for the consequences including a possible Supreme Court battle over whether an indicted politician can legally try to form a government in 2 weeks the man on the stage goes on trial for bribery fraud and breach of trust benny gantz is spend a year trying to convince and ultimately failing to convince israelis that they cannot be led by a Prime Minister under indictment throughout Be