the news continues live from london next. ♪ north korea to face tougher u.n. sanctions over its missile program after a unanimous security council vote. ♪ >> it is very good to have you along, you are watching al jazeera live from london with me, david foster. also coming up, victorious on super-tuesday, donald trump call on republicans to back him on what is looking like a straight contest when him and hillary clinton. jordan says seven men killed by security forces were linked to isil and were preparing attacks. i'm rory challands at the

moscow museum of cosmonautics, experiencing just a little bit of what the men who returned to earth experienced after nearly a year in space. ♪ the united nations security council has unanimously voted to impose the toughest sanctions yet on north korea. the new resolution came after a nuclear test in january and a rocket launch a month later. these harder hitting sanctionses were sponsored by both china and the united states. >> our collective security demands that we stop north korea from continuing along this destructive and destabilizing course. yet, we have got to be honest that while previous efforts, including the four previous sanctions resolutions 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. >> our diplomatic editor james bayes is live for us now at the united nations. it has taken some time james, but fascinating, isn't it? side -- side by side in by something like this. >> reporter: yes, they have been negotiates since the 6th of january. and i think one factor during that period of negotiation was then another launch of a satellite, another missile launch, during the period of negotiations and that may have helped the chinese to accept

what is a tough new resolution, trying to close many of the loopholes that north korea has been using to get things into its country. it's worth telling you, though, that the u.s. and china aren't completely on side with everything to do with north have a new high-altitude missile system on its soil. that was something that was referenced by the chinese ambassador when he spoke in the security council chamber. >> translator: sanctions are not an end in themselves. and the security council resolution cannot fundamentally resolve the nuclear issue on the korean peninsula. this should be a new starting point, but paving stone to a political settlement. at this moment all parties concerned should avoid actions that would further aggregation tensions on the ground. china opposes the deployment of

the thad system in south korea. it goes against the goal of maintaining peace, security, and stability in the peninsula. >> reporter: in the last few minutes i have been listening to a briefing of reporters by the u.s. ambassador, the japanese ambassador, and the south korean ambassador. they came out immediately after the security council meeting that passed this unanimous vote on this new sanctions regime, and all of them made the same point that this is a very new -- a very tough new sanctions regime that has been put in place by the security council, but the absolute key now is implementation. >> these aren't the first sanctions to be slapped on north korea, james. what makes those where you are today think they are going to be anymore successful in trying to change that country's intentions than those that have gone before? >> reporter: well, they are certainly very, very detailed. the full resolution is almost 20

pages long. one of the reasons for that is that it's a moving target dealing with north korea. they use different individuals, different front companies, so they had to change some of those, but you will be told by all of those who are behind this resolution, more than 50 countries that sponsored it, that this is a change. the u.s. ambassador said it's a seismic change, the scope of this new resolution. >> james we'll leave it there for now. thank you very much. ♪ 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 have cemented their leads in their races 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, texas plus oklahoma and alaska.

and marco rubio won in minnesota. this pushes donald trump well ahead in terms of the number of delegates won. 1237 is the number needed to win the party nomination outright. donald trump has 285. own the democratic side, hillary clinton won seven states too, while bernie sanders took the other four, including his home state of vermont. and mrs. clinton now has 1001 delegates to sander's 371. the target is 2,383 to win the democratic party's nomination. patty culhane reports. >> reporter: as super-tuesday turns into a regular wednesday, the people of the voting states vehicle up to the realization that for better or worse, they have helped make it more likely that donald trump will be the republican nominee for the president of the united states. >> he tells the truth. 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 time to understand he harnesses a lot of the anger that is going on in this country, but i think there's someone better than him to run the country. >> make america great men. >> reporter: he won seven states, and if that momentum continues he will march towards the nomination. >> if it's close, or there are questions about some of his delegates or some of his supp t support supporters, 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 try to maneuver things to their favor.

>> reporter: the party's fear, trump can't beat hillary clinton. >> senator you seem to be saying hillary clinton will beat donald trump. >> no, i'm not seeming to be saying that. i am saying that. [ laughter ] >> like a drum. [ laughter ] >> reporter: after super-tuesday, the former secretary of state is continuing her march towards the democratic nomination. ♪ >> reporter: but her rival, vermont senator, bernie sanders did better than expected, winning four states, and he is giving little indication he is ready to bow out. >> what i have said is 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 didn't change any of though dynamics, but up next, big states, 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. burlington, vermont we head now. our correspondent is there. beautiful little town in upstate new england. and bernie sanders's state. you would expect him to do well there, but the report said he did better than expected. what does he make of the fact that his only rival picked up seven and has a sizable lead now? >> reporter: well, look as far as the sanders campaign is concerned, winning four states on super-tuesday was unheard of not so many months ago, and their strategy was always focus. they always said we are not going to do well on super-tuesday. we're not going to do well in the deep south, so their strategy was focused. win five stateses they hoped. they won four and tied hillary clinton in massachusetts and shared the delegates under the

system they have in the democratic party. so that part of the strategy worked. the second part of the strategy, i think you could argue didn't work so well. they said we are going to lose in the south, but let's not lose too badly, because we can still pick up delegates, but they were wiped out in the south. and this is pledged delegates, not including all of these other things which are a bit more nebulous, but as far as pledged delegates go, there is a difference of about 170 to 200. the sanders campaign says that is no insurmountable. they are in this for the long hall. the maps will work for them. >> this is not over. this is not a nominating contest that will be decided with 15 states. i think what you are going to

see going forward is the map does add up. we have crunched the numbers, there are folks out there saying there is not a path. there is a path. >> in it for the long hall, shihab as we are too. 15 out of 50 states, so still a very long way to go. what has bernie sanders got to do now to take it to the last fence? >> reporter: he says there are a lot of states coming up, particularly in the midwest, east coast, west coast, all the way into june where he is expected to do well. he is expected to appeal to blue collar white workers. he did very well in colorado. so they are saying we can appeal to latinos and millennials. they expect clinton to start losing. and what they have on their side, though, is money. they have raised record numbers

worth of campaign contributions. $42 million in february alone. so that means they can go on until june. they can do the long hall. the other thing they think they have on their side is electability, and favorability. the polls show sanders does much better against all republican candidates than clinton. clinton loses to rubio and cruz. with trump, sanders beats him in double digits, clinton only beats him in single digits, and what they say is as clinton starts losing, and sanders starting winning, more and more delegates will question the winnability against trump. the longer clinton goes on, the less electable she becomes, and the opposite is true of sanders. he is the only candidate with the majority of americans holding a favorable opinion of him. and delegates are saying hang on a second, clinton will not win

against trump as the campaign goes on. >> we will see. shihab thank you. jordan has foiled what it says would have been a major isil attack on civilian and military targets in the country. jordanian security forces killed seven men during raids which targeted fighters of an apparent sleeper cell. they were inside a palestinian refugee camp in the heart of the city. >> reporter: jordanian authorities are describing this as an successful attempt to foil what would have been a major attack by isil-related groups on jordanian l civilian and military installations. this centered around an overnight raid in a northern city where special forces and police closed in on a residential compound. seven fighters were killed, some of them wearing explosive belts according to official media. a police officer was also

killed, and more than 30 people were arrested. jordan has said that because of its proximity to syria, and iraq, and its general proximity to conflict in the region, it is at risk of serious threats from isil, and isil sympathizers here in jordan. now these were described as out laws by jordanian officials, indicating because it didn't say that they were a different nationality, that they are in fact jordanian, and this has been as well as a threat from the syrian conflict, very much home grown threat here in jordan for many years. >> jane arraf reporting there. stay with us if you can. we'll look at the announcement that the e.u. will give $700 million in emergency aid to help trapped refugees inside europe. and the rare archaeological discovery in the jordan valley. a 4,000 year old relic found by a keen-eyed seven year old. find fantasy shows.

when it comes to the things you love, you want more. love romance? get lost in every embrace. into sports?

follow every pitch, every play and every win. change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. >> that harmony, that politeness and that equilibrium that japanese people call "wa." at the other side of history, fukushima's heroes were not enough. people have lost their trust,

especially in the authorities. the myth of nuclear energy, of it being economic, safe and clean has been swept away. hello again, threat's go through the top so stories. president obama has welcomed the u.n.'s resolution to expand sanctions against north korea. the u.n. security council voted unanimously in imposing them. the republican donald trump and his democratic rival hillary clinton have pulled further ahead in their races for the white house after 12 states voted in primaries on super-tuesday. and jordanian security forces say they killed seven men

linked to isil during raids. at least two civilians and a policeman died in an attack on the indian console late in afghanistan. a suicide bomber blew himself up at the end trans, and four gentlemen entered the compound but were killed by security forces. here is tony bertly in kabul. >> reporter: according to an afghan government spokesman it took security forces just 50 minutes to end the attack. one of the attackers blew himself up in a car packed with explosives at the end transleading to the indian console late. one detonated his suicide vest and three others were dead by security forces. they had made their way to a house from where they were trying to launch the attack, but they were overpowered and

killed. it did leave unfortunately civilian casualties because this is very much a residential area. some have been killed, 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. but this bombing is happening at a crucial time because 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. 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, while you are doing this, we're not going to talk. the syrian kurdish group,

the ypg says more than 40 of its fighters have been killed defending a town from an isil takeover. they reportedly launched a three-day offensive on saturday. but the ypg says it managed to keep control of the area. 23 civilians are said to have been killed in the battle. israeli soldiers have shot dead two palestinian high school students after an alleged stabbing in the west bank. a hospital spokesman says an israeli man was lightly wounded. a funeral for one of the palestinian has been held. violence in israel and the palestinian occupied territory has left more than 186 palestinians dead and 28 israelis since october. the gulf cooperation council now says that hezbollah is a terrorist organization, citing hostile actions by the articled

group. the move deepens the growing rift with lebanon where hezbollah is a leading political power. this comes a day after a speech by the hezbollah leader, accusing saudi arabia of districting car bombings in lebanon. the european union says it is going to spend $760 million to deal with the refugee crisis inside its own borders. and there has been a warning by the u.n. that a humanitarian crisis is developing at the front end between greece and macedonia, where the build up of refugees continues. >> 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 to deal with the largest influx of refugees since the second word -- world

war. >> 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 2015, and as the balkan 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 sleep anywhere they can as they wait to cross into macedonia. >> there is not enough because there is very small, two person inside you see people outside they sleep. >> reporter: macedonia allowed 170 in on wednesday. volunteers try to help. here in the port in athens, food

and drinks are being distributed, but it's still not enough. >> greece people 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 on its own 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 is desperately kneaded. in northern france demolition teams in calais with

continuing to pull apart some of the refugee camp known as the jungle. paul brennan is there and sent us this. >> reporter: compared to tuesday the weather here has improved somewhat, but the prospects for these shacks on the southern edge of the camp have not improved. the demolition workers have cleared at least another 30 meters on wednesday morning. there is some resistance on this roof top you can see six demonstrators, who are at least hoping to delay the demolition of that particular construction. but many are simply giving up and accepting the french government's offer of acceptance of asylum here in france. but for many the goal to get to britain remains strong, and they are moving on and spreads to other places. this is about 40 kilometers away interest the calais jungle.

a short hop when you consider the distances that many of these people have traveled in recent months. but there are no structures aloud here, only tents, and the time is limited even in this place, because a decision has been made to try to evacuate this camp too, a census has been made. there is around 12, 1500 people in this camp. a new camp has been made, you can see some volunteers and a van trying to count the people. but the fact is this camp is going to be closed and that puts yet more pressure on the refugees who are here to decide what their future is. many are confused and bewildered. they don't know whether to continue trying to get to the u.k. or accept this offer of asylum here in france. an astronaut and cosmonaut are now back on earth after 340

days. rory challands reports. >> reporter: they bid farewell to their colleagues and then closed the hatch on their time aboard the international space station. the 340 days in orbit is 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 microgravity, that is weightlessness. we know that astronauts undergo things like bone loss and muscle mass loss over time. >> reporter: they safely landed

in the snowy wilderness of kazakhstan. they were supposed to exit the capsule themselves like they would have to after landing on mars, but the debilitating effects of so long in space were clear, and the men were too weak to do this. scott's body will now be compared to his twin brother's body. any serious enthuses and will tell you the absolute record in space belongs to a russian. >> in 1994, '95, our compatriot set the absolute world record of 437 days. he carried out many expo expore -- experiments and his work was very important. >> reporter: the experience of

re-entry is something you can do here at this simulator. it shows how cramped it is inside of this tiny capsule, and it shows how the vacuum and extreme temperatures of space are just centimeters from their space. museums like this and media coverage of missions like the one that just returned to earth are a testament to how much excitement space travel still generates. rory challands, al jazeera, moscow. a seven-year-old boy has made a rare archaeological discovery in the jordan valley. historians believe a relic he found could be 4,000 years old. >> reporter: this seven year old is going to be talking about his discovery for a long time. they show us where he found a nearly 4,000-year-old relic. >> translator: i went up to the

top of this hill here. suddenly i bumped into a stone and saw the head of a small statute. i started to rub it, and i saw it was a human being. >> reporter: he was in the jordan valley not far from the jordan river. archeologists have found evidence of people living in the region as early as 6,000 years before the common era. >> the clay statutet that he found belongs to the late bondage period. >> reporter: the cannonites were asian palestinians. some archeologists believe it resembling women from the era when egyptian pharaohs ruled the land. others don't. >> it shows a fertility goddess which people used to worship. >> reporter: the relic is a rare

find, so require that he has received a certificate of appreciation from archeologists forever connecting a curious seven year old, to a nearly 4,000-year-old artifact. aljazeera.com for all of the headlines, and a great deal more. 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 ] >> reporter: hillary clinton and donald trump gain a major edge in getting their party's presidential nominations. >> this is not a general election. it is not winner take all. >> this is a country of underdogs. but we will win! >> while the rest of the