Suitors Prime Minister is back home to face charges relating to the murder of his former wife. And in love with India Donald Trump announces a 3000000000. 00 weapon steal as he aims to boost his reelection chances with Indian American voters. Uninstaller bron james leads the way as the l. A. Lakers are just their rivals to Boston Celtics on the same court kobe bryants memorial will be held later on monday. Welcome to the news out of the shop the increase in corona virus cases outside of china is causing alarm at the World Health Organization there are now confirmed cases across the middle east and east asia in iran the Health Ministry says 12 people have died its dismissed claims from an m. P. Who says that figure is close to 50. Kuwait bahrain iraq and afghanistan have all reported cases of infected travelers coming from iran and this spectacle thats the China NationalPeoples Congress one of the largest worlds political gathering has been postponed this year its been delayed for the 1st time now in decades south koreas parliament has also canceled mondays meetings while workers disinfected the building another spike in cases there puts its nationwide toll at over 800. 00 in europe 3 more have died in italys north bringing the total there to 7 there are almost 200 cases there the highest concentration outside of asia on a moment well have reports from all of the affected regions but 1st katrina you begins our coverage from china where more than 2500 people have been killed. Across china the coronaVirus Outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijings great hall of the people. Every much the venue puts the countrys most important political event the National Peoples congress but chinas top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gathering urging its 3000 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing cases over the weekend bring the total to about 400. 00 many are still too afraid to return to work. As best their 100 days. We already have iraq to people ok the office. I thought a subway to work was going to be packed but theyre actually warned many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have originated in a 100 wildlife and seafood market. New coronavirus cases and to tell it is have been concentrated. 24 of chinas 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered Emergency Response levels president xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and hes encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart operations were possible. Means industries which are the National Economy and peoples livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operation resumption and working out a full swing to increase production its the 1st time chinas National Peoples congress has been delayed decades so far no new date has been set but analysts say when the is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally its socalled war against the corona Virus Outbreak. Aljazeera. Chinas Foreign Ministry has issued a warning to the wall street journal 3 of its journalists were expels after the paper published a headline calling china the real sick man of asia men day. Faced with malicious humiliation and smearing china will not be a silent the newspaper claim that news reports and commentary are relatively independent from each other making all sorts of excuses for no reason who is in charge of the wall street journal who will come forward to apologize if the wall street journal has though does it it we liked such insults then why not have the courage to apologize there is only one wall street journal in the world since the newspaper went with its own way it should bear the corresponding consequences. Now we have correspondents in the United States and the middle east reporting on the fallout of the coronavirus epidemic kristen salumi is in new york keeping track of the impact on u. S. Markets shell be live with us in a few moments but 1st lets go to a set by a guy who is in tehran i said officially the death toll in iran is 12 point one and he says its much much higher whats happening. Well theres been an extraordinary clash in the world goods between this m. P. For the city of qom thats the epicenter of the outbreak of the corner of us here in iran i meet a body has said that its actually 50 people that have died he acknowledged that not maybe not all 50 had died from the krona virus but he did criticize the government and said that the performance had been 0 he said that nurses dont have the right uniforms on are fearful of patients he said that the government didnt care about the disease and that the virus had been present in iran for at least 3 weeks but the government had delayed announcing that he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and he called upon the Health Ministry to put the city of call on the quarantine now the Deputy Health minister has responded to i mean about the you know he denied that 50 people had died he said if it was even a half that number he would submit his resignation now i mean nobody responded to that and said that he had sent the names of those that had died to the Health Ministry and hes expecting that resignation now the head of the Health Ministry the Health Minister has also been speaking he said that iran is dealing with the situation. We need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions id like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter or to treat and we will see everything in a clear way. Now iran is finding itself increasingly isolated pakistan has said that the concern about the outbreak of the virus in a closed border to iran thats in addition to flights been suspended between kuwait iraq afghanistan and now oman so theres flights that been suspended between these countries and the land border between iran and iran has been closed but the mood here and drawn from what weve been seeing weve been seeing greater number of people during the last spring because of this disinfectant in Public Places some gyms have been closed cafes have been closed schools and universities remain closed and there is concern this is a state of panic but this concern there is fear to a certain extent people all scared but people are also questioning the official government account and that thats said bike there live from tehran the virus is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the Global Economy stock markets in asia europe and the u. S. Fell on monday following the surge in cases and deaths across the globe christian salumi is live for us now in new york kristin so the dows open just in the past 30 minutes whats the latest. Well just after opening bell the dow jones plunged almost a 1000 points its recovered from that slightly but the markets are down across a broad range of sectors the s. And p. And dow now down about 2 and a half percent were seeing oil prices down as a result of demand being low Airline Stocks tech stocks of course china is the manufacturing hub of the Global Economy in the global trade route so again this is having an effect across a wide range of sectors tech just friday apple had great better than expected performance reaching new highs now its down more than 3 percent teslas down delta and american on the airline front also getting hit particularly hard this is following on asian markets being down and news of the corona virus spreading as word has gotten out that new cases were reported in south korea and italy in particular theres worry about the impact spreading beyond china to other parts of the supply chain parts of northern italy close to. A very. Influential and important many factoring hub in europe that saw european markets down almost across the board the footsie closed more than 3 percent and italy where these new cases were reported 5 deaths have been reported there their market closed down more than 5 percent so were looking for a rough day here in new york scuse me although the market has been running very high its been very strong and the economists already this morning are going around on the the talk shows calming people down saying that the market is still strong but were seeing the sharp declines in what looks to be perhaps the worst day for markets since last summer last august when trade war is where the fear now its coronavirus in the impact that that could have on Global Supply chains that have investors scared christian salumi they would license from new york thank you. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including libyas internationally recognized Prime Minister takes his case to the worlds highest human rights body. By police in haiti exchanged gunfire with soldiers during a protest in the capital. And in sport the hosts and 10 men favorites get their campaign back on track at the womens team 20 world cup. Total trump has begun his 2 day trip to india Prime MinisterNarendra Modi greeted the u. S. President on his planned 3 all visit to a minute but thats a state which is timeless to nearly a 3rd of all Indian Americans and he could be important to trumps reelection chances in november the failure to secure a trade agreement is a concern but trumps confirmed a 3000000000. 00 deal to sell more weapons to india tomorrow our representatives will sign deals to sell over 3000000000. 00 in the absolute finest state of the art military helicopters and other equipage to the indian armed force. I believe that the United States should be in these premiere defense spotter and thats the way its working out together we will defend our sovereignty security at protect a free and open indopacific region for our children and for many many generations to come. Elizabeth is it a bad send explains what the rest of trumps visit will hold. Today is all about you know the big ringback welcome to the u. S. President who the Prime Minister and certainly his supporters are very fond of he has now left would you rather President Trump will be going to the taj mahal and before spending the night in new delhi and then tomorrow is when President Trump and his 12 member delegation including people like the common secretary the National Security adviser hold bilateral talks on things like security like defend trade relations have been strained under President Trump 2018 so what they see rounds of retaliatory retaliatory tariffs they also dont agree on things they have big differences on visas issued to indian workers in america on the pharmaceutical industry so we will wait and see if they make any progress on that thats not expected so so far this trip very much is about. To need is the spectacle of trump coming to india their clothes on they do have things in common especially in their style of leadership that is 9 months before the president ial election in the u. S. Coming to drop when the. Indian americans can trace their origins to. Israel has carried out more airstrikes on the gaza strip off to targeting Islamic Jihad targets there overnight at least 4 people were wounded on sunday because rail says its responding to rockets launched from inside the territory the military also carried out strikes on the armed groups in syria on sunday night killing 2 members in damascus well how to force this force it rather joins me now live from west jerusalem for more harry so who is saying these tit for tat strikes in the gaza strip how do we get to this point. Well just to let you know that theyre still going on just in the last few minutes theres been another volley of rocket fire coming from gaza toward southern israel more red alert sirens going off around the gaza strip and inside the strip the Israeli Military says that it targeted a launching station for one of those or for several of those rockets potentially says its identified a hit so we are still in the midst of this escalation it all began on sunday morning just after dawn when these are military says that it discovered activity at the border fence to palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters trying to they say plant in an improvised explosive device there they were fired upon one of them killed and then an israeli bulldozers and tank appeared on the scene the bulldozer scooping up the body in pretty gruesome fashion and taking it away on the heels of stone from of from throwing from a group of palestinians who were close by 4 people injured in this ready fire during that as well and the video that caused a lot of outrage and it caused palace in Islamic Jihad to declare that it would carry out retaliatory action that came in the form of a large 30 or so rocket volley on sunday evening which of course was followed by israeli airstrikes both in gaza and less usually in syria to patterson Islamic Jihad fighters killed in syria leading to more vows of revenge from from the organization which is what weve been seeing today thank you for that that carry forth that there live from west jerusalem thanks for that harry. And hazy at least one person has been killed in a gun battle between soldiers and police protesting against low pay others were injured in the capital port au prince. This was meant to be the 1st of several days of carnivals and celebration. But it turned into a gun battle off Duty Police Officers were protesting over low pay and the firing of 5. 00 officers who tried to form a union. Close by locals prepared to celebrate the lead up to the christian fasting period of lent. Some supported the protest i know about that but of course we dont one callable 2nd we support the Police Protests who are demanding a union the lack of security in this country is the fault of the president uses the all me to destroy the police as people crowded into a square in front of the president ial palace gunshots and tear gas its not clear who fired 1st the police or the military a stage built by the army and guarded by soldiers was set on fire it was the most violent fighting in haiti since protesting began at the end of last year the police say the government should not be funding carnivals while their pay conditions benefits and jobs are being cut. We will send a clear message to this government because we are tired of the situation. The president has made many promises and so vertically to his supporters but not with us we dont need negotiations we will continue demonstrating until we have created a Union President quo of an illinois has been ruling by decree since january with Gang Violence and high levels of crime and Corruption International organizations are struggling to deliver aid haiti is the poorest country in the americas and shortages of food and essential goods are common so as political unrest. The police are not the only ones who are angry. Acting Prime MinisterJohn Mitchell leptin says the government cant immediately raise officers pay but he has offered housing and insurance incentives something thats not likely to placate the protesters and many fear violent scenes like this may not be the last were harding aljazeera. Theres political upheaval in malaysia after the king accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister and they have a home its Political Party has quit the Coalition Government that follows talks by some members of the Ruling Coalition to exclude from a new administration the Prime Ministers chosen successor and rival abraham phones who he is in kuala lumpur and says its unclear wants his next move will be. The same is when the Prime Ministers office confirming that mahathir had indeed tendered the lows letter of resignation to the king well there was no reason given for the resignation but weve since heard the finance minister coming out and saying that mahathir attended his resignation because he did not want. Him to not want the party to have to work with im know is the party that was in power in malaysia for decades it had ruled malaysia since the country gained independence from british in 1957 and it was only ousted in the last general election in 2018 its leader was its former leader was the former Prime Minister of this country not your brazile whos been accused or whos been charged and is on trial for corruption hes been accused of stealing billions of dollars from a state Investment Fund according to the constitution the person who will become Prime Minister and his country is someone who commands the c