wolf plus putin's power grab for life we look at the russian president economic record over his last 2 decades and she's biggest test controlling the spread of the coronavirus counting the cost on al-jazeera. for turkish soldiers are killed in shelling by syrian government forces in rebel held. out over and i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the coronavirus is alarming investors chinese stocks of 49 percent as the outbreak spreads further killing more than 360 people. also fears of an escalation in violence in libya reports just an arms build up by forces loyal to the warlord.

and jubilation as the kansas city chiefs pull off a sensational win to lift the superbowl for the 1st time 15 years. so syria 1st of all government shelling there has killed 4 turkish soldiers in the northern province of idlib has been sending its reinforcements to the area to counter a syrian government offensive in and aleppo syria's last rebel held stronghold the turkish president says his forces have responded to this attack but russia syrian ally is denying it. about 30 to 35 syrian soldiers were eliminated within these positions and as we cede we openly made it clear that we are targeting the syrian forces simply because it was the man who attacked her soldiers we cannot

sit on our hands we will hold to account all those responsible for the attack on tooter soldiers turkish forces launched a military operation in northeast syria back in october last year trying to drive kurdish y.p. g. forces away from the border that in turn had been triggered by the us decision to withdraw military support to the syrian democratic forces and the kurdish group both involved in fighting us all so as it stands out the turks control a long strip of territory between the towns of. ain in northeast syria president and his russian counterpart vladimir putin brokered a ceasefire in january in that area but the agreement collapsed when syrian forces backed by russia launched their campaign to recapture it live ankara is accusing moscow of going back on that deal so we'll look more at the russian angle in a moment with step vasant in moscow starting though with sin in close to a new in is stan bill a bit of argument it seems sent him over the response to this but turkey's

president says they retaliate will continue. well they are scum our talk is for a sense of that through television is continuing and it's going to continue and we are hearing from the sources on the ground there is there are clashes nearby serach of the area as well sort of both sides clashing with each other it was important because of the ruling the ruling up artist spokesperson or march and it also had a statement in which he's sad that the horse style attitude of the syrian government has now become a threat for the whole region and the syrian government from now one that is a target for the turkish army itself and more school should quit protecting against shielding the syrian government in the syrian army so we are at an answer at interesting times because on one hand turkish defense ministry in the morning sad

that the incident which you mentioned that killed 4 turkish soldiers happened the spite of coordination between the tricky and russian. military and security overtures but probably a step is going to mention the russian side denies that so interestingly from the turkish perspective all these incidents are or curing despite a brokerage ceasefire the spite our son and sort your process this fight accords a nation based on when the us down a process in the field between russia turkey and the syrian government so turkey in turkey from now warm seems to be targeting the syrian government but so far until today turkey has avoided that this because the spy turkish military observation post turkish convoys have been attacked several times have been hair rest let me say in that the escalation zone in that it wasn't directly from the syrian army but

by its m but. fighter group so this so far we have no statement from the syrian government side but. some of the parties will need to take responsibility and which party it will be is important for ankara to say it seems prisons are going to strike to exclude moscow from this conflict saying that right now they have the problem with the syrian government but of course how moscow is going to position itself according to this framework is going to be very important thank you. in istanbul well as we said turkish president richard typer one says his officials have spoken with russia which is syrians main backer about the killing of the 4 turkish soldiers usually shooting the turkish foreign minister along with the chief of intelligence and defense minister have already initiated diplomatic talks however if the desired outcome is not achieved within the spirit of time on myself

will directly talk to my russian counterpart i would lay out to his view on this particular struggle his steadfast and in moscow now what is officially the russian response here. well some contradictory or furtherance of actually happened between the turkish version and the russian version the reconciliation center which is based at the russian airbase in syria has just released a statement saying that indeed there were russian sorry turkish servicemen were injured so there's no mention of anyone deaths they were injured when they were moving their troops in the middle of the night without notifying the russian forces basically blaming the turkish side from for not notifying the russian forces that they said it happened during an attack by the syrian army on what they call terrorist positions they also said that the russia has helped with the evacuation of the injured and also they denied that any turkish retaliation actions have been

taken they say there is no violation of syrian airspace so no turkish planes have and for tyria near space at all contrary to what one has been saying that these attacks are undergoing at the moment and i think also russia is very much downplaying the whole incident by saying that russia and turkey is coordinating and in constant contact all the time indeed deescalation zone in syria thank you for that update from moscow that's to fasten. moving on to corona virus now and chinese people returning to their homes after the lunar new year holidays and they coming back to some more grim news about the virus at least $361.00 people have died that's 261 in china and more than 17000 people infected hospitals that was built just 10 days in just 10 days and started receiving patients and city which is the epicenter of that outbreak now starts this is

interesting for the nearly 9 percent which is their biggest falls in 2015 even though the chinese central bank pledged $173000000000.00 to stabilize the world's 2nd biggest economy and in hong kong hundreds of medical workers have walked off the job demanding the border with the mainland be closed to help contain the outbreak hong kong is where we're heading now with adrian brown. out in the street for us now adrian i'm always interested to see what the mood is like out there i mean i think that's a pharmacy there are people queuing up there for tell us about. oh yes i mean causeway bay it's a very busy part of hong kong and if you want to buy a face mask in hong kong right now this is where you come to but the problem is because there's such a short supply of face marson actually septic shell they are selling here but they are selling for a premium i port you know a week ago

a packet of 10 disposable facemask for $130.00 u.s. dollars and that is about 2 to to run out so i wouldn't say this profiteering going on but certainly people are making a tidy profit especially pharmacist you mentioned that strike today in hong kong this strike involves members of the newly formed union now they say that up to 2400 of the new members signed on to take part in industrial action on monday we don't know exactly what the impact of that action has been we've been to 2 hospital . as near here outside one hospital there were no strikers outside another there were a handful now the strikers are demanding that the hong kong government close the border between hong kong and china they say that is the only way to prevent this virus from spreading but the hong kong government insists that it's an impractical move they say that to do so would be discriminatory and they also say that actually

it goes against the guidelines of the world health organization it has to be remembered that the border between hong kong and china is one of the busiest in the world and although we have a partial closure at the moment that was announced last week by carrier up to 40000 people go backwards and forwards at any one time on the on saturday that was the figure you know most of the people coming into hong kong from china at the moment are hong kong chinese who work in places like chen's then on the other side of the border coming home so that's why you know the hong kong government sort of continues to insist that closing the borders simply is you know at the moment completely impractical. adrian the losses on the chinese stock market i know that's probably furthest from the minds of people who are needing $100.00 just to get a face mask but still why the concern that must create about the chinese economy. yeah i mean the the index in shanghai which was supposed to open on friday but only

open today dropped more the 9 percent that's the biggest full since 2015 here in hong kong the hang seng index has been also in a knee make territory the government in beijing is trying to do what it can to to to raise confidence at this difficult time it has been pumping more than 170000000000 dollars into the economy it wants to try to encourage banks to lend to increase liquidity so people can borrow it wants to avoid or call. you know a credit crunch we've been seeing other sort of worrying figures today the hong kong government has just announced that g.d.p. here is likely to be the lowest since 2009 it's going to fall by more than 1.2 percent and there are also projections by other economists the g.d.p. on the mainland could fall by 2 percent to just 4 percent perhaps even less now that's a worry because you know china as we know is the engine of global economic growth

but at the moment that growth simply isn't happening and the reason why g.d.p. is falling by such is projected to fall by such a large amount is that the areas where we have the worst infections of the moment are the same areas responsible for so much of china's g.d.p. . that's adrian brown in hong kong thank you for. in the news ahead questions over malawi's presidential election in the constitutional court nullified the results. and no laughing matter film stars tackle the issue of diversity head on and britain's top movie aborts. hello again it's good to have you back what we have seems a very nice conditions across the philippines over the last week things are going

to change though as we go towards the beginning into the middle part of this week we're going to be seeing a tropical wave just to the east of the philippines now we don't expect this to develop into anything significant but what it will do as we go from tuesday into wednesday is start to bring some heavier showers here along the eastern part of the philippines most likely by the time we get towards wednesday night notice so showers big need to develop on the coast and some of those could be quite heavy thursday looks like it's going to be a very rainy day as well so we will be watching that area very closely up towards millo it is going to be a partly cloudy day with attempt a few of 30 degrees or here across the southeastern part of australia temps as have been on the decrease we're going to be seeing those continue as we go towards the next couple of days melbourne at $21.00 degrees sydney a $24.00 and showers pushing up towards brisbane where the tempter there of about $29.00 degrees here to the north western part of our strong up to notice the circulation right here along the coast this will bring some heavier showers as it makes its way down the coast now this could develop into

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here with al jazeera these are the top stories russia is denying claims from turkey's president that his military hit back at syrian government forces this is after 4 turkish soldiers soldiers were killed during shelling in a. newly built hospital in china has begun treating patients affected by coronavirus the death toll is now 361 there's also the one person who died in the philippines with more than 17000 people affected and chinese stocks fell nearly 9 percent early on monday their biggest fall since 2015 china's central bank pledged $173000000000.00 to stabilize the world's 2nd biggest economy in the wake of the outbreak. concerns are growing about the escalating violence in libya reports suggest a half to has received huge supplies of arms and may be preparing to relaunch its

operation to capture tripoli that is despite a fragile cease fire in place for 3 weeks and on the other side turkey has sent military reinforcements to the internationally recognized government this report is from tony berkley in tripoli. libyans have been voicing their frustration and anger at what many see is the lack of meaningful effort to end the conflict. much of the anger is directed at those who they see as responsible for prolonging hostilities but it's also aimed at the international community which they see as giving rule of khalifa haftar equal status with the internationally recognized government. the building conference 2 weeks ago was meant to ease tensions and in force a ceasefire it has done neither the international community and europe in particular is as divided as ever over how to solve the problem europe is a big failure. europe they are not united they are fighting on libya france and

italy. england is trying to watch their dead dead dead their vote of almost not too much now england's out of europe now maybe they will act more because it may be they will have their own policy we hope so. the united states once so vocal on libyan issues has remained largely silent the u.n. envoy to libya gas and salami has been visiting both sides to try and broker a lasting cease fire but so far with no success there have been more than $100.00 violations since it began on january 12th there is supposed to be an arms embargo here but with 2000 kilometers of coastline and 3 and a half 1000 kilometers of land border with 6 countries enforcing it is near impossible and there are concerns that both sides are stockpiling weapons and equipment and government forces are preparing in case there is

a full resumption of fighting there are unconfirmed reports that the united arab emirates has given more than 3000 tons of weapons including drones to have to ask forces and to turkish frigates like these of a ride off the coast of libya to add to the approximately 2000 soldiers and pro turkish syrian fighters who are said to be reinforcing tripoli's defenses now turkey make a balance to him from the door was a window or from the bag they came because they have an agreement with the government so if he would like to now they are coming. you know flights that you know on smuggling what they were what they what they see from him out in egypt they are smuggling weapons after us forces have been attacking tripoli with rockets and artillery fire for 10 months they've also imposed a blockade of oil ports that has so far cost the country nearly $700000000.00 the economic impact can already be seen rubbish is piling in the streets of the capital

because there is not enough money to pay workers and prices are starting to rise the government is dedicated soldiers but needs international help it says it is the only way for this conflict end but have to our side has said repeatedly that any solution will be done on the battlefield tony burke al jazeera tripoli. police are hunting for a suspect after a man was stabbed in brixton south london just hours after the british capital is gripped by another attack a man was shot dead by police early on sunday evening after he stabbed 2 people on a busy street the attacker had recently been released from prison where he was serving a sentence for terrorism related offenses police said he was wearing a fake bomb there it's hundreds of people rescued from the mediterranean of arrived in the italian poor of puts in sicily 363 people were rescued by the spanish

charity ship open arms during 5 different operations in the past week italy and malta had initially denied permission for the boat to dock. last night about 830 we received a call from the italian coast guard headquarters in rome telling us that they assigned us to the port to put to disembark the 363 rescued people who have been aboard the open for the past 6 days at about 8 30 in the morning we were entering the port and once we docked we received medical assistance some of the sanitation personnel boarded and gave medical tests to all of the people on board checking their temperature and after a couple of hours the disembarking began. and at least 18 people have been killed by gunman in northern became a fast so man on motorbikes attacked a village in the barony municipality north of the capital what to do. malawi's constitutional court will decide in the coming hours where the 2 of last year's

disputed presidential election results are in may return to the current president and sparked widespread protests and the opposition and support from her to meet us . opposition supporters in malawi say last year's presidential election was rigged to favor peter who narrowly won reelection of opposition leader lazarus chocola 4 months they've been demonstrations in several parts of the country including the capital a long way government officials say at least one police officer was killed civil society groups accuse the police of using exists of force to disperse protesters demonstrators insist there were lots of irregularities many vote tally sheets were altered using typewriter correction fluid let's let's try as much as possible to have elections that are free and fair where nobody feels you know that they've been cheated because i think that's that's the thing these people who are not just demonstrating for the sake of demonstrating very strongly felt that they had been

cheated the system had cheated them. a hearing over the election dispute and a constitutional court began in august but it's been controversial a prominent banker was recently arrested keys are trying to bribe the judges mase election results shows president peter beat opposition candidate by 159000 votes and lead of just over 3 percentage points all in the president of the. record he said and i am here to seek justice and of. justice from behind. and it is justice that is being expected from the cause it is the duty of the courts to deliver justice 5 judges could decide what article legitimately won the presidential election or say the opposition did. the results could be nullified and another round of elections would have to take place the

police service has made sure that it is tied to the security across the country. and should not be afraid to move around there's no car fuel that has been issued by government we're still you know in the in the environment of peace and this will continue. accuses the opposition of trying to sabotage the economy and spread chaos he vehemently denies allegations of vote rigging and promises to revive the economy and tackle institutional corruption in a 2nd term the country relies heavily on donor finding and unemployment is high right now isn't political limbo only when the 5 judges give their ruling or people here know what lies ahead for the country politically and economically. al-jazeera . u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls have made their final pitch to voters ahead of monday's nominating process in iowa the state has held the 1st caucus as its no more than 40 years with results that can indicate how well

a candidate might do and the overall campaign and the official looks now at why iowa firsts but whether that might also change. this is the benefit from going 1st the chance to meet the candidates face to face to ask them questions to test their positions. iowa is not 1st because it's important it's important because its 1st iowa has been the 1st in the nation contest since 1972 that's because its caucus process is drawn out and complicated presidential campaigns can spark into life here or be extinguished that gives people incredible power one report suggests voters in iowa have 20 times more influence than almost any other state the weight and meaning of iowa is really supplied by our national media establishment this is the 1st time they have hard results from actual voters and so if you use as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa

is predominately white it's mainly rudel has few big industries essentially it doesn't look a lot like the rest of america there are plenty who would like to see the 1st contest held in the state this more representative of america as a whole but that's simply not going to happen if somewhere were to move its primary or its caucuses then i would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be 1st. the people here insist they take their responsibilities very seriously in vetting presidential candidates and i just think that you know we've made good decisions in the past not always the one you want but very important to know that the people that are on the 1st line for cookies doing are knowledgeable and can represent minorities throughout the united states when experienced political watcher says the people here know they're doing their job for the rest of the country i will say in terms of the diversity of the state. iowans care about a wide variety of issues there's a lot of issues including issues that relate to the minority communities they get

aired in the iowa caucuses there's a brown and black forum specifically dedicated to giving candidates an opportunity for their issues. or not. some politicians have skipped iowa complaining of its size influence it's never worked out for them whether they like it or not for the moment the road to the white house goes through here alan fischer al-jazeera the morning. still in the u.s. the kansas city chiefs have won their 1st super bowl title in 50 is. tens of thousands of fans are out celebrating the win as the chief scored 3 touchdowns in a final quarter comeback it was a $3120.00 victory over the san cisco $49.00 it sounded like as in miami where supporters of the kansas city chiefs have been celebrating after the game. will not

sit the kansas city chiefs have one for the 1st time since 1900 and you can see the seeds did jubilation here people who traveled all the way from kansas couldn't afford tickets but decided to soak up the atmosphere here in miami let's just rub it here none to see a game all the way down to city would be you know. the whole jail is going to be ruined you know they're all over i was 12 2 years ago when they wanted you know you know. this is great and it was a pretty close game don't don't know why. there's this quarterback down again did you ever want to give up on you know he's just. very. crazy remember when i watched this game. in the last few seconds. i've watched.

the world war one film 917 it's what the british academy film awards the battles with 7 prizes while walking phoenix was judged best actor for and after collecting the trophy he joined the growing criticism about the lack of diversity at the bafta team acting nominees were white no female directors were nominated for the 7th year in a row in the mohammad reports welcome to the british academy film awards a star studded ceremony that honors the best in the world of film and the top winner of the night 1917 san mandy's for 90. the world war one movie won 7 awards including best film and best director. and best documentary went to for some a film about a young mothers experience in syria's civil war as we speak and there was a bombing and shelling on over 3500000 civilians these people there and

they should hear your voice now they should hear that britain as a country as a great country when that happened again renee zellweger one best actress for her role in judy thanks everyone and laura dern best supporting actress for marriage story so thank you bafta thank you for including me in this room of extraordinary artists amid the glamour there was criticism for lack of diversity of the 4 acting categories none of the nominations included minorities joaquin phoenix who won best actor for his role in joker address the issue i think it is the obligation. of the people that have created and perpetuate and benefit from a system of oppression to be the ones that dismantle it so that's on us thank you for the 7th year no woman was nominated for best director in so many women made

great films this year. and i think it just goes to show you that there is the systemic problem brad pitt won best supporting actor for his role in once upon a time in hollywood in a message read out by his costar margot robbie he referenced brags that. her just became single welcome to the club i the prestigious ceremony has been celebrated for more than 70 years. amid criticism for lack of diversity baptise chairwoman said the academy will review its voting procedures including the types of films being made and how they are marketed for healing mohamad al jazeera. they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines russia denying claims by turkey's president that his military hit back at syrian government forces this was after 4

turkish soldiers were killed during shelling and it lives on korea has deployed troops in northern syria to counter a government offensive speaking earlier turkey's president egypt type it once said his forces will continue to retaliate against the syrians. about $30.00 to $35.00 syrian soldiers were eliminated within these positions and as we cede we openly made it clear that we are targeting the syrian forces simply because it was the man who attacked our turkish soldiers we cannot sit on our hands we will hold to account all those responsible for the attack on turkish soldiers. now developing news on corona virus hong kong has just announced the closure of most of its border posts with mainland china in the wake of the outbreak the death toll is now $361.00 in china one chinese nationals who died in the philippines and more than 17000 people have been infected and chinese stocks fell nearly 9 percent early on monday

the biggest fall they've had since 2015 even though china's central bank pledged $173000000000.00 to stabilize the world's 2nd biggest economy at least 18 people have been killed by gunmen in northern bikini men on motorbikes attacked a village in the band a municipality north of the capital. who is a hunting for a suspect after a man was stabbed in south london just hours after the british capital witnessed another attack on sunday i am a shot dead by police earlier after he stabbed 2 people on a busy street the attacker had recently been released from prison where he was serving a sentence for terrorism related offenses. and in the united states kansas city chiefs have won their 1st super bowl title in 50 years a stunning comeback with a 3120 win over the san francisco 49 minutes or shells that unions are in 25 minutes next it's witness. worked at al-jazeera english since its lord sugar as a principal presenter and as a correspondent with the breaking news story to hear from those people who would

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