And their locks to. A rising death toll tally is hit by the worst sectarian violence in decades as hindus and muslims come to blows over a controversial citizenship. And Hillary Clinton drops by at the Brooklyn InternationalFilm Festival to set the record straight with a documentary about her failed bid to become the us president. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we begin with the latest on the corona Virus Outbreak another virus emerged in december in the chinese city of han now it is spreading across the globe more than 81000 infections have now been registered worldwide to 30000 of those have now recovered but the World Health Organization is. Warning that the world is not prepared for a pandemic as more countries join the list of those affected a brazilian has reported the 1st confirmed case in latin america and 19 deaths have been reported in iran one of the countries that seen a spike in infections in recent days but so far south Korea Remains the country with the highest number infection of infections outside of china the outbreak is centered on the city of daegu but the disease has spread from there to infect almost 1300 people. So screen children will be cooped up in their homes as schools across the country remain closed to combat the spread of covert 19 gun me res office also closed leaving her to look after her 2 sons and try to keep them busy. The kids study cook for them at home watch t. V. And sometimes play board games together and spend time reading books i wont let them keep the ball around in here but they will get bored. As a child psychologist ms khan worries about her childrens wellbeing she says that relatives of those afflicted are more likely to develop phobias but her main concern is the virus itself so 3 is recorded near a 1000 cases and more than 10 deaths. The virus has spread around hospitals near my workplace so i was worried about getting it when i went to work and because they can stay at home all the time sometimes they meet friends but again ive already about them catching the virus at anyone along the road i have the virus 9000 cases have been reported in all major provinces kindergartens elementary middle and high schools have been shattered by the government for 2 weeks many universities have postponed the beginning of the Spring Semester and Chinese Students returning here face a 2 week quarantine. 1000 cases in south korea spiked after a 61 year old woman now called patient number 31 attended several meetings of a fringe religious group. In early february despite suffering a fever and cold like symptoms and evading quarantine mainstream pastors now suspending services to their congregations blame the group viewed by many as a cult and its lack of civic duty for spreading the virus vision junji church and super spreader patient number 31. 00 have been identified as the source of more than half of the countrys known coded 900. 00 cases a special force including Health Officials are racing to locate Church Members for testing as concern grows the virus may spread nationwide that report from correspondent frank smith and he joins us from seoul for more on this story hi frank south korea does have the highest number of infections outside of china are thought is theyre worried that they cannot contain this outbreak. Certainly they are theyve floated ideas about how they might isolate. Itself but again generated more worry about that potential mim measure there are now 284. 00 new cases here in south korea with a total of 1261. 00 thats up from just 51 last week and now we have 12 deaths reported here in the country the outbreak is centered around daegu in that sort of church like cult but i mention. Tell us more about that cult franken who is this group are they cooperating with authorities. Ok well its in judges official name is the church of jesus temple of the tabernacle of the testimony 88. 00. Year old leader and he claims to be the 2nd coming of jesus. You dont new recruits to the group often give up their entire lives and neglecting their family and neglecting their work in order to join initially there was a lot of criticisms because the group apparently posted on their website instructing members not to cooperate with authorities and continue proselytizing actually on the president ial website here in south korea theres a petition to disband. In the country entirely. And frank as we said this comes as this outbreak continues to expand i mean what impact has this had on life in south korea. Well i mentioned in that report schools and churches but it goes far d beyond that all kinds of Public Institutions of across the country have been shuttered including sports venues feeders museums its really the impact is across all social life here in south korea additionally rallies in the capital have been banned although there is apparently another rally scheduled to happen this sunday and they intend to go ahead and again have a large demonstration although there is also another petition on the president ial web site calling for a banning of chinese from entering the country because of course the center of this contagion is china and south korean government has been hesitant really to prevent visitation from from all over china and just prevented visitors and travelers from that one hubie a province all right correspondent frank smith reporting from seoul thank you very much well italy has confirmed that 12 people there have now died from the corona virus 374 people have been infected a one day increase of almost a half it comes as other European Countries are recording their 1st cases experts believe travelers are carrying the virus from italy which is the epicenter of the outbreak in europe they include one of 2 new cases in germany italys Health Minister and has been hosting emergency talks with ministers from neighboring countries and germany to discuss a joint response heres what he had to say. We shared some important points to strengthen our cooperation and stick together. Among these the most important point is to keep the borders open and closing borders would be inappropriate disproportionate and wrong. All countries bordering italy have committed to share and standardize information and to share epidemiological and medical information. Scientists are working hard to develop a vaccine against the corona virus but it is a time consuming process a number of labs around the world are working on developing one including the university of hong kong back in 2003 it was the 1st to isolate the sars virus got me as charlotte shell some pill visited the researchers there to see firsthand what theyre doing to help the time. So what were looking at cells which have been grown in culture and on the surface so all these thousands and thousands of small particles just weeks ago this virus was on name to science now understanding these images is key to saving lives Professor John nicholls and his team at Hong Kong University studying how the new coronavirus replicates in human cells their work is already shedding light on its mortality rate why its proving less deadly than related virus sun in size it really started right taking in the lungs and less in the proximal the upper airway but this far seems to be more likely at this stage of records in the airways than in the lungs and which is good to sit back and explain why its not as dangerous as sars understanding how the virus replicates could ultimately shape the way its diagnosed and even how its treated. This isnt the 1st time scientists have been on the forefront of the battle against a deadly virus as specialists in emerging viral infections they found themselves at the center of the 2003 cells epidemic here at this university that may just strides are made in the fight for far as that experience an extra proof its role being harnessed to combat the fire of today the university was the 1st to isolate the virus which cools cells present manik paris is among those critics it with controlling the outbreak he says while the mortality rate for covert 19 may be lower its spreading more rapidly and could even be transmitted before patients develop symptoms theres no question that this is more than saws and more difficult to control because unless you really get people very you have them by so that britain but you know mission is challenging that is with saws that cost possible. The university is working on of vaccine bought it still months away back in 2003 candidate vaccines for saws were also developes but funding was cut once the virus was brought under control and a vaccine never produced professor mannix says if we could been able to progress further that be better prepared today even if we are able to dodge the bullet this time and im not sure that definitely will be another time but i dont think we can keep dodging these bullets forever one of these days were really going to have a major epidemic that really disrupts you know the global economies global lifestyles and things we take for granted so i think its time but the Global Community particularly the konami community. Took this very seriously there is a race against time as covered 19 continues its spread around the world a professor manic warning the prospect of a Global Pandemic is now touching day. Now to some other stories making headlines around the world at the democratic president ial debate in Charleston South Carolina candidates took aim at front runner Bernie Sanders sanders has been able to extend his lead over the past weeks but former Vice President joe biden says he is still confident that he will win the states upcoming primary. Protesters on the greek island of lessons have clashed with riot police for a 2nd day they are objecting to plans to build a camp for up to 7000 migrants the original Governors Office is on the protesters side its called a 24 hours straight. And Syrian Government airstrikes on the rebel controlled region killed at least 16 people and struck a School Building on tuesday according to opposition activists Government Forces backed by russia are advancing steadily as they try to take the last rebel held stronghold almost a 1000000 people have been displaced by the latest fighting. Germanys highest court has lifted a ban on assisted suicide ruling it unconstitutional the landmark decision by the Constitutional Court clarifies the situation after a law passed in 2015 effectively banned doctors from helping patients and their lives critics argue that the law that the terminally ill of the right to determine their own death todays verdict will allow doctors to advise patients and provide them with lethal drugs although doctors will not be allowed to administer those drugs themselves and heres what the president of the court said in delivering the worldling. Einsteinian an individual decides to end their own life based on their own passionate experience of their life on the sense of the meaning of their own existence and this decision cannot be judged on the basis of general religious ruling social models on the way we deal with life and death and considerations of water subjectively viewed as reasonable it needs no further justification and reasoning rather its an act of autonomy selfdetermination and must be respected as such by the state on society. All right our chief Political Editor michelle is following this story for us hi michelle can you explain to us what exactly that statement from the Constitutional Court. Well it really means that the interpretation of the inviolability of Human Dignity which here in the constitution is the 1st paragraph on the right to selfdetermination the 2nd one amounts essentially to a right to suicide and this overturns the very basis of this more restrictive law that see doctors say at the very least in the gray zone when they even gave advice over potential suicide and left many patients with no other option than to leave the country many went to switzerland no those rights of patients have been strengthened in fact we saw the Constitutional Rights here read into the right to selfdetermination also the right to commit suicide no matter what situation you are personally in the judge saying that we may regret we may try everything but in the end one has to accept the decision of an individual to kill themselves to commit suicide no matter what the circumstances are what is the impact of this michel and what does this mean for people who want to help want help by ending their lives here in germany. Well it means that it will get easier for them to get access to doctors that doctors and there arent that terribly many doctors who are willing to go that step to actually assist in suicide even when patients are in a very dire situation but at least they will be decriminalised they wont have to fear punishment up to 3 years in prison any more in the future at the same time this will most likely go back to lawmakers who very well can impose restrictions and one thing was clearly also ruled out today that from this liberty to take your own life that any right to be receive any assistant can be deducted so patients dont have the right to receive the medical treatment that they seek if the intention is suicide or there are certainly strong voices opposing assisted suicide as well however they reacted. Well of course this is a bad day for those who saw a duty to protect people from their own decision but this is a very essential basic decision and that leaves no doubt that in the end as long as people are in a clear mind and can take this decision they will be able to in the future are at our chief Political Editor michel because and i thank you. Now egypt is holding a military funeral for former president Hosni Mubarak amid 3 days of official mourning mubarak died on tuesday at the age of 91. 00 president i dont have to assisi is presiding over the funeral mubaraks coffin was exported escorted to a mosque and then to the Burial Ground for a private family ceremony mubarak ruled egypt autocratically for 30 years before being ousted in the arab spring protests of 2011 he was a key ally of the west which saw him as a guarantor of regional stability but to many who was a tyrant and he still divides opinion in egypt. We can get more on the funeral now from correspondent Ruth Michelson she joins us on the line from cairo hired ruth apart from the funeral with full military honors how is egypt officially honoring mubarak. Well youre right wishing plenty of pomp and circumstance amid the funerals full military honors of Hosni Mubarak his is buried we also saw the various state institutions know to be the presidency in egypt. Really statements about honoring mubaraks time in the egyptian assholes and honoring him as a war hero but doing little to acknowledge his record as a political leader despite the fact that he was in office but that he is now ruth what is the mubaraks legacy in egypt i mean how is he being remembered by you just shiens well thats a good question i mean i think its fair to say that there are 2 kinds of memory that are happening here theres the 1st is the image that is being put forward by the Egyptian State which focuses entirely on him with a figure of stability and military honor but gives very little mention to the brutal autocratic was the regime that he kept in place because he is and so for many egyptians they will remember him as we take cruelty of figures to. Strengthen state institutions like the police and security against the egyptian people and of course they will remember him face overthrow in 2011 that he was a symbol of a regional dictator that could be toppled by popular movements with that tight fisted rule how much of that still remains in todays egypt which is we should say again under the rule of a military leader. Well i mean i think its fair to say that these 2 leaders to halt they are 2 options the same cult there are many egyptians that see a lot of continuation in the rule of sisi from the time of mubarak but the state institutions like secret Services Parts of the state while theyre at the designed to spy on the egyptian populace of stronger than ever these are the parts that most egyptians experience in their everyday lives and so so many will barge will in some ways never ended. All right correspondent Ruth Michelson speaking to us on the phone there from cairo thank you so much for joining us. Now indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is appealing for calm after 3 days of sectarian riots that have rocked the capital delhi authorities have deployed riot police and Paramilitary Forces to areas where violence erupted during demonstrations for and against a new citizenship law at least 20 people have lost their lives critics say the legislation that was introduced by these hindu nationalist government is biased against muslims and undermines the countrys secular constitution. For more on the story we can bring indeed abuse many to childish he joins us from delhi high monita what is the situation there and jelly today. Well so me after 3 years of violence the situation seems better to do there have been or major news reports since the morning of any for the while its breaking out all of the area the northeast of delhi where which was right affected is still tense there is still heavy Police Presence in the area theyre going door to door to assure people of their presence to tell them that they are there to prevent any further weiland from breaking out s