politically sure we are we the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to do the work in-depth journalism we don't feel in favor to do against the cost of look. cool. turkey says it has struck back after 5 of its soldiers and a civilian died in shelling by syrian government forces. were shot here this is al jazeera life of doha also coming up on kong closes most of its border crossings with china to try to contain the corona virus as the epidemic spreads chinese stocks plunge the main shanghai and that strong an early 9 percent in trading on monday. and iran says it will no longer start out with ukraine on the investigation into last month's plane crash after air traffic

control audio was leaked. turkey says it struck back against syrian military targets after a 5 of its soldiers and a civilian were killed they died in syrian government shelling in the northern province of it lower turkey has recently set an reinforcements russia a key syrian ally is denying the turkish president's claim that syrian forces were targeted. from 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 out to their soldiers we cannot sit on our hands we will hold to account all those responsible for the attack on tutor soldiers for his forces launched a military operation in northeast syria an october of last year to drive kurdish y.p. g. forces away. it's order that was triggered by the u.s.

his decision to withdraw military support to the courage of syrian tim accredit forces both were involved in fighting eisel turks lost the turks control rather a long strip of territory between the towns of. ion in north east syria or as an urban water his russian counterpart vladimir putin brokered a ceasefire in january in that area that agreement collapsed when syrian forces backed by russia launched a campaign to recapture it live and current uses moscow of going back on that deals we have 2 correspondents covering misstep and standing by for us in moscow for russia's reaction 1st it's going to see an increase yellow and is stumble so we seem to be getting kind of mixed messages whether it's from turkey or russia what is the latest sim. well rachele it's for sure that 2 sides both truth here and russia who are just current terms of star sana and such a peace process and the escalation zone in north assistant in syria is that they

don't want to be in conflict they always want to prove the world that they're on the same page last week for instance when you u.s. envoy to syria james jeffrey when he's sad we want turkey that russia is not a trustable partner again there was no sound from turkey so turkey and russia are committed to pursue their partnership or. alliance when it comes to north this when it comes to syria but this incident shows there is there is a loop there is there is a loophole in this partnership because. this happened inside of the escalation zone in live this fight turkey's say that the coordinations were given to the russian counterparts which means the syrian government forces also have the coordinations and this didn't happen. neither of the partners or players in there had faced such an incident before so there is

a question right now turkey says we gave the coordinates russia says we didn't have the coordinates for this loss the lawyer meant so who is telling the truth and turkey insists that the coordinates were given so if the court and i swear with the russians then how come the syrian government forces attacked a turkish convoy so right now everybody is curious about what russia is going to say and what the syrian government is going to say but of course this brings a question that us the peace process is still to the dying what is going to be done to revive their school ation and political resort process in the clip where the syrian government seems to be seems to be willing to solve the problems with military measures ok sitting because still alive for us in istanbul cinema thank you. and turkey's president rides in type or one says his officials have already spoken with russia syria's main backer. the turkish foreign minister along with

chief of intelligence and defense minister have already initiated diplomatic talks however if the desired outcome is not achieved within this period of time on myself will directly talk to my russian counterpart i will lay out chickies view on this particular struggle says that wasn't joins us with the latest on the russian response she is in moscow so so step one says he has made contact with russia what are we hearing from russia. but so far we have no information about the phone call between erdogan and put in which was announced by the one himself but the kremlin has sat so far there hasn't been this call and so far the russian military in a very short statement has given a very different version of events what happened during this incident they don't even mention that turkish soldiers were killed they were only talking about injured and they also said that the turks didn't give them any notice about the any troop

movements and that's why accidentally sort of this happened they basically got caught up in a cross fire by syrian forces so a very different version coming from russia also very much downplaying this this whole incident also saying that they haven't been any counterattacks by turkish forces on syrian forces at all although we're hearing from very different sources that this is actually really happening so there is something going on and something going wrong between turkey and russia right now we know that of course they have a very close relationship further on and put in but also a very how do you call it a practical a relationship so they have been dealing with this cease fire agreements they have been trying to make a peace plan for for both and for libya but at the moment did this so-called bromance between the 2 leaders from russia and turkey seems to be in danger and

there are so most speculations actually that it's also not only not putin himself who is involved in what's going on right now in italy but it's more the russian military who have been so close together with the syrian forces to conquering that there is no stopping and that the russian military might not even be so interested in this very close relationship between the russian president and the turkish president so far we have to yet hear from a lot of me putting himself about what's going on exactly and it will maybe this phone call will happen any time soon now to have us on live for us in moscow thank you. airstrikes and fight again northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are heading towards the turkish border seeking safety so let's take a look at what's happening on the ground after nearly 10 years of war government forces have retaken large parts of the country marked in red their opposition fighters are confined to the north western province of idlib and aleppo the

countryside there with forces backed by turkey and surrounding areas after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts are now surrounded by government forces are pushing to gain ground along the m 4 highway from west to east and the him 5 highway from north to south that connects aleppo to the capital damascus and latakia is to fall apart as a security analyst in a retired turkish armed forces colonel he says diplomacy will suffer as a result of the deaths of those turkish soldiers. from now on that will not be any diplomatic. efforts in order to give an end to all kind of clashes inside the story in the area because all kind of diplomatic forts has been given so far by president gone it has been declared a cease fire at the 12th of january but didn't work for

a new refuge if you go came to the door of to turkey which is more than 710000 that is a big track to turkey in terms of socially in terms of economy really and also a demographic change not inside syria but also same time inside the cities up to turkey for this reason turkey see it as a red line and militar really they before yesterday start to set up and built a military build up inside so for this reason from now on there won't be any solution be taught using the military intervention in this area from my point of perspective but that does not mean that diplomacy will not work we will see after the turkish side decisive the use this military intervention in the area how the diplomacy real change on the table pressure to contain the coronavirus in hong kong as force the territory to shut down most of its borders with mainland china at

it or carolan hopes that by suspending 10 entry points fewer people will process while freight operations can continue earlier on monday hundreds of medical or 1st went on strike to push for later to shut down the border 14 cases of corona virus are confirmed in hong kong with hundreds of suspected adriana's in hong kong on how the territory is coping with this outbreak. well this is causeway bay one of the busiest areas of hong kong and one of the few places where you can now buy facemasks it's a case of supply and demand little supply and plenty of demand it's the same story across the border in mainland china where the government on monday appealed to the international community for more medical supplies especially face masks also on monday hong kong's chief executive carrie lamb gave more details of her decision to close down more sections of the border between hong kong and china it now means there are just 2 places where you can cross from hong kong into china excluding the

international airport and this was why she said she was taking this qualified decision our strategy is really to consol a day as much as possible day existing control points now is really down to excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and they the other is still. too high bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channeling all crossed by the traffic into alisa to cross border control points and because of the inconvenience we have cost to people as a result so the numbers will come down kerry land has been under pressure from a group of striking medical workers to close the border in its entirety also on monday hong kong confirmed its 1st person to person transmission of the virus a man returning from move to hong kong infecting his mother who hadn't been to the mainland this week of course hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens who've

been across the border celebrating chinese new year will be returning raising the prospect of more infections. austrian airways and lufthansa have become the latest airlines to suspend their flights to mainland china have tons of says it will continue flying to hong kong scott hyper reports now from beijing on how china is working to treat the thousands that. 1400 army medics are now in ruhani ready to work in a newly built hospital for coronavirus patients completed in just 9 days the images of supplies on the way and more medical help on hand the chinese government wants its people and the world to see china has criticized the united states for no substantive help with the outbreak and accuse the u.s. government of spreading fear and panic the new facility is modeled after a similar hospital built outside beijing during the sars crisis 17 years ago the number of dead from the corona virus now exceeds that of sars a 2nd hospital is expected to be finished by the end of the week together they will

have 2500 beds for those infected with the virus there is frustration and anger on social media over conditions for the infected and doctors in ruhani china's central government the 1st day back for essential workers after the prolonged holiday focused on easing concern over the supply of needed medical equipment it also look to build confidence in the economy the 2nd largest in the world after factories have been shut and businesses closed because of the virus. as far as we know many export companies are now quickly resuming their production capacity and very slow calories are also taking targeted measures to help create a sound and favorable business environment the central authorities and local governments have all made plans to introduce target measures to help businesses resume their operations. during the 1st day of trading since the lunar new year break the chinese mainland markets close sharply down around 8 percent shy of the 10 percent one day decrease limit set by the markets. to help curb the slide

china's central bank injected $174000000000.00 into the market but the spread of the virus is far from over and the lock down of millions of chinese still does not have an end date so the virus has impact on the future of china's financial markets and economy remains unclear it's got to either al-jazeera beijing. tel had on al-jazeera and then warnings of a worsening faith crisis in south sudan we look at the challenges and delivering aid to remote areas. i'm alan fischer in iowa where they're about to cast the 1st votes in the 2020 us presidential election campaign it's not fox because it's important it's important because it's farce. hello again it's good to have you back well here cross northern asia we are

watching the temperatures dropping across a kaido and northern parts of japan as well over the next few days now we had a system coming in off the sea of japan that ushered in some colder air as well as we did have some snow pushing through here on tuesday sapporo only getting to about minus 3 more snow in the forecast as we go towards wednesday tempters even coming down low or we're about minus 5 degrees as expected high with widespread snow even over here towards the western part of japan we could be seen to be q relations there tokyo though not a bad day tempter a few of about 14 degrees well across the philippines it's been quite nice of the last week but that's going to change as we go towards midweek we do have a tropical wave just towards the east and with it will be seeing increase of rain not here on tuesday but you can see the circulation just to the east but by the time we get towards wednesday particularly in the afternoon we do expect to see an increase of rain along the coast and that could lead to some possible localized flooding and some very heavy rain showers across much of the region here from italy we do expect to see a temperature of 30 degrees and then for india it is going to be an increase of

rain over the next few days and we're going to be seeing that rain starting to make its way towards the northeast for kokoda attempt a few of about $23.00 degrees there. to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption and we listen so if you replace china's enemy a couple of them with a not really that yours we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories the back to 000 context these are the 3 in-depth storytelling around the biggest issues we've done but had to do you should do it again.

marching up a serial take out the top stories right now russia has denied claims by turkey's president that his military hit back at syrian government forces after 5 turkish soldiers and a civilian were killed in government shelling it adlib ankara has a military presence in northern syria to counter a syrian government offensive. has to really shut down the majority of its borders but mainland china in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus at least 361 people have now died in china more than 17000 people are confirmed to be infected chinese stocks plunged by nearly 9 percent early on monday that's the biggest fall since 2015 austrian airways and lufthansa have become the latest airlines to suspend their flights to mainland china. late air traffic control audio

recordings suggest some iranian aviation officials were aware that a missile had hit and brought down a ukrainian airliner last month a 176 people on board died at the height of tensions in the aftermath of the killing of iranian general qassam so loni recordings appear to detail exchanges between the control tower in tehran and a pilot of a private iranian airliner when the ukrainian plane was shot down iran says it will no longer share information with ukraine on the investigation to iran has accused ukrainian exports of leaking the recordings to local media so let's listen to some of that recording. number one for one and give. the money for him to. be. there that i have no idea thank you and the obama family have a moment. you know with.

me now i'm going to. do this because people who moan when. they're. like a. problem. and. they don't think there was a real right there right there. ok i'm a better actor for the part. of. the on the in the. moment when one moment. they're going to be like. us a big as in tehran he says the link tape reveals contradictions in the iranian leadership version of the incident. the narrative coming out of the front has been

that it was the revolutionary guard to shut down the aircraft with a missile and it took them 3 days to investigate and then inform the government but this conversation between air traffic control and this domestic airline pilot shows that someone within the civil aviation authority must have known and if they didn't know why wasn't the government informed or if the simulation authority heads didn't know why was that information fed up the chain of command so it puts the ring in government in a very difficult position because they've put out a narrative that they didn't know that the government didn't know it was the military that knew and it took them 3 days to come out with the information but this audiotape says otherwise the world food programme is warning that the number of people in need of aid in south sudan will increase this year there's a conflict has left nearly half of the population relying on food assistance as him or going to ports recent flooding has made the situation worse for thousands more. it's the world's largest storm but the 3rd in south sudan for than each state is

now home to 28 year old deborah ques she fled her home in their town several kilometers away because of fighting deborah now struggles to feed herself and her children but to get a mandala but to sin right now we cannot do farming because of insecurity if you take a risk and go home you may lose your life what makes me lose sleep is that during the rainy season we farm on and off because of displacement floods also destroy our crops we really suffer joined a rainy season due to lack of shelter. deborah and her kids are now among the 7500000 people out of south sudan's 11000000 population who rely on food 8 years of fighting that started in 2013 and was largely brought to an end after dealing 10 to 18 resulted in nearly 4000000 people being displaced many had to abandon their farms which has led to food shortages and last november's floods have made worse and already dire situation the un's world food program says more than half of the

27 flood affected counties are facing extreme levels of acute malnutrition but delivering aid in a poor country like south sudan is not easy but roots mean air drops have become the only way to reach many in remote areas like nell where deborah has taken refuge there's also the risk of famine and we need to be supporting 5 and a half 1000000 people in south sudan with some form of food assistance but if we don't get the resources to reach that many people we're going to have to make some really tough choices we're going to have to focus on alleviating the most food and secure people in the country staving off hunger stopping that famine in its tracks but that also means that some people will fall through the gap it means we won't be able to support everybody children are the most at risk from the lack of food here all their families can do now is hope that somehow they get the help they need he will morgan al-jazeera. even

a plane carrying 7 people in need of medical care has departed yemen's capital it's the 1st man to tarry in flight out of san airport since it was closed in 2016 around 30 patients are being sent for treatment to egypt and jordan although the who the rebels control some of the coalition they're fighting controls the air space almost 5 year long civil war has pushed immense health care system close to collapse. british prime minister boris johnson has outlined the u.k.'s negotiating position with the european union a country has now left the bloc that has until the end of the year to agree to a new relationship including making trade deals johnson says the u.k. wants a free trade deal and not at any cost the question. is whether we agree a trading relationship with the e.u. comparable to canada's all more like australia and i have no doubt that in either case the u.k.

will prosper mightily and of course. new relationship with his neighbors can range far beyond trade or insley is covering this for us from london he says both sides are presenting demands they know the other side is on likely to meet. the problem is really you know you've got to go to european sites the wants things to be exactly the same as they have been but knows that that's exactly the opposite of what the british want and the brits want things to be completely different to how they have been but also know that europe's still the main markets and so they put out these you know initial positions knowing perfectly well that they're going to have to change it's like you know if you're my boss and i want to 3 percent pay rise from you i'm going to demand that you give me nothing less than 10 percent in me you know and it doesn't mean anything yet because of it you got months and months of this to go on michel barnier for the europeans said we want access to british fishing waters you know perfectly well the british don't want to give the

europeans access to fishing water anymore it's become a totemic thing for brics it is equally boris johnson having said that you get a trade deal with the e.u. last year now made it clear there wasn't so much bothered with this and says he wants the u.k. to be more like australia or canada and the final phase of donald trump's impeachment trial is set to get underway later on monday and the rats and trucks defense team will a chap 2 hours to make closing arguments as president is facing charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power over accusations that he pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden after the senate voted on friday against hearing from witnesses as likely triumph will be acquitted in the final vote on wednesday white house correspondent kimberly how close in washington d.c. and says a number of key events this week for help set the tone for the upcoming presidential campaign. this is a pivotal weekend u.s. politics for a number of reasons not only those closing arguments but also the fact that we're

going to have another sort of stacking of events the iowa caucus that is the 1st democratic nominating contest and then we have that final vote on whether to acquit the president but also tucked into all of that is the state of the union address by the u.s. president that will take place on tuesday evening in what's obvious lee going to be unusual and awkward about that is the president's going to be delivering that speech could be continuing to maintain no wrong doing well this sort of looming vote on whether to remove him from office hangs in the balance so it's going to be a back to back series of events that is really going to shape the sort of tone of the u.s. election campaign all the way until election day in november because what you're going to have is really the 2 sides lined up with donald trump maintaining no wrongdoing saying that he needs to be reelected but in the midst of all of that is going to be the democrats arguing that not only does he need to be removed from

office but that he shouldn't be reelected so that is going to be the overarching tone as we not only have these closing arguments the state of the union address but then of course also on wednesday that pivotal vote that we expect now will go in the president's favor in that he will be acquitted estimate crowd of presidential hopefuls have made their final pitch to voters sort of the nominating process to begin in iowa in the coming hours the state has held the 1st caucus for more than 40 years and the results can indicate how well a candidate might do in the campaign alan fischer looks at why iowa is 1st and whether that might change. this is the benefit from going 1st the chance to beat the candidate speech 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 it's used 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 in iowa would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be flushed. 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 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 des moines iowa. i think at

a moment visit our web site al-jazeera dot com and keep it here for a recap of the headlines in just a moment. these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera russia has denied claims by turkey's president that his military hit back at syrian government forces that's after 5 turkish soldiers and his civilian died in syrian government shelling an adlib ankara has a military presence in the province to counter a syrian government offensive in kosovo's in istanbul turkey and russia don't want to be in conflict they always want to prove the world that they are on the same page last week for instance when you are u.s. and were to syria james jeffrey when he's bad we want turkey about russia is not a trustable partner again there was no sound from turkey so turkey and russia are committed to pursue their partnership or. alliance when it comes to north this

when it comes to syria. is temporarily shut down the majority of its borders of mainland china in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus on kong has reported its 1st human to human transmission of the virus at least 361 people have now died in china why more than more than $17000.00 people are confirmed to be infected and chinese stocks plunged nearly 9 percent on monday that is the biggest fall since 2015 austrian airways and tonsil have the come the latest airlines to spend their flights to mainland china leaks air traffic control audio recording suggests iranian aviation officials were aware that a missile hit and brought down ukrainian airliner last month a 176 people on board died iran says it will no longer share information with ukraine on that investigation. are you in plane carrying 7 people in need of medical care has departed yemen's capital its 1st humanitarian flight out of sana

airports and it was closed in 2016 although the who the rebels control side of the coalition they are fighting on trails the air space and was 5 year long civil war has pushed health care system close to collapse british prime minister boris johnson has out why in the u.k.'s negotiating position with the european union the country has now left the block but has until the end of the year to agree to a new relationship including making trade deals johnson says the u.k. wants a free trade deal but not at any cost and the final face of donald trump's impeachment trial is set to get underway later on monday democrats and trump's defense team will each have 2 hours to make closing arguments after the senate voted on friday against hearing from witnesses it is likely trump will be inquisitive acquitted that is on the final vote and that is on wednesday so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come rewind is next. you out on the streets testing whether on line you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and

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