face to face on al-jazeera. informed opinion the economy is actually what's the trouble right now and inject the analysis of the day's headlines the protest movement is only getting stronger the more people who killed the resilient the resistant they will the inside story on al-jazeera. 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians killed in shelling by syrian forces backed by russia in the last rebel held on ply. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on kong shuts down most of its border crossings with the mainland after hours after medical workers went on strike . the 1st humanitarian flight in 3 years leaves the health system on the

brink of collapse. to convict or acquit both sides begin their closing arguments in donald trump's impeachment trial. but we begin with one of the most serious escalations between turkish and syrian government forces in recent years the syrian military has killed 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilian military personnel now turkey is hit back the defense minister has arrived at the border he says his forces have killed 76 syrian government soldiers in the province syria's main ally russia is contradicting those claims president roger tiber the one says the retaliation was justified. how is all of this and what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces in italy which resulted in 8 people dying 5 soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that

it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out we responded we did what was necessary and made them pay the cost of their actions by air and land assault is our wish that everyone remember and know the responsibilities within the astonishment so we continue our efforts within the terms of the agreement president out of there and went on to word russia to fulfill its obligations under a recent sees 5 deal. good as the that the situation is moving to a position which is very hard to resolve the regime together with russia turning a blind eye attacks by the regime of italy where 3 or 4000000 people live are causing them to move towards our border so the latest figures indicate nearly 1000000 people are moving towards the border sin and cos all who is following the story from istanbul she says so far negotiations have failed to ease tensions. it doesn't seem to be contained because of the statements the explanations from russia hasn't been satisfactory for the turkish officials yet we know that turkish and

russian foreign ministers had a phone conversation and they have both of them decided that they need to monitor the situation in the the ass collation zone and so far they have no one has the syrian government let's say hasn't taken any responsibility on the attacks against the turkish convoy which was which was actually bringing reinforcements to the observation post within the scope of the the escalation zone it has been like this since the beginning of the us than in such a process there are turkish military observation posts and turkey's sensorium force months depending on the time and the situation over there since the syrian government again to gain back territory i mean the area right below the m 5 highway 3 of the 12 turkish military observation posts were already there and for the last

one month the regime forces have been there but the military observation posts or the reinforcements reinforcement called wars haven't been attacked so why is the sap an in now is the question to be answered service and reports from moscow where she says russia is trying to downplay the incident. russia has been very much downplaying this whole incident initially even denying that someone some turkish soldiers got killed they were only talking about injuries and also they're sort of blaming the turkish forces for not to notifying the russian military so they got caught up in this this assault and attack by the syrian forces so basically saying it's a it's an accident and also not bluntly denying actually that the turkish forces are now attacking syrian forces as a retaliation a russian said there was nothing like that but in another effort to downplay this whole incident the russian foreign ministry has now come up with

a statement about the phone calls between the 2 foreign ministers also saying that the only solution and the only alternative for this situation and it is a political diplomatic solution so clearly not a military one and they also stressed that the agreements between turkey and russia which have been signed several times and i stand are also in such in 2018 to observe this deescalation zone these agreements have to be observed and russia specifically mentions and urges again turkey to separate what they call the moderate opposition from the terrorist forces in the loop and that's what they've been complaining about for a long time already that it's these so-called terrorist forces that are attacking the syrian and russian forces and that's why they have to fight back and this ceasefire never actually stood the whole the very long. airstrikes and fighting in northwestern syria have displaced hundreds of thousands of people many are heading

towards the turkish border seeking safety as 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 here in red opposition fighters are confined now to the northwestern province of italy and aleppo countryside with forces backed by turkey and surrounding areas after the latest russian banks government advance some turkish observation posts are now surrounded the government forces are pushing to gain ground along the m 4 highway to the east end the m 5 highway to the south connect aleppo to the capital damascus and the taqiyya the use of her brother is a security analyst and a retired turkish armed forces colonel he says diplomacy will suffer as a result of the deaths of turkish soldiers. from now on there will not be any diplomatic. force 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 go on and it has been declared a cease fire at the 12th of january but didn't work for a new refuge of law came to the door after turkey which is more than 710000 that is a big tract to turkey in terms of socially in terms of economy clee and also a demographic change not inside syria but also at the same time inside the cities up to turkey for this reason turkey see it as a red line and militarily they before yesterday start to set up and boot a military boot up inside the area so for this reason problem the war there won't be any solution using the military intervention in this area from my point of perspective but that does not mean that it was it will not work we will see after

the turkish side decisive the use of this military intervention in the area hard diplomacy real change on the table austrian airways and love to become the latest airlines to suspend their flights to mainland china though love sansa says it will continue flying to hong kong the move comes as pressure grows to contain the corona virus in hong kong on monday the territory closed most of its borders with mainland china leader kerry lam hopes that by suspending 10 entry points fewer people will cross while freight operations can continue earlier on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike to push for leaders to shut down the border 14 cases of corona virus are confirmed in hong kong with 100 suspected adrian brown is in hong kong with more on how the territory is coping with the virus 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 facemasks also on monday hong kong chief executive kerry 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 consolidate as much as possible a day existing control points now is really down tool excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and they the other is. a high bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channeling all cross border 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. well doctors in thailand have had promising results treating the coronavirus with medication normally reserved for battling a jarvey and flu alexei o'brien has more on that from bangkok. and labs around. the world's scientists are racing to understand the new coronavirus

they want to know where it came from and how to stop it and to get the answers they need they've turned to beds 75 ops infected this is. animal that. says. look healthy. it best and. 2 other animal all too human. doctors has been studying these viruses for years to thailand's chulalongkorn university the corona virus spreading now she is almost 100 percent d.n.a. match with another one found in bats and she hopes that study and wildlife can help us prevent and control outbreaks in humans. on help decode the genome for the 1st confirmed case of the new virus outside china behind the story researchers are working with patients of the corona virus and they're taking steps to make the

fragments safer to work with by killing the virus but keeping its d.n.a. intact we can't go in here because it's too dangerous. to my doctors say a new approach of treating some of those who do get sick appears to be working using a cocktail of flu and hiv drugs that's after one chinese woman treated in a hospital in bangkok recovered but other patients didn't and the government says it's too early to say whether that mix of drugs is effective in the. case reports always in this report. and also in the. in order for them to. continue further and a treatment can't come soon enough thailand is seen as one of the countries most at risk from this new virus because of the number of chinese visitors it receives and because in recent weeks some came from. the center of the outbreak planes flying in

and out of the mainland to being date cleaned and disinfected. has a use in thermal imaging cameras to taste for those who may have a fever hand sanitizers are a common sight so too in mosques and bangkok's chinatown which is one of the biggest chinese own claves in the world it's both a major tourist attraction and popular with locals. i've seen a decline in the number of tourists especially in the past few days since the news broke about the virus when chinese tourists easier some type people don't come because they're scared of getting infected while people try everything they can to protect themselves they're looking to doctors and scientists around the world who urgently trying to find a solution to a problem that's growing by the day brian al-jazeera bangkok. well still ahead on al-jazeera made warnings of a worsening food crisis in south sudan we look at the challenges of delivering i to

remote areas plus. i'm a solid job in kazakhstan and i'll tell you how the remnants of soviet culture is having an impact on how the society deals with the disabled. are. going to welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across turkey in coming days we're going to be seeing more weather in terms of rain snow as well as winds we do have a system coming out of europe making its way towards the southeast and you can see here on tuesday not looking too bad but by the time we do get to wednesday. we do pick up a lot more snow a lot more winds across much of the area as well as we're going to see some rain pushing through parts of istanbul heavy rain across the southern coast as well and we're going to sing opera though those temperatures are going to be diving by the time we get towards thursday starting at 12 going to 15 on wednesday changing to

snow by the time we get to thursday with a temperature of about 3 degrees there well the northeastern part of africa will also be experiencing some very windy conditions across the next 3 days mostly here towards libya as well as into egypt those winds will be on the increase into wednesday and we could be see some storms across much of that northern coast cairo though on tuesday 22 degrees and as we go towards wednesday 21 as the expected high and for southern africa for cape town things are going to be cooling down over the next few days we're going to be staying a temper there as we go towards tuesday of about 30 degrees but by the time we do go towards parts of wednesday dropping down to about 25 degrees there in johannesburg a few showers at 28 reis. one is the last time you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every level or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on saying the tension has to start from

day one whether again you and attention or your own participants this is a dialogue everyone has a voice ok there are states that supply kalashnikov rifle varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq . or. welcome back you're watching are just 0 time to recap our headlines turkey's defense minister says his forces have killed 76 syrian government soldiers is threatening further action after 5 to your soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by regime shelling into the province turkey's president or edge of the one says russia

must ensure a cease fire and it will be made to comments talks with the ukrainian president and here. hong kong is temporarily shut down the majority of its borders with mainland china internet to contain the spread of corona virus at least 361 people have now died in china 17000 are infected. the final phase of donald trump's impeachment trial has started democrats and trump's defense team will each have 2 hours to make closing arguments the u.s. president is facing charges of obstruction of congress and the busa of power over accusations he pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden but after the senate voted on friday against hearing from witnesses it's likely trump will be acquitted in the final vote that vote is now expected on wednesday.

hi joe castro is on capitol hill on how those closing arguments going. well sammy the democratic house impeachment managers have already wrapped up their planned closing arguments you're seeing a brief break now for lunch in the senate chambers and this is the final time that those democrats have it opportunity to not only speak to the senators who are the jurors in this case but also to the american people and we heard impassioned speeches from the floor appealing to the sense of history and a sense of what precedent this with set for the behavior of future u.s. leaders argues the managers if president trump is not acquitted and essentially gets away with the charges that he's accused of jefferies one of the impeachment managers said that this basically says that presidents will be held unaccountable in the future if they solicit election interference from

a foreign nation and they say that president trump continues to do so today now all of this though is leading up to wednesday's vote which by all accounts will be an acquittal why are we so certain of that well because of course republicans are the majority of the jurors here and it wouldn't require 20 of them crossing the aisle to vote to convict and remove president trump none have indicated any likelihood they would do so there has been some discussion though of what's called a sense assured that one level of course below impeachment basically a statement of displeasure against the president and that's indicating because there's a handful of republicans who have said that they do believe that president trump solicited for interference and that it's inappropriate but that it simply does not rise to the level of removing him from office sammy. thanks for that.

well the trial is happening at u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for the nominating process in iowa that stupid begin in the coming hours the results can indicate how well a candidate may do in the campaign the state has held the 1st caucus for more than 40 years an official looks why about is. thank you this is the benefit from going 1st the chance to meet 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 if you used as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa is predominately white it's mainly rudel as 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 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. the world food program is warning the number of people in need of aid in south sudan willing crease this year years of conflict has left nearly half of the population relying on food assistance i miss her morgan reports recent flooding is very the situation worse for thousands more. it's the world's largest storm but the 3rd in south sudan southern leitch

state is now home to 28 year old deborah neckwear 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 see him 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 during the 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 a deal in 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 roads mean air drops have become the only way to reach many in remote areas like near where deborah has taken refuge there's also the risk of famine. 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 matt 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 leak said traffics recording suggest to rein in aviation officials were immediately aware missile brought down the ukrainian airliner last month the exchanges between a control tower at the iran airport and a domestic flight pilot trying to land a pilot reports he saw both a missile and an explosion iran's revolutionary guard admitted it shot down the aircraft killing all $176.00 on board after denying it for days now says it will no longer share information with ukraine on the investigation as a result of this leak he when planes left yemen's capital becoming the 1st humanitarian flights out of sana'a in the years around 30 patients are being sent for treatment to egypt and jordan although the rebels control sana'a the coalition fighting controls the airspace in a 5 year conflict has pushed yemen's health system close to collapse.

rights workers in kazakstan say thousands of disabled children living in orphanages are facing abuse and neglect as post soviet era rules children with disabilities can be handed over to state institutions a birth. of a reports from marty some parents trying to win the practice. from buying medicine to groceries everything is a struggle on a wheelchair and winters are specially hard for maxim he finds it difficult to live on disability benefits with no access to work. from normal to march i sit at home because of the red the if i get sick then there may not be enough money from the allowance so i have to see a food and that's without delicacies they cost them. but beyond the lack of access there is a much deeper stigma in kazakhstan for people who have special needs or disabilities . bible says her marriage ended when she decided to keep her son who has down syndrome when children with disabilities are born here parents can send them to

orphanages a soviet era practice of exclusion and abandonment which forces those with disabilities to live under institutional care yes dear. it's down syndrome the diagnosis will be clear literally in the 1st minutes of his life that's why there are so many children with down syndrome abandoned by their parents. human rights watch reports physical violence for sedation and neglect in state institutions i guess trying to raise awareness that orphanages and not the solution. i saw that the attitude towards children is what's towards patients the treatment was psychiatric and neurological meaning high doses of psychotropic drugs prescribed to children who were not dangerous to themselves and those around them i saw some children were tied i saw children who can eat on their own and being fed carelessly i saw children who cannot walk lie in bed all their lives there are more than 2 dozen state institution that cater to children and adults with mental health conditions and disabilities and approximately 2. 1000 children live with orphans

even though they still have one or both parents others here has made several requests to the ministry of education as well as the mayor's office to allow us to see for ourselves where the children institutions like the one behind me are being abused and neglected but we have not been granted permission extends government believes it has a better system than the rest of central asian states but there is still room for improvement. there are $74.00 centers 460000 children after an indefinite cycle but they've got to go service the children receive timely correctional support there are $186.00 cycle correctional offices and 14 regional centers where children receive support but our objective is not to hold them their . dinner works as a cleaner and her decision to take care of her son with cerebral palsy comes with its own set of challenges her husband is a laborer and the little they are in the spent on paying bills and medical care for

their son so what the praise be to god i do not know how but it is enough for us we allocate money for rent food and clothes we take loads from other people and don't buy a lot of plates what he needs is a lot of the therapeutic physical training and messages we provide when we can afford the idea but with love and care not a son has improved in the last 9 years and so has a good son his mom wants to see that with inclusion and compassion children with disabilities can be vibrant and productive members of their society some of them die without the 00 marquee kazakhstan. british prime minister barak johnson has outlined the u.k.'s negotiating position with the european union the u.k. is now left the bloc and has until the end of the year to agree to a long term deal with the e.u. johnston says he wants a free trade agreement but not of any cost e.u. is warning the u.k. will have to abide by regulations the question. is whether we

agree a trading relationship with the e.u. comparable to canada's or more like australians and i have no doubt that in either case the u.k. will prosper mightily and of course. new relationship with our closest neighbors will range far beyond trade. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera turkey's defense minister says his forces have killed 76 syrian government soldiers he's threatening further action after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by regime shelling in a province turkey's president throw out of the un says russia must ensure a cease fire in italy he made the comments at talks with the ukrainian president in kiev. what we see is an aerial assault by

regime forces in italy which resulted in 8 people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out we responded we did what was necessary and make them pay the cost of their actions by air and land assault is our wish that everyone remember and know the responsibilities within the u.s. tire free meant so we continue our efforts within the terms of the agreement hong kong has shut down most of its border with mainland china to contain the spread of corona virus it follows the 1st human to human transmission of the virus in hong kong at least 361 people have now died in china 17000 are infected. u.n. plane has left yemen's capital becoming the 1st humanitarian flights out of sana'a in years around 30 patients are being sent for treatment to egypt and jordan although who think rebels control santa the coalition they're fighting controls the

air space nearly 5 year conflict has pushed yemen's health system close to collapse the final phase of dark trumps impeachment trial has started democrats and trump's defense team will each have 2 hours to make closing arguments the u.s. president is accused of pressuring re crane to investigate his political rival joe biden but after the senate voted on friday against hearing for witnesses it's likely trump will be acquitted in that final vote that's expected on wednesday britain's prime minister has outlined the u.k.'s negotiating position with the e.u. the u.k. is now left the block and has until the end of the year to agree on a long term deal with the european union it's inside story now stay with us.

turkish soldiers are killed as fighting intensifies for the last piece of syria held by opposition rebels hundreds of thousands of refugees are caught in the middle on hopes fading for a peaceful end to many years of war this is inside school. hello and welcome to the program i'm daryn jordan syria's government is stepping up its campaign to retake the last rebel held province on monday 5 took his soldiers and a civilian became the latest to be killed by shelling on ad lib in the north west turkey backs opposition groups and had sent reinforcements to counter president.