A Popular Uprising in 2011. The World Health Organization is warning the coronavirus a break is moving quickly and action must be taken to prevent it from turning into a pandemic thats where it becomes widespread around the world the number of those killed is rising in iran at least 19 people there have died as more than 130 people infected including the countrys Deputy Health minister in south korea this almost 1200 cases the biggest number of infections outside Mainland China the Catholic Church has canceled all masses in the country in the effort to avoid a further spread and a japan tries to limit the spread of the virus there the Prime Minister shinzo abi has called for all sporting and cultural events to be delayed by 2 weeks or cancelled a lot more on that later here on this program rob mcbride is standing by for us in seoul with the latest developments from south korea 1st lets go to tehran and our correspondent there. What else do we know it seems to be getting something of a foothold there. Well the latest information we have is from a News Conference given by the Health Ministry spokesman mr news john poor in which he confirmed that the number of overall cases has gone up by 44 in the last 24 hours so it was 95. 00 yesterday it stands at the total number of cases of 139. 00 thats the official number being told to us by the iranian government the death toll has also gone up from 15 to 19 still d far shy of what the member of parliament in a coma in recent days has said was closer to 50 and more people continue to pass away that was according to a member of parliament from whom but of course the the official figures that we know from the iranian government still stand at 19 now something that the Health Ministry spokesman also said is that they are expecting the number of cases to rise now the government was accused of not taking this seriously enough not reacting seriously enough in the early days of this corona Virus Outbreak but since then in the last 3 days about 3 days ago president Hassan Rouhani formed what he is calling the headquarters to combat corona and that headquarters is in tehran it is. A group of leaders brought together to try and centralize resources and the response the Health Minister the minister the roads and transport minister as well as a representative of the armed forces and other senior members of the government comprised this body and today in his Cabinet Meeting president Hassan Rouhani in his weekly Cabinet Meeting said that any decisions that happen on how to deal with this corona Virus Outbreak will be taken by and announced by this unit that may be the place where he got the information yesterday he made a speech on tuesday yesterday saying that by saturday he expected things in iran to begin normalizing now thats a very very confident statement however his Health Ministry spokesman today confirming that they are expecting the number of cases to go up zain thanks very much. Broad joins us live from seoul in south korea so rob is there a sense where you are as far as the authorities are concerned that theyre in for the long haul flights here. I think looking at the latest figures there is an increasing sense of alarm of nearly a spike of nearly 300 new cases in one day alone and it comes of course as the government here repeats its message that the next few days will be critical in whether south korea is able to contain this outbreak down in the southeast of the country or not and when you look at these figures in the way we have spikes like the like we have on this day wednesday then increasingly people will be thinking this is just not going in the right direction in fact is going very much in a wrong direction and you do feel that sense of nervousness on the streets in places like seoul people will be avoiding any crowds the cinemas are quiet restaurants are are quiet we have people been told by the companies to work from home schools are suspended and of course down in the epicenter in daegu city itself we have a number of businesses of factories there closing as some of the workers are discovered to be sick and people just dont have confidence in the workplaces in some factories that is going to be clear of the virus and weve also had fairly unprecedented an ounce and by the Catholic Church in south korea that for the time being at least it is taking for the 1st time in its 236 year history the decision to cancel all services and all masses but then we are it seems living through pretty unprecedented times rob thank you very much. Ok lets get more on another of our top stories this half hour the indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi calling for calm after 3 days of violence killed at least 22 people really 200 have been injured as hindu crowds wielding targeted muslims on the streets of delhi in some of the worst rioting for decades buildings were set on fire and mosques were run sacked theres been a new wave of protests over the past few days against that controversial law that denies citizenship to muslim immigrants lets bring in my colleague elizabeth around him who is live for us in new delhi so elizabeth just take us through what the Prime Ministers been saying. So after 4 days of the most violent scenes as you mentioned the capitals in the capital in the indian capital promised in that in the more he finally said something about this he tweeted asking people to remain calm and to be peaceful and to maintain harmony but both he and the b j p are coming under so much criticism because as you mentioned at least 22. 00 people have died and 200. 00 have been injured in the most violent scenes. Of protests in the last 3 months now the delhi high. On the situation there is a curfew in place in the worst affected area and the Delhi High Court has beat hearing. Complaints against the person who started it all a b j p leader on sunday who. People who support the citizenship law to attack those who were protesting peacefully against it and the high court actually said that they are not going to let a repeat allow a repeat of 984. 00 when there were massive riots in new delhi following the assassination of the need and there are gandhi by his seat body got that led to the killing of thousands of seats the party which is in control in new delhi they are also laying the blame for the violence on the b j p because of its leaders rhetoric over the past few months of the citizenship nor the Main Opposition Congress party is calling for the interior minister to resign and yet when weve heard from b j p leaders they refusing to condemn their colleagues and what theyve been saying so this is a situation that we obviously watching very closely the streets are calm finale especially the one area that some to food no ones allowed to come out the party thats in power the common man. In delhi theyre actually asking for the army to be deployed across the northeast and for curfew to be enforced across all the violence had to areas but as far as those demonstrates a suit protesting against this legislation the concerned is does it china for them with the preexisting broader b. G. P. Agenda and what mr moody wants to do. Yes peter well you know for the last 2 and a half months since the citizenship nor was passed there have been protests and for many people these are the biggest protests against Prime Minister mori and his hindu nationalist. Party since it came to power and you know one of the main reasons for that is because so many people took to the streets across the country not just muslims the north is seen as being discriminatory against muslims because that fast track citizenship to minority youth from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims and its not just muslims who have been out on the streets around the country but if you look at the b j ps policies and whats happened around the country the sort of like rise of hindu nationalism the attacks on muslims and the policies especially of the last year since the b j p was reelected with an even bigger mandate whether it was the abrogation of article 370. 00 revoking the only muslim majority states autonomy that was mia or you know the Supreme Court ruling that a temple had to be built at the site of a demolished mosque this is a government that seen as having very anti muslim policies and for many people the citizenship law was really the final straw that has led to such big protests around the country elizabeth thanks very much. The turkish president heard one says ankara plans to push back Syrian Forces in italy province turkey has a number of military observation posts there and some have been surrounded during in advance by the Syrian Government forces now erdogan has also called on damascus and its ally moscow to stop their attacks and that civilians leave the border safely. We are doing and will continue to do all that we can to address the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in italy we demand the regime pulls back to where we agreed in sochi unfortunately russia is not concerned with this humanitarian issue the assad regime is killing his own people we will push their forces back from the border and make sure the refugees can go home. Meanwhile the u. N. Says nearly 950000 people have been displaced since the government began its offensive in december and it says more than half of the People Living in places like this are children its the biggest displacement of people in such a short time in the nearly 9 year long conflict its been described as a horrifying new level of crisis many people that come to the Northwest Region after fleeing other areas anyway there been widespread reports of babies and small children dying because of exposure. This is what theyre trying to get away from at least 26 civilians including School Children killed and more than 100 injured in the last day alone russian and syrian air strikes and shelling have hit a number of towns and villages across italy and the remaining rebel held areas in hama and aleppo now on the ground Government Forces have taken a cluster of locations in the south west of the province lets go live now to hashem our correspondent in turkey on the border with syria so when mr erdogan says were going to push back Syrian Forces what does he mean by that do we think. I think one of the Biggest Challenges facing president as a player is to secure this deal with the russians about access to the airspace in north western. Syria particularly over the province of italy for him to be able to move forward and ensure the safety of the turkish troops positioned in 12 military outposts something which of the russians dont seem to be willing to give us is to the turkish government and a while ago the syrian army has said that its push to take over areas in egypt will continue it has taken over 5 villages in the southern parts of the it live province and they seem to be willing to move forward all the way towards the city of it lived so i guess the backdrop of this escalation of a determined government to take over live russians who dont seem to be willing to give access to the turkish government to the turkish fighter jets to fly over it live it is going to be from a military perspective which stream it difficult for turkey to ensure the safety of all of its troops operating on the ground and i think if theres all get that access the only options available option of available for them in the near future is to send more troops into it live and go forward but the concern about casualties would further increase and i think this is the biggest challenge facing took if they will they want to give diplomacy a chance and this is exactly whats happening as we speak delegations from russia and turkey negotiation negotiating ways to implement a cease fire and defuse tension with the succeed we have to wait and see action thank you. Still to come here on aljazeera rivals at it again well have the latest twists from a laziest political upheaval. Were also bringing a report on why some faces back in the libyan warlord early for have toppled by being accused of sharing an ideology with ice all. Hello welcome to have a look at the international forecast is still seeing some cloud of rain just around that more than a inch of japan we are going to see some sloppy dry weather coming through as we go on through the next couple days they say we have low pressure will continue to drift out into the open waters but dragon in that northerly wind struggling to get up into double figures across japan similar valleys all the temperatures there for seoul so wet weather some wintry weather across northern parts of china is more in the way of rain across those central areas and that rain becoming even more expansive as we go on through friday pushing across the yellow sea edging its way towards the Korean Peninsula ahead of that should have a largely dry couple of days there for japan but whats the weather started to push into q. C. Basin pieces of wetter weather making the way away from the far north east of india through bangladesh and that will cross good part of south asia then might just catch one or 2 showers into carola but further north as you can see it is essentially looking fine and dry and sunny 20 celsius there in new delhi a horde around 25 degrees some rain and some sleet and snow a possibility there to the far north of pakistan. This band of tatars making its way further race was and staying very windy. This 70 is after one tribes epic journey from palestine to the nile delta 0 world meets the largest concentration of 914 refugees in egypt. The socially isolated community with your rights fighting to survive and keep their palestinian heritage alive in a world where there was his increasingly marginalized egypts father laila and on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from the mind of main headlining stories the iranian authorities have confirmed 4 more deaths from the coronavirus a total of 19 people have died the highest number outside china more than 130 people have been affected including the countrys Deputy Health minister meanwhile in italy the 12th person there has died more than 280 people in all so far are infected. The indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence and killed at least 20 people nearly 200 others were injured after hindu spoke with muslims that followed more protests against a contentious citizenship law. And the turkish president ratchet type urged on says ankara will push back moscow backed Syrian Forces in italy province and make it safe for civilians the United Nations estimates nearly 950000 people have been displaced there since the beginning of december. A military funeral is being held its beginning in cairo for egypts former leader Hosni Mubarak he passed away on tuesday he was 91. 00 the governments announced 3 days of National Mourning after his death mubarak was in power for 3 decades until he was forced out during the arab Spring Revolution of 2011 lets just show you some of his live pictures coming to us there from cairo his coffin will be airlifted or has been airlifted to understand from the mosque where the funeral will be held to the burial grounds thats according to Egyptian State television egypt burying his former president after that military funeral in the capital cairo the top military officials there were being told as well to attend a funeral thats taking place in eastern suburb of cairo its not clear yet where the president. Will be there as well well stay with these live pictures and lets bring in. Our correspondent following the story out of tunis for us this may be worth remembering jamal that when he was acquitted back in 2017 a lot of egyptians they were just surprised they were genuinely shocked. Well i mean they were shocked that maybe the or thats that scene which its happened that essentially somebody who had ruled the country for 30 years that was not just accused of corruption and other issues but was actually facing trial for the killing of protesters during those 18 days in 2011 was found innocent of any sort of run during the thought that maybe at least there was going to be some sort of some balance of punishment for the misery that so many believe he caused for millions of egyptians but when you look at the pictures of the funeral today and you see for example the head of the Coptic Church the head of heart or senior figures from the gyptian states that will be participating not necessarily the heads but significant people nonetheless it is a reflection of the fact that the mubarak regime actually was never really toppled he may have been forced out as an individual but the military continues to stay in power in many respects actually stronger than ever before the people around it being billionaire businessman that thrived throughout his tenure or the Security Apparatus chiefs from the Police Services and other institutions they are still very much in power and they are coming together today to mourn him and also to participate in this funeral is a reminder to the millions of egyptians that took part in the 2011 uprising that wasnt really successful as egypt process is the fact that hes gone and egyptians come to terms with is there a generational divide here because perhaps perhaps an older generation he wa