and i want to investigate. that this is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up. turkey says it's killed $101.00 syrian government troops in retaliation for the death of 5 of its soldiers in. paying visits health's off in a rare public appearance as a team of w.h.o. medical experts arrives in china to investigate the corona virus outbreak. attacked his target travelers sleeping in their vehicles near my degree in nigeria setting

them on fire and killing at least 30 people plus. parasite. south korea's celebrates after a parasite becomes the non english language film to win the best picture. and i'm far as small have all the day's sport including the asian champions league group stages are underway with defending champions al hello off in. turkey say they've killed $101.00 syrian soldiers and province off to hitting $115.00 government targets it comes hours after 5 tucker soldiers were killed in shelling by syrian government forces turkish troops have been sent into the region which is the last rebel held area in response to an advance by the syrian army

russian reports from istanbul. the turkish soldiers were stationed in a recently established military post in tufton as in province. there is the 2nd time to his military has come under direct fire in province earlier this month 8 soldiers were killed in an attack by syrian army in the same area and escalation that increases the risk of a full blown military confrontation between ankara and damascus. the main aim is that the ceasefire should be respected as soon as possible in italy by the regime must stop its aggression for a permanent understandably cease fire. as tense and grows a sudden counter offensive by the rebels they launched an attack to retake the town of sirte that is now under the control of syrian government troops. as the turkish

backs syrian national army fighters will close in in. to the bombardment intensified turkish army units in targeting syrian troops positioned in the town while turkey sends more troops and vehicles into it at an unusually fast pace. we hope that this convoy will do what they promised and force the regime back to where they were we hope that they will do what is promised and not to be deceitful straddling the intersection of the major and foreign m 5 motorways but linked government held cities of damascus aleppo and latakia. could shape the future of rebel held territory. is the last rebel held area in syria and for mary defending the province is a matter of life after the death of the turkish soldiers and it is likely to put more pressure on the government here many are waiting to see if president. will

order a tough response or show restraint as talks with russian diplomats and military officers are under way in ankara al-jazeera. and in the last couple of hours a procedure in government aircraft has attacked a turkish military vehicle in aleppo's countryside with some injuries sin and cos your glue is in the turkish border region of how tight she says the turkish military is determined to press on with its offensive turkey vows to continue its reinforcements to protect this military observation post inside it live and these posts were brought here according to our style and so check where humans. as part of the escalation they are so the main objective of this observation post was to observe the cease fire and the escalation of violations however since the syrian government forces have violated the cease fire and the escalation zone agreement turkey started to. store up or to reinforce these military posts and i don't know

to protect the soldiers but also to protect the civilians being pushed from south to north and being displaced but on the other hand we are hearing that the syrian government forces also keep reinforcement so this reinforcement being used as a tool for a possible deterrence doesn't seem to work and for the very 1st time in the syrian civil war on qur'an the muskets are about to confront each other's. well joining us now from washington d.c. is razor his director of the tukey project at the center for strategic and international studies thank you for joining us 5 type of soldiers dead 101 syrian government troops killed how could this escalation change the conflict. well it's unclear whether this is going to lead to a full blown war between the 2 sides something that they have avoided in what was in essence a proxy war between syrian opposition forces backed by turkey from 201112

the syrian forces backed by the russians and and the iranians there was a russian military delegation in saturday. for talks with the turks that was inconclusive they've come back for a 2nd round of talks in ankara which was going on just a couple of hours ago and in between there was the attack by the syrian. artillery and artillery elements against turkish forces needing to the death of 5 soldiers so the question is other russians who have decisive influence over the assad regime are going to use that influence to restrain the syrians and use their ongoing contacts with the charts to prevent them from from proceeding to a full blown war it's unclear at the moment and what effect this is having on the 3000000 syrians in it between the 2 sides. well

president carried on in a very important speech on wednesday in which he blamed the russians for failing to restrain. the syrian forces and that was eerie the 1st time that he openly blamed russia also said that over 700000 syrian refugees were massed on the on the turkish border and that more were coming given the fact that there are 4000000 syrians and already in turkey the possibility of 1000000 and maybe more syrian refugees escaping from the syrian assault coming to the turkish border and in desperation seeking to go beyond what is a close border is over serious security concern for a president who had no one and a major motivation in his this to to stop the syrian attacks thank you for putting that into context for us but in diaries are from washington d.c.

and dozens of graves have been vandalized in the southern suburbs of adlib city video appears to show groups affiliated with syrian government forces destroying the graves in qana else about image syrian forces of control of the area since late last month medical experts from the world health organization have arrived in china to investigate what more can be done to contain the corona virus outbreak this after the death toll that jumped by 97 the most in a single day since the virus was detected the mission was agreed following talks between the head of the organization and president xi jinping in january took nearly 2 weeks for the chinese government to approve the ex but team the world health organization is particularly worried about the virus spreading between people who have never been to china in recent days we have seen some because certainly instances of transmission from people we know travel history

to china like the cases reported in france yesterday and the united kingdom today. the detection of these small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire but for no it's only a spark objective remains containment when the vast number of cases a still in mainland china 40185 people have now been diagnosed with the illness and 908 people have died outside mainland china 452 people have tested positive with 2 deaths japan has recorded the highest number of positive tests 161 people diagnosed 135 of them on board a cruise ship quarantined in yokohama china's president he's ready been seen in public since the outbreak began to the hospital in beijing on monday adrian brown

has more on choosing things visit. 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. 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 it's 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 in china millions of people were expected to go back to work on monday as an extension to the new year holiday ended and as continue reports from beijing many stayed at 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. 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 you and that deliver driver has been to too many places and has had contact with too many people so i need to be around workers like him. those staying indoors rely on these 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 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 temperature checked. those fun 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 on 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. some of the world class epidemiologist and the governor there 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 it will really give the wrong hopefully a good glimpse of what going on in china medical experts say the majority of coronavirus cases are mild but many in china are not taking any chances between e.u. al-jazeera beijing or thought he saw them a has more from yokohama in japan on the quarantine creased up where the number of confirmed corona virus cases has almost doubled we are hearing. incidents of infection among us injures on the crew members on board of the ship the health ministry announced that more 60 more people have been infected it wasn't actually a shock to many people here because the experts have been warning of the possibility of more infections on this confined place. am of this of the current enough. time on the basis for 14 days was to prevent the virus from spreading but the

experts say that in such environment virus could spread among the passengers and crew members especially the crew members who who have to stay in come on places and who have to stay even double bedrooms so. many of the infections now we're hearing of. might be might be among the crew members that are around 1000 crewmembers on board of the ship and if this numbers prove to be among the crew members then we may hear of more and more numbers during the coming days. well stereo's moskos is an associate professor of cellular and molecular sciences at northumbria university he joins us live via skype from newcastle upon tyne thank you for joining us when we saw that some people are returning to work after that extended new year new holiday what could this mean for the spread of the virus well i'm

afraid that in my personal humble opinion i'm not in the beyond just i think we were going to see you know week 2 what that would mean about the display of the virus published or to the idea that the chinese that they're writing to should talk to harm. they have to do something about the economy so the question is not how do they educate the people to make sure they minimize that risk to themselves and restart the economy and make sure the country can run so the virus is now in 27 countries can it really be contained if it's only spread to that extent i think it's important to emphasize that the vast majority of the cases are in china. the 2nd largest cluster is basically in japan and singapore those other countries are present more transmission restaurant in trying to seem in france and in britain but the people that got in fact it were connected to singapore so it looks like the

the spread is an issue. it looks like the increase in diagnosed cases many explore we've seen in china in terms of doubling rates so things are looking more interesting not necessarily in a good way over the next few days or weeks and here in britain they've designated the but the virus of the clever virus is an imminent threat and other countries are putting in extra measures what does that mean in practical terms and what is it about our knowledge of the virus that's changed and and brought this declaration about. yes so i think it's very important to point out that the studies on this fires are restricted by time we've only known this virus for what is a couple of months now the fact that we've gone to its genome sequence several times and we can trace what's happening in terms of who's giving the virus that to me so it's a great thing in terms of the basic science around how the iola to the virus works

that's all emerging and i have to point out that there are a couple of studies that have come out have received a lot of criticism about some of the comments that made and not being the very accurate we can't really say for sure right now how it transmits through the how far how how long it can transmit through the and that's where the real risk comes from so as far as everybody. not common people like you and i were but we can do in our daily lives which just get on with it be careful not to touch i know i'm smart with our hands before we wash our hands so make sure we wash our hands frequently use alcohol based hand sometimes think of solutions to clean our hands and then in public transport it with your like we need a car you know to cover a cup mark with our elbow or into a chute and throw it away then wash our hands that's not what we can do for the

moment it's very good advice there thank you dr musk us for coming on the program you're very welcome. coming up on this news hour. 10000000 people are under threat of famine in africa as a plague of locusts move from country to country. and the merkel succession plans go right to have unexpectedly stand down as leader of germany's ruling party. and in sport pakistan's cricket to celebrate a huge win on the home soil is here with that story. at least 30 people have been killed in an attack in northeastern nigeria suspected to be the work of the group boko haram the attack happened just outside the city of my degree capital of borno state on sunday gunman set fire to cars parked along the highway and reportedly kidnapped women and children the victims were sleeping in

their vehicles because the army closes rose to my degree off to 6 pm local time for security reasons and i was. just sitting in the front seat of the car i don't expect. a lot of the shooting started we 1st killed a lady in the front seat of a car then we started running away. because the bodies of some of those who lost their lives in the attack were completely many were killed by the heat of the car that was set on fire. well nigeria analyst antony goldman says the public is becoming increasingly desensitized to these violent attacks. it is a pattern of violence that i think it is quite breathtaking in terms of the suffering the kind of lack of respect for him no life and dignity but i think it's all together and surprisingly these attacks have happened consistently particularly i think as the violence in the northeast has shifted under president bihari weight

from insurgency to woods terror attacks in this case in attempts to try to close down a key chance for roots and actually that any human no casualties are. though that's of concern to those who are behind some of the violence the annual african union summit has ended with a call for the international community to stop interfering in libya leaders from across africa met for 2 days of talks in ethiopia's capital at his abba the summit focused on curbing the regional violence that's inhibiting economic development on the continent. one of the countries suffering such violence is becoming a facet of the united nations as the attacks have displaced more than half a 1000000 people there's been a surge in violence became a fasten neighboring nations in the sahara region of west africa over the past few months causing thousands to flee their homes many armed groups operate in the region some affiliated to eisele and al qaeda the head of the un's refugee

agency philippa grandy recently visited the king of fast and he told our desire is diplomatic editor james bass he was shocked by what he saw. displacement the number of people forced to leave their homes have increased exponentially and the country the situation that has struck me most was book enough us where really do proportions of the humanitarian crisis. s. kelly very very rapidly do you think the media and for that matter policymakers haven't quite realized how bad this is when i have to tell you that even i who read about this situation talk to colleagues every day i had not gauge the extent of the gravity of the crisis until i reached in particular as i said work enough us there . i observed a situation i spent actually 2 days in

a situation of massive displacement so armed groups armed terrorist groups are operating in the area bordering my work enough are so nice there it's unlikely 3 way border area i saw in speaking with so many people in particular we heard stories of men killed children brutalized and separated from their families and what struck me more sed women raped i don't have statistics but they think the proportion of women that have that have suffered sexual violence is staggering in that particular situation and. is most likely the most urgent feature of the most the compelling feature of this very very grave situation that is developing as we speak african union

leaders are meeting in outer suburbs should this be top of their agenda i think definitely should be because there's so much at stake. the they're. the stability of an entire region which is strategically very important place so if i'm attended this will spread with disastrous consequences for the continent of africa and beyond parts of africa and asia are experiencing the worst invasion of desert locos in a quarter of a century the food supplies and livelihoods of millions are under threat prompting some countries to declare a national emergency priyanka gupta has more. up 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 and we worry that the locusts will destroy our harvest our 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 who are already in their humanitarian assistance in terms of food security so i guess what we are afraid is that with the invasion of. this

area in. and the quantity of food that this locust are eating we think that it will create. that there were further that elision of the for security situation climate experts say and unusual bout of heavy rain in the region and a powerful cyclon somalia last year 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've already witness invading parts of southern it's 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 this ratio screeches feeding on farms and fields

now seems more widespread than ever more urgent. to see here. in the united arab emirates has admitted targeting groups loyal to the un backed yemeni government the deputy chief of staff of the us armed forces said his forces were fighting 3 enemies in yemen naming the muslim brotherhood as well as the hoodies and i still the muslim brotherhood is a grassroots movement that's part of yemen's government well. everyone should know that i say here for the record we've been fighting 3 enemies at the same time these the muslim brotherhood and their 5th column and the terrorism of al qaida and liberation could not have been complete without imposing security and dealing professionally with those enemies therefore we have conscripted trained and equipped more than $200000.00 yemenis in the liberated areas. there's

a lot more still to come this hour chinese military hackers a charge over one of the largest databases in history. money for the minute train cuts to welfare and foreign aid donald trump reveals his 2021 budget. and in sports a straight year's record goalscorer kicks off a new chapter in his career. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across parts of northwestern europe of course we have been dealing with those very very severe winds coming from the atlantic across parts of the u.k. affecting much of the north also down here towards parts of france and the benelux region we're going to still have a problem here on tuesday with very gusty winds across much of the u.k. also ireland pushing into denmark as well as into the baltic sea down towards the

south though conditions are getting a little bit better in terms of those winds but as we go towards wednesday things improve for much of the u.k. but those winds are still a problem here across northern europe as well as into the baltics we are going to be watching this very carefully also down here across much of central europe temperatures are about average for this time of year we are going to see vienna at about 8 degrees there rome is going to be a nice day with about 70 and athens sun in your forecast at 19 degrees for you well here across another part of africa things are looking quite quiet here across much of the region now we do have some clouds across parts of mali those will be producing a little bit of rain this system as we go towards the next couple of days and also into parts of algiers by the time we do get towards wednesday light showers we do expect to see across much of the region but up towards the north it is going to be quite nice and robot at 18 degrees and for all cheers plenty of sun with a temperature of 20. but. 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 utopian on there is only so much we can take before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians on al-jazeera. progress. or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better for worse. in a new documentary i'll just 0 explores the impact of a are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data land coming soon.

a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey says it's killed 100 syrian government troops in retaliation for the deaths of 5 of its soldiers. died when syrian forces attacked a turkish military post. about 25 kilometers south of the border. at least 30 people being killed in an attack near my degree in northeastern nigeria gunman set fire to cause a highway and kidnapped women and children victims in their vehicles. and medical experts from the world health organization have arrived in china to investigate what more can be done to contain the corona virus outbreak the death toll that

jumped by 97 on sunday the single most in a single day since the virus was detected. the u.s. department of justice is charged for chinese military hackers over the $27000.00 cyber attack at the equifax credit reporting agency the attack resulted in a data breach that affected nearly $150000000.00 people the hackers spent weeks in the system breaking into computer networks and stealing company information and personal data is trying to track. 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 an anthem health insurance companies and now the

wholesale faffed of credit and other information from equifax. it's election here in the u.s. and donald trump has unveiled to congress his budget for 2021 should he win a 2nd he's proposing a $4.00 trillion dollar plan the knowledge just in federal history not includes an increase in military spending and more money for his border wall with mexico a white house correspondent kimberly reports. to really understand the priorities of u.s. presidents look at their budget. donald trump has just released his $4.00 trillion dollars spending vision to members of congress the headlines. more big hikes for military spending cuts to some programs benefiting the elderly and children trumps budget also proposes a 21 percent cut in foreign aid tremendous waste and tremendous fraud there's a vision to eliminate america's faluting federal spending deficit by the year 2035

the plan is to reform social safety net programs food stamp programs that feed the poor and benefits for disabled growth in the economy is intended to offset the cuts we're in the midst of a great american comeback we're creating the most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society ever to exist actually but democrats in congress say trump's budget hurts the poor and favors the wealthy they say there's no chance this presidential wish list in its current form will pass into law so why bother with these and other proposals. like spending to repair america's crumbling infrastructure or bring internet to rural parts of the united states this budget is all about politics rule voters are critical for trump's reelection so is keeping this promise mexico does in fact you will soon find

a pain for the. trump made the promise in 2016 ad again. last month it he'll build a wall along the southern border of the united states and mexico to cut illegal immigration pledge help to win the white house and even though mexico's never paid for construction and the wall is far from complete trumps making the pitch again president budget is little more than a blueprint for americans of a spending priorities as he makes the case on the campaign trail for voters to reelect him for a 2nd term can really help get al jazeera the white house. u.s. democratic presidential candidates but a judge and bernie sanders have also the partial recounts of the iowa caucuses but he judge appeared to win the most votes in last week's contest with a close 2nd it comes a day before new hampshire votes in its primary but a judge short to rally people disappointed by trump's acquittal last week this is

our shot. to defeat i know that last week was depressing for a lot of us watching that is watching the way the senate g.o.p. turned a trial into a sham and a foregone conclusion but the good news is the great thing about being a voter in the year 2020 is that we get the final say well patty kahane is live for us in concord new hampshire patti after that very messy caucus in iowa what can we expect from the new hampshire primary. well what we're seeing right now is the polls seem to be looking in bernie sanders favor. clinton 4 years ago in this state he's a senator from a neighboring state so what we're seeing is he's ahead and then followed by pete judge who's rally we were at earlier today in plymouth new hampshire you know one of the things that when talking to all the voters who come out this is

a state that really cares about climate change but at the same time in this is what drives the pollsters crazy if you look at approval of donald trump 42 percent of people in new hampshire say they approve of the job he's doing this is a president who has gotten the country out of the accord he's weakened regulations on clean air and clean water so democrats see this as an opportunity so that's the message they were trying to take to the campaign trail and we've met a few people. for them climate change is a deciding factor. new hampshire is all about the outdoors in every season most will tell you it's why they live here but everywhere you look you see signs it's not like it used to be when i started studying climate change and martha carlson is a sugar maker one of the hundreds responsible for creating new hampshire's iconic maple syrup about a decade ago she noticed her trees were changing the syrup was getting darker so

she went back to school and got her doctorate to understand what was happening in the short answer climate change as it's less sweet than it was a century ago a century ago the average sap for material would be 3 percent or even 3 and a half percent now it's 2 or maybe 1.8 per cent sugar now why is it less sweet is the trees making less sugar because maybe they're too caught climate change is impacting all aspects of life in new hampshire and this state has an outsized role in determining who gets to be president and they say climate change really matters to them but it doesn't seem to impact their vote after all when he was on the campaign trail donald trump pretty much denied climate change and this state overwhelmingly voted for him in the last primary that is a challenge for catherine corkery of the sierra club i think trying to find solutions to the climate crisis it's hard and there is not

a lot of. solutions that come to mind quickly that will address it i can explain politics i can just tell you about budgets and carlson though thinks it's changing because the climate undeniably is the sugar producer said they are by and large conservative thinkers they said climate change was a hoax slowly over these last. how long. 10 years or more they've seen the darker syrup and they have seen these odd seasons the seasons are much more variable seen the problem and in a unique position to try and fix it by deciding the people that make the policies getting another chance this tuesday. so many why does this new hampshire primary matter and what impact is that mess in iowa having

that's a nice word for it yep a bit of a mess in fact you got some news on that both judge and senator bernie sanders have asked for a recant this of some of the precincts there because at this point they're fighting over every single delegate so what does it mean for new hampshire well there are $24.00 pledged delegates that are going to come out of the entire primary that happens tomorrow so how many do you need to get the nomination 2376 so they're fighting over 24 that might seem kind of silly right but it's not and the reason it's not is this is where you're going to start to see campaigns and candidates call it quits because whoever does well here that is where the money goes and money cash on hand right now is pretty tight for the likes of former vice president joe biden his hope is that this is not his be his base that he does better with minorities new hampshire it's an incredibly white state along with iowa he wants to try and hold out for the better south carolina maybe even super tuesday were so

many states vote to try and get more of those delegates but for right now even though the polls are saying one thing at this is new hampshire it's just the beginning it is important it will decide who takes steps forward but is by no means going to decide who actually faces donald trump come november. reporting live from new hampshire thanks for braving the cold. the woman expected to replace german chancellor angela merkel says she's quitting as leader of the governing seed party and a gret. is stepping down amid a crisis over a decision by regional representatives to vote alongside the far right a.f.d. dominic cain reports from berlin. am i glad camp was supposed to be her party's political future soon she will belong to its past her hopes of being her country's 2nd female chancellor dashed by a rout over how her party deals with the far right. as it's no it's been i'm the

party leader and i'll remain in this position for the foreseeable future what i've said is that i will not run for chancellor but other than that the situation hasn't changed. the situation certainly has changed and it was this moment that brought her down when christian democrats joined forces with the far right to elect a liberal prime minister in the state of the ring here thereby ousting a popular far left government and breaking a to boo which has stood virtually since the f.t. began life 7 years ago prompting protesters onto the streets in that state and drawing denunciations from all the main political parties many accused of a lack of leadership the accusations which are the dr since her election as head of her party in 2018 but it was perhaps the reaction of angular machall which made his decision inevitable late last week she called what took place in the ring year unforgivably here in berlin on monday she was in more conciliatory mood please come

in 1st then us i think it can come off i regard this decision with great respect though i greatly regret it i can imagine this wasn't an easy decision for her and i thank her for being prepared to stay on this day the process of choosing a successor. for some christian democrats this is the person to choose seat of the humiliates once on friendly terms with merkel but who she sidelined many years ago he fought his way back from the political wilderness and rand come close in the leadership election of 2018 whoever actually will succeed and. has to make a decision either as she tried to do so to bridge that. or to lead the way in one of the one of the 2 camps and directions either the american direction for a more moderate liberal cause or actually for the direction to become much more conservative than they had been before and then there is the question of what to do about the f.t.

in the federal parliament the numbers are too small to be more than an irritant to the mainstream parties but out in the state parliaments particularly in the east they are much more numerous and now they're raising their voice many germans a deeply worried by what they're hearing dominic king zira perlin a russian court has handed down length the sentences to 7 activists the state is accusing of trying to overthrow the government the authority say the better part of a group called set which means network but rights groups and lawyers say the charge is a fabricated in the men who've been tortured into giving false confessions their sentences range between 6 and 18 years opposition afic figure alexina valmy tweeted that the sentences were horrific and the group is a fictitious terrorist organization still in care and which battered britain over the weekend has caused more chaos as it continues to sweep across europe called storm sabine in germany and else a new way meteorologists say the worst has passed but in

a still in effect of the reports of several deaths linked to the extreme weather event in czech republic slovenia sweden and the u.k. thousands of homes have been left without power. and dramatic video has emerged of a snow storm that struck the tuckers coastline engulfing the black sea town of opa store barreled into the town on sunday a local ophthalmologists shot this time that's video of the blizzard sweeping across the sea he said he'd lived in the town for 2 years and never seen such a storm. movie history has been made at hollywood's biggest night in cinema with the 1st non english language film taking home the top prize at the oscars binge on hos film parasite won best picture as well as 3 other awards beating the war film 917 which had been tipped to win rob reynolds reports from hollywood. and the oscar goes to.

parasite i am knight of triumph for south korean cinema and director of 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 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 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.

there was. criticism of the lack of racial and gender diversity and exception is st louis superman the 1st oscar nominated film commissioned in 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 and i 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 as rob mentioned al jazeera was all set up for an oscar for best documentary short subject and then when but he spoke to our nominees for the film some newest 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 to honor his late brother who died from gun violence and so that's kind of a 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 such as watch out they'll be many many more al jazeera english unwitnessed business films that will come to this platform. still ahead this nisa the head of the sadie's says he's confident 6 time f one champion knows hamilton will stay that's coming up on sport.

now in his farah the sport. charlie thank you so much the group stages of asia's

premier club football competition the asian champions league are underway and reigning champions al hillel have got their campaign off to a winning start the saudi team became the 1st west asian side to win the tournament since cats are outside back in 2011 on monday they beat around shower called the road to indy by a much bigger place in the u.a.e. as the a.f.c. ruled that games between iranian and saudi teams have been at neutral venue's because political tension. a why that left it laid over in abu dhabi scored a last minute equaliser against saudi's lead the south koreans goal securing a one all draw. short of a rock had a bad start in their group stage debut they scored a 1st half own goal against around or below however the iraqi side converted the

2nd half penalty to secure a one all draw. counters world cup has a new ambassador former australian football captain tim cahill is giving his backing to the 2022 tournaments he joined chaffee simul eto in cafu have similar roles for the middle east 1st world cup cahill's 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 world cup there's always some sort of negative 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 was ever 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 with it together is going to be you know to speak everything's on track and that's that's the greatest thing about at the moment. world cup organizers are working towards their event being carbon neutral and on monday categories main to mastic league announced plans to go green to do this it will reduce emissions caused by hosting matches raise awareness among fans and offset any unavoidable 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 it can use the league as

a catalyst to enhance the experience of preserving the environment for the future. mercedes formula one boss toto wolff is confident that 6 time world champion lewis hamilton will stay with the team after his contract runs out at the end of the year the new season gets underway next month in mel been hamilton will be looking to equal michael schumacher his record of 7 world titles this season but the 35 year old is not made official plans for next year for sadie's who have just signed a sponsorship deal with one of britain's of richest people as 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 in the fastest so there's a. over use mutual outcome but you know week which we travel around the world almost 10 months every year we go in on every 2nd weekend and what we do that

winter is that we leave each other in peace. a big win in the 1st test of their series against bangladesh on sunday 16 year old became the youngest player to take a test how tricky but it was left to some more experienced members of the pakistan team to secure this victory. finishing with 4 wickets in rope indeed to help guide decide to victory in the innings and 44 runs. damian lillard was the key man for the portland trailblazers in their latest win willers scored 33 points and had 8 assists in 81152109 victory over the heat it's a 3rd straight loss for the heat is the trailblazers aim to recover from their slow start to the season claim a spot in the playoffs. and finally rory mcilroy returns to the top of golf's world rankings for the 1st time in 5 years the northern irishman had a run of strong finishes including 3rd at the farmers insurance open last month and

4th up the world tour championships in dubai michael rory replaces brooks kept at the number one spot this would be 30 year olds $96.00 week their tiger words hold the record at $683.00 week that's all you sport for now it's now back to charlie in london thank you for a new mission to deepen our understanding of the sun has begun. lifting. the sort of probe a joint u.s. and european project took off from florida on sunday the $1500000000.00 vehicle won't get close enough to toss the sun's out the atmosphere but it's set to take photos of the sun's pole something that's never been done before that's it for me charley engine for this news our back in a moment with more of the day's news. the

race for the white house has begun this month to soon 4 states have their say on tuesday wants to place donald trump to move the election. is to lafcadio to continue coverage of the customs of the 2025 u.s. election. on new jersey. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this who writes is it a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drug this is still the center of capitalism there is no

limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pay for the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very good that is what's wrong with us is should anybody see any field. those people who seem ever to have something to invest the profit of they want all up to the last drop on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every.

turkey says it's killed $101.00 syrian government troops in retaliation for the death of 5 of its soldiers and. i'm charlie and this is out is there are live from london also coming up she visits a beijing hospital in a rare public appearance as a team of w.h.o. medical experts arrives in china to investigate the coronavirus outbreak. attackers target travelers sleeping in their vehicles in my degree in nigeria setting them on fire and killing at least 30 people plus.