to west africa's regional court the community has taken its case before west africa's regional court because they say the people have little for you really justice system. the iowa caucus gets underway senator bernie sanders leads in the earliest results from iowans they can parts thousands of miles away. and this is al jazeera on line from doha also coming up. major escalation in northern syria turkey says it's retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians are killed in syrian shelling. another 64 people have died from the corona virus in the province at the center of the outbreak in china and election victory over turns

around these constitutional courts nullifies the 21900 results and orders a rerun. of the race to decide who will be the democratic challenger in the embers us presidential election is underway candidates are facing their 1st big test in iowa well the results are seen as an indicator of who will golds if they still will trump in november that one like primaries these are caucuses the run by the parties themselves the people he says small gatherings in churches and town halls than in official polling senses the focus is on face to face engagement caucuses will be held in more than $1600.00 locations as well as other satellite locations both inside and outside the same. of iowa the last 4 democrats to win in iowa all went

on to win the party's nomination and along with their backers this year's candidates have spent nearly $80000000.00 on iowa t.v. and radio ads in the lead up see the folds well we've got to correspondents following developments in iowa for you and in moments we'll hear from john hendren who is with people taking part in the caucus but 1st let's say it's see alan fischer and alan one of the candidates spending today. was incredible when you think it's 18 months ago or since the very 1st candidate declared that they were running for president and they wanted the nomination of the democratic party in that period the been 28 people who have come and gone in the race there are no $1110.00 running here in iowa and the fashion votes the 1st big caucuses will get underway in just about an hour's time we've already had satellite places voting we've all sort of few places in iowa keating for people who work at

night they've cast their votes as well will get their results pretty soon at the candidates what more can they do it's like christmas eve the should have bought all the presents by no they really have to just try and speak to people meet them in coffee shops shake hands kiss babies dogs hope that they can get a ton note and convince people that they are the person that they should support in the caucuses of this evening though we've been speaking to one of the candidates a man by the name of tom styer he is a 1000000 a year some say a 1000000000 here he's self funding his own campaign and certainly in the last couple of weeks we've seen his support go up and he's got the endorsement of a number of important groups why i asked him he's never run for public office before what makes him think that the public many of whom are a bit concerned at what donald trump did and he has never run for public office either what makes him think that he could be a different kind of president. i believe corporations have bought our government i

think the problem with our government is that it's broken because corporations own it and if you believe me on that which most americans know in their bones then the question i would ask you is who is going to. someone who spent 10 years as an outsider beating corporations every single time or someone who is a career politician from inside the beltway it's working perfectly for people inside the beltway the question is how is it working for the american people and we all know it's not. in the night is still young is there any indication of what sort of results will be looking us in iowa. well you know normally on the saturday before we get the last poll from the local newspaper the des moines register which is normally a pretty good indicator of what things how things are going to turn this year we didn't get that because there was a problem with the polling and so we're looking at who finishes in the top 3 if you look at the last polls that it's likely to be bernie sanders remember he narrowly lost 4 years ago he's built up

a growing swell of support so he's expected to top the poll and then the question is who comes 2nd or 3rd is it going to be joe biden is it going to be elizabeth warren if you speak to the other campaigns privately they'll tell you that they think elizabeth warren has built up a really good ground game and here in iowa she has many local offices she's got a lot of people who are experienced in the caucus process so she might do well then you're looking at who comes 4th and 5th people to judge needs to have a reasonably good finish he's the mayor from south bend in indiana the youngest person in the race he's got to do reasonably well tom styer well if he doesn't get a huge amount of support here it's not a disaster because he self funding is campaign and what you need to do well in iowa is get a bit of momentum going into new hampshire in a week's time and that helps generate fundraising so he doesn't really have to bother about that so you don't have to win in iowa work to be a winner but certainly if you're outside of the top 5 to morrow you're probably writing a speech that says this wasn't my time and i would be running for president anymore

so we've got 10 people in the race at the moment mike bloomberg isn't here he filed too late to get on the ballot he's going to fund his own campaign so that's a whole different equation but of the 10 we expect that we're probably going to lose 4 or 5 in the next 2448 hours but all eyes on who the winners are at the moment rather than who the losers are going to be ok alan fair share live end to point thank you very much indeed well john hendren is also and for us let's cross live to him now john you're among the caucus chorus what's the atmosphere like where you are. well this is what a caucus looks like more precisely this is what the biggest caucus with caucus in the state of iowa looks like there will be 121200 people gathering here tonight and if you just look over to my left you will see people registering and what they're doing is putting their names down marking that they are here and if you look just

to the left of them you see this woman in the white shirt she's a precinct captain for that that gentleman that ellen was speaking about tom styer the candidate and part of her job is to rally people for him here this is the tom styer section here each candidate has one around there's giant arena and so unlike a primary this is where people actually learn there is somebody who is going to be speaking for each of the candidates and because this is one of the biggest ones in the state i bet you there will be one or 2 candidates that actually arrive here to speak for themselves tonight so those speeches go out then there's a vote and then anybody who doesn't get 15 percent of the vote those people are not considered viable candidates in this precinct and so their supporters have 2 options they can walk out the door or they can go support somebody else no traditionally in iowa people go and support somebody else but what we have seen in a mock caucus here at drake university in des moines is that bernie sanders

supporters rather than supporting anybody else just simply decided to walk out on mass now if that happens statewide that could have dramatic repr cautions he is after all the number one polling candidate in in a conglomeration of polls the bottom line is we really don't know what's going to happen and it could be anybody's game tonight it certainly sends arms of the caucus goers that you're speaking with there joe on any indication of which way they're leaning what's important to them when it comes to choosing the cans that they'd like to see represent them in the presidential election. well the polls would suggest that you've got on the one extreme at the top of the polls joe biden the establishment candidate on the other side of bernie sanders the self described socialist to the left of him and those would be the polar opposites

of the democratic side of the party but the people i've talked to often come in and they say they don't like this candidate 1st and that candidate 2nd and they're not necessarily ideologically aligned to a gentleman earlier who liked a new club a char but also like bernie sanders now they're in very different political ideological. parts of the spectrum but a lot of it is personality this is a state where the candidates have to show up they've got to shake people's hands and they come to events like this and sometimes have a candidate comes to a place like this floor down here and speaks to the audience they tend to persuade people and then out of a 101200 people what you will end of it is a number of people actually switched to that candidate and part of it is that they cared enough to show up so i'm hearing a lot of names here among the names i've heard more often than i expected she was andrew gang who is sort of in the middle of the pack and it's up to 4 candidates poll winds are of course bernie sanders joe biden the lisbeth warn people to judge

but anything could happen here tonight there could be some surprises as there often are in iowa ok john had to have to leave at that but for now thank you very much for joining us from iowa. ascents other news now in turkey says its military has hit dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers killed and 3 civilians rather were killed by shelling in syria's rebel held it le province that's snow sent more reinforcements to its lead and is threatening further action priyanka gupta has more. towns and villages and not to syria under attack by government jets. a grim reality throughout the 90 s. civil war. for the 1st time the government to soltan it has put

turkey on the syrian regime it direct military confrontation. ass off to turkey sent military reinforcements into syria which he says was to prevent more bloodshed in the province its soldiers and civilians came under attack prompting a retaliation from ankara yeah it. was all of us and what we see is 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 u.n. says it's 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 about 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 and 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 of iraq and then as he these people were coming they were displaced we heard the airstrike we came running and found the bus burning inside it there were bodies small children. over the past few weeks syrian government forces have 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 the russians are saying nothing really happened now turkey bombardment kind of in denial meaning that. we use we going space to try and find some kind of magic formula to prevent the herd on collision the russian military 1st have their own political interests inside syria where they're 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. 3 members of an iranian opposition group have been arrested in denmark chores with spying on behalf of saudi arabia they've been under investigation for more than a year when they were arrested they're accused of collecting information on individuals in denmark and abroad and passing his own safety intelligence officers

will danish authorities say they've also charged in absentia member of the rain in intelligence service is accused of murder attempts one of the activists well ali alatas is the director of the gulf affairs institute's he says saudi arabia has been ramping up its spy operations. and mohammed inside the country the government has been doing even more operations abroad because it feels that it is a bold and fears it has you know american support or. looking the other way so we saw yesterday and today news about a saudi student who was targeted in los angeles and others and as well. who lived in the u.s. was also nort to turkey for for that purpose so so did abia is is more assertive and in tracking not only its critics nationals but also people who

are not because in denmark there is no so there are no saudi. opposition people there maybe there are some refugees so they are increasingly acting as if they are great at a regional power that has these kind of operation iran has that turkey probably has it. maybe they are trying to copy israeli model in terms of of expanding their influence through. intelligence services. still to come on al-jazeera the recordings revealed what iran knew in the immediate aftermath of the tightening of a ukrainian airliner. excluded from workers' protections human rights groups say a course of a 1000000 migrants in lebanon overnight are vulnerable to abuse. how

i once again mistook a plenty of rain into central and southern parts of charting still see this area cloud driving out towards japan some rather wet weather some rather cool weather as well hong kong struggling to get around 18 or 19 degrees as we go on through choose day dry skies for japan maine while 12 celsius there for tokyo warming up a touch as we go on into wednesday but by then you might just see want to showers drifting in some of the wintry nature to northern areas of honshu and also into her car the korean peninsula and all the parts of china will be a generate dry but a little more cloudy than it has been recently meanwhile much clout across the philippines at present much to see wanted to share was just pushing in here over the next they'll say but i think for the most part it's largely fine and sunny lots

of clear weather coming through here that clear weather comes across the south china sea dry across india china the west the weather of course continuing through malaysia indonesia we have seen some flooding here recently one heavy showers as we go on through the next couple of days well to me showers across india at present little bits and pieces the cloud spilling out the pakistan into the far north of india for the most part is fine and dry. a journey of puzzling discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera as james gannon explores his family's legacy of slave ownership down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us will stall we even scared to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent

a moral debt. you're the or the or. this is al jazeera remind of the headlines this hour the u.s. state of iowa was about to hold the 1st votes in the months long race to the scientists who will be the democratic challenger in the presidential election caucuses will be held in more than $1600.00 locations turkey says its military has had dozens of syrian government targets a killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the province. 3 members of an iranian opposition group have been arrested in denmark charged with spying on behalf saudi

arabia they're accused of collecting information on individuals in denmark under broad's. now the death toll from the corona virus outbreak in china has risen to 425 suffering dozens more deaths from reported in who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak is no more than 20000 confirmed cases across china the virus is continuing to spread outside of china with more than 150 cases confirmed in 23 countries where pressure is growing on hong kong authorities to contain the new virus with the territory shutting down most of us borders with mainland china 10 out of 13 board across and have been close earlier on monday hundreds of medical workers went on strike demanding that the border be completely shut down so far hong kong has confirmed 14 cases of the virus aegean brain has more on how hong

kong is coping with the 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 a day existing control points now is really down to executing 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 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. at least 14 children have been killed in a stampede at a primary school in western kenya 40 other students have been seriously injured they say the stampede happens when panic broke out its students for leaving school

it's unclear what caused the panic and an investigation is underway. nigeria is set to receive over $300000000.00 seized from its former military leader the money was recovered from the accounts of sonny about who ruled the west african nation for 5 years the repatriation of the stolen funds from mellen's of jersey in the english channel follows a u.s. court ruling in 2015 about show who died in 1980 s. is believed to have laundered hundreds of millions of dollars. malawi's constitutional court last year's disputed presidential election so why it spread irregularities the vote in may return to. the power for a 2nd term sparking opposition process a new election will be held within $150.00 days armistice or has more from the capitol. it was

a unanimous decision 5 constitutional court judges nullified may's presidential election result saying did not win a 2nd term fresh elections have to be held within $150.00 days opposition leaders who are court wacom the ruling i believe the judgment of the justices be very old. for comments after reading the final thank you we came to seek justice for just got was liberations erupted in opposition strongholds judges said there were too many inconsistencies in may's election some people may have voted more than once there was ballot stuffing and some figures which changed using typewriter correction fluid holding another election in a few months will be elections to call nightly on the point to say they want guarantees that will be no repeat of the widespread irregularities and vote rigging that vanished election. in 2017 king a supreme court and now that country's presidential election because of the

regularities by law is not the 2nd sub-saharan country to have a presidential fact overturned there will no longer be an attempt but broadly the future possible to do certain things and the hunt. for the point to you need to work back on the road with. you on the 1st part of the process forward to the. or. that the even go to secure or assure over a free and fair trial. for months to. been demonstrations in several parts of the country of amazing speech election some of those have been filed. with erika's really d.p.p. party can appeal a constitutional ruling at the supreme court no one from the party was willing to go on camera after mine his constitutional court ruling the country is tense early on monday the streets of the capital long will eerily quiet many people chose to

stay at home not sure what's going to happen next how a reader of elections is handled could improve or deepen political and economic crisis. al-jazeera you know only a link saudi a 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 acknowledged by ukrainian investigators as genuine iran though says it will not share material on the crash after the leak or 176 people on board the ukrainian plane were killed when it was brought down last month. one. other bit. of a mole on the monitor here. on the bottom of the banana and the by then another.

i i did. rather modify when i was in the i believe that. this is. the one thing. that i think that i like that i. am a little more noble. that. i never lied to. somebody on the. phone number one or whatever. the u.s. secretary of state says spoken with sudan's sovereign cancel general about increasing

ties for tween the 2 countries it comes after israel announced it will begin to normalize relations with sudan and uganda prime minister binyamin netanyahu met with you gunter's president and sudan's council head of the board hun sudan has been working to open the country to international investments since the overthrow of longtime leader omar al bashir. human rights groups say migrant workers in lebanon are being increasingly exploited as the country suffers from a deepening economic crisis foreign workers are excluded from labor law protections and many are being paid in local currency instead of the dollars they've been promised so the reports from barrett's. mohamed isn't backing down on his prices the vegetable seller has been arguing with the customer for 15 minutes every piece of money he earns counts in the testing times the shortage of us dollars which the local currency is to means

a large number of migrant workers like him from meds are unable 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 crisis 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 the lebanese currencies 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 for many migrant workers 11 on sunday is the day of rice 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 it's a financial problem according to the international labor organization the average salary of a domestic worker in lebanon is less than $250.00 a month. but the financial downturn has affected us all but foreign 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 ground doubling the possibility of being exploited for their. 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. the sponsorship system means many foreign workers are not only exploited in lebannon but also that employers or abusers get away with it without being punished by law last week new labor ministers mean want that lebanese citizens will need to take on low skilled jobs traditionally filled by michael workers 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 is. the sort of know a lot of 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 mohammed has little option here or back home so al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the usa says iowa is about to hold the 1st votes in the months long race to decide who will be the democratic challenger in november as president selection caucuses will be held in more than 1600 locations i was results are seen as an indicator of who will go on she faced donald trump in the vendor fund fisher has more it's 18 months ago or since the very 1st candidate declared that they were running for president and they wanted the nomination of the democratic party in that period the bin $28.00 people who have come and gone in the race there are no $1110.00 running here in iowa and the

fashion votes the 1st big caucuses will get underway in just about an hour's time we've already had satellite places voting we've also in a few places in iowa catering for people who work at night they've cast their votes as well will get their results pretty soon. 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 syria's rebel held province turkey has no sense more reinforcements to it live and is threatening further action. 3 members of an iranian opposition group have been arrested in denmark charged with spying on behalf of saudi arabia they're accused of collecting information on individuals in denmark and abroad. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak in china has risen to 425 that's after dozens more deaths were reported in who bay province the epicenter of the i break the more than 20000

confirmed cases across china. an investigation is underway in kenya into what caused a stampede at a primary school that killed at least 14 children 40 other students were seriously injured police say the stampede happens when panic broke out it's a students were leaving school it's unclear what caused the panic will always constitutional court says voted to an all last year's disputed presidential election citing widespread irregularities the votes in may returned peace or was a recurrence of power for a 2nd term sparking opposition process a new election must not be held within $150.00 days those are the headlines the news continues after inside story.

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

bashar al assad's offensive syria's main ally russia is blaming turkey for not coordinating it's true.