north korea to face tougher u.n. sanctions over its missile program after a yunanimous security council vote. ♪ hello, for me, david foster, you are watching al jazeera live from london. good to have your company. this is also what we have coming up in the next 30 minutes. victorious on super-tuesday, donald trump calls on republicans to back him in what is looking now like a straight contest with hillary clinton. jordan says seven men killed in a raid by special forces were linked to isil and were preparing attacks.

plus -- >> i'm rory challands at the moscow museum of cosmonautics, experiencing just a little bit of what the men who just returned to earth experienced after nearly a year in space. ♪ the united nations security council has unanimously passed a resolution imposing new sanctions on north korea. this resolution follows the nuclear test by north korea in january, and a rocket launch the following month that contravened previous u.n. resolutions. these sanctions were sponsored by both the u.s. and china, and will also be imposed on pyongyang's leadership. james bayes is live for us at the united nations. given the fact that sanctions in the past have made little or no difference to what north korea does in the way it plows ahead with its nuclear program, why do

they think this lot may work? >> reporter: well, they say they are much more detailed sanctions. this is actually the resolution, david. it is some -- nearly 20 pages long with all of the annexes, names, the names of the front companies. they are trying to deal with some of the loopholes and work arounds that north korea has used in the past. they have named new individuals. they are trying to find every way to crack down on north korea with this, the fifth sanctions resolution that has been passed by the united nations. and all experts agree these are the toughest, most detailed targeted sanctions to date. voted an hour ago unanimously by the u.n. security council. and the first to speak after the vote was the u.s. ambassador samantha power. >> our collective security demands that we stop north korea from continuing along this

course. yet we have got to be honest, that while previous multi-lateral efforts, including the four previous sanctions resolutions adopted by this council, have undoubtedly made it more difficult for north korea to advance its weapons programs, the regime continues to plow ahead, as it demonstrated the last two months. that is why the resolution we have just adopted is so much tougher than any prior north korea resolution, and why it goes further than any sanctions regime in two decades. >> so that's the u.s. point of view, which you might have expected, james, but china, in the past, a single friend to north korea, and yet on this occasion, a co-sponsor of the resolution. what are its thought? >> well, china worked very closely with the u.s. on this, it took almost two months after that latest test on january 6th to get this resolution in place

in the last hour. there were tough negotiations between the u.s. and the chinese, in fact it went way from here in new york to washington, d.c. last week, where there was a meeting between the secretary of state and the chinese foreign minister. i think one of the things that may have helped the u.s. which was pushing for a tough new sanctions regime, was the fact that north korea in the middle of those negotiations carried out another missile launch, a satellite launch, and i think that may have persuaded the chinese to go ahead with these tough sanctions. while everyone is talking about the tough sanctions, even one of north korea's fiercest regional critics, japan, when speaking to the security council made it clear that these sanctions are reversible if north korea backs down, then these sanctions can be removed by the u.n. security

council. i think japan, like some other members of the council, knows that north korea needs a stick and a carrot, and in the past when it has had punitive action taken against it, it has only provoked it. >> james thank you very much indeed. ♪ well donald trump and hillary clinton are now a step closer to going head-to-head in the battle to become the next president of the united states. both cemented their leads in the race to win their party's nomination. in super-tuesday's republican primaries donald trump won seven of 11 states. ted cruz winning his home state of texas plus oklahoma. and marco rubio winning in minnesota. this pushed donald trump well ahead in terms of the numbers of delegates won. 1,237 is the number needed to win the party nomination, and trump now has 285, with his

closest rival ted cruz on 161. on the democratic side, hillary clinton won seven states while bernie sanders took the other four. one of them his home state of vermont. and clinton now has 1,001 delegates to sander's 171. patty culhane reports. >> reporter: the people of the voting states woke up to the realization that for better or worse they helped make it more likely that donald trump will be the republican nominee for the president of the united states. >> he tells the truth. i think he -- he just says what is on a lot of people's minds. and what other people are afraid to say, and it's just blatant honesty. and i think that's great. >> i'm hopeful he won't be the

president. i think it's easy to understand he harnesses a lot of the anger in this country, but i think there's someone better to run the country. >> reporter: trump won seven states and if that momentum continues he will march towards the nomination. leaving republican bosses little chance to stump him. >> if it's close, or there are questions about some of his delegates or supports, or there has been a tremendous amount of buyer's remorse that he is the purported nominee, say, by april, then come july it wouldn't be all that surprising to see the republican party to maneuver things to their favor. >> reporter: the party's fear, trump can't beat hillary clinton. >> senator you seem to be saying that hillary clinton will beat donald trump. >> no, i'm not seeming to be saying that. i am saying that.

[ laughter ] >> like a drum. >> reporter: after super-tuesday, the former secretary of state is continuing her march towards the democratic nomination. ♪ >> reporter: but her rival bernie sanders did better than expected, winning four states, and he is giving little indication he is ready to buyout. >> what i have said is that this campaign is not just about electing a president. it is about making a political revolution! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: super-tuesday moved the process along, but can't change any of the dynamics, but up next, florida, ohio, the candidates have two weeks to win there, in what could be the deciding factor in who gets to run for president of the united states. patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. for donald trump it might just as well been called surreal tuesday because of the

predictions that were made when he launched his campaign. alan fisher reports. >> reporter: it's rare for a become a celebrity, and rarer still for a celebrity to become realistic presidential candidates. donald trump has done both. he became famous with his show, the apprentice, and within hours of launching his campaign, people were predicting he would disappear. donald trump has emerged as the most dominant republican figure in this campaign, and at this stage the man most likely to succeed. he has won in the primaries against better organized campaigns. he is by far the most talked about politician in the u.s. if the not around the world, and of the 3 billion [ inaudible ] on google, one named donald.

>> when he announced his candidacy, there were controversial statements that people wanted to search and find out more about. but that initial maybe curiosity has given away to a consistent incurre incurrent. >> reporter: he has criticized many groups. one writer says trump has exposed a dark secret. >> donald trump is the answer to i think a lot of republican questions about what would happen if we were just honest? what if we didn't beat around the bush about race or immigration or terrorism? what if we just -- what if we just said what we meant? like would we be punished for that? would we be isolated from that? marginallized? and the answer at least according to republican voters, no. >> reporter: there are many that are horrified that trump is this

close to the nomination. >> they thought that he was going to do himself in, so they all sort of sat back and waited for it. the reason they did that is they were afraid of alienating his supporters. it may well be too late. >> reporter: trump continues to dominate the polls as the clearest route to the republican nomination. his supporters like what he says, and how he says, and they would like to see him saying it from the white house. let's go live to washington, d.c., my colleague patty culhane is there for us. given that the republican party, the establishment of that party, either hates or fears, perhaps donald trump, whoever you tend to listen to, what can be done now in their eyes to stop him getting the nomination? >> reporter: i have to tell you david there is a real sense here in washington of just absolute

awe. nobody saw this coming. they are just now wrapping their brains around the fact that this is the reality. the man that says pretty much anything that comes into his head and it doesn't effect his poll numbers. so now they are hoping for chaos. they are hoping these candidates can stay in and give trump a run for his money, so he doesn't get that magic number. if that happens, they go to the convention, and they take one vote, and if he doesn't reach that level in that first vote, then the way the system is set up, is all of the delegates are free to vote for whomever they want. and the republican party could actually nominate somebody who isn't even running right now. paul ryan has been named, former vp candidate under mitt romney. they are really just grappling, searching for anyone who could stop the trump momentum. we're seeing a lot of the big

money starting to pour in, because they are getting to those big states that could be decisive, but the question is did they wait too long? >> i think it's more than 60 years since that actually happened, patty. it is perhaps their only hope, but looking at the results, following super-tuesday, we're back in to ordinary wednesday with other contests to come, what do we know today that we didn't know yesterday with regard to the overall scheme of things here? >> reporter: you are exactly right. it was more than 60 years ago. and it was thomas duly, and he did not go on to become the president. when they have these contested or brokered conventions that nominee has not gone on to win the presidency. so what happens. the democrat race does not change much. bernie sanders could stay in

this for weeks or months to try to build up his power base even if he doesn't get the nominee that makes him incredibly powerful. it gives him a chance to really shape the party's platform. but for the republican side, and this is why i say they could be running out of time, there are these big contests coming up. and a lot of them are winner take all. so if trump does well -- and his wins in a lot of the states were not that big, but it won't matter in the coming states, he will get all of the delegates if he wins, and if he gets those numbers, the republican party then has to sit back and say we support him or launch a third-party candidate. and they quite frankly just don't know what to do right now. >> thanks, patty. at least two civilians and a policeman have died in an attack on the indian console late in

afghanistan. a suicide bomber blew himself up at the end transto the building in jalalabad. four gunmen went into the compound, but they were killed by afghan security forces. the indian foreign ministry said none of their diplomats were hurt. >> reporter: according to an afghan government spokesman it took security forces just 50 minutes to end this attack. it left five of the attackers dead, one we understand blew himself up in a car packed with explosives at the end transleading to the indian console late. one detonated his suicide she wills, and three others were shot dead by security forces. they had made their way to a house ajust toent the indian console late from where they were trying to launch an attack, but they were overpowered and killed. it did leave unfortunately civilian casualties. we are told at least a few have

been killed and many more injured. some of them children, one as young as one. the indian establishment are very much under the target of the taliban and other extremist groups, because they see the indian government as using afghanistan as a platform to destabilize their allies in pakistan. it was hoped that taliban would attend very important talks in pakistan with the afghan government. some kind of recourse to try to find a solution to this problem. the taliban are growing in strength week by week, taking more area, so we're hopeful they can get them to the table, but of course this kind of attack could be counterproductive. it could cause the afghan government to say, well, when you are doing this, we're not going to talk. and that's the crucial point at the moment. still to come on this program, the gcc six arab nations declare lebanon's

hezbollah a terrorist organization. and the european union announcing a 700 million euro aid plan to help refugees trapped in greece and other european countries. ♪

♪ time to run through the top stories for you here on al jazeera. the u.s. president has welcomed the united nations decision to expand existing sanctions against north korea, the toughest sanctions in 20 years. the u.n. security council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution of pyongyang's nuclear tests in january and a

rocket launch in february. republican donald trump and his democratic rival, hillary clinton have pulled further ahead in their races for the white house after mass voting on what was called super-tuesday. rebel fighters have attacked the indian console late in afghanistan, killing at least two civilians and a police officer. no group has yet said it was behind the attack. european union plans to spend $760 million to deal with the refugee crisis within its own borders. much of that money will go to greece where 25,000 people are stranded after macedonia and other countries closed their borders. katherine stancill reports. >> reporter: they have escaped the violence in their homeland, but they are still struggling to find a stable existence as they try to make their way into central europe. now a potential lifeline as the e.u. announces an emergency financial package.

>> this is to provide basic necessities, including food, emergency health care, shelter, clean water, et cetera. >> reporter: a significant portion will go to greece. it's the main entry point for the migrants. more than a million have entered the e.u. via greece since 2016, as the countries tighten their borders, it is struggling to cope. the u.n. is warning of a critical shortage of food, water, and medical aid. refugees here sleep anywhere they can as they wait to cross into macedonia. >> it is not enough, because this is very small, two person, two person, inside, and you see all people outside they sleep. >> reporter: macedonia allowed 170 refugees in on tuesday,

little comfort to the thousands waiting to get through. here food and drinks are being distributed, but it is still not enough. >> there is people that bring food. food is not the problem. we need blankets and like services and a place to stay. >> reporter: the aid package still needs to be passed by the e.u. parliament and member states, and the european commissioner for humanitarian aid says the route causes of this crisis still need to be addressed. >> obviously this emergency support cannot and will not solve our problems. there are no magic formulas. now, more than ever, member states in the e.u. need to work hand in hand. >> reporter: political cooperation that is desperately needed as more refugees continue to make the journey to europe. okay. more now from hoda abdel hamid

who is on the border between greece and macedonia. you'll tell me whether this three-quarters of a million dollars dollars can actually going to make a difference to those people we can see behind you. and i wonder if they believe they have any choice but to remain there and see whether things change. >> reporter: well, certainly at this point many people will tell you they are stuck with a huge fear on whether they will be sent back to turkey, or even sent back to syria, so that is the issue. the border crossing is opening by chunks of two hours. so just to give you an indication, since midnight, only 270 refugees were able to make it through, and the latest estimate we got, is that about 10,500 people here in this makeshift -- most of them in this makeshift -- like the one -- camp -- like the one here behind me, and you have the same

thing on the other side of the road, and then again behind the trucks over there. so if you just do the math, the ones who are here, it will take 50 days for them to be able to cross if indeed they can cross. >> okay. hoda thank you. we'll leave it there. hoda abdel hamid there on the greece macedonia border. jordan's foiled what it says would have been a major isil attack on military and civilian targets in the country. security forces killed seven men during overnight raids. they were holed up inside a palestinian refugee camp in the heart of the city. let's hear from jane arraf who explains more about the operation. >> reporter: jordanian authorities are describes this as a successful attempt to foil what would have been a major attack by isil-related groups on jordanian military and civilian

installations. this centered around a overnight raid where security forces and policebacked by attack helicopters closed in on a residential compound in the palestinian refugee camp. seven fighters were killed some wearing explosive belts according to official media. a police officer was also killed and more than 30 were arrested. jordan has said that because of its proximity to syria and iraq, and it's general proximity to conflict in the region, it has a serious threat from isil. officials indicated that they are in fact jordanian, and has been as well as a threat from the syrian conflict, very much a home grown threat from jordan for many years. the gcc has named hezbollah

as a terrorist organization. the move by the six of nations deepens a growing rift with lebanon, where hezbollah is a political power. this was the day after a speech by the hezbollah leader, accusing saudi arabia of directing car bombings in lebanon. tensions in eastern iraq are high after the islamic state of iraq and the levant moved in, killing more than 40 people, and suicide bombing at a shiite funeral on monday. since january shiites have been carrying out repiesal attacks on sunnis including that one on monday in which five sunnis were killed and two were kidnapped. there are reports of a number of casualties after a maj major earthquake. the quake was in shallow water,

causing parts of indonesian and northwestern australia to go on tsunami alert. the search and rescue service says some have been killed, but there is no indication yet of numbers. now after almost a year in space, nasa astronauts scott kelly and his russian counterpart are safely back on earth. 340 days on board the international space station. it is hoped that will help to lay the ground work for a manned trip to mars. rory challands reporteds. scott kelly, and his two counterparts bid fair well to their colleagues and then closed the hatch on their time aboard the international space station. their 340 days in orbit are seen as a vital stepping-stone to a future mars mission. >> one of the big unknowns about any kind of interplanetary human

exploration, sending humans to another planet like mars, is how well will the human body stand up to long-term exposure to weightlessness? we know from studies on board the space station that astronauts undergo things like bone and muscle has loss to the tune of something like 1.5% of their bone mass each month. >> reporter: after their journey back to earth, they safely landed in the snowy wilderness near russia. they were supposed to exit the capsule themselves, like they would have to after landing on moors, but the delil taiting effects were clear, and the men were too weak to do this. scott's body will now be compared to his earthbound twin brother mark to analyze any genetic changes. kelly is now the u.s. astronaut

with the most consecutive days in space. but the absolute record belongs to a russian. >> translator: it's not the first such lengthy flight. in 1994, '95, our compatriot set the absolute world record of 437 days. that's almost enough time to fly to mars and back. he carried out many experiments, and his work was very important. >> reporter: of course nothing actually replicates the experience of re-entry. it is one of the things you do in this simulator. it shows how cramped it is inside this tiny capsule, and it shows how the vacuum and extreme temperatures of space are just centimeters from their heads. museums like this and media coverage of missions, are testament to how much excisement human space flight still

elicits. and our website is aljazeera.com. reflecting on a fascinating night in the u.s. elections. the primaries there. aljazeera.com for all of the news. ♪ ♪ the supreme court hears arguments on what is being called the most important abortion case in decades. >> this has been an amazing evening. >> what a super-tuesday! [ cheers ] >> hillary clinton and donald trump gaining a major edge in getting their party's presidential nominations. >> this is not a general election. it's not winner take all. >> this is a country of underdogs, but we will win. >> all of this w