the. a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it has retaliated after turkish soldiers and civilians are killed in syria and shelling. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up hong kong shot several crossings that link it to mainland china in the sponsor the coronavirus and election victory overturned malawi's constitutional course nullifies the 2019 result saying a new vote must be held in 150 days and could this be the 1st step to the white house for a democratic candidate makes its choice for presidential nominee. 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 syria's rebel held province turkey has now sent more reinforcement to adlib and is threatening further action priyanka gupta reports. towns and villages and don't press syria under attack by government jack it's. a grim reality throughout the 9 year civil war. for the 1st time the government assault and it has put turkey on the syrian regime it direct military confrontation. os off to turkey sent military reinforcements into syria which says it was to prevent more bloodshed in the province its soldiers and

civilians came under attack prompting a retaliation from ancora to. listen to what we see. an aerial assault by regime forces an adlib which resulted in a people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out. the un says its along this escalation underscores yet again the threat to regional and international peace and security post caused by the ongoing conflict in syria. we also remain deeply concerned by the continue reports of civilian casualties large scale displacement of civilians. turkey says nearly a 1000000 people are moving towards its border to escape the relentless bombing campaign by the syrian government it's fast capturing towns and villages in it live

at aleppo provinces leaving destroyed neighborhoods and devastated families homeless once again in syria's harsh winter. this found the of 9 never stood a chance or do you know that a diverse communities he these people were coming they were displaced we heard the air strike we came running and found the bus burning inside it there were bodies small children. over the past few weeks syrian government forces had been trying to secure 2 major highways that link cities under government control and isolate the rebels the m 4 highway runs from west to east and the m 5 highway from north to south connecting aleppo to the capital damascus and latakia after the latest russian backed government advance some turkish observation posts built to monitor a cease fire niblett are now surrounded but russians are saying nothing really happened now turkey bombardment kind of in denial meaning that. we use

wiggling space to try and find some kind of magic formula to prevent the herd on collision the russian military 1st say have their own political interests inside syria where there with one help the syrian regime to quins out their. strategies on the battlefield with dangerous consequences and a tragic human cost priyanka gupta our dizzier. pressure is growing on hong kong authorities to contain the new coronavirus with the territory shutting down most of its borders with mainland china chief executive kerry lyon says suspending 10 out of 13 entry points should mean fewer people crossing to haul call while freight help continues to enter earlier on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be shut completely so far hall has confirmed 14 witnesses of the polls. our strategy is really to consolidate as much as possible

the existing control points now is really down tool excluding the airport there are only 21 is the sense and pay the other is. bridge and the at this you know benefit of doing that is we are channeling all cross by the traffic into these 2 cross border control points and because of the inconvenience that we have cost to people as a result so the numbers will come down. well the world health organization says more than 70000 people now have the virus globally the majority of those cases all of course china and then ruhani where the virus originated a new hospital has been built just days specifically for patients of coronavirus chinese authorities hope it will calm fears that it is not doing enough to stop the spread of the disease scott highclere 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's frustration and anger on social media over conditions for the infected and doctors in one han 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. well meanwhile doctors and highland have seen promising results treating the corona virus using

medication normally used for hiv for all a just so working to decode the virus and develop a reliable cure alexy o'brien reports now from bangkok. and labs around the world the 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 can farm. animal that can carry their wireless says without seem to. look healthy but it best can pass me last to. the animal to human. doctors who 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 in wildlife can help

us prevent and control outbreaks in humans dr super corn helped decode the genome for the 1st confirmed case of the new virus outside china behind the story researchers are working with patients south poles 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. and tagged we can't go in here because it's too dangerous. 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 medical system we can only do case reports always and this report to. the medical journals and also the. research and medical school. 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 each year and because in recent weeks some came from. the center of the outbreak planes flying in and out of the mainland a big deal cleaned and disinfected shopping centers using thermal imaging cameras to taste for those who may have a fever hand sanitizers are a common sight so too are mosques in 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 with daschle in the past few days since the news broke about the virus and 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 alexia brian al jazeera bangkok. danish security officials have arrested 3 members of an iranian opposition group and charged them with spying on behalf of saudi arabia is a reactive ists it did under investigation for over a year the case prompted denmark's foreign minister to summon the saudi arabian ambassador yep a call for the says it has been made unmistakably clear that espionage activities on danish soil are completely unacceptable. at least 13 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western kenya and these $39.00 others were seriously injured police say the stampede was calls one partly broke out a students less the school it's unclear what caused the alarm but in. the way the law was constitutional court has voted to nullify the results of last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the vote in may

have returned to peter melissa to get the power for a 2nd term sparking opposition protests. reports now from the with 5 judges ruled that people with erica did not win made the election did nullified that result if they think elections must be held within 150 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 an africa even if it happens in the rest of africa most recently it happened in kenya in 2017 when a quarter the order to really run up to that election was found to have told many

irregularities but right now this evening of course it's a way to the 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 waving the reaction from the ruling party and what the way forward for them is going to be next. more still to come on al-jazeera including and leaked recording appears to suggest that iran. in the village fell down a ukrainian airliner despite claims to the contrary excluded from workers' protections human rights groups say a quarter of a 1000000 migrants in lebanon are vulnerable to this. how i recall some rather wet weather into parts of northern australia the moment

useful right now i would suggest it got the system swirling away just around the north all of western australia up around the top and as well some heavy showers in place here so much weather just around least the start of the country into queensland also for new south wales so you see some useful right as we go on through the next few days but of course the push to remain i can see their stride ounce was a se but not as hot as it has been recently he's on the other side of the country actually perth will get up to 41 degrees celsius on shoes day not quite as warm as we go on into wednesday perth and at around 35 degrees down into the east side of the country well here we have that wetter weather some very heavy rains sent a possibility into northern parts of new south wales and hopefully that useful rifle continuing across a good part of queensland the southeast will be largely dry now but at around $23.00 degrees on the other side of the ditch we have got some wet weather now pulling away from new zealand we had some flooding here but with sound for example

over 300 millimeters of rain space of just a day that course in chaos dry and now dry across a good parts of japan with nice sleet and snow moving out into the open waters. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of the bilbao stadia. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with violent football hooligans. and read all death on al-jazeera.

a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera turkey says its military has hit dozens of syrian government targets killing several troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the. 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 lima suspended 10 out of 13 entry points in a bid to reduce the flow. and danish security officials have arrested 3 members of a new arabian opposition group and charged them with spying on behalf of saudi arabia the 3 activists had been under investigation for more than. a leak the

ordeal recording appears to suggest that iran immediately knew it had shot down a ukrainian airliner despite denying it for days the exchange between an iranian air traffic controller and another domestic pilot has been of knowledge by ukrainian investigators as general but iran now says it will not share material on the crash after the leak all $176.00 people on board the ukrainian jet were killed when it was brought down last month. you know.

and. number one woman. well the european union's foreign policy chief has held talks in iran in the tent the salvage the nuclear deal as regional tensions rise joseph baro spoke to the iranian president hassan rouhani who said iran is still ready to cooperate with the e.u.

to resolve issues iran is gradually scaled back its commitments to the deal ever since u.s. president withdrew from the agreement in 2018 military tensions have grown since the u.s. assassination of military commander kasim sulaimani last month. iraq's president about homs appointed mohamed that feet allow we as new prime minister on saturday in a move that has divided the country's protest movement since the appointment the influential shia cleric. who controls one of the largest locks and parliament has withdrawn his support for protesters in baghdad he's indorsing allow we and stress and penalties against those who engage in civil disobedience similar fault in reports that from baghdad. if the how to square is the heart of iraq's protest movement this building called the turkish restaurant has been its nerve center from its upper floors you can observe the entire square the river tigris and frontlines on strategic bridges

but the protesters are no longer in charge of it last saturday supporters of shiite cleric. wearing blue hats took the building and since then their sphere day might seize control of the entire movement these young men say sutter supporters forcibly evicted demonstrators beating those who resisted now they're no longer allowed to enter the. market for the protests square the most important building is that building because we can watch everyone from the turkish restaurant when there is an attack against us we were able to confront that but now we don't know anything we don't see who's coming on who can enter. the eviction coincided with the appointment of mohamed healthy allow we as prime minister designate many here firmly reject him looked at our side or however has endorsed allawi and demonstrators fear that the sudras now want to curtail any opposition to their candidate perhaps even and the protests. means you know the worries of

we don't know their intentions maybe taking the restaurant on the stage which is to 1st we don't know if they are with us or against us inside the turkish restaurant floors that once teamed with demonstrators stand largely empty except for a few blue hats conducting cleanup operations they say their takeover was necessary to remove those they call a rogue elements of the movement who used drugs and violence. the turkish restaurant was closed to the real demonstrators the infiltrators controlled and even the families don't want to go inside it became difficult to come inside because there was violence and attacks by molotov cocktails over the months sutter has repeatedly changed his position on the protests. for now it appears he has decided that it's time for things to return to normal and i thought of that it's been 3 and a half months there's been bloodshed killing and exhaustion the security forces are exhausted demonstrators are exhausted sutter supporters say that allowing will only

serve for a transitional period until early elections are held these protesters however accused her of using their movement to meet his political ends they are determined to stay until their demands for an independent candidate are met. the takeover of the turkish restaurant signals a growing rift of in the protest movement between the followers of looked at us out of the support allow we as prime minister designate and others who reject him and some are concerned that these tensions could lead to confrontation especially if the sudras incorporation of security forces attempt to clear more protest sites someone holton al jazeera. after 2 weeks of arguments both sides have rested their cases in the impeachment trial of president donald trump democrats say trump pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival and lists held u.s. security aide as leverage from spain charged with abuse of power and obstruction of

. castro has more now on the closing arguments the senate will convene as a court of impeachment chaplain will lead us and pray for the final time democrat serving as president trumps prosecutors made the case for his removal he has betrayed our national security and he will do so again he has compromised our elections and he will do so again you will not change him you cannot constrain him he is who he is truth matters little to him what's right matters even less and decency matters not at all but these arguments are mere formality the conclusion all but certain that the republican senators making up the jury's majority will vote to acquit trump they said so themselves i think what he did is a long way from treason bribery high crimes and misdemeanors and democrats have known from the beginning their effort to remove trump was a long shot they argue they've nevertheless tried because the constitution required

it the question now is how this impeachment will impact trumps reelection bid in november trumps lawyers maintain american voters should be who decides the president's fate if you do not like the policies we've tickler administration or particular candidate you are free and welcome to vote for another candidate but the answer is elections not impeachment. trumps approval rating is currently the highest it's been since he took office on tuesday he'll tell his administration's accomplishments at his annual state of the union address a chance to revel in his impending acquittal. hi joe castro al-jazeera washington. voters in the u.s. state of iowa are taking part in the iowa caucuses the 1st electoral test for democratic candidates who want to challenge donald trump for the white house what happens in iowa does not decide the next president but they can indicate how well

a candidate might do going forward unlike primaries caucuses are run by the parties themselves voters meet in small gatherings in churches and town halls rather than in official polling places the focus in iowa is on face to face and gauge went but the state is predominantly white and laura ling critics say it's just not represented to the of the wider voting population the i want caucuses are being held in more than 1600 locations and the record turnout is expected well john hendren isn't the more in iowa with more on what to expect from the caucus. this is actually one of more than 1600 caucus sites around the state of iowa as it happens this is the biggest one more than a 1000 people are expected to be gathering here behind me and they will form in groups listening to people pitch the case for their candidates they'll have one vote at the beginning of the night and then after those who are eliminated who don't have 15 percent they'll vote again and in the end we'll get

a final vote tally that'll happen all around the state at small places and large libraries private homes some as fuz just dozens of people but you heard enough for me let me introduce somebody who's actually going to be caucusing tonight this is tanner halloran he is a student at drake university and he's going to be causing tonight let me ask you 1st of all you say you're undecided what's your assessment of the candidates. so i think a lot of candidates are going to have really great ground games tonight i mean we're seeing different ways of approaching voters this year so you know getting unique with organizing and reaching new folks so along with this i think we're going to see high turnout throughout iowa of course bringing more of the iowa caucuses over the next few hours now israel has announced it will begin to normalize relations with sudan. it was announced after prime minister benjamin this uganda's president and the head of sudan's transitional military council of the or higher. that's the

3 days after a break said the u.k. and the who have outlined very different visions of their future relationship ahead of formal negotiations british prime minister bars johnson says the u.k. wants free trade but not at any cost insisting that his country would not align itself with all your rules meanwhile europe's chief negotiator michel by reciprocal access to fishing waters is inextricably linked to any trade agreement. human rights groups say around a quarter of a 1000000 migrant workers in lebanon are excluded from labor law protections that puts them at risk of exploitation and abuse so hierarch reports from beirut. mohamed isn't backing down on his prices the vegetable seller has been arguing with the customer 15 minutes every piece of money he earns counts in the testing times

the shortage of u.s. dollars which the local currencies take to mean a large number of migrant workers like him on able to transfer money home to their families. i can't send money to bangladesh i can only afford to eat and drink $100.00 is now only worth 15 of the stall across a started 4 or 5 months ago and foreign workers here are suffering it's not just me . with a lack of dollars in the bank than the lebanese currency value on the black market reduced some employees have been forced to pay their workers and lira instead of dollars almost having the value of their salaries how many migrant workers 11 on sunday is a day of rest and some of them have come to this church to pray but they are clearly concerned as their weekly conversations have changed will catch up to the financial problems according to the international labor organization the average salary of a domestic worker in lebannon is less than $250.00 a month. in the financial downturn has affected us all but. workers are some

of the most vulnerable especially because of a lack of the legal protection with a shortage of dollars some aren't receiving their salaries and are defaulting on their grant doubling the possibility of being exploited further. foreign domestic workers are excluded from lebanon's labor laws instead they're brought in on a sponsorship system one that some rights groups say leads to exploitation islamic are fairly rich in the world and the sponsorship system means many foreign workers are not only exploited in lebannon but also the employers or users get away with it without being punished by law last week a new labor minister let me a yemeni want that lebanese citizens will need to take on low skilled jobs traditionally filled by my coworkers to cope with the effects of the economic crisis we contacted the ministry of labor and we're still waiting for comments on this story it's still not clear if lebanon's new government will reform bill a bill that was we're going to. sort of know

a lot about this is the worst i've seen it in the 12 years i've lived here but only god knows what the future holds for now foreign workers like muhammad have little option hey go back home to hide out al-jazeera they do it. and now 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 but province turkey's defense minister has arrived at the syrian border and he says his forces have killed 76 syrian soldiers in rebel held syria's when our main allies there russia is contradicting those claims turkey and russia are on opposing sides of the fighting in it live turkish president for each of the credit though and says his country's retaliation was justified. you know. also this you know

what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces and it led 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 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 astonished agreement so we continue our efforts within the terms of the agreement the 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 out of 13 entry points should mean fewer people crossing to hong kong while freight can continue to enter hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be shut completely so far hong kong has confirmed 14 places of the fires they mischa security officials have arrested 3 members of an

iranian opposition group and charged them with spying on behalf of saudi arabia the 3 activists said been under investigation for over a year the case prompted denmark's foreign minister to summon the saudi arabian ambassador and at least 13 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western harbor at least 39 others were seriously wounded police say the stampede was caused when panic broke out and students left the school it's unclear what caused the alarm and that investigation is under way stay with us coming up next radicalized use and i'll have more news for you in half an hour from doha a see you tomorrow about. so i bring on al-jazeera. and the tension with the u.s. and protests over a plane downing iran's hanum entry election will be held on february 23rd parties to syria explores the fate of india's religious minorities on the prime minister

modi's hindu none of us voters get that chance to weigh in on the 20 twentieth's action al-jazeera will have comprehensive coverage a new series looks at how female scientists across the globe are opening doors for other women to pursue careers in science and up to 5 years of civil war could be to rivals agree a peace deal to revive africa's youngest nation. separate on al-jazeera. over the.

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