i have to get to places that others and all the fires are still ongoing i believe they tell the story is what make a difference. al-jazeera . this is the oldest news hour and i'm. coming up for you in the next 60 minutes. further escalation in syria 5 turkish soldiers are killed in the laces shelling by government troops in italy. 700000 people have fled the fighting since early december 100000 of them in the past week alone. as the death toll from the corona virus nears one fire since the 1st international health observers arrived in

china hello i'm maryanne demasi in london with the top stories from europe including a shock in german politics and the american succession plans to railed by arab parents announcing she's stepping down as head of the governing party. and far as well have all the day's sport including the asian champions league group stages are underway with defending champions our hell out of winning start. but we begin in syria where government forces have killed 5 turkish soldiers in the northwestern it live province a turkish base in the region came under heavy shelling has deployed soldiers in response to the syrian army's recent advances and in retaliation for that attack on the base turkey says it's hit more than 100 syrian government targets meanwhile

opposition fighters have begun a military offensive to push back against the government's video appears to show rebels with newly supplied turkish armored vehicles edward province and parts of neighboring aleppo are syria's last opposition strongholds to the 700000 people have been displaced by facing in this part of the country since december. well government troops and their allies are advancing with the help of russian air power they've captured nearly all of the m 5 highway which links some of syria's biggest cities aleppo damascus and latakia the roads is crucial for the government's economic livelihoods after nearly 9 years of war well turkey has 12 observation posts in the provinces along its borders several of which are now surrounded by syrian troops including the one that came under fire on monday that's prone to turkey and the syrian opposition groups it supports to strike back against syrian

forces let's get more now from c.n.n. course you'll lose she joins us from turkey's hatay near the border with syria as cinema dramatic escalation and what more can you tell us about events there. well 1st of all this escalation this recent escalation between iraq and damascus seems to be the major exco escalation and the highest escalation since the syrian civil war a war began 9 years ago and today's incident came came after. turkish military base turkish aabs new observation post which is a tough that as a military base that was taken over the syrian government a couple of days ago was attacked by the syrian army for syrian government forces turkey says that they had to retaliate and they had artillery shelling over syrian

government forces at the end of this incident as you know 5 turkish soldiers were killed $500.00 and they were all evacuated from syria out of border city hot side. and sent to the fact that sent to families and the wounded were taken for a treatment that the defense ministry is it is a statement shows they were able to target more than $100.00 around 115 targets as far as i know those targets were in 7 different locations and. according to what the military were was able to intercept from syrian government forces talk us around 105 syrian army members soldiers have been killed during this retaliate and i have to say that turkey vows to continue its reinforcements to protect us military observation posts inside lip and these poles were brought here according to our stan and such agreements as the as part of the escalation deal so the main

objective of this observation post was to observe the cease fire and the escalation violations however since the syrian government forces have violated the cease fire and the escalation zone agreement turkey started to. store up for the reinforced these military posts and not only to be. checked the soldiers but also to protect the civilians being pushed from south to north and being displaced but on the other hand we're hearing that the syrian government forces also keep reinforcing and so this reinforcement is being used as a tool for a possible deterrence doesn't seem to work and for the very 1st time in this syrian civil war on qur'an damascus are about to confront each other's so far when you speak to the military experts security experts or diplomat diplomats in turkey no one is able to figure out what's going to happen whether turkey and syrian state is

going to get into war or will they come up with an agreement they were there were talks between turkish and russian delegations in ankara today it was a 2nd talks within the last 3 days but nothing came up so i'm hearing from ankara i'm talking to some politicians they're telling me that they're not expecting much from russia either so what's going to happen is totally and i know right now inside at the especially in syria. and syria turkey and moscow triangle ok seen in course the early reporting live for us from i thank you very much in deeds of course caught in the middle of all of this are the syrian people themselves let's get more on the humanitarian aspect from kenya rahmani he's an advocacy manager with the syrian campaign a human rights group and joins us on skype from irvine good to have you with us here on al-jazeera sub-saharan figures were hearing 700000 people displaced since

december 100000 people since last month i mean these are staggering statistics which you say this is one of the worst humanitarian crises of the ongoing war. absolutely the situation in syria could not be more dire these are the worst numbers that we've seen in 9 years of war we have as you said 700000 people displaced that out of a population of roughly 3 and a half 1000000 half of these people have been displaced from other parts of the country and were living in live under the deescalation agreement of us donna and as the correspondent mentioned turkey has created up servatius points in order to ensure the safety of this the escalation zone but the russian and assad regime forces continually violate the ceasefire agreement the most recent cease fire

agreement was reached just less than a month ago and now we're seeing violations happening over the past couple weeks the situation just in the past 24 hours 33 civilians have been killed last week 3 hospitals were bombed by russia and the assad regime in less than 24 hours this is a brutal military campaign and people on the ground have nowhere to go the turkish border is sealed is closed not allowing anyone to leave people are literally camped out under the all of trees along the turkish border and the situation is just absolutely the worst we have seen in 9 years and unfortunately the u.n. is not really doing anything about it the international community as a whole with the exception of turkey which has taken a stand recently in order to stop the flow of refugees and to protect the civilians in this area no one has done anything and doctors in live are calling on u.n.

secretary general areas to to come inside it live and to be there with the people to ensure that this military escalation stops when he say that turkey. the only one who's doing something to protect these people what circuit boards are and that we have these 2 sites advancing towards each other is there a chance that these people are going to be caught between 2 advancing armies and what happens to them well just far the people on the ground are being displaced because of the advances by the assad regime the massive displacement that we've seen is because the acid regime in russia have pursued a scorched earth policy of collective punishment to on civilians the towns into which the as a regime has advanced. include moderate deny man and so rocket and many other towns in the suburbs of these 2 cities these towns have been completely displeased

there's no one left in these towns everyone has been moved so. the real danger is the continued advances of the assad regime and it seems that turkey has moved its military in because the as the regime continues to advance despite the cease fire agreement and the hope the hope of syrian civilians on the ground is that turkey can stop this advance by the assad regime and go back to a ceasefire which russia and turkey and the other regime can agree to while we have to wait and see if the sides to agree to any kind of cease fire but for that we will keep a close eye on the situation great to get your thoughts ken on rahmani joining us there from irvine. well it seems in the world health organization has no arrives in china to investigate what more can be done to contain the corona virus i break ours before they landed chinese officials counted $97.00 more deaths that's the biggest

single day jump since the outbreak began it brings the death toll to at least $910.00 people well the world health organization says it's particularly worried about the virus spreading which in people who've never been to china which it adds could be the spark that becomes a larger fire well in london scientists are working on a possible vaccine testing one animals are set to begin on monday and it could be ready to test on humans in a few months the number of cases has risen to more than 40 sayas and globally and in japan dozens more people are confirmed so you have contracted the virus on a quarantined cruise ship there are at least $130.00 cases on board that vessel or back in china millions of people were expected to head back to work after an extended holiday period finally came to an end spots in a year imports from beijing many stayed home. street is usually

bustling crowds but this week it's living up to its name the loony holiday has ended but fears of the crude a virus are keeping many businesses closed. leda his store 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 your entire door that deliver driver has been to too many places and has had contact with too many people so i need to be walk around workers like him. those staying indoors reliably as drivers for food and assess it is but the threat of the virus is taking its toll 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 telephone

or she's which provinces they have travelled 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 beds temperature checked. those spawn the temperature is higher than 37.5 degrees celsius let's go directly to a hospital to be tested. in hot the epicenter of the outbreak streets remain deserted residents are allowed to leave home only to collect food and supplies but elsewhere scenes up so quiet. unverified videos of people being forced from their homes into quarantine that are 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 brings some of the world class epidemiologist from the governor 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 to train e.u. al-jazeera beijing. and china's president sitting peon with saints in a beijing neighborhood wearing a face mask promising the fight against the virus will be won him brain has more we haven't seen much of president xi jinping during the past couple of weeks that changed on monday when state television broadcast pictures of him visiting a district of beijing he met neighborhood representatives volunteers and medical workers and there he was wearing a surgical face miles i think that's possibly the 1st time we've seen the chinese president wearing

a face mask he also had his temperature taken this was president xi jinping doing his best to burnish his man of the people image he also came to deliver a message he said that together the chinese people the country can overcome this virus if they work together you know. we must fight the battle for total warfare and the people's war against the epidemic with full confidence we must have the confidence that we will definitely when president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the government would prevent large scale job losses that's because of course china's economy has been battered by this fire as thousands of factories across the country are now standing idle it's a reminder that the world depends on china for so much but so much of what is producing simply isn't leaving the country and this cern one of the world's largest car producers in japan announced it was shutting production of one of its major

plants the problem is the supply chain just last week high on day a south korean car manufacturer said it was having to hold production because it couldn't get the parts it needed from china it's bad now it's going to get much worse. well the u.k. screwed a virus efforts are provoking debates and questions about the wood galaxy of its response let's get more now from mary in the masi crosser in our european broadcast center. yeah that's right a stark warning we've had from the department of health care and it comes after a passenger who returned from china on an evacuation flight threatened to leave a quarantine facility now under these new measures people with corona virus can be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave their all for new cases of the disease including 2 health care workers who tested positive for the virus and a medical center in brighton on the south coast of england is now closed overall

there are 8 confirmed cases in the u.k. for more on this let's speak to dr richard doll and he is a specialist in travel medicine joins us live via skype 1st of all what does this declaration from the health department mean well we're now entering. its very. very very long time. in this country. basically the new. level of public health threat that has been declared gives the public health authorities the right to legally to. people who would prevent the spread of disease when you say it's been a while how unusual is this particularly within the region all the other countries in europe implementing these measures. i'm not quite sure what's going on in other countries but the last time we had quarantine legislation enforced.

in the u.k. the main u.k. you got to go back as far as the plague outbreaks of the 1600s to find 2 accords in being in full force that was a village that serves as the quarantine gets over 1665. there is legislation that dates to the 1700s as a result but was never used because legislation traced to shipping the last instance i can find of that was in the 8090s when ships returning fruit. the seas were unseen right is that really puts it in some historical context for 4000 in terms of what prompted this declaration how important is it that these new cases came into contact with someone that was previously confined case so in other words has been a lot of debate about that these so-called super spread as people that we do shed quite a bit of the disease and that can really accelerate transmission. so that moment

a quarantine rules mainly from the appliance people groups in china and particularly the emergency rescue flights for a. problem. so initially there was a kind of an individual contract that was offered to each of. the so the issue is that it's not much fun being stuck in quarantine i'm sure that there are lots of things that would. lead coming to. concert with fellow quorums in the so it's not surprising people feel the need all the. want to discontinue this wrench not really what's prompted this escalation it's not that the threat has changed so much as the willingness of people to remain and 14 days is

a long time to remain. under quarantine conditions appreciate your time thank you very much dr richard doll it. now our other top story the woman designated to pace german chancellor angela merkel has unexpectedly quit as leader of the governing c.d.u. party and a great crowd of karrenbauer is stepping down after a crisis over at the session by regional representatives to vote alongside the far right a.f.p. that broke a longstanding agreement among mainstream parties to shun the far right clips crown karrenbauer has been the head of the c.d.u. since taking over from merkel end of 2018 party miss now elect a new chief to take it into the general election next year let's go live now to dominic cain who is following the story from ballin what has happened in the cd this week downing. well effectively what is happening here

is the disintegration of the role of camp who'd been seen by many people when she won election to being leader of the party as being mayor cool 2.0 merkel like her protege someone who would grow into the role and eventually supplant angle americal as the lead candidate for the christian democrats in the general election which must happen by the late summer early autumn of 2021 instead of her career now certainly her ambitions to be chances are dashed or shattered she will stay in her role as defense secretary in the cabinet but there's no question she will not lead the party into that election i was referring to the thing also to say here is that the christian democrats now find themselves in a dilemma because they have a colossus politically in angola americal who is by far the most popular politician in germany but she's going to go and as things stand it's not entirely clear who

will replace angle americal and indeed more in so far as the need for a new leader is concerned and a good camp can be in the next few months right so those are the implications for the c.d.u. what could this potentially mean for the country for germany. well it's a very particular question isn't it because right now interestingly enough every mainstream party does not know who is going to lead it into the general election in 2021 the schlitz and candidate it's called injury the lead candidate the person who would if that party won a majority or could build a coalition would become the chancellor not one mainstream party right now knows who it would be so it means that the direction the parties want to go in is still in some ways up for grabs the person who many people say might consider running for the christian democrats is a man called friedrich mounts

a one time friend ally of angola machall who she sidelined some many years ago but he's come back from the world on us and he fought very close in that election in 2018 he is favored by many but he's not a centrist he's seen as being to the right of the party who would take the party more to the right politically and then for the other parties they have to really start thinking about who might take them in a new direction and that vote is in 2021 thank you very much for that cane i say a bit later in the news hour now back to. african union leaders have voted to push push peace efforts in libya a sign of their desire to play a bigger role in resolving the continent's conflicts this year's summit in ethiopia was titled silencing the guns so if african president serial ramaphosa who took

over as a chair said violence in south sudan and libya will be the focus of his tenure and the peace and security council repeated calls for outside powers to stop interfering in libya. we want this iteration of forcibly to be fully respected. we want me un embargo on armaments to libya also to be strictly respected and 3rd we want an immediate cessation of all external interventions and interferences in libyan affairs. at least 30 people have been killed in a suspected book around the track in northeastern nigeria it happened just outside my degree in borno states on sunday the gunman set fire to cars parked on the highway and abducted several people victims were sleeping in their vehicles as part of an overnight stop the army closes roads to my degree after 6 pm local time for

security. swarms of hungry locusts are threatening to worsen food shortages in east africa where millions are already suffering after years of droughts and floods the situation there is described as the worst invasion for 25 years on south asia focus a process a national emergency in pakistan priyanka gupta has a report. out 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 is what. we depend a lot on this year when our we worry that locust 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 need of humanitarian assistance in terms of food security so that is what we are afraid is that with the integration of this. that is an area in your words done bursts and the quantity of food that this locust are anything we think that it will create. that there were further that her wish and of

the fortitude situation climate experts say and unusual bout 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 end will end up having nearly $500.00 times the populations but we would have to witness invading parts of southern its european. 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 odyssey are.

still to come on al-jazeera the u.s. charges chinese military officers suspected of a major data breach plus. and they are scared goes to. parasite was. south korean dot com has a mix maybe history of becoming the 1st own language film to win the oscar for best picture. in sports pakistan's cricketers celebrate a huge win on own soil now will be here with more. it's turning a little chilly across the middle east at the moment we had temperatures around 6 or 7 fold damascus and jerusalem recently the cholera 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 in that cloud also stretching down across the gulf even here in casa will see temperatures falling away quite noticeably over the next if it shews day would have a top temperature 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 full tuesday into wednesday a tad warmest still but temperatures really struggling keyway 10 degrees celsius is absolutely bad we'll see temperatures around 15 degrees there for doha certainly very 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 sloppy 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 showers. but. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states railings and increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights

the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. this is al jazeera to all of our top stories this hour turkey says syrian government forces have killed 5 overt soldiers in northwestern adlib syrian troops attacked a military post where turkish forces are deployed in retaliation turkey says it's hit more than $107.00 government targets. a team from the wall telephone can i say shoot the survivors in china to investigate what more can be done to contain

the corona fire site brick are especially. they landed in china chinese officials counted 97 more deaths the biggest single day jump since the i pray again. plans for a smooth handover of power in germany have taken a hit with chancellor angela merkel successor declaring she no longer wants the job and a great scrum karrenbauer stepped aside after an internal rival for the far right party the a.t.f. . the u.s. department of justice is charged for chinese military hackers on suspicion of hacking the equifax credit reporting agency $2817.00 it resulted in a data breach which affected nearly $150000000.00 people back or spent weeks in the system breaking into computer networks and stealing company secrets and personal data as course live to alan fischer he joins us from washington d.c. alan what walky tell us about this well this announcement by attorney general

william barr is more a public shaming than any realistic prospect that the americans are going to get the 4 chinese hackers back to the u.s. to face charges it was a 2 year investigation there's a 9 count indictment 150000000 or close to phone the personal data being compromised why did the hackers take well the 2 names dates of birth social security numbers the things that people need to steal identities additionally there was around 10000000 people who had their driving license details take it now this isn't the biggest hack in american history but it's william barr said it was certainly the most severe this kind of attack. on american industry is of a piece with other chinese illegal acquisitions of sensitive personal data for years we have witnessed china's voracious appetite for the personal data of americans including the fast of personnel records from the office of personnel

management the intrusion into marriott hotels and anthem health insurance companies and now the wholesale theft of credit and other information from at quote facts well on this isn't the 1st time the u.s. has gone off to china for cyber attacks how much of a security threats does the u.s. claim that this is. well when you hear william barr list the number of hacks that have been carried out you see just how vulnerable so many american companies car there's a concern that the americans have and that all revolves around 5 g. you remember very recently the united kingdom announced that where the chinese company would be involved in setting up the 5 g. network in the united kingdom that really upset the americans to the extent where there was a very terrace phone call between president donald trump and the u.k. prime minister boris johnson he was trying to convince them to kick while we of the

idea know one way and the chinese government say the 2 are not linked this is not a problem for them but the american see it very much as a problem and they think that hacking will get worse so that is why really william barr stood up today and said this is a problem and we need to deal with that what was also interesting is that william barr said normally we wouldn't prosecute crimes of this kind normally we deal with them in other ways almost a tacit admission admission that they know that american hikers are targeting the chinese what particularly upset is the americans is that it is personal details that are being hacked they see this is a huge problem and they also think that american companies need to do more to combat it as well ok alan fischer in washington d.c. thank you overcounting well into a 2nd day in the irish election it's 4 counts the 3 main parties will finish with a similar number of seats let's cross back to london and mary in the muncie.

that's right harlow with that no one party set to win enough seats for a majority the stage is set a complex coalition to go shake hands once those results of finalize i don't operate a single transferrable vote system which takes time to count last time the final result took 6 days to confirm but whatever happens nationalist party shin fein are the main winners breaking the political dominance traditionally held by the fianna gael and thena for all parties which has lasted almost a century when these parker has been covering this story from dublin and now looks at what the next moves might be. probably surprise them serves considering the fact that they only put forward $42.00 candidates across the country so they knew full well they would if they want all of those seats they would never be able to form a government on their own you need 80 seats to be able to do that so of course the difficult process of coalition big games coalition building begins. ruled

out possibly working with him for a day or 2 diametrically opposed to opposite ends of the political spectrum for. a little bit warmer in terms of the words that they've been sharing with him as soon framed feel pretty much jim bolden i think by these figures so far we could world trying to reach out to some of the smaller parties and wait it out until possibly a future election where they may well stand to win it but the huge huge advance pushing for this year's election well in all the stories we're following a russian cortez handed down lengthy sentences to 7 activists the state is accused of trying to overthrow the government authorities say the man a part of a group called set meaning network but rights groups and lawyers say the charges are fabricated the men have been tortured into giving false confessions sentences range from between 6 and 18 years a position opposition figure alexina valmy tweeted that the sentences are horrific and the group is

a fictitious terrorist organization. of course we've been following storm care a very closely battered person over the weekend it's caused more chaos as it continues to sweep across europe called storm sabine in germany and elsewhere in norway say the worst has passed but there are still some weather alerts in play there have been reports of 6 deaths now linked to the extreme weather in the czech republic slovenia sweden and the u.k. thousands of homes in the french region of brittany have also been left without power that's it from london for this news hour but i'll see you at $900.00 g.m.t. in about half hour's time thanks merriam now u.s. president donald trump is expected to unveil to congress is blueprints for the u.s. budget in 2021 he's proposing a $4.00 trillion dollars plan the largest in federal history he wants to raise military spending by 2 and a half 1000000000 dollars to 700 and $40000000000.00 and reduce foreign aids by

more than $10000000000.00 trumps also cutting billions in funding from the commerce departments the environmental protection agency the state department and the centers for disease control and prevention and once again he's asking congress for money to build a wall along the mexican border trant wants an extra $2000000000.00 for that project but that's less than the $8600000000.00 he asked for last year let's go live now it's to our white house correspondent kimberly whole kits kimberly trump has been speaking was here to say about this budget plan. well the president is defending his plan that is already getting mixed reviews even from some members of his own party rather quietly but there is some concern that this is really a plan that is dead on arrival so when you look back at this what this really is is

kind of a campaign document it highlights for the president what he's going to pitch to the american public on the campaign trail as he tries to win reelection but in terms of this actually getting passed as a spending plan it's pretty much dead on arrival there's no chance that house democrats who just recently impeached president trump are going to pass this they have some issues with some of the priorities and even as the president spoke defending it they're free to sizing some of the defense or rather the cuts to domestic programs in favor of very big boosts in defense spending we have a tremendous $740000000000.00 for military but again it's also jobs in the united states so it's you know it's everything's made in the united states proudly and we have the best in the world with the best equipment in the world the best missiles planes rockets everybody wants our equipment we have to be verse elective obviously but where are we going to have a very good budget with

a very powerful military budget because we have no choice well kimberly there's been some reaction from the democrats trump's political rivals what have they had to say yeah well there is a very pro sort of poignant t. tweet coming from the top democrat in the u.s. senate chuck schumer he writes president trump's budget shows his state of the union was lie upon lie to the american people it's his daily like today by proposing. by proposing. bear with me as my. photo here doesn't cooperate. severe cuts to medicaid and medicare president trump's latest budget is simply a continuation of his war to rip away health care from millions thanks for bearing with me with the technology there sensually what the top democrat in the u.s. senate is saying is that this is a boost for the wealthy at the expense of the poor donald trump denying that in

fact what he's saying is that his proposal housen things for working class americans particularly role american things like improvements to infrastructure and also improving internet access so that working class americans and the working poor can get a bank account but again this is not sitting well with top democrats again they say this is no chance that it is going to be passed really this is just a promise from a president who's trying to win re-election. for an hour thank you very much indeed . now a trade war between israel and the palestinian authority has entered a new phase israel has not put a ban on palestinian agricultural exports through jordan israel's defense minister says the new measures are in response to a boy court's own traders mahomet's reports. palestinian farmers working on this date in jericho have been preparing their harvest to export to 26

countries ahead of the holy month of ramadan in 2 months time but production has been hit by an israeli decision to stop international exports via jordan the same clude states and all of oil data farming is one of the most important sectors of palestinian agriculture in the occupied west bank and the ban is raising concerns for farmers here. we expect these companies to make a loss an estimated $11.00 to $14000000.00 are in the merchant storage they won't be able to export them if the crisis stays as it is last week israel's defense minister imposed a ban on all palestinian agricultural produce from entering its markets this prompted palestinian authorities to cut down on some israeli imports but the crisis started last september when palestinians decided to stop importing beef from israel with the aim of becoming more economically independent now the israeli military

says it will block palestinians from transferring their shipments through the jordan crossing it's the occupied west bank only direct export route to the outside world and strains are already being felt as palestinian goods are being sent back here this is a systematic policy in the retaliation that came at the height of the agricultural season and to struggle that is the backbone of the palestinian economy in the jordan valley trade tensions have escalated in recent months and have been further aggravated by here's a violence in the region over a controversial middle east plan put forward by the. ited states the palestinian authorities are calling on israel to revoke its decision but israel's government says normal trade will only resume if the cattle ban is lifted. meanwhile the harvest here continues but the border remains closed to exports and the farmers have no way of getting their produce to market mohammed al jazeera. higher taxes have taken effect in jordan the hikes triggered huge protests when they were 1st

announced back in 2018 and while the response is more muted people still aren't sure how they're going to manage financially it's a good name as this reports from amman. a man has consistently ranked as one of the arab world's most expensive cities yet clothing salesman matie says people's salaries aren't keeping pace with the high cost of living this month jordanians will begin paying between 5 to 40 percent more in income taxes more than you would cry for jordanian citizens even without paying taxes we're not living we're in $700.00 to $800.00 a month and it's not enough by would we pay more taxes. when the law to raise taxes was announced in 2018 jordanians protested in the largest numbers since the arab spring nearly a decade ago the prime minister was forced to resign jordan has high levels of debt

and relies on foreign aid in 2016 the international monetary fund or i am led to more than $700000000.00 now the country is waiting to see if it will receive another $1300000000.00 from the i.m.f. to try to stimulate the economy and create jobs economic analyst. says about 80 percent of the government's revenue is generated from taxes and fees and that severely limiting what people spend and who hate the only solution is to tackle corruption and this in the government needs to get back to the national companies it's sold to the private sector so it comes in that it's more money. homies mccann says this has been the worst period in his 30 years of owning a clothing store he was forced to lay off several employees a lot of. the economic and political situation in the region is and papering us

negatively but we're trying to work as hard as we can to maintain our business that we have inherited from our fathers and grandfathers the government says the tax hikes are needed to reduce public debt it's a condition set by the i.m.f. as part of its bailout package but many jordanians say when it comes to public services they don't see where their tax money is going and they're fed up with being used as the government's cash register natasha going to name. a man. coming up in sports the world number 229 was too good for a 5 time major champion. all

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of movie history has been made at the 90 seconds a chasm a awards a film from south korea won the biggest prize of the night's best picture al-jazeera as rob reynolds wraps up the highlights from hollywood. and the oscar goes to. parasite i kind 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 read it 3 and come to the next morning thank you. renee zellweger the star of judy won 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 into phyla. as widely predicted joaquin phoenix won the best actor award for his electrifying portrayal of poverty despair and mental illness in joker 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 error in harry and she didn't win. there was. much criticism of the lack of racial and gender diversity and exception is st louis superman the 1st oscar nominated film commissioned and produced by al jazeera as 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. well the show must go on over to far and over the sports thanks so much howell the group stages of asia's premier club football competition the asian champions league is underway and reigning champions have got their campaign off to a winning start the saudi team became the 1st west asian side to win their tournaments since counters in 2011 on monday they beat around called the road to nil in dubai the match took place in the u.a.e. the mc ruled that games between a rainy and saudi teams happen at neutral the news because of political tensions. left it late over in abu dhabi. for

a last minute equaliser against saudi's the south koreans goal securing a 10. 0 short of a rock had a bad start in their group stage debut they scored a 1st half own goal against around. beale however the iraqi side converted the 2nd have penalty to secure a one all draw. counters world cup as a new one basket or former australian football captain tim cahill is giving his backing to the 2022 tournament he joins chappies samuel eto and cafu have similar goals for the middle east 1st world cup calles had plenty of experience as australia's all time leading goalscorer with 50 goals from 108 appearances and he's confident katter will silence its critics. i think what i've seen is that of being part of 4 world cups when you look at world cups ok we'll start in germany. most amazing will come there's always some sort of negatives before you start you work

into it and then south africa you know those saying there's going to reduce the going to be the brazil and then russia the world cups have been amazing and because it's the biggest show on earth the world comes together to make this a success when kids are received the bid it was exciting because they said there was going to be a conditioning in the stadiums and saying that back then it was like every well it's impossible with technology in the way things are going it's not for us and us it is. we need to see the good of what football can do and also deal with the realities that. there's going to be you know speed bumps along the way in how we do without together is going to be you know it's your speed everything's on track and that's that's the greatest thing about it that my. world cup organizers are working towards their event being carbon neutral and on monday chapters main domestic league announced plans to go green to do this that will resist reduce emissions

caused by hosting matches raise awareness among fans and offset any avoidable pollution by investing money to help the environment the energy that football is creating around qatar and that around the league we can use it as you can use the league as a catalyst to enhance the experience of preserving the environment for the future. box on abrupt a big win in the 1st test of their series against langley dash on sunday 16 year old messier shah became the youngest player to take a test track but it was left to some more experienced members of the pakistan team to secure this victory yassar shocked the nation with 4 wickets in rope ended to help guide his side to victory by an innings and 441. save his formula one boss toto wolff is confident that 6 time world champion lewis hamilton will stay with the team after his contract ends at the end of the year the new season gets underway next month where have looked and will be looking to equal schumacher his record of 7 world titles but the 35 year old has not made official plans for next

year or say these are just signed a sponsorship deal with one of britain's richest people have yet to secure a long term commitment from hamilton we would like to have the fastest man in the car and i guess that lewis i know that lewis wants to be the fastest so there is a overuse mutual outcome but you know we travel around the world almost 10 months every year going on every 2nd weekend and what we do but windows that we leave each other in peace. damian lillard was the key man for the portland trailblazers in their latest when willard scored 33 points and had a disservice in his 115-2109 victory over the my heat it's the 3rd straight loss for the heat as the trailblazers aim to recover from their slow start the season claim a spot in the playoffs. and jay mohr and claimed his 1st career triple

double to help in memphis grizzlies pass washington wizards the grizzlies sit in the 8th and final playoff spot in the western conference one place above the trailblazers. forward this warm water 690 to. a canada's nick taylor claimed just his 2nd title on north america's top golf tour as phil mickelson's challenge faded in california medals and began the final round at the pebble beach program just a stroke off the lead but despite shots like this 5 time major winner headed to over par round the 74 game taylor his chance the world number 229 securing the title with a 4 shot victory. ok and that is all your sport for now hala back to you thank you so much there will of course be more from far later on but that is it for me at 100 over at sea mari in the mostly the same in london standing by with all the latest world news keep it here and all to 0.

in india i didn't stupid 6 on the right is what we're seeing is the construction mills partitions and loads and loads of dudes. but across the country and there's a dark side is we do see the grid from his office in the district of the him into something more like the team i didn't see of the bridge one day i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. he fled to protect his life. but denied asylum

a congolese activist must return home facing an uncertain future he once again finds himself at the forefront of a political revolution to try to improve democracy can come a day every personal cost. back to kinshasa a witness documentary on al-jazeera. this is a domicile a man's 4th trip to boozy in 2 days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as many people as he can was stranded in the flood hit area up to psychologize struck mozambique i was up when i 1st saw women with babies on their backs crying for help saying they were dying i knew i had to do something i was late and from the dark a faint was still in the distance alerts us to people calling for help women children and the elderly are brought on board 1st hungry and thirsty it hasn't taken much time to pull the boat about 200 people have been rescued and more want

to get on but this simply no space. turkey says it killed 101 syrian government troops and retaliating for the death of 5 of its soldiers in a blip. i know i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program she visits health staff in a rare public appearance as a team of w.h.o. medical experts arrives in china to investigate the corona virus outbreak. attack as target travelers who had stopped for the night near my degree in nigeria torching vehicles and killing at least.