South koreas announced emergency measures to try to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak there 156 confirmed cases make it now the worst affected country outside china within the past 24 hours one persons died theres been a surge of 52 new cases most of them linked to a church in the Southern City of daraa give you the citys mayor has urged millions to stay home and wear face masks meanwhile in the capital seoul Mass Gatherings and rallies have been banned and in japan the last of the passengers deemed healthy on board a korean teen ship are now being allowed to go home theyve been more than 500. 00 cases of infections on the vessel and theres been criticism about whether quarantine measures have actually been effective meanwhile in china a 118 more deaths were reported on thursday along with over 1100 new infections well go live to asia and brown in hong kong about the developments on the mainland in a while 1st so heres rob mcbride with the latest from south korea. This all happene
Tribute to the victims of a far right extremist attack in germany. Mary rain is a voting in parliamentary elections under the shadow of economic sanctions the turnout is expected to be low thousands of candidates have been barred from running by the National Guardian council which is irans constitutional watchdog and it includes dozens of members of the Current Parliament the u. S. Has responded by imposing new sanctions on member members of that council accusing them of rigging the election well go live to our correspondent. She is in tehran so iranians certainly those in tehran of a heeding the call of the Supreme Leader to turn out in large numbers. Walt its so early in the day but we are seeing a number of people that have lined up at the small square were each is a levy mosque in east terror on they have lined up over the past 2 and a half hours since the polls opened here and many of them weve been speaking to say it is their National Jewish duty to vote regardless of whether or
Thousands pay tribute to the victims of a far right extremist attack in germany. A rainy and the voting in parliamentary elections under the shadow of economic sanctions the turnout is expected to be rather low thousands of candidates have been barred from running by the Guardian Council thats irans constitutional watchdog and it includes thousands of members of parliament the u. S. Has responded by imposing new sanctions or members of that council accusing them of rigging the election dosage of arias our correspondent in tehran the iranian capital of people coming out then in large numbers as the Supreme Leader has urged them to. Well i think its a bit too early to say whether or not the turnout has been large in numbers its been only just over 4 hours since the polls opened here we are in a mosque in. Is where we are and i just 1st want to show you what the voting process looks like here the people line up outside the mosque and they make their way in where they register electronical
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