Unveils plans to try to resolve the real life in the mass caused by Artificial Intelligence. Hello china is reporting a significant drop in the number of new coronavirus cases and thats after a medical authorities reverted back to only blood tests to diagnose symptoms beijing has been taking a series of drastic steps in recent weeks to fight code 19 which has killed over 2100 people right across the country and there were only 394 confirmed cases on wednesday thats down from nearly 7800 the day before 114 people have died in the past 24 hours and the cruise ship diamond princess which has the highest number of confirmed cases outside of china has just reported its 1st casualties 2 passengers both japanese nationals in their eightys died after being taken to hospitals where the middle east to has experienced its 1st casualties 2 elderly people have died in irans home province and schools and universities have been closed on thursday to stop further spread of the disease. In a moment well be live in yokohama japan thats where the ship we mentioned is still docks well get an update from Robert Wright hes standing by for us over there but 1st lets bring in katrina you shes joining us from beijing katrina to 1st tell us what moral authority is are saying about the drop in the number of new cases and why theyve changed their screening methods. Thats right so up until a few hours ago we had the number of confirmed cases at about 75000 and now its chopped considerably its more around the 56000 mark as you mention in the reason that were given is that the authorities have changed the way that theyre diagnosing coronavirus cases again so last week we had a jump in about and we sort about 20000 cases added to that list because they were saying that they were expanding the ways that doctors are able to diagnose kovan 19 so what china has been doing since january is using this one type of test this nucleic acid test to test for covert 19 and there were some complaints about this test people said that it mainly it took too long for us to receive a result about 2 to 3 days and so the what they did last week is that they expanded it and said that doctors can clinically diagnosed patients using things like c. T. Scans and lung x. Rays so what theyve done now is they seem to have reversed that decision and gone back to using just this nucleic acid test to confirm cases of chronic virus patients and one of the reasons is that because having this number they saying using the clinically diagnosed method was pushing down the mortality rate it was giving a skewed a skewed version of the mortality rate maybe giving people the impression that this disease was not as deadly as it actually is so now theyve changed that and the numbers are down the Chinese Government is saying its continuing to say that this is there is a downward trend in this corona virus and that its looking good because weve seen as you mention about 394. 00 cases over the last 24 hours which is the 1st time weve actually seen a number below 1000 when it comes to new cases reported on a day to day basis which is good and at the same time were seeing more cases of patients who have been cured of the krona virus i think 800 today so that seems to be a good trend but we cant be complacent with this because we have to look at the fatality rate the fatality rate of. People dying from covert 1000 is still quite steady weve had more than 110 deaths in the past 24 hours including as you mentioned 2 deaths in iraq and theres 2 deaths in japan other governments are also becoming more aware of this and trying to raise their alert level certainly in south korea there has been concerns there about 31 new cases over the past 24 hours adding to their case load of easy runs particularly the city of daegu and theyre talking about having a paradigm shift to address the way theyre doing but the outbreak there because of these concerns ok katrina thank you for that update from beijing lets now bring in rob mcbride hes joining us from york to hama in japan and the train i was just mentioning the faith toilets the numbers and now were getting reports of 2 people who have died on that cruise ship the diamond Princess Royal what more are you hearing. Thats right these reports started to emerge throughout this thursday morning and in the last few minutes it has now been confirmed by japans Health Ministry it is a man and woman both in their eightys who we believe died in hospital here but obviously became infected board this ship weve seen in the past few days im bill it says continue to take passengers off with their sirens blaring off to off to hospital as some of them the symptoms develop they become gradually sicker has to be said there is a real range of infection from the people who do become infected onboard this ship some people do show symptoms and they get taken off to hospital other people we understand that they are found to be positive for the virus they carry get theyve been infected but dont show any symptoms and weve been seeing as people have been evacuated starting this disembarkation process yesterday wednesday and over the next couple of days we see that as well as people people who have been given a clean bill of health leaving this vessel other convoys of coaches leaving on the police escort. With some of those infected people on board to be. Looked after at shore facilities so this whole process continues but these 2 deaths certainly have raised concerns just about this whole quarantine process thats been going on here the japanese all over 2 years are confident they say that said this is being handled as well as it can be but a lot of other countries do not share that sense of confidence we know that they have been organizing special charter flights to bring that people out and still go through more quarantine when they all brought brought out weve heard for example just in the last hour from indonesia that there you have 73 nationals on board and they certainly want to get those people out as quickly as possible so this has certainly raised concerns here all right rob thank you for that update the former new york mayor a billionaire Mike Bloomberg has come under attack from rival democrats and their debate just days ahead of the caucus in the state of nevada this is the media moguls very 1st debate as he was a late entry in the race to take on donald trump in novembers election he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on Television Ads 5 other candidates are debating in las vegas so bloomberg is up against a veteran senator Bernie Sanders who tops a Reuters Ipsos poll with 25 percent of registered democrats and independents saying theyll vote for him former mayor has surged to 2nd place in the poll on 17 percent that but it puts him ahead of Barack Obamas former Vice President joe biden who started as a front runner but now only manages 13 percent. Edged out sanders an i one finished a close 2nd in New Hampshire has 11 percent senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts will be fighting for her political survival shes currently at 9 percent on the minnesota senator amy close our rounds of the pack with 5 percent she did manage 3rd place in the New Hampshire primary though. Lets talk about the democratic debates with Alan Schroeder hes a professor at Northeastern University and author of president ial debates Risky Business on the campaign trail hes joining us from albuquerque thats a new mexico hi there thanks for speaking to us on aljazeera so lets just look at the broader picture and then well drill down into the candidates specifically what stood out for you in this debate how would you describe what you saw well i think all eyes were on Mike Bloomberg in this debate because as you mentioned it was his 1st one and i think a lot of people were really interested in checking him out you know people who dont who arent that familiar with him wanted to see how he did and frankly it was not a good performance for him you know weve been reading that he spent weeks and weeks and weeks in intensive rehearsals preparing for this debate but it really didnt show and you sort of see that hes not only an outsider in the sense of not being like the other candidates on the stage but in his lack of preparation that he just didnt quite fit in with the program there what does bloomberg says entry though in todays democratic debate mean for the entire race its 1st time weve seen him. Right and you know hes been spending as you said heavily on advertising but a debate is really a different kind of test you know in advertising you can position yourself however you want to you dont have to answer for anything but what really struck me about bloomberg in this debate was that he did have to answer for a lot of controversy positions he took as mayor of new york city and the other candidates on the stage were not going to let him get away with much of anything so he seemed a little to me unprepared for that in spite of having done a lot of rehearsal in advance of the debate so i dont know that the other candidates necessarily have to worry about him although the billions of dollars that he have has or you know are going to be spent Going Forward his candidacy will remain alive i just dont think this debate helped him in any way well lets look at the other candidates how did Bernie Sanders do in defending his leading position i mean looking at the polls or the latest right Reuters Ipsos poll that weve seen at least putting him at 25 percent of registered democrats so how did he fare in this debate i thought he was pretty good in this debate you know it was a really interesting contrast between bloomberg the billionaire in Bernie Sanders who is a literally said that he does not think billionaires ought to exist so i think you know bernie also has the advantage here of having been in previous debates this cycle so he felt a little more comfortable on the stage and i think as the front runner that gives him some comfort as well you know when youre the front runner maybe you dont have to work quite as hard as the people who are falling behind and for joe biden and liz and those both warren i mean presumably they must be looking to widen their base after sort of failing to meet early expectations in New Hampshire and iowa so heading into have next week the nevada caucuses is it a little too late for them. Well it might not be too late for joe biden he has a lot of institutional strength in nevada i think warren is probably in a weaker position but what i really notice about both of them in this debate tonight was they they seemed almost a little desperate you know its tough when youre falling in the polls and youre trying to regain some standing but sort of felt like in this debate they were trying really hard to get there or momentum back and im not sure that either one of them accomplished that and just finally i have you with us let me ask you about people to judge and amy club us are how would you rate their performance this evening. Well all along i think both of them have been very strong debaters and i think in general have a very good night again in nevada and you mentioned that she was the 3rd place winner in New Hampshire largely on the basis of a debate performance but a judge is just this incredibly articulate man who is able to sort of describe complicated things in a way that people can understand so i think if i had a clear winners for these debates where this debate tonight i would say boo to judge and colbert sure came out ahead now whether that translates into victory or even you know a highly placed showing in nevada thats another question all right Alan Schroeder great to have you with us thanks very much for joining us on aljazeera thank you at least 8 people have been killed in 2 shootings in germany they happened a short time apart and bars in the western city of her now thats near frankfurt and police are now looking for the suspects and fled the scene in a car according to a local newspaper one person has been detained. Still ahead on aljazeera coming up in just a moment were in argentina and we look at the raging debate around abortion rights details coming up. How we got yet more unsettled weather spilling in across the middle east over the next couple of days as we go on through thursday cloud right sleet and snow that will tumble across parts of syria outs of that eastern side of turkey pushing across iran through the caucasus southern end of the caspian sea summer all the wintry weather coming in behind brightest guys to come in behind that for a time as we go on through the tempter here in doha 28 celsius as a system makes its way further raceways itll tumble but a small way in setting it 23 degrees the top temperature on friday afternoon and by friday we will see some wetter weather just spilling back came across southern posits very cyprus and yet heading back towards the levant so meanwhile we have clear skies across northern parts of africa but a few showers just around the east as side of the country around the highlands well see some wet weather coming in here from time to time into burundi and this bad season showers some longer spells of fine a little further south through kenya down into northern parts of tanzania will see some wet weather just coming through over the next a dial so the show is actually stretch across a good part all of Southern Africa so well see some showers there into angola and also into namibia and staying a little disturbed south africa. A unique kid endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of ecuadors tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about a city i knew most of which half here and now that probably alleges becoming boss other self bus or mission their communities out there are journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist untouched teams efforts to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuadors Hidden Treasure on aljazeera. Were to be aware to. Well again the top stories on aljazeera chinas who they province the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak has reported fewer new infections on wednesday as compared to the day before thats after all thor it is referred back to just blood tests to diagnose and since. 2 elderly people who are on board a cruise ship that have been quarantined in japan for 14 days have now died from the virus those were the 1st deaths on the passenger liner which has the highest number of cases after Mainland China. Former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg has come under attack from liable democrats in their debate just before the caucus in the state of nevada is the media moguls very 1st debate as he was a late entry in the race to take on donald trump in november. Well the u. N. Has warned of catastrophic human suffering in syria the government and its allies continue their bombardment of the last rebel strongholds in the northwest turkey says it will launch another military operation in syria unless the government ends its assault mike hanna has more from the United Nations we have missed repeated violent confrontations between turkish and Syrian Government forces were of support the Russian Federation is actively engaged in support of the Syrian Governments military operation u. N. Special envoy offers a bleak view of the political crisis in syria which in turn has resulted in a devastating humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate on a daily basis close to a 1000000 displaced people being squeezed into an ever decreasing space by advancing front lines on all sides i am getting daily reports of babies and other Young Children dying in the cold. Imagine the grief of a parent who escaped a war zone with their child only to watch that child freeze to death many members contend the crisis is a direct consequence of Russian Support can only and with the plea to our russian colleagues to stop the support of syria if you tell the syrians that there is no longer military support to the Syrian Regime they will have to stop the onslaught on their own population so we will get one school colleague to my german colleagues we will not stop supporting the legitimate government of syria which is conducting a legitimate fight against International Terrorists how can you justify carrying out such indiscriminate and inhumane attacks what are you doing to uphold International Humanitarian law what are you doing to protect the people who are fleeing where do you expect those people to flee to and another question posed by the u. S. Ambassador the question i asked before the council today then what will tomorrows headline be and what are we going to do about it the answer today as it has been on so many occasions in the Security Council before nothing the Security Council has been deeply divided since the very beginning of the syrian conflict russia has wielded its veto on 14 occasions preventing any form of united Security Council action in the face of what is becoming the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century the International Community appears unable to act political interests continuing to take priority over the suffering of millions of civilians. Mike hanna aljazeera United Nations. And turkeys president has warned hes ready to launch a military offensive against Syrian Government forces of damascus doesnt