to get on but this simply no space. i am. a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it's retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians are killed in syria and shelling. alone barbarous area watching out to sea or life from london also coming up hong kong shuts down several crossings that link it to mainland china in response to the corona virus an election victory overturned the malawi's constitutional court to nullify is the 200-1000 results saying a new vote must be held in a 150 dates and the lifeline for yemenis in need of urgent care center i report is partially reopened so sick patients flown out.

to the thank you for joining us a turkey says its military has hit dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the province turkey's the fence minister has arrived at the syrian border he says his forces have killed 76 syrian soldiers in rebel held its leap but syria's main ally russia has contradicted those claims turkey and russia are in opposing sides of the fighting in a glib president had the one says he's told russian officials they should quote stand aside in the conflict. you know. how it's all of us and what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces and it'll it would result in 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 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 steadfast and is in moscow for us she says russia is trying to contain the situation. 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 in italy 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 cease fire never actually. hold it very long well meanwhile a government here strike in northern syria has killed 9 members of the same family

their vehicle was targeted by a warplane in the western aleppo countryside the attack occurred in a region where russian backed government forces have been pushing to drive rebels out of their last enclave members of the syrian civil defense also known as the white helmets have buried the bodies. pressure is growing in hong kong to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china chief executive kerry lam says that suspending 10 out of 13 entry points should mean that fewer people cross into hong kong while freight can continue to enter earlier on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border because shop so far hong kong has confirmed 14 cases of the virus later brown is in hong kong for us looking

at why the territories been all but cut off from mainland china. 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 carrier 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

a hong kong bridge and the additional benefit of doing that is we are channelling all cross 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. for meanwhile in war high on which is where the virus originated a new hospital specifically for corona virus patients has been built in just days

authorities in china hope the move will allay fears that it's not doing enough to stop the disease from spreading scott heide lawyer has more from beijing. 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 concerns 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. could be far off 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. least 13 children have been killed in a stampede of a primary school in western kenya at least 39 other students were seriously injured police say the stampede was caused when panic broke out and students left school it's unclear what caused the alarm but the investigation is underway. malawi's constitutional court has voted to nullify last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the vote in may have returned. to power for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests how do with casa has more now 5 judges ruled that people with the ticket did not win made the election did nullified that result if they think the elections must be held within $150.00 days some of the concerns they had about the election was that there was just too many inconsistency that jeopardize the credibility of the result the judges say this is picked some

people may have voted more than once they say there was evidence of ballot stuffing and if they come numbers some results were changed using typewriter correction fluid and this is a huge occasion for the people of malawi history in the making so to speak it's the 1st time an election here has been nullified is the 1st time you have in africa that even if it happens in the rest of africa most recently it happened in kenya in 2017 when a quarter the order rerun after that election was found to have told many irregularities but right now the feeling of course it's a way to see how people are going to react supporters of the reading party and support of the opposition we know they plan to be celebrations tonight into tomorrow tuesday from the opposition people waiting to reaction from the ruling party and what the way forward for them is going to be next. a leaked order of recording appears to suggest that iran immediately knew it had shot down a ukrainian airliner the spy denying it for days the exchange between an iranian

air traffic controller and another domestic pilot has been acknowledged by ukrainian investigators as genuine but iran now says it will not share material on the crash after the leak all 176 people on board the ukrainian jet were killed when the plane was brought down last month. one. of. the most. you know. we never.

heard. about the one. woman. said by gays in tehran and says the recording puts the iranian government in a very difficult position. there's a conversation between air traffic control and a domestic airline us the man. in iran and the flight was on its way from shiraz which is just over 1000 kilometers away from the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control is very interesting the pilot contacts air traffic control and

asked if there's any activity in a certain region because he's seen a light that looks like a light of a missile in the air traffic control off for more details the pilot then again responds off seemed like it's a light of a missile he says then the traffic control says they've had no reports of any incidents but also the pilots stay on line then we hear traffic control contact the ukrainian airline and he contacts them 9 times and at one point raises his voice trying to get in touch with them he then goes back to the domestic airline pilot and says have you seen anything and this is yes we have seen a big explosion and it's ok to continue traffic control says yes we've had no reports of any incidents now this puts the reigning government in a very difficult position because the narrative coming out of the front has been that it was the revolutionary guard that 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 civil aviation authority heads didn't know why it 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 ordeal says otherwise. well coming up on al-jazeera a years of conflict have left nearly half of the population relying on food assistance in south sudan look at how recent flooding has made the situation worse brussels the lance fair competition why london champions free traders both sets out in very different visions of a post ship. some

cooler weather pushing into europe over the next couple days after incredibly mild weather so far as a class still tumbling in from the atlantic weather systems will introduce some clout and right as this next system makes its way across the british isles just starting to see something more and more westerly wind feeding in as we go on through the next couple of days and that will drive its way down across the low countries through a good part of germany snow there over the alps some parts could see maybe 70 centimeters of snow so quite a bit of it and that will make its way down into their accounts as well the balkan scenes and right state and snow will push this way all the way over towards the black sea so we'll see some wet weather coming into rumania temperatures falling away in the process so 10 cell just football caressed by the time we come to where to stay 6 celsius in bucharest and little further north those temperatures well

down it's a single figures now we're losing the double figure values that we've seen in recent days will be something of a change it'll start to up again as we go on into the weekend but some nasty weather into the east the start of the mediterranean some rain sleet and snow so any cost posset greece and also into turkey on the other side of the maddest lotty fine and dry with plenty of warm sunshine for all. i'll just earaches prose prominent figures of the 20th century and how life will raise influenced the course of history was the human revolution coming his own way feel castro is a futile least another coming mr castro into this country change that international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face on al-jazeera

. a comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkey says its military has had thousands of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in italy province pressure is growing in hong kong to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china chief executive kerry latham a suspended 10 out of 13 entry points and a bit to get used to slow speed. and malawi's constitutional court has voted to nullify last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities

the vote in may return to peter who said he cut to power for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests. the airport in yemen's capital sanaa has partially reopened to allow u.n. medical relief flights out of the country though the who the rebels control sanaa the coalition they are fighting controls the air space the airport has been closed to commercial planes since 2016 the almost 5 year war has pushed yemen's health system to the brink of collapse with 80 percent of the population without access to health care mohamed the. airport as the 1st patients prepared to depart. it's the 1st flights. september 26th. nearly 7 patients will be on board this flight the flight will take off every week so

nearly 28 patients will be flown out of yemen there are more than 30000 patients have been requested by the w.h.o. we have here abdullah who's suffering from kidney failure he needs to travel outside of your money to make transplantation of a kidney in order to survive i'm also going to appeal to judy a walter to the help of decisions that 25 patients die every day and also news that since the beginning of the solid. over $25000.00 pages of diet because of the severe shortage of medicines also the unability health care sector to provide such health care services to such creations in washington senators have gathered for closing arguments in the impeachment trial of donald trump democratic managers and the president's legal team have to always

each for their final statements after which the court of impeachment will adjourn until the final vote on wednesday president trump is facing charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power it's alleged that he threatened to withdraw aid to ukraine to pressure kiev to investigate his political rival joe biden on friday the senate voted against hearing from additional witnesses trump is likely to be acquitted in the final vote. let's go to heidi gilles castro who's on capitol hill what are we likely to hear in the next few hours. we are hearing these democratic impeachment managers fight to the bitter end on this they are using up their minutes to make the final argument for trump's removal from office given that they understand what is likely the inevitable which is that by wednesday president trouble will likely be acquitted by his republican colleagues in the senate because

of course these jurors that are hearing the arguments are not impartial jurors at all rather they are partisan and republicans hold the majority of the senate and they have given every reason for planning to acquit the president now there had been some hope on part of the democrats to at least extend the process further get more information out into the public by calling on witnesses but those hopes were dashed on friday one of vote to call witnesses failed so what we're hearing now is leading peter manager adam schiff giving that final push still trying to change minds that are otherwise already made up. donald trump has betrayed his oath to protect and defend the constitution. but it's not too late for us to honor ours to wield our power to defend our democracy today we urge you in the face of overwhelming evidence of the president's guilt and knowing that if left in office

he will continue to seek foreign interference in the next election to vote to convict on both articles of impeachment and to remove from office donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states. and this is a historic moment of part of a historic trial we've heard these sweeping arguments made it day in and day out but really it's the political realities that will determine the outcome again those republican senators not planning to remove the president from office they are fearful of this president who has been known to attack anyone who does not offer their full loyalty and support and it will be in november when the american voter will be able to decide whether or not president trump get a 2nd term but as your pastor with the latest there on capitol hill heidi thank you . the world food programme is warning that the number of people in need of aid in south sudan will increase this year years of conflict have left nearly half of the

population relying on food assistance and as people morgan reports recent flooding has made the situation worse for thousands more. it's the world's largest swarm but the 3rd in south sudan for than leeched 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 model 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 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 aid years the 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 growth 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 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 prudent secure people in the country staving off hunger stopping 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 less than 3 days after breaths in the u.k. and the you have outlined very different visions of their future relationship ahead of formal negotiations the british prime minister boris johnson says the u.k. wants free trade but not at any cost insisting that his country would not align itself with all e.u. rules meanwhile europe's chief negotiator michel battery is says reciprocal access to fishing waters is a inextricably linked to any trade occurring and the pair have until the end of the year to agree a new relationship including trade deals well our insley is in london from where he explains boris johnson's expectations from any future trade agreement he didn't say

that he necessarily even needed a treaty to you know even in summer signing up to the european union standards he said we don't need to write that down we'll just do it anyway it's sort of typical flippant approach barbarisms in some ways but i think the but the main thing to understand at this point is because the negotiations haven't actually started jets go to him michel barnier for the european side giving virtually simultaneously news conferences this morning about sort of beating their chests and putting out was what effect simply equal and opposite hard line positions so michel barnier says we europeans a man can sing the access to british waters for fishing even though he knows the brits it says that as an idea equally boris johnson knows that the europeans want continued alignments in the continuation of the same source of standards and so to try to undermine that he gave a speech in which he said we don't need those things at all in fact he said we'd be just as happy to have either a canadian or an australian styled. indigenous leaders from the amazon have

called on the british government to stand up for their rights they visited the prime minister's official downing street home to ask that no minerals or agricultural products from the amazon be imported into britain sonny gago reports from london. it is known as the lungs of the earth and the richest source of biodiversity in the world but the amazon rain forest is facing unprecedented danger . deforestation. wildfires is disappearing at an alarming rate by 30 percent between 20182019 as ranchers and loggers raid areas all in the name of economic development acts encouraged by brazil's president. he may have announced a new amazon council to start simply encourage sustainable development in the rain

forest of a seen by a proponent of mining development but also not also ordered cuts to government agencies that enforce laws against illegal logging mining and land grabs all of those decisions taken without consulting the indigenous population. the brazilian government is signaling a great danger to the world for indigenous peoples communities the great soul of the forest letting everything go to ruin by messing with the laws that were created in 1908 to protect and digitize peoples will be impossible to fix this once it's been destroyed. war attempting to stop the rot or trying to mobilize foreign leaders to pressure brazil to stop the exploitation of the amazon but it's a tough challenge also not all a right wing populist has hit back at leaders such as france's president. for daring to raise the issue publicly despite the urgent calls from those who live in

the rain forest we have to listen to them with these people understand the forest better than anybody you only have to look at satellite maps of the to see where indigenous rights land rights have been recognized those territories still have primary arms and rain forests and immediately where the border is there's complete devastation. he did you just leaders are hit to ask the british government prevent illegal and mind products from entering into the u.k. but the concern here is that in the post brics it britain will striking up trade deals take precedence over environmental protections. the exploitation of the amazon for mining and intensive farming may have brought some economic production to the region but it is also brought with it the and of a way of life and destruction of a precious natural resource these days the political will to preserve it is so far taking a back seat leaving those who live at the mercy of a state renouncing

a promise to protect its people al-jazeera london. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkey says its military has had dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the problems turkey's defense minister has arrived at the syrian border he says his forces have killed $76.00 syrian soldiers in rebel held it leap but syria's main ally russia is contradicted in those claims turkey and russia are on opposing sides in the fighting in a live turkish president says his country's retaliation was justified. what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces and it'll it would result in 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 dream and so we continue our efforts within the terms of the agreement pressure is growing in hong kong for authorities to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china chief executive kerry lam says suspending 10 of the 13 entry points should mean that fewer people cross into hong kong while freight to enter earlier on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be completely shocked so far hong kong has confirmed 14 cases of the virus. at least 13 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western kenya at least 39 other students were seriously injured

police say the stampede was caused one panic broke out all students left the school it's unclear what caused the alarm but an investigation is underway. malawi's constitutional court has voted to nullify last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the vote in may have returned peter maass said he cut to power for a 2nd term sparking protests from the opposition the court ordered that a new presidential vote be held within $150.00 days those were the top stories stay with us up next the stream looks at the human cost of the internet shutdown in indian administered kashmir.

i'm femi oke a internet service is slowly starting to trickle back into indian administered kashmir but a nearly 6 months communication blackout has already had a devastating impact on the people at economy of you've been affected talk to us from our live chat or on twitter and you tube could be in the story. the 160 day internet ban in kashmir affected hospitals schools businesses 7000000 of the region's residents couldn't contact relatives or pay their bills let alone shop online or watch netflix india cut off the internet last august after revoking kashmir's semi autonomous status officials insist the block.