Last a move towards reconciliation in south sudan as rival leaders form a unity government in an effort to end years of civil war. And under fire the c. E. O. Of Budget Airline ryanair is criticized after suggesting that muslim men should undergo extra security checks at ports. Welcome to the news are we begin with the u. S. Democratic leadership race and Bernie Sanders has taken an early lead in the nevada caucus the states diverse population is a test of which candidate appeals to voters amongst minority communities only 4 percent of voting stations have reported results but sanders has already claimed victory. Now i know why they had to bring you some pretty good no c. Of that was all of you know we won the popular vote in iowa was we won the New Hampshire primary was no claudie so 3 networks 38 here we have now one there that are thought it was well of honor is the 1st state in the west of the u. S. To hold a caucus on the 1st with a sizable hispanic population nearly a 3rd of his residents identify as a spoiler called tino winning here will help who hispanic voters in states like california and texas on super tuesday next month the democrats have 7 options but one name isnt on the list thats Michael Bloomberg his campaign didnt file in time to participate in the caucus Steve Clemons is an editor at large at the hill and host of aljazeera his new weekly show the bottom line joins us psalms skype from chestertown in maryland good to have you with us on the program steve president has already been tweeting that hed be happy to face Bernie Sanders in november i mean its a long way to go if that ends up being a factual fight so to speak but what do you think that election contest could look like if it was trump versus sunders. Well i think were going to see an incredibly passionate turnout because what is clear about Bernie Sanders at this moment where he is in the Democratic Party and the in the contest that you giving to the socalled moderates is that the intensity of passion for him is about as great in my view as the intensity of action dawdle not a still president from so were going to see if this comes to be and in Bernie Sanders wins the democratic primary i think in incredibly intense election i think donald trump is praying to mess with the minds of the other players things want to run against bernie but i think were seeing something fairly fascinating unfold right now and the margin of victory was really unexpected it might well if we sort of talk about this being a make or break caucus for some of the democrats sort of to keep their campaigns alive i mean like bloomberg is there through a filing technicality but how do you assess sort of the chances considering that hes sort of throwing so much money at as his particular campaign. I dont think theres a single voter that believes in Bernie Sanders over potentially into a Mike Bloomberg column my pfluger has you know incredible amounts of cash reserves to spend without raising a single dollar from any other americans and the problem that he creates is one for joe biden in the obituary and he proved it and so in that space were not even seen in the batteries that now that is important because it is a multigenerational and multiethnic base that really represents the diversity of voters in the Democratic Base much more so than say new am sure in iowa that we have both seen so the real microcosm so far is nevada and in that what we see is a list of the warrant is you know clearly you know in the progressive lean but doing poorly and any quotes are barely registered in this race and thats got to be a great concern to her joe biden is actually constantly but 19 percent in a state like nevada that many people are looking at that barely shocked so i think what were going to see if we kind of roll or work you know biden is very often in about South Carolina and we may see this come in but i think its going to winnow out more quickly than people may have thought given Bernie Sanders indeed is because of the talk about the way that the nevada caucuses souls of panned out people and commentators it would be the thing to have through the evening i mean talk about sort of the margins a victory and whether but he sounds as if he does win as we think he will the nevada caucus how if he does have a large role small margin of victory how that translates and also how important it is to come 2nd and 3rd. Well right now i think 2nd and 3rd are you know there are strings you know that other campaigns are holding on for dear life that proceed that dont get me wrong i dont think that Bernie Sanders is anywhere near to winning the primary its just that he has performed very well head for head against a judge in iowa barely won but did win in New Hampshire and now he has the batter and his National Poll numbers in a c 4 you get in the state by state but the National Poll numbers are incredibly strong and right now he is without a doubt the leading candidate on the democratic side and that worries a lot of centrist democrats who know its not democrats that elect the president United States its political independence so a lot of people are worried that it Bernie Sanders candidacy will alienate those 40 percent of americans who are neither republican nor democrat and they will be handicapped going into a challenge with donald trump well have incredible people in the street but youre going to have a big chunk of americans who find themselves you know at a loss neither liking donald trump perhaps in his behavior in style nor Bernie Sanders and things like medicare for all that many in the middle bill would be a threat to the health care they have so its a fascinating challenge right now because right now 2 days after a lot is Bernie Sanders is in the lead and the Middle Channel of fisons who to judge and amy over chart is a cluttered race its one where there is not a lot of clarity and as you just pointed out my flu bird is lurking in the background ready to pounce and to come into the race with enormous advertisements spies and i think a bigger presence as we look down the road will think its good to go inside to this Steve Clemons for us speaking from the suns very much well lets cross over to rob reynolds our correspondent whos in las vegas and given everything that were saying hey rob. I think you can just about him me with all that noise going on in the background most probably an interesting caucus to watch in nevada we do seem to be on the verge of having a winner in the form of Bernie Sanders. Rob rob rentals in las vegas can you hear me rob. Thats right so hail im in a tavern on a davies 3 bar where all a lot of the volunteers and Campaign Workers for senator state sanders gather earlier they listen to his victory speech they cheered now theyre celebrating and theyre really. Yes i can hear you yes hello i didnt hear you think theres a lot i mean thats a very long term also yeah theres a very long delay roll by this particular line yes please do carry on into saying that Bernie Sanders says not when were in a bar where a lot of the Bernie Sanders supporters have been gathering there were cheering wildly earlier when senator sanders gave his victory speech now 2. Yes and i think yes so held up the sanders is now a step closer to possibly the nomination he certainly sealed his position as front runner in the democratic race with this very convincing victory hes in texas tonight he was not here but hes moved on to one of the big super tuesday states in texas where he said he will be able to win in texas on super tuesday and if he does very well there he will be a very strong bet to be nominated by the Democratic Party to oppose donald trump now the on the other hand the losers in this race including moderates like he put a judge say that is precisely the thing that theyre worried about they say that Bernie Sanders agenda is too rigidly. Ideological and that he will not be able to win in november against donald trump so far that hasnt really done a lot of good with. Democratic voters they have gone for Bernie Sanders despite all of those dire warnings from the centrists and so tonight sanders looks like hes in a good position hes got some momentum and if he can do it again if he can do well with this multigenerational multi racial. Kolisch and that he describes tonight in places like california and texas and other states on super tuesday he will be by far the most formidable candidate in the democratic race or leave it there for now of course thanks very much robert oulds there in las vegas no apologies 12 years there are old you might say technical delays you can imagine i want the collections alike on a very busy night there in las vegas but plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including could a half century grip on power continue and counting is under way into going to president ial election. Also forced people spitta locations a secret we need the doctors in syria being targeted by air strikes but in sport event a scant some breathing space at the top of the italian table peter they see tells. The spread of the corona virus is growing outside of china with italy seeing the worst outbreak in europe its reported at least 79. 00 cases and 2 deaths most of them in the lombardy and benito regions now the government says it will forcibly locked down affected areas. In zones considered hotspots need the entry or exit will be authorized without special permission. In iran a 6th death from growth a virus was reported on saturday with 28 infections infected travelers from the country have been diagnosed in canada in lebanon and the United Arab Emirates china has reported increase in new infections in the epicenter of the outbreak in hebrew province they found 630 cases on saturday up from 366 the previous day well we have 2 correspondents on the story Robert Bryant is at the hospital in south korea will be speaking to him it in a moment but 1st lets speak to wayne hey whos in hong kong and wayne i mean the numbers have been up and down these past few days there seems to be no rhyme or reason to any sort of trend that can be identified. No i think thats right its worth noting that its now being one month since the city of honde at the epicenter of this outbreak went into lockdown a remarkable situation an entire city basically closed off to the outside world so its been very difficult to get an accurate picture of exactly what has been going on there youre right the latest figures released by the Health Authorities in beijing for a province which is where we han city is located show an increase in the number of an oven fictions for saturday compared with friday but we have to say overall recently anyway the trend has been heading in the right direction certainly the number of new fatalities reported on sunday morning was less than the previous day but certainly too early to celebrate there are plenty of notes of caution still being issued by both the government in beijing and also of course the World Health Organization and one of the reasons for the numbers fluctuating recently is because the government has been changing the way it has been testing suspected coronavirus cases in who bay province we may get an a more accurate picture of whats going on there in the days ahead there is a team of experts from the w. H. O. On the ground in wu han city this is a effect finding mission there looking at a variety of situations theyre concerned with the outbreak and how the government has been trying to contain the outbreak one of the things that its believed they are looking at is the cases of transmissions within the hospital so people going into the hospital who may have other complaints over the course of the past month or so or indeed medical stuff who are working in those medical physicists facilities who contract ing the virus so thats one of the areas that looking at we know back during the sars outbreak in china in 20022003 that hospital transmissions were a big problem so things that they die. Experts will be learning on the ground the city will prove vital for other countries who are really only just beginning to deal with their own outbreaks and of course well continue to monitor events with you through the day from hong kong thank you wayne and lets cross over to rob bride whos in county in south korea so the latest figures that have just been released today make for encouraging reading. We are seeing a similar kind of increase to what we had at the same time yesterday saturday the figures as you mentioned are just being released 123. 00 you cases bringing the total now in south korea to 556. 00 so still this steady increase and we also have been told that there have been 2 more fatalities bringing the total now to 4 now 3 of those fatalities are linked to where we are here this is a hospital the main hospital in chong go county remember there are 2 main clusters that were dealing with here down in the south east of south korea daegu city which is neighbors this county and a very serious cluster of deaths sorry of the cases that happened at this hospital well over 100 staff and patients to court the coronavirus sadly quite a few of those patients were in a psychiatric unit here up on the 5th floor of this hospital a place of confinement where the corona virus spread very rapidly making a number of people sick when the authorities realized just how serious it was this cluster they immediately put this whole hospital into lockdown any staff who were inside were told to stay put stay at their stations patients who were sick with the coronavirus many of them were transferred out some with milder conditions were kept in here and this whole facility now has been converted and dedicated to dealing with this outbreak with extra medical staff being sent in here this is one of the measures that they are taking along with the berries other measures in this part of south korea to try to contain this outbreak. Well thanks for the update do thank you. Now the World Health Organization has warned African Health systems will be ill equipped to deal with the outbreak with partner support we have gone from having only 2 countries with Laboratory Testing for covert 19 a few weeks ago to now 26 countries that have been confirmed in the afro region that have the capacities to test for this and we were building on an already established Influenza Laboratory network we anticipating that by the end of february all 47 Member States of the afro region will have this capacity. The International Monetary fund is warning that the spread of corona virus will have a negative impact on the World Economy we still project as the most likely scenario a v. Shaped impact of the virus in which a very abrupt significant drop in china will be for open by fairly rapid recovery. And the spillover to the rest of the world. Would be moderate christmas is a consultant brawler just on the naked scientist he said that while the break will likely continue to spread Health Authorities do have some control. Well obviously anyone catching an Infectious Disease and catching it in large numbers is concerning but this is kind of what we expected to happen and its kind of mirroring what happened in china because if you remember if you caution my back to the beginning of january there was just a handful of cases in will have which were linked to a Seafood Market and within a month those handful of cases that turned into thousands of people every single day so from very small acorns big oak trees can grow and thats sort of what we expect with the source of outbreaks because you get a small number of people who start the fire burning and then it spreads quite rapidly this is quite Infectious Disease everyone is potentially susceptible to it because its never circulated before so very quickly with an infectious illness that can spread via the air youre going to get big numbers and thats what were seeing theres no way that we can stop this and the reason that i say that is that with an infectious outbreak in a major center like well have which has been very closely linked to many other cities by air travel people moving over land except for and then subsequently evidence of spread in other geographies is obvious that this is already spreading outside china weve got an infectious entity so we know this is going to its only going to get bigger so im not surprised by this theres no way were going to be a completely stop this and put the lid on it because too many people have had it and its gone too far but what we should be putting the emphasis on is the control of the rate at which is brets because that is something we can do something about. Iraq is the ticket quarantine areas aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus thats as neighboring iran reports its 6 deaths from the disease theres fears that hundreds of thousands of iranian visitors to holy sites in iraq could spread the virus rob matheson reports from the iraqi capital. These quarantine wards in baghdad are part of iraqs frontline against the covert 19 strain of corona virus many of the rooms and corridors are sterilized and sealed a nurse recorded these pictures from aljazeera recently iraqis arriving from china have been tested here even though they werent showing any symptoms me