similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what will be the news encounter that matter to you. the a. further escalation in syria 5 turkish soldiers are killed in the later shell and by government troops in italy. time how he and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up as the death toll from the coronavirus nears 1000 meters international help observers or might in china. a shock in german politics and go an article succession plans the rails by her heir apparent the longer wants the top job plus. and the

asker goes to. parasite was. the south korean dark comedy makes movie history by becoming the 1st language film to win the oscar for best picture. but we begin in syria where government forces have killed 5 that turkish soldiers in the northwestern province a turkish base in the region came under heavy shelling unca has deployed soldiers in response to the syrian army's recent advances meanwhile opposition fighters have begun a military offensive to push back against the government's video appears to show rebels with nearly supplied turkish armored vehicles and it'll a province and parts of neighboring or. lepper were syria's last opposition

strongholds you know the 700000 people have been displaced by fighting in this part of the country since december alone well syrian government forces say they have advanced 600 square kilometers in support it live and aleppo province is that includes the capture of the town of samarra keep in adelaide where the army is also set to take fully take control of the m 5 that syria's longest highway which connects aleppo to the capital damascus simcoe c.-o. who is in syria of course of the turkish border she says direct confrontations between syrian and turkish forces are changing the nature of the war. the says the highest tension because the school ation between damascus and on car since the syrian civil wars began 9 years ago because the 2 are least have never confronted each other directly they have never combative each other directly until last week

as syrian army hits a turkish convoy that was meant to bring reinforcements to the turkish military observation posts inside this commission is expected to arise because the diplomats of talks doesn't bring any solution on the table turkey and russia as a go in terms of. this collision zone 2 delegations met in the turkish capital ankara last week and today there was a meeting which lasted less than and shorter than expected the delegation and it is still pretty place and turkish foreign minister said today that there is no response i meant to size couldn't come around. and it was she a shim point it is actually a question for everyone what is going to happen what how moscow is going to respond because it seems the syrian government wants the turkish military observation post the turkish military presence out of it appears collations on this fight brokered

cease fires and everything they want to advance because currently they are controlling at this one 3rd of the province and the syrian government has vowed to take control of all of that but by naming anyone that they are opposed to the regime as terrorists this is what turkey has been against. a team of world health organization experts has arrived in china to investigate the corona virus outbreak the global death toll has reached $910.00 after china reported $97.00 more fatalities as the biggest single day increase in the country since the outbreak began millions of people were expected to go back to work on monday as an extensions of the lunar new year ended buzzers katrina a year reports from beijing many people stayed home. beijing's ghost street is usually bustling with crowds but this week it's living up to its name the lunar new year holiday has ended but fears of the coronavirus are keeping many businesses

closed. his stall is one of the few that are open that customers are scarce but he's still careful about who he allows inside delivery men are kept at a distance. how you would hire should come to you in togo that deliver driver has been to 2 very places and i have had contact with too many people so i need to be walking around workers like you. those staying indoors rely on these drivers for food and assess it is but the threat of the virus is taking its toll and you know you through italy and of course i am scared this virus is very serious but what can i do i have to keep this job all i can do now is wearing the mask and gloves. millions of workers have yet to return to the city those who have missed health or she's which provinces they have traveled from. beijing's usually crowded subway is operating at half capacity those not wearing masks are being turned away before

entering residential compounds or office buildings people must 1st have their temperature checked now. those spawn the temperature is higher than 37.5 degrees celsius let's go directly to a hospital to be tested. in holland the epicenter of the outbreak street. remained deserted residents are allowed to leave home only to collect food and supplies but elsewhere scenes so quiet. unverified videos of people being forced from their homes into quarantine vans a circulating on chinese social media the world health organization has called for calm it sent a team to china to observe the government's response team will be greeting some of the world class epidemiologists from the w.h.o. that will be able to really understand the transmission dynamics going on understand the severity of illness understand the challenges that china is facing with this outbreak and it will really give the world hopefully a good glimpse of what's going on in china medical experts say the majority of

coronavirus cases are mild but many in china are not taking any chances. are you al jazeera beijing well the reaction to the coronavirus is taking over social media feeds around the world everyone from politicians to travelers is weighing in they are dying as more. corona virus has been trending online for weeks and misinformation has been spreading nearly as fast this facebook post in the philippines says that spicy food and vitamin c. can help stop the virus that is inconsistent with advice given by the w.h.o. the post was shared $16000.00 times there's also a growing conversation online about a missing citizen journalist in china who reported from will han entered the city after the lockdown to report on the virus and has been missing since thursday his friends say he was forcibly quarantined groups like amnesty international are calling for his release and urging china to not use quarantine as

a political tool to censor reporting on the coronavirus well for torben peterson the corona virus has impacted him in a unique way he's trying to make it to every country in the world without getting on a plane or returning home the outbreak has made visiting every country in asia particularly difficult. it's quite problematic distinctly right. there is this entire novel coronavirus outbreak which i personally don't really think is a big deal and i'm very sorry to say that to those who have lost family members or in the grand picture. just virus isn't doing that much damage to the human population and then of course you have all these countries that are doing that troubled by the. way. i think it's a bit much. but i've been thinking about it. what if i can count the ship from hong

kong to new zealand just make new zealand the next country. get out of this part of the world until things they calm down. preparations for the outbreak are truly global in singapore customers were forced to leave their baskets behind because of long lines at closing time and researchers at johns hopkins university are tracking the spread of the virus daily with cases in $26.00 countries and effects felt around the world however china is very clearly still the epicenter. now at least 30 people have been killed in a suspected boko haram attack in northeastern nigeria it happened just outside my degree in borno states on sunday the gunman so far it's a car a sports along a highway and abducted several people the victims were sleeping in their vehicles as part of an overnight stop. routes tomorrow to korea to 6 pm local time for security the u.s. department of justice has charged for chinese military hackers over the $27000.00

cyber attack at equifax credit reporting agency it resulted in a data breach in which affected nearly 150000000 people the hackers spent weeks in the system breaking into computer networks and stealing company secrets and personal data let's get more now from alan fischer he joins us live from washington d.c. alan what will kate sellers. well this is really more of a public shaming than any real attempt by the americans to bring these 4 members of the chinese military to justice this is all about highlighting what they believe the chinese are capable all of this is 145000000 people's day to know what did they take the names dates of birth they took social security numbers that's huge as far as they're concerned it's not the biggest time in american history but it should guard it is one of the most severe they also took from around 20000000 people the

driving license details this is something that the americans have tried to protect against but william barr who is the attorney general said look normally we wouldn't take sort of this sort of action against military authorization is like this but this is really just a flag up to the world exactly what the chinese are doing and the fact that the united states are not happy about it in any form this was one of the largest data breaches in history it came to light in 2000 in the summer of 2017 when equifax and now it's the theft the scale of the theft was staggering as alleged in the indictment the hackers obtained the names birthdates and social security numbers of nearly 115000000 americans and the driver's licenses of approximately 10 of at least 10000000 americans. well 1 in this isn't the 1st time the u.s.

has gone has gone for china has gone to china for cyber attacks i mean how much of a security threat says the u.s. in this is. well they say that china has a veracious appetite for personal details something that william barr highlighted at his news conference just a couple of hours ago but also increase american concern about countries that are doing deals with a chinese telecom company when it comes to developing 5 g. the most notable example of that is the united kingdom which recently announced that it was going to involve walk way into its 5 g. network and it led to a very tense call between president donald trump and the u.k. prime minister boris johnson no the chinese have always denied that walkway is good anything to do with the chinese state that's a link that the americans have made they say that there exists and they are deeply

concerned and they're flagging this up can say look this is the potential that you are running when you're involved in this so they are determined to make sure that china is aware that the americans are where the americans are doing as much as they can to stop the chinese but as we saw with 145000000 people's personal details using this company equifax it's not something that they can easily stop on fresh air they're bringing us upstate from washington d.c. thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera unstoppable locusts why did you read this warning the most devastating quake ever in east africa is coming within weeks . of. extending

a little chilly across the middle east at the moment we had temperatures of around 6 or 7 fold damascus and jerusalem recently the color were sinking its way further south which you can see sabot a cloud through iraq into iran a sense of place in places of clouds and rain and that cloud also stretching down across the gulf even here in casa will see temperatures falling away quite noticeably over the next the choose day would have a top temperature in doha of around 80 degrees some rain on the other side of the gulf that would straighten moves some big downpours a possibility in some wintry weather there into afghanistan back up until event so wet so when the and so wintry weather here as well but creeping up to around 9 or 10 celsius in damascus for tuesday into wednesday a tad warmest still but temperatures really struggling in kuwait 10 degrees celsius is absolutely bad we'll see temperatures around 15 degrees there for doha certainly feeling very cold with that wind blowing across the region lifted dust and sand certainly a possibility for many meanwhile got

a few showers just around the 8th european hadas but across much of north africa sloshy dry molly could see some wet weather having said that dry and fine weather continues across a good part of the region but i have it was the far west of the area we could see a few shall us. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is you don't belong and there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians an al-jazeera. the of the. world.

this is al jazeera quite right off the headlines this hour turkey says syrian government forces have killed 5 people but soldiers in northwestern in the syrian government troops attacked their military post there earlier syrian opposition forces began a military offensive to push against the regime troops. a team of w.h.o. experts are right in china to investigate the coronavirus i bring the global death toll illnesses which $100.00 have china and $97.00 more deaths on sunday biggest single thing priest since the epidemic began. and the u.s. department of justice is charged for chinese military hackers 2017 cyber attack at

equifax credit agency it's a result is in a data breach which affected nearly $150000000.00 people. and the woman designated to replace german chancellor angela merkel has unexpectedly quits as leader of the governing c.d.u. party and a great scrap karrenbauer is stepping down amid a crisis over a decision by richard a wet present to vote alongside the far right a f t well that broke a longstanding agreements among mainstream parties to shun far right groups the cd you must now elect a new chief to take it into the general election next year upon receiving news over protegees resignation german chancellor angela merkel says she regrets the decisions after an i love you given your bottles. i received knowledge of this decision today with the utmost respect i must also say with regret i can imagine

that it wasn't easy for an egress krom current power i thank her for being ready to further lead the process of choosing a new chancellor candidate as party leader. and someone again isn't berlin he explains how the significance her significant development is for german politics. this was the lady who had as it were being prepared being groomed to take over from angola americal from the present chancellor in time to stand as the candidate for her party for the christian democrats in the general election in late summer early autumn 2021 all those hopes those ambitions are now dashed dashed because of the perception among people in her party but also in the wider political classes and in the media that this person i'm inclined to come to one bar had become gaffe prone had become unable to leave her party that she would make statements about

wide federal policy but not able to really bring the people in this states of germany with people in her own party that is certainly that was the accusation that was leveled out her last week but also this weekend just gone certainly there were newspaper articles and then there was a statement from angle americal saying that she believed that what had happened in the ring year was unthinkable forgivable excuse me and so when karen bauer faced the media reporters this after this afternoon this is what she had to say then the stuff as far as i'm concerned this is no impact on the stability of the grand coalition government i was the party leader and i am the party leader and i will remain in this position for the foreseeable future what i have said is that i will not run for chancellor but other than that the situation has not changed actually when she says nothing has changed that's really her opinion many people believe that the situation has changed radically because curiously enough right now we

don't know who will be leading any of the mainstream parties into the general election. vote counting is continuing for a 2nd day in arlen's historic general election a surge in support for leftwing sheehan fane has put it ahead of the 2 dominant sense of right parties for the 1st time leader very limit on what has called it a revolution in irish politics no single party will win enough seats to form a government leaders from across africa have concluded 2 days of talks on high to bring security to the conference this year's african union summit focused on curbing regional violence so countries can embrace developments and pursue their economies after hours of meetings the a use peace and security council called on the international community to stop outside interference in the bia while this year's african union summit ended with a call on the international community to stop that interference in libya and curb

regional violence we want this is to be fully respected. we want the u.n. embargoed all armaments to libya also to be strictly respected and 3rd we want an immediate cessation of all external interventions and interferences the libyan of. mama drama has been following the summit and other suburb or is as delegates came out of the meetings with a very strong message for the global community. they sounded the alarm bells with regards to the side that's they said that's 3 countries are threatened completely threatened and they can they can be destroyed by what's happening particularly particularly work in a fossil right now 600 villages have been deserted. 600000 people have been displaced in in that country because of the recent actions of the

armed groups they said that these armed groups have become more equipped more skilled they have more resilient now and they have more numbers to do what they are doing molly also is threatened is threatened they said that the subhead countries the g 5 so had a coalition of countries who have forces in that region should not be let down they have to have more help and the key the key components that they have focused on is the funds they said that the african union secure peace and security fund has has had only 150 millions for the last few years. at its disposal now more countries have contributed or pledged to contribute during these meetings $10000000.00 more have been pledged in this meeting has also said that it will contribute $1000000000.00 but there has been a while since they did not come over to to make good on those promises so libya

also has been mentioned the african union wants to join in the efforts there is now more between the african union and the united nations in that respect they are going to contribute in the peace keeping and the peace observation after a cease fire is signed in libya. as the worse invasion of desert locusts in a quarter century the food supplies and livelihoods of millions across east africa and south asia are under threat the situation has been declared a national emergency in some countries including somalia and pakistan priyanka gupta has his reports. are on the trees and down in the fields. swarms of locusts are everywhere a 1000000000 of these desert insects are sweeping across east africa destroying crops and livelihoods as they fly from one country to the other. 10000000 people in the region are now at risk of hunger and famine. we depend

a lot on the season our worry that locusts will destroy our harvest and will end up remaining hungry throughout the rest of the year. so malia has declared a state of emergency after its worst locust infestation in 25 years they are breeding in large numbers mostly remote areas under the control of al-shabaab and that's making it nearly impossible to fight the world's most dangerous mike retreat pests. the un says the most devastating plague of locusts in living memory could be within weeks if the world doesn't do enough to stop the outbreak we have about 12000000 people already in humanitarian assistance in terms of food security so i guess what we are afraid is that with the integration of this. that is a very you know it's done bursts and the quantity of food that this locust thing we

think that it will create. that there were further that are a lesson of the for security situation climate experts say and unusual bought of heavy rain in the region and a powerful cyclon and somalia last year are some of the reasons behind the outbreak . and with more rain predicted in the coming weeks things are expected to get worse if the weather conditions prevail and this breeding you're seeing here continues all along northern somalia more than it's your the new m.b. will end up having nearly $500.00 times the populations but we would have to witness invading parts of southern if your bill. desert locusts can travel up 250 club it is a day from parts of east africa millions of them have reached pakistan which too has declared a national emergency the threat of these ratio's creatures feeding on farms and fields now seems more widespread and ever more urgent practical al-jazeera.

or movie history has been made at the 92nd the cademy awards a film from south korea won the biggest prize of the night's best picture on the series from reynolds as more from hollywood and they ask or goes to. parasite i am knight of triumph for south korean cinema and director paul june home for the 1st time in the oscars 92 year history a film in a language other than english one the top award surprising many critics and so-called hollywood insiders. bongs critically acclaimed story of wealth class power and deceit swept best director best screenplay and best international feature film in addition to best picture. thank you i mean i think country next morning

thank you. renee zellweger the star of judy one the best actress award for brilliant and emotional portrayal of one of hollywood's late stars judy garland misguide you were certainly among the heroes he knights until finally. as widely predicted joaquin phoenix won the best actor award for his electrifying portrayal of poverty despair and mental illness in chokher he made a plea for social justice animal rights and love for the planet whether we're talking about gender inequality or racism or career rights or indigenous rights or animal rights we're talking about the fight against injustice we're talking about the fight against the belief that one nation one people one race one gender or one species has the right to dominate control and use and exploit another with impunity brad pitt was selected as best supporting actor for once upon

a time in hollywood and laura dern won her 1st oscar for best supporting actress in a marriage story this is the best birthday present ever only one person of color was nominated for an acting award cynthia in harry and she didn't win. as much criticism of the lack of racial and gender diversity an exception is st louis superman the 1st oscar nominated film commissioned in produced by al jazeera is program series witness which has an african american as its lead character to indian american filmmakers and to producers from malaysia not felt like you know at this my time to stand the broadcast which for the 2nd year in a row was presented without a host seemed flat and sluggish at times perhaps a reflection of the uncertain times we live in but after all diversion and

distraction is what the movies are all about and so the show must go on rob reynolds al jazeera hollywood. mentioned then that reports al-jazeera was also up for an oscar for best documentary shorts but just misstates when he spoke to our no many supporter film st louis superman. never could we have thought that we'd come this far so hopefully this is the 1st of many many more such things to come the film is about bruce franks jr who in 2014 was a battle rapper community a community leader and then when michael brown was killed in ferguson missouri he was politically awakened and bruce decided to run for political office so our film follows bruce is trying to get a bill passed on or his late brother who died from gun violence and so does kind of plot but it gets into all these deeper issues about mental health about the value of african-american life in the united states and you know the father's

relationship with his son too probably they were most proud of is that the team behind the film and how we all came together and how we come from different backgrounds different countries different religions races all of that and came together bruce brought us together to tell his story and so we're so incredibly proud of the work that witness and al jazeera english has been doing for over a decade and it's about time this is just the beginning so just watch out there will be many many more al jazeera english unwitnessed business films that will come to this platform. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines turkey says syrian government forces have killed 5 over its soldiers in northwestern in the syrian government troops attacked their military post there are there syrian opposition forces began a military offensive to push a regime troops that same of w.h.o.

expert says arrived in china it's investigate the coronavirus site break the global death toll from the illness has reached $910.00 china $997.00 more deaths on sunday the biggest single day increase since the epidemic began. the u.s. department of justice is charged for chinese military hackers over the 2017 cyber attack at equifax credit reporting agency it resulted in a data breach which affected nearly $150000000.00 people. the woman designated to replace german chancellor angela merkel has unexpectedly quit sans leader of the governing c.d.u. party and a great scrap karrenbauer is stepping down over a decision by riginal representatives to vote alongside the far right the party actually i love and you given your bottle sorry i received knowledge of this decision today with the utmost respect i must also say with regret i can imagine

that it wasn't easy for an address crime current power i thank her for being ready to further leave the process of choosing a new chancellor candidate as party leader. at least 30 people have been killed in a suspected book or ram attack in northeastern nigeria it happened just outside my degree in borno state and sunday and set fire to cars parked on the highway abducted several people. this year's african union summit ended with the cole on the international community to stop outside interference in libya and curb regional violence but those are the headlines to stay with us here on al-jazeera inside story is up next.

it's the worst invasion of discipline just sort of quarter of a century across east africa and south asia the food supplies and livelihoods of millions so under threat the situation has been declared a national emergency in some countries so what's caused the infestation and could it get worse this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan the same as the world's most dangerous migrates re pests locusts can swallow in the billions and in january densely enough to force an ethiopian airlines plane off course now they're invading ethiopia somalia kenya.