every. techie's president reza type heard of one threatens to attack syrian forces anywhere after the killing of 15 turkish soldiers in the province. that i'm a clock does out 0 life in doha also coming up palestinians welcome a u.n. report that identifies scores of companies which have ties with illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank. italian sentences look set to vote to lift immunity for former far right interior minister met in so if you need these accused of illegally detained migrants see. the highest concentration of coronavirus

victims outside china 175 people on board this cruise ship docked in japan tested positive for the effects of. the 7 turkish president has warned damascus against further provocations in syria's last rebel held territory reza type early one says he will strike against government forces anywhere if they target turkish troops in the province is also demanding syrian forces be pushed back beyond turkish observation post by the end of february. only civvies daughter that nobody these attacks are directly targeting our soldiers and directly targeting turkey there is no more time for talk we have to look at the realities on the field and by the end of february the regime must be pushed behind observation point whatever is needed on the ground when we are not going to have any hesitation and we are going to act on it. the syrian government

forces have killed 15 turkish soldiers in a deliberate recent days and much of the fighting in the past week has focused on the m 5 highway which is a main trade route that links damascus with the government forces are now fully in control of that crucial highway where the fighting has triggered a humanitarian crisis is displaced nearly 700000 people russia is blaming the escalation on turkey saying the presence of the troops in italy is making the situation worse each really think it could have that see their reasons for the current a 2 year ration that we are witnessing it is turkey's continued failure to fulfill its obligation under the sochi memorandum and ankara stross felf units of the so-called moderates opposition to northeast as. well as a nod from our reporters in because they'll be who's in the town about how in syria and she explains the positions held by both syria and turkey forces in the area. the syrian government is 1st bombarding the areas and pushing the civilians out of

the areas and then entering those villages and it seems they are eager to continue from south to the north and take over a full control inside at the in the pits of the escalation zone the spy it a multilateral agreement that it should be a de conflict zone it's to be at the arms area and the civilians shall be able to freely move here so given the situation given them a rapid advance by observing government and the very harsh weather conditions there is a humanitarian crisis on the ground which has been there actually for many years there are at least 4000000 people right behind turkish borders. and. at least 1000000 or by the border in our area and there is in there there is not enough space left for any more civilians and as the syrian government offensives continue there are more and more people displaced every day and despite all these

this is a proxy war the military experts say and both the syrian government and the turkish cover government are devoted to continue their reinforcements for their military bases of course so it is our no whether this is going to be a direct war a bilateral war between iran and the muskets or will they end up with a diplomatic solution let's take this on a speak to our senior political analyst momus or joins us now from london a more on a russia point the finger firmly turkey. is defiance where is this heading it sounded to me like we are approaching a moment of truth. because on the one hand the syrian regime is advancing. and even in the areas of aleppo with the hey huge terrible human cost to syrians as your report said several $100.00 almost 700000 new refugees in the

last 10 weeks and clearly the turks being hurt humiliated but also their soldiers killed lashing out at the president of turkey talking to parliament about a national emergency of sort and basically issuing an ultimatum to the syrian regime means either the city is going to have to back out or turkey is going to have to respond either way there are we are in the midst of paralysis and to be honest that are far more questions about what's going on and the players in syria than there are answers at this point would the syrian regime back out and how does russia fit into all of this. well that takes me back to your original question i mean is is the syrian regime playing games with with moscow unclear or is russia a playing games with syria and turkey if if the puppet master is putin and there

are one that's pushing the regime from behind the scene then clearly moscow is interested in the end the regime continuing his aggressive or its aggressive attacks on the north 'd regardless of the human cost that regard this of turkey's humiliation that could take us into a whole new ball game because turkey is not about to get the syrian regime take control of all over north of syria at the huge human cost because there's also the question of millions of refugees that have already fled to turkey and some 100000 might also be crossing borders unless $36.00 charges of that of that part but that actually takes most of the point nic quickly which is something that i give on the question of it because it cannot continue to be the believing warned of syria when everyone knows that some enjoyment has to take place and that this cannot just

continue like an open war and open ended this the end of it they. uncover and muska have to reach an agreement about who's acting in it live and whether there should at the end of the day take over the province this are met in order for the syrians to be at last living in some sort of safety so if you look at the plaza syria itself turkey russia and then there is the united states what about them. well clearly they're not since as we all know has detached itself with president from pulling its troops out but now we see it reports we hear reports about the special envoy jens jeffrey meeting with the turks and voicing american support to turkey that certainly will give it will give the turkish president these some leverage if you would with russia because in the end of the day. america's role is

it remains important even if there isn't that many forces that we also know of of of a skirmish between that the american forces and the right and the syrian regime that means americans are really interested in supporting the perp's europeans on the other hand i mean i don't want to use words like pathetic but certain that their response has been so evasiveness so weak when iraq is far more affected by what goes on in syria than the united states europe has more leverage is more proximate and should be in not only a reacting to what moscow and unguarded are doing but should be pro active because it continues to complain about the issue of refugees of instability on its borders but it's not doing enough neither for the humanitarian catastrophe called syria nor for the strategic calculus that is taking place on the ground today armand thanks

very much indeed mon bashar the news from the palestinians have welcomed the un report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank in a statement the un said it had identified 112 business entities with reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with israeli settlements among these was the us space and renting company b. and b. stuffy deca has the latest now from westerners. the israeli foreign ministry came out immediately with a strongly worded statement calling this a shameful surrender by the human rights council to pressure by states organizations were shooting to harm israel calling it a stain on the human rights commission the palestinians however have welcomed this is a victory for international law this is a long delayed list by the united nations highlighting the companies both israeli and international operating in the illegal settlements in the occupied west bank

the timing of it also significant less than 24 hours alter the palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressed the un security council rejecting trump so-called deal of the century of course has been a lot of talk here in israel also by prime minister benjamin netanyahu about an exciting immediately and axing those settlements following these upcoming elections it's something that the americans have indicated they will give a green light for what this report does is highlight it get the international community start stalins of the united nation that these settlements in the occupied west bank are illegal and illegal under international law some of the international companies it highlights air b.n. b. expedia of poto booking dot com it doesn't have any legality in terms of implementing consequences for these companies but it does open them to the potential for any b.d.s. that the boycott divestment and sanctions movement. well let's hear now from our dollar is from the palestinian ministry of foreign affairs and he says these

companies will face legal consequences if they don't stop working in the israeli settlements. i do believe that $11.11 companies that are working in these illegal illegal settlements will bear will be a legal consequence is if they are not going to quit working in this illegal legal settlements we do believe that the ruling of the european court of justice in the last september is very clear about the legality of the products of the israeli settlements we think that maybe this report is not illegal it's a list of companies we need to war with the with the office of a commission not the high commissioner because she has to do a bit this list any willy we need to work with the states with countries to work build their responsibilities and to hold and as human their responsibility is to talk to these companies telling them that what they are doing is illegal we do

believe that we need to put other solution at one stage to call for these companies to the draw from from the illegal settlements in this way they will be legal consequence over these companies. at least far right leader matters of any look set to lose his immunity following hours of debate in the senate senators are expected to give the green light for prosecutors to put salvini on trial over challenges of holding migrants say accused of illegally keeping more than 100 people on a boat off sicily for days last summer when it could serve any could face up to 15 years in jail found guilty. found over jeannie as an investigative journalist in italy he says it's of really wants to use the trial to boost his own popularity. today decision that is going to be taken today by the senate doesn't mean that salvini will actually go to trial it means that the senate allowed saluting to go to trial then the authorization by the senate will go to the prosecutor in

catalonia and he will have to ask to a judge if so many has to go to trial or not so things still need to be to be decided actually but it's politically relevant that sylvie knew once to be to be to be on trial because the narrative now is about you know himself saying that he's protecting italy protecting the borders and the opposition say that there's there was no risk with 131 migrants alleging in italy there was no risk for italy security for these wait looks like selena wants to face trial. or at least trying to face trial and use the trial to boost his popularity which is it now declining according to the last polls in the last elections in a 1000000 of money and so this is a kind of historic thing in italy as silvio berlusconi used to do the same thing so when he was under trial he was accusing. the judges and the prosecutors

trying to boost his popularity this way depicting yourself as a victim of the system. so ahead here announced 0 holding social media firms to account the u.k. government has plans to regulate the internet. and more and why boeing struggled to take a single order for a new across last month. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across the middle east it has felt very wintry across many locations including up here across much of the north and even cooler down here across the gulf to the north though the snow is going to continue we're going to be seeing that pushing anywhere from turkey into parts of northern iraq and then into iran as well that will eventually make its way across parts of the caspian things get a little bit better across the region still cold in turkey as well there well here

in doha here on wednesday it was quite cool we're talking mid teens things are going to be better as we go towards the weekend temperatures are going to be coming up so thursday at $1000.00 friday at 20 and by the time we get towards the weekend still into the low twenty's but plenty of sun in the forecast there well for the northern part of africa we are going to be seeing very relative got clear conditions across the north but still a lot of clouds across parts of algeria as well in those clouds we could see a spotty shower too to the north though for algiers we do expect to see a temperature of 19 degrees as for tunis 19 degrees as well and down towards the south into south africa into parts of parts of mozambique as we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain across much of the region forecast wise harari it is going to be a very rainy day for you with the temperature of $23.00 in cape town at 32. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wiped them

out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on posters going to even know what the law is on about assad's chemical astonishingly patronize a in depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. born. but again you want you have 0 mind of our top stories and turkey's president is warning damascus he will strike a syrian forces anywhere and target turkish troops in italy provoked syria's ally

russia accuses anchor of aggravations situation by having forces on the ground. palestinians of welcome to united nations report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank the un says it has identified 112 business entities including the us based on a rental company had been the israel is described as shameful. italy's far right leader matthew salvini looks set to lose his immunity following a vote at the senate senators are expected to allow prosecutors to put salvini on trial over charges of illegally holding migrants see. another $39.00 people on board a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with corona virus that brings the total now to $175.00 and the japanese health ministry says the new cases include a quarantine officer with more than 3700 people on the cruise has become host to the highest concentration of cases outside of china where the virus originated the

diamond princess had been under quarantine since february the 3rd after passengers got off the ship was diagnosed with the virus. when another cruise ship that was turned away by 4 countries of fears of coronavirus is now docked in cambodia the m s westerdam is carrying more than $2200.00 passengers it's been at sea for days japan taiwan the philippines and thailand they will refuse entry to the ship despite there being no confirmed cases on board. formula one has just confirmed the chinese grand prix in shanghai originally scheduled for april will be postponed the virus outbreak is having a growing impacts across china's economy as a series of new monetary policies are being put in place vestments tax cuts and warnings to business not to lay off workers to try to you has more now from beijing . and the beijing's noisiest and detainment districts is now silent and these restaurants karaoke rooms and nightclubs have been closed until further

notice or to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. this street has everything for us to eat drink and have fun we live here in the past we couldn't rest because it was too busy and noisy but now it's so quiet and you feel you this has really affected daily life with these closures at her van the virus i think the right decision some local governments say businesses must apply for permission before reopening punishing those who would do the routes across china more than 80 cities have been partially locked down and people's movement is heavily restricted but president xi jinping says some of these measures have gone too far warning that it could harm the economy season paying a fine line between controlling the epidemic and its impact on the economy prior to the outbreak time is already struggling with slowing economic growth and the pressure to prevent a downturn now they have a clear message to the chinese public. 160000000

people nationwide are expected to return to major cities over the next week officials are trying to reassure the public that it's safe to travel and go back to work. tried to lower during faction by preventing passages from sitting next to each other in vehicles trying. and implementing ventilation these infection temperature monitoring chinese factories are beginning to resume production but the damage has been done alice say the service and manufacturing sectors will be the hardest hit. by and large then we would expect on some signs of recovery from draw for recovery won't start to quarter of 2021 and the reason for that some time for industry is to adjust the production patterns to recruit new yorkers and

a lot of. the economic impact of the outbreak is being felt globally i phone maker apple and south korean car brand he are among those expecting losses and outbound tourism could drop by an estimated 30 percent this year with many chinese choosing forced to stay home country you al-jazeera beijing. so you oppose large buying d.b.s. is evacuated 300 staff from its head office after one of its employees was infected with the coronavirus and 50 confirmed cases have been reported in the city state officials say there is mounting evidence of local transmission. bernie sanders has now really won the new hampshire democratic primary the senator from vermont says the u.s. is ready for a left wing policies the field is still wide open as more states prepared to choose the democrats who will run against arnold from november. well trump has praised

his attorney general william barr after one of his former white house advisers received a reduced prison sentence all for prosecutors investigating roger stone and a close ally of trump have quit the case in the u.s. justice department overruled them saying was sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to congress obstruction and filled with witness tampering with the justice department said it would reduce that just hours after trump tweeted the proposed sentence was a miscarriage of justice white house correspondent kimberly halkett has latest now from washington. what we've got now is a growing movement in the form of a petition tens of thousands of signatures and still more being added by the hour essentially saying that there needs to be an independent investigation of the justice department through its internal watchdog they say critics of the president's action in actions and also the reversal or the move to influence the sentence of roger stone they say shows that the attorney general has been compromised and as

a result there needs to be an investigation to ensure that the attorney general moving forward is not compromised in the future the allegation is that the president and the department of justice putting there are sort of crony and cronyism if you will above the law so those are the criticisms and allegations but the president for his part is very pleased with what has happened so far in fact he's tweeted even more early this morning here in washington congratulating the attorney general for his actions praising the outcome saying that this department of justice in this case has been tainted from the since the start and essentially he once again called it the swamp something that we heard a lot on the campaign trail so why is the president doing all of this well he's doing it because it plays well to his supporters he is running for reelection and in fact there is not much criticism coming from the right in the conservatives because this is exactly why they elected donald trump to drain the swamp if you

will this is exactly what they wanted to see so a lot of controversy and once again lot of division over this case. makes clear says the number of migrants awaiting the outcome of the u.s. immigration cases for them from 50000 to about 2500 migrant crossings at the shared border with the united states has dropped by 75 percent since the start of last year the trumpet ministration has been sending many central american cuban migrants to mexico and the policy has been a key element of trump's push to curb waves of migrants seeking asylum the head of the roman catholic church pope francis says dismissed a proposal to ordain older married men into the priesthood bushes from latin america put forward the controversial plan to address a shortage of priests in the amazon it would have challenge the roman catholic tradition of priests being celibate but the pontiff says the solution to the shortage is to send missionaries to the region john holmes has more now from the region are. the probably will be a bit of disappointment especially as it was latin american bishops who forward

this proposal last october i think important to clarify the proposal wasn't the priests who were already all day and should be allowed to then get married it was for all the sorts of married men of some standing in these communities be allowed to them to make up for a bit of a chronic shortage of priests in the region this is a region that's composed of 9 countries really have parts and cells in the summers and region and it's estimated that at least 85 percent over villages in the amazon region on able to celebrate mass every week so there is a real sure to cheer and this was one of the ideas to try and get to grips with it now the pope's instead said that another solution could be sending missionaries to this area instead of going for the other option which was older married men be being able to become priests and there will sort of a thaw in the move conservative part of the catholic church but this might be the

thin end of the wedge that even the right now is very specific to the amazon region the worry was that it could spread and start to end the tradition of celibacy in the catholic church. ukase to hold social media platforms accountable for harmful content in order to better protect online users this move comes you're off to is brought forward by m.p.'s who've expressed concern over the internet be a possible tool for self harm among young people the u.k. media watchdog that's off come is expected to be given more power by the government to ensure internet safety and i thank my right my own noble friend for raising that point and as we deliver gigabit broadband to be part of this country including 2 people have said mr speaker we will also ensure that the u.k. is the safest place to be online. has more in this from one. basically what often would be tarnished with is is looking after 2 areas of online content

particularly in the social media sphere so one of those is is illegal content which is a bit more simple you can just get the companies to take that content down when it comes to what's called harmful content well things are a bit more vague and off would likely be charged with requiring these big social media giants to clearly states to users what the terms are for or for acceptable content and acceptable behavior and if that content of behavior code is violated then we'll save these companies would you have to do something about that but it's unclear at the moment what teeth of com are actually going to be given to make sure that this happens. now then boeing says it is working to rebuild trust in the brand even as it struggles to bring its 737 months back into service the planes have been grounded since last march following 2 fatal crashes yeah across john's reputation has taken a hit and the company failed to book any new orders in january arms louis reports

from the singapore action. it was once boeing's best selling plane but no one is placing new orders for the 737 max these days the planes have been grounded for 11 months after 2 crashes within 5 months killed 346 people for boeing the single is a chance to put out a message that it's handling this crisis head on we absolutely have to rebuild confidence in the airplane and that starts with getting it certified bringing it back to service convincing the regulators that we've done the right thing that the changes to the airplane are right the manuals are right the training is right its focus is to have the max back in service by the middle of this year one of the 1st things that has to happen before the 737 max can fly again it's a certification test flight 500 u.s. aviation regulator the head of that agency has hinted that the test flight could take place soon but the still no timetable for the lifting of the ban approval to

fly will also have to be obtained from dozens of aviation authorities with more than $400.00 planes grounded around the world process to get all of those back in a year is not going to happen overnight is probably more like a year or 2 at least because they've got to go in they've got to service is flying it may not just be the impasse software that needs to be updated they may need to update software for the engines or lots of the other systems that are on the plane some supplies of boeing are laying off workers off to production of the 737 max was suspended last month and lines have had to cancel routes or keep. in service for longer one analyst says some add lines could. use this as an opportunity to reassess plans we could see you know air power lines that you know especially in this region that maybe don't need airplanes in the future defer their deliveries so the for taking a plane that would have been you know taken this year or next year for

a few years the better manager passed but many analysts say the longer the mag stays ground it the worse it will be not just for boeing but also the aviation industry florence 3 al-jazeera singapore. part time for a quick check of the headlines here in algeria and turkey's a president is warning damascus that he will strike syrian forces anywhere if they target turkish troops in the province syria's ally russia accused of aggravated the situation by having forces on the ground each really nice think it had that say there are reasons for the current deterioration that we are witnessing it lip is turkey's continued failure to fulfill its obligation under the search memorandum and ankara's transfer of units of the so-called moderates armed opposition to northeastern syria. palestinians have welcomed the un report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank in

a statement the un said it had identified 112 business entities with reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with israeli settlements among these was u.s. based home renting company b. and b. . italy's foreign leader. looks set to lose his immunity following a vote at the senate senators are expected to allow prosecutors to put salvini on trial of the charges of illegally holding migrants at sea. another $39.00 people on board a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with corona virus bringing the total to $175.00 the japanese health ministry says the new cases include a quarantine officer of the ship has a highest concentration of cases outside of china. bernie sanders is now 81 in new hampshire u.s. democratic primary for the field is still wide open as more states prepared to choose a democrat to run against on the trumpet november and trump has praised the attorney general off one of his a former white house advisor has received

a reduced prison sentence for prosecutors investigating roger stone a close ally of trump of quit the case after the u.s. justice department overruled them saying was sentenced to between 7 and 9 years in prison for lying to congress for instruction and for witness tampering. the head of a roman catholic church upright francis has dismissed a proposal to oil or dana older married men into the priesthood but ships from latin america put forth the controversial plan to address the shortage of priests in the amazon right up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up after an inside story from clapton's question.

saddam's transitional government and rebels have agreed to hand over those one to atrocities in the darfur conflict so does this mean formally the end of the she will be sent to the international criminal court in the hague based is inside story . however and welcome to the program i'm mr now one of the international criminal court's most wanted the people may soon face trial form a sudanese president omar al bashir is accused of atrocities in the western darfur region in 2003 bashir has sentenced soldiers and militias to suppress mostly known arab rebels the u.n. believes fighting famine and disease has.