A dominant leader of the baddies that is in the race for the democratic president ial nomination. But we begin with the corona virus that spread to more than 100 countries across 6 continents south korea is especially hard hit more than 200 new cases have been reported there many of them Medical Center in the capital south korea has the highest number of infections in asia outside china the crisis there seems to be easing with fewer new cases and deaths reported the government is allowing some companies to reopen in ruhani the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. A number of infections has increased with more than a 1000 now confirmed the National Guard has been deployed and a new york city suburb sealed off after a cluster of cases were reported Persons Health minister is a victim. To the National Health service is contacting people whove been in contact with Nadine Dorries well stephen baba is a professor and political economist at Regents University london he joins us via skype and as they were happening good morning this is all happening with the background of course of the budget being unveiled today there are a lot of things for the government to balance head talk us through that. Yesterday and. The budget which is one of the main parliamentary occasions of the year takes place with what you might see as a rookie chancellor chances are youve been in post for 4 weeks already had 2 big important backdrops to the decisions that need to be taken one of these of course post breaks at britain and starting to set out that economic agenda and the other which is allied to that is the fact that of course Boris Johnson won a majority Government Election in december on the back of those very same people who had voted leave many constituencies in the north of the midlands who havent voted conservative before and theyre expecting something quite significant out of this budget so what youre seeing is. The trailing of significant increases in spending including around infrastructure. Road rail broadband which is of course a longer term measure. What we now have these this crisis the corona crisis which is not only a threat to health which of course it is but its also a threat to the economic wellbeing of britain and in other countries as well do you anticipate there being a lot of last minute measures announced in tens of dealing with the ill break. Yes well because you never know how last minute they are because the chancellor announces those measures to the house of commons but you can really imagine that many of these things will have been. Drafted really right up until the moment that the speech is put together. The corona virus has now. Stretched into government to be have a. Health mason 100. 00 who has tested positive for it so that that impact of it is starting to make its self felt so i think at the very least well start to see the chancellor being very generous in terms of spending. Additional funds in terms of the n. H. S. Does that does that go further do we do we see other emergency measures will be the question that support Small Businesses support those who are on wages rather than salaries those that are expected to self quarantine if they if they feel ill but of course would be paid to live the extensions of sick pay and things like that thank you that bad staff and bob are there at faster and political economist at Regents University thank you. Or mcbride is in the south korean capital he says there are concerns the illness could spread further insult. 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 bike 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 people started to detect a trends that Call Center Workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and have discovered a 93 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 sole area and the sole greater sole metropolitan area which includes the capital 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 has served extremely well by subway systems by trains so there is a real concern of there you had for a time at least hundreds of calls sent to 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 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 and china easing restrictions in here by a province the epicenter of the operate between you is in the Chinese Capital with more on what that means for the millions of people in the lock down area. 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 at least 13 new cases reported which is very significant thing 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 the province has been divided into 3 zones a red zone a high risk zone which includes the at the center the city of new high and 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 of as far as we know are 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 are in 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 the lockdown 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 a green code youre able to move around within your 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. Israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters. The activists were kept overnight on our mountain near the city of nablus to fend off illegal Israeli Settlers were trying to use the location to establish an outpost palestinian help for parties say 17 people have been injured including a teenager whos in Critical Condition it for him is in ramallah in the occupied west bank need or what more can you tell us. Reporting 2 medical sources 2 people now are in a Critical Condition one of which has been shot in the head by a live ammunition and the other but other coated bullets confrontations are still ongoing in the town where palestinians are saying they feel or they say they have seen Israeli Settlers trying to go to the mountains to use it as a future outpost just for context used to the israelis would go to certain locations in the occupied west bank they would Start Building a caravan they would stay there for a while and then that outpost usually turns into a settlement of course old settlements are illegal under International Law but for posting is theyre saying that settler attacks have been increasing settler attacks on people and on land and theyve went in the early hours of the morning to try and defend those areas to try and push away those seculars whenever they come and they said that today israeli if you it has have used extreme power against them to kind of this person that sits in as we know from the uns ochoa organizations attacks by settlers have been increasing again palestinian citizens and just in this beginning of this year the culture has recorded 34 attacks against palestinians so theyre saying this is the way for us to defend what is left of the pie just like take that need abraham there live from ramallah well you know sadat is the director of International Relations and media for the khaled i say sion and War Resistance Commission which is affiliated with the p. L. O. He says protesters were given no warning from israeli forces. At about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. Surrounded from all sides by his lens exhibition. Of your vision forces. Who have gone the area where we have been sitting and we read in a Group Setting 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 the coated with a bullet they have used toxic tear gas clouds of tear gas sundry nade and they were shooting directly at people face to face i have seen many people were shot directly the gun was 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 mentioned but 2 very critical set of conditions and that i think the numbers now i have seen a soldier put that gun point on the head of the Palestinian Teen called islam is 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head. Still ahead on aljazeera a disgraced. Final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse. A wave of deadly violence in cameroon we speak to the man claiming responsibility for the attacks. Hello and welcome to our International Weather forecasts are 2 main features in the weather across europe unsettled conditions across more Western Areas and the warm still in evidence across eastern and southern parts of europe and that warmth you see there bucharest 16 care of 10 moscow 8 degrees and temperatures on the way up meanwhile out across more Western Areas but hell settle towards u. K. Windy with showers long spells of rain and a weather front strung out across the low countries into germany and further east towards austria which is going to be very slow moving over the next a few days and so we could see quite significant rainfall accumulations here over a period of time for some of the rivers may well be affected by this but you know so the forecast for thursday has bucharest there 19 degrees kiev 14 is a very warm indeed fine across the eastern parts of europe now as we head down into northern and central parts of africa around the gulf of guinea region weve had some fairly heavy showers the lower there in the ivory coast 123. 00 millimeters of rain just 24 hours but the main feature of interest here is the cold air pushing down from the north so weve got these northerly winds along the coast of libya but thats going to push all the way south all the way into northern parts of china and were going to see a big drop in temperature here over the next few days. The u. N. Fact finders accused of burmas military genocide this is a political. If you think. Do you believe the undervote is a clash. Of 2 going on they. Would both recognize the both sides have legitimate grievances against the other. This is the foundation of climate back then and this is why the polluters must be hard hitting debate with our. Own aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour after days of slow and corona virus infections in south korea has reported a spike in new cases more than 90 come from a call center in the capital seoul the government has urged Many Organizations to take extra measures. Health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus the dean there is no self isolation she was at an event to the Prime Ministers residence earlier in the week. Israeli forces in the occupied west bank of news tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters at least 17 people have been would it be activists were camped out overnight on our own my mountain near the city of nablus to fend off and legal Israeli Settlers trying to use the location to establish an outpost. For more now on our top story the global fallout of the coronaVirus Outbreak even leaders have failed to set up a 28000000000. 00 Investment Fund to protect the blocks economy from the corona Virus Outbreak italy is at the forefront of the crisis with its entire population of 60000000 subject to survey restrictions on travel and public gatherings brennan reports. A pan European Crisis would normally see e. U. Leaders racing to meet in brussels but concern about possible infection meant an emergency Video Conference instead the outcome of this rare Virtual Meeting a multi 1000000000. 00 european Investment Fund to support Health Care Jobs and Small Businesses. We will bring forward a corona response Investment Fund directed at the Health Care Systems directed at as a s m es and as a labor market at the labor markets and other vulnerable parts of our economies the instrument will be sizable and reach 25000000000 euros quickly all 27 e. U. Nations have now registered the presence of the virus and theres a keen awareness that the crisis in italy may happen elsewhere for the next 3 weeks at least 60000000 italians will be encouraged to remain behind closed doors as much as possible with restrictions on travel and Group Gatherings sure to affect their daily lives few will go to work none will go to school or university or will hope that if they get the virus they can recover at home without having to make use of italys vastly overstretched Health System the costs a clear from the tourist sites roads near empty and impressive piazzas deserted how sustainable is all this for a country already on the edge of recession how effective are these measures anyway we cant necessarily say what happens in one country always ups and happens in another country but there are really really important things that china has taught us they had an enormous outbreak vast numbers of cases and they took very very strong measures when you look at the epidemiological curve it was going up like this the numbers and then it starts to flat when they took those actions and has come down very very steeply and yes we want to see that happen in other countries after italy france is europes next worst affected country president macron urged calm but said the countrys epidemic is only just beginning france and germany have been relatively restrained in the measures theyve imposed so far some School Closures and restrictions on Sports Events and public gatherings spain has closed schools in the capital madrid. Ed and suspended its lower house of parliament after an m. P. Tested positive and greece has closed all schools and universities for 2 weeks theyre almost 0 and were now taking care of the children and the grandparents who are the people with the highest risk is if things get complicated because we have to combine our personal life with our work life its complicated everyone must prepare to incorporate coronavirus into their daily lives now its not easy if youre the Prime Minister of the netherlands who announced an official policy of no handshakes before promptly leaning over and shaking hands. Also given your silly story think the job over over over paul brennan aljazeera. Afghanistans president bush afghani has signed a decree that paves the way for the release of some taliban prisoners 1500 will be freed within 15 days return the taliban will hand over 1000 afghan troops and talk to the move will lead to talks between the group and the government the Un Security Council has passed a resolution supporting the deal. I made this life for us in kabul so what does this all mean for those in traffic and talks going forward. Well it should pave the way forward in traffic and talks to start now the taliban have been saying that they wanted all the 5000 prisoners to be released before any negotiations start now it seems through decree that was issued by president that you will have a 1st batch of 1500. 00 that would be released starting saturday 100. 00 per day and after that once to talk start then you will have 500. 00 others released every 2 weeks we havent heard back from the taliban should as well a lot of