We. Begin with the crowd a Virus Outbreak that spread across 6 continents and more than 100 countries lets take a look at some of the updates from around the world in south korea theres been a jump in the number of new cases thats reversing a 10 day trend of slow and infections more than 200 new cases have been reported in seoul many of them at a call Center South Korea has the highest number of corona virus infections in asia outside china where the situation seems to be improving few new cases and deaths something reported aging says it will allow some companies to resume work and ruhani which is the epicenter of the outbreak but the number of infections in the u. S. Says increased is now more than a 1000 confirmed their National Guard troops have been deployed in a suburb north of new york city has been sealed off after a cluster of cases were reported and in the u. K. A Health Minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus doris is now self isolating the Health Service is now tracking those who may have come into contact with her. Well have more from the u. K. Later in the day but our focus this hour is on asia we have 2 correspondents reporting on the story true to you is in beijing but lets go 1st to rome mcbride who is in seoul rob as we said more than 10 days of slowing infections and now this new uptick in the number of cases why. Thats right there is cause for concern with these latest numbers especially as you say after more than a week of gradually declining daily cases being reported it was really leading to a feeling here that south korea had got this under control and then we get this spike and it is due in large part to a cluster that has sprung up here in the capital seoul and based around this call center now where people start to do detect a trends that Call Center Workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and have discovered a 93. 00 cases now at this one call center either workers or their immediate family or acquaintances and friends and the concern is that this is the biggest cluster that we have had in the soul area and the soul greater soul metropolitan area which includes the capitol but also surrounding cities such as insurance is an area that comprises 25000000 people this call center was in a part of the city that is served extremely well by subway systems by trains so there is a real concern and there you had for a time at least hundreds of course Center Workers coming to and from work using all of these means of public transport so we can expect to see more cases its feared on the Positive Side this is happened fairly recently in the past few days so it is a time obviously of heightened awareness that there are less people traveling more people have been staying at home if people have been traveling theyre been extremely conscious about Wearing Masks about keeping distance from fellow passengers and and so on so the hope is that the authorities here the medical services and all of the testing infrastructure that is in place has moved quickly enough to contain that but we will see in the coming days but it has led the authorities here to look very closely at conditions in call centers which are often very cramped and south koreas new. Neighbors will also be looking closely in the coming days to see whether this is going to be any kind of reverse along the progress that has being made and among those neighbors of course will be north korea which is yet to report a single case of the corona virus and is in barked at the moment on a National Effort to keep the virus out it is a country used to being mobilized against a common enemy and now that unseen photo is the corona virus an outbreak could be devastating for a population which is malnourished and with primitive medical services. Populations in the countryside. Really you know i think have been left on the our own with regards to basic exercises from the start its taken tough measures like closing its border with neighboring China Foreign diplomats were port andras strict 30 day quarantine which is only just been lifted many have left. And there is a certain tension in those in the city and all over the country because people are aware. Of the crew member state run television has been showing the Global Impact of the disease and touting the north success in preventing a single case of the virus as a victory for leader kim jong un whos depicted as heading his countrys efforts kim jong un has written to his south korean counterpart expressing his sadness for the way the viruses hit the south and while the outbreak has disrupted military operations here with the cancellation of joint exercises with the u. S. And north korea it seems to be business as usual. Twice in the space of a week north korea has conducted short range weapons tests after a low of 3 months some analysts say its just part of regular winter exercises while others add that with denuclearization talks in stalemate he has nothing to lose by testing and that it sends a strong message to his own people that with much of the rest of the world grappling with the viruses spread kim is firmly in control and appearing to keep them safe rob mcbride aljazeera soul. Turn here is live for us and beijing for the latest on whats happening in china i was saying local transmission rates there slowing down. Keeping an eye on cases imported from elsewhere what more can you tell us. Thats right kim so weve heard in the last 24 hours 24 new cases reported in 22 deaths but whats significant about this number of the 24 new cases 10 of those new cases were imported primarily from italy and a province the epicenter of the virus itself there were early 13 new cases reported which is very significant seeing as we had more than a 1000 just a couple of weeks ago every day reported and it seems that who a province itself is starting to ease the lockdown weve just received details of of how the provinces plan to do that the province has been divided into 3 zones a red zone a high risk storm which includes the at the center the city of han a yellow zone a medium risk zone and a green zone more of the outskirts of the province and so in the green zone all workplaces just as far as we know able to go back to work except for Entertainment Venues or entertainment related businesses in the yellow or the medium risk zone more businesses are allowed and in. That area the high risk is our own essential Public Services or only will be allowed to go back that also seems to include companies which are involved in global. Supply chain and weve just heard that honda the car maker is starting to also resume some of its operations in cannes as well people in who the province who have been under lockdown for weeks now have been able to leave their residential compounds theres just been a new system put in place for them using a mobile phone app they can put their details and depending on their location their proximity to a possible case of the coronavirus they will to theyre also given a green yellow red red racing and if you have a green rating it seems that youre able to leave your apartment and move around now locked out is still technically in place because nora but he is able to leave a province as yet and nobodys able to enter so really what this means is that if you have the green code youre able to move around within all city or within your county so its still very much locked down in place but this system at least is providing relief to. People who have been confined essentially to their residential compounds for the last few weeks so very much good news especially for those People Living in who a province i. Think that could turn to you there live from beijing. Israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters there activists were camped overnight on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off and legal Israeli Settlers trying to use the location to establish outposts a mountain has been a focal point of protests for several weeks now joining me by phone from nablus is he is the director of International Relations and media for the colonization and wall of Resistance Commission which is affiliated with the p. L. O. Thanks for joining us so i believe you have been on the road on the site there overnight what have you been seeing. Writhing on top of the mountain you know a owners and people. And the people who are trying just to keep their lamb a. At about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. Surrounded from all sides by lines expressions. Of your vision forces. Who have storms the area where we have been sitting and were in a groove sitting out on fire because it was very cold night and they did not need even a small warning nothing at all and started with extreme power they have used live ammunition they have used little coated little bullets they have used toxic tear gas clouds of tear gas sundry made and they were shooting directly at people face to face i have seen many people were shot directly the gun was put at a certain kind of the body or the part of the body and shot immediately and i dont know whether it was. About quite a bit of bullets or a. Lot i mean egypt but in very Critical Conditions and out of it in others now i have seen a soldier put that gun point on the head of the Palestinian Teen called islam he is 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head. Then just father was sitting next to him he so what has happened to the son and he tried. We seem to have lost the line there those pictures that we were looking at were live pictures from the us as weve been saying that there has been a point of contention and its been a point of protest for several weeks now as you can see those pictures the looks to be smoke billowing in the background and what weve been hearing from the phone there from eunice is that has been used by Israeli Forces weve been hearing tear gases and also rubber coated steel bullets being used by Israeli Forces to disperse the palestinian test is needed him i believe joins us now from ramallah in the occupied west bank what have you been hearing needa. So weve heard from medical sources that the injuries have. To 17 people who have been hospitalized to move which as we heard just from eunice have been shot by live ammunition a member of this is thinking and say theyre trying to save their lands from illegal israeli settlements huge when the settlers would aaya a certain location a car or 2 to it it becomes an outpost meaning that its not recognized by the Israeli Government television its still considered illegal under International Law and then weve seen many of those posts turn into settlements that are organized by stories that are recognized by the Israeli Government they are Given Services they are using that infrastructure as well as we sources from palestinian cities and towns so if they are still considered illegal under International Law but this is the way for palestinians to kind of try to save those lands theyve been hearing that 2nd settlers were coming to the area theyre eyeing it for a future post so this is kind of a public demonstration public citizens that they have theyre trying to stage to protect that now they say that the israeli army is huge really protecting settlements and and settlers and weve seen that today in the sense that theyre trying to disperse those Palestinian Protesters according to human rights organizations the attacks by Israeli Settlers are usually happening they are on the rise theyve recorded at around 34 attacks from illegal Israeli Settlers against palestinians so its it seems that its a very volatile situation at the moment in general adamant north of the occupied west bank but its a wait and see how in the situations going to be developing thank you that never ever him needed abraham trusts and ramallah we can go back now to our guest whos on the phone you. The director of International Relations and media for the colonise ation and Resistance Commission one of the p. L. O. Organizations. You know still looking at live these live pictures from the site it is the situation is ongoing we got cut off and the edges tell us what you think of this the shooting is still going by the way and did not finish the situation when they shot the boy just father was looking right at him and they shot his father twice a day they have used extreme power against defenseless helpless palestinian citizens who are just trying to keep their land thats all and there was no way that people were nonviolent they did not use any violence they were not warned by the Israeli Occupation forces they were just under fire immediately and the main goal of this is to push the people out of the land in favor of the illegal colonial expansion of the of the colonists. Adopted by the land of israel if your position. Government has declared so many times that they will and expel a senior lands mainly and its the job a lot of a by the way its not easy its an area be so supposing the according to those records its under the palestinian control. For now i just want to clarify for our viewers who may not may not be familiar there are various areas across the west bank and theyre administrate according to the zone that theyre in and as you said this is this is area b. Not area c. Which means it is administered by the Palestinian Authority so yes he was saying there that that Israeli Forces arrived during the night without any warning tell us why this particular area a lot of my mountain is so important. Now the job alarm is. Somehow it. Known from the victim control the amount they can control all the areas around. Go in the south and east and they can create a geographic connection between the israeli illegal colonies in this area let them in point to isolate the palestinian is sort of learn from their religion we will have to leave it there thank you so much for joining us as you know there director of International Relations and media for the colonise ation a Wall Resistance Commission thank you. Still to come here on aljazeera a wave of deadly violence we speak to the man claiming responsibility for the attacks. 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Israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters the activists were camping of a night on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off and these are illegal rather Israeli Settlers trying to use the vocation to establish an outpost. Or joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the race to win the democratic nomination for the u. S. Presidency the former Vice President has won primaries in the u. S. States of mississippi missouri and idaho as well as the key states of michigan braille elizondo reports from the choice. Joe biden at his last Campaign Rally michigan implored people to get out and vote for him but he did these are some of the voters that helped him win michigan making him the undisputed front run